Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80 during a health visit to India, local police said Wednesday -- a political earthquake that could transform politics in the East African nation.
Raila Amolo Odinga, whose death at 80 was announced on Wednesday, spent most of his adult life in politics, including eight years in prison as a pro-democracy campaigner -- but never achieved his goal of becoming Kenya's president, despite five attempts.
World number one Aryna Sabalenka told AFP that she needs to improve her tennis "in literally everything" and how Novak Djokovic is helping her do it on and off the court.
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Culture
With less than a fortnight to go before Ivory Coast's presidential election, three other west African states -- all ruled by military juntas -- have been waging a disinformation campaign to disrupt the vote.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a masterful complete game victory and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat Milwaukee 5-1 on Tuesday to seize command of their Major League Baseball playoff series.
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Haji Wright scored two goals and the United States defeated Australia 2-1 on Tuesday, snapping the Socceroos' 12-match unbeaten streak in an international football friendly at Denver.
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Coach Hajime Moriyasu said Japan's first win over Brazil had been decades in the making and backed his players to use it as a springboard to World Cup success.
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One person was killed and several more were injured in an explosion Tuesday at a busy shopping center in the port city of Guayaquil, local authorities said, as Ecuador grapples with a surge of violence related to the Latin American drug trade.
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Economy
Stocks jumped Wednesday as trade war fears were overshadowed by comments from Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell that suggested the bank would cut interest rates again this month.
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Alexis Mac Allister and Lautaro Martinez each scored two goals and Argentina routed Puerto Rico 6-0 in an international football friendly on Tuesday.
Son Heung-min said South Korea need to show the big teams less respect at next year's World Cup after recovering from being "punched" by Brazil to beat Paraguay.
Jamaica seized the Group B lead in the CONCACAF 2026 World Cup qualifying round on Tuesday by routing Bermuda 4-0 after Curacao played Trinidad and Tobago to a 1-1 draw.
Australia must learn from past guerrilla insurgencies and adopt an "unconventional deterrence" policy in facing down threats from China, Russia and elsewhere, one of the country's leading think tanks said Wednesday.
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Nature
President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables -- yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance.
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US and international news outlets including The New York Times, AP, AFP and Fox News on Tuesday declined to sign new restrictive Pentagon media rules, meaning they will be stripped of their press access credentials.
NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 15, 2025 / Global fashion brands require a single, essential ingredient to thrive: trust. Trust that its product is genuine, trust that the craftsmanship is authentic, and trust that the values behind the brand align with the ones it promotes. From Paris ateliers to fast-fashion retailers, every label's reputation depends on that same promise of quality, consistency, and credibility.
VANCOUVER, BC, AB / ACCESS Newswire / October 15, 2025 / Camino Minerals Corporation (TSXV:COR)(OTCID:CAMZF) ("Camino" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the mobilization of drilling equipment to commence the discovery drilling campaign at its Los Chapitos copper project in Peru ("Los Chapitos" or the "Project"). The 2025 exploration campaign with Camino's partner, Nittetsu Mining Co., Ltd. ("Nittetsu"), resulted in the identification of several prospective drilling targets. The drilling campaign will focus on two main objectives: discovering new copper-silver deposits in newly identified and undrilled targets, such as Mirador, Piloto, Maqui, and Sombrero Blanco, where notable copper occurrences have been found with high copper and silver values according to geochemical results of rocks in trenches, and extending known mineralization in previously drilled Adriana, Lourdes, and Katty (Enjambre) zones.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, CA / ACCESS Newswire / October 15, 2025 / GoodData, a leading analytics and data intelligence company, today announced record Q3 results driven by its strongest net new sales ever, the acquisition of Understand Labs, and the launch of its new Full-Stack Intelligence Platform. The quarter underscored the company's accelerating enterprise adoption, growing international footprint, and continued investment in AI innovation.
October 15, 2025
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