Day: October 14, 2024

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on a deadly train collision with a tree in New Jersey

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports Moscow says it has taken control of another southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes.

Stocks are off to a slow start.

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Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-Te has been holding emergency meetings with security chiefs, as China has conducted what are thought to be its biggest war games yet around the self-governing island. The Chinese government has always insisted that Taiwan is part of its own territory. But last Thursday, in a speech in Taipei marking Taiwan’s National Day, President Lai insisted that Beijing had “no right to represent” the island. Taiwan’s key ally, the United States, said China’s actions were unwarranted and risked escalation. Also in the programme: a Hezbollah drone attack killed four Israeli soldiers at an Israeli army base south of Haifa. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas-run authorities say an Israeli attack on a school used as a shelter killed 22 people on Sunday, including 15 children; and a NASA spacecraft on the hunt for the extra-terrestrial is due to blast off today.

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports the three Nobel Economics Prize laureates have published ground-breaking research into how poor institutions affect countries’ success.

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on Indigenous Peoples Day.

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports on the European Union’s targeting of top Iran officials allegedly involved in supplying drones and missiles to Russia.