Spain began demanding answers on Thursday after its second high-speed train collision this year killed 69 people and injured scores, with distraught relatives desperately seeking news about their loved ones.
Undersecretary of the Kuwait National Guard Staff Lt Gen Hamad Salem Al-Barjas visited Al-Razi Hospital to check on the condition of Warrant Officer First Class Mubarak Mutlaq Khaled, a member of the 67th Special Operations Battalion, who was injured during training.
Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson will learn Friday if she has succeeded in overturning her conviction for killing three people with a poisoned beef Wellington lunch.
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High-level government officials, regional decision-makers, and international executives will attend the regional debut of the ‘CNN Global Perspectives: In Doha’ today. CNN’s Middle East chapter of its Global Perspectives events franchise, hosted at the Rosewood Doha, will explore the concept of ‘The Invisible World’, examining geopolitical, economic and technological forces currently reshaping international relations
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Pavan Rathnayake's brilliant century went in vain as England stopped Sri Lanka from chasing a big 387 target, winning the dead rubber by 55 runs in Lahore on Thursday.
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Political tensions are mounting in the final days of the United Nations biodiversity talks with a handful of countries accused of trying to weaken the science that underpins global nature policy.
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Fast bowler Mitchell Starc took two wickets as Australia went in search of a series-deciding victory on the third day of the third Test against South Africa at Newlands on Thursday.
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The European Central Bank on Thursday said it had crisis-fighting tools to deal with "disorderly" markets, seeking to calm worries that France's deteriorating public finances could shake the wider eurozone.
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Technology
Senior Democrats demanded Thursday that US President Donald Trump preserve records of any official exchanges with artificial intelligence chatbots, raising questions about whether Elon Musk's Grok influenced sensitive military decisions.
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ASEAN's special Myanmar envoy, Philippines Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro, wrapped up a two-day visit to the nation Thursday, with no sign of meeting detained democratic ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
President Donald Trump indicated Thursday he would challenge Alaska's US Senate election result over allegations that the Democratic candidate recruited a man with the same name as her Republican opponent.
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall caused a rock spire to collapse in Turkey's UNESCO World Heritage-listed Cappadocia region on Thursday, bringing the death toll to three, officials said.
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was engaging with Iraqi authorities as it prepares a new bailout program for the country, whose economy has been battered by the war on Iran.
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Health
As the Democratic Republic of Congo grapples with its deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, the neighbouring Central African Republic has tightened frontier controls, with daily checks on the many travellers crossing the border.
October 29, 2026
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A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall caused a rock spire to collapse in Turkey's UNESCO World Heritage-listed Cappadocia region on Thursday, killing at least two people, officials said.
Senior Democrats demanded Thursday that US President Donald Trump preserve records of any official exchanges with artificial intelligence chatbots, raising questions about whether Elon Musk's Grok influenced sensitive military decisions.
Under-pressure Manchester United manager Michael Carrick said Thursday he was "here to do my job" as he insisted he needed "no assurances" over his future at Old Trafford.
High-flying businessman Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux vowed Thursday to deliver an "enchanted moment" as he was unveiled as the new head of the organising committee of the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps.
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