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At least 42 dead, 27 missing as floods devastate central Mexico
MEXICO CITY — At least 42 people have been killed and 27 others remain missing after torrential rains triggered severe flooding across several regions of Mexico, authorities said Saturday.In a statement, Mexico’s National Civil Protection Coordination (CNPC) said the heavy downpours caused widespread flooding in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, Queretaro, and San Luis Potosi.Preliminary assessments indicated that at least 42 people lost their lives, while search and rescue teams continue to work intensively to locate the 27 still missing.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a virtual meeting with governors of the five worst-affected states to coordinate emergency response efforts.“None of the victims will be left without assistance. Teams and officials from the federal...
October 12, 2025

At least 42 dead, 27 missing as floods devastate central Mexico

Sixteen presumed dead after massive explosion at Tennessee munitions plant
BUCKSNORT, Tennessee — Sixteen people missing after a massive explosion at a munitions factory in Tennessee are presumed dead, authorities said Saturday, as recovery teams continued to search the devastated site.Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said it was initially hoped that survivors might still be found, but as of Saturday evening, “it’s safe to assume they are deceased.”Authorities had earlier feared that 18 people were killed, but two individuals believed to be at the site were later located unharmed, Davis added.The explosion occurred Friday at the Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) plant in Bucksnort, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) southwest of Nashville. The facility specializes in the development and manufacture of explosives.Video footage from the scene showed fires...
October 12, 2025

Sixteen presumed dead after massive explosion at Tennessee munitions plant

Three Qatari diplomats killed in road accident near Sharm El Sheikh
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — Three Qatari diplomats were killed and two others injured in a road accident near Sharm El Sheikh while traveling to attend a ceremony marking the Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to local and Qatari media reports.Egypt’s Al Qahera Al Ekhbariya said the crash occurred about 50 kilometers from Sharm El Sheikh and involved a vehicle in a convoy accompanying Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.The car, carrying five Qatari citizens and an Egyptian driver, reportedly suffered a steering malfunction.Egyptian authorities at the scene immediately informed Qatar’s Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Cairo.Qatar’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the deaths of Saoud bin Thamer Al Thani, Abdullah Ghanem Al-Hayarin, and Hassan Jaber Al-Jaber.The two...
October 12, 2025

Three Qatari diplomats killed in road accident near Sharm El Sheikh

Border clashes erupt between Afghanistan and Pakistan amid airstrike accusations
ISLAMABAD — Border hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalated Saturday as their armies exchanged heavy artillery and cross-border shelling along several eastern provinces.The flare-up followed accusations by Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration that the Pakistani military violated its airspace over Kabul and bombed a market in the Margha region of Paktika province, near the border, on Thursday night.Islamabad has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the reported strikes but said it will take all necessary measures to protect its citizens amid a surge in militant attacks blamed on the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).Pakistani security sources said that exchanges of heavy fire have been ongoing since Saturday evening along multiple border...
October 12, 2025

Border clashes erupt between Afghanistan and Pakistan amid airstrike accusations

France’s new PM Lecornu warns of short tenure amid deep divisions
PARIS — France’s reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu admitted Saturday that there weren’t “a lot of candidates” for his job and acknowledged he might not last long in the post amid the country’s deep political divides.Lecornu, reinstated by President Emmanuel Macron late Friday after a week of political turmoil, urged calm and appealed for support from political parties to pass a budget for the European Union’s second-largest economy before key deadlines.His appointment is viewed as Macron’s final attempt to revive his struggling second term, which runs until 2027.Macron’s centrist alliance lacks a parliamentary majority and faces growing dissent within its own ranks.Rivals across the political spectrum — from the far right to the far left — sharply...
October 11, 2025

France’s new PM Lecornu warns of short tenure amid deep divisions

Israeli airstrikes kill one, wound seven in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven others, and briefly cutting a highway that links Beirut with parts of the south, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.The pre-dawn strikes hit the village of Msayleh, targeting a site that sold heavy machinery and destroying numerous vehicles.According to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, a vehicle carrying vegetables that happened to be passing by was struck, killing one person and wounding another.The Health Ministry later said the person killed was a Syrian citizen, while the wounded included a Syrian national and six Lebanese, among them two women.The Israeli military said it targeted a location where machinery was stored for use in rebuilding infrastructure for...
October 11, 2025

Israeli airstrikes kill one, wound seven in southern Lebanon

Israel leaves Marwan Barghouti off prisoner release list under Gaza ceasefire deal
RAMALLAH — The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal.Israel also rejected freeing other high-profile prisoners whose release Hamas has long sought, though it was not immediately clear if a list of about 250 prisoners issued Friday on the Israeli government’s website was final.Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera TV that the group insists on the release of Barghouti and other high-profile figures and that it was in discussions with mediators.Israel views Barghouti as a terrorist leader. He is serving multiple life sentences after being convicted in 2004 in connection with attacks in Israel that killed five...
October 11, 2025

Israel leaves Marwan Barghouti off prisoner release list under Gaza ceasefire deal

Trump to impose new 100% tariffs on Chinese imports
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China starting next month.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump also announced plans to introduce export controls on key software, calling China’s latest actions “hostile” and accusing Beijing of trying to hold the world “captive.”“One of the policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America,” Trump wrote, adding that “many other countermeasures are under serious consideration.”Earlier this week, China imposed new export restrictions on rare earth elements, metals essential for manufacturing semiconductors, electric vehicles, and defense technologies.Trump...
October 11, 2025

Trump to impose new 100% tariffs on Chinese imports

Drone strike kills at least 60 at displacement camp in Sudan’s besieged El-Fasher
KHARTOUM — At least 60 people were killed in a drone strike targeting a displacement shelter in the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher, according to local resistance committees and activists on Friday.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group locked in a prolonged war with the Sudanese army, reportedly carried out two drone strikes and eight artillery shell attacks on the Dar al-Arqam camp, which is located within a university complex sheltering thousands of displaced civilians.“Children, women, and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned,” the El-Fasher resistance committee said in a statement quoted by AFP, adding that the humanitarian situation in the city had “gone beyond disaster and genocide.”El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur,...
October 11, 2025

Drone strike kills at least 60 at displacement camp in Sudan’s besieged El-Fasher

Trump threatens higher tariffs on China after rare earth export curbs, says ‘no reason’ to meet Xi
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday there is “no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his upcoming trip to South Korea, after Beijing imposed new restrictions on rare earth exports critical to U.S. industries.In a post on Truth Social, Trump accused China of becoming “very hostile” and announced that his administration is considering a “massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese imports as retaliation.“One of the policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America,” Trump wrote, adding that “many other countermeasures” are under review.The statement follows China’s decision Thursday to tighten control over the export of rare earth minerals,...
October 10, 2025

Trump threatens higher tariffs on China after rare earth export curbs, says ‘no reason’ to meet Xi

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