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44,000 Gazans Live in Buildings Marked for Demolition as Winter Nears

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 -- Nearly 44,000 people in Gaza are sleeping in buildings that aid agencies say should be partly or fully demolished, and the cold and rainy season is approaching. The count c... Read More


Russia Says Ukraine Hit Ships 214 Times This Year; Kyiv Claims 285 Vessels

VIENNA, Oct. 15 -- Russia told a security forum in Vienna on Wednesday that 214 of the 228 attacks on commercial ships in the Azov and Black seas since its military operation began came this year, and... Read More


ICC Unseals Four Taliban Warrants, but the Case Stops at January 2025

THE HAGUE, Oct. 15 -- At least 52 women and one girl were arrested or detained in Herat and Kabul between July and September over dress-code rules, the UN mission in Afghanistan said on October 8, and... Read More


Sierra Leone's Bio Asks Geneva to Fund Prevention, Not Just Post-War Repair

GENEVA, Oct. 15 -- Sierra Leone's president told the opening of the Geneva Peace Forum on Monday that the world spends too much repairing the damage of wars and too little stopping them, and proposed ... Read More


China Tells UAE Envoy It Backs a Ceasefire; the Readout Names No War

BEIJING, Oct. 15 -- China's top diplomat told the United Arab Emirates' special envoy on Tuesday that Beijing would keep working for "a comprehensive ceasefire" in the Middle East, and the envoy repli... Read More


IEA Warns European Diesel Could Rise Again as Oil Stays Short Into 2027

PARIS, Oct. 15 -- The International Energy Agency says the world pumped 2.5 million barrels a day more oil in September and still fell short of what it burned, leaving European diesel prices exposed t... Read More


Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL's Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

PASADENA, Oct. 15 -- A lander built to carry what NASA says would be the largest commercial payload ever delivered to the Moon has been spun, shaken, deafened, baked and frozen, and NASA says it passe... Read More


China Will Show Moon Samples From Both Sides at an Expanded Airshow China

BEIJING, Oct. 15 -- China will put lunar samples from both the near and far sides of the Moon on public display in December, at an airshow whose organisers say its scale has been expanded this year. ... Read More


Artemis II Crew Saw Five Moon Flashes; the One Camera Clip Checked Saw None

HOUSTON, Oct. 15 -- "I just saw a flash! 100%," Reid Wiseman said inside Orion during the lunar eclipse. About ten minutes later he saw another, and this time Jeremy Hansen had seen it too, a pinpoint... Read More


WHO Says No Weight-Loss Drugs or Surgery for Obese Children Under 10

GENEVA, Oct. 15 -- Children under 10 who have obesity should not be given weight-loss drugs, surgery or devices, the World Health Organization said on October 7 in its first global guidelines on the c... Read More