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Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online France has temporarily suspended the use of stun grenades by police at high-school demonstrations after a 15-year-old protester suffered a devastating hand injury during a demonstration in the northern city of Lens, intensifying an already heated national debate over police tactics and the treatment of young protesters. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced the decision on Wednesday, saying the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US Vice-President JD Vance has said Iran must make a meaningful reduction in its uranium enrichment capabilities if Washington is to agree to a deal aimed at ending the seven-month war between the two countries. In an exclusive interview, Vance said the United States remained open to negotiations but would not accept assurances alone from Tehran. He argued...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The investigation into an alleged attempted hijacking of a flydubai passenger aircraft has widened to New Zealand after authorities confirmed that the airline’s co-pilot spent several months in the country receiving flight training. New Zealand police said the co-pilot, 29-year-old Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, was in the country for 175 days between November 2018 and May 2019 on...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and temporarily prohibited from consuming alcohol following a murder case involving a local woman. The measures were announced as the US military launched disciplinary and conduct training aimed at preventing further incidents and rebuilding trust with the local community. The restrictions come at...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online New Zealand is facing an increasingly severe climate challenge as greenhouse gas concentrations reach record levels and temperatures continue to rise, raising the prospect of more frequent heatwaves, destructive storms, worsening droughts and potentially catastrophic losses of the country's glaciers. A new government assessment of New Zealand's atmosphere and climate has highlighted mounting pressures across the country's natural...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Yemen's long-running civil war has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase, with the Iran-backed Houthi movement expanding its military reach towards one of the world's most strategically important maritime passages and Saudi Arabia launching a major counteroffensive to prevent further territorial gains. The renewed fighting has transformed a conflict that had remained relatively contained for several...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, many survivors and families in southern Israel are still struggling to reconcile two competing realities: the need to rebuild their lives and communities, and the enduring need to remember those who were killed or taken hostage. For people who lived through the attacks, the anniversary is not simply...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Liberian-flagged oil tanker has been struck by a naval drone in the Black Sea off the Russian resort city of Sochi, triggering a major fire and sending a thick cloud of black smoke over parts of the coastal area, according to Russian officials. The incident has added to growing concerns over the safety of commercial shipping in...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. European Union trade negotiators are travelling to China for two days of high-level discussions aimed at finding a practical way to reduce the growing flow of relatively cheap hybrid electric vehicles into the European market. The talks come at a sensitive moment in EU-China economic relations, as several member states increasingly fear that rapidly rising Chinese exports could...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The World Health Organization has assessed the risk of a wider plague epidemic in Russia as low following the sudden death of a laboratory technician who worked at a research institute studying dangerous pathogens in Siberia. Darya Shipilova, 28, died last week after reportedly falling ill two days earlier. Her death prompted heightened concern because of her work...