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Cornell University has banned all fraternity parties for the rest of the academic year, its president announced on Tuesday, in response to a lawsuit alleging a woman was drugged and raped at a fraternity house party in 2024 and to mounting criticism of how the case was handled.
· 3 sourcesA confidential ministerial briefing note obtained through parliament reveals that about $600 million a year would be needed to fix New South Wales' shortfall of frontline public mental health staff, with an additional $700 million required for infrastructure – estimates NSW Health warned could cause reputational damage to the Minns government if made public.
Parents of children abused by nursery worker Vincent Chan have reacted with fury after it emerged he was cleared to return to work in 2021 despite significant concerns raised by a parent, a year before he filmed himself abusing three-year-old girls in his care.
· 2 sourcesIsraeli forces have pushed their Yellow Line demarcation deeper into Gaza again, moving concrete blocks dozens of metres westward in the eastern Gaza City neighbourhood of Shujayea on October 11 and forcing Palestinian families to flee once more. The advance came nearly a year after the line was drawn under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, and it further shrinks the territory where displaced Palestinians can shelter.
Bulgaria has summoned the Russian ambassador after drone strikes on two merchant ships off its Black Sea coast sank one vessel and left ten crew members missing, prompting an emergency government meeting in Sofia.
An international war game held in London to test whether the world could cooperatively govern solar geoengineering, the sun-dimming technology seen as able to cool the planet but carrying vast, unknown risks, ended in a breakdown that shocked even its own participants. The exercise, the first in a planned series, was designed to prevent an uncontrolled global race to develop the technology.
Travellers from the UK and other visa-exempt countries have been told not to apply for the EU's upcoming travel authorisation scheme, Etias, as more than 150 websites are already offering the service despite its introduction being delayed indefinitely. The travel association Abta warned that anyone using unofficial sites risks losing money and exposing personal data to identity theft.
· 2 sourcesThe British and Irish governments should engage directly with paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland to negotiate their disbandment, according to an independent report published on Tuesday. The report, commissioned by both governments and authored by Dutch conflict resolution expert Fleur Ravensbergen, concluded that a formal transition mechanism for loyalist and republican groups is viable under certain conditions, though it warned that such groups should not receive financial rewards for participating.
The Houthi rebel group has warned civilians and employees near Saudi Aramco facilities and King Khalid International Airport to evacuate, calling the sites 'a legitimate target', after Saudi-led coalition air strikes hit oil infrastructure in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The escalation follows weekend attacks on Riyadh's airport that killed at least 13 people and injured hundreds, stoking fears of a broader conflict disrupting global energy markets and air travel.
· 5 sourcesEducation Minister Erica Stanford has questioned whether the president of the country's largest education union should remain in her role, following a scathing report into how the Teaching Council allowed sex offender teacher Timothy Fisher to continue teaching despite multiple warning signs.
A 66-year-old man who killed a woman while driving his Maserati in heavy rain has been handed a 27-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.
Sexual assault and family violence against Australian children rose significantly between 2014 and 2024, with rates accelerating sharply after 2021, according to University of Sydney research published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
· 2 sourcesNew Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones has branded the fast-track approvals process for the proposed Bendigo-Ophir gold mine a 'constipated bureaucratic beast', expressing frustration that the legislation designed to accelerate resource projects has moved too slowly. He made the comments during a visit to the mine site near Cromwell on Tuesday, where he also criticised what he called 'woke, brittle, anti-mining mythology' as a group of local protesters rallied at the gate.
Afghanistan's Taliban government has suspended BBC FM radio transmissions across the country, citing "repeated violations", removing the last international news broadcaster still operating on FM inside Afghanistan.
NATO's top general has unveiled a new war plan for countering a potential Russian attack on alliance members, embedding lessons from the front lines in Ukraine. Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich outlined the 'block, blunt and break' strategy at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday, saying the plan aims to stop an invasion in its tracks rather than take enemy territory.
Australian news outlets have reported that the country is projected to face a major rise in unemployment, though the source, scale and timing of the forecast have not yet been published.
· 3 sourcesHundreds of prisoners released early across England and Wales, including stalkers and violent offenders, are not being fitted with electronic tags by outsourcing company Serco, MPs have said, undermining government promises of the 'toughest tagging regime in history'. As the second tranche of 650 offenders begins leaving prison to relieve overcrowding, police and probation officers report they are struggling to cope with the influx.
· 2 sourcesA Maltese business tycoon, Yorgen Fenech, was acquitted in September of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, leaving the question of who ordered her assassination unresolved and prompting warnings that journalists everywhere are now at greater risk.
The head of Britain's domestic intelligence service has warned that Iran is stepping up attempts to strike sensitive military targets after a series of incidents at UK airbases, a claim Tehran has denied.
The Trump administration has suspended several Indian IT companies from the US Permanent Labor Certification Program, blocking their ability to sponsor H-1B workers for green cards, in a move the White House says is aimed at protecting American jobs.
Tens of thousands of opposition lawmakers, activists and citizens marched to the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Monday, escalating protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The demonstration occurred despite a heavy-handed government crackdown, including indiscriminate arrests and police raids on hotels and hostels.
Yemeni government forces said they had captured strategic heights around the Maas camp in Marib governorate and positions north of Harib as their week-old operation Dawn of Yemen pressed on, while reports from Taiz described dozens of civilian casualties from Houthi shelling and growing food shortages in the besieged city.
· 2 sourcesRwanda has secured a 10-year deal to host a Formula One Grand Prix in the early 2030s, marking the return of the championship to Africa for the first time since 1993, President Paul Kagame announced in Kigali on Tuesday.
Russia said it could restore diesel exports to pre-crisis levels of 3.5 million tonnes a month by the end of the year, as opposition to President Donald Trump's deal allowing Russian diesel onto global markets spread to more Republican senators and analysts questioned whether the volumes would move prices at all.
· 5 sourcesIran's foreign ministry has condemned the United Kingdom's assertion that an alleged plot near RAF Fairford was directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, calling it a "clumsy false flag operation" and accusing London of trying to evade accountability for Britain's part in the war against Iran.
Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, has warned that cables, data centres and artificial intelligence facilities across the region could be attacked if war with the United States erupts again. The warning follows the seizure of Yemeni territory along the Red Sea coastline last month by Iran-backed Houthis, raising fears for the safety of internet cables that carry more than 90 percent of data capacity between Europe and Asia.
The head of MI5 has confirmed that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum through social media trolls and biased reporting by state-owned broadcasters, but said the efforts were unsophisticated and had no impact on the outcome.
· 3 sourcesA former Metropolitan Police officer specially trained in sexual offences investigation techniques has gone on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of rape and sexual assault against a woman he allegedly abused over about two years while serving with the force.
Wildlife rescuers across New South Wales and parts of Victoria are responding to a mass starvation event among grey-headed flying foxes, with vulnerable bats arriving exhausted, emaciated and unable to fly back to their camps.
· 2 sourcesForces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government have carried out nine air strikes on Houthi positions in Taiz governorate, as rights groups report that Houthi shelling killed at least five civilians and injured 17 others in the past 24 hours.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has said she plans to move out of her Washington, DC apartment after federal agents raided her home last week as part of an immigration investigation, because her address has been made public and she faces death threats. The Minnesota Democrat, who is seeking reelection on November 3, told MS Now in an interview aired Wednesday that she cannot continue to live there and must find somewhere new. The raid, which Omar has called a politically motivated attack, occurred three weeks before the midterm elections and has drawn condemnation from top Democrats.
· 5 sourcesFifty years after cultural historian Naseem Khan published her groundbreaking report 'Arts Britain Ignores', which called on the British arts establishment to recognise and support the creativity of ethnic minority communities, the question of who and what counts as British remains fiercely contested. The report's legacy will be marked on Wednesday at a conference in Leicester, where the new chair of Arts Council England, Dawn Airey, will deliver her inaugural speech.
Russian ballistic missiles struck the Darnytska CHP-4 power plant, a key energy facility supplying Kyiv with heating and electricity, and a residential building late on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, killing one person and wounding 13. Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine received no early warning from allies about the attack, calling the lack of warning "absolutely unjust."
· 3 sourcesThe AFL has ordered its official gambling partner, Sportsbet, to stop using players in AI-generated social media content without their permission, and to delete videos that depicted AFL stars reciting lines from movies, television shows and speeches.
· 2 sourcesThe Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the government to provide a timeline for the return of Palestinians displaced from three northern West Bank refugee camps, setting November 23 as the deadline for a response. More than 33,000 people remain forcibly displaced from Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, and two senior ministers have publicly rejected the ruling.
Miriam González Durántez, the Spanish lawyer married to former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, has launched a new centrist, liberal party in Spain, vowing to clean up politics and give voters an alternative to the ruling Socialists and the conservative opposition ahead of next month's snap general election.
The White House has formally asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece, press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed Tuesday in her debut briefing, ending a tenure of less than a year that came under mounting scrutiny over ethics allegations reported by the Wall Street Journal.
· 8 sourcesKimberly Guilfoyle has resigned as US ambassador to Greece after the Trump administration asked her to leave her post amid allegations of improper and possibly illegal conduct. Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host and ex-wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, denied the claims and said she would "vigorously defend" herself.
· 8 sourcesHungary's parliament has voted to amend child protection laws, scrapping measures introduced under former prime minister Viktor Orbán that stigmatised gay and transgender people. The vote on Tuesday marks a further step by the new Tisza government of Péter Magyar to dismantle the legacy of the previous Fidesz administration.
· 2 sourcesUkraine's recent strikes on Russian data centres have prompted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to claim that Moscow's bot networks have been degraded, resulting in less online hate and division. However, BBC Verify reports that experts have found no evidence the attacks significantly reduced Kremlin-linked influence operations, and that viral social media claims to the contrary appear to stem from a misinterpretation of technical data.
Pat Cummins has indicated Matt Renshaw could move back up the batting order for the second Test after the left-hander produced a career-best 190 and 82 in a 214-run demolition of South Africa in Durban. Josh Hazlewood's six-wicket haul sealed the win, and Cummins praised the team's flexibility as they prepare for the next match in Gqeberha from Sunday.
· 8 sourcesThe Philippine House of Representatives has passed a bill that would restrict social media access for minors, according to a report from The Diplomat. The legislation, which now moves to the Senate for consideration, is the latest in a wave of similar efforts worldwide aimed at protecting children from online harms.
The Trump administration has removed more than 750,000 enrollees from Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces, the one relief initiative it has completed amid a flurry of stalled pre-midterm promises, according to a Guardian analysis.
A new book argues that the prosecution of Black journalist William Worthy in 1962 under President John F. Kennedy's administration set a precedent for later governments, including Donald Trump's, to use obscure legal provisions to punish political dissidents. Worthy, a distinguished international correspondent, was charged with violating a little-known requirement in the Immigration and Nationality Act after re-entering the United States without a passport following a reporting trip to Cuba.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reopened the debate on Brexit, declaring that the post-Brexit status quo with Europe is ‘not good enough for Britain’. The statement, reported by BBC News, marks the first time a UK leader has actively sought to revisit the issue after years of near-silence from Westminster.
Former boxing world champion Joe Cordina is standing trial for assault by beating after an incident at a Texaco garage in Cardiff in February, with a prosecutor telling the court he was retaliating rather than defending himself.
· 2 sourcesA coronial inquest into the death of William Chapman, the 24-year-old former child star killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, has heard that he had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a history of psychosis. The inquest at Doncaster Coroner's Court on Thursday also confirmed his official cause of death as multiple traumatic injuries sustained during the attack. The park has since reopened to the public.
· 4 sourcesAbout 4,700 people were evacuated from offices in the City of London on Tuesday after a ruptured gas main caused a major leak on Old Broad Street, forcing a large cordon and a multi-agency emergency response before the incident was declared resolved.
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