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  • Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, speaks at the weekly 'Bring Them Home' rally in Hostage Square Hostages Square on October 11, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages
  • Madagascar’s military takes power, says colonel
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged their deadliest fire in years. Here’s what we know
  • Live Updates October 14, 2025 – Gaza ceasefire news
  • Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups
  • Pro-Palestinian marchers clash with police before Italy-Israel soccer game
  • Afghanistan's Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi attends a press conference, in New Delhi, India October 12, 2025.
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    Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists
  • WHO issues warning over contaminated cough syrup in India after multiple child deaths
  • As Israel celebrates the hostages’ homecoming, Trump basks in the spotlight
  • Mali retaliates against US, requiring visa applicants to post $10,000 bond
  • Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians are released from Israeli prisons
  • Madagascar’s president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say
  • Key moments from a momentous day for Israelis and Palestinians
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  • Steam rises from the chimneys of a thermal power plant and an oil refinery in Omsk, Russia, in October 2024.
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    Ukraine and Russia’s intensifying energy war brings gas shortages and economic pain
  • This man lost his life after drinking cocktail. Now Brazilian authorities are racing to tackle a methanol poisoning crisis
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    ‘My brother was murdered by greed’: Inside Brazil’s methanol poisoning crisis

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  • Sébastien Lecornu, France's prime minister, leaves the Elysée Palace in Paris on Tuesday.
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    Socialists throw French prime minister a temporary lifeline
  • Here’s what awaits ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy behind bars
  • French presidency unveils new cabinet as budget pressure intensifies
  • Former Lostprophets singer and convicted child sex offender killed in UK prison attack, media reports say
  • In shock move, French president reappoints prime minister who quit Monday
  • Ukraine says ‘massive’ Russian attack targeted energy infrastructure

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  • Israeli excavators operate in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, on October 14, 2025.
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    Is the war in Gaza finally over? Here are some key unanswered questions about what comes next
  • Iranian court gives lengthy jail sentences to two French citizens on spying charges
  • Hamas asserts control in Gaza and targets alleged collaborators as ceasefire takes hold
  • Between grief and joy, Israel awaits the return of its hostages
  • Twin brothers, childhood friends and IDF soldiers: Who are the hostages still held in Gaza?
  • See how two years of war, loss and heartbreak has changed these Palestinians in Gaza
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  • D'Angelo performs during FYF Fest at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, in Los Angeles.
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    Gallery People we’ve lost in 2025
  • A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. It was a day after Chinese troops began violently cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators who had been in the square for over a month. The man was eventually pulled away by onlookers. To this day, we don’t know who he is and what happened to him.
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    Gallery The stories behind some of the defining photos of the last 40 years
  • A general view of the iconic Ballina Prawn outside the Bunning's store on October 08, 2025 in Ballina, Australia. The Ballina Prawn is part of a collection of "Big Things" found across Australia.
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    Gallery The week in 36 photos
  • Aileen Michel (L'il Bear) wears a bear hide as she listens before performing a bear dance during a gathering to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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  • In this photo made available by the South African Department of Transport and Community Safety, Police officers and emergency rescue workers search for victims from a bus lying upside down in the embankment, in Louis Trichardt, South Africa, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.
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    Bus crash in mountainous region of South Africa kills at least 42 people
  • World’s oldest president looks to extend his rule as Cameroon goes to the polls
  • Madagascar president warns of attempted coup after soldiers join protests
  • At least 60 killed in attack on Sudan’s Al-Fashir, activists say

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  • A Marine helps a woman cross a flooded street in Poza Rica in Veracruz state, Mexico, on Sunday, October 12.
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    Deadly landslides and flooding cut off 300 communities in Mexico
  • Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search operations expand
  • Peru president removed from office after string of scandals and allegations
  • Five arrested after alleged ‘assassination attempt’ on Ecuador President Noboa

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  • Pakistani troops patrol along Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Big Ben post in the Khyber district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 3, 2021.
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    Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes in worst fighting since Taliban returned to power
  • As its ruling party turns 80, an emboldened Kim Jong Un shows off North Korea’s new hypersonic weapon, ICBM
  • Death toll rises in Philippines after twin quake triggering 2 tsunami warnings
  • Japan’s aspiring leader drums to relieve stress. She has many reasons to reach for her sticks

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  • With sea fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Wim chose this spot for his camera trap after noticing hyena tracks nearby. ‘It took me 10 years to finally get this one single image of a brown hyena, in the most perfect frame imaginable.’<br /><br /><br />The rarest hyena species in the world, brown hyenas are nocturnal and mostly solitary. They are known to pass through Kolmanskop on their way to hunt Cape fur seal pups or scavenge for carrion washed ashore along the Namib Desert coast.
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    Ghostly shot of hyena wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year award
  • US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time
  • Visiting former mental asylums: Hopeful, haunted or ‘nightmare factories?’
  • The spookiest cities in the US — and why they still scare us
  • The Caribbean beach where jetliners roar in over your head

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  • Diane Keaton attends the Thom Browne Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023/2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Palais Garnier in Paris on July 3, 2023.
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    Playful and imperfect, Diane Keaton was a singular style icon
  • Dressing a professor in crisis: The designer behind Julia Roberts’ outfits in Luca Guadagnino’s new film
  • Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize in literature for work confronting ‘apocalyptic terror’
  • These artists revolutionized modern art in Nigeria. They’re finally getting recognition further afield
  • Paris Fashion Week: How to find meaning in clothes

Weather

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  • U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrews conduct overflights of Kipnuk, Alaska, after coastal flooding impacted several western Alaska communities, Oct. 12, 2025. The Coast Guard continues to support the state of Alaska’s response efforts in impacted communities. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Air Station Kodiak)
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    1 killed, dozens rescued after storm slams western Alaska leaving thousands displaced
  • Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm
  • At least 3 dead as dayslong nor’easter brings final surge of coastal flooding to Jersey Shore
  • Strengthening nor’easter threatens major coastal flooding and damaging winds along East Coast
  • ‘Numerous flash floods’ are about to unfold in the Southwest from a double dose of tropically-fueled rain

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    After Gaza, Ukraine is next on Trump’s list. But peace with Putin may prove even more elusive
  • <p>Despite the signing of an agreement to seek peace in the Middle East, the next steps for Israel and Gaza are unclear, even as US President Donald Trump hailed the end of the war and took a victory lap for the ceasefire deal. CNN's Nic Robertson explains.</p>
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  • Actor Zooey Deschanel has opened the doors to the duplex she shares with fiancé Jonathan Scott, star of real estate reality TV shows including "Property Brothers."
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    Step inside Zooey Deschanel and fiancé Jonathan Scott’s maximalist Manhattan home
  • Meet the female architect making history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  • Building a modern metropolis using a centuries-old technique
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Sports

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  • Former New York Jets player Nick Mangold was inducted into the team's Ring of Honor in 2022.
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    Former New York Jets star Nick Mangold seeking kidney transplant, asks fans to consider donating
  • Court rejects Israel’s appeal after Indonesia refused to grant team’s visas to artistic gymnastics world championships
  • Falcons RB Bijan Robinson hailed as ‘best player in football’ as Atlanta tops the Buffalo Bills
  • Blake Snell produces pitching ‘masterpiece’ as LA Dodgers win NLCS opener, while Mariners take 2-0 ALCS lead
  • Bill Belichick says reports he sought early departure from North Carolina are ‘categorically false’

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  • Scouts will now be able to earn badges in AI and cybersecurity
  • You’ll soon be able to shop Walmart’s catalog on ChatGPT
  • This billionaire investor who tried to buy TikTok is analyzing whether Trump’s deal is legal
  • Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal

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