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orth Korean fans in national colours cheer during their team's preliminary 2018 World Cup and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifying soccer match against Philippines at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang October 8, 2015. North Korea is getting ready to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers' Party of Korea on October 10.
1. Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from a Russian ship in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday crashed in Iran, according to US officials, though the Russian Defense Ministry declined to comment.
2. More than 90% of Russian airstrikes in Syria have not targeted the Islamic State, a US State Department spokesman said, though Moscow claims the purpose of the bombings are to attack ISIS.
3. Libya will form a new national government, after having two rival parliaments following the fall of Moamer Kadhafi in 2011.
4. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred members of parliament and ministers from visiting the Old City's Al-Aqsa compound in an effort to stem a recent increase in clashes between Israeli police and young Palestinians.
5. Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino resigned on Thursday over allegations he charged €20,000 euros (£16,152; $22,500) in city money on his credit card to pay for meals for his family and friends.
6. Leaders from the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund have their annual meeting in the Peruvian capital of Lima, where climate change and China's slowdown are at the top of the agenda this year.
7. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced on Friday, for her leadership on the refugee crisis in Europe.
8. A Hungarian fashion photographer who used scenes from Europe's migrant crisis, such as barbed-wire fence, as inspiration for the backdrop of his fashion shoots, was forced to pull the images from his website following public backlash.
9. Cigarette smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, according to new research.
10. WikiLeaks is offering $50,000 (£33,000, €44,000) for video of the US airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 22 people.