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US President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against the militant group.

‘We will go in and kill’: Trump clarifies Hamas threat

US President Donald Trump has been forced to clarify that the US military would not be the ones enforcing his earlier threat regarding Hamas’s internal violence. 

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A ‘productive’ phone conversation has led US President Donald Trump to meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest.

US President vows to end another war as he sets Putin meet

‘Who would think I would do Middle East before this?’, Donald Trump has asked as he outlines a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, hoping to stop the Ukraine conflict.

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Tadahi Yanai, the founder of Uniqlo and owner of Fast Retailing, in Chelsea, New York, Sept. 16, 2025.

For Uniqlo’s founder, conquering America is personal

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Is it really OK for America to, as it pleases, decide this percentage for this country and this percentage for this country? I have objections.’

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It is the single biggest payout in Texas Powerball history,

Praise the Lord, we just won $630m in Powerball!

The biggest single payout in Texas Powerball history has been claimed by a syndicate who chose the wrong number and left the winning ticket in their glovebox while they went to church.

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When the girl asked if she could help, she was allowed to drill a hole in a patient’s skull, it is alleged.  Stock photo.

Surgeon ‘let 12yo daughter drill hole in patient’s skull’

A brain surgeon is facing criminal charges after allegedly inviting her daughter into an operating theatre where the 12-year-old was allowed to drill a hole in a patient’s skull.

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Donald Trump has acknowledged that he had authorised the covert action and said the United States was considering strikes on Venezuelan territory.

Trump escalates boat attacks with covert CIA operations

The Trump administration has secretly authorised the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.

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Donald Trump says he is not happy with India's PM Narendra Modi buying oil from Russia.

India’s major promise to Trump over Russian oil

US President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured him that he will halt Russian oil imports to India.

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The Bank Of America is being sued over alleged ties Epstein.

Bank of America sued over alleged ties to Epstein

Legal action has been launched against one of America’s biggest financial institutions over alleged financial ties with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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The decimation of a key US department will have widespread impacts on low-income women.

Trump decimates birth control office, locks workers out

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Almost everyone in the office was locked out of their government emails and computers on Friday. The workers spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution. 

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Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has issued a stern warning to Russia as Donald Trump weighs up providing Kyiv with greater weaponry.

Hegseth’s grim warning to Russia if peace efforts falter

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump’s secretary of defence offered unusually strong criticism of Russia, just as Ukraine seeks American Tomahawk missiles.

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Smoke rises up from the site of explosions in Kabul on October 15, 2025, amid heavy border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Afghanistan and Pakistan reach truce after Kabul explosions

Both nations announced the ceasefire after a week of deadly clashes along their border and strikes on the Afghan capital threatened to spill into a broader conflict.

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Cracked windscreen forces US war secretary's plane to land in UK.

Pete Hegseth’s plane in frightening emergency landing

The aircraft carrying the US Secretary of War was diverted to the UK after a mid-air emergency saw the crew descend rapidly.

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Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent Jeffrey Epstein accusers, has made disturbing claims about Prince Andrew in her forthcoming posthumous memoir. 

‘His birthright’: Disturbing new Prince Andrew sex claims

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent Jeffrey Epstein accusers, has made harrowing claims about an ‘entitled’ Prince Andrew in her forthcoming posthumous memoir. 

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US President Donald Trump has warned Hamas it would be ‘straightened out quickly’ if it fails to honour the Gaza ceasefire.

Hamas can’t find hostage bodies, Trump threatens IDF return

Hamas has returned two more hostage bodies and admitted they can’t locate more, as US President Donald Trump warns Hamas will be ‘straightened out quickly’ if it fails to honour the Gaza ceasefire.

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Police officers search a second-hand phone shop in London, September 25, 2025.

London’s phone theft epidemic is actually an industry

THE NEW YORK TIMES: After a record 80,000 phones were stolen in the city last year it became apparent that this wasn’t just normal low-level street crime.

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