Clashes come as tensions escalate over an air strike on Kabul that the Taliban blames on Islamabad. Taliban and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, prompting calls for restraint from Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as tensions escalate following an air strike on the Afghan capital, Kabul, earlier this week. Enayatullah Khwarizmi, the spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Defence, said late on Saturday that Taliban forces had carried out “successful retaliatory” attacks against Pakistani soldiers in response to the neighbouring country’s “repeated violations” of, and air strikes on, Afghan territory.

Former Manchester United midfielder Zidane Iqbal currently plays his club football for Utrecht Iraq sealed a 1-0 victory over Indonesia in Jeddah on Saturday to maintain their hopes of a first World Cup appearance since 1986 as Zidane Iqbal's second-half strike eliminated Patrick Kluivert's side from Asia's qualifiers for next year's finals. Former Manchester United midfielder Iqbal, who currently plays his club football for Utrecht, netted with 14 minutes remaining after coming off the bench at the start of the second half for Graham Arnold's team.

Despite the headwinds, Amazon’s quarterly reports still read like a masterclass in scale meeting discipline.  The e-commerce behemoth’s growth engine continued humming, even with retailers elsewhere buckling under tariff pressures and consumer fatigue.  In the second quarter, Amazon reported sales of $167.7 billion, up 12% year-over-year, while operating income increased to 31%. Strength in core retail, third-party sellers, Amazon Web Services, and ads has effectively offset headwinds from higher import costs along with a jittery macro backdrop.

Australia considering critical minerals deal with US, The Age reports

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to Egypt to attend the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit, where leaders are expected to sign a U.S.-brokered peace agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza, his office said on Saturday. The first phase of the plan is set to begin with the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners by Monday, marking what Britain called a "historic turning point" after two years of war.

Peering back into the early years of the Universe requires scientists to make a lot of assumptions. But sometimes, we get better instruments that then allow them to either confirm or replace those assumptions. That happened recently when it came to our study of J0529, a supermassive black hole that is currently the brightest known quasar in the Universe. A…

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The remnants of a tropical storm brought flooding across parts of the Southwest on Saturday, prompting hundreds of evacuations in southwestern Colorado as mountain streams raged above their banks and crews toiled to protect property with sandbags. Hardest-hit areas included Vallecito Creek, where almost 400 homes were under an evacuation order north of a reservoir 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the small tourist city of Durango.

The appeals court weighed in after a federal judge, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest,” barred the president from deploying troops in and around Chicago. Source link

The number of international first-year students at Hong Kong’s public universities remained below pre-pandemic levels in the last academic year despite the government doubling quotas for non-locals, with an admissions official saying Singapore has emerged as a growing education powerhouse. The official from a local university also said some overseas students preferred to study in Singapore over Hong Kong because the city state’s strong rankings reflected its educational status.

Israeli ministers, Gantz condemn booing of Benjamin Netanyahu | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Israel News Likud ministers and senior opposition figure Benny Gantz denounced protesters who booed Prime Minister Netanyahu during US envoy Steve Witkoff’s speech at Hostage Square. Activists gather at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, October 11, 2025. (photo credit: Chen G. Schimmel/The Jerusalem Post) ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF OCTOBER 12, 2025 02:51

Lionel Messi starting for Miami between Argentina games Captain Lionel Messi will form part of the Inter Miami CF squad to face Atlanta United FC on Saturday night at Chase Stadium, sources told ESPN, briefly leaving international duty with the Argentina national team to join his club. >

While Oscar-winning actor Diane Keaton was best known for roles in Woody Allen movies and the Godfather saga, she was also a vigorous defender of historic buildings. People magazine reported Saturday that she passed away at the age of 79. Keaton had served on the board of the Los Angeles Conservancy and as a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Ashok Pal, chief financial officer of Reliance Power Ltd and a close aide of industrialist Anil Ambani, in a money-laundering case linked to a Rs 68 crore fake bank guarantee. Pal is the first senior executive of the Reliance ADA Group to be held in this case. Anil Ambani, certain current and past senior executives of his group firms and several bank officials are facing ED probe for their alleged role in another Rs 17,000 crore loan fraud case.

ANTANANARIVO — Ninety-five percent of lemur species are threatened by habitat loss, hunting and climate change. The direct threat is often understood to result from the actions of poor rural communities, but a forthcoming study has found that thousands of threatened lemurs are being hunted and killed every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar.

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to travel to Israel and Egypt before quickly returning to Washington, D.C., to honor the late Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he will address Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and then visit Cairo as part of a trip marking the historic peace deal he secured between Israel and Hamas.

MANILA, Philippines – With no low pressure area spotted even outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility, the country could expect a generally-fair weather all throughout the day. Weather specialist Daniel James Villamil of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the easterlies – winds passing through the Pacific Ocean and carrying humid, warm weather – have been affecting the eastern section of the archipelago.

Palestinians are returning to their homes after refusing to leave Gaza during Israel’s war. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are streaming back to their land in northern Gaza – a right of return included in the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. Multiple attempts to remove the population have failed. Many Palestinians say they have avoided another Nakba, or catastrophe – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 – and defeated Israel’s forced displacement policy.

Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and pop singer Katy Perry were pictured kissing and cuddling aboard Perry’s yacht off the California coast, photos published by the Mail on Sunday show The photographs show Perry, wearing a black swimsuit, embracing a shirtless Trudeau — he was wearing jeans and sunglasses — aboard the yacht, the Caravelle. The photos, the Mail on Sunday said, were taken by a tourist on a passing boat.

Israel’s hostage envoy told families that handover of hostages, living and dead, will begin Monday morning On Friday, as the 72-hour window for Hamas to release all the hostages began, government pointman Gal Hirsch told families of the captives that Israel believes that “the process of releasing your loved ones—our loved ones, the hostages—will begin on Monday morning,” in a message seen by The Times of Israel.

Oct 11, 2025, 07:35 AM ET France captain Kylian Mbappé will miss his team's World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Monday because of a right ankle injury, France's football federation (FFF) said Saturday. The Real Madrid star scored in France's 3-0 victory over Azerbaijan on Friday but limped off the pitch in the 83rd minute. Just before the international break, he had hurt the same ankle while playing against Villarreal.

The former Stolper Co is a financial management company that merged with another financial services business to form Wealth Oklahoma in 2025. It initiated a new position in Allison Transmission Holdings (ALSN -2.01%), acquiring 75,606 shares in the third quarter, an estimated $6.4 million trade based on the average price for Q3 2025, according to its October 10, 2025, SEC filing.

The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) chargesheet against Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADA Group and Yes Bank cofounder Rana Kapoor claims to have uncovered a carefully structured quid pro quo arrangement designed to serve their business interests and conceal financial stress through the misuse of public money. According to the agency, funds were repeatedly disbursed, recycled, and repaid among ADA Group companies, Yes Bank, and Reliance Nippon Asset Management (RNAM) — an asset management company jointly owned at the time by Reliance Capital and Japan’s Nippon Life Insurance.

Demonstrators will once again take to the streets for "No Kings Day," a nationwide series of protests against the Trump administration, on Oct. 18. While protests against President Trump have not been uncommon since his first term, "No Kings Day" kicked off on June 14. These gatherings were organized in response to the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary military parade in Washington, D.C., which coincided with Trump's 79th birthday.

National Guard members walk at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Broadview facility in Chicago, Illinois. File | Photo Credit: Reuters National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can't be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals court ruled on Saturday (October 11, 2025).