World News – 14 October 2025

• In the wake of a ceasefire, Hamas has carried out a wave of killings in Gaza, executing at least 33 people belonging to groups opposed to it. The Trump plan for Gaza sees Hamas replaced with a Palestinian committee, though for now it’s been given a green light to “police” the city.
• Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina fled his country after Gen Z protests upended the country’s government. Despite this, Rajoelina has vowed not to “allow” Madagascar to be “destroyed”, further fanning the uprising.
• Venezuela has announced the closure of its embassies in Norway and Australia. Instead, embassies in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe will be opened. The move came just days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Swifties rejoice: your fruits of victory tumble quickly into your mouths. Taylor Swift has announced a new Eras Tour finale docuseries to debut on Disney+. The Eras Tour | The Final Show will debut on 12 December.
• China’s EV champ BYD is eyeing Spain for its third European factory – lured by cheap power, low costs and a warm diplomatic glow – as it races to build cars locally, dodge tariffs and give Tesla sleepless nights.
• Britain’s cyber front is on fire – “highly significant” hacks surged 50%, knocking giants like M&S, Co-op and JLR offline. The message from spooks: if a blackout hits your systems tomorrow, panic isn’t a plan, resilience is.
• The Netherlands has seized control of Chinese-owned Nexperia, citing tech security fears, suspending its CEO and curbing Beijing’s grip. Parent company Wingtech calls it “geopolitical bias”, but Europe’s message is clear: semiconductors are sovereign.
• Novus wants to buy Mustek shares, but the deal is on hold while the Takeover Regulations Panel concludes its investigation.
• The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has approved the use of Mounjaro® (which was initially used to manage type 2 diabetes) in South Africa to manage weight loss.
• A total of 165 organisations on Monday criticised South Africa for failing to make progress on debt sustainability issues during its presidency of the G20 major economies and urged it to push for reforms before it hands over to the US on 1 December.
• Boxer’s latest interim results tell the story of a retailer in full stride. The discount supermarket chain has grown turnover nearly 14% and paid its first dividend since listing.
• Muzi Sibiya, the first accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, has shown the Pretoria High Court wounds on his wrist that he claims were inflicted by police during his arrest. Sibiya is back on the witness stand as the first defence witness. The State believes he was one of the watchmen on the day Meyiwa was murdered.
• The City of Cape Town says it will no longer provide designated firework sites for events like Diwali, Guy Fawkes or New Year’s Eve. MMC for safety and security JP Smith says law enforcement officers will begin to clamp down on the sale, storage and use of fireworks without proper documentation.
• Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto asked Donald Trump if he could meet with Trump’s son Eric, an executive vice-president of the Trump Organisation. The pair appeared to be unaware that a live microphone was recording their conversation.
• The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it will take time to hand over the remains of hostages and detainees killed in the Israel-Hamas war, calling it a “massive challenge” given the difficulties of finding bodies in Gaza’s rubble.
• WhatsApp messages presented at the Madlanga Commission reveal how KZN Hawks head Major-General Senona maintained a ‘close and beneficial relationship’ with an alleged criminal while sharing confidential police information.
• Suspended banker Raed Cupido claims in his new bail application that his constitutional rights were infringed after cops nabbed him with cocaine worth R18million.
• Deputy National Commissioner Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya confirms criminal syndicates have infiltrated law enforcement across provinces, including KwaZulu-Natal, denies involvement in Senzo Meiwa’s murder investigation.
• President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that he knows Hangwani Maumela, the man accused of masterminding corruption at Tembisa Hospital, after meeting him outside his Sandhurst home in 2024.
• Three men have been arrested in connection with the shocking murder of Warrant Officer Jabulani Mabuza, who was fatally shot during a brazen armed robbery in Johannesburg. The suspects were apprehended in a swift operation by the HAWKS, revealing the ongoing battle against violent crime in the city.
• Andy Cohen has broken his silence after the arrest of Dr Wendy Osefo and her husband Eddie on fraud charges tied to a questionable burglary report.
• Nearly two years after the theft of R158 million from the South African Post Office and Postbank, Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke announces an update on the ongoing investigation
• SA Home Affairs has dramatically improved visa processing times and smart ID issuance, achieving record numbers and setting the stage for economic growth.
• An innocent civilian, Ramothopo Ratshwene, has been awarded R1.8 million after being brutally assaulted by police officers for expressing his opinion. This ruling by the Gauteng High Court highlights the importance of accountability within the police.
• A Limpopo mother has been arrested after her three-year-old son was tragically found dead in Tshififi village, raising questions about mental health and child safety.
• The Hate Crimes Working Group (HCWG), through spokesperson Kim Lithgow, has condemned media personality Ngizwe Mchunu for continuing his homophobic hate speech despite a SAHRC directive.
• Suspended South African Police Service (SAPS) National Deputy Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, took a firm stand on his integrity during his testimony at the ongoing parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday.
• While the KZN Department of Education ensured no matric exams fall on Diwali itself, Hindu community leaders have expressed concern about scheduling key papers immediately following the important festival, questioning the depth of cultural sensitivity in the education system.
• According to the IMF’s latest report, South Africa’s economy is expected to grow by 1.1% in 2025, highlighting ongoing challenges and the need for structural reforms to boost productivity and investment.
• KwaZulu-Natal’s Department of Education is striving for a minimum 95% pass rate in the 2025 National Senior Certificate exams, with a comprehensive improvement plan and various educational programmes in place to support learners.
• The Kremlin said on Tuesday it welcomed US president Donald Trump’s desire to focus on the search for a peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine after achieving a ceasefire in Gaza and hoped he would be able to push Kyiv towards a settlement.
• South Africa’s used vehicle market is thriving, with a 16.4% increase in sales and a shift towards value-driven choices among consumers.
• China has hit back at accusations from the US that it is trying to hurt the world economy, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies appeared to re-escalate, amped up by aggressive rhetoric on both sides.
• As President Ramaphosa seeks a successor for Advocate Shamila Batohi, the NPA faces scrutiny over its effectiveness in tackling state capture and corruption.
• Despite the ceasefire agreement, a medical source told Palestinian news agency Wafa today that four people were killed when Israeli drones fired at residents inspecting their homes in Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood.
• Authorities on Monday identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant on 10 October, as investigators promised a painstaking process to figure out what happened by tracking down pieces of evidence that may now be miles apart.
• Shares in easyJet jumped after reports that the Swiss-headquartered shipping company MSC was considering a takeover of Europe’s second-largest budget airline.
• ArcelorMittal’s head of mergers and acquisitions is holding talks with the nation’s top development-finance institution and trade department about the sale of the steelmaker’s local unit.
• Hatchbacks continue to dominate the affordable car scene in South Africa.
• China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday that the US was “threatening to intimidate” with the prospect of new tariffs on Chinese exports, “which is not the right way to get along with China”. Its spokesperson said that China would “fight to the end” in trade talks.
• An exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant have been shot and wounded in an apparently targeted attack in Colombia’s capital. Yendri Omar Velásquez Rodríguez and Luis Alejandro Peche Arteaga were shot on Monday as they left a building in north Bogotá, Colombian police said.
• The Northern Cape is emerging as South Africa’s most affordable yet fast-growing property market, attracting buyers from other provinces as mining, agriculture, and renewable energy investments drive demand.
• Two men and one woman arrested after explosion in Castel d’Azzano, which police believe to have been intentional. An explosion at a farmhouse near Verona killed three police officers and injured at least 13 others, officials said on Tuesday.
• Munib al-Masri Jr is part of a campaign asking the UK to help create a ‘just future’ in Palestine – starting with an apology for its role in the crisis. He has spent 14 years in pain, adjusting to paralysis below the waist. But Munib al-Masri Jr, 37, says he forgives the Israeli soldier who shot him.
• Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza demands atonement from Palestinians for the horrific acts of 7 October, not from Israel for the barbarity that followed. It calls for Gaza’s deradicalization but not an end to Israel’s messianism. It micromanages the future of Palestinian governance while saying nothing about the future of Israel’s occupation.
• In a new surge of medical disinformation and misinformation, RFK Jr. goes after Tylenol and circumcision.
• California community colleges are scrambling to find new funding sources to preserve initiatives that support Latino students.
• Denny the gorilla charged at a visitor at the San Diego Zoo over the weekend, slamming into the glass and leaving a huge crack.
• Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.
• An atmospheric river storm hit the Los Angeles area in the early hours of Tuesday morning, bringing the risk of flooding, thunderstorms and powerful winds.
• Deforestation “has not meaningfully declined” despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month’s UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said.
• The Eurovision Song Contest’s organisers said they had put back taking a decision on Israel’s participation in next year’s event, given the Gaza ceasefire.
• Freed Palestinian prisoners arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday as part of the ceasefire and prisoner-hostage exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas.
• Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will address parliament on Tuesday to spell out his budget priorities, hoping to win over enough Socialists to stave off losing a no-confidence vote.
• Several Israeli hostages released from Gaza were reunited with their families on Monday at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, following more than two years in captivity.
• Cameroon’s opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed victory early Tuesday in the Oct. 12 presidential election, urging President Paul Biya, who has been in power for over four decades, to concede.
• A series of online articles appears to have been taken out of context, sparking outrage among some Polish politicians that Ukrainians will be given “their own representation” in the Sejm.
• The rand’s volatility is expected to persist due to ongoing uncertainty from escalating US-China trade tensions and the United States government shutdown.
• Travellers are being told to brace for an increase in airline scams after cyber criminals targeted millions of Qantas customers.
• As South Africa assumes the G20 Presidency for the first time in history, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment – one that demands bold leadership, inclusive vision and a commitment to global transformation.
• Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has welcomed the extension of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits for thousands of its nationals in South Africa.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Sylvanie Burton, president of the Commonwealth of Dominica, who is in Beijing for the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women.
• The actor Keanu Reeves has paid tribute to Diane Keaton following her death in California on Saturday aged 79. Speaking on the red carpet at a screening in New York of his latest film, Good Fortune, Reeves told E! News: “She was very nice to me. [A] generous, generous artist and a very special, unique person.”
• Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said he fled the country in fear for his life following a military rebellion but did not announce his resignation in a speech broadcast on national television.
• With the rand at its strongest level this year, some South African high-net-worth individuals are looking to urgently move millions offshore, but they face compliance and tax challenges.
• Over the years, the upward surge in children admitted for the treatment of malnutrition in MSF nutrition programmes has been an alarming trend.
• A new escalation of violence lead to new wave of displacement. In September, northern Mozambique witnessed a sharp escalation in violence as attacks by non-State armed groups (NSAGs) and military operations intensified.
• Alleged corrupt relationships with businessmen, factionalism in the police and a directive to discontinue the Political Killings Task Team have dominated testimony in Parliament.
• The European Council has approved new rules to regulate the safety of toys, introducing a digital passport to better trace toys sold online and banning chemical substances harmful to children.
• Standard Bank’s Kenyan unit is in talks to acquire NCBA, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a move that would potentially create the East African nation’s third-biggest lender by assets.
• Activists call for fresh demonstrations this weekend with three people killed and more than 500 reportedly arrested since unrest started in late September.
• Accused 1 in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial will continue his evidence-in-chief on Tuesday morning. The defence called Muzi Sibiya as its first witness on Monday.
• UK-based Bytes Technology Group has reported mixed interim results, as the company settles into its new sales structure and battles tough trading conditions.
• The right to protest has come under sustained attack in the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
• Rising sea levels in Europe could wipe out some of the continent’s most beloved beaches by 2100.
• SPAR is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats as South Africa’s on-demand delivery battle heats up among local food retailers.
• The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission will provide a blended financing package worth up to €95 million ($110 million) to BioNTech for its mRNA vaccine factory in Kigali.
• Volvo has launched a “new” luxury crossover in South Africa.
• On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt.
• South Africa’s debt-servicing costs have surged to record highs, now consuming a larger share of government spending than education, threatening to push the country into a debt trap.
• With Congress and the White House in stalemate, some are eyeing the end of the month as the next potential deadline to reopen the government.
• Attacks on Civilians. Afar: September 24 in Chiffra woreda, local dispute reportedly escalated into clan-related conflict, significantly disrupting social stability in the area.
• Alcohol consumption is a major cause of cancer in Europe, the WHO’s cancer research agency warned in a new report.
• South Africa’s trade minister recently announced the country is close to a trade deal to protect industries like car exports.
• Venezuela announced on Monday it would close its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government did not comment on Machado’s prize.
• The UN now says that the peace deal is not being respected. They have further warned of a dire humanitarian situation in the Congo due to the ongoing conflict.
• Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told Euronews that Europe had become “irrelevant” in the Middle East peace process. Now that reconstruction and stability in Gaza are on the agenda, can Europe regain some leverage?
• Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of Māori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to disestablish the guaranteed seats. The number of guaranteed seats for Māori representatives on New Zealand councils will be slashed by more than half, following a controversial law change that forced local governments to put the fate of hard-won Māori seats to a public vote.
• The US president said on Monday that he now wants to focus on Russia and its war against Ukraine. After months of diplomatic efforts, can Trump repeat his peacemaking success and put an end to Moscow’s war on Ukraine? Kyiv certainly hopes so.
• “Technical” discussions on migration have been ongoing for years between the European Commission and de facto representatives of eastern Libya, including General Khalifa Haftar’s military staff. Recently, Brussels has started engaging with eastern Libya at a more political level.
• It’s Keir Starmer’s turn to muddle through a problem that none of his predecessors solved: can his cash-poor nation afford to offend a superpower?
• Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht has seen his remuneration rise by close to R4 million in the 2025 financial year.
• PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA and his South African counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday mourned 43 people who perished in a Harare-bound crossborder bus in Makhado Town, 100km before Beitbridge Border Post.
• There is now “real hope” for a ceasefire which would pave the way for a lasting and definitive settlement of the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Huang Xia, told the Security Council on Monday.
• Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering millions and straining health systems worldwide.
• The escalating political crisis in South Sudan is driving renewed armed violence and making the already dire humanitarian and human rights situations there worse, UN investigators said on Monday.
• Reports indicate that at least 20 civillains, including women, children, and elders, were killed, and many more seriously injured, when Sudanese Air Force (SAF) warplanes struck a social event in El Koma, North Darfur, on Saturday.
• It remains too difficult for Africans to travel between African countries. Africa-wide reforms have failed. The keynote continental agreement, the African Union’s Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, adopted in 2018, still has only four country ratifications from 55 members.
• Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar’s biggest internet service provider. A powerful bipartisan committee in the US Congress says it has begun an investigation into the involvement of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite business in providing internet access to Myanmar scam centres, blamed for swindling billions from victims across the world.
• Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not
• The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu – who unexpectedly resigned last week before being reappointed four days later – finally cobbled together a new cabinet for Emmanuel Macron to appoint just hours before he left for the Gaza peace summit. Few expect Macron to return from Egypt with a solution to the deepening domestic political crisis he presides over, however. Fewer still have enough trust in a government so subservient to Macron that it can survive the forthcoming deliberations of the National Assembly.
• The death toll from last week’s torrential rains in east-central Mexico has jumped to 64.
• President Trump got a standing ovation after addressing Israeli lawmakers following Hamas’ release of all living hostages under the Gaza peace deal.
• Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto has been heard on a hot mic asking Donald Trump if he can meet with the president’s son Eric, as the leaders gathered in Egypt for a summit aimed at securing a lasting peace in Gaza. Prabowo appeared to be unaware that a live microphone was recording his conversation as he spoke to the president and referenced a region that is “not safe, security-wise”. He then asks Trump: “Can I meet Eric?”
• The Egyptian president says U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace proposal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region.
• Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law Carrie Elizabeth Romney was found dead in L.A. County. Investigators believe she fell or jumped from a parking structure in Santa Clarita.
• South Korean president Lee Jae Myung has called for “all-out” diplomatic efforts to protect citizens in Cambodia after a university student was lured there by a scam ring and allegedly tortured to death.
• The Dutch government has intervened in the business of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor company, due to concerns about governance.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom votoes bill to phase out a range of popular consumer products, including nonstick pots and pans, that contain synthetic chemicals with links to cancer.
• Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear watchdog is pushing Ukraine and Russia to agree to local ceasefires so that external power can be restored to Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.
• Protests in Madagascar are continuing after President Andry Rajoelina fled the country. The youth-led protests have seen parts of the military turn against the government. What’s next? A diplomatic source says the Mr Rajoelina is refusing to step down.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun scaling up its operations in Gaza, as the ceasefire paves the way for humanitarian agencies to reach vulnerable populations that have been cut off from vital aid in the war-torn territory.
• Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their work on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” can drive economic growth and lift living standards.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed legislation that would have allowed public and private colleges to provide preferential admissions to applicants directly descended from individuals who were enslaved in the United States before 1900.
• An oil terminal at Feodosia in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula was burning on Monday after an attack by Ukrainian drones. A Ukrainian security official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the drones, launched by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service and military special forces, hit at least five reservoirs. The source said drones also hit at least two Russian electrical substations on the peninsula, which Russia took from Ukraine in 2014.
• President Trump praised the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal as the first steps to broader peace. But the freed hostages and Palestinian prisoners swap were seen as the least difficult items of the proposed peace plan.
• By the time President Trump boarded Air Force One on Monday evening, his diplomatic blitz had spanned 12 hours on the ground in two countries. In Egypt, he huddled with heads of state and diplomats from three dozen countries to flesh out the finer points of the Israel-Hamas peace deal.
• “I was forced to find a safe place to protect my life,” Rajoelina said in his late-night speech, which was also meant to be shown on Madagascar television but was delayed for hours after soldiers attempted to take control of the state broadcaster buildings.
• Bus after bus crammed with Palestinians set free from Israeli jails were welcomed by ecstatic crowds. Around 1,700 of mostly men who were seized from Gaza during the war and held without ever being charged were returned on Monday.
• Two Venezuelan activists living in Colombia have been wounded in a targeted shooting.
• House Speaker Mike Johnson says that he will not negotiate with Democrats until they drop healthcare demands.
• There have been conflicting reports on whether Israel would free prominent Gaza medic as part of the truce agreement.
• Fire victims whose homes burn down in a catastrophe can get as much as $350,000, or 60% of their personal property coverage, up front under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
• At least 14 people have died in a mine collapse in El Callao, Venezuela, following torrential rains in the southeast region.
• Work to fix a sinkhole described as the “biggest engineering job in south Wales” this year is finally drawing to a close after nearly 12 months. About 30 homes were evacuated in Nant Morlais, Pant, in Merthyr Tydfil last year.
• Mali’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced it will require U.S. visa applicants to post a bond of up to $10,000.

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