When stones fell from the sky: The night an Afghan village was destroyed
Aurak Dandila was a tiny, peaceful village nestled into a mountainside. Then the earth shook and unleashed the boulders.
Day: October 5, 2025
PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024’s total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)
Pak Yiu / Nikkei Asia:
PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024’s total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies — NEW YORK — Asian venture capital dealmakin…
‘Keen to reach agreement’: Hamas official signals readiness for Gaza talks with Israel in Egypt; aims to begin prisoner exchange ‘immediately’
Hamas officials expressed eagerness for a peace agreement and prisoner exchange, as negotiators gather in Egypt to discuss details of a Trump-approved plan. Hamas demands Israel halt military operations and withdraw from Gaza City, offering to suspend …
René Magritte’s ‘superstar of surrealism’ to go on sale in Paris
La Magie Noire, bought by family of wartime resistance heroine 90 years ago, expected to fetch more than €7mA painting by the surrealist artist René Magritte that has been held in a private collection for more than 90 years will go on sale later this m…
Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport for hours
Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, authorities said.
Tradition against corruption: Why Putin’s message matters for the entire world
If the world is to endure, ancestral values must burn away liberal insanity
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Georgia PM vows sweeping crackdown after ‘foiled coup’
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed opposition arrests Sunday after police used force against opposition protesters who tried to enter the presidential palace in what he termed was a coup bid during a controversial election.
UK police to get new powers after latest pro-Palestinian protest
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UK Police To Get Greater Powers To Restrict Protests
UK police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community.
Hundreds of thousands turn out at pro-Palestine marches across Europe
Demonstrators demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of flotilla activists trying to get aid to enclave.