International from Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

Two years after the Gaza conflict erupted, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged US support for Gaza security guarantees and said he believes a deal is close to being completed for the remaining hostages.

India's civil aviation minister denied on Tuesday there was any "manipulation" in an official investigation into the crash of an Air India Dreamliner in June, after the father of the flight's captain complained about the actions of investigators.

London police said they have broken up a criminal gang suspected of smuggling 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in their largest operation against phone theft to date, resulting in 46 arrests over the last two weeks.

US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action", the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Efforts to evacuate more than 200 trekkers still stranded near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet are expected to wrap up on Tuesday, a source familiar with the situation said, after snowstorms tore across western China.

Israeli tanks pounded parts of Gaza on Tuesday, giving Palestinians no respite on the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attack, and underlining the challenges at talks on US President Donald Trump's plan to halt the conflict.

Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed boarding school in the province of East Java, after retrieving 61 bodies, disaster authorities said.

Bangladesh’s dengue outbreak is worsening rapidly with over 50,689 dengue cases and 215 deaths reported nationwide this year, heath experts warning the disease could spiral if urgent and coordinated mosquito control efforts are not launched.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg arrived in Greece to a cheering crowd on Monday after she and hundreds of other activists captured by Israel on the high seas were deported following an attempt to bring aid to Gaza.

Nine more United Nations personnel have been detained by Yemen's Houthi authorities, bringing the total number of arbitrarily held UN staff to 53 since 2021, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.