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World in brief: October 25, 2026
NORTH KOREA : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China on Saturday, inaugurating a new bridge that connects the two countries and vowing to expand co-operation with his powerful neighbour. Mr Kim
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Mr Kim arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday after crossing the newly opened bridge, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry and China’s official Xinhua News Agency.
KENYA: A bus collided with a truck on Kenya’s main highway today, killing at least 22 people, police said.
The crash came three weeks after 17 people died in another accident along the same highway linking the capital, Nairobi, with the coastal city of Mombasa.
Several others were injured in the Sunday morning crash and were receiving treatment, police said.
GERMANY: A fire has swept through the mountaintop retreat built for Adolf Hitler, the Eagle’s Nest, authorities said on Saturday.
Emergency services in the Berchtesgaden district, in the Bavarian Alps, struggled to tackle the blaze in snow and wind, after being alerted to the fire late on Friday night, authorities said Saturday.
A man was arrested near the scene on suspicion of arson.
SAUDI ARABIA: The King Khalid International Airport said today that it had re-opened terminals 1 and 2 for domestic and international flights.
The announcement came as the Houthis in Yemen kept firing drones and missiles toward the Saudi capital.
Saudi military spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki claimed air defences intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile and a drone fired by the Houthis toward Riyadh early on Sunday, as well as 10 ballistic missiles toward the southern region.