World

Woodside pauses Australian gas project after Greenpeace protest

5 pages

Greenpeace activists boarded a floating production unit of Woodside's 12.5 billion Australian dollar Scarborough gas project off Western Australia on Oct 17, and two stayed overnight in hanging tents.

India caps trade margins on 137 cancer drugs

5 pages

India's National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority capped the margin distributors, chemists and hospitals can add to 137 cancer drugs at 30 per cent of the retail price, before tax.

Manzanillo goverment · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Hurricane Trudy strengthens to Category 2 off Mexico's Pacific coast

5 pages

Trudy had sustained winds of 155 km/h and gusts of up to 195 km/h on Oct 17, Mexico's National Meteorological Service said.

Vincenzo Fotoguru Iaconianni · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

ECOWAS opens its first talks with the Sahel states that left it

5 pages

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), formed by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, began talks in Dakar on Oct 17.

Rignese · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Macky Sall withdraws from the race for UN secretary-general

6 pages

The former president of Senegal announced his withdrawal on Oct 17, a day after the Security Council's sixth informal vote failed to settle on a candidate.

Simon Walker / Number 10 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Egypt's Sisi says he will leave office in 2030

5 pages

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Oct 17, at a military academy graduation, that his term ends in 2030 and that the constitution will not be touched.

Jan Engelhardt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

North Korea says it tested an AI-guided torpedo

5 pages

North Korea's official news agency said on Oct 17 that a new high-speed, precision-guided torpedo was test-fired underwater on Oct 15.

Scottish Government · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Swinney says the campaign for a new Scottish independence vote has begun

6 pages

Scotland's first minister told the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Oct 17 that a campaign called Choose Scotland will make the case for leaving the UK, backed by a six-figure war chest.