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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney with an official ceremony in Ankara, Turkiye on October 22, 2026.
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Turkey and Canada’s new friendship, El Salvador threatening Haitian gangs, North Korea’s petty propaganda push

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Turkey on Thursday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - the visit is the first by a Canadian prime minister.

Protesters run along a street strewn with debris during a protest over the state of public services and the rising cost of living in Milan, Italy, October 18, 2026.
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Troops in Milan, Death Penalty in Burkina Faso, US & Israel’s post-election Iran plans

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has deployed 500 troops to Milan and tightened nationwide anti-rioting laws in an effort to quell unrest that has gripped the city since the weekend.

Protesters set up barricades and burn materials near Place de la Republique in Paris, France, on October 18, 2026, the day following a large demonstration.
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Unrest in France spreads, Trump endorses Netanyahu, US-Ukraine ties fray

Ongoing student protests in France descended into looting and riots over the weekend as more than half a million people took to the streets across the country.

People wearing protective masks walk through the street as haze from wildfires shrouds the area in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, October 14, 2026.
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Indonesian wildfires rage, Ethiopia imposes interim government on rebel region, Mexico tries to ban harmful content

Indonesia’s worst wildfires in a decade are quickly becoming a domestic and international headache for President Prabowo Subianto.

Smoke rises as a person throws a projectile through the open door of a building, amid an anti-government protest by students in Tirana, Albania, October 14, 2026.
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Albania rocked by protests, China and North Korea open a bridge, US states sue OpenAI

More peaceful demonstrations began several months ago, triggered by opposition to a luxury hotel development project led by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner that would have displaced local flamingo populations. But the protests quickly took on broader frustrations over graft in what is one of Europe’s most corrupt countries.

Serhii Kusnetzow, a former Ukrainian army officer charged by German federal prosecutors with being a co-perpetrator of a war crime over the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts, attends his trial in Hamburg, Germany.
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Nord Stream sabotage trial begins in Germany, Mauritius sees rare unrest, Poland considers bringing back the draft

A Ukrainian former special forces officer is accused of war crimes for leading the September 2022 sabotage of the massive undersea pipeline, which once carried Russian gas to Germany.

Boxes of perished goods are seen outside an Intermarche supermarket in Paris the day after a cyberattack targeted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, causing food losses and fires at several stores, France, October 13, 2026.
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Cyberattacks target freezers in France, Iran strikes vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Former DRC president teams up with M23 rebels

On Monday, attackers used remote software to raise the temperature on fridges and freezers to around 122 degrees Fahrenheit, spoiling food and sparking fires.

Large plume of black smoke rises from the fuel storage area at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 19, 2026.
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Houthis strike deep into Saudi Arabia, Cockroach Janta Party activists released, Trump claims energy ceasefire reached between Russia and Ukraine

Attacks by the Houthis in Saudi Arabia over the weekend killed over a dozen people, including a US citizen, and injured hundreds of others.

Tensions boil between Ethiopia and Eritrea, UK’s Labour Party notches win, Lula’s chances slim in Brazil
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Tensions boil between Ethiopia and Eritrea, UK’s Labour Party notches win, Lula’s chances slim in Brazil

Ethiopia has told the UN that troops from neighboring Eritrea penetrated at least 60 meters across the border as long-standing tensions between the two East African countries threaten to boil over again.

Alleged members of Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, attend an open hearing in a mass trial, after 486 alleged gang members were charged with more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, according to prosecutors, at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, April 23, 2026.
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El Salvador kicks off mass trials for alleged gang members, Australia's High Court deals blow to coal miners, Japan protests against alleged murder by US service member

Over the past four years, Salvadoran authorities have used a state of emergency to arrest more than 90,000 people on suspicion of gang activity, putting many of them in maximum security prisons.