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Gen Z-led protesters will return to Delhi this weekend to demand the resignation of India's top election official, with student activist Neha Bora among the prominent faces of the demonstrations, in what is being seen as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 12 years in power.
Iraq's Ministry of Communications has announced plans to ban the popular navigation app Waze, which was founded in Israel, with the ban scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2027. Communications Minister Mustafa Sanad made the announcement on the sidelines of the Hitex 2026 technology exhibition in Erbil, saying the app is being blocked because of its Israeli origins.
The woman and child killed when their car crashed into a dam near Maryborough have been identified as 10-year-old Arliyah and her stepmother Lisa, 36. The pair died on Thursday afternoon after their blue Subaru Tribeca left McDonald Road at Tinana South, crashed through a fence and became submerged upside down in a dam on a neighbouring property.
A primary school teacher has been accused of secretly filming young children using school toilets on more than 357 occasions over six months at Kingswood Primary School in Melbourne's southeast. Timothy Blamires, 33, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, where charge sheets revealed the alleged use of hidden spy cameras installed inside fragrance dispensers.
As Israel marks three years since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, the psychological toll on its society is laid bare: one in five Israelis reports severe difficulties with daily functioning due to mental health, psychiatric emergency visits among children have more than doubled, and suicides among soldiers are on the rise, according to new research and expert accounts shared with Al Jazeera.
The winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize is due to be announced on Friday, at a ceremony beginning at 10am UK time (11am CEST) in Oslo, with the Guardian providing live coverage of the announcement.
The first ever parliamentary election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, has delivered a hung parliament. No party holds the 41 votes needed to elect a chief minister, and the 80 elected members of the first regular Parliament will assume office on October 30, ending interim rule.
Nineteen-year-old Alice Buckley is chasing a place in Supercars history this weekend at Mount Panorama, where the only female driver in the Super2 feeder series stunned in qualifying and hopes one day soon to become the first full-time woman in the main championship since 2019.
North Melbourne's board has approved an eight-year, $12 million offer to recruit Sydney Swans defender Nick Blakey, who nominated the Kangaroos as his preferred destination on Friday while a Victoria Police investigation continues into allegations arising from the Sydney Swans' Pullman hotel incident.
The High Court has ruled that search warrants used by Thames Valley Police to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes before his arrest in February were unlawful, with the force accepting that the legislation used to obtain them was incorrect. Items seized in the raids remain in police hands, and a further hearing in 2027 will decide whether the material can be used as evidence.
The Trump administration has initiated direct talks with Myanmar's military-installed government for the first time since the 2021 coup, according to a Reuters report. The engagement marks a significant reversal in U.S. policy and is focused on curbing transnational online scamming operations and gaining access to Myanmar's rare earth mineral deposits.
Hezbollah's decision to join the war on Israel on October 8, 2023, in support of Palestinians has fundamentally reshaped Lebanese politics and left the group politically weakened, according to analysts. The move set off a chain of events that culminated in the September 2024 pager attack, the assassination of much of its leadership, and the election of a president and government that have taken a much stronger line against the once-dominant group.
Western Australian Premier Roger Cook says new information released by the state Ombudsman on the deaths of three children in the Pilbara could provide grounds for a coronial inquest, though he stopped short of ordering one. The children – aged ten, seven and four months – were murdered by their mother Margaret Hawke in South Hedland in 2022.
Sunday will mark five years to the day since western Sydney’s 2021 lockdown restrictions were lifted, and a new account of the period recalls a ‘dystopian’ landscape of police helicopters, military doorknocks, 9pm curfews and grief conducted over Zoom.
As fighting intensifies between Yemen's government and the Houthis, millions of Yemenis are confronting a second battle far from the front lines: salaries that go unpaid or arrive irregularly, rising prices for basic goods, and a divided banking system that makes moving money across the country increasingly complicated.
New Queensland Health data shows ambulance ramping across the state's major emergency departments has barely improved since the LNP government took power in 2024, casting serious doubt on Premier David Crisafulli's election pledge to reduce the rate below 30% before the next poll.
Gaza City has been fundamentally transformed by the war that began in October 2023, with more than 80 percent of its buildings damaged or destroyed and many of its oldest historic landmarks reduced to ruins, according to Palestinian authorities and UNESCO.
With winter approaching and Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital intensifying, Kyiv residents are packing up and leaving rather than face another season of freezing temperatures and rolling blackouts. Mother of two Mariia Shostak is among those leaving, taking her children abroad after weeks of attacks that have pushed into the city centre.
The Conservative Party's flagship policy document, released at the party's annual conference, overstated the cost of achieving net zero emissions by nearly £500bn after apparently double-counting figures from a spreadsheet produced by the government's climate advisory body. The error was identified by climate publication Carbon Brief and reported by the Guardian.
Brazil's Supreme Court has issued an arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro, brother of presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, ordering the former lawmaker to begin a four-year prison sentence for lobbying the United States to interfere in the trial of his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. The ruling by Justice Alexandre de Moraes lands weeks before a runoff election that pits Flavio Bolsonaro, the favourite, against incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Dudley Dotoi, the uncapped Papua New Guinea winger with 62 tries from just 53 appearances in the Queensland Cup, will use this year's Rugby League World Cup as a platform to secure an NRL contract, according to former Kangaroo and Townsville Blackhawks coach Terry Campese.
Chilean authorities have declared a zone of catastrophe for Las Condes, on the outskirts of the capital Santiago, after flash flooding on Thursday local time washed away cars, damaged buildings and forced evacuations, President José Antonio Kast Rist announced.
Thousands of Spaniards protested outside parliament in Madrid this week after the death of Maria del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her home ignited nationwide demonstrations and prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call a snap general election. Her death on Wednesday, after she was hospitalised for severe anxiety and exhaustion, has deepened political divisions with lawmakers trading accusations of exploiting the tragedy.
Ten people, including nine inmates and a minor who was visiting, have been killed in a clash at the El Castillo Penitentiary Centre in Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, according to Mexican authorities. The Sinaloa Public Security Secretariat reported the deaths and said 16 other inmates were injured and transferred for medical attention.
The parents of Australian surfers Jake and Callum Robinson, shot dead in Mexico two years ago, have asked a court in Ensenada to lock up their sons' three accused killers for life, telling the judge that their "world stopped" on the day the brothers were murdered.
A shooting inside a prison in the Mexican state of Sinaloa killed 10 people on Thursday afternoon, including a minor who was visiting a relative, local officials said. At least 17 inmates were wounded in the attack at El Castillo prison in the Pacific coast city of Mazatlan.
A 24-year-old Royal Navy sailor who specialised in warfare intelligence has appeared in court accused of preparing to spy for Russia. Able Seaman Teddy Young was charged under the National Security Act with engaging in conduct in preparation for disclosing protected information to a foreign power.
Police in Lansing, Michigan, are investigating whether five deaths along a one-mile stretch of the city's River Trail over an 11-month period are connected, raising the possibility of a serial killer targeting homeless men. Lansing Police Chief Rob Backus confirmed that investigators are looking at whether the cases are related.
Independent MP Monique Ryan has dismissed former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg as dwelling on the past after he accused her supporters of waging a campaign thick with personal abuse during the 2022 election, as Liberal frontbenchers back him for a potential rematch in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong.
Several people have been injured in another attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, prompting a suspension of operations and drawing a signal from US President Donald Trump that Washington may join Saudi strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels.
New dashcam footage played in a Perth court shows Jack Dunn, the managing director of a private paramedic service, driving at 100 km/h in a 70 km/h zone, sounding his horn and crossing double-white lines with unauthorised lights and sirens moments before colliding head-on with an oncoming vehicle in Wanneroo on Sunday.
The Albanese government has scrapped its controversial proposal to reduce federal disaster recovery funding to a 50-50 split with states and territories, bowing to fierce opposition from state leaders and local councils. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Friday that the current 75-25 arrangement will stay in place.
The national Indigenous children's commissioner has launched an independent review into how social welfare is delivered to vulnerable families in Western Australia's Pilbara region, after reports emerged of more than a dozen children living unsupervised in squalor in a South Hedland home.
The Australian Taxation Office's plan to stop accepting credit card payments will no longer take effect at the end of next month, after the federal government negotiated with the independent agency to delay the change by a year. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will allocate additional funds to support the transition.
A Supreme Court judge has found that Western Australian officials were forced to break the law by keeping a mentally impaired man in prison because the state's only facility for mentally impaired prisoners did not have enough beds. Justice Terence Palmer ruled that the man, known only as SJQ, was denied appropriate psychiatric care for about two months at Hakea Prison despite a magistrate having ordered him sent to the Frankland Centre at Graylands Hospital for treatment of his treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia.
Leading New York Democrats expressed anger and demanded curbs on Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, a day after a federal officer shot Oscar Belgal, 28, in his car in the Bronx while his five-year-old son sat in the back seat. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the incident "unconscionable" and said he would ask President Donald Trump to end all ICE enforcement actions in the city. Governor Kathy Hochul said she had spoken to Trump and urged the release of body-camera footage.
Publicans and business owners on the New South Wales Mid North Coast say a new federal backpacker ballot, which caps second-year working holiday visas at 45,000 annual places, is already prompting employees to consider leaving Australia, threatening to deepen chronic labour shortages in the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Moscow will do everything it can to help end the United States-led war on Iran, Russian news agencies reported. The two leaders met in Turkmenistan on Thursday ahead of a summit of former Soviet nations, as Iran-US talks stand at an apparent impasse.
At least 24 vehicles have been set ablaze and foreign-owned shops looted in two South African cities as anti-migrant protests turned violent, police said, with the government blaming disinformation about a court ruling on asylum seekers.
US President Donald Trump has awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella, in a ceremony that underscored the close ties between his administration and Silicon Valley. The honours were presented on Thursday, hours after the Trump administration announced it was suspending Microsoft and other tech companies from the H-1B visa system over alleged fraud.
The NHS in England is heading into a “world of system failures” as it struggles with relentlessly rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism care, a government-commissioned inquiry has found. The review, led by Professor Peter Fonagy, warns that without urgent reform, patients face years-long waits and worsening symptoms while the risk of overdiagnosis grows.
A major independent review of NHS England's mental health services has concluded that mental distress has increased substantially over recent years and that rising awareness of mental health issues is not sufficient to account for the trend. The review, led by Professor Peter Fonagy and published on 8 October 2026, recommends that services ensure those with the highest needs receive specialist assessments sooner.
The head of a major review of maternity services in Scotland has promised that bereaved families will have their voices heard, after concerns they would be excluded from the forward-looking inquiry. The review, which began this week, was ordered by the Scottish government following a BBC Disclosure investigation into failings in maternity care across the country.
Police have arrested the twin brother of a 29-year-old man whose body was found in the backyard of a Perth home with visible injuries, as the Homicide Squad continues its investigation.
A soldier who survived the 2009 Fort Hood shooting has said the firing squad execution of the gunman is "befitting", but questioned the Pentagon's plan to livestream it, as the US prepares for its first Army firing squad execution since 1945.
President Donald Trump has reversed the Pentagon's plan to livestream the December 3 execution of convicted mass shooter Nidal Hasan, saying the event will not be streamed despite earlier support. The decision comes after widespread condemnation from US lawmakers and the United Nations, who argued livestreaming a firing squad execution would amount to torture and violate international law.
The nephew of one of the victims of the Snowtown serial murders has described seeing images of convicted killer James Spyridon Vlassakis out in public as 'sickening', saying the sight brings back dark memories and a fear of encountering him. Ron Lane, whose uncle Barry Lane was among those killed, spoke out after Vlassakis was photographed leaving the Adelaide Pre-release Centre this week.
With a month until polling day, declared political donations in New Zealand have reached NZ$7.4 million, already exceeding the total for the 2023 election campaign. The surge has renewed debate over campaign finance rules, including the absence of an overall cap on donations.