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Israel's defense minister says an Israeli attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising' but offers no details

Israel's defense minister says an Israeli attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising' but offers no details
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North Korean defector stole a bus to cross the border: Officials

The man allegedly tried to cross the Tongil Bridge in Paju, just south of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone.
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The man allegedly tried to cross the Tongil Bridge in Paju, just south of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone.
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Mexico takes the US side in potential trade battles with China and seeks to boost local content

Mexico's top economic official is suggesting that his country will actively take the U.S. side in looming trade battles with China
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FILE - Mexico's former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard speaks at the press conference announcing incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum's Cabinet members, in Mexico City, June 20, 2024. Sheinbaum, right, chose Ebrard as her administration's economy secretary. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
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Macron says he's 'super proud' of his wife's cameo in 'Emily in Paris'

French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s “super proud” of the cameo appearance by his wife, Brigitte, in the fourth season of the Netflix show “Emily in Paris.”
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FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron wait for China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at the Elysee Palace, Monday, May 6, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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Elon Musk's X is back in Brazil after its suspension, having complied with all judicial demands

The social media platform X is returning to Brazil after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court
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FILE - An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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Elon Musk's X platform is back in Brazil after a nearly six-week suspension, having complied with all judicial demands

Elon Musk's X platform is back in Brazil after a nearly six-week suspension, having complied with all judicial demands
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The race to lead Britain's Conservative Party is down to the final 2 candidates

Britain’s opposition Conservative Party will choose either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch to be its next leader
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Bob Blackman, chairman of the 1922 Committee, center, announces the results of the ballot in the fourth round in the Conservative Party leadership contest in the Houses of Parliament in London, England, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP, Pool)
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Netanyahu warns Lebanon of similar destruction like Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces continued its bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs overnight into Wednesday, with a focus on the Hezbollah-controlled Dahiya area.
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VIDEO: Netanyahu warns Lebanon of similar destruction like Gaza
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Czech Republic and Poland call on EU to do more to tackle irregular migration

The prime ministers of Czech Republic and Poland say the European Union has to do more to tackle unauthorized migration
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Czech Republic's Prime Minister Petr Fiala, left, welcomes his Poland's counterpart Donald Tusk as they meet in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Bathroom break at work? Swiss court upholds watchmaker's rule to do it on your own time

A court in Switzerland has ruled that a manufacturer was justified in telling workers: If you need a bathroom break, clock out and take it on your own time
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October 09

Death toll in gang attack on small Haitian town rises to 115, a local official says

A local official in Haiti says the death toll in a horrific gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115
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Relatives of people injured during armed gang attacks wait around at Saint Nicolas hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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The death toll in a brutal gang attack on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official says

The death toll in a brutal gang attack on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official says
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France's Macron views Ukrainian troops being trained in France for combat against Russia

French President Emmanuel Macron is inspecting the training of Ukrainian troops at a military camp in eastern France, a show of support for Ukraine as its Western allies mull a victory plan championed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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France's Macron is getting a first-hand look at Ukrainian troops being trained in France for combat against Russia

France's Macron is getting a first-hand look at Ukrainian troops being trained in France for combat against Russia
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
October 09

Germany's economy is on track to shrink for a second straight year

Germany's government says its economy is on track to shrink for a second consecutive year
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German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck shows a cardboard with the development of nominal wages and real wages as well as inflation during a news conference of Germany's economy development in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Austria's president seeks a solution after other parties say they won't work with the far right

Austria’s president has asked the country’s three strongest political parties to hold talks on possible cooperation after an election won by the far-right Freedom Party
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Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria leaves after a debate at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the parliament building, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
October 09

Norway bans local chapter of motorcycle club Satudarah and calls it a criminal association

Norway’s highest court has called the Norwegian arm of Dutch motorcycle club Satudarah a criminal association and banned the group, saying it was necessary to prevent serious crime
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FILE -Members of the Satudarah (One Blood) motorcycle gang leave after Dutch riot police blocked a group of 150 riders on the A2 motorway at the entrance to Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 4, 2011, to prevent from entering the capital where a gathering of Harley Davidson riders took place. The sign at right reads "exit". (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga, File)
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Pakistan records spike in new polio cases, hampering efforts to make the country polio-free

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country
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Zelenskyy to seek more war support from a dozen countries in southeast Europe

Ukraine’s president is again seeking political and other support from a dozen countries in southeast Europe at a summit on Wednesday in Croatia, whose president isn’t attending in a sign of the divided views on the war with Russia
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is welcomed by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic at the Southeast Europe Croatia Ukraine summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Damir Sencar/Pool Photo via AP)
October 09

Jailed leader of a prominent election watchdog is on trial in Russia

A jailed leader of a prominent independent election monitoring group in Russia appeared in court on Wednesday as his trial continued on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization
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Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading independent election monitoring group Golos, who faces up to six years in prison, stands in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo)
October 09

Ukrainian drone strikes another arms depot inside Russia, officials say

The Ukrainian military says one of its drones struck an important arms depot inside Russia three weeks after another drone blasted a major Russian armory and three days after a drone smashed into a key oil terminal in Russia-occupied Crimea
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A Ukrainian serviceman of the 126th brigade air-defense unit fires by a machine gun during the training in Kherson region, Ukraine, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Ivkov)
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An American once imprisoned in Russia is sentenced in absentia as Ukraine mercenary

An American who spent three years behind bars in Russia before being released in a prisoner exchange has been convicted in absentia for fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins
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October 09

Rights groups ask Filipinos to reject ex-Pres Duterte and detained preacher in upcoming elections

Human rights activists called on Filipino voters to reject former President Rodrigo Duterte and detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy in next year’s mid-term elections, citing the criminal allegations they’re facing
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FILE -FILE - A heavily covered Apollo Quiboloy, a Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States, is escorted during a press conference at the Camp Crame police headquarters in Quezon City, Philippines Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
October 09

Gaza Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has passed 42,000

Gaza Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has passed 42,000
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October 09

3 protesters are killed in clashes with police after Pakistan banned an ethnic rights group

Pakistani police have clashed with supporters of a rights group for the Pashtun ethnic minority in the country's northwestern angered by a government ban imposed on the organization this week, leaving three people dead
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This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
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North Korean defector allegedly stole bus to drive back across border, police say

Thirty-one defectors have reentered the North from 2012 to 2022, the South said.
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Barricades set up at a military checkpoint on the Tongil bridge, the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong city, in the border city of Paju on October 9, 2024.
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Israeli defense minister warns an attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising'

Israel’s defense minister says his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising.”
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Mourners pray over the body of a Palestinian child, Hosam Al Khaldi, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
October 09

A year of war in Gaza: Reporter's notebook

"I have lost count of the amount of people I know who have died."
October 09
Smoke rises following an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 7, 2024.
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Trial opens of Serb gunmen accused of attacking Kosovo police

A Kosovo court has opened a trial of 45 people charged over a gunfight following an incursion by heavily armed Serb gunmen last year
October 09
FILE -Kosovo police officers guard road near the village of Banjska, northern Kosovo, Sept. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic, File)
October 09

US sanctions a leader of Sudan's paramilitary group for fueling a brutal war

The United States has sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for supplying weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people
October 09
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
October 09

Macron inspects Ukraine troops at a French military camp ahead of a meeting with Zelenskyy

French President Emmanuel Macron has inspected the training of Ukrainian troops at a military camp in eastern France
October 09
Ukrainian soldiers train in a military camp in eastern France, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, as French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet for the first time with some of the nearly 15,000 Ukrainian troops that France has trained for the country's fight against the Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)
October 09

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, the building blocks of life

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins
October 09
Researcher John Jumper, left, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, the AI division behind Gemini, speak to Associated Press at the Google DeepMind offices in London, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 after being awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
October 09

Kremlin denies report of Putin phone calls with Trump

"No, it's not like that," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
October 09
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the extended meeting during the summit of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at the Kremlin in Moscow on Oct. 8, 2024.
October 09

Middle East latest: Dozens killed as Israeli troops pound central and northern Gaza

Palestinian officials say Israel’s bombardment of central and northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and trapped thousands in their homes
October 09
A Turkish citizen hugs her cats as she waits at a gathering point to board a Turkish navy vessel before being evacuated to Turkey, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 09

Chinese shares sink as investors dump shares after recent rallies, with Shanghai's benchmark down 6.6%

Chinese shares sink as investors dump shares after recent rallies, with Shanghai's benchmark down 6.6%
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Ishiba dissolves Japan's lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has dissolved the lower house of parliament to set up an Oct. 27 snap election
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Lawmakers give three cheers after dissolving the lower house, the more powerful of the two parliamentary chambers, during an extraordinary Diet session at the lower house of parliament Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolves Japan's lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolves Japan's lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election
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October 09

Polls open in Mozambique's presidential election where the ruling party is seeking to extend its 49 years in power

Polls open in Mozambique's presidential election where the ruling party is seeking to extend its 49 years in power
October 09
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A kitchen staffed by trans women is a refuge for Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community

At Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in Mexico City, a community kitchen has emerged to provide employment opportunities to trans women and serve surrounding residents in the area
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Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, a trans woman, walks past a kitchen in Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter located in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
October 08

North Korea vows to block border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures

North Korea says it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to designat...
October 08
A visitor watches North Korean side from the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Self-described Nazi will be sent to prison for salute at sentencing next month

A self-described Nazi will become the first person in Australia sentenced to prison for performing an outlawed Nazi salute when a magistrate sets his term next month
October 08
Jacob Hersant, left, a self-described Nazi, walks from the Melbourne Magistrates Court in, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
October 08

Southeast Asian leaders meet in Laos to discuss Myanmar war and disputed sea

Southeast Asian leaders are meeting at an annual forum that will focus on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two challenges that have long tested the bloc's credibility
October 08
An officer walks in front of flags of nations participating in the meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the national convention center in Vientiane, Laos, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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People queue to cast their votes during the general elections in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Mangwiro)
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Retired IDF Maj. Gen. Doron Almog discusses lead-up to Oct. 7

ABC News’ Matt Gutman spoke to retired IDF Maj. Gen. Doron Almog about the failures and hubris that led to Oct. 7.
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ABC News’ Matt Gutman spoke to retired IDF Maj. Gen. Doron Almog about the failures and hubris that led to Oct. 7.
October 08

Timelapse video shows Hurricane Milton as seen from space

Timelapse footage captured by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shows Hurricane Milton as the powerful storm churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.
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Timelapse video shows Hurricane Milton as seen from space
October 08

Where has Cameroon’s 91-year-old leader been? In Europe, an official says

Authorities in Cameroon are dismissing widespread speculation about the health of 91-year-old President Paul Biya after a long public absence, saying he is on a visit to Europe and doing well
October 08
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2018 file photo, Cameroon's President Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement party, wait to casts his vote during the Presidential elections in Yaounde, Cameroon. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
October 08

Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court’s website
October 08
FILE - An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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Musk’s X will be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court justice’s demands, a court statement says

Musk’s X will be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court justice’s demands, a court statement says
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