Pope Leo XIV is expected to have a lung nodule removed at Rome’s Gemelli hospital this week, with doctors forecasting about seven days of recovery. The 71-year-old pontiff is due to visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on November 6, but the Vatican has not confirmed the surgery date.

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Hackers remotely raised refrigerator and freezer temperatures to as high as 50 C overnight at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering fires and leaving food spoiled.

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Major French supermarket chains said on Monday that a cyberattack drove refrigerator temperatures higher in hundreds of stores. Spoiled food had to be discarded, raising concerns about food security.

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The gunman’s wife and daughter were among the victims in Erie, officials said. His daughter was pregnant and expected to give birth on Monday.

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Bumble shares surged after the Wall Street Journal reported that the dating-app company was in advanced talks to be taken private for about $1 billion.

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Bumble is in advanced discussions with Ithaca Holdings on a deal to take the dating app operator private at an estimated $1 billion valuation, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

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China’s Foreign Ministry condemned the weekend attacks on Riyadh airport, which the Houthis claimed. Spokesperson Mao Ning said Beijing was seriously concerned about the escalation of the Middle East conflict and urged all parties to reduce tensions.

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Airlines in Arab countries have suspended or cancelled flights to Riyadh following deadly attacks by the Houthi militia.

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Yemen’s ambassador to France, Riyad Yassin Abdallah, told FRANCE 24 that the Iran-backed Houthis are “thriving and surviving by creating war.” Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said Monday the country had been tested but would respond “seriously” after a series of Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s international airport killed 18 people.

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Saudi Arabia has opened an investigation into why its air defenses did not intercept missiles and drones launched by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in a deadly attack on Riyadh airport.

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Erdogan condemned Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport and voiced support for Saudi Arabia. He offered condolences for those killed, including people performing the Umrah pilgrimage.

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Saudi Arabia extended the closure of Riyadh’s international airport on Monday after the Saudi-led coalition said it was responding to Houthi drone and missile attacks. Another attack on Saturday killed 13 people and injured more than 300. The disruption is among the worst to hit Saudi aviation in years and marks a significant escalation in the war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

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Saudi Arabia has extended the closure of Riyadh airport following deadly attacks.

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At the Warsaw Security Forum, Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius suggested that Ukraine strike more Russian data centers as a way to protect European elections from interference. He also called for greater European defense investment and security cooperation with Ukraine. Ukrainian drones recently hit three Yandex data centers in Russia, leaving the company’s services down.

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Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three major Yandex data centers in Russia within days, causing widespread digital-service outages. Pro-Kremlin bloggers warned that Russia’s centralized digital economy could collapse and suggested Ukraine’s decentralized services may be more resilient. Russia had begun attacking Ukrainian data centers and telecommunications infrastructure in late September.

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Ukraine struck three of Yandex’s six data centers, in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. Operations stopped at the Sasovo and Vladimir facilities, while several modules in Kaluga were knocked out. Yandex services and other websites experienced outages, including for users abroad. The company restored some services but said features remained unavailable, and arranged to move customer data and services to other cloud providers’ data centers.

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Russian technology company Yandex says its services are gradually recovering after an outage. Access to search, its Alisa assistant, mail, maps and taxi services is being restored, though some functions remain unavailable and the timeline for fully restoring equipment is unclear. Yandex said customer account records were unaffected and that it arranged expedited transfers of client data and services to cloud providers. It reported drone attacks damaging or halting data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir between October 8 and 11.

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Ukrainian defense company Fire Point mocked Yandex on X after the Russian tech company reported damage to another data center, disrupting its financial services. The report follows a series of drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia that have disrupted services.

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Some senators, including Republicans, have opposed the agreement. Trump nevertheless defended the Russia diesel plan, saying he made the right choice.

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Donald Trump’s diesel-export deal with Moscow and praise for Vladimir Putin have drawn public criticism from Republicans. The developments are the latest in a string of Russia-related news, coming weeks before a midterm election whose outlook is increasingly favorable to Democrats.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany and the EU would not make a diesel-supply deal with Russia, arguing Moscow negotiates seriously only under pressure. He said Russia answered Donald Trump’s energy-ceasefire proposal with new strikes on Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure, and called for tighter sanctions while pledging continued support for Kyiv. Green Party co-leader Franziska Brantner also denounced Trump’s deal. Merz renewed a promise to lower Germany’s electricity tax to the EU minimum.

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Reporting from central Ukraine, FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg says many Ukrainians feel betrayed by the United States, which they had regarded as an ally and a beacon of freedom and democracy. He says Ukrainian admiration for the US is rapidly disintegrating.

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Police said a roller coaster incident at a Six Flags park killed one person and injured several others. A Six Flags spokesperson said the company is cooperating with local authorities as they investigate.

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Police said a man died at Six Flags Over Georgia. Witnesses told CNN affiliate WXIA they saw him fall from a roller coaster.

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Police say an incident involving a Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia left one person dead and several others injured.

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An emergency on the Goliath roller coaster at the Six Flags park near Atlanta prompted evacuations, with passengers having to walk down a steep slope. Authorities said one person died at the park and several others were injured.

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Actor Selma Blair was arrested in New York and taken to a hospital after being accused of injuring two flight attendants aboard a plane traveling from Los Angeles to New York.

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Authorities said Monday that actor Selma Blair was detained after flying from Los Angeles to New York; they said her physical conduct toward two cabin crew members caused injuries.

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Actor Selma Blair was arrested after allegedly assaulting two flight attendants. After the flight landed in New York, she was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

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Actress Selma Blair was hospitalized after an alleged incident aboard a commercial flight from Los Angeles to New York City on Sunday night, her representative said. She is in stable condition.

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Blair's representative said a medical emergency affected her during Sunday's Delta service bound for New York City.

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A New York Port Authority spokesperson said Selma Blair was taken into custody Sunday after being physically abusive aboard a Delta flight from Los Angeles to New York City.

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Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s home as part of an undisclosed criminal investigation. The search came weeks before the midterm elections, after years of attacks on Omar by President Trump and Republicans.

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Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation.

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US federal agents raided the Washington home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday, officials said. Fox News reported that the raid followed a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork submitted by Omar’s late father when she was a child.

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Federal agents searched Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar’s Washington home on Monday under a warrant authorized by a court, the Justice Department said, describing the action as part of an ongoing investigation. No charges against Omar were announced. US media said the probe was linked to alleged fraud involving immigration paperwork her late father filed on her behalf when she was a child.

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Federal agents searched Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar’s home near Washington, DC, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. The Justice Department confirmed a court-authorised search but gave no details. Fox News said it was linked to immigration-fraud allegations involving Omar’s late father; Omar has denied the claims, and no charges have been announced.

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US media report that federal agents searched Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington. Omar’s family came to the United States in 1995 after securing asylum, when she was a teenager.

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Polish officials say two Turkish citizens were detained in Germany in connection with last month's fire at a Starlink station in Masovia. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called it an act of “hybrid warfare,” while Poland's special services minister alleged Russia was behind the incident.

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Russian forces struck Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskyi district with “Banderol” missiles on the evening of October 12, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. An entire section of a five-story apartment building collapsed, and people may be trapped in the rubble. Regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov reported five people injured.

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A federal judge said Monday that she was furious with the Trump administration for cutting down at least 430 trees at a public golf course in Washington, DC, which President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.

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Asked on Monday about embattled US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump said he was considering whether to fire her.

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Trump said he is considering firing Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece. Days earlier, a Trump donor alleged that Guilfoyle tried to get him to pay $100,000 toward her credit card debt shortly before her confirmation hearing.

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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece.

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Emergency assistance for Christa Pike was delayed after her execution failed last month, as confusion arose between first responders and Tennessee prison officials, according to reviewed 911 dispatch recordings.

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911 dispatch recordings reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion between first responders and Tennessee prison officials after her failed lethal injection last month.

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911 dispatch recordings reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that confusion between first responders and Tennessee prison officials delayed emergency help after Christa Pike’s execution failed last month.

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French investigators used DNA and vehicle tracking to solve the theft of Renoir paintings. The Marseille prosecutor said arrests followed a “very strong suspicion” that another heist was imminent.

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Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, describing them as its most capable AI models to date. The social media company aims to compete more aggressively with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released two new state-of-the-art models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on Monday, marking the company’s first attempt to build a frontier model.

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Meta’s largest model is said to rival the world’s best and adds features designed to keep AI agents from going off track.

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Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full for Muse Code subscribers, with Wonder also available through the Meta Model API. The company says internal benchmark tests show the models can rival leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta plans to use Wonder to power its Muse agent but has not given a timeline.

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Franklin County, Pennsylvania, reported a measles-associated death on Monday, bringing the state’s total deaths from the disease to six.

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Pennsylvania reported its sixth measles-related death on Monday: a 39-year-old woman in Franklin County. The state is experiencing its largest outbreak in three decades.

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