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Oct 27, 2026 - World

US military says the restrictions on the electric vehicles at Kadena airbase also apply to delivery drivers and taxisOne of America’s biggest overseas military bases has banned vehicles made by the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD over security concerns, the US military in Japan said on Tuesday.The ban, which went into effect this week at Kadena airbase on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, has fueled speculation that similar measures could be taken at other US military facilities as part of Washington’s crackdown on Chinese technology it suspects of being used to collect sensitive information. Continue reading...

Oct 27, 2026 - World

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are relieved after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection in Brazil

Oct 27, 2026 - World

A localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia has taken effect ahead of a humanitarian mission brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump

Oct 26, 2026 - World

Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling cites money-laundering caseThe far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.The ruling was issued by Alexandre de Moraes, the same supreme court justice who oversaw the trial of the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup. Continue reading...

Oct 26, 2026 - World

Jordanian air force says it carried out strikes against ‘terrorist groups’ tied to killing of nine during funeralJordan has carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in retaliation for Friday’s attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the southern Jordanian governorate of Karak that killed nine people, the Jordanian air force has said in a statement.It said the operation “resulted in the killing and wounding of many members of these terrorist groups and the destruction of a number of their vehicles”. It did not specify who the groups were or the precise location of the strikes. Continue reading...