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1. Zelenskiy says he will head to Turkey for talks Al-Monitor · 30 Oct 2026

   Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he would be holding "important" talks in Turkey as part of diplomatic efforts after more than 4-1/2 years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian president, speaking in his nightly video address, indicated discussions were linked to…

2. The flaw in Australia’s ‘China threat’ thesis South China Morning Post · 30 Oct 2026

   Australia’s preparations for a possible conflict with China reflect “a relatively superficial understanding”, argues prominent economist John Edwards. Europe, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, he notes, are not preparing for such a conflict. Why should Australia? Edwards, a former senior…

3. Catherine Zeta-Jones on Why Her New TV Show Made Huge Changes to Beloved Source Material ComingSoon.net · 30 Oct 2026

   Photo Credit: AMC+ Catherine Zeta-Jones has opened up about creative changes in her latest AMC+ TV adaptation. The show, titled Kill Jackie, premiered on October 2. Kill Jackie adapts Nick Harkaway’s 2018 novel The Price You Pay, published under his pseudonym Aidan Truhen. In the show, Zeta-Jones…

4. Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds TechCrunch · 30 Oct 2026

   No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

5. Martin Scorsese Blames Seth Rogen for Getting His Angelina Jolie Cleopatra Movie Canceled ComingSoon.net · 30 Oct 2026

   Photo Credit - Universal Pictures Martin Scorsese ‘s planned Cleopatra movie never entered production. The director has now connected the project’s collapse to the controversy surrounding Seth Rogen ‘s The Interview , which featured Rogen and James Franco . During a conversation with his daughter…

6. NDLEA: No payment for drug tests by Interior Ministry recruits Vanguard · 30 Oct 2026

   By Kingsley Omonobi The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that applicants undergoing recruitment into four agencies under the Ministry of Interior will not be required to pay for the mandatory Drug Integrity Test (DIT). The agencies are the Nigerian Correctional Service…

7. Sowore, police differ over attack in Ekiti Vanguard · 30 Oct 2026

   Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), and the Ekiti State Police Command have given conflicting accounts of an incident at a restaurant in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Friday. While Sowore insisted that he and members of his team were violently attacked, the…

8. Bose SoundLink Plus drops back to its all-time low on Amazon Android Authority · 30 Oct 2026

   The Bose SoundLink Plus is a mid-size portable Bluetooth speaker built for people who want bigger sound without jumping to a huge speaker. It sits between the smaller Flex and larger Max in Bose’s lineup, and there’s a strong deal on Amazon right now that makes it a lot more tempting. See the deal…

9. AFLW Round 12: Geelong lock in a top-two finish; league stars call time Nine · 30 Oct 2026

   Welcome to our weekly AFLW blog for round 12 – the final round before the finals. Follow along for updates from every game, as well as news and analysis across the round.

10. Trump Says US Looking at Whether Binance Hack Was By North Korea Mint · 30 Oct 2026

    President Donald Trump said the US was looking into whether North Korean hackers were behind a $6.3 billion heist targeting Binance that has rattled the cryptocurrency world.