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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made a public appearance at a clothing and footwear expo in Pyongyang, state media reported, in an apparent attempt to quash the latest round of online rumours that he had died. Photos published on Tuesday show the 42-year-old inspecting a pale pink sneaker held by his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, 13, after days of speculation driven by posts on X.
British musician Lily Allen has cancelled her Auckland concert hours before it was due to start, citing a viral infection, just two days before the Australian leg of her tour was set to begin. Tour promoter Frontier said on Wednesday that Allen is resting and intends to complete the Australian dates as scheduled.
Brussels is looking to Canada, Britain and Japan to help cover a €70 billion bill to keep Ukraine funded, with closer trade and defence ties reportedly part of the pitch as Washington's support looks increasingly uncertain.
The UK government borrowed £24.5bn in September, a higher than expected deficit that pushed total debt through £3tn for the first time, as rising inflation lifted the monthly interest bill to a record, adding pressure on chancellor John Healey before his first budget next Wednesday.
Pakistani authorities have arrested Faheem Akram, the 33-year-old suspect accused of orchestrating a $126 million counterfeit postage scheme that defrauded the US Postal Service, a senior official at the country's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency confirmed on Tuesday. Investigators seized 16 bank accounts linked to the operation, which has been running since August 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on October 26 that peace talks targeting an end to the Russia-Ukraine war are set to restart, according to a report from Al Jazeera. The announcement comes days after US envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin freed an American captive as a goodwill gesture and discussed an updated ceasefire proposal.
The Australian Federal Police has warned that teenagers are being radicalised online in a matter of days, telling a parliamentary committee that social media networks are grooming, blackmailing and turning vulnerable young people into perpetrators of serious crimes.
A 74-year-old Kyneton antiques dealer has been convicted and fined $10,000 after Victoria's Conservation Regulator found more than 700 dead native animals and 15 live reptiles during a raid on his home and antique store.
New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise human composting, with the state parliament passing a private member's bill that will allow bodies to be transformed into soil. Several MPs declared during debate that they would choose the process, known legally as terramation, for themselves after death.
A major data breach has hit the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), releasing hundreds of thousands of internal emails and sensitive documents online. The leak comes as Germany's Interior Ministry prepares for nationwide Generation Z protests later this month, spurred by burning barricades and violence seen in France, raising concerns about a spillover of unrest across the border.
The EU is preparing to press Canada and the United Kingdom to increase their support for Ukraine, aiming to help close the €70 billion funding gap Kyiv faces next year. The push comes ahead of the EU-Canada summit on 29-30 October and the EU-UK summit on 20 November, as Brussels looks beyond its own budgets to non-EU allies.
US peace envoy Steve Witkoff travels to St. Petersburg on Wednesday to present Russian leaders with the proposals tabled by Ukrainian and European negotiators in Oslo, after Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Washington had restored early-warning intelligence on Russian missile strikes and Donald Trump suggested someone other than Ukraine's president should represent Kyiv in peace talks.
All passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the KMP Batumandi ferry after it caught fire on Tuesday as it approached Merak Port in Banten province, western Indonesia. Authorities reported no deaths.
A fragile ceasefire has brought intermittent quiet to the Strait of Hormuz, but for the Iranians living and working on its shores and islands, the war continues to shape their daily reality. Attacks on shipping persist, livelihoods have been shattered, and the sounds of explosions are a nightly routine, as The Guardian reports from Bandar Abbas and Hormuz Island.
Foreign Policy's Southeast Asia Brief finds that Myanmar's Shan state now dominates regional methamphetamine production, with sales worth between $48.1 billion and $74.8 billion a year, while the United States holds talks with the Myanmar junta in Tokyo and Indonesia's stock market posts its worst day since 1998.
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has called President Donald Trump's tariffs on US allies 'a disaster' and 'pro-inflation,' warning that the trade fights with Canada and Europe could cost Republicans control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.
The family of Brian Stack, the chief prison officer murdered by the IRA in 1983, received a state apology in the Dáil on Wednesday for what the Taoiseach called “utterly unacceptable” failures in three separate Garda investigations into his killing. The Stack brothers walked out of the chamber when Sinn Féin representatives spoke, saying the party’s leader, Mary Lou McDonald, had not “dignified and respected” their family by attending.
A fifth foreign company has pulled out of a plan to build a cable car connecting West and East Jerusalem, a project critics say threatens Palestinian homes and heritage in occupied territory, while Israeli authorities insist the scheme is proceeding as planned.
A detailed analysis of Knesset votes over the past two years shows that Israel's centrist and right-wing opposition parties have consistently voted alongside the governing coalition on legislation affecting Palestinians, with only Arab-led parties and a small left-wing faction offering consistent opposition.
Australian Federal Police have warned that the country faces a 'tsunami of youth crime' as artificial intelligence speeds up the radicalisation of young people from months to days, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Beau Lamarre-Condon, the NSW police officer on trial for the murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, played Taylor Swift's No Body, No Crime while driving a van during an alleged attempt to dispose of the two bodies, the NSW supreme court has heard.
A new opinion poll published Tuesday has upended expectations for Sunday's snap parliamentary election in Serbia, placing the student-led 'Student List-Students Win' coalition ahead of President-turned-prime ministerial candidate Aleksandar Vučić's long-dominant Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The survey by independent pollster New Serbian Political Thought gave the Student List 44.5 percent of the vote against the SNS's 42.7 percent, marking the first time an opposition list has led a national poll in over a decade. The findings underscore the threat posed by a protest movement sparked by a deadly railway station canopy collapse in Novi Sad, which has now coalesced into the most serious challenge Vučić has faced in his 12 years in power.
According to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday, Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink satellite service used by Ukraine, capping speeds and rendering some drones virtually inoperable. The report, citing U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter, stated that Musk discussed the decision with President Donald Trump soon after it became public.
Bestselling author Bonnie Garmus has released her second novel, 'Peck & Peck', shifting from the 1960s lab of her debut to the chaotic halls of a 1980s publishing house. Reviewer Tom Ryan describes it as another screwball classic that explores duality, respect, and the clash between art and commerce.
More than 300 university students and staff marched on Parliament House on Wednesday to protest the proposed merger of three Western Australian universities, as the Liberal party formally rejected the plan and Labor faced a steep climb to pass the necessary legislation through the upper house.
Fire chiefs have warned MPs that the UK’s ability to fight wildfires is being undermined by water shortages, after a record summer of drought and heat forced emergency services to change their response plans.
Vice President JD Vance defended an Ohio campaign ad that uses Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton's estranged mother to attack her character, telling reporters on Wednesday that whether the ad was appropriate 'is not really my concern', instead directing focus on who will govern. The ad, produced by Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, features Donna Arthur accusing her daughter of lying about her past, though Arthur lost custody of Acton when she was a child and the two have not spoken since 1978.
Independent MP Helen Haines has had both legs amputated and remains in a critical condition in hospital, two days after police allege a man deliberately rammed her with a four-wheel drive outside her electorate office in Wangaratta. A man charged over the incident faced court on Wednesday and her community gathered for a vigil, where her predecessor urged residents not to retreat from public life.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch will not bring criminal charges against the officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June, her office announced Monday, as newly released police video showed the chaotic moments before the shooting outside a Senatobia Walmart.
Romania swore in a new cabinet on Tuesday, ending a months-long political impasse, after parliament backed a government led by independent diplomat Luca Niculescu. Niculescu, 55, won 280 votes in favour and 58 against, and plans to start work immediately with a large budget deficit at the top of his agenda.
A motorbike rider has been injured in a collision with a truck on Auckland's Southern Motorway (SH1), with emergency services at the scene and two northbound lanes closed.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has revealed that last week's callout to a Christchurch chemical company involved a reported spill of 200 litres of trichloroethylene, a carcinogenic industrial degreaser, but the company disputes the account, saying no spill occurred and one of its workers simply tripped and fell.
Russian drone attacks overnight on Oct. 20–21 killed two elderly residents in Kharkiv Oblast and struck a university building in Poltava Oblast, causing injuries and damage, local authorities reported.
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday passed a legislative package that will restrict overnight parking for unpermitted RVs and vehicles to two hours, while simultaneously creating a permit program and funding new outreach positions and shelter space to address the city's homelessness crisis.
A University of Arizona sorority member has told campus police she was sexually assaulted by two men at a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house during a night of drinking in late August, according to search warrant records released on Monday night.
The small industrial city of Springfield, Ohio, has become a central stage for the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign, dividing a community reshaped by Haitian immigration just as the midterm elections heat up. The recent death of a young Haitian man ordered to wear an ankle monitor has intensified a national debate over the human cost of immigration enforcement.
Thousands of demonstrators have poured back into two central squares in Portugal for renewed protests against the country's housing crisis, hours after police cleared their camps in Lisbon and Porto and arrested 55 people. The overnight operations in both cities on Tuesday drew condemnation from activists, who accused officers of being overly aggressive, while police defended the evictions as calm and proportionate.
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor is pouring $4 million into an ad featuring his rival's estranged mother attacking her daughter, doubling down on the deeply personal strategy despite fierce bipartisan backlash, the campaign confirmed to Axios.
Police in New Zealand are searching for Cain Te-Kahurangi Hanara, a 22-year-old prisoner considered dangerous, after he failed to return to custody following compassionate bail. A warrant has been issued for his arrest and police believe he is in the wider Auckland area.
Around 8,000 university and polytechnic staff across New Zealand walked off the job on Wednesday afternoon, striking over pay and job security in what the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) described as a coordinated industrial action unprecedented in scale. The strike ran from 1:15pm to 5pm, with union leaders saying no employer had offered wages that kept pace with inflation.
Police in Canterbury have seized hundreds of 3D printed guns, parts and ammunition in a raid on a Kaiapoi address, with a 45-year-old man now facing a dozen firearms charges.
David Fifita has conceded he came close to walking away from the NRL during a harrowing period of his career, but is now preparing to make his Australian debut at the Rugby League World Cup. The South Sydney Rabbitohs forward credits his resurgence to a reunion with coach Wayne Bennett and a strong support system that helped him through a deeply personal low point.
President Donald Trump has granted a sanctions waiver for Russian diesel supplies, throttled Ukraine's access to battlefield satellite systems, and called for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's ouster, moves the Kremlin is celebrating as a decisive shift in the war. Ukrainian officials say the decisions send a wrong signal to the aggressor and threaten Ukraine's survival.
Taiwan has deported a Chinese exchange student who posted a video making it appear he was pinching President Lai Ching-te during a speech at National Taiwan University. The National Immigration Agency revoked the student's entry permit on October 16 and banned him from Taiwan for five years.
The man accused of driving a four-wheel drive into independent MP Helen Haines did not apply for bail and will remain in custody until February, a court has heard. Police have revealed they had no prior intelligence about Brendan Nugent, as federal authorities confirm threats against parliamentarians have risen fourfold this decade.
A federal judge in San Antonio on Tuesday sentenced Guatemalan national Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco to 30 years in prison for his role in the 2022 human smuggling operation that left 53 migrants dead inside a tractor-trailer. Miranda-Orozco, 39, pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy and aiding and abetting human smuggling offenses resulting in death and serious bodily injury. Authorities have called the tragedy the deadliest human smuggling event in U.S. history.
A Guatemalan man has been sentenced to 30 years in a United States prison for his role in a human-smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants trapped in a sweltering truck near San Antonio, Texas, in June 2022.
A person was shot on the George Washington Bridge on Tuesday night, prompting police to close all New York-bound lanes on the upper level and divert traffic to the lower roadway.