International from Thursday, November 13th, 2025

France paid an emotional tribute on Thursday to 130 people killed 10 years ago during a rampage by IS gunmen and suicide bombers targeting cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.

Afghan nationals carried out two bombings in Pakistan this week, including one in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told the parliament on Thursday.

A light truck crashed into a market in South Korea on Thursday, ploughing 150 metres along a passageway lined with stalls before coming to a halt, killing two people and injuring 18, according to emergency officials and media reports.

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is hospitalised and currently under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded, said.

House Democrats have released emails that they said raised new questions about US President Donald Trump's ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about Epstein's offences.

President Donald Trump has signed a legislation on Wednesday ending the longest government shutdown in US history, bringing federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs starting as early as Thursday.