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🇺🇸 A Tennessee woman convicted of murder survived two lethal injection doses and was hospitalized on Thursday, her lawyers said, marking the state's second failed execution in months and prompting it to halt capital punishment this year. ➡️ u.afp.com/S96o

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🇪🇨 Heavy rains cut off Ecuador town as Viche River overflows access road Rising waters from the Viche River have submerged the only road into the town of Cube in Ecuador's northwestern Esmeraldas province, after days of heavy rainfall.

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🇺🇸 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 percent, in a move he said is aimed at "accountability." ➡️ u.afp.com/S92v

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🇮🇩 Women fight fires and sexism in Indonesian Borneo More than 100 women in Indonesian Borneo have joined a volunteer initiative dubbed "Power of Mama" -- patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin critic and chess legend Garry Kasparov said Thursday that US and Lithuanian security services had told him and his ally that their lives were in danger and urged them to take security precautions. ➡️ u.afp.com/S92K

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🇸🇦 🇮🇱 Saudi Arabia turned down multiple requests by Israel to send its own planes to retrieve passengers from a diverted flydubai flight, a Saudi source with knowledge of the matter told AFP Thursday. ➡️ u.afp.com/S92C

Passengers from an earlier diverted flydubai flight are seen after landing at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, on September 30, 2026.

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🇰🇷 🐶 South Korea counts down to dog meat ban Members of animal welfare group Humane World for Animals Korea rescue dozens of dogs from a dog meat farm in Gangjin County, South Korea, in what the NGO says is its last such operation before the country's dog meat ban takes effect in February 2027.

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🇮🇩 Survivors face struggle after Indonesia quake Sahria Lelu and her family are still living in a tent outside a mosque six weeks after a powerful earthquake that killed dozens in Indonesia, demonstrating the hard road home for thousands of survivors.

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'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose 20% of mass in five years. Swiss glaciers saw 5.5% of their volume melt away just this year, the second-biggest melt on record, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) network reports u.afp.com/S9B2

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BREAKING Saudi Arabia turned down multiple requests by Israel to send its own planes to retrieve passengers from a diverted flydubai flight, a Saudi source with knowledge of the matter told AFP Thursday

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Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows - or show dissent. At a time when public gatherings in Russia are strictly regulated and dissenting voices silenced, street choirs have been springing up across the country – offering an avowedly apolitical opportunity to come together u.afp.com/S9BK

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Dancers stand along the Mirroir d'Eau (Water Mirror) reflecting pool before an attempt to break the world record for the highest number of participants in a French Cancan performance, in Bordeaux, south-western France 📸 Christophe Archambault

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UK government is facing mounting pressure to end a £330-million contract between the National Health Service and AI giant Palantir, as doctors, lawmakers and campaigners warn of ethical risks u.afp.com/S9Br

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Over 600 people detained on Wednesday and dozens of police and gendarmes wounded as French school protests and violent clashes escalate, interior minister says u.afp.com/S9Bb

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People use their smartphones to capture footage of the Eiffel Tower, illuminated for Pink October. Octobre rose (Pink October) is the annual international campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer, promote early detection and raise funds for medical research 📸 Kenzo Tribouillard

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Google restricts access to new AI model over safety concerns. For now, Gemini 4 Argon will only be released to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers u.afp.com/S9B8

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Japan tightens rules for foreigners wanting permanent residency. Under new rules that will come into effect in stages, foreign residents wishing to stay in Japan permanently will have to prove their annual income is above average and they can carry casual conversations in Japanese u.afp.com/S9BD

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Women in Indonesian Borneo risk life and limb to battle blazes making their communities sick. More than 100 women are volunteer members of an initiative dubbed "Power of Mama", patrolling daily for smoke and flames and jumping in to put out fires when needed

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Ask anything? Trump’s new "damn good" government AI chatbot has now stopped answering some political questions after it drew attention for contradicting some of his contentious political claims u.afp.com/S9BB

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Kanye West's Russian concerts have been cancelled, organisers say. The rapper would have been the biggest Western musician to headline in Russia since Moscow launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022 u.afp.com/S9B7

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US has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20%, says Hegseth u.afp.com/S9Bn

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham raises prospect of Britain rejoining the EU, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to declare in English: "Welcome back." u.afp.com/S9Bo

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President Donald Trump lashed out at former Fed chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday after a watchdog report found no criminal wrongdoing in the central bank's costly renovation project. u.afp.com/S9BS

Quote from Trump's Truth Social platform reading "He should be forced to resign, IMMEDIATELY! If he doesn’t resign, he should be sued, at the highest level, by the United States Government, for either corruption or incompetence"

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Activists in Poland, where abortion laws are some of the strictest in Europe, set up locker system near parliament to distribute pregnancy-terminating medication. u.afp.com/S9B5

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Flydubai suspends flights to and from Israel as company investigates attack by co-pilot on Tel Aviv-bound plane. Latest updates on the near-disaster: u.afp.com/S9Bp

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Manchester City fans express anguish at the verdict on the football club's financial breaches, while rival club supporters call for City's relegation from the Premier League. u.afp.com/S9B4

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Turkey shuts down the website and social media accounts of T24, a leading independent digital news outlet, citing its "LGBT propaganda" u.afp.com/S9Bk

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Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo leaves the team's training camp in Denmark after coach Jorge Jesus says the superstar striker will not start their next match u.afp.com/S9Xv

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Romania's parliament rejects pro-European liberal as prime minister, prolonging a political crisis seen as fuelling the rising far right in the EU member state. u.afp.com/S9Xy

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UK confirms that year-old "one in, one out" deal with France to return migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats has come to an end u.afp.com/S9XH

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Oil executives from around the world have flocked to a summit in Caracas this week, highlighting the industry buzz around Venezuela's oil sector re-opening after years of state control and mismanagement. u.afp.com/S9XD

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18h

🇺🇸 ✨ AI bosses sign 'morally binding' pledge to self-regulate US President Donald Trump said the top tech executives gathered at the White House to discuss regulating AI had signed a "morally binding" commitment to build adequate safeguards on the fast-moving technology

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🇺🇸 ⚖️ A US court on Wednesday halted the execution of a woman in Tennessee shortly before she was due to die from lethal injection, three decades after she murdered a classmate ➡️ u.afp.com/S9X8

Photo dated January 12, 2023 provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows convicted murderer Christa Pike

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🇳🇵 ⚠️ A month on, Nepal flood survivors struggle to rebuild lives The deadly floods that struck Nepal on 26 August, triggered by a glacial collapse near the China-Nepal border, have left the Himalayan nation grappling with mounting reconstruction needs

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russia hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure in a wave of deadly drone and missile strikes on Wednesday, prompting an urgent call for civil contingencies as freezing winter approaches ➡️ u.afp.com/S9Xx

Electricians work to restore the power grid in front of a destroyed private house where a 14-year-old was killed in an air attack in Vyshgorod, in Ukraine's Kyiv region on September 30, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

A Russian drone flies above Kyiv on September 30, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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✈️ 🇮🇱 🇦🇪 A passenger on a rerouted flydubai flight that was bound for Tel Aviv said one of the pilots tried to crash the plane and kill everyone on board, after both pilots were found to be wounded on landing in Saudi Arabia ➡️ u.afp.com/S98r

Passengers queue at the flydubai counters in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2026

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⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇪 📜 Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola voiced his strong support for the club on Wednesday -- saying "we will get through this together" -- after they were found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules ➡️ u.afp.com/S9XU

File photo shows Manchester City's then manager Pep Guardiola with the Premier League trophy after a presentation ceremony at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on May 21, 2023

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🇫🇷 ⚠️ French students blockade schools to demand more resources Students across France set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police as they kept up a blockade of some high schools to demand better conditions. Grievances include packed timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers

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✈️ 🇮🇱 🇦🇪 Two pilots were wounded after they reportedly fought on board the plane they were flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, and which was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday ➡️ u.afp.com/S98r

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⚽ On the streets of Manchester, people voiced shock and dismay at the scale of financial wrongdoing by Manchester City, with some calling for the football club to be relegated from the Premier League. ➡️ u.afp.com/S986

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🇬🇧 A spokesperson for Prince Harry has condemned as "extraordinarily reckless" two press photographers seen outside his children's UK school. ➡️ u.afp.com/S98e

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🇳🇵 In Nepal's flood zone, teachers mourn students who never returned Each morning at the Neelakantha Secondary School in Nepal, teachers taking attendance are served a painful reminder of the disaster as they mark in red the names of students missing since the devastating August 26 flood.

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🇸🇪 A Swedish truth commission has urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress. ➡️ u.afp.com/S98i

Members of the Sami community hold a Sami flag during a 2020 protest in Jokkmokk, northern Sweden.

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🇫🇷 French students blockade schools to demand better resources Hundreds of secondary school students take part in protests across France as part of a national day of action over the country's public services, demanding more resources for education.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026

✈️ A flydubai plane bound for Tel Aviv was forced to land in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after an "incident", the airline said, with Israeli media reporting an altercation between the pilots. ➡️ u.afp.com/S97F

File image shows FlyDubai planes on the tarmac at Dubai International Airport.

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🇮🇶 A US-led coalition deployed in Iraq more than a decade ago to fight jihadists concluded its mission on Wednesday, a move celebrated by the country's leaders, but which some fear will embolden pro-Iran armed factions. ➡️ u.afp.com/S97z

A giant Iraqi flag hangs off the reconstructed 12th century "Hadba" leaning minaret at the historic Great Mosque of al-Nuri in the old city of Mosul.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026

🇳🇬 Nigerian dancer eyes world record after seven-day marathon On day seven of his solo dance marathon, Benjamin Daniel Gabriel -- popularly known as Ben Dancer -- shimmies and shuffles towards a world record in Nigeria, dancing non-stop for 176 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026

🇰🇷 🦈 A wayward shark has become an unlikely celebrity in South Korea, drawing massive crowds, earning plaudits from the local mayor and even moving the stock market. ➡️ u.afp.com/S976

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