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Belgique« Brussels is focusing first on the speed of the security measures deployed around the Fairford base. »
Greece« Athens takes away from the Fairford affair proof that the United Kingdom is now a party to the war against Iran. »
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Exceptional rain has killed at least 56 people in India and 14 in Nepal, where 11 people are missing. Uttar Pradesh received nearly nine times its normal rainfall in two days; the Ganges and several major rivers are above danger levels. Nepal fears flash floods in 49 districts, a month after floods there killed more than 1,450 people.
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Barred from a third presidential term, Aleksandar Vučić resigned to lead his party's list in the 25 October snap election and seek the head of government. He faces the student movement born of the Novi Sad station disaster, which killed 16 people in 2024 and has been protesting against corruption for nearly two years. Ana Brnabić is acting president.
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Overnight from 26 to 27 September, gunmen killed 17 people at a tavern in Wedela township near Johannesburg, then 10 more in Lwandle near Cape Town. Police are examining a turf war between illegal miners and a business rivalry; no arrests have been announced. "This cannot go on like this," Cyril Ramaphosa said, five days after another mass shooting near Durban.
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Donald Trump rejected the Iranian proposal passed on by Qatar: seven days of halted hostilities across the region, then the reopening of Hormuz, in exchange for lifting the US blockade and oil sanctions and unfreezing at least $12 billion in assets. Tehran says it is waiting for an official answer; according to the Wall Street Journal, Trump sees renewed bombing as likely after the midterm elections.
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At the end of Xi Jinping's visit, the two countries announced tariff cuts on $30 billion of goods in each direction, a trade council, an AI dialogue in November and a channel for AI-related incidents. Donald Trump nonetheless said he rejects any brake on AI and any cooperation with China on the technology, while Beijing criticised Washington at the UN over Iran and Cuba.
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Governor Chadchart Sittipunt declared all 50 of Bangkok's districts disaster areas after nearly 300 mm of rain in 48 hours: submerged roads, flooded neighbourhoods, panic buying. Floods hit some twenty provinces and two deaths were reported in Chanthaburi. The army opened shelters; waters began receding on Saturday, less than a year after deadly floods in the country's south.
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Relayed by Qatar, Abbas Araghchi's plan calls for lifting the naval blockade of Iranian ports, ending oil sanctions and a ceasefire including Lebanon, then reopening Hormuz on day six and resuming nuclear talks on day seven. Tehran rules out nuclear concessions. According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump has rejected it; Tehran awaits an official answer.
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The first papal visit to France in eighteen years: at the Élysée, Leo XIV warned of a "paradise of machines" and raised secularism and end-of-life issues, before speaking at UNESCO. Some 300,000 people cheered him in Paris according to the Vatican, and 80,000 young people heard him at the Stade de France. The four-day trip continues to Lourdes and Metz.
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