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Pittsburgh Penguins forward Andrei Kuzmenko is on indefinite leave from the team after his father was mauled to death by a bear in his native Russia, the club confirmed Friday.
A crying baby photographed outside Notre Dame cathedral as Pope Leo XIV arrived in Paris is being described online as unenthusiastic about the blessing, and the @nypost is among the accounts carrying the joke.
Israeli opposition figures are calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to serve over an alleged pre-October 7 warning from the UAE president that they say never reached Israel's security leadership, while Netanyahu's UN trip brings a public feud with New York's mayor and two arrests near his hotel.
Iran's president says Tehran still accepts the Islamabad understanding and welcomes Xi Jinping's support, as a papal flight to Paris becomes the backdrop for a fresh dispute over White House press credentials.
Saudi Arabia's crude shipments in September reportedly hit their highest level since the start of the Iran war, as Gulf producers scramble to keep oil flowing through a disrupted Strait of Hormuz and costs rise across the region's export routes.
A US official is quoted saying Washington controls the Strait of Hormuz and sees no need to rush a deal with Iran, while a senior Iranian official told Reuters the strait will stay closed and no nuclear concessions are coming. Neither claim has been independently confirmed.
Iran has proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear talks if the U.S. lifts sanctions and ends fighting on all fronts, but a senior Iranian official says the strait will remain closed and no talks will occur until Iran's conditions are met.
Iranian hardliners reportedly erupted in fury on social media after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sat down with White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, with some demanding the removal of both Araghchi and President Masoud Pezeshkian.
A Fox report that Washington and Beijing will announce tariff exemptions on agricultural, medical and low-tech goods is drawing sharp reaction online and cautious readouts from analysts, even as Next News Network could not independently verify the claim. The reported exemptions would sit on top of a two-month truce extension that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said runs to January.
A terse wire report of Iran-Qatar talks has amplified a flurry of competing claims about a possible ceasefire and Strait of Hormuz reopening, even as Iran's president publicly refuses to 'bend at the knee' and Israel's prime minister blasts the UN.
The Ukrainian president says strikes on Russian oil infrastructure are justified because 'Ukrainian lives are more important than the price of energy,' as Kyiv faces pressure from partners worried about rising fuel costs.
Britain's Labour government calls it the National Centre for Information Defence. Nigel Farage calls it a Ministry of Truth built to destroy his party, and the phrase is now trending across the UK.
