International from Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport — a state-of-the-art greenfield airport.

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water.

Some Indian pharmaceutical firms failed to follow rules that every batch of medicinal ingredients is tested, the country's drug regulator said on Wednesday, after deaths in the past month of 17 children linked to toxic cough syrups.

At least 15 were killed from a landslide that struck a private bus in India's mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, with one child missing, officials and police said on Wednesday.

Rescuers guided all of the remaining trekkers near the east face of Everest in Tibet to safety on Tuesday, including hundreds of local guides and yak herders, authorities said, ending one of the largest search-and-rescue operations in the region.

Air traffic control staffing issues delayed more than 3,000 flights for a second straight day at numerous US airports as the government shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice on Tuesday.

Hamas said on Wednesday it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on US President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza.