News Dabba for 30 October 2025: Five stories for a balanced news diet

Indie Journal brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from Cyclone Montha deaths, Sudan massacre, to the Trump-Xi meeting.

Blood, pile of corpses from Sudan massacre visible from space: India Today

A humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in Sudan that the world has seemingly shut its eyes to. Such is the scale of the killings in El Fasher city in North Darfur, which has been captured by militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF), that blood and the pile of bodies are visible from space. India Today reports that what is unfolding is part of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world that has impacted around 30 million people. Satellite imagery has captured the horrifying aftermath of a massacre in Sudan's El-Fasher, where reddish stains on the ground—believed to be blood—and clusters of objects resembling human bodies are visible from space, according to a report from the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL). Read the full report here.

Andhra Chief Minister says 2 killed following Cyclone Montha's landfall, NDTV reports

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said on Wednesday that two people had been killed after Cyclone Montha made landfall in the state, NDTV reports. Montha, a severe cyclonic storm, weakened into a deep depression after moving inland towards the Andhra Pradesh coast and into adjoining Telangana, allowing state machinery to pivot fully from emergency response to large-scale relief and restoration operations. Andhra Pradesh has already mobilised to distribute essential items and financial assistance to affected families, the report says. Read the full report here.

Dutch centrist liberals neck and neck with populist Wilders in tight election, BBC reports

Rob Jetten's centrist-liberal party D66 are in a neck-and-neck race with anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders in the Dutch election, BBC reports according to latest vote projections. With about 98 percent of votes counted, both D66 and Wilders' Freedom Party were heading for 26 seats in the 150-member parliament, a projection from Dutch news agency ANP said on Thursday. A downbeat Wilders had earlier conceded the result was not what he wanted, having lost at least 10 seats, the report adds, but said he had still achieved his second best result ever. Read the full report here.

Police oppose bail in Delhi riots conspiracy case, Hindustan Times

The Delhi Police on Thursday strongly opposed the release of student activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and three others booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots conspiracy case, Indian Express reports, arguing before the Supreme Court that the alleged offences involved a deliberate attempt to destabilise the state and therefore warranted “jail and not bail”. In a 177-page affidavit filed a day before the matter is scheduled to come up for hearing, the police contended that the violence that unfolded in February 2020 was not a spontaneous escalation of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), but part of a coordinated “regime change operation” executed under the guise of civil dissent. Read the full report here.

Al Jazeera live on Trump-Xi meeting

US President Donald Trump has hailed his meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as “amazing”, Al Jazeera reports, and said the two leaders “agreed to almost everything” at their summit in South Korea. Trump said the United States will ease tariffs on Chinese goods from 57 to 47 percent in exchange for Beijing doing more to curb the flow of fentanyl ingredients, resuming purchases of US soya beans and keeping rare earth exports flowing. He also said he will visit China in April 2026 and that Xi will visit the US shortly after. Xi, in remarks published by state media, said the two leaders had “reached consensus on solutions to problems”. Read the fill report here.