Archives for October, 2025

'Can I say dirty stuff?' Comics raise laughs in Saudi, frowns at home

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FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past posters with the portraits of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens held in Iran, on the day of support rallies to mark their three-year detention and to demand their release, in front of the National Assembly in Paris, France, May 7, 2025. The slogan reads "Freedom for Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris". REUTERS/Abdul Saboor/File Photo

Iran, France see progress in prisoner exchange deal

Reuters

Russian and U.S. flags are pictured before talks between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Explainer-Could US and Russia extend last nuclear weapons treaty?

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Demonstrators carry flags and placards as families of hostages and their supporters protest ahead of the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demanding the immediate release of all hostages and the end of the war in Gaza, in Jerusalem, October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Red Cross ready to act as intermediary in bringing Israeli hostages, Palestinian detainees home

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A man with a Moroccan flag draped over his shoulders gestures, as demonstrators attend a protest for social justice, near the parliament building, in Rabat, Morocco, October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Ahmed El Jechtimi

Analysis-Youth-led unrest exposes cracks in Morocco's economic model

Reuters

The Taliban government in Kabul is condemned by the international community for its repressive measures

UN rights council launches probe into violations in Afghanistan

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The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war

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Strikes have continued in Gaza despite a renewed diplomatic push to seal a ceasefire deal

Hamas and Israel open talks in Egypt under Trump's Gaza peace plan

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Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Negotiators gather for Gaza talks, mediators caution deal may not be swift

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest to condemn the Israeli forces', after Israel intercepted some of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Geneva, Switzerland, October 2, 2025. The banner reads : Solidarity with attacked flotilla and massacred Gaza. REUTERS/Olivia Le Poidevin

Swiss Gaza flotilla activists allege 'inhumane detention conditions' in Israel

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Taliban fighters ride on the back of a pickup truck as they patrol along a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 23, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

UN to decide on broad EU-backed investigation into Afghanistan atrocities

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Tal Shoham, a former hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023, with his wife and two children as well as three other members of his family, and held in Gaza for 505 days, stands by the entrance to the home of his in-laws' in Kibbutz Beeri, southern Israel, September 15, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

As Gaza war hits two-year mark, former Israeli hostage recalls Hamas torment

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul attends the Warsaw Security Forum, in Warsaw, Poland September 29, 2025. Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Dawid Zuchowicz/via REUTERS

German foreign minister: Gaza talks are most promising approach in 2 years

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Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman says he is the victim of mistaken identity

ICC to give war crimes verdict on Sudan militia chief

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The Gaza Strip has been left devastated by nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas

Negotiators due in Egypt for Gaza talks as Trump urges quick action

Agence France-Presse

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he departs the White House en route to Norfolk, Virginia to attend the 250th Anniversary of the Navy celebration, from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 5, 2025. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

Trump says Gaza talks advancing rapidly, first phase should be completed this week

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