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Residents trapped in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky are being forced to eat garden weeds as the city remains cut off from food and water supplies and under constant shelling, the BBC reports. Two civilians were killed by a drone on 20 September while returning home with a bag of food from the neighbouring town of Radensk, according to multiple sources.
A former Northern Territory Police assistant commissioner has taken legal action after a deepfake sexually explicit video created from her official photograph was allegedly shared among serving members of the force. Janelle Tonkin said the incident was 'extremely distressing' and part of broader problems within the NT Police Force.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington has yielded a two-month extension of the US-China trade truce, far short of the year-long pause Beijing had sought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday. The limited extension – from November to January – underscores continued friction over tariffs, technology access and Taiwan as Xi began a three-day US visit marked by an elaborate military flyover and red-carpet welcome.
· 7 sourcesChinese President Xi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid what he termed the 'Thucydides trap' – the historical pattern of a rising power threatening an established one – as his summit with US President Donald Trump began at the White House on Thursday. The meeting covers artificial intelligence, trade, the Iran war and Taiwan, but experts say little in the way of grand bargains is expected.
· 7 sourcesThe Victorian government has introduced a 150-metre setback rule for new data centre buildings from residential areas, part of a broader action plan that industry groups warn could make many projects economically unviable and drive investment to other states.
The European Union has warned Donald Trump that his planned ban on US diesel exports would "negatively impact both sides", as global markets shuddered under the threat of fuel shortages and oil prices surged past $103 a barrel.
· 7 sourcesA majority of Territory Labor's caucus have publicly contradicted their party's official position on fracking, with four of the opposition's six elected members confirming they personally oppose the controversial gas extraction technique — directly at odds with Opposition Leader Selena Uibo's stated support for a "strictly regulated" industry.
· 2 sourcesThe head of Britain's Royal Air Force has warned of an unprecedented threat in space, as a defence source confirmed to the BBC that the UK has already used a ground-based system to jam or block the satellite communications of a hostile state. The revelation underscores a rapidly escalating arms race in orbit, with satellites essential for communication, internet, banking, and satnav increasingly at risk.
The Conservatives have put forward proposals that would cut universal credit payments by a third for people who have not paid enough national insurance, with the reduced allowance paid onto a dedicated debit card preventing the purchase of alcohol or tobacco.
Democrats in Maine have accused Republican Senator Susan Collins of corruption following a ProPublica report alleging that the FBI had proposed investigating her for accepting bribes before former president Donald Trump derailed the inquiry. The report, published Wednesday, thrusts Collins's re-election race into the spotlight ahead of the November midterm elections, with control of the Senate potentially at stake.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping sit down on Thursday with artificial intelligence at the centre of their talks, in what analysts describe as a contest for technological supremacy between the world's leading AI powers and a meeting whose outcome will matter to the whole world.
· 2 sourcesAnthony Albanese has announced Australia will provide an additional $60 million in support for Ukraine's defence against Russia's invasion, during an emotional meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
· 2 sourcesJehovah's Witnesses have announced a fundamental shift in their long-standing opposition to blood transfusions, allowing individual members to decide whether to accept red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma or platelets. The change, announced last Friday by Governing Body member Geoffrey W Jackson, has been met with anger from families who lost loved ones under the previous blanket prohibition.
Fighting has resumed in northern Ethiopia after Tigrayan rebels launched an offensive into the neighbouring states of Afar and Amhara and formed a new coalition aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, raising fears of a return to the devastating civil war that killed an estimated 600,000 people between 2020 and 2022.
· 2 sourcesEthiopia has issued a warning of ‘destruction’ as Tigray rebels launch a new military offensive, while other armed groups have also launched offensives, signaling a significant escalation in the country’s conflict.
Iran has issued a direct threat to countries that enforce United States sanctions targeting its airline industry, warning that such actions will be met with retaliation. The statement escalates tensions over Washington's efforts to isolate Iran's aviation sector amid ongoing geopolitical friction.
Ethiopia is facing the threat of renewed civil war after armed groups, including Tigrayan rebels, launched a fresh offensive, prompting the government to warn of widespread destruction.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has dissolved the country's transitional government, removing all five vice-presidents and dissolving parliament, as the nation prepares for its first national elections since independence in 2011. The move comes three months before the scheduled December poll and amid reports of a heavy security presence in the capital, Juba.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn Gaza recovery plan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, outlining 66 programmes over six months focused on housing, diesel generation, and waste removal. However, the board acknowledged a significant funding shortfall, with $18bn pledged but only $280m delivered so far, and the full reconstruction cost estimated at $71bn over the next decade.
· 4 sourcesThe UK has briefed foreign ministers from the EU, Kenya and other nations on a climate crisis national security report that was suppressed under former prime minister Keir Starmer, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband warning that the coming El Niño poses a critical threat to national defences.
Democratic U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois has announced plans to introduce the Reimagining Safety Act, a bill that would terminate the billion-dollar border surveillance tower program and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, citing a recent MIT Technology Review investigation that found nearly one in four deaths along the southern border between 2015 and early 2026 occurred within the towers' advertised range.
A series of videos from Al Jazeera on September 23, 2026, captures a flurry of diplomatic clashes at the United Nations, a strengthening hurricane in Mexico, and other global developments.
Al Jazeera's latest video news feed captures a range of developments across the globe, including international condemnation of Israel at the United Nations, a strengthening hurricane threatening Mexico, renewed armed conflict in Ethiopia, a diplomatic walkout over Iran's UN address, and Argentina's renewed push for sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
· 2 sourcesThe Trump administration has formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Group of 20 summit in Miami this December, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Wednesday, marking a significant reversal of Russia's diplomatic isolation since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
· 5 sourcesThe Victorian Labor government is putting reproductive rights at the centre of its election campaign, announcing new portable ultrasound machines for sexual and reproductive health hubs and warning that One Nation could use abortion access as a bargaining chip with the Coalition in a hung parliament.
· 2 sourcesNew research casts doubt on claims that Labor’s tax reforms will hit property investors hard, suggesting most may actually pay less capital gains tax under the changes announced in the May budget.
· 2 sourcesThe Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) has been accused of running a 'scare campaign' ahead of the Victorian election, after leaked documents revealed a lobbying paper warning that reversing the state's ban on gas in new homes would save households $100 annually on gas bills — a claim experts have disputed as unsupported.
· 2 sourcesRussian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least 14 people in recent days, even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with former US President Donald Trump to discuss a potential bilateral ceasefire on energy-related targets, and US and Russian officials held urgent talks at the United Nations General Assembly aimed at limiting the conflict's impact on global energy supplies.
· 3 sourcesThe decades-old US policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ toward Taiwan is under unprecedented strain as a growing chorus of analysts argue that President Donald Trump’s repeated statements have shattered the credibility of possible American military intervention. Polling suggests Taiwanese confidence in a US defence guarantee has fallen since 2025. Yet proponents insist the policy is not dead—only evolving.
The average price of a basket of essential groceries rose 7 per cent at Australia's four major supermarket chains between March and June, according to new government-funded research from consumer group Choice.
· 2 sourcesThere has been a sharp rise in reports of violence against women and girls in the Gaza Strip, including early and forced marriage, according to a series of recent reports from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). One report warns of a 'severe escalation' in early and forced marriage incidents in the second quarter of this year, citing data collected by 10 organisations.
US President Donald Trump will personally greet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Andrews Air Force Base this week for a three-day state visit featuring a White House state dinner and military flyover — an unusually lavish welcome for a nation Washington regards as a strategic rival — even as pre-visit trade talks failed to make meaningful progress.
· 9 sourcesIran has reiterated that the Strait of Hormuz will not be used to 'impose insecurity on us,' a statement that coincided with a US envoy walking out of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's UN speech in protest over its 'war on Iran' rhetoric.
· 2 sourcesCounter-terrorism officers have arrested a 65-year-old Carlton man following a years-long covert investigation, alleging he is a key propagandist for the Islamic State terror group.
· 3 sourcesIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has delivered an unyielding address to the UN General Assembly, declaring Iran will never "bend the knee" to US and Israeli pressure, a day after President Donald Trump threatened to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic. In what reports describe as the first time in UN history a leader at war with the host country has addressed the body, the US delegation walked out as Pezeshkian spoke.
· 10 sourcesPoland said a Russian military Mi-8 helicopter violated its airspace on Wednesday morning, crossing from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to a depth of about 300 metres and remaining inside Polish territory for 42 seconds north of Braniewo. Warsaw scrambled fighter jets and kept ground forces on alert, with the military stating the incident indicates Russia is "once again testing the readiness of our air defence."
· 2 sourcesHarvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday in a Manhattan court, more than a year after a jury convicted him of a criminal sexual act against former television production assistant Miriam Haley. The sentence caps years of legal battles that saw his original 2020 conviction overturned and a retrial end in a fresh guilty verdict.
· 9 sourcesMoroccans head to the polls on Wednesday for parliamentary elections that will decide the next government, with young voters deeply disillusioned by a political scene they view as disconnected from reality, weeks after 60,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a sign of widespread lack of opportunity.
· 3 sourcesMore than half of Australians aged 18 to 29 were living with their parents in 2024, up from 39 per cent in 2001, according to the latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, which paints a mixed picture of rising housing stress, high employment and widespread over-qualification in the workforce.
· 2 sourcesAshleigh Ann Seeney, a 28-year-old physical education teacher, has been arrested and charged as an accessory over an alleged conspiracy to murder a man involved in a conflict within an organised crime network in Sydney.
· 3 sourcesA federal judge on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore White House press access to CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying the ban on the three outlets was likely unconstitutional and rejecting the administration's national security justification.
· 8 sourcesSyrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has declared that the occupied Golan Heights will remain Syrian territory, responding to questions about Israeli violations in Syria in a video newsfeed published by Al Jazeera.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned French national Martin Ryan, jailed on spying charges, hours after the European Union agreed to lift sanctions on two Russian billionaires — a move France is understood to have supported and that Ukraine has condemned as a blow to European unity.
Angry Anderson, the iconic Australian rock singer and frontman of Rose Tattoo, has died at the age of 79. His family and bandmates announced the death on Monday, saying he passed away surrounded by loved ones in Australia, weeks after suffering a cardiac arrest while on tour in Germany in August.
· 8 sourcesHurricane Polo has been downgraded to a Category 4 storm but remains 'very powerful' as it drifts slowly toward the coast of southwestern Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. The storm, one of the strongest of the Pacific season, is not expected to make landfall but is forecast to bring torrential rainfall that may trigger life-threatening flooding and mudslides, particularly in areas of steep terrain.
The eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old woman who had lived in the same Madrid apartment for seven decades, was carried out on Wednesday despite protests from hundreds of supporters and failed court challenges, drawing fresh attention to Spain's housing affordability crisis.
· 2 sourcesLocal forces in Ethiopia's Tigray region have seized control of Mekelle's airport from federal police, residents have told the BBC, prompting Ethiopian Airlines to suspend flights to the city and to Shire and Axum amid escalating tensions that threaten a return to civil war.
· 2 sourcesPresident Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, highlighting his administration's economic record and U.S. policy toward Iran, according to reports. The speech kicks off a jam-packed day of diplomatic meetings.
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