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Vice President JD Vance has sent a letter to Iran's security chief stressing that any negotiations must include the nuclear issue, according to Axios. It is Washington's highest-level outreach to Tehran in months, and it comes as President Trump is reported to be considering resuming strikes after the US midterms. The choice between a negotiated settlement and renewed US strikes will help determine whether the Israel–Iran confrontation widens into a larger regional war.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church reports that 14 members were killed on 20 October in Merti and 46 on 24 October in Sherka, in Oromia region, with homes burnt and children among the dead. Regional authorities blame a new seven-group rebel alliance that includes the Oromo Liberation Army, while a human rights council describes earlier attacks as religiously motivated. The killings show Christian communities facing targeted violence for their faith, a pattern Jesus described when he warned that his followers would be hated and killed (Matthew 24:9).
World, the iris-scanning identity project co-founded by Alex Blania, has launched World ID for banking and finance, combining biometric Orb enrolment, live selfie checks and cryptographic proofs to verify customers and tie AI agents to verified humans. Design partners include Bain Capital and Pantera Capital, though no bank is named, and the company says more than 18 million people hold a Proof of Human. Blania describes proof-of-human as the future gate for almost any online transaction, a model in which biometric identity could become a condition of financial participation, even if privacy protections are claimed.
Bangladesh has detailed plans for its One-ID digital identity platform, a $748 million World Bank-backed initiative issuing roughly 200 million biometric chip cards linked to a smartphone digital wallet for taxes, subsidies, payments and government services. The project fuses physical and digital credentials into one government-controlled biometric profile, following models from Estonia, Singapore and India. Such integrated identity-payment infrastructure, built at national scale, shows how the technical backbone for controlling access to goods and services through a single system is being constructed worldwide.