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Hours after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay has condemned as 'unheard of' and 'unacceptable' the sweeping US sanctions imposed on the ICC, as the court's member states and the United Nations rallied to its defence.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Brussels on Friday against the Belgian federal government's austerity plans, as clashes broke out near Brussels Central station and police responded with tear gas, water cannon and baton charges.
The chief executive of the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency is facing calls to resign after the statistics regulator found that surveys she cited did not support her claim that more than 90 per cent of coastguard rescue officers backed a controversial plan to remove their pay.
Sagal Abdi-Wali, who fled war-torn Somalia as a seven-year-old and went on to become the first Black female leader of Camden council, has been elected Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, replacing former Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the north London constituency.
Oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz are being attacked almost daily, with 11 vessels struck in the week ending October 4 — the highest weekly tally since the war began — as Iran escalates efforts to disrupt crude exports. Another five tankers have come under fire this week, and at least nine sailors have died since July, according to UN and industry data.
Nightclub owners in Perth's Northbridge entertainment precinct say the state government's proposed noise caps are so restrictive that no venue will voluntarily comply, warning the new regulations would effectively silence the area's nightlife.
King Charles III paid £1.5 million ($2.8 million) from his private income to cover costs owed by his brother, the former prince Andrew, after he vacated the Royal Lodge near Windsor Castle, the Crown Estate has confirmed.
The Trump administration has imposed sweeping financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), targeting the tribunal itself rather than individual officials and banning US transactions with the court after a six-month grace period. The court condemned the measures as an assault on the rule of law, and the move drew immediate criticism from allies. The announcement landed hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay received the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
More than 100 humanitarian, human rights and civil society organisations, including Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children, say the Gaza ceasefire reached a year ago with US backing exists only on paper, with Israeli forces still killing Palestinians daily and restrictions on aid preventing recovery.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, causing building collapses in several towns and triggering tsunami warnings that have since been cancelled for Pacific islands, including Hawaii, Guam and American Samoa. No casualties have been reported, but the US Geological Survey said about 4.6 million people felt moderate to severe shaking.
President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, ending her week-long tenure after a turbulent debut marked by questions over her legal credentials and a confusing exchange about the bar exam. Trump told reporters he had suggested Zacharia reconsider the role, saying she did not need the job, and White House officials confirmed she is transitioning out and will leave in the coming days.
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Malaysia ordered schools closed across Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and several states on Friday as smoke from Indonesian forest fires pushed air pollution to unhealthy levels, disrupting the education of roughly two million students and raising regional alarm.
Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial bombardments of the war, using more than 1,000 drones to strike Russian oil depots, logistics centres and data hubs overnight. The attack came as a Trump-declared 'energy ceasefire' quickly unravelled, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of continuing strikes on Ukraine's power grid and US President Donald Trump pausing a new sanctions package on Russia.
A man who murdered his wife with a hammer and hid her body in a chest freezer while telling family and friends she was ill in hospital has been jailed for life. David Barraclough, 46, killed Carolann Barraclough at their home in Horbury, near Wakefield, in February and then spent about two weeks trying to cover up the crime.
The Metropolitan Police have imposed strict conditions on a large pro-Palestine march planned for Saturday in central London, warning that anyone wearing a face covering faces arrest and that there will be zero tolerance for hate crime. Up to 10,000 people are expected to attend the National March for Palestine, which marks three years since the Gaza war began. A counter-protest organised by the pro-Israel group Stop the Hate is also planned, as the force braces for half a dozen demonstrations across the capital over the next week.
The European Union has announced support for 46 new strategic projects aimed at accelerating supplies of critical raw materials by 2030, as the bloc moves to head off a potential trade crisis with China. Industry commissioner Stéphane Séjourné warned that trade tensions could trigger a crisis in multiple sectors within months.
More than 120 First Nations people, including Yolngu woman Fiona Dhawunymurruwuy, will be evicted from an emergency housing facility in Darwin on Sunday after the Northern Territory government declined $6.5m to keep it open, a decision it called a waste of taxpayers' money.
The Victorian Nationals are defending their seats against a surging One Nation, with polls showing the far-right party’s support hovering around 20 per cent statewide and even higher in regional areas. Internal Labor polling leaked in June suggested the Nationals could face a wipeout at November's state election, and another poll commissioned by Trades Hall projected the party losing at least three seats to Pauline Hanson's party.
President Donald Trump has formally created a 'committee of inquiry' to investigate allegations that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook made false statements concerning mortgage instruments, the White House announced Friday, marking a new escalation in Trump's ongoing efforts to remove the Biden appointee from the central bank's board.
Some Kyiv residents are choosing to leave the Ukrainian capital rather than face another winter of Russian strikes and power cuts, the BBC reports. Among them is Mariia Shostak, a mother of two who says last year's sub-zero temperatures and frequent blackouts were unbearable, and she will not put her young children through it again.
Nic Maddinson, returning to Test cricket after a decade and recovery from testicular cancer, managed only a 33-ball duck on day one of the first Test against South Africa in Durban, the third longest such start by an opener in Test history. The performance underscored ongoing concerns about Australia's batting stability, as the tourists continued a pattern of first-innings vulnerabilities.
Ethiopia has told the UN Security Council that Eritrea launched an 'all-out invasion' of its northern Tigray region, warning it will defend itself, as drone strikes reportedly hit Eritrean troops deep inside Ethiopian territory. Eritrea denies the charge and says it is facing 'an unprovoked war of aggression' from its neighbour, raising fears of a wider regional conflict.
Two Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen from a museum on the French Riviera last month have been recovered damaged behind a false wall in a private home, prosecutors said on Monday, revealing that the arrests of six suspects came as police believed a second art heist was imminent.
A father in his 50s and his 15-year-old son remain in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed multiple times by two masked men who broke into their family home in Thurnby, Leicestershire. Police have described the attack as completely unprovoked.
US Vice-President JD Vance has cast doubt on the Pentagon's plan to livestream the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, saying he does not know if it will happen and that he will not watch. The United Nations has condemned the proposal as 'abhorrent', warning that broadcasting the killing would breach the absolute prohibition of torture.
The US Navy has committed an additional $150 million to Shield AI's X-BAT autonomous vertical take-off and landing fighter drone, bringing combined government and company investment to $400 million. The aircraft, designed to operate without runways, is scheduled to begin flight testing later this year with mission capability planned for 2028.
Brazil's general elections on Sunday delivered a strong right-wing wave, with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly defeating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first-round presidential race by approximately two percentage points. The two now head to a runoff on October 25 after Bolsonaro's Liberal Party also made gains in congressional and gubernatorial contests, upending pre-election polls that had projected Lula in the lead.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall in Florida's western panhandle on Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h), after weakening from its earlier Category 3 strength. The storm is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, flooding and damaging winds as it moves inland across Alabama and into the Tennessee Valley through the weekend.
A doctor accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide is set to stand trial in London next year. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Vincent Bajinya, faces one count of conduct ancillary to genocide and six charges of conduct ancillary to murder as a crime against humanity. He is the first person in the UK to have been charged over the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
Montenegro has arrested Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the influential pro-Kremlin Rybar war blog, on suspicion of spreading Russian influence, a case Prime Minister Milojko Spajić linked to warnings that the country would face attempts at destabilisation and hybrid warfare.
Meta has removed a parody video by Mumbai-based stand-up comic Brijesh Jha that criticised India's top election official over the removal of more than 130 million voters from electoral rolls, a process that has sparked nationwide protests and accusations of political manipulation.
Elderly Americans stand to lose an average of $2,152 in annual Social Security benefits, an 8.6% reduction by 2034, if the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies continue, according to a new report commissioned by America's Voice and conducted by Economic Insights and Research Consulting. The study, shared exclusively with the Guardian, projects economic fallout from the abrupt departure of 1.2 million foreign-born workers over the past two years.
The host of the next UN climate summit, Turkey, has called on wealthy countries to spend far more on tackling the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence, arguing that 'the climate issue is the security issue'. However, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, stopped short of committing to repeat the previous agreement to 'transition away from fossil fuels', suggesting the world is 'already in a transition' and that fossil fuel use could be addressed indirectly through other steps. Kurum spoke at a pre-Cop meeting in Nadi, Fiji, this week, where only 13 national leaders attended, most from the Pacific.
Labour has won a second London by-election in as many days, with candidate Molly Hartill taking 46.7% of the vote to hold the Myatt's Fields ward in Lambeth, providing fresh evidence of a so-called 'Burnham bounce' under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
A Kyiv resident has decided to move to the Ukrainian countryside as Russian attacks on the country's power grid intensify and winter approaches, leaving many without electricity and heating.
Okinawa's prefectural assembly has called for a review of the agreement governing United States military forces in Japan, after a US Marine was accused of killing a local woman. The resolution, adopted on Friday, will be sent to the US embassy and the Japanese government.
Yorkshire officially entered drought status on Friday after recording its fifth driest April to September period on record, the Environment Agency said, with low water levels in reservoirs and rivers triggering the move despite recent rainfall.
India has condemned comments by US Vice President JD Vance as 'deeply offensive' after he described Indian workers on H-1B visas as 'foreign indentured servants,' while the Trump administration suspended several major technology companies from a key permanent residency program.
Masked thieves have stolen about 30,000 bottles of wine worth roughly €5m (£4.2m) from a storage facility run by Marchesi Antinori, one of Italy's oldest family-owned wineries, in what the company's chief executive describes as the largest wine theft ever recorded in the country.
Hurricane Isaias could be the first major test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's ability to deploy a large surge workforce after sweeping cuts and restructuring under the Trump administration, emergency management experts say. Gulf state officials have declared states of emergency in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, while Fema says it is pre-positioning supplies and personnel.
A man who repeatedly stabbed his ex-partner in the chest and then fled, triggering a four-day manhunt, has been jailed for 24 years. James McKenna, 58, attacked Joanne Sidaway, 49, in the bushes of Carmarthen Park in January before hiding in a nearby wood without food or water for three days.
At least 24 vehicles were set ablaze and foreign-owned shops looted as anti-immigration protests turned violent in South Africa's Soweto and Durban on Thursday, police said. The unrest follows a court ruling that would allow some migrants who entered the country illegally to apply for asylum, and the government has announced it will change how it complies with the ruling.
Kalyn Ponga will pull on the New Zealand jersey for the first time in Thursday's Rugby League World Cup opener against Australia, after a change to State of Origin eligibility rules allowed the Newcastle Knights star to represent the country of his heritage.
A friend of convicted Snowtown killer James Vlassakis has offered a rare insight into his plans for a new life, after Vlassakis took his first steps back into the community.
A man with a history of domestic abuse has admitted murdering his former partner in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick. Lee Inglis, 39, pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh to stabbing Stacey Hogg, 35, to death in her home earlier this year.
Lifestyle and fitness entrepreneur Sam Wood has been refused bail on domestic violence charges and moved to a high-security prison in Brisbane, after his step-daughter contacted Queensland police alleging he strangled his wife.