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Prison authorities face a daunting task keeping convicted paedophile and former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson safe inside Maghaberry Prison, a former governor has warned, after the ex-politician began a 15-year sentence for child sex abuse.
Mathias Cormann, Australia's longest-serving finance minister and now head of the OECD, will warn on Saturday that populist movements will tear apart the nation's mainstream parties unless both sides of politics embrace major tax, housing and migration reforms to lift living standards. He will deliver the warning in a Brisbane speech to the right-leaning Centre for Independent Studies.
· 3 sourcesA senior doctor who raised early concerns about Lucy Letby has said he should have gone to police sooner rather than trusting hospital managers to act, in his first interview since the publication of the Thirlwall Inquiry report.
An Oregon-based influencer who played a key role in spreading false claims that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico had been admitted to a mental health facility has a long history of social media posts that invoke Nazi Germany, express antisemitism and anti-Black racism, and call for the remigration of refugees, according to a Guardian review. The hoax, which circulated widely on Sunday before being debunked by the Lindner Center of Hope psychiatric hospital in Ohio, was amplified by a staffer on the campaign of Talarico's Republican rival, Attorney General Ken Paxton.
· 2 sourcesThai authorities have uncovered an audacious scheme in which a fiberoptic cable was illegally run across the border from Thailand into Myanmar to supply an online scam compound with internet bandwidth. The cable, discovered in Kanchanaburi province, was reportedly serving an illegal border casino and a suspected scam center.
Ukraine has struck several of Yandex's largest data centers in recent days, disrupting key Russian digital services including shopping and taxi applications in major cities. The attacks come as Russia has itself targeted Ukrainian data centers in an escalating campaign against civilian infrastructure. Cloudflare reported that malicious bot traffic associated with Russian disinformation briefly dropped before migrating to other hosts.
A growing number of Jamaican directors are using film and television to confront the enduring legacy of enslavement and colonisation, with Sky's supernatural series Possession the latest example of a taboo-breaking shift in the country's screen industry.
Poland scrambled fighter jets during Russian air attacks that struck western Ukraine close to its border early Friday, as strikes across the country killed at least three people in Kharkiv and left hundreds of thousands without power in the Volyn region. The Polish armed forces said no violation of Polish airspace was recorded, but the incident is the latest in a series of tests of NATO's eastern defences.
· 2 sourcesHurricane Trudy lashed parts of Mexico's Pacific coast with heavy rain and strong winds on Sunday, as the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned of potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides. The storm, which had strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph), according to the latest NHC data. A hurricane warning remains in effect from Manzanillo, Colima, to Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco. Trudy's center is expected to stay near the coast through Sunday evening before moving south of the Baja California Peninsula. Meanwhile, Typhoon Champi passed near Guam as a Category 4 super typhoon, with sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph).
· 5 sourcesFlash floods triggered by a pre-dawn landslide have destroyed two villages in Nepal's central Gorkha district, damaged a hydropower station and stranded more than 100 foreign trekkers. The floods came two months after a catastrophic disaster near the Tibetan border, and unfold as separate extreme weather systems hit Iceland and Portugal.
A British man has been fined €3,000 (£2,500) by a Cypriot court after his two-year-old son fell to his death from a fourth-floor hotel window, in what the court heard was a tragic accident on the first day of the family's holiday.
· 7 sourcesThe prime minister is expected to announce plans to devolve decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood towards regions and towns, as Andy Burnham prepares to deliver a speech on devolution in Scotland. The visit has drawn a sharp response from the Scottish National Party, with a minister accusing the prime minister of hypocrisy over his stance on independence referendums.
· 3 sourcesAs Australia prepares for the second Test against South Africa at St George's Park, Josh Hazlewood has highlighted the crucial role of reverse swing on abrasive South African wickets, while a new analysis suggests the Proteas could replicate their 2018 batting resilience to counter Australia's formidable attack.
· 4 sourcesSeven-year-old gelding Giga Kick, winner of The Everest in 2022 and runner-up in 2024, could spring an upset in Saturday's $20 million sprint at Randwick if rain turns the track heavy, trainer Clayton Douglas has said.
· 3 sourcesThe family of Nick Bamford, who died after suffering a heart attack, is demanding an explanation after it emerged he waited almost two hours for an ambulance to be dispatched.
· 3 sourcesNearly two weeks after 28-year-old researcher Darya Shipilova died from a mysterious infection at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, health officials around the world are still waiting for answers. Russian authorities have ruled out pneumonic plague, the initial suspected cause, but have yet to identify the pathogen responsible.
· 4 sourcesA former Police Scotland sergeant convicted of a catalogue of sex crimes, including raping two women, has been jailed for 12 years. Campbell Petrie is the fourth serving or former officer from the force exposed as a rapist in five months.
· 2 sourcesFormer Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, appeared in a New York federal court on Thursday to plead not guilty to fresh charges of conspiracy to commit torture, as the US government accused them of overseeing a violent system of repression against thousands of Venezuelans.
A Reform UK councillor has resigned from two councils and left the party after an ITV undercover investigation filmed him calling Asian homeowners "parasites", as the party leadership faced fresh questions over extremism.
· 3 sourcesChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Israel to stop its "forced establishment" of settlements in the West Bank and reverse its actions, in a face-to-face meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday. Beijing called the "Palestinian question" the "greatest historical injustice of this century" and urged full access to Gaza.
· 2 sourcesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised Europe's leaders for standing by Kyiv on Friday, even as growing tensions with US President Donald Trump clouded an EU summit in Brussels focused on securing further support for Ukraine.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump has renewed his sharp criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky, saying the Ukrainian leader is 'more difficult to deal with than Putin', and calling Ukraine's resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries a 'disgrace'. The comments came as Zelensky arrived in Brussels for a summit with EU leaders, who rallied behind Kyiv and vowed to increase sanctions on Russia.
· 2 sourcesAn analysis of corporate disclosures and trade flows has found that batteries used by Volkswagen, Ford and Tesla may contain nickel mined in indigenous forests on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where satellite data shows widespread deforestation of primary rainforest.
· 2 sourcesUS President Donald Trump has said he does not intend to use nuclear weapons against Iran or foresee deploying ground troops, speaking hours after reports emerged that the US military has developed new strike plans targeting Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites using conventional weapons including the massive GBU-43/B MOAB ('Mother of All Bombs').
· 2 sourcesDoctors in Victoria are preparing for a 12-hour strike, according to breaking reports published across Nine Entertainment's mastheads on October 15, 2026.
· 4 sourcesMyanmar's military government has established a new committee to advance the normalization of its relationship with ASEAN, The Diplomat reported on October 16.
Three people have been killed in flooding in Turkey, according to news reports from Australian media outlets. The deaths were reported in articles published on Thursday, though further details remain scarce at this stage.
· 4 sourcesTropical Cyclone Wati is closing in on the Southern Cook Islands, with Aitutaki residents urged to heed official updates as the Category 1 system is forecast to pass about 100 km north of the island by Sunday morning. Damaging gale-force winds, heavy rain and high seas are expected to arrive from early Sunday.
· 3 sourcesOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson joined Labor MPs at a TikTok-hosted event in Canberra on Wednesday evening, the night before the Albanese government was set to introduce its Digital Duty of Care bill, which would force the platform to allow users to opt out of its algorithm.
· 3 sourcesThe jury in the double-murder trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has visited the Sydney home where he is accused of killing Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, as the trial continues.
· 3 sourcesPolice Scotland have named the teenager who died following a disturbance in the Milton area of Glasgow as 17-year-old Jack Mellon, and confirmed they are treating his death as murder.
Dennis John McKenna, the 81-year-old once described as Western Australia's worst serial sex predator, is weeks from release from prison, with lawyers for the state urging the Supreme Court to place him under strict monitoring as a high-risk offender.
· 4 sourcesThe UK could re-enter the European Union under a "Switzerland plus" arrangement that might be negotiated within months of any decision to deepen ties with the bloc, according to the head of a European parliament committee.
· 2 sourcesThe UK's independent anti-slavery commissioner has warned that survivors of sexual violence, including women who allege abuse by the late businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, could wrongly be denied recognition as victims of human trafficking under credibility tests in the government's immigration and asylum bill.
· 2 sourcesThe head of one of Britain’s leading business groups has urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to make repairing the economic damage of Brexit his top priority, saying the UK’s current trading relationship with the EU is not working for businesses.
· 2 sourcesFour people fighting a wildfire in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park on Indonesia's island of Java have been killed, the Forestry Ministry said, as the country contends with its worst forest fires in more than a decade.
· 2 sourcesMahmoud Khalla, a 40-year-old Palestinian from Jabalia in northern Gaza, lost 39 relatives in an Israeli airstrike on December 21, 2023, while he was out seeking food. He now visits their graves daily, a routine that helps him imagine his family is still around, according to an Al Jazeera report.
Tasmania's treasurer Eric Abetz has defended the state's revised gambling reforms before a parliamentary committee, arguing they deliver 'substantial improvements' over the current system, despite critics branding the abandonment of a promised cashless card as 'cowardly'.
· 2 sourcesThe Conservatives have called for a five-year freeze on Britain's national living wage, a move that a thinktank report says could boost youth employment by 270,000 but would cost low-paid workers almost £9,000 in lost earnings. The proposal, endorsed by shadow business minister Andrew Sharpe, has been condemned by Labour as 'tin-eared' and out of touch.
· 2 sourcesUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit the world's largest oil refinery in Jamnagar, India, owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, as the Trump administration looks for ways to bring down surging diesel prices ahead of the November midterm elections.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun to hold accountable those behind an intercepted consignment of explosives, after Hezbollah confirmed the materials were intended for attacks against Israel. Aoun assured Rubio that Lebanese security forces are fully carrying out their duties confiscating illicit arms.
· 2 sourcesA new round of United States sanctions has upended air travel to and from Iran, with a flight from Tehran to Dubai that once took under three hours and cost between $100 and $200 now taking up to 18 hours and costing more than $1,000. The disruption follows a September 23 deadline for foreign companies to stop servicing Iranian carriers.
The number of ships reporting attacks in and around the Strait of Hormuz has reached a record high, with 12 vessels struck between 5 and 11 October, the largest weekly total since the US-Israeli war with Iran began, according to BBC Verify analysis of UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) data.
· 2 sourcesRussian security services were waiting when a US deportation flight landed in Moscow in December, according to the BBC, as the number of anti-war Russians forcibly returned from Western countries rises. One deportee, identified only as Katya, said the FSB handed military papers to the men on the flight, requiring them to register with local enlistment offices.
The UK government will ban online pornography depicting strangulation, incest and adults portraying children from 6 November, following recommendations in a review of pornography regulation. Ministers say the change is intended to stop content that normalises violence against women, while campaigners have urged the government to ensure the ban is enforced.
· 3 sourcesHuman rights groups report that Youssef al-Manasif, a young Saudi man, faces imminent execution after his death sentence was upheld by the kingdom's supreme court. Arrested in 2017 at age 15, he was convicted of attending protests and funerals deemed unlawful by Saudi authorities. Activists say the case underscores Saudi Arabia's continued use of capital punishment for non-violent crimes committed by minors, despite a 2020 royal decree abolishing the practice.
Officers in the Metropolitan Police have said the force needs to move away from criminalising women involved in street sex work, as it pilots a new outreach team in north London in the wake of the Simon Levy case.
A 42-year-old employee of a defence contractor has been denied bail after allegedly being found with child abuse material during a border examination at Sydney airport. Nicholas Tyson Quinn appeared before the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday charged with two counts of possessing child abuse material.
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