News in Brief

Date: 08 October 2025 - 21:09

News ID: ۱۴۴۴۰۸

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago’s mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been accused of criminal wrongdoing, though both have emerged as prominent opponents of Trump’s immigration crackdown and deployment of National Guard troops in Democratic-leaning cities. Trump’s call to imprison the two elected officials comes as another high-profile political rival, former FBI Director James Comey, was due to appear in court to face criminal charges that have been widely criticized as flimsy.

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QUITO (Reuters) - The Ecuadorian government said it had filed a criminal complaint over an alleged assassination attempt on President Daniel Noboa during a visit to the southern province of Canar. Environment and Energy Minister Ines Manzano said Noboa’s motorcade came under attack in the town of El Tambo on Tuesday when it was heading to a local stadium for the launch of new public works. “About 500 people appeared and began throwing stones, and there are also bullet marks on the president’s car,” Manzano told reporters, adding that Noboa was unharmed.

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MADRID (AFP) - Spanish emergency services have recovered the bodies of four people from beneath the rubble of a six-story building that collapsed in central Madrid while being refurbished into a hotel, local authorities said on Wednesday. “It is with deep sadness that we confirm that Madrid firefighters have recovered the bodies of the people who went missing after the collapse,” Mayor Jose Luis Almeida wrote on X. The victims have been identified as three men aged between 30 and 50 from Ecuador, Mali and Guinea-Conakry and employed at the site as construction workers, as well as a 30-year-old woman, the renovation project’s architect.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will grant police the power to shoot down rogue drones like those that have disrupted airports across Europe and that some European leaders have attributed to a hybrid war being waged by Russia. The new law, agreed by the cabinet on Wednesday and awaiting parliamentary approval, explicitly authorizes the police to down drones violating Germany’s airspace, including shooting them down in cases of acute threat or serious harm.

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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Youth protesters in Madagascar on Wednesday rejected an offer to join President Andry Rajoelina’s “national dialogue” with various groups, accusing his government of repression after weeks of demonstrations in the African island nation. Inspired by similar “Gen Z” movements in Kenya and Nepal, the protests that started on September 25 pose the biggest challenge to Rajoelina’s government since his re-election in 2023, giving voice to widespread discontent over rampant poverty and high-level corruption.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Malaysia will hold a joint military exercise this month in the Southeast Asian nation and nearby waters, focused on measures such as disaster relief and combating piracy, the Chinese defense ministry and an affiliated media outlet said. The regular drills are part of Beijing’s efforts to build closer defense cooperation with Southeast Asian nations, despite tension in the region over contested areas in the busy waterway of the South China Sea. Participating forces set out on Wednesday from China’s military ports in Zhanjiang, Sanya, and Hong Kong, for the exercise scheduled from October 15 to 23, said the outlet, the China Military Bugle.