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RNZ has investigated why Māngere, a South Auckland suburb, records one of the lowest voter turnouts in New Zealand. The report, by journalist Ke-Xin Li, explores the reasons behind the persistently low participation rate in the electorate.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will take Britain back into the European Union, as Burnham faces escalating debate over his plans for a major reset of UK-EU relations including next month's Brussels summit.
· 4 sourcesActor Selma Blair was taken into custody late on Sunday night at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport after she was accused of being physically abusive toward two Delta Air Lines flight attendants and injuring them, authorities said.
· 9 sourcesHome Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a public inquiry into the deaths of two men killed during an attack at a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur last year, following a request from the coroner.
· 2 sourcesBritish Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ignited a political firestorm by naming Russian state agencies as key culprits in trying to influence the 2016 Brexit referendum, prompting Leave campaigners to cry foul, Remain supporters to hail the admission, and senior Labour figures including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and MP Emily Thornberry to step up calls for Britain to rejoin the European Union.
· 6 sourcesA South Korean cosmetic surgery company has cancelled a two-day Sydney event where prospective patients were due to meet Korean doctors, after the ABC raised questions about whether the doctors were allowed to practise in Australia. The cancellation has renewed warnings from Australia's peak plastic surgery body about the risks of travelling overseas for procedures.
· 2 sourcesKing Island District School will receive a $5 million upgrade, including a roof over its outdoor court and new bathrooms, funded by returns from the Tasmanian government's stake in the island's tungsten mine. The investment follows a letter from three students who said the court was unusable for half the year due to slippery conditions.
· 4 sourcesHome Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced the immediate expansion of police support to political figures who are not current MPs, including peers, former MPs and party spokespeople, and ordered an independent review of security arrangements for high-profile public figures following the murder of Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe.
· 4 sourcesThe head of Egypt's Journalists Syndicate, Khaled Elbalshy, has vowed to keep fighting for press freedom after the union came under fire for defending six journalists detained last month and charged with joining a "terrorist" group, while separately filing a complaint alleging the detainees were tortured.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered the first review of NYPD use-of-force policies in a decade and introduced a package of reforms, responding to renewed pressure from progressives for police accountability.
Australian engineer Robert Pether has been reunited with his family in Dublin after finally being allowed to leave Iraq, more than five years after his arrest on fraud charges he and his family long argued were trumped-up.
Smart glasses are giving blind and deaf Australians a new level of independence, yet the same devices are at the centre of a fractious political debate over privacy, with the Greens moving to introduce a 12-month import ban in the Senate today.
The Climate Council has warned that coal and gas mines are exploiting a loophole in Australia's Safeguard Mechanism to expand operations and add emissions without facing the stricter pollution limits applied to new projects, urging the government to close the gap ahead of a scheduled review next year.
· 2 sourcesEthiopian government forces have entered the strategic northwestern Tigray town of Adwa without a fight, residents said, a day after fighters from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) withdrew, extending a federal advance that has already retaken the regional capital Mekelle.
Australia's health system is unprepared for a coming wave of elderly patients, with projections showing a 411 per cent increase in patients aged 85 and over presenting to emergency departments by 2050, according to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine's State of Emergency 2026 report. The report, released at Parliament House in Canberra, warns that older patients are routinely left in hospital corridors to deteriorate while waiting for a bed, putting them at greater risk of death within seven days of presentation.
· 6 sourcesA six-year-old boy died after falling into the road and being struck by a van while playing on his bike near his home in Llanfairfechan, an inquest has heard. Harrison Jones was playing with a friend when the incident happened at about 17:30 BST on 1 October. Denbighshire Coroner's Court was told he was hit by a passing Ford Transit tipper van, and a post-mortem examination found he died from severe head injuries.
· 2 sourcesHurricane Isaias has killed four people and left more than 650,000 without power in Florida, with the city of Pensacola among the hardest-hit areas. Officials are warning of additional flooding from heavy rainfall as the storm moves through the region.
In Arizona's sixth congressional district, Democrats are betting that nearly two decades of Marine service will help JoAnna Mendoza unseat Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani, a race that could help decide control of the US House in next month's midterm elections.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told MPs he will push for new post-Brexit agreements with the European Union at a bilateral summit in Brussels next month, warning that EU plans to protect European industry from Chinese competition pose "a risk to UK manufacturing."
· 2 sourcesThe International Court of Justice is expected to rule later this year on whether Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya, a decision that would mark the first time in the court’s 80-year history that a state has been held responsible for the crime. As the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) prepares to gather foreign ministers in Baghdad on October 17, the founder of the Burma Human Rights Network has called on member governments to take concrete steps to protect the Rohingya rather than issuing further communiqués.
Police in southern France have detained a 14-year-old student suspected of shooting and wounding his middle school principal and teacher with a hunting rifle he hid in a guitar case, local officials said on Monday. A third person was grazed in the incident at Joseph Lakanal Middle School in Aubagne, near Marseille.
An alleged air strike on a gold mining site in northern Sudan has killed at least 72 workers, according to a Khartoum-based rights group, underscoring the severe security vacuum along the lawless, disputed border region with Egypt. Egypt has not responded to the accusations.
· 2 sourcesElon Musk has contributed at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, bringing his total known federal political giving for the 2025-26 cycle to roughly $366 million and making him the biggest known donor of the 2026 midterm election, according to figures released by his representatives and reported by The New York Times. The largest share, $158 million, went to the Senate Leadership Fund, the main super PAC backing Republican Senate candidates.
· 4 sourcesThe head of the International Energy Agency says the world is facing its biggest energy crisis ever, driven by the US-Israel war on Iran and the resulting disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway carrying about 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas.
Thousands of Indian opposition lawmakers and supporters are marching to the Supreme Court in Delhi on Monday to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of orchestrating voter fraud. The protest follows a contentious revision of electoral rolls that the opposition says is designed to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Authorities have deployed thousands of security personnel and barricaded roads across the capital.
· 2 sourcesKing Charles III, Queen Camilla and Prince William will visit the south Wales village of Aberfan on 21 October to mark the 60th anniversary of the disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults, joining survivors, bereaved parents and the community in tribute.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to identify soldiers and officers interviewed in the documentary NAZA and prosecute them, accusing the film of harming Israel's diplomatic and security interests.
Alvaro Pulido, a businessman wanted by US authorities for years over alleged bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts, has been taken into US custody and is scheduled to appear in a Miami court on Tuesday.
Chris Bruni-Lowe, Nigel Farage's private pollster for many years, played an influential role at the national polling firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies even though he was never publicly associated with it, the Guardian has revealed. Several former employees say Bruni-Lowe helped run its operations and sometimes went by the name 'Chris Redfield'.
A teenager was killed and dozens of people injured on Monday when unexploded ordnance exploded near the Lebanese border in northern Israel, striking students and staff from a religious high school on an outing, the Al Jazeera news network reported.
· 2 sourcesThe UK government has formally accused Iran of orchestrating the security incident at RAF Fairford, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham telling parliament the plot was "almost certainly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard". Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband summoned the Iranian ambassador to make clear that "Britain will not tolerate threats on our soil", while the Foreign Office imposed sanctions on two Iranian nationals, including the head of Iran's counterespionage operations. The attribution was backed by a joint statement from 29 countries condemning Iranian hostile activities.
· 3 sourcesThe federal government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency has urged Australian employers to make management roles more flexible, including through part-time arrangements and co-CEO positions, warning that women's higher resignation rates from senior jobs are widening the gender pay gap.
· 3 sourcesUnseeded Belgian Zizou Bergs knocked seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz out of the Shanghai Masters round of 32 on Monday, a 7-5 7-6(4) upset that also confirmed Alexander Zverev as the ATP's year-end world number one.
Thirteen freshwater turtles rescued from a drying water hole in western New South Wales have been returned to the Gingham water hole, months after the state government stopped environmental water flows to the area following a private landholder complaint.
· 2 sourcesThree Australian news outlets have reported on an alleged stabbing murder of a Sydney father, but as of the initial publication no details about the victim, suspect, or circumstances have been disclosed.
· 3 sourcesA university student dressed in black and wearing a mask lay in wait for his housemate before stabbing him 30 times, then cycled away and later pretended to find the body, a murder trial has heard. Zack Coughlan, 23, is accused of murdering Jamie Collins, 21, near their shared home in Filton, south Gloucestershire, on 8 April.
· 2 sourcesA 17-person US research expedition is approaching the remote Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, where it hopes to find the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10-E Electra and solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century.
A fire has destroyed the Marché des Enfants Rouges, Paris's oldest surviving covered food market and a popular street food destination in the Marais district. The blaze broke out soon after 3am, and central Paris mayor Ariel Weil said the market had been 'totally destroyed', though the fire did not spread to surrounding buildings.
· 2 sourcesGermany's labour minister and co-leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Bärbel Bas, has resigned from both positions, saying political attacks against her intensified after the death of her stepdaughter. The departure is a stinging blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's fragile coalition government, which is already reeling from three state election losses.
A Colombian man wanted for allegedly laundering money syphoned from a Venezuelan government welfare plan has been detained in the United States, the US Department of Justice said. Álvaro Pulido, 62, was arrested during a Homeland Security Task Force operation on Sunday and is due to appear in court on Tuesday.
Australia's online safety regulator could try to stop Australians from watching a planned livestream of a US military execution in early December, but a history of court battles with social media platforms suggests any attempt would trigger a very public fight and possibly a diplomatic incident with Washington.
· 3 sourcesSouth Africa's deputy national police commissioner, Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya, resigned at the start of his disciplinary hearing on Monday, three weeks after being arrested on charges of sexual offences and corruption. Police have classified his departure as a dishonourable discharge.
· 3 sourcesOnline property management platforms are charging Australian renters new fees or pushing them onto paid "memberships" in response to the Reserve Bank's ban on card surcharges, which took effect on 1 October. Tenants are being encouraged to challenge or bypass the extra charges, including in Victoria, where fees on rent payments are already banned.
· 3 sourcesReform UK has unveiled its most hardline immigration platform to date, proposing a five-year ban on people being granted asylum, automatic rejection of all new claims and the deportation of more than one million people. Announced by Nigel Farage at a press conference in Kent, the plan includes the immediate removal of 90,000 asylum seekers with no exemption for children or mothers, and a review of every asylum grant made since 2024.
· 3 sourcesUkrainian drone strikes seriously damaged three Yandex data centers over the past week, forcing Russia's largest technology company to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. The attacks, which Yandex confirmed caused widespread service outages, have left customers unable to access cloud files, payments, and other key services. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes were retaliation for Russian drone attacks that targeted data centers in Kyiv.
· 3 sourcesIranian authorities have signalled they will disrupt the Arab-operated, US-assisted oil shuttle moving exports through the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran's security chief declaring the system an explicit military target amid the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran.
The wife of Australian democracy campaigner Tran Hiep has pleaded for his release after learning he spent his 51st birthday alone in a pre-trial detention centre in Ho Chi Minh City, almost a month after Vietnamese authorities arrested him on alleged terrorism offences.
· 3 sourcesUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained more than 1,000 immigrants across metro Atlanta in a little-publicised 'shadow surge' that has disproportionately hit Gwinnett County, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States and a potential deciding factor in the Senate race between Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins. The arrests, which began in August under the name Operation Safe Community, have intensified fears in immigrant communities weeks before the election.