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Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize; hours later the US sanctions the International Criminal Court

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, 85, a former UN human rights chief and ICC judge, "for her efforts to promote peace and international law". Within hours the Trump administration imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, which called the move an "assault on the rule of law". Donald Trump called the award "disgraceful" and said he should have won.

10 Oct 2026 ·5 min read

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Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

The US Army plans to execute Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, by firing squad on 3 December, and the Pentagon says the execution will be livestreamed. It would be the first US military execution in more than 60 years and the first public execution in the country in nearly a century. Legal experts say appeals could still delay it for years.

9 Oct 2026 ·3 min read

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US charges Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores with conspiring to torture prisoners, including Americans

A new US indictment accuses former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores of conspiring to torture political opponents and detainees, including three Americans. They already face drug-trafficking charges in New York after being seized in January. Maduro denies the charges.

9 Oct 2026 ·3 min read

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Ukraine: over 70 killed in two days of Russian strikes as Kyiv's team heads to Miami for talks with US envoys

Russian strikes killed more than 70 people in Ukraine in two days, including at least 35 in Kramatorsk, Zelensky says. Ukrainian negotiators meet Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Miami on Friday and Saturday, while Washington and Moscow both describe the war as a stalemate.

9 Oct 2026 ·3 min read

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Strait of Hormuz tensions: Iran says it targets ships every night as Putin offers to help end the war

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander says his forces act every night against ships in the Strait of Hormuz, US media report the Pentagon has drawn up a three-day strike plan, and Vladimir Putin told Iran's president he is ready to do "everything" to help end the war. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.

9 Oct 2026 ·3 min read

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World News Today, 8 October 2026: Kramatorsk bus strike, Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, Nobel for Anne Carson

A Russian glide-bomb strike on two buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people, Houthi attacks on two Saudi airports killed three, Israel moved to shut Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem, and Canadian poet Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Every item below was checked against at least two independent sources.

8 Oct 2026 ·4 min read