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France was reeling on Sunday (October 18, 2026) from widespread damage caused by violent protests the day before that saw 1,800 people arrested, a historic town hall torched and widespread looting. Also read | French unions say 480,000 people took part in pro-student protests “It’s like we had a war,” a 78-year-old resident in central…
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis on Sunday (October 18, 2026) said two pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed near the Yemen border, after the Iran-backed group said it shot the aircraft down. The coalition blamed a “technical malfunction” for the incident, which inflicted its first military fatalities since the long-running war with the…
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A protester holds a board with a photo of French President Emmanuel Macron in front of a burning tourism office during a demonstration against rising living costs and in solidarity with students’ grievances in Lyon, France, on October 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP French President Emmanuel Macron was to give a televised address at…
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Workers hold damaged glass, the day after clashes during a national day of demonstrations against the cost of living and rising fuel prices, in Marseille, France, on October 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 1,800 people were arrested during and after violent protests in France that saw clashes, arson and looting, Interior Minister…
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The instructions, shared on social media, advise people to remain calm, follow official directions and immediately move to the nearest safe place inside a building, preferably an interior room away from windows, until the danger has passed. File | Photo Credit: AP The Indian Embassy in Riyadh on Sunday (October 18, 2026), urged Indian nationals…
The continuing airspace restrictions have affected airline operations between the two countries, forcing carriers to take longer routes on some international flights. Representative file image used. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Pakistan has extended its airspace ban on Indian-registered aircraft and planes owned, operated or leased by Indian airlines for another month, until November 24,…
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Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto China has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment, citing national security concerns, as part of a broader revision that also covers AI and biotechnology. The Ministry of Commerce proposed adding the photovoltaic technologies to China’s export-control list, it said in a statement on…
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Good Morning, Night City! It has been a few years since Cyberpunk: Edgerunners clinched Anime of the Year, over half a decade since CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 rehabilitated itself from a catastrophic launch into a retrospective videogame masterpiece, and more than forty years since William Gibson first codified this particular dystopia in the seminal…
Russia and Ukraine are at war on the ground — and two satellites around 550 km above have come to the centre of a similar confrontation. The Russian Cosmos-2612 satellite has changed its orbit repeatedly to approach ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar-imaging satellite registered in the U.S. and whose operator currently supplies radar data to Ukraine….
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Vice President J.D. Vance faced tough questions from voters about the Trump administration’s policies on data centres, high costs, immigration and his own rhetoric in a town hall on CBS News that aired Saturday (October 17, 2026) night. The string of sharp queries, some from voters who said they had supported him and President Donald…