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By Kate Turton

Hello. Today we're covering the panic in Gaza City, the French government turmoil, and Nepal PM Oli quitting as anti-corruption protests spiral.

Plus, Russia braces for the return of its enormous army.

Today's Top News

A Palestinian man holds a leaflet, dropped by Israeli forces, ordering residents of Gaza City to evacuate, in Gaza City, September 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

  • Israel's military ordered Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of a new offensive, after Israel warned it would step up its military attacks in the strip in a "mighty hurricane" if Hamas does not free the last hostages it holds. The evacuation orders caused panic and confusion.
  • Norway's minority Labour Party government won a second term in power, while the populist right achieved its best-ever election result, official results showed. The ballot was dominated by concerns over rising living costs and wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
  • French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to oust center-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular plans for budget tightening. Meanwhile, the 'Block Everything' protest movement adds to Macron's woes.
  • Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as anti-corruption demonstrators defied an indefinite curfew and clashed with police, a day after 19 people died in violent protests triggered by a social media ban.
  • Ethiopia officially inaugurates Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region.

United States

  • President Donald Trump's allies have pressed to charge Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and two other prominent political foes with a crime that the federal government rarely prosecutes, a Reuters review of eight years of court records shows.
  • Democrats in the House of Representatives made public a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than 20 years ago, though the White House quickly denied its authenticity.
  • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told sailors and Marines on a warship off Puerto Rico that they were not deployed to the Caribbean for training but instead sent to the "front lines" of a critical counter-narcotics mission.

Business & Markets

A protest in front of the US embassy in Seoul, South Korea, September 9, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji 

Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army

Azamat Iskaliyev stands in a courtroom cage as he is sentenced to 19.5 years in jail, July 9, 2025. Saratov Regional Court/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Russian wife killer Azamat Iskaliyev had served less than a third of a nine-year murder sentence - for stabbing his spouse to death in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce - when he was freed and pardoned by Russia in return for fighting in Ukraine.

After returning to civilian life, he knifed an ex-girlfriend more than 60 times after she rejected his advances. In July, he was jailed for more than 19 years for the frenzied murder.

Iskaliyev's case is a shocking example of the social problems that could await Russia as hundreds of thousands of soldiers - some of them pardoned convicts - return home following an eventual end to the war.

And Finally...

A view of the new mural by anonymous artist Banksy on the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Britain, September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Simon Gardner

British street artist Banksy has painted a mural on London's High Court depicting a judge beating a protester, possibly in reaction to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators supporting banned group Palestine Action.

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