AI tools helped researchers uncover two long-hidden vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, collectively called “php2shell,” affecting multiple versions released over more than a decade. Governments and cybersecurity agencies urged site operators to install emergency patches or consider temporarily shutting sites down. Online services have been disrupted, while attack attempts have surged.

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Powerful Typhoon Champi brought flight cancellations across East Asia and prompted school and office closures in Taiwan. One person died after being swept away by waves, 171 were injured and 1,000 evacuated. Forecasters said the storm could bring up to 90cm of rain, and Taiwan’s weather agency did not rule out landfall.

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Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan on Friday as towering waves hit the coast. One person died, 94 were injured and hundreds of flights were cancelled.

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Taiwan is preparing for a possible direct hit from Typhoon Champi. Though it has weakened from super-typhoon strength, gusts remain near 190 km/h and torrential rain is expected. At least one person has died, more than 1,300 have evacuated, and businesses, schools and hundreds of flights have been shut or cancelled.

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Taiwan closed its stock market, schools and offices on Friday as Typhoon Champi approached, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds that disrupted flights. The market is valued at $5 trillion.

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Most businesses and schools across Taiwan shut on Friday as Typhoon Champi approached, while hundreds of flights in the region were canceled. Authorities reported at least one death and dozens of injuries, and more than 1,200 people evacuated their homes.

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Taiwan was nearly shut down on Friday ahead of Typhoon Champi. The storm is weakening and is not expected to make direct landfall, but it is forecast to bring strong winds and torrential rain.

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Meghan said she was deeply distressed by allegations that her estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr, possessed child sexual abuse images. She said police had told her in 2018 that allegations in a letter were being investigated. Her half-brother claims he found a large collection in their father’s former Philippine home; Markle Sr denies possessing the images and calls the claims “sick lies”.

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Ukrainian officials say Starshield terminals remain severely impaired 11 days after problems began, despite Trump saying restrictions were restored. Speed limits continue to hamper Ukrainian drone operations. The report says no one in Washington has publicly taken responsibility, while officials have pointed to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; Zelensky said he was discussing a fix with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Netanyahu ordered a “full lockdown” across the occupied West Bank and a “closure” of Hebron. Witnesses said Israeli forces raided the outskirts of Hebron and several nearby towns.

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Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the West Bank closed after an attack wounded Israelis, shortly before an election.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a “full lockdown” of the occupied West Bank on Friday. The military said it had killed two Palestinians accused of carrying out an attack near Hebron that injured five people.

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Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 270 prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on social media Friday. Ukraine returned 270 Russian servicemen, while Russia handed over 270 Ukrainian POWs.

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The Kremlin says the first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States has set sail under a new import agreement.

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The Kremlin says the first tanker carrying Russian diesel under a deal with the United States has left port.

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A Malta-flagged tanker carrying 40,000 metric tons of Russian diesel is heading to New York after an agreement with US President Donald Trump, LSEG data showed on Friday.

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Serbia’s October 25 snap parliamentary election will test whether the student-backed Student List can loosen Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year hold on power. The movement grew from protests after a railway-station canopy collapse in Novi Sad killed 16 people, and campaigns on restoring the rule of law, ending corruption and rebuilding institutions.

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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday that a shooting near Paris left at least one person dead and four injured.

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A gunman fired from a vehicle at people in Trappes, outside Paris, on Friday, killing one and injuring four. Police arrested a suspect in neighboring Coignières. France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation into murder linked to a terrorist enterprise, but the motive remains unclear.

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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said a shooting in Trappes, west of Paris, killed one person and injured four. A police source said a man fired from a vehicle and was later arrested in nearby Coignières.

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French prosecutors said Friday they are treating a shooting in Trappes, west of Paris, as a suspected terrorist attack. Earlier that day, a man fired from a vehicle, killing at least one person and wounding four others.

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Police said a man opened fire in Trappes and neighbouring La Verriere at about 10:30 am, killing one person and injuring several others. He was arrested in nearby Coignieres.

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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said France would mobilise 70,000 security forces nationwide on Saturday to maintain order. He added that calls for looting and violence had come from the ultra-left.

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