International from Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

South Africa's ambassador to France, who was found dead at the foot of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Paris on Tuesday, had left a note to his wife, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

US President Donald Trump warned congressional Democrats on Tuesday that allowing the federal government to shut down at midnight would allow his administration to take "irreversible" actions including shutting down programmes important to them.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck in waters about 100 km (62 miles) from Cebu City in the Philippines late on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the US government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.

A massive explosion outside the headquarters of a paramilitary force in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta has left at least 10 people dead.

A US-sponsored ceasefire proposal for Gaza on Tuesday was hinging on Hamas's response to the 20-point plan which President Donald Trump has said was "beyond very close" to ending the two-year-old conflict in the enclave.

Vietnam's most devastating storm this year brought heavy rains that triggered floods across its north, disrupting flights and train services with the capital, Hanoi, where schools were closed and many homes inundated, authorities said on Tuesday.

Indonesian rescuers were racing on Tuesday to find 38 people feared trapped beneath the rubble of an boarding school that collapsed in East Java during afternoon prayers, killing three, according to disaster officials.

A heavy security presence on Monday evening thwarted for a straight third day youth-led protests across several Moroccan cities, where demonstrators have sought to rally for improvements to the public health and education systems.

President Donald Trump secured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backing for a US-sponsored peace proposal to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza on Monday.