The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami threat after an earthquake was reported 10 km west-southwest of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama.

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Vice President JD Vance questioned the Pentagon's plan to livestream the Fort Hood shooter's execution, saying he would not watch.

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Vance said he would not watch if Hasan's execution is livestreamed. The White House referred questions about the broadcast to the Pentagon.

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Hasan was sentenced to death for fatally shooting 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. The UN called US plans to livestream his execution “cruel, abhorrent, torture.”

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The United Nations condemned the US plan on Friday to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, calling it “abhorrent” and saying it could breach prohibitions against torture. Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.

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Politicians from both parties criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009. They said it conflicts with American values and could help terrorist groups recruit.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has not publicly commented on the Pentagon’s unprecedented proposal to livestream the military execution of the gunman who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.

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SpaceX has agreed to buy a nationwide portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses in a deal reportedly valued at $8 billion. The move is intended to take the company beyond satellite internet and position it as a serious rival in the US mobile market.

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UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said a co-pilot on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30 planned to seize control of the aircraft and attack the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, seeking to cause as many casualties as possible. Crew and passengers subdued him, and the plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

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A UAE prosecutor says a Flydubai co-pilot allegedly planned a suicide attack on Tel Aviv airport. A Flydubai flight diversion prompted a wait at Ben Gurion airport on September 30, 2026.

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A preliminary investigation found that a Flydubai copilot intended to crash a plane into Tel Aviv airport in order to kill as many people as possible.

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The UAE attorney general said on Friday that an Omani flydubai co-pilot planned to seize a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight on September 30 and crash it into a terminal at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport. The co-pilot was stopped by the other pilot, the state news agency reported.

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A drone attack damaged a Yandex data center in Russia’s Kaluga Oblast overnight on Oct. 9, disabling several modules and potentially disrupting some services, the company said. Ukraine has not publicly confirmed responsibility. It was the second reported attack on a Yandex data center in Russia in two days.

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Yandex says two of its five data centres were hit by Ukrainian drones over the past two days, making it difficult to keep services running. Its Sasovo centre was seriously damaged and shut down, while part of the Kaluga site was taken offline. The company said it could not predict when they would resume operations.

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Ukrainian drone strikes partly disabled a Yandex AI data centre in Russia’s Kaluga region, following an attack on another Yandex hub in Ryazan. Ukraine also said it hit three Russian missile-production facilities; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukhta oil refinery was struck as well. Russian attacks continued to cause civilian casualties in Ukraine.

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Yandex said a drone attack overnight on Oct. 9 damaged its data center in Russia’s Kaluga Oblast, disabling several modules and potentially disrupting services. No one at the facility was injured, and the damage is still being assessed. Ukraine has not publicly confirmed responsibility; it was the second reported attack on a Yandex data center in two days.

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Yandex said a Ukrainian drone strike hit its data center in Kaluga, completely disabling several modules and potentially disrupting some services. The company said the extent of the damage remains unclear. Its shares fell about 4% on the Moscow Exchange. The strike was the second against Yandex data centers in two days; a drone attack on its Sasovo facility in the Ryazan region caused a fire and temporarily halted operations.

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Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Friday that a drone attack completely disabled several modules at its data centre in Russia’s Kaluga region. It was the second data centre hit in two days.

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The U.S. imposed severe financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Oct. 9. After a six-month grace period, transactions with the court will be prohibited, and companies that continue dealing with it could face U.S. penalties. Canada and seven other countries issued a joint statement supporting the ICC and opposing the sanctions.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington remains open to resolving its dispute with the International Criminal Court diplomatically despite sanctions. He said the US and its people are not subject to the court’s jurisdiction and warned that the US would continue efforts to dismantle it if the ICC does not end what he called threats.

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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after a former judge from the court won the Nobel Peace Prize. The move put Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.

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After imposing sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, the Trump administration issued a 180-day general license allowing certain activities, including maintaining the court’s operations and transactions involving detainees and IT services. The State Department said the license gives member states time to pursue diplomatic and legal resolutions and may be adjusted based on their progress.

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The EU described US sanctions against the International Criminal Court as regrettable. The court was created to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity that might otherwise go unpunished.

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The Trump administration has imposed sweeping sanctions on the ICC, including barring US entities from transactions with the court, saying the aim is to restrict its resources and operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the measures defend US sovereignty and accused the court of seeking to prosecute Americans. The ICC called the sanctions an assault on the rule of law and said it would not be deterred.

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South African-born Navanethem “Navi” Pillay received the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 9. The 85-year-old previously served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and chaired the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee praised her efforts to promote peace and international law. BBC correspondent Joe Inwood explains how her childhood in South Africa shaped her work on international law and human rights from Rwanda to Gaza.

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Human rights and international justice advocates welcomed South African jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize, while Israeli officials were angry. The 85-year-old earned wide praise for decades of work, including investigating crimes in Rwanda, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Veteran jurist Navi Pillay, who chaired a UN commission that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to advance peace and international law. The Nobel Committee said strong international judicial institutions must be able to uphold the rule of law; Israel dismissed the commission’s findings as “distorted and false.”

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South African judge Navi Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the fifth South African recipient. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited her decades of work seeking accountability for genocide and war crimes, including defending anti-apartheid activists and leading a UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide in Gaza.

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Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights chief and International Court of Justice judge, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited her efforts to promote peace and international law. Pillay joked that she might share the prize with Donald Trump after learning of the award.

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Young protesters and police clashed in Brussels on Friday as tens of thousands gathered in the Belgian capital to oppose rising living costs and the government’s budget-tightening measures.

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Thousands demonstrated in Brussels against the federal government’s austerity plans. The main union rally was peaceful, police said, but a group on its sidelines clashed with officers and threw debris. Riot police used tear gas, water cannon and batons. Police put attendance at about 30,000, while the union had estimated 50,000.

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Hundreds of protesters clashed with police during an anti-austerity march organized by trade unions in Brussels. Masked youths threw rocks and bottles, prompting police to use water cannons and tear gas; about 20 people were arrested. The main union march proceeded peacefully.

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Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank are asking international activists to protect them. They say violent Israeli settlers attack them, often with Israeli soldiers defending the settlers.

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The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission recorded at least 19 settler attacks across the West Bank on Friday, including assaults on olive harvesters, burning and uprooting trees, and theft of crops and livestock. Israeli forces separately detained 16 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territory.

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Mediazona reported that a Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk on August 26 killed 20 Russian military officers. The outlet called it the largest known number of Russian officers killed in one incident since the war began. They served at the Central Military District headquarters and the 41st Combined Arms Army.

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US officials defended ICE agents who shot and wounded Oscar Belgal in New York while his five-year-old son was in the back seat. DHS chief Markwayne Mullin said officers fired as they tried to arrest Belgal, who survived and is being held at a detention facility. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani disputed officials’ account of how the agents identified themselves; the child was unharmed.

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The EU and China agreed to halve Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles to the EU, while improving EU access to China’s market and easing Chinese licensing of rare earth exports, European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said Friday.

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China and the European Union have reached an agreement that could reduce Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the bloc by more than half, EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said in Beijing on Friday. The talks aimed to narrow the EU’s large trade deficit.

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The EU says an agreement with China could cut Chinese exports of plug-in and battery-powered hybrid cars to the bloc by more than half over four years, amounting to several million vehicles. The deal follows negotiations since June aimed at easing trade tensions; discussions will continue on cars, rare-earth export restrictions and EU food and drink access to China.

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Europe's trade chief Maroš Sefčovič described two days of talks with China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing as a positive first step. The sides agreed to halve Chinese hybrid vehicle exports.

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