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The Welsh government has announced plans to ban traditional steel pylons for new electricity lines it controls, favouring underground cables, and launched a consultation on the policy on Friday. The move follows a fierce backlash against a proposed pylon network in the Towy Valley, with developer Green Gen Cymru warning that burying cables would be significantly more expensive.
Police Scotland has found nothing to warrant further investigation into the finances of Yes Scotland, the campaign group that fought for Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum, following a complaint about how income of more than £1.5m was spent.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has banned civil servants from using the navigation app Waze, citing risks to national security and data sovereignty. Anwar warned that the app, which was developed in Israel and remains subject to Israeli law despite being a Google subsidiary, could expose government information and personal data to misuse. He encouraged Malaysians to adopt local alternatives like Tuju, developed by the Malaysian Highway Authority.
Austria has ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats, including an OSCE delegate, saying they carried out activities incompatible with their diplomatic status. Russia's Foreign Ministry has promised an "inevitable" response.
In northeastern Nigeria, the vigilante group Pulaku has become both a lifeline for kidnap victims and a source of controversy, with accounts of a daring rescue and allegations of serious abuse emerging from Adamawa State.
Janeese Lewis George, a Democratic Socialists of America member and D.C. council member, is poised to become the next mayor of Washington, D.C., after defeating moderate Democrat Kenyan McDuffie in the June primary. She will face independent and Green Party candidates in the general election in the overwhelmingly Democratic city. Lewis George's platform includes universal childcare, affordable housing, utility cost reduction, and a new business activity tax. However, her tenure may be constrained by President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the city's police department and ongoing National Guard deployment, as well as a Republican bill in Congress that would allow lawmakers to block D.C. tax increases.
The government is expected to allow households earning up to £110,000, or £140,000 in London, to apply for its new first-time buyer loan scheme in England, with details due to be confirmed at next week's Budget.
A wave of youth-led protests in France, Albania, India and Italy signals the emergence of a political consciousness shaped by material insecurity and institutional disillusionment, according to sociologist Gökçe Tuncel.
Russia and Ukraine traded fresh strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure overnight, less than a day after both sides signalled that U.S.-brokered peace negotiations were moving forward, with Russian attacks leaving more than 500,000 Ukrainians without electricity.
The Duchess of Sussex has said she was made aware of 'troubling and disturbing allegations' against her father Thomas Markle Sr in 2018, when a letter to the Metropolitan Police was shared with her. The Met Police have confirmed they are not investigating Mr Markle but are making internal inquiries into the handling of the letter. The FBI says it is aware of the allegations and will support Philippine authorities. Meghan's statement came after reports that her half-brother Thomas Markle Jr had found child sexual abuse images allegedly belonging to their father at his former home in the Philippines.
Egypt is set to authorize a defensive military deployment to Saudi Arabia, as the escalating US-Iran conflict draws in new regional actors. The move comes as Iran explicitly lists Saudi refineries, data centers and undersea cables as targets, and the New York Times reports that Washington and Israel have drawn up a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iranian nuclear and energy sites. Crude oil futures held above $100 a barrel on Friday, with Brent trading at a five-month high of $114.49.
President Donald Trump and his allies have mounted a multimillion-dollar, last-minute campaign blitz for his personal friend and golf partner Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker running for a competitive House seat in Arizona. The race, which pits Feely against Democrat Amish Shah in a wealthy Phoenix suburban district, is seen by both parties as a potential tipping point for control of the House and a rare instance of personal friendship directly shaping national political strategy.
A rescue operation was launched off Romania's Black Sea coast on Friday after the vessel Khoryv sent a distress signal 13 miles from Constanța, reportedly struck by drones. Nine of the 13 sailors on board were pulled alive from the water, one body was recovered, and three are missing.
Linda Williams, a Metropolitan police detective raped by the serial sex offender David Carrick in 2004, has settled her civil claim against the force for an undisclosed six-figure sum and called on Commissioner Mark Rowley to resign, saying the handling of her case left her feeling "controlled, abused and powerless".
Pope Leo XIV will miss a planned trip to Assisi next week after doctors advised against the helicopter journey while he recovers from surgery for lung cancer, the Vatican said on Friday. The pope, who had part of one lung removed last week, will instead send a message to the interfaith peace gathering he had been due to attend.
Verified video from Friday shows oil from a tanker damaged near the Strait of Hormuz washing ashore on beaches in the United Arab Emirates and colouring the water black, as the slick spreads towards a globally recognised biodiversity area. UAE authorities have closed beaches near the northern city of Umm Al Quwain.
US President Donald Trump has again suggested he could run for a third term in 2028, telling a rally in Iowa that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that he should therefore be allowed another run. He acknowledged the Constitution leaves little room for interpretation, but insisted his fraud allegations justified an exception.
The Greek parliament has passed a bill banning social media access for minors under 15, making Greece the latest country to introduce age limits on online platforms. The law will come into force on January 1, 2027.
An 83-year-old earl has won a High Court battle over a Wiltshire woodland, securing a permanent injunction against a traveller site owner who claimed to have bought the land and threatened to bring "50 people and 15 dogs" to confront security guards. Mr Justice Marcus Smith declared Kenneth Mackay, the fourth Lord Inchcape, the legal owner of the woods.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has condemned the "vile" racist and misogynistic abuse directed at a female Muslim police officer after she received an award for her work supporting women in policing.
South Korea's Defense Ministry on Friday proposed military talks with North Korea to confirm the precise location of their border and restore communication channels. The proposal follows a September landmine blast in the Demilitarized Zone that injured three South Korean soldiers and an escalation of military activity by the North along the border.
A British photographer is fighting a deportation order from Sweden that would separate him from his 16-month-old son, after migration authorities and a court rejected his residency application. Simon Montgomery, who moved to Sweden after Brexit, is appealing to the higher migration court, arguing he has EU freedom of movement rights because his son is a German citizen through his mother.
Thousands of Indian Muslim pilgrims remain stranded in Saudi Arabia following Houthi attacks on airport infrastructure, the Indian government confirmed on Thursday, as it faces overlapping crises involving military tensions with China, a domestic protest against Elon Musk's Starlink, and a flurry of diplomatic activity.
Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan's northeast coast on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 527, before weakening and turning north toward the Chinese coast, authorities said. A second day of office and school closures was declared across large parts of northern and central Taiwan, including Taipei, while China's eastern province of Zhejiang readied rescue crews for strong winds and heavy rain.
Israeli forces have demolished homes and businesses in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, displacing hundreds of families in an operation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would destroy the neighbourhood where two Palestinian gunmen who killed two soldiers came from. The crackdown, launched after Friday's checkpoint attack, has seen bulldozers flatten streets, military cordons restrict movement, and spray-painted markings on buildings cleared of residents. The operation is unfolding four days before Israel's general election, in which Netanyahu faces a tight race.
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has returned to Western Australia under a secret international prisoner transfer, almost four years after she was arrested in Japan with nearly two kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in her suitcase. The 60-year-old former Greens candidate, who was duped by an online love scammer, arrived in Perth on Thursday night and has been taken to a Perth prison to serve out the remainder of her six-year sentence.
A 40-year-old senior constable from Victoria Police's North West Metro region has been charged with stalking, installing a tracking device, and attempting to pervert the course of justice, following an internal police investigation.
Chad Schofield is chasing a second Cox Plate victory, having won the race as a 19-year-old apprentice in 2013. Meanwhile, former champion apprentice Tiffani Brooker is aiming for a dream comeback in the $2 million Invitation at Randwick, just months after a remarkable return to stakes-winning form.
Kerry Gregory has resigned as chief executive of Fire and Emergency New Zealand with immediate effect, after Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden publicly withdrew her confidence in him last month over an alleged year-long failure to provide her with significant information.
A GP found guilty of sexually assaulting two female patients during medical consultations remains on Australia's medical register, able to continue practising, despite facing up to 20 years' imprisonment. Deepak Shadilal Puri was convicted in the NSW District Court of two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent, with sentencing set for early December. He has lodged a notice of appeal.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is facing a difficult year, with the postponement of his flagship Future Investment Initiative summit emblematic of interlocking crises: a resurgent Houthi missile campaign, a struggling economy and a bet on Donald Trump as a reliable ally that has gone badly wrong.
The Papua New Guinea Chiefs, the expansion club entering the NRL in 2028, have approached All Blacks playmaker Damian McKenzie about switching codes for a one-year stint after the 2027 Rugby World Cup, according to reporting by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
US Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander was briefly detained by the Israeli military on Wednesday while volunteering to help Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the occupied West Bank, drawing international attention to a sharp escalation in attacks on the annual harvest. In a coordinated campaign reported across the territory, Israeli forces arrested 36 Palestinians during raids, while the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 17 attacks on farmers and their land in a single day.
Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in Sunday's snap parliamentary elections as the student-led Student List movement won 52.7 per cent of the vote, ending more than a decade of his dominance on a record turnout of nearly 70 per cent.
A fire that killed four soldiers at Canada's Wainwright military base in Alberta was sparked by a training exercise using live grenades, with shifting winds driving the flames into a second training area, according to military officials.
Europe is entering winter with historically low gas reserves and cannot withstand further supply shocks, the head of the International Energy Agency has warned, as the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts global supply chains and pushes energy prices higher across the world.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has formally endorsed Gianni Infantino for a fourth term as FIFA president, executing a spectacular U-turn just two months after joining European and North American bodies in accusing the world football chief of a 'fundamental breach of trust' over a collapsed plan to sell a stake in FIFA events to private investors. The endorsement came at an extraordinary AFC congress in Tokyo on Friday, where AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa hugged Infantino and declared the Asian family 'united in your support.'
As Russia escalates its strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure and relations between Kyiv and Washington hit an all-time low, the attritional fight for the Donbas is heading toward what analysts describe as its climax. Moscow is pressing to capture the remainder of Donetsk Oblast while Ukraine, reorganized under a new command structure, is trying to grind down Russia's offensive power before winter. In territorial terms, the Kyiv Independent's analysis says 2026 has been a year of relative success for Ukraine, but the fate of the region's last Ukrainian-held cities now hangs in the balance.
A Supreme Court jury has found former police officer Steven Frederick Johnson, 74, guilty of murdering Warrnambool father Christopher Jarvis, who vanished from his home in regional Victoria in June 2006 in what prosecutors said was a dispute over unpaid rent. Jarvis's body has never been found.
The Northern Territory parliament on Thursday passed the Country Liberal Party government's 'safe air' bill, establishing a scheme to monitor and publicly report toxic volatile organic compound emissions from gas industry operations on Darwin Harbour. Minister Joshua Burgoyne said the scheme, funded by industry, will be in place by mid-2027 with six new monitoring stations, but critics including independent MLA Justine Davis and the opposition say the bill leaves critical details to regulations, bypassing public consultation and failing to set pollution limits.
The Guardian has published new forensic analysis that challenges the murder conviction of Jeremy Bamber, who has spent 41 years in prison for the 1985 massacre of five members of his adoptive family. Forensic biologist Sue Carney-Gannon, after examining crime scene photographs for the first time, concluded that the bloodstain patterns on Sheila Caffell's body and clothing are consistent with her having taken her own life, not with a staged suicide scene as the prosecution argued.
European Union leaders will use a summit with Britain next month to press the prime minister, Andy Burnham, to increase UK support for Ukraine in 2027, as Kyiv faces a €70bn (£58bn) funding shortfall. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will make a similar request to Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, at an EU-Canada summit in Montreal next week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has broken his characteristic restraint, telling ABC News that the Trump administration's recent actions toward Kyiv are 'not supportive' as relations between the two countries hit a new low. The remarks, published on Oct. 23, come just weeks before trilateral peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States are set to resume in Abu Dhabi in November. Zelensky wryly acknowledged he was 'maybe not such a big humanitarian as Putin,' a pointed reference to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's recent description of the Russian leader.
The Federal Court has ordered Apple to allow alternative app stores and payment systems on its devices, finding the tech giant violated Australian competition law in a landmark decision that brings Fortnite back to Apple's Australian app store after a six-year absence.
Control of the United States Senate may be decided by candidates whom neither party leader wanted, according to an Axios analysis. Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are both stuck with nominees who defeated their preferred primary candidates, forcing expensive and uncertain general election battles in at least five states.
A Metropolitan Police detective who was raped by fellow officer David Carrick has publicly called for Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to resign, saying the force's handling of her legal claim re-traumatised her and that police culture has not changed. Linda Williams, 60, settled her civil case against the Met for an undisclosed six-figure sum without the force admitting liability.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will travel to Limoges on Friday, days after the city hall was set alight in the violence of October 17, as investigators arrested a second suspect in the case and the government locked in security measures ahead of a new round of Saturday protests.
Veteran Nationals MP Michelle Landry has announced she will resign from the Queensland seat of Capricornia, opening the door for Nationals leader Matt Canavan to move from the Senate to the lower house in a contest likely to pit him against One Nation's national director James Ashby.