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KYIV, October 28 ------ Ukraine and its allies agreed to work on a ceasefire plan in the coming ten days, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios, following the U.S. president's proposal to stop the war at the current lines. "Some quick points. Like a plan for a ceasefire. We decided we will work on it in the next week or ten days," he told Axios in an interview published on Monday. Source: reuters.com

AIR FORCE ONE, October 28 ------ U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should end the war in Ukraine instead of testing a nuclear-powered missile, and that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia's coast. Putin said on Sunday that Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield, and will move towards deploying the weapon. M

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 27 ------ Hurricane Melissa has developed into a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of up to 140 mph (220kmh) and is expected to strengthen as it heads towards Jamaica, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Melissa is about 110 miles (180 km) south of Kingston and expected to make landfall in Jamaica Monday night or Tuesday morning and hit southeastern Cuba late Tuesday, the NHC said, with catastrophic floods, landslides and

KUALA LUMPUR, October 27 ------ US President Donald Trump has co-signed a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia in Malaysia, the first stop on his Asia tour, which will culminate in talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The deal was signed by Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet together with Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, following a bloody border dispute this year. The agreement will see the release of

KYIV, Ukraine, October 27 ------ Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials said and prompted fresh pleas from Ukraine's president for Western air defense systems. In the capital, Kyiv, two people were killed and 13 were wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, Kyiv's police said. A fire broke out in a non-residential building in one location, while debris from interce

October 27 ------ Slovakia will not take part in any European Union programmed aimed at financing military help for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. Slovakia stopped state military aid for Ukraine when Fico's government came to power in 2023 but has still allowed commercial sales. Fico differs with European Union states on the war, saying a solution is not on the battlefield. EU leaders agreed to meet Ukraine's "pressing financi

PARIS, October 26 ------ Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as ChatGPT made errors about half the time when asked about news events, according to a vast study by European public broadcasters released. The mistakes included confusing news with parody, getting dates wrong, or simply inventing events. The report by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) looked at four widely used assistants: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity. Overa

WASHINGTON, October 26 ------ The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain immunotherapy drugs lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment, according to preliminary research being reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. And it had nothing to do w

HANOI, Vietnam, October 25 ------ Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia, unprepared to safely handle hazardous waste, according to a new report released by an environmental watchdog. The Seattle-based Basel Action Network, or BAN, said a two-year investigation found at least 10 US companies exporting used electronics to Asia and the Middle East, in what it says is a “hi

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 25 ------ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was now clear that efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels would fail in the short term. Ahead of next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil, Guterres said going beyond 1.5 °C would result in "devastating" yet predictable impacts. "One thing is already clear: we will not be able to contain global warming below 1.5 degrees in the next few years," Guterres said

October 24 ------ Oil prices jumped around 2.5%, extending gains from the previous session, as supply concerns resurfaced after the United States imposed sanctions on major Russian oil suppliers Rosneft (ROSN.MM), opens new tab and Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab over the Ukraine war. Brent crude futures were up by $1.56, or 2.49%, at $64.15 per barrel by 0303 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were up $1.53, or 2.62%, at $60.03. The U.S. said it was prepar

TEL AVIV, Israel, October 24 ------ As top U.S. officials and envoys visit Israel this week to try to bolster the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Vice President JD Vance sought to publicly ease concerns within Israel that the Trump administration was dictating terms to its closest ally in the region. “We don’t want in Israel a vassal state, and that’s not what Israel is. We want a partnership, we want an ally,” Vance said beside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in response to a r

LONDON, October 24 ------ Britain called for a raft of measures against Russia to strengthen Ukraine's hand ahead of any future peace talks, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London for discussions with key allies. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office said he would press a meeting of the "Coalition of the Willing" countries that have pledged to strengthen support for Ukraine to take Russian oil and gas off the global market, use frozen Russian assets

October 24 ------ Spain will join a NATO initiative to jointly procure US weapons for Ukraine, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, framing the move as part of Madrid’s broader backing for Kyiv and commitment to the Alliance. Trump’s Renewed Criticism of Madrid’s Defense Spending “Spain is a country committed to the Atlantic Alliance and to supporting Ukraine at all levels,” Sánchez told reporters ahead of an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, as cited by El País, adding that Madr

WASHINGTON, United States, October 23 ------ US President Donald Trump confirmed that the White House's iconic East Wing is being torn down in its entirety to make way for a huge $300-million ballroom — a far more extensive demolition than previously announced. Trump told reporters at an Oval Office event that he had decided after consulting architects that "really knocking it down" was preferable to a partial demolition. The president was asked about the work at an event alo

ROME, Italy, October 23 ------ King Charles III landed in Rome for a state visit to the Vatican, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and make history as the first British monarch to pray publicly with the pontiff since the Church of England broke away from Catholicism 500 years ago. The visit comes at a delicate time for the British king following new revelations about his brother, Prince Andrew, who is mired in a scandal surrounding late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After la

October 23 ------ Russian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, hours after the cancellation of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, killing six people including a six-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings. The attacks, involving over 400 drones and 28 missiles, lasted most Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at leas

KYIV, Ukraine, October 23 ------ Ukraine’s state security service has unveiled an upgraded sea drone it says can now operate anywhere in the Black Sea, carry heavier weapons and use artificial intelligence for targeting. Ukraine has used the unmanned naval drones to target Russian shipping and infrastructure in the Black Sea. The Security Service of Ukraine, known by its Ukrainian acronym SBU, has credited strikes by the unmanned vessel known as the “Sea Baby” with forcing a

TOKYO, October 22 ------ Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires the United Kingdom’s late premier Margaret Thatcher, became Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, but analysts say her rise does not necessarily signal a feminist victory. Instead, the 64-year-old, who won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership earlier this month, has positioned herself as a hardliner focused on defense and economic security. After forging a last-minute coaliti

JERUSALEM, October 22 ------ United States President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breaches the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Vice President JD Vance traveled to Israel to shore up the fragile truce. Vance was due to land and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were already in the western Israeli city of Tel Aviv, where they were meeting hostages released by Hamas after two years of captivity in Gaza. The vice president w