Pakistan police bust organ trafficking ring that took kidneys from hundreds (www.bbc.com)
Hong Kong stocks have worst day in three months on worries about rates and real estate (www.cnn.com)
Stocks in Hong Kong suffered their worst day in three months on Tuesday on growing concern about China’s weak housing market and persistently high US interest rates....
Russia's gas production collapses to late-stage USSR levels (www.newsweek.com)
Maldives’ new pro-China president-elect vows to kick out Indian military (www.scmp.com)
The president-elect of the Maldives said he will stick to his campaign promise to remove Indian military personnel stationed in the archipelago state, promising he would initiate the process....
Kharkiv to build Ukraine’s first underground school to protect children (www.theguardian.com)
Children in frontline city are currently taught in the underground metro system amid threats from Russia’s missile attacks...
Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry. (www.cbsnews.com)
Just 10 months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the French capital is battling an invasion of bedbugs....
Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal (www.theguardian.com)
Conservative cardinals had challenged the pope to confirm teachings on LGBTQ+ issues...
India tells Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats over Sikh murder rift: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, according to The Financial Times newspaper....
'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)
Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts....
UN approves international force to aid Haiti amid gang violence (www.aljazeera.com)
The United Nations Security Council has approved a multinational force to assist in Haiti as the Caribbean nation contends with widespread gang violence....
Warsaw, Kyiv make breakthrough on Ukrainian grain transit (www.euractiv.com)
Mexico's president says 10,000 migrants a day head to US border; he blames US sanctions on Cuba (apnews.com)
How will a pro-Russia party winning Slovakia vote affect the Ukraine war? (www.aljazeera.com)
Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Kariko and Weissman, pioneers of COVID vaccine (www.reuters.com)
US and Philippines launch military drills with partners as China tensions mount (edition.cnn.com)
Bangladesh’s worst ever dengue outbreak has now killed more than 1,000 people (edition.cnn.com)
Europe Union's top diplomat dismisses concern about bloc's long-term support for Ukraine (apnews.com)
Things to know about the Vatican's big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church (apnews.com)
Dozens dead in clashes between Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces (www.middleeasteye.net)
Mexico's president slams U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba (www.pbs.org)
Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control (apnews.com)
The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh left the region Monday, completing a grueling weeklong exodus of over 100,000 people — more than 80% of its residents — after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation....
A Ukrainian Officer’s Captured Russian Tank Wasn’t Working. So He Called Tech Support—In Russia. (www.forbes.com)
Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security (apnews.com)
Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to inoculate 44 million children under 5 years old, as the country nears eradicating the disease....
Argentina's economic crisis: whoever wins presidential election is on a collision course with the IMF (theconversation.com)
Indonesia promises better relocation package for islanders after clashes over Chinese project (www.straitstimes.com)
