The Bite Back: Buried leads: The soundbites you missed up to October 14, 2025

A weekly summary highlighting stories that might have missed your newsfeed.

The algorithm may show you the news, but that doesn’t mean you’re seeing every story. Compiled regularly by analyzing news coverage from multiple different outlets, this series highlights the headlines that you may have missed but shouldn’t overlook.

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1. Aid convoys surge toward Gaza as ceasefire sparks hope for relief after two years of war: “The population needs more than a temporary ceasefire. They need lasting safety, clean water, and medicine—not just to rest, but to rebuild.”–Jacob Granger, emergency coordinator in Gaza of Doctors without Borders

• As a new ceasefire takes hold, preparations are underway to deliver large-scale humanitarian assistance to Gaza, where two years of war have left widespread destruction and famine conditions. Egypt and Israel have begun coordinating an influx of nearly 600 aid trucks per day carrying food, medicine, tents, and fuel. The United Nations says 170,000 metric tons of supplies are ready to enter once final inspections are cleared. While humanitarian groups welcome the truce, they warn that needs remain immense after months in which only 20% of required aid reached the enclave. The future of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which replaced the U.N. operation earlier this year, remains uncertain amid logistical breakdowns and public mistrust.

2. Taliban-Pakistan border clashes kill dozens: “The situation on all official borders and de facto lines of Afghanistan is under complete control, and illegal activities have been largely prevented.”–Taliban government’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid

• Afghanistan’s Taliban government said its forces killed 58 Pakistani soldiers and seized 25 army posts in retaliatory strikes on October 11, citing cross-border bombings, though few believe the situation on all borders is under control, as Mujahid claims. Pakistan has not confirmed the casualties but claims it issued a “befitting reply.” Saudi Arabia urged restraint as tensions escalated along the volatile Durand Line.

3. Russian jets violate NATO airspace over Estonia: “If we are talking about Russian aggression, if it started, of course, it will be closed and controlled totally by NATO–our allies and us.”–Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tshakna of the Gulf of Finland and the wider Baltic Sea.

• Three Russian MiG-31s entered Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, triggering Article 4 consultations and a NATO show of force dubbed Operation Eastern Sentry. As Russia uses this corridor to export 60% of its oil and gas, the incursion underscores growing fears of hybrid warfare in the Baltic region.

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