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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Oct. 17

Xinhua
| October 17, 2025
2025-10-17

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, for talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict, following a phone conversation between the two leaders.

"I have just concluded my telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, and it was a very productive one," said Trump on Truth Social. (US-Russia-Meeting)

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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa unveiled on Thursday a comprehensive plan for early recovery and long-term reconstruction in Gaza, outlining a five-year effort to rebuild the war-torn enclave.

Speaking at a meeting with international partners at the cabinet headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mustafa said the Palestinian government has established a unified framework for reconstruction through the Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction Implementation Program, based on the Arab Plan for Recovery, Reconstruction, and Development in Gaza adopted at the Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo in March. (Gaza Strip-PA-Recovery Plan)

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PARIS -- The French government led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survives two no-confidence motions in the National Assembly on Thursday, thus avoiding collapse in a particularly tense political climate.

The motions were launched by far-left France Unbowed (LFI) and the far-right National Rally (RN) in response to the pension reform that the government was planning to implement. (France-Government-Votes)

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SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement on Thursday that its Chief of Staff, Mohammed Abdulkarim al-Gumari, had been killed in recent Israeli airstrikes.

The statement, broadcast by the Houthi-run satellite channel al-Masirah, said that several senior officers were also killed alongside him at the same location, but provided no further details. (Yemen-Houthis Official-Killing) Enditem

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