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Kurdish PKK announces it is withdrawing fighters from Turkiye to Iraq

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In response to a four-decade armed conflict that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced today that it is withdrawing all of its forces from Turkiye to northern Iraq as part of a peace process.

According to a journalist with the AFP news agency present at the ceremony, “We are implementing the withdrawal of all our forces within Turkiye,” the Kurdish PKK stated in a statement read out on Sunday in the Qandil area of northern Iraq.

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A picture of 25 fighters who had already left Turkiye and included eight women was released.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) party’s spokesman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stated on X that the PKK’s announcement falls under the “Terrorism-Free Turkiye process.”

The government, according to Merelik, saw in the announcement and its continuation as “a strategic and historic step.”

In a bid to put an end to one of the region’s longest conflicts, which resulted in the deaths of around 50, 000 people, the PKK, which formally renounced its 40-year armed struggle in May, is currently transitioning from armed rebellion to democratic politics.

However, it urged Turkiye to take the necessary steps to advance the process, which first erupted a year ago when Ankara gave its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan an unanticipated olive branch.

It stated that “democratic politics requires the legal and political steps necessary by the process,” as well as the democratic integration and freedom laws that are required to participate in democratic politics, must be immediately put in place.

In line with Ocalan’s historic call, the organization has stated that it wants to continue fighting for the rights of the Kurdish minority.

The group detonated a first batch of weapons in northern Iraq’s mountains in July, which Turkiye described as “an irreversible turning point.”

A new chapter in history has opened today, according to the statement. The doors of a great, powerful Turkiye have been wide open today, according to Erdogan at the time.

‘A thrill’ – GB win two more golds at Worlds

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Before Anna Morris defends her individual pursuit title, Great Britain won two gold medals at the Track World Championships, Katie Archibald and Maddie Leech won the women’s madison.

Victoire Berteau and Marion Borras and France’s Archibald, 31, and Leech, 22, both finished ahead of them in the bronze medal race, while Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini, both from Italy, took the bronze medal with 20 points after a crash put an end to the Netherlands’ challenge.

Two-time Olympic champion Archibald expressed his excitement for the race, which has been running really quickly this week.

“The only thing I’ve been afraid of is how painful it will be,” she said. I was pleased to accept the pain and take home the jersey because everything else has been just a thrill and an opportunity.

There are nine years between us. When the first women’s madison title was proposed, Maddie was only 13 years old.

She’s grown up with this happening, which hasn’t always been, and it’s pretty cool to be her ally on the journey.

In a comfortable final performance in Santiago, Chile, Morris defeated Great Britain team-mate Josie Knight by 2.317 seconds in the pursuit of individual pursuit gold at the previous year’s world championships in Denmark.

Up until Morris’ final race of qualifying, where Knight, 28, secured an all-British final, Knight, 28, was the session’s fastest qualifier.

Morris said, “It’s a new experience warming up with the person you’re going to race against.”

It was nice that we could both go out and leave it all on the track and be extremely happy for each other if either won. “We’ve both trained really hard for this.”

Knight, Morris, and Leech all added to the team pursuit team’s bronze status.

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Russian overnight attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv kills at least 3, wounds dozens

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Published On 26 Oct 2025

The mayor of the Ukrainian capital, who claims that at the end of the first four years of Russia’s war on Ukraine, reports that at least three people have died and dozens have been hurt in an overnight Russian airstrike in Kyiv.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko proclaimed that “several” Russian drones were “over the city” on Sunday, and urged residents to “remain in shelters.”

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Three people died and 27 were injured (including six children), according to preliminary information, according to Klitschko’s post-Telegram entry, adding that some had been taken to the hospital.

He claimed that a nine-story residential complex in the northeastern Desnyansky district was flooded with drone fragments that sparked fires on several floors.

“The fire has already erupted,” the statement read. The construction is still being worked on, Klitschko said.

Another nine-floor block in the same district, where five people were saved, was damaged, he said, adding that “structure destruction is ongoing.”

An apartment was harmed when more drone fragments fell on a 16-story residential block in the northern Obolonsky district, according to Klitschko.

He continued, “No structural collapses or fires” are present.

Not immediately known the full extent of the attack’s size and extent. Before the air force called off the air raid alerts in Kyiv and the surrounding area around 00:30 GMT, the city was under one hour and a half of the day.

Both parties deny that their attacks on one another’s territory were aimed at civilians. However, despite the fact that the majority of the victims were Ukrainian, many of whom were civilians, were killed in the conflict that Russia started by staging a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

According to Ukrainian authorities, four other Russian drone and missile strikes killed two, two of them in Kyiv, and more than a dozen others in Ukraine the day after those attacks.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, downplayed the possibility of a summit with Vladimir Putin, saying he would “not be wasting]his] time.”

According to a Russian source with knowledge of the discussions, Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev met with Trump administration officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff. On Sunday, the discussions were scheduled to continue.

Russian energy was subject to new, extensive sanctions by the US and the European Union earlier this week to devastate Moscow’s war economy.

FG Appoints Prof Haruna As First VC Of Federal Varsity Kontagora

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Professor Farouk Haruna has been appointed as the Federal University of Education, Kontagora in Nigeria,’s first substantive vice Chancellor.

Following the fifth meeting of the Council in Kontagora, Professor Francis Faduyile, the pro-Chancellor and Governing Council chairman, made the announcement.

Faduyile informed journalists that Professor Haruna was chosen after a rigorous selection process that involved six candidates shortlisted.

He claimed that the new vice Chancellor, who previously held the positions of acting vice Chancellor, provost, and chairman of the committee of provosts, brings a wealth of experience.

He anticipates that the new Vice Chancellor’s inauguration will take place on November 4, 2025.

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The Pro-Chancellor assured Kontagora’s staff, students, and parents that the campus is still safe for both learning and living on the security front.

“I’ve visited Kontagora a lot,” I said. People live and work there without fear because it is peaceful. According to Faduyile, the university environment is conducive and safe for students.

He referred to the university as one of the nation’s fastest-growing teacher education centers, which offers a sizable number of Ph. holders of degrees and cutting-edge facilities of education.

The school, which was formerly a College of Education, was upgraded to a Federal University of Education in 2021 and began accepting students in March 2025.

The Federal University of Education, Kontagora now has its first substantive leadership position to help the school achieve academic excellence with this appointment.

In the meantime, Niger State Governor Umaru Bago praised Haruna for taking the vacancy of the Federal University of Education Kontagora (FUEK) as the substantive Vice-Chancellor (VC) for the next few months.

The governor described the newly appointed Professor Haruna as a seasoned scholar in a message sent through his chief press secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, adding that his appointment is appropriate and deserving.

He claimed Haruna possesses the qualities of an innovative and transformative leader.

The newly appointed VC will take the institution to a remarkable height, the governor predicted.

Governor Bago praised the appointment of the new vice chancellor and pledged to support his success.