Actor also had roles in M*A*S*H, A River Runs Through It and Picket Fences in career spanning 60 years
Tom Skerritt, the actor known for roles in Alien and Top Gun, has died at the age of 93.
His publicist confirmed to Variety that he died from natural causes.
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© Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP
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El actor Tom Skerritt, que protagonizó grandes éxitos de Hollywood como el clásico de ciencia ficción Alien, la comedia bélica MASH y el drama de acción Top Gun, ha fallecido a los 93 años, según confirmó su representante. Skerritt, natural de Detroit y cuya carrera en Hollywood se extendió desde la década de 1960 hasta la de 2020, murió el miércoles por causas naturales, informó ABC7 citando un comunicado de su familia. Conocido por su aspecto rudo y su capacidad para destacar en géneros muy diversos, Skerritt dejó interpretaciones memorables tanto en papeles protagonistas como secundarios en cine y televisión.
São Brás de Alportel recebe, no próximo dia 24 de outubro, a partir das 19h00, a “Glow Night Run São Brás de Alportel”, uma iniciativa organizada pela Free Challenge, com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de São Brás de Alportel, que promete uma noite de desporto, música e muita animação. O evento convida participantes de […]
Corea del Norte tendrá listos en unos días los altavoces para reanudar sus emisiones de propaganda hacia Corea del Sur, suspendidas desde hace 16 meses. Así lo ha anunciado este jueves Kim Yo-jong, la hermana del líder supremo norcoreano, Kim Jong-un. La poderosa dirigente también ha amenazado con represalias militares si futuros disparos de advertencia surcoreanos causan daños en su territorio o ponen en peligro a sus soldados. Seúl defiende que esas acciones son “legítimas y defensivas” y buscan impedir incursiones norcoreanas en su lado de la frontera. La tensión entre los dos vecinos ha aumentado desde finales de septiembre, después de que el estallido de unas minas hiriese a tres soldados surcoreanos, dos de ellos de gravedad.
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La diputada en el Congreso y portavoz adjunta parlamentaria de Sumar durante esta legislatura, Aina Vidal, no estará en la lista por Barcelona del Frente Amplio que encabeza Ada Colau. El Consejo Nacional de Comuns celebrado este miércoles a última hora de la tarde aprobó en una larga reunión las listas de las cuatro provincias y Vidal, que cuenta con una amplia trayectoria política e intervenciones que ha aplaudidotoda la izquierda en la Cámara, no estará, una decisión que no es voluntad de la diputada, aseguran varias fuentes del partido. La decisión ha causado una gran conmoción en Esquerra Verda, el partido heredero de la antigua Iniciativa per Catalunya. Vidal (Barcelona, 41 años) era diputada desde enero de 2016. Los cinco primeros nombres de la lista son Ada Colau, el ministro Ernest Urtasun, la politóloga y miembro de la ejecutiva Júlia Miralles, el actual diputado en el Parlament Andrés García Berrio, y la concejal de Barcelona en Comú y ex diputada en el Congreso Lucía Martín. En un comunicado emitido más tarde, la formación ha trasladado que Vidal seguirá ejerciendo de portavoz de los Comuns y “participará activamente” en la campaña electoral del 29-N.
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To return to 1.5 °C by the end of the century, countries must cut global emissions by 18 percent by 2030, 45 percent by 2035 and 69 percent by 2040, according to the report.
Global warming will overshoot 1.5°C in the coming years.
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) October 21, 2026
There’s still a chance to bring temperatures back down, but the window is closing fast.
This is the point of return. #EmissionsGap pic.twitter.com/VDXkg0JPtQ
UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared that surpassing the limit did not mean giving up, referring to the need to maintain ambitious climate targets despite the overshoot.
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UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen stressed that each additional fraction of a degree and each extra year of warming above 1.5 °C would worsen climate impacts and risks, including deadly floods, heat waves and wildfires that have swept numerous countries this year, and said all possible efforts were needed to limit the peak and return to 1.5 °C by the end of the century, which she said was possible.
The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone.
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) October 21, 2026
But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100.
Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century.
New #EmissionsGap Report:… pic.twitter.com/4VanweT5Hj
Continuing current policies will cause a catastrophic increase of 2.8 °C over this century, with a sustained rise in subsequent years, the document warns.
Ahead of the start of the second Global Stocktake at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, UNEP set concrete fossil fuel reduction targets relative to 2025 levels.
By 2035, the agency proposes reducing coal supply by 55 percent, oil by 15 percent and gas by 5 percent; by 2040, it proposes raising the cuts to 75 percent for coal, 30 percent for oil and 35 percent for gas.
Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, issues warning after inspecting border fortifications against backdrop of rising tensions
Propaganda loudspeakers aimed at South Korea will be ready to restart within days along the entire border, Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has said amid a worsening of ties between the two countries.
The statement, carried by the state news agency KCNA on Thursday, came a day after she said the loudspeakers would be in operation along the whole border from some time in October.
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© Photograph: í©ëNí êMé–; 朝鮮通信社/KCNA/KNS/AP
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La lechuga y el atún o el bonito hacen buena pareja, y eso lo sabemos desde que se inventó la ensalada mixta allá por el Pleistoceno. Nada que objetar a ese clasicazo, que nos ha acompañado en tantísimas comidas y siempre funciona cuando está bien hecho, pero como también estamos por la innovación, reivindicamos a la vez las fórmulas que se salen de lo corriente. Hace unos años ya publicamos tres ensaladas de lechuga que no son la de siempre. Hoy volvemos a la carga con una receta que une esta verdura con sus amigos el bonito y las aceitunas, y la refresca con un aliño de limón y tomillo.
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The alert came during a joint press conference in which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Celeste Saulo acknowledged that the phenomenon now sits “literally outside the scales of monitoring that we have used over the past four decades.”
Her assessment placed the coming months among the most severe climate events recorded since such tracking began.
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Saulo and UN humanitarian coordinator Tom Fletcher issued an urgent call for the international community to prepare in advance for the consequences they expect.
Fletcher put the human cost in stark terms. The phenomenon “will shake Latin America, eastern and southern Africa, Asia and the Pacific with extreme heat, droughts and floods,” he warned, and could push food insecurity to affect as many as 50 million people worldwide.
The warning singled out regions already struggling with fragile agricultural systems and limited infrastructure, where a single failed harvest can tip entire communities into crisis.
El Niño is set to hit fragile communities hard.@UNOCHA and @WMO are sounding the alarm, appealing for immediate assistance to support communities already affected by what has been described as the strongest El Niño on record. https://t.co/LDrygGkPPw pic.twitter.com/H1XcVA3AR7
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) October 21, 2026
The temperature projection of 3.8 degrees above the long-term average would place this El Niño beyond the upper bands of the monitoring framework built over forty years. Saulo noted that extreme weather events are already being recorded and will tend to multiply as the phenomenon gains intensity. She stressed, however, that the crisis “does not have to inevitably trigger a humanitarian disaster,” a message both officials repeated throughout their appearance.
To front-load the response, Fletcher announced the allocation of 50 million dollars from the UN emergency fund. The money will assist 11 of the most vulnerable countries as a priority, including Chad, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. The list reflects the broad geographic reach of the expected impacts, spanning the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and Central America.
Both representatives insisted that a window of opportunity remains open. Extreme conditions “do not have to translate into humanitarian emergencies or fatalities” if precautions are taken in time, they argued, framing preparedness as the difference between a difficult season and a catastrophic one.
Saulo and Fletcher directed their appeal beyond governments. WMO and the humanitarian office urged development banks and international financial institutions to release funds in a coordinated manner before the worst damage occurs. The underlying premise is simple, El Niño cannot be stopped, but its worst human impacts can be mitigated and prevented.
Latin America appears prominently in the forecast. Central America has already been placed on maximum alert over drought conditions linked to the so-called Super El Niño, and the new warning extends that concern across the region. Africa faces the mirror problem in several zones, with eastern and southern areas bracing for a combination of heat, drought and flood depending on local geography.
WMO’s warnings marks a departure from the cautious phrasing typical of international agencies. Describing the phenomenon as off the scale is not a rhetorical flourish but a technical judgment, one intended to shake loose the funding and coordination that slow-moving bureaucracies often withhold until emergencies are already visible. For Saulo and Fletcher, the next three months represent the period when that response must be assembled, not the period when it can still be debated.
In late September, China and Laos opened a Beijing-funded training and support center and an aviation academy at Ban Keun airport, about 50 kilometers north of Vientiane. China’s Ministry of National Defense says the facility will train Lao Air Force pilots and is “not directed against any third party.” Even so, much of the commentary […]
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South Korea will withdraw more staff from its embassy in Kyiv, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Park Doo-soon said on 20 October. Seoul says Kyiv broke an understanding to keep the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war confidential, which was meant to protect the soldiers and their families in the North. Seoul had conveyed its position through several channels but received no sufficient response from Kyiv, Park added.
The Korea Herald noted, the move comes amid a dispute with the host government itself. That matters beyond the two countries. Good ties with Kyiv serve South Korea’s interests, AP reported earlier this month, citing experts, because Ukraine could share intelligence on North Korea’s expanding cooperation with Russia and its battlefield experience.
Officials put the planned withdrawal at about half the embassy’s staff. The Korea Herald added that the timing has yet to be set. A chargé d’affaires and all consular staff will stay in Kyiv to keep diplomatic contacts and protect South Korean citizens.
Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly in September that Ukraine had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea. Ukrainian forces had captured both men in Russia’s Kursk Oblast in January 2025, where Pyongyang had sent troops to fight for Moscow.
On 6 October, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Sybiha’s messages included words of apology but fell short of what Seoul expected. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi replied that Sybiha had written he regretted the situation reaching an exchange of critical comments.
In an interview published on 12 October, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told the dispute stemmed from differing readings of confidentiality at various stages of the transfer. He considers the matter closed. “Ukraine fulfilled all its obligations.”
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