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Chinese businesswoman Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, pleaded guilty at London’s Southwark Crown Court following what is believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world, — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Chinese woman admits role in £5.5b Bitcoin fraud, one of UK’s biggest crypto crime cases

General view of the Eiffel tower behind the Seine river in Paris April 14, 2019. South Africa’s ambassador to France has been found dead at the foot of the Hyatt Hotel, a high-rise tower in Porte Maillot in the west of Paris. — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Le Parisien: South Africa’s ambassador to France found dead outside Paris hotel

The sun sets behind the US Capitol dome, on the day US President Donald Trump met with top congressional leaders from both parties, just ahead of a September 30 deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown, in Washington, D.C. September 29, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

‘Damage to millions of Americans’: Midnight deadline nears with no deal to avert US govt shutdown

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, September 30, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Hamas weighs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Arab states voice support

German police arrested today a Syrian man suspected of committing crimes against humanity, including killing and torturing, as a militia leader in 2011 in Aleppo, prosecutors said. — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

German police arrest Syrian man over alleged 2011 crimes against humanity in Aleppo

Defendant Jian G., a former assistant to then-member of the European Parliament Maximilian Krah, of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) party, is getting uncuffed as he arrives at the courtroom for a high-profile espionage trial, in Dresden, Germany September 30, 2025. — Odd Andersen/Pool/Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

German court jails former aide to AfD lawmaker for spying on behalf of China

US president Donald Trump, who oversaw a rare purge of senior officers after taking office, has also ordered strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and Tehran-backed Yemeni rebels. — AFP pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Trump to address rare gathering of senior US military officers at Quantico amid Pentagon shakeups

Afghanistan experienced a major communications blackout on September 29, weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fibre optic connections in several provinces to curb “vice”. — AFP pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Afghanistan faces second day of nationwide internet and mobile blackout after Taliban cuts fibre optic network

An aerial photo shows flood waters surrounding homes after typhoon Bualoi passed over Lam Thanh commune in Nghe An province on September 30, 2025. A severe storm that ripped roofs off homes has killed dozens of people across Vietnam and the Philippines, officials from both countries said on September 29, as weakened Bualoi crossed into neighbouring Laos. — AFP pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Typhoon Bualoi ravages Vietnam: 19 dead, streets of Hanoi submerged

Search and rescue officers search for victims amidst the rubble of a collapsed building after a hall collapsed while students were praying at the Al-Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, September 29, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Indonesian rescuers hunt 38 missing after Islamic school collapse in East Java

It also set a 25 percent global tariff on upholstered furniture, which will increase to 30 percent on January 1. — AFP file pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

Trump slaps 10pc tariff on lumber, up to 50pc on kitchen cabinets by January

This photograph taken on August 22, 2025 shows labourers working at the under-construction site of the Dibang Multi-purpose Hydroelectric Project on the Dibang river, in the Lower Dibang Valley district of the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. — AFP pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

India eyes giant dam to counter China’s ‘water bomb’, locals fear cultural wipeout

This picture taken on August 25, 2018 shows a general view of Bhutan's capital Thimphu. — AFP pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

First India-Bhutan railway unveiled, key to Gelephu economic zone development

The medication has been used for 25 years in the United States. It is the most common method for abortion care and also routinely used for managing early miscarriage. — Reuters file pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

US states vow to defend abortion pill access as Trump orders mifepristone review

The plan calls for a ceasefire, release of hostages by Hamas, disarmament of Hamas and gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. — AFP file pic
World / 30 Sep 2025

‘Unrealistic and a farce’: Gazans reject Trump’s new peace plan

File pic of US Vice President JD Vance. — AFP
World / 30 Sep 2025

JD Vance warns US government ‘headed to a shutdown’ within 36 hours