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Police have been granted a warrant to hold two men for up to seven more days without charge as part of the ongoing investigation into an alleged terror plot linked to suspected Iranian state involvement at RAF Fairford, Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) has confirmed.
· 2 sourcesPolice have named the man shot dead in a targeted attack at a north London pub as 35-year-old Erdem Mustafa. Officers were called to the Sun and Woolpack on Hertford Road in Enfield on Monday, October 19, where Mustafa was treated for gunshot wounds but died at the scene. Detectives have released a CCTV image of a person they wish to speak to, though it remains unclear whether the individual is a man or woman, or if they are wearing a disguise.
Russian attacks on Oct. 21 struck a gas production facility in Kharkiv Oblast and critical infrastructure in Dnipro, leaving 30,000 consumers without power, local authorities reported. The strikes are part of a wider campaign targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure as winter approaches, when increased consumption puts additional pressure on a system already damaged by years of attacks.
Trump-aligned super PACs have unleashed more than $300 million into the midterm campaign, with new Federal Election Commission filings showing heavy spending in House districts that were barely competitive two years ago. The outlays include $75.5 million in the first two weeks of October, much of it routed through two new groups: No Going Back PAC and Safety & Affordability PAC, which together have reported over $209 million in independent expenditures.
Dozens of Israeli fighter jets flew to the Iranian border on Monday in what Israeli and US officials described as a training exercise and power projection operation, raising concerns about miscalculation and potential escalation ahead of Israel's October 27 elections.
New Mexico's attorney general filed a federal civil lawsuit Wednesday against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal lawyer, Darren Indyke, and his accountant, Richard Kahn, accusing them of facilitating and concealing the late financier's sex trafficking operation. The suit asks a federal judge to prevent the two men from receiving payments from Epstein's estate while the case proceeds.
· 6 sourcesAn organic recycling company has accused the Western Australian government of an over-reliance on landfill and called for stricter waste laws to recover nutrients for farming, as farmers report cost-effective benefits from compost made from organic waste.
· 4 sourcesVice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that 40 individuals have been charged in connection with more than $40 million in fraud targeting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federally funded food assistance program for low-income Americans. The announcement comes as the Trump administration highlights its anti-fraud task force, created in February, which the White House says has identified $260.7 billion in fraud across the federal government since President Trump took office.
European Public Prosecutor’s Office agents conducted searches on Wednesday morning at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, targeting the offices of the far-right Patriots group and its predecessor, the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities in the use of EU funds.
Canada’s first major liquefied natural gas export terminal, LNG Canada in Kitimat, British Columbia, has approved a US$33 billion expansion that will double production, drawing strong federal support as Ottawa seeks to diversify trade amid US tariffs. But residents and experts warn the project locks in decades of emissions and ties taxpayers to companies with records of environmental damage and alleged human rights abuses abroad.
Social mobilizations, some of them violent, have broken out in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Albania, and Germany, with certain protests explicitly drawing inspiration from the French student movement, while others are driven by housing and cost-of-living concerns.
Jailed former Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who was last week sentenced to 15 years for sexually assaulting two girls, now faces a new allegation that he raped a woman inside the DUP's Westminster offices in 2016. London's Metropolitan Police has opened an investigation after receiving an evidence file from Northern Ireland detectives.
Russia has released Stephen Hubbard, a retired American schoolteacher held for more than four years, as US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, where the Kremlin agreed to resume US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine that could begin as soon as next month. Witkoff's decision to call Putin a "humanitarian" triggered a bipartisan storm in Washington, with senators from both parties condemning the remark.
· 19 sourcesA 24-year-old Kansas man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot Donald Trump at his rally in the Wichita area on Monday, the justice department has announced. Jaden J Read, of Clearwater, Kansas, was taken into federal custody on Saturday following a Crime Stoppers tip that led authorities to Facebook posts in which he allegedly offered to kill the president.
India has deleted an estimated 130 million names from its voter rolls during a revision that began last June, a scale of elimination that elections specialists and critics describe as the largest disenfranchisement exercise in human history. The figure, cited by both the opposition and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has ignited a bitter dispute over whether the process is a routine cleanup or a politically motivated purge of communities that lean against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
A 61-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Eleanor Barnfield, the Bridgend woman who died in hospital after a car crash in which police found she had sustained puncture wounds unrelated to the collision. Clifford Foster, of Ger-y-Nant, was remanded in custody and will appear at Cardiff Crown Court on 26 October.
· 7 sourcesKing Charles III has described the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults in 1966, as the 'most tragic of days imaginable' as he joined survivors and bereaved families in the south Wales village for the 60th anniversary. The King, Queen Camilla and the Prince of Wales joined survivors and bereaved families at the Aberfan Memorial Garden on Wednesday, where wreaths were laid. BBC News reported that a minute's silence was observed on Friday morning at 09:15 BST to mark the moment the coal spoil struck the village.
· 5 sourcesReform UK has been fined more than £2,000 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare itself as the publisher of campaign material, with an additional penalty for late payment. Separately, the party has reported ITV to police over an undercover investigation that revealed racist language by party members, and is threatening legal action against the broadcaster.
· 2 sourcesThe Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's emergency request to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender inmates in federal prisons, keeping in place lower court rulings that block a new Bureau of Prisons policy from taking effect while litigation continues.
· 7 sourcesEU anti-fraud prosecutors searched the administrative offices of the far-right Patriots for Europe group in Brussels and Strasbourg on Wednesday, confirming an ongoing probe into alleged misuse of European funds by the bloc's predecessor, the Identity and Democracy group.
· 4 sourcesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated he would accept a peace deal that freezes the war with Russia along its current front lines, marking a significant shift in his public position. The comment came during a Fox News interview on Wednesday, in which he also appeared to seek warmer relations with President Donald Trump following a recent falling out.
· 3 sourcesEuropean Council President António Costa has taken over negotiations on the European Union's next long-term budget, searching for new EU-wide taxes after leaders failed to reach agreement at last week's summit. With national governments unwilling to increase their contributions, Costa is examining options ranging from taxes on large companies and digital services to levies on tobacco, carbon emissions and online gambling.
French President Emmanuel Macron concluded a two-day state visit to Qatar on Wednesday, securing a critical liquefied natural gas agreement for the winter months and urging all parties in the Gulf to exercise 'extreme caution' to avoid a resurgence of conflict. The visit, the first state visit by a French president to Doha, also deepened defence ties and underscored the strategic partnership between the two countries.
The Home Office has revoked a deportation order for a 62-year-old man who has lived in Britain for 50 years, days after his case was highlighted in the Guardian. Tony Hall, who came to the UK from Barbados aged 12 in 1976 as part of the Windrush generation, was told on Tuesday that the order was lifted after repeated attempts by officials to deport him to a country he left as a child and has not visited since.
· 2 sourcesRussia will dispatch its first tanker of diesel fuel to the United States on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced, moving ahead with a deal between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump even as Ukrainian drone strikes have slashed Russia's refining capacity by more than half. The 40,000-tonne shipment comes under a Trump-brokered agreement aimed at easing US diesel prices ahead of midterm elections, but analysts say Ukraine's sustained campaign against Russian oil infrastructure makes it unlikely Moscow can meet its export commitments.
· 2 sourcesAdvocates and family members say US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to deport severely ill detainees from Florida detention centers to unspecified African countries this week, despite worsening medical conditions and the risk of inadequate care upon arrival. The Workers Circle, an immigration advocacy group, and attorneys representing detainees revealed the planned flights at a Tuesday press conference, citing calls from detainees at facilities in south Florida.
Justice Elena Kagan has launched a blistering critique of the US Supreme Court's conservative majority, arguing that its recent rulings on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined American democracy and made the political system 'a nightmare.' Speaking at Catholic University's law school in Washington DC on Tuesday, the liberal justice warned that the court's decisions were pushing candidates toward the extremes and deepening polarization, just two weeks before the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump’s economic approval rating has fallen to 34%, the lowest across either of his terms in CNBC’s survey, as rising pessimism among Republicans strengthens Democrats’ position ahead of the November 3 congressional elections. The poll, released Thursday, October 22, found voters preferred Democratic control of Congress by 52% to 45%.
· 4 sourcesFrench President Emmanuel Macron has escalated a war of words with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing the two leaders of spreading 'stupid' and 'unacceptable' AI-generated falsehoods about last weekend's riots in France to serve their own election campaigns. Speaking in Qatar, Macron said foreign manipulation of information after the looting had led to baseless claims that France had been 'invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists.' The French president's comments come as the government admits it lost control of the streets and braces for a fresh wave of protests planned for this weekend.
· 10 sourcesQatar, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia signed a defence industry cooperation agreement in Doha on Wednesday, the latest in a series of moves by regional powers to diversify security partnerships amid the prolonged US-Israel conflict with Iran. The memorandum of understanding, named 'Badr', covers joint production, technology transfers and integrated supply chains, building on existing bilateral military projects.
A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has found hospitalisations from e-scooter incidents have more than tripled over the past five years, driven primarily by a surge in injuries among teenage boys. Boys aged 12 to 15 were 15 times more likely to end up in hospital from an e-scooter fall in 2024/25 than they were in 2019/20, and four times more likely than girls in the same age group.
· 2 sourcesIsraeli settlers have besieged Palestinian family homes in at least three parts of the occupied West Bank since early October, cutting off water, food and schooling, with one farmer in the South Hebron Hills saying he is being driven from the house he built. Human rights and settlement-monitoring groups describe the blockades as a displacement policy and evidence that law enforcement in the territory has collapsed.
Israel is weighing the asylum claims of more than 1,300 Ethiopians as war resumes in the country's northern Tigray region, reviving fears that asylum seekers will be sent back to a conflict zone. The Interior Ministry revoked group protection for Ethiopians in January 2024, and advocates say a re-interview process is now rejecting most applicants, while authorities insist there is no policy of deportation.
President Donald Trump has called on AI data center operators to pay 'dividends' to local communities to offset the environmental and energy burdens of the facilities, marking a shift ahead of the November midterm elections. In a Truth Social post, Trump warned that data centers would be mandated to generate their own electricity and sell or give excess power back to the grid, aiming to make the centers more palatable to voters.
· 2 sourcesBrad Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th congressional district, was detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday while participating in an olive harvest with Palestinian farmers. Rights groups say he and about 80 volunteers were rounded up by military and police in an area declared a closed military zone near Bethlehem.
· 7 sourcesThe Metropolitan Police have opened an investigation into an allegation that jailed former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman inside the Houses of Parliament in 2016. The force confirmed it received a report from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 13 October and that a 63-year-old man is being investigated.
· 8 sourcesHouse prices across Australian capital cities fell 4.7% in the September quarter, the steepest quarterly drop on record, according to Domain data released Thursday. Perth recorded the largest decline at 7.4%, marking the biggest quarterly fall ever for that city, as all capitals moved into negative territory for the first time in 15 years.
· 6 sourcesIreland head coach Andy Farrell has named his 36-man squad for November's Nations Championship fixtures, with uncapped Ulster duo Jamie Benson and James McNabney earning their first call-ups and Dan Sheehan confirmed as captain in the continued absence of Caelan Doris. Leinster back-row Jack Conan has been ruled out with a shoulder injury sustained in last weekend's Champions Cup win over Clermont Auvergne.
· 2 sourcesBelfast comedian Vittorio Angelone has apologised after making a rape joke referring to a woman who had publicly spoken about experiencing sexual violence. Rape crisis organisations in Northern Ireland and Dublin have condemned the comments.
· 3 sourcesIn the final sprint before Election Day, Republican state Sen. John Braun has made a ballot measure banning transgender girls from girls' youth sports a central campaign issue in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, where outside spending has topped $20 million in a contest that could help decide control of the U.S. House.
· 3 sourcesCalifornia filed a blistering response Tuesday to a Trump administration lawsuit demanding the state purge thousands of voters from its rolls, calling the action 'borders on the absurd.' The filing came as a Los Angeles County elections official submitted a court declaration finding the federal government's list of suspected noncitizen voters deeply flawed. Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against 28 lawful permanent residents accused of illegally registering or voting.
· 3 sourcesJapan's trade deficit reached a record 2.81 trillion yen ($17.8 billion) in the first fiscal half of 2026, government data showed Wednesday, as the war in Iran drove oil import prices to new highs and disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Both exports and imports hit record levels, with imports surging 20.4% year-on-year to 66.3 trillion yen, far outpacing export growth of 18.4%.
The push to pass a sweeping bipartisan permitting bill enters a critical stretch, bolstered by a new Columbia University analysis projecting major time savings for energy projects and a letter from 19 former senior officials spanning six presidential administrations, but facing fresh criticism from Representative Ro Khanna over its implications for data centre construction. The Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote on the bill immediately after lawmakers return from the midterm recess.
International mediators gathered in Geneva on Wednesday for a new round of talks aimed at ending Sudan's devastating conflict, now in its fourth year, as officials described a war increasingly defined by deadly drone strikes against civilians and a worsening famine crisis affecting millions.
The UK government has approved production at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, with ministers saying first gas could reach homes and businesses by the end of this month. A final decision on the larger Rosebank oil field off Shetland remains with the regulator, the government confirmed, pushing back on reports that it was leaning towards rejection.
· 11 sourcesDemocratic state attorneys general and allied election officials have accelerated coordination to counter any federal meddling in the November midterm elections, warning that the Trump administration's claims of voting fraud and its Justice Department actions pose a threat to a smooth vote.
The renewed diplomatic push to end the US-Israel war on Iran is facing a critical impasse, as the future of Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme has re-emerged as the primary obstacle to a ceasefire. A June Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for nuclear limits expired in mid-August without a final deal, leaving a global energy crisis and an expanding regional conflict unresolved.
Poland has sharply escalated its response to a Ukrainian region's decision to dedicate 2027 to the wartime Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and its commander Roman Shukhevych, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk calling the move "suicidal" and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski moving to place the Lviv official behind it on a list of undesirable persons. The dispute threatens to reverse an improvement in relations that President Volodymyr Zelensky said had arrived only days earlier.
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