REMAINS OF BYZANTINE CHAPEL, OTTOMAN BATH UNEARTHED IN İZNIK

Fri 31 October 2025: Excavations at the İznik Tile Kilns in the northwestern province of Bursa unearthed the remains of a Byzantine-era chapel and an Ottoman bath. The scientific excavations have been continuing for 41 years with the support of Istanbul University. While the site is primarily known for tile kilns and Ottoman-era ceramic fragments, archaeologists recently discovered a 5.5-by-5.2-meter chapel […]

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FRANCE SENDS MILITARY, CIVILIAN PERSONNEL TO ISRAEL FOR POST-CEASEFIRE EFFORTS IN GAZA

Fri 31 October 2025: France has sent a team of military and civilian personnel to Israel to take part in planning the post-ceasefire phase in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced Thursday, Anadolu reports. Barrot told LCI television that France joined countries contributing to the US-led coordination center established between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. […]

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PRINCE ANDREW OUSTED FROM ROYAL LODGE, TITLE REVOKED OVER HIS LINKS TO SEX OFFENDER EPSTEIN

Fri 31 October 2025: King Charles’ brother, Prince Andrew, is set to be stripped of his prince title and forced to leave Royal Lodge near Windsor Castle as pressure mounts over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement […]

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US TRIED TO RECRUIT VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT’S PILOT FOR KIDNAP PLOT: REPORT

Fri 31 October 2025: A US federal agent secretly attempted to recruit Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot as part of a plot to capture the leader and deliver him into American custody on drug trafficking charges, The Associated Press reported. Citing three current and former US officials, as well as one of Maduro’s opponents, […]

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TEENAGER DIES DURING ULTRA-ORTHODOX PROTEST AGAINST CONSCRIPTION IN JERUSALEM

Fri 31 October 2025: A teenage boy has fallen to his death during a mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription in Jerusalem, which had shut down the main entrance to the city. Packed crowds of mostly men clogged the roads around the Route 1 highway leading into Jerusalem. Israeli media estimated that about 200,000 people flocked […]

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DUTCH POLLS IN LIMBO AS FAR-RIGHT, CENTRISTS BATTLE FOR NARROW LEAD

Thu 30 October 2025: The Netherlands faces one of the tightest election outcomes in its history, with Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) and the centrist Democrats 66 (D66) virtually tied after Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. According to the latest forecast by Dutch news agency ANP, both PVV and D66 are projected to win 26 […]

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WHEN YOU CLICK ON AN AD IN SALES SEASON, RETAILERS GET TO HARVEST YOUR DATA

Thu 30 October 2025: Earlier this year, the consumer watchdog fined three retailers, Michael Hill, MyHouse and Hairhouse Online, almost A$20,000 each for advertising “site-wide discounts” that allegedly never applied to all items on the website. At first glance, this might look like a straightforward case of using allegedly misleading advertising for an economic benefit. Yet […]

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CORRUPTION, MISMANAGEMENT IN SPOTLIGHT AS IRAN DISSOLVES MAJOR PRIVATE BANK

Thu 30 October 2025: The bank built the largest mall in the world, but also racked up massive debt and gave loans to insiders. Tehran, Iran – Authorities have merged one of Iran’s largest private lenders into the country’s biggest state-run bank in a move that highlights a deeply troubled economy and will further squeeze average […]

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FIVE NEW SUSPECTS NABBED IN ONGOING LOUVRE MUSEUM THEFT CASE

Thu 30 October 2025: French authorities have arrested five more suspects in connection with the recent burglary at the Louvre Museum in Paris, judicial sources told RTL on Thursday. The five suspects were taken into custody simultaneously across several locations in the Paris region around 9 pm local time on Wednesday. One of the suspects […]

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