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Two teenagers fighting for life after linked stabbings in east London
Two teenagers are in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a pair of apparently linked stabbings minutes apart in Dagenham, east London, on Friday evening.
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Camden council was warned about nursery worker Vincent Chan three years before arrest
A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by Camden council three years before he was arrested, The Guardian can reveal. Vincent Chan was jailed in February after pleading guilty to 56 offences including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls at a Bright Horizons nursery in north-west London.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park closed for third day after fatal tiger attack; Altai the tiger will not be euthanised
Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster remains closed for a third day as investigations continue into the death of a man who entered the tiger enclosure on Saturday and was fatally attacked. The park has confirmed that the Amur tiger involved, named Altai, will not be euthanised as a result of the incident.
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NYPD Releases Surveillance Footage of ICE Shooting
The New York Police Department has released surveillance footage related to a shooting incident involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, according to reports from multiple Australian news outlets.
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Rubio’s ancient history rhetoric draws Iranian rebuke amid ongoing war
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked the ancient Greco-Persian Wars during a speech at the Acropolis in Athens, portraying the United States as the inheritor of Western civilisation, a move that drew widespread criticism from Iranian officials who warned that such historical comparisons carried risks of repetition as the US-Iran war continues.
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Trump administration suspends eight tech firms from green card program; Vance targets Microsoft over H-1B hires
The Trump administration has suspended eight technology companies from sponsoring foreign workers for green cards, prompting Vice President JD Vance to accuse Microsoft of replacing the 6,000 workers it laid off in 2025 with H-1B visa holders. Government data, however, shows that the two biggest H-1B sponsors, Amazon and Meta, were not on the suspension list.
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Former Indonesian boarding school headmaster detained after BBC abuse investigation
A former headmaster of an Islamic boarding school on the Indonesian island of Lombok has been detained by police after a BBC Eye investigation revealed allegations of sexual abuse against him. The case, which sparked public outrage, was reopened by authorities after the BBC World Service documented accusations and evidence gathered by former students themselves.
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Riyadh Airport Attack Kills 12, Trump Weighs US Intervention
A second missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and wounded over 300 on Saturday, prompting US President Donald Trump to signal he is actively evaluating whether the United States should join Saudi Arabia's military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen. The strike struck a complex housing domestic terminals and suspended all airport operations.
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Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years for murders of Australian and US surfers
A Mexican judge has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for the 2024 murders of Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad during a surf trip in Baja California, concluding a trial that drew international attention.
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Abbas postpones Palestinian elections again, sets new date for September 2027
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree to combine the legislative vote with a presidential election and set it for September 11, 2027, the official Wafa news agency reported on Saturday.
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Putin relays Iran's war-end proposal to Trump, Moscow says
Russian President Vladimir Putin has conveyed Tehran's vision for ending the war in Iran to US President Donald Trump, Russian state media reported Saturday, opening a possible diplomatic track in a conflict that began with US and Israeli airstrikes in February and has driven up global energy prices.
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Sudan paramilitary drone strike kills 41 at displaced camp near Ethiopian border, rights group says
A drone attack by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 41 people in the Blue Nile region near the Ethiopian border, targeting a camp for displaced people, according to a Sudanese rights group. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it was appalled by the reports and that initial accounts indicate most of the casualties were women and children.
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Peruvian businessman named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in the Andes
A businessman named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected mayor of Queropalca, a remote district in Peru’s central Huánuco region, after winning 229 of 663 votes in the 4 October election.
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Ohio congresswoman Marcy Kaptur roils Democrats with anti-trans ad in tough re-election fight
Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, is facing backlash from within her own party after releasing a campaign ad in which she says she voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools and that boys should not play in girls' sports. The ad has drawn condemnation from two county Democratic parties in her north-west Ohio district, the head of the country's largest LGBTQ+ rights group, and a former intern, while Kaptur argues it was necessary to confront an issue her Republican opponent is sure to use against her.
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Seven Palestinians killed in Gaza on anniversary of US-backed ceasefire, including eight-year-old girl
At least seven Palestinians, including an eight-year-old girl, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on the first anniversary of the United States-backed ceasefire, according to medical sources. More than 100 humanitarian organisations said the ceasefire exists 'in name only', as violence persists.
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Trump calls for Ukraine to replace Zelensky in escalating row over Russian diesel deal
US President Donald Trump has escalated his public confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, telling reporters that Ukraine needs 'a new leader who can make a deal' after Zelensky condemned a US-Russia agreement to release millions of tonnes of Russian diesel onto global markets.
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Tornadoes rip through Sicilian town, injuring dozens and damaging school
Two tornadoes tore through the coastal town of Marsala in western Sicily on Friday, injuring dozens of people, damaging buildings including a school, and overturning cars. At least 11 people were taken to hospital, with a 70-year-old man in critical condition with multiple fractures.
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FDA proposal would let toxic chemicals be added directly to food without safety review, advocates warn
The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing to expand a controversial exemption so that some of the world's most toxic chemicals could be added directly to food as ingredients without a safety review, according to public health advocates alarmed by the plan.
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Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia death toll rises to 20, including four children
The death toll from a Russian glide bomb attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to at least 20 people, including four children, local officials said on Saturday. The attack, which used five glide bombs, also injured at least 32 people, with more feared trapped under rubble.
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Man arrested after boy, 11, injured in alleged dog attack in Manchester
A 31-year-old man has been arrested after an 11-year-old boy was injured in an alleged dog attack in north Manchester on Thursday.
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Tensions flare between Norris and Piastri after Singapore sprint collision
Tensions between McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have flared after their last-lap collision in the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race, with the team reportedly slamming the incident and both drivers summoned to the stewards. Norris apologised to the team but defended his move, while Piastri downplayed the clash, which wrecked McLaren's pursuit of a podium finish and ended Piastri's race.
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Perth man charged with murder of twin brother found dead in backyard
A 29-year-old Perth man has been charged with the murder of his twin brother, who was found dead in the backyard of their Orelia home.
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski calls for overhaul after 'Zionism is racism' vote
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has signalled a potential overhaul of the party's grassroots democracy, calling for leaders to have greater control over strategic direction after a divisive vote equating Zionism with racism. Writing for the Guardian following his defeat in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, Polanski said the party's rapid growth meant its democratic structures needed to change, including giving leaders more responsibility for setting political direction.
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Hundreds of thousands of French students protest over crumbling schools and teacher shortages
Students across France have staged the country's biggest youth protest movement in decades, with hundreds of thousands on the streets this week over inequality in the education system, dilapidated school buildings, a shortage of teachers and oversized classes. Hundreds of schools have been blockaded and thousands of teenagers arrested, while rights groups warn of alleged police brutality.
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Journalist Hamurabi Huesca Manzano killed in Mexico's Oaxaca, ninth media worker slain this year
Hamurabi Huesca Manzano, a journalist who owned the news website Pinotepa Comunica and moonlighted as a taxi driver, has been shot dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca — the ninth media worker killed in the country this year, according to human rights organisation Article 19.
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Ukrainian drones strike largest Yandex data center in Russia, second hit in 48 hours
Ukrainian drones have struck the largest Yandex data center in Russia, at Kaluga, knocking multiple modules of the sprawling complex offline in the second attack on the company's facilities within 48 hours, according to United24 Media and Russian state news agency TASS.
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Gaza healthcare still collapsing a year after ceasefire, aid group warns
One year after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, the territory's healthcare system remains in crisis, with medical supplies restricted, evacuations stalled and more than 1,470 people killed since the truce began, according to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
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Four dead as Hurricane Isaias weakens; NASA images show darkened Gulf Coast
New satellite imagery released by NASA shows nighttime lights along Florida's Panhandle coast dimmed sharply after Hurricane Isaias tore through the region, offering a stark visual measure of the power crisis left behind. At least four people have died, and hundreds of thousands of customers remain without electricity as the weakened storm continues inland.
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Brazilian police kill suspect after hostage standoff at kindergarten in Curitiba
Brazilian police killed a suspect after he took 13 children hostage at a kindergarten in Curitiba on Friday, officials said. The man, who suffered from schizophrenia, threatened to set the building on fire and beat the children during a three-hour standoff before officers intervened. All children were rescued alive, with one wounded.
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Russian strikes kill seven in Zaporizhzhia after Trump announces Russian diesel deal
Russian aerial strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, authorities said, a day after US President Donald Trump announced he had struck a deal with Vladimir Putin for large deliveries of Russian diesel.
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Wallabies bomb under high-ball blitz as Eden Park drought hits 40 years
The Wallabies have extended their winless run at Auckland's Eden Park to 40 years, squandering a dominant opening in a Bledisloe Cup Test before bombing under a high-ball blitz, according to columnist Peter FitzSimons.
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Eden Park seeks platform upgrades and pedestrian bridge to ease rail delays for fans
Eden Park officials are calling for platform upgrades and a new pedestrian bridge to prevent rail delays for fans attending major events at the Auckland stadium. The proposal follows the first Bledisloe Cup Test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the venue on 10 October.
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British military school abuse victims say evidence gaps block prosecution
Two women who say they were sexually abused as children at a British military school in Bünde, Germany, in the 1980s have told the Guardian and openDemocracy that their alleged abuser cannot be prosecuted because incomplete employment records have repeatedly stalled investigations.
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Met Police fires head of volunteer officers after Palantir AI uncovers intimate image copying
The Metropolitan Police has dismissed the head of its Special Constabulary, James Deller, after Palantir's AI monitoring system uncovered that he had used his work phone to copy intimate images of a woman sent via WhatsApp's 'view once' feature.
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103-year-old codebreaker Fred Vanke reveals wartime secrets, expands Bletchley Park honour roll
Fred Vanke, a 103-year-old former codebreaker from Breaston, Derbyshire, kept his World War Two heroics secret for decades, but his story has now helped historians add 27 Polish codebreakers and signals intelligence personnel to the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour, one of the most significant expansions of documented Polish involvement in recent years.
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Drones, dogs and divers search Swan River for missing woman Alice Jane Bowden
WA Police are searching a section of the Swan River at Attadale for missing 38-year-old Alice Jane Bowden, after her car was found abandoned on Burke Drive on Saturday morning.
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Shai Hope's unbeaten 102 powers West Indies to record T20 chase over India
Shai Hope hit an unbeaten 102 off only 45 balls as the West Indies beat India by six wickets in Ranchi on Friday, completing their highest successful Twenty20 run chase and levelling the five-match series at 1-1.
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New Delhi locked down as youth protests challenge Modi government
Indian authorities have transformed central New Delhi into a fortified zone, deploying nearly 30,000 personnel and detaining protest leaders ahead of planned demonstrations by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party and Gen-Z movement, which are demanding sweeping electoral reforms and the resignation of the country's election chief over a controversial voter revision exercise that has removed 130 million names from electoral rolls.
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Gardener at elite Sydney school charged with child abuse material offences
A landscaper employed at Cranbrook School in Sydney's eastern suburbs has been charged with possessing child abuse material following an Australian Federal Police investigation prompted by two reports from the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Jury awards $2.2 million to abuse survivor after Marist Brothers legal team attacked his credibility
A Supreme Court jury has awarded more than $2.2 million to Greg Barclay, a survivor of historical clerical abuse at the former St Colman's College in Shepparton, rejecting aggressive claims by the Marist Brothers' legal team that he was a 'money-grubber' whose testimony had the 'credibility of a $3 note'.
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Recruitment firm owner accused of running doxxing campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a doxxing campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-racism activists and business executives who recruit minority ethnic workers. Tom Watson, from Worcester, is alleged to have run an X account calling itself "Big Time Charlie", which was deactivated shortly after the campaign group Hope Not Hate named him.
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South Melbourne claim historic Australia Cup victory over Melbourne Victory
South Melbourne have won the 2026 Australia Cup, defeating Melbourne Victory in a sold-out AAMI Park in a final that pitted the old NSL heavyweight against the modern A-League club. The match kicked off in a fiercely charged atmosphere, with early drama including a yellow card and booing of Victory's pre-match anthem.
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Early release prisoner jailed days after leaving HMP Wandsworth
A man released from prison under the government's early release scheme has been jailed for shoplifting offences committed within days of his release. Michael Bogle, 38, was freed from HMP Wandsworth on 1 October and later admitted stealing more than £100 worth of detergent from north London supermarkets, receiving an eight-month sentence.
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Leah Croucher's parents call for mandatory sentencing law after killer identified, face online abuse
The parents of Leah Croucher, the 19-year-old murdered by a repeat sex offender while he was on the run from police, have called for a new mandatory minimum sentence law for third-time sexual offenders, saying their ordeal has been compounded by online conspiracy theories and abuse.
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Attrition wins $2 million Hill Stakes, giving Jamie Mott first Sydney victory
Jamie Mott rode Attrition to a half-neck victory in the $2 million Hill Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, securing his first career win in Sydney. Mott was vindicated after backing the Mitch Freedman-trained seven-year-old to beat race favourite Lindermann.
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Rachel King emerges as first serious female contender for Cox Plate after historic Caulfield Guineas win
Rachel King has emerged as a serious contender to win this year's Cox Plate, a feat that would make her the first woman to take Australia's weight-for-age championship. The 36-year-old Sydney jockey became the first woman to win the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas on Saturday, riding favourite Warwoven for trainer Bjorn Baker.
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Renshaw's 190 powers Australia's 390 on day two in Durban Test
Matt Renshaw's masterful 190 guided Australia to 390 all out on day two of the Durban Test against South Africa, with the Proteas resuming day three at 1-27. The innings came amid ongoing pressure on veteran Marnus Labuschagne, who fell for 37, and against a backdrop of civil unrest kilometres from the ground.
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Four Arrested After Teenager Killed in Stoke-on-Trent Attack
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his late teens was killed and another suffered life-threatening injuries during an attack in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Police have said.
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