Madagascar president dissolves government amidst deadly protestsProtesters gathered at Antananarivo’s main university on Monday before attempting to march into the city centre, according to footage broadcast by the local television channel 2424.MG. Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, as authorities enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew that has been in place since last week. Security forces have also used rubber bullets to try to clampdown on protesters.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/madagascar-president-dissolves-government-amidst-deadly-protestsIsraeli troops kill at least 31 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump peace proposal raises questionsHamas announced it would review the proposal with group members and other Palestinian factions before reaching a decision. While the proposal offers an end to the fighting, guarantees the flow of humanitarian aid and promises reconstruction, the Palestinian militant group will have to disarm, something it has rejected in the past. Also, Gaza and its more than 2 million Palestinians would be put under international control for the foreseeable future.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-09-30-2025-68afb24376d63fd0ff8fe8e1010ca178Palestinian factions express concern over Donald Trump's Gaza 'peace plan'The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which has fought in the war alongside Hamas, voiced opposition to the plan. And the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, a hardline leftist group, said it will "impose a formula of surrender on the resistance and our people". A Palestinian source close to Hamas told AFP on Tuesday that the group was reviewing the proposals.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-factions-concern-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-planNew French PM rules out wealth tax, casting doubt on support from the left France's incoming Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Friday ruled out introducing a wealth tax or suspending an unpopular pension reform in an interview with French daily Le Parisien, angering left-wing parties whose support he many need to get a budget over the line – and avoid being voted out of office.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250926-french-pm-lecornu-rules-out-wealth-tax-casting-doubt-on-support-from-the-lefthttps://archive.ph/JL6GdGermany seeks to extradite Ukrainian diver over 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attackGermany is seeking to extradite a Ukrainian man arrested in Poland on suspicion of diving down to the Baltic sea bed to plant explosives in the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline attack. The man, identified in Polish media reports as Volodymyr Z and by Germany as Vladimir Z, is described as a trained diver and is sought by investigators in Germany, who believe he was part of a group that sabotaged the pipeline, consisting of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/ukrainian-detained-in-poland-over-2022-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-explosions Unemployment hits 14-year high as Germany waits for Merz’s stimulus the local headlines are being conspicuously dominated by national champions shedding staff. Earlier this week, Lufthansa said it will cut 4,000 administrative jobs by 2030. The news came only days after engineering giant Robert Bosch said it would cut an additional 13,000 positions by 2030, after announcing 5,550 layoffs in November last year. Automaker Volkswagen and Germany’s second-largest lender, Commerzbank, announced significant job cuts earlier this year.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-stimulus-unemployment-rise-faster-than-expected-14-years-high/https://archive.ph/RpuCULawyer group accuses Manila police of torturing Sept. 21 detainees"These are all barefaced lies," the NUPL said in a statement in reaction to the Philippine National Police's remarks at a press conference yesterday, where it denied that detainees were tortured or maltreated during custody. Some of the detainees' open wounds from their arrest were left untreated after "volunteer doctors were barred from entering detention facilities," the lawyers' group said.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/30/2476540/lawyer-group-accuses-manila-police-torturing-sept-21-detaineesMassive Protest Against Paper Leak Forces U-Turn by CM DhamiThe question paper for graduate level recruitment examination held in September was leaked from a centre in Haridwar district forcing the youth across the state to agitate against such frequent recruitment examination paper leaks and other irregularities. The unemployed youth and students started a dharna at Parade Ground in Dehradun while rallies and procession in support of their demands were held in various cities and towns. The common demand was for a CBI probe and the postponement of the examination.
https://www.newsclick.in/massive-protest-against-paper-leak-forces-u-turn-cm-dhamiAfghanistan faces digital blackout as Taliban cuts internet access to prevent ‘vice’In the minutes before it happened, a government official warned that fibre optic would be cut, affecting mobile phone services too. “Eight to nine thousand telecommunications pillars” would be shut down, he said, adding that the blackout would last “until further notice”. “There isn’t any other way or system to communicate … the banking sector, customs, everything across the country will be affected,” said the official who asked not to be named.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3327366/afghanistan-faces-digital-blackout-taliban-cuts-internet-access-prevent-vicehttps://archive.ph/wBw0QIndigenous Protester Killed in Ecuador: UN Human Rights Office Demands Urgent DialogueThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in South America has called for an “urgent dialogue” between the Government of Ecuador and social organizations following the death of Indigenous community member Efrain Fueres, who was killed this Sunday in Imbabura province during a protest against President Daniel Noboa’s decision to eliminate the diesel subsidy.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/indigenous-protester-killed-in-ecuador-un-human-rights-office-demands-urgent-dialogue/Colombia to cancel free trade deal with Israel, “reform” treaty with USThe announcement came shortly after an open letter by the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce, which said that 500 businessmen distanced themselves from the president’s opposition to the genocide. According to Petro, the “pro-gringo” businessmen failed to understand that life comes before trade.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-to-cancel-free-trade-deal-with-israel-reform-treaty-with-us/Argentine Libertarian Congressman tied to drug trafficker wanted in TexasArgentine Congressman José Luis Espert of President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza has been reported to have received campaign funds and other kinds of support from an alleged drug trafficker, now under arrest pending his extradition to the United States. An accounting entry dated Feb. 1, 2020, from the Aircraft Guarantee Corporation trust in the possession of the Eastern District of Texas Attorney's Office, Espert received US$200,000 from a network led by Federico “Fred” Machado, who is wanted for drug trafficking and money laundering.
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