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The Pentagon said it received an anonymous US$130 million donation to pay the military during the US government shutdown, a move the Trump administration might not legally be able to carry out. “On October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of US$130 million under its general gift acceptance authority,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said in …

80 years on, the UN still speaks the language of a world that no longer exists – and risks repeating the fate of the League of Nations October 24 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations – the day in 1945 when 51 countries ratified its Charter. Eight decades later, the UN still holds a special …

Ukraine’s army recaptured an important village on the Lyman front, wiping out around 100 Russian soldiers and taking dozens of prisoners. The strategic village of Torske is located in the Donetsk region where fierce fighting has been raging for months. The settlement lies on a key logistical route between Kreminna and Lyman, with control of the area essential for both …

Lola Daviet was raped and tortured to death (Image: Delphine Daviet/Facebook) A female illegal immigrant to France was today jailed for life for raping, torturing and then murdering a schoolgirl. Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old Algerian, was on Friday told she would never be released from her cell for ending the life of Lola Daviet.The 12-year-old’s defiled corpse was found in …

As the presidents of China and the United States prepare to meet in South Korea next week, observers remain sceptical of breakthroughs but see potential for incremental steps towards mutual de-escalation of US-China tensions. Without confirming a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that Xi Jinping would visit South Korea from October 30 to November …

It’s “hypocrisy” when the bloc says Moscow’s oil and gas must be abandoned to diversify supply sources, the Hungarian prime minister has said The EU’s push to give up on Russian energy is “absurd” and Budapest will continue to resist it, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. EU energy ministers this week backed a European Commission proposal to completely …

That diplomatic alarm was echoed in criminal courts and federal filings in recent months. In Oslo over the summer, prosecutors put a former security guard at the U.S. Embassy on trial after accusing him of offering building floor plans and security routines to both Russian and Iranian operatives in return for euros and cryptocurrency; an example of how even low-level …

Police in Spain have arrested 30 people who allegedly abandoned their children, telling them to pose as lone child migrants so they would be taken into state care. Officials in the Balearic Islands said previously they were seeing a “new phenomenon” of parents from Africa flying to the holiday destination and dumping their youngsters. A welfare council chief in Menorca …

During the preparatory period for China’s next five-year plan, President Xi Jinping stressed the country needed to stick to its strategy of “focusing on doing its own work” and seizing the initiative amid an uncertain external environment, according to a report by the state-run news agency Xinhua. During the symposium, Xi called on the country to “closely monitor and accurately …

One UAV struck a civilian vehicle in Russia’s Byransk Region, Aleksandr Bogomaz has reported A Ukrainian drone strike on a moving civilian vehicle killed a woman in Bryansk Region, Russia, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz reported on Friday. The attack was one of several conducted overnight by Kiev. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that it downed 138 Ukrainian UAVs across multiple regions, …