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Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday ahead of the arrival of powerful Typhoon Champi and cancelled more than 100 flights, ​with the storm expected to brush past the island’s northeastern coast and gradually ‌weaken on approach. At one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the Pacific this year, Champi weakened slightly on Thursday but was still packing gusts of more than 227 kph ​near its centre, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration (CWA). The storm is currently about 520 ​km southeast of Taiwan’s southern…

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US President Donald Trump has said Washington is not negotiating with Iran, warning that “something one way or the other” would happen “fairly soon” as uncertainty persists over the future of the conflict. “We are going to have something one way or the other that’ll happen fairly soon,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday after returning from a rally in South Carolina, adding that many people expected developments after the US midterm elections. Speaking at the rally, Trump said the United States could end its war with Iran immediately but wanted…

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Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of ​critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems. Developers of the PHP programming language on Wednesday released urgent new fixes to vulnerabilities that had been lurking ‌in their software for years until they were uncovered using AI, saying all users were “encouraged to update immediately.” With tech firms warning that some hackers were already exploiting the flaws, government agencies across Europe were among those that…

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A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms on Wednesday to pay the state $25 billion after a jury found the ​company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data, hitting the company with one of the largest financial penalties in US history. The ruling came in ‌a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. New Mexico had sued Meta, accusing it of lying to Facebook users…

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Kim Kardashian dressed up as her 13-year-old daughter, North West, for Halloween 2026, recreating the teenager’s distinctive style with a blue wig, fake facial piercings and long black nails. The 45-year-old reality star shared pictures of her costume on Instagram on Tuesday, wearing an oversized graphic T-shirt with striped sleeves, black grills and silver jewellery, including a skull necklace. She captioned the post “Halloween 2026”. View this post on Instagram The outfit caught the attention of Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner, who commented, “This is so fun!” Model Winnie Harlow also…

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Three people were killed and at least 10 injured in separate attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield, authorities said on Wednesday. The attacks come amid escalating Houthi assaults on Saudi targets. Amid the strikes, the US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US ​missions in the region, US officials told Reuters. The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)…

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Oil prices rose on Thursday as more attacks by the Houthis in Saudi ‌Arabia prompted the United States to order some diplomats and family members to leave its missions in the Kingdom. Brent crude futures rose $1.29, or 1.2%, to $110.11 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 97 cents, or 1%, to $98.12. Brent had settled largely ​unchanged on Wednesday, while WTI had eased 67 cents. The US State Department plans to withdraw family members ​from several other US missions in the region, US officials told Reuters.…

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A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms on Wednesday to pay the state $25 billion after a jury found the ​company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data, hitting the company with one of the largest financial penalties in US history. The ruling came in ‌a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. New Mexico had sued Meta, accusing it of lying to Facebook users…

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The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US ​missions in the region, US officials told Reuters. The order came as attacks in Saudi Arabia killed ​at least one person and injured eight others at a civilian airport in Dammam ⁠, and two people were killed in a drone attack on an oil field. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said ​in a post on X that the department…

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The government on Wednesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs2.71 per litre to Rs379.31, while increasing the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) by 31 paisa to Rs390.11 per litre, effective October 22. According to a press release issued by the Petroleum Division, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) revised the ex-depot prices of petroleum products under the federal government’s pricing mechanism. The Petroleum Division said the revisions were necessitated by global developments, including movements in Platts rates, premiums and incidentals. The revised prices follow successive changes in petroleum…

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