Romania’s prime minister-designate, Siegfried Muresan, failed to secure parliamentary backing in a confidence vote on Wednesday. The result prolongs a political crisis that threatens the country’s investment-grade rating.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the co-pilot of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight stabbed the pilot and tried to crash the aircraft. Passengers restrained him, while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia.

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Passengers helped restrain a pilot who appeared to be attacking another pilot aboard an Israel-bound flight, sending the aircraft plunging thousands of feet and nearing Mach speeds. The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia as authorities investigate what happened.

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A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv narrowly avoided catastrophe after one pilot tried to stab a colleague. The confrontation sent the aircraft into a steep plunge and forced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a pilot on a Flydubai flight carrying mostly Israeli passengers stabbed the other pilot and allegedly attempted to crash the aircraft before passengers and crew subdued him. The suspect was arrested and questioned by Saudi authorities. The flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel diverted to Saudi Arabia while over Jordanian airspace.

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A Flydubai aircraft flying from Dubai to Israel reportedly received an instruction during the flight to return to its departure point, but landed safely in Tel Aviv as scheduled, according to a source in Middle Eastern air traffic control. The source denied that any such instruction had been issued.

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Israel’s government believes an incident aboard a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel, which diverted to Saudi Arabia after sending emergency signals, may have been an attempted “terror attack” by one of the pilots, two Israeli officials said.

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Google has launched a reported pilot that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode in Search, and Gemini. One early participant earned more than $1 million in a year, while a newer participant received about $50,000 to $60,000. The program comes as publishers and regulators scrutinize AI search’s effect on web traffic.

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Christa Pike, 50, has spent 30 years on death row for a murder committed when she was 18. Hours before her scheduled execution, a federal appeals court issued a temporary stay while it reviews her case. Tennessee’s attorney general is seeking to move ahead with the execution.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Tennessee to proceed with Christa Gail Pike’s execution, overturning a last-minute stay issued by an appeals court just hours earlier on Wednesday.

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The execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike was halted an hour before it was scheduled. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said it needed more time to consider her case. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for murdering Colleen Slemmer.

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A federal appeals court stopped Tennessee from carrying out Christa Pike’s execution about an hour before it was scheduled to begin.

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Tennessee is set to carry out its first execution of a woman in more than 200 years, after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal. Christa Pike, convicted of torturing and killing a classmate in 1995, has asked to be shot by an all-female firing squad instead of receiving lethal injection. Her lawyers cite trauma, mental illness and possible difficulties inserting an IV; the governor denied clemency, while UN experts urged commutation.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said European factories making weapons for Ukraine could be considered military targets by Moscow. Responding to remarks about Patriot production in Poland, she warned that no military plants outside Ukrainian territory should be assumed safe if they manufacture arms for the Kiev regime.

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A government-appointed commission said Sweden should apologise to the Indigenous Sami people for past injustices and give Sami interests greater weight when considering mining and wind power projects.

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A new paper in Nature suggests that stripes and spots on butterfly wings can disrupt predators’ visual estimates of speed and direction. By creating misleading motion cues and concealing the butterfly’s true heading, the patterns may cause birds and other predators to miss during the final moments of an attack.

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Euronews that the alliance faces no immediate threat. He said he does not take Russia’s warning about nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad seriously and argued that Moscow is trying to distract from its difficulties in Ukraine.

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Yulia Zhdanova, head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said European plans to expand urban-combat training indicate preparations for a high-intensity conflict with Russia. She cited Belgium’s planned €7 million ground-forces training center in Leopoldsburg, where troops would train using “real-life” examples from Ukraine.

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Yulia Zhdanova, head of Russia’s delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said European countries were deliberately encouraging citizens to view a possible war with Russia as normal. She accused European authorities of obstructing a peace settlement and potential talks, while funding and arming Ukraine and promoting what she called a myth of a Russian threat.

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The US Court of International Trade is set to hear a challenge on Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners. Trump accuses them of failing to stop imports made with forced labor, while opponents say the policy restores unchecked tariff authority that the Supreme Court struck down in February.

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A pilot on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed another pilot and apparently tried to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The aircraft plunged 17,000ft in under two minutes before diverting to Saudi Arabia. Passengers filmed the aftermath and one man was heard calling for help.

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A flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after a cockpit struggle triggered emergency signals and a sharp descent. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the co-pilot stabbed the pilot and appeared to try to crash the plane. Officials are investigating whether it was an attempted terrorist attack.

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Flydubai confirmed that a cockpit brawl took place aboard flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30. The crew regained control, turned the aircraft around and landed safely at Tabuk Airport.

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Netanyahu says one pilot stabbed another aboard a UAE flight bound for Israel in what appeared to be an attempt to crash the plane. The flydubai service to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after the pilots fought, prompting concerns about a possible hijacking.

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Lapid accused voices aligned with the government of trying to exploit the incident for political purposes.

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An Israel-bound flight plunged 17,000 feet after the co-pilot reportedly stabbed the pilot. Israeli sources suspect the incident was an attempted hijacking.

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Reports about comments Jane Doe made to Cornell University police in 2024, when she first approached school officials alleging she had been gang raped, are prompting new questions about what law enforcement knew at the time.

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Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto have broken ground in Lamu on a $16bn oil refinery expected to process 700,000 barrels of crude a day. Residents are protesting over land compensation and environmental concerns, while 133 people have asked Kenya’s High Court to halt construction. Dangote says the project will proceed and be ready by 2030.

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