Why Hurricane Melissa is so dangerous
A very powerful hurricane is creeping towards Jamaica with anticipation that it will be the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in modern history.
Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5 storm, is approaching the island's southern coast with maximum sustained winds of 295km/h (185mph) - the strongest on Earth so far this year.
Those speeds are above those of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, one of the worst storms in US history.
Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group
Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days
Tue 28 Oct 2025 14.15 GMT
Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend.
Video released by local activists showed a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range.
Is India finally preparing to give up Russian oil?
Murali Krishnan in New Delhi
After the US sanctioned Russian oil giants that supply over 60% of India's crude oil imports, regulators and major refineries are weighing risks and alternatives.
US President Donald Trump's sanctions on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft are putting pressure on India to recalibrate its energy strategy.
The measures announced last week mean that Indian oil refineries and the banks and shipping companies facilitating business with the blacklisted Russian companies could face secondary sanctions if they don't wind down transactions by a November 21 cutoff date.
The road that led, 13 years later, to hearing: ‘Austin is dead’
“The Americans drove through here,” the Syrian army guard said, pointing to a steep road behind him. “I don’t know where they headed, I’m not allowed up there.”
The barricaded road leads to a labyrinth of military facilities wedged into the rocky slopes of Mount Qasioun on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. It was as close as CNN could get to the locations searched by an FBI-led team that came here in September looking for traces of American journalist Austin Tice — more than a decade after he disappeared.
Russian street musician found guilty of 'discrediting' the army after she played anti-Kremlin songs
By Reuters
‘Her baby died’: Afghan healthcare workers describe devastating impact of Taliban’s internet shutdown
Healthcare workers, speaking to a United Nations mission in the war-ravaged country, have described ‘devastating’ incidents impacting lives of ordinary Afghans during the Taliban’s 48-hour internet blackout
Last month, a pregnant woman was brought to a district hospital in an eastern Afghanistan province with severe bleeding and needed to be transferred to a better facility for treatment.
However, with the country under a total internet blackout imposed by the Taliban, the authorities at the provincial hospital could not be contacted and she could not be given the urgent medical help she needed, according to a healthcare worker.
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