Lawmakers are demanding answers about the project’s financing and what donors have been promised. The White House has defended its use of private donations.

The trade agreement will lower U.S. tariffs on Korean cars and parts to 15 percent in exchange for $350 billion in investment, a Korean official said.

The Times of London apologized and said someone duped its reporter by claiming to be former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and criticizing Zohran Mamdani.

Mogadishu (HOL) – Somali Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mohamud Ahmed Adan (Geesood), met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Somalia, Alper Aktas, in Mogadishu on Wednesday.

A plane crash killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya’s coastal region of Kwale early Tuesday while en route to the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Garissa (HOL) – Kenya’s elite Special Operations Group (SOG) police unit on Tuesday thwarted an attempt by suspected al-Shabaab militants to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the Welmerer–Yumbia road in Garissa County.

TEHRAN - For decades, passwords have been the cornerstone of digital security. We’ve memorized them, forgotten them, reset them, and repeated the cycle endlessly. Yet in an age where cyber threats are growing faster than our ability to remember complex strings of characters, the humble password is nearing its end. Around the world, data scientists and technologists are racing to build the next generation of digital identity one that no longer depends on what we can remember, but on who we are and how we behave.

TEHRAN – The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and the Armenian Red Cross Society (ARCS) have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop humanitarian, relief, and educational cooperation.

TEHRAN – A total of 125 earthquakes were recorded across the country in a week from October 18 to 24, according to the seismological networks of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran.

TEHRAN – Sharif University of Technology has launched the first joint science and technology park in Baghdad University, following a year and a half of ongoing cooperation between the two universities.

TEHRAN – Iranian and Afghan officials have explored avenues to expand collaboration in the areas related to environmental protection, especially border wetlands and rivers.

Former Aviva chief executive David Barral, 63, had been driving a grey DBX SUV when it left an A-road near Wetherby, West Yorks, on October 14.

Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, plunged a knife into the chest of father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37 at a Lloyds Bank in Derby, before 'calmly' walking out of the branch.

Graham Walker, 74, his wife Lyn, 71, and ex-manager Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, plotted to scam frail 85-year-old Rita Barnsley.

Police are probing a chilling question.

Hadush Kebatu was given a 'discretionary' payment of £500 by the Home Office, it is understood.

A preschool was slapped with a $26,200 fine and had its licence shortened after its former cook molested three children there.In a statement to AsiaOne on Wednesday (Oct 29), the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) said that it also took action against four members of the school’s management, with three of them banned from working in the preschool sector.All four of them were removed from their posts by the preschool’s operator.The spokesperson said that it conducted investigations into safety procedures of the preschool and found multiple breaches which compromised children’s safety.Besides imposing financial penalties on the preschool and shortening its licence from 36 to six months in May 2024,  the agency also restricted all new enrolments there.«ECDA also directed the preschool to submit a corrective action plan to ensure children’s safety in the preschool,» its spokesperson said. “The preschool submitted this in June 2024."

ROCKHAMPTON, Australia — Being able to have realistic training for airdrop operations helps the crew on board the C-130 military transport aircraft get familiar with safety protocol. Speaking to members of the media at Rockhampton Airport, Loadmaster First Sergeant (1SG) M Magenthiran stated that the operations conducted during the overseas exercise allow the crew to practise processes they are not able to do in Singapore due to land and airspace constraints.«In Exercise Wallaby, we get to drop multiple complex loads...(which) helps us to be comfortable (in real-life operations),» he said.Exercise Wallaby is conducted annually at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, which spans a distance over five times the size of Singapore.1SG Magenthiran also said that the «realistic training» he receives can be transferred into real life airdrop operations.His duties involve working with officers from the 3rd Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Transport Battalion, who pack the load into a container delivery system and attach the parachute before rigging it to the aircraft. 

In a landmark judgment hailed as a triumph for justice and human dignity, the High Court of Malawi has ruled that girls who fall pregnant through rape or defilement have a legal right to access safe abortion services in hospitals—upholding Section 19 of the Gender Equality Act. The groundbreaking decision follows a case filed by […] The post Historic Win for Victims: High Court Okays Safe Abortions for Rape Survivors appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

Malawi’s fight against hunger is facing a massive financial black hole, with the government’s Lean Season Food Insecurity Response Programme staring at a K148.2 billion deficit—a gap so large it threatens to derail emergency food aid for more than 4.2 million Malawians already on the brink of starvation. The Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) […] The post Malawi Faces K148.2 Billion Hunger Response Gap as 4.2 Million Risk Starvation appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

After she was pulled into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has swirled around her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, for more than a decade, Fergie has seen backers fall away.

The Reform UK leader told the Daily Mail that Britain's membership of the treaty had 'totally neutered' the Government's ability to deport illegal migrants.

Hadush Kebatu, 38, was freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre.

Victoria Beckham has revealed a woman would have to be a 'real a*****e' for her not to get on with her as she spoke out amid her estrangement from her son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz. 

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest development as Hurricane Melissa - the world's most powerful storm this year - approaches Jamaica after barrelling across the Caribbean Sea.

An important but indirect consequence is that «the smaller is the budget deficit, the higher is the opportunity to reduce the rate with all else being equal,» Elvira Nabiullina noted

The sale of foreign currency on the domestic market with October 27, 2025, settlement amounted to $119 mln

Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, October 29th

«Russia hopes that the Lithuanian side will not resort to such a provocative step,» Maria Zakharova stated

Dmitry Peskov added that development of the defense sector is of primary importance to Russia

[New Times] Over 90 percent of Rwanda's historical artifacts that include cultural treasures, political documents, traditional songs and visuals, remain kept in European museums. This revelation by Robert Masozera, Director General of the Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy, underscores a painful reality, that much of Rwanda's identity still lies beyond its borders.

[Norwegian Refugee Council] Ahead of the Great Lakes Conference in Paris, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) urges donor countries to step up their support for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

[The Conversation Africa] How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place?

Following the entry into force of the Treaty of Rome, Member States’ agricultural policies were replaced by intervention mechanisms at Community level. The foundations of the common agricultural policy (CAP) have remained unchanged since the Treaty of Rome, with the exception of rules relating to the decision-making procedure. The Treaty of Lisbon recognised codecision as the ‘ordinary legislative procedure’ for the CAP, in place of the consultation procedure. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in many Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nude photos during an innocent conversation about soccer. Tesla and xAI didn't respond to CBC News, except for what appeared to be an auto-generated response: «Legacy Media Lies.»