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US President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is facing growing scrutiny over her legal credentials and has declined to say how frequently she will hold press briefings, raising questions about her approach to communicating with journalists. In an interview with The Guardian on Thursday, Zacharia said the frequency of future briefings remained “unknown at this time”, adding that Trump was “his best spokesperson” and that she would interact with the press as needed. Zacharia replaced Karoline Leavitt after a rapid recruitment process. She said she received a call…

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Police foiled a terrorist attack on the Spin Mela police post in Peshawar’s Hassan Khel area on Friday, but one police officer was martyred, and three others were injured during an exchange of fire, officials said. According to Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO), police personnel on duty retaliated against the attackers during an intense gun battle, forcing them to retreat. Police officials said more than 30 heavily armed terrorists attacked the post from two directions. Reports suggested several attackers were injured during the exchange of fire, but authorities said…

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Elon Musk has accused powerful Indian business interests of obstructing Starlink’s entry into the country, but government licensing requirements and concerns over control of internet access remain major hurdles for the satellite internet service. Musk, the world’s richest man, claimed on his social media platform that Starlink was being blocked by “certain oligarchs” to protect their dominance in India’s telecommunications market. He specifically pointed to Mukesh Ambani, owner of Jio, the country’s largest mobile network. Jio is developing its own low-Earth-orbit satellite system that could compete with Starlink. However, Jio…

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New US sanctions targeting Iranian airlines have disrupted international flights, forcing travellers to take lengthy detours and pay sharply higher fares, with journeys from Tehran to Dubai now taking up to 18 hours and costing more than $1,000. In late September, direct flights between Tehran and Dubai took less than three hours and typically cost between $100 and $200. The disruption followed a September 23 deadline for companies to stop providing services to Iranian airlines, leading to the suspension of direct flights between Iran and the United Arab Emirates. As…

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Security was stepped up, and police warned of traffic disruptions in ‌the Indian capital, Delhi, on Friday as the ‘cockroach’ movement called for a rally in the central business district, its latest in a series of protests demanding the resignation of India’s election chief. The youth-led ‘Cockroach Janta Party’, opposition groups, ​and student organisations have held almost daily protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh ​Kumar’s resignation over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister ⁠Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. More than 130 million voters…

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Celine Dion has revisited one of her most memorable red-carpet looks, wearing a custom Chanel gown inspired by the dress she wore to the 1997 Academy Awards during her Paris residency. The singer debuted the shimmering silver-and-blue creation on Wednesday, October 14, at her third-to-last show of the five-week concert run at La Défense Arena. Designed by Chanel creative director Matthieu Blazy, the gown features a corseted bodice, sculpted hips and a thigh-high slit. The fashion house said its ateliers in Paris handcrafted the dress, with specialised embroidery by Atelier…

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Indonesia’s stock market is no longer worthy of “emerging market” status, according to MSCI, and the index provider said it intends to ‌cut it from a suite of products tracked by global investors. This major setback sent money fleeing. In a surprise move, MSCI said on Friday it would put Indonesia on a path to “standalone” status, which was worse than previously flagged, and extended its review of the market by seven months to June 2027. Jakarta stocks, already the world’s worst performers this year, plunged 10% to a six-year…

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog ​that Israel should stop and reverse its “forced ‌establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. China has consistently held that ​the Palestinian question is the greatest historical ​injustice of this century, Wang told Herzog ⁠during a meeting in Azerbaijan, the ministry ​added. Wang said that promoting peace and reconciliation in ​the region is the “cornerstone” of China’s Middle East policy China believes that the “two-state solution” is the right path to a ​resolution,…

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Despite tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him ​into a bus. Street protests in India this year are likely to be higher than at any time in the past decade, the independent Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) Project has said, as dissent mounts against ‌Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and Gen Z…

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Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a ‘disgrace’ that keeps global energy prices elevated, US President Donald Trump told the Newsmax ​news outlet in an interview aired on Thursday. Ukraine struck a Russian oil ‌refinery after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised his willingness to strike deals with Moscow. “All he’s doing ​is making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that’s a ​disgrace,” Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft…

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