France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off earlier this week.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday's incident in Lens had been "clarified", with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and officials.

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Russia 'pursuing a deliberate strategy of terror,' EU's von der Leyen says

The European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen condemned the latest round of Russian attacks on Ukraine, blaming Moscow for “pursuing a deliberate strategy of terror.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a joint press conference with Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, Greece, on October 07, 2026.

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Chinese filmmaker Gu You‘s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three.

The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in research and development, and that it may lean toward genre.

The Jaguar Type 01 is revealed during the Jaguar Type 01 Launch Event at Storied NYC on October 06, 2026 in New York City.

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Exeter forward Richard Capstick could much of this season after a recurrence of a shoulder injury.

The 26-year-old, who missed the start of last season with a knee problem, has not played since February and had surgery on his shoulder earlier this year.

Staff and pupils at schools across Northern Ireland have been told to "wear more clothes" if it is cold in order to cut heating bills.

Schools have been told by the Education Authority (EA) that increasing costs will affect school energy bills and to reduce heating and lighting "wherever possible".

Shell’s refineries are expected to make record profits on each barrel of fuel produced after shortages in the global market caused pump prices around the world to climb to all-time highs.

The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho‘s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it.

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