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Four Irkutsk hospitals say they are operating normally after social media posts claimed a three-week plague quarantine.

Hasina has remained in India since leaving Bangladesh in August 2024 after a mass uprising ended her government.

Five Russian air attack vehicles, including three missiles and two drones, violated Moldova’s airspace and exploded on its territory.

The Romanian parliament’s failure to form a government puts Romania’s fiscal consolidation at risk, and the political impasse makes early elections a significant possibility.

Pakistan has told the International Monetary Fund it will sell nine state-owned electricity distribution companies by December 2027.

Tech

Online platform publishes government documents on sensitive projects, beginning with files on proposed developments at Sazan island and Zvërnec, as Prime Minister Edi Rama pledges to boost transparency.

Denis Romanovskiy has a number he is not satisfied with. Artificial intelligence has made individual employees at SOFTSWISS between 20 and 50% more productive, the chief AI officer of the gambling platform supplier says, and everyone in the...

Japanese power generator Jera and two partners will spend $15bn to build a large artificial intelligence data centre at a thermal power station in Chiba, near Tokyo.

University students are working with engineers on the vehicle’s development.

Stockholm office to serve as the headquarters of a new Nordic region covering Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, while Poland becomes a standalone commercial region with a dedicated team.

Opinion

Case of horrific sexual abuse of kindergarten child in Uzbekistan sparks calls from outraged president’s daughter for execution of perpetrator.

Diversification is working, but Russia hasn’t been replaced.

Under its market-based scenario, Russia would run out of sufficient budget financing by early 2028, and each ruble raised would become more expensive, the KSE Institute said.

Turkey can absorb its $15bn-20bn investment fund collapse without a systemic crisis as long as Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek stays, Timothy Ash wrote on September 25.

Russia is too stretched in Ukraine to risk a war with Nato and will fall back on sabotage and intimidation instead, security researcher Eric Woods argues in Riddle.

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World food commodity prices rose in September as transport disruptions and adverse weather tightened supply prospects, the United Nations food agency warned.

Russia’s services sector remained in expansion territory in September, with the S&P Global Russia Services PMI Business Activity Index at 51.3, unchanged from August and marking a second consecutive month of growth.

Pakistan's benchmark KSE-100 index fell 2,610 points, or 1.5%, over the last week to close at 168,155, as geopolitical uncertainty, high oil prices and stalled US-Iran negotiations kept investors cautious.

Vietnam's economy grew 9.95% year on year in the third quarter of 2026, its fastest pace of the year so far.

The ready-made garment industry continued to account for the bulk of export earnings, generating $10.578bn during July-September, up 6.10% from $9.970bn in the corresponding period of FY26.

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Russia will intensify strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to hit Russian refineries harder, the defence ministry said.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest energy supply disruption in modern history, but the world has coped better than feared thanks to shock absorbers built after the 1970s, the McKinsey Global Institute says in a report published on...

Perim sits inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping chokepoint. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland raised the prospect of a foothold at Berbera to help counter Yemen’s Houthis. What went wrong?

The European Union's push to bring in new members is entering a critical phase this autumn.

Russia plans to use the winter to cut off Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv from the rest of Ukraine and sever its nuclear plants from the grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

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Days before Bosnia's October 4 election, Milorad Dodik and Republika Srpska's prime minister won Putin's backing, a steady gas price and talks on defence-industry cooperation, complicating Bosnia's stalled EU path.

María Corina Machado made three failed attempts to reach Venezuela from Panama by sea and air on September 21 and 22, her team said. On the second of those days Delcy Rodríguez, the country's acting president, held her first meeting with Trump.

Argentina’s Neuquén and Mendoza provinces are advancing oil exploration projects carrying more than $416mn in proposed investment and access payments, spanning new acreage in Neuquén and conventional exploration areas in Mendoza.

It seems that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s strategy to take the war into the front rooms of Russian citizens actually worked and forced the Kremlin to add an extraordinary 20pp to United Russia’s “win” in last week’s election.

Is Europe really going to war with Russia, or are we just talking ourselves into war like in the run up to the Iraq conflict in 2003? The media is full of banner headlines warning that Russia is getting ready to invade “any moment”.

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Russia is short of about €18.7bn ($21bn) to decommission 35 ageing nuclear reactors operated by Rosenergoatom, whose own estimate puts the total bill at about €21bn.

The Philippines must deploy PHP1.07 trillion ($17bn) in fresh capital expenditures through 2030 to upgrade its water and sanitation network or face acute supply deficits within fifteen years.

Construction began in Vietnam's Can Tho City on October 3 on a rice processing complex with annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes and an attached biomass fuel supply centre.

Critics cry foul after World Bank OKs $300mn.

Dniester, the main source of water for public networks in Chisinau and other Moldovan cities, is experiencing an unprecedented decline in water levels.

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