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A class action has been launched against the federal government over allegations of "mass and routine sharing" of veterans' medical records across two decades, with the firm Gordon Legal serving the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) a privacy breach claim on Wednesday.
· 2 sourcesTaiwan's government is preparing to reverse a decade-long phase-out of nuclear power, with the Nuclear Safety Commission approving a review for the restart of the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant. The shift, driven by surging electricity demand from the island's semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors, could see the plant resume generation as early as 2028.
The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several other major technology companies from a US program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency, accusing the firms of fraud. Vice President JD Vance announced the move on Thursday, alongside a separate investigation into nine universities over their use of international student programs.
· 2 sourcesA Russian glide bomb struck two passenger buses in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on Thursday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 18, regional authorities said. The attack is part of what analysts describe as a new Russian tactic to disable Ukraine's transportation system.
A man is in police custody after allegedly carjacking a vehicle in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday night, driving erratically down George Street, striking a pedestrian and crashing into a police car outside the Queen Victoria Building.
· 4 sourcesAn inquest into a fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her two children in Cambridge has heard that the e-bike battery linked to the blaze had previously been repaired. Gemma Germeney, 31, and her children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, died in the fire on 30 June 2023. The children's father, Scott Peden, survived. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said at the time the most probable cause was a charging e-bike.
New figures show sewage was released into rivers, lakes and the sea around Wales for more than 800,000 hours last year, according to analysis by the charity Surfers Against Sewage. The group recorded more than 100,000 sewage discharges in 2025, or roughly one every five minutes.
A lawyer for CNN, MS Now and Politico told a federal judge on Thursday that President Donald Trump's own recent interview made clear he banned the three news organizations from the White House because of their critical coverage, a direct violation of First Amendment precedent. The comments came during a hearing where a Trump-appointed judge extended a temporary order requiring the White House to lift the ban until at least Tuesday.
· 2 sourcesThree Fiji police officers have been charged with the alleged murder of Constable Peniasi Racagi, whose body was discovered floating off a beach in Lami town earlier this year. The officers are expected to appear at the Suva Magistrates Court today.
Palestinians in Gaza say they face Israeli strikes almost every day despite the ceasefire that took effect a year ago, with more than 1,400 people killed since the truce began and the peace deal meant to end the war showing signs of stalling.
· 3 sourcesA parliamentary inquiry has revealed that the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) received 15 risk of significant harm (ROSH) notifications involving children from Redeemer Baptist School in Parramatta since 2004, but never conducted a single face-to-face field assessment. The school, run by a church banned from caring for children, faces allegations of systemic abuse, extreme control and forced communal living, as former students and staff give evidence of sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual harm.
· 3 sourcesA former Merseyside Police constable has been jailed for 11 years after he subjected a woman to an 82-minute violent rape in a Liverpool hotel room, during which she told him to 'get off me' more than 300 times. Ryan Theaker, 30, was secretly recorded by the victim after a night out in 2023.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to new charges of conspiracy to commit torture, appearing in a New York City courtroom on Thursday. The charges, unsealed last week, add to the drug trafficking and weapons offences the couple already face. Their trial is scheduled to begin in June 2027.
· 8 sourcesPresident Donald Trump said the United States will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, sending oil prices lower on Friday and lifting bitcoin above $82,000. But uncertainty persists as Iranian media reported “massive explosions” in the Strait of Hormuz, and diplomats continue to haggle over a broader ceasefire deal.
· 4 sourcesAt least two people have been killed after a seven-storey building partially collapsed in Istanbul's Maltepe district early Thursday, local officials said. Emergency crews are working to reach two people still believed trapped in the rubble, while eight others have been rescued.
South Korea has recalled its ambassador to Ukraine, Park Hee-chang, as a diplomatic dispute intensifies over the handling of two North Korean prisoners of war. Seoul accused Kyiv of breaching a confidentiality agreement after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of the captured soldiers during a United Nations speech last month.
· 2 sourcesMillions of people from Louisiana to Florida are under hurricane warnings as Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, bears down on the US Gulf coast, with forecasters warning of a life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds, heavy rainfall and flooding expected from late Friday or early Saturday.
· 2 sourcesEthiopian forces have carried out drone attacks against Eritrean troops who crossed into the northern Tigray region, according to witnesses and the conflict monitoring group Acled, dramatically escalating tensions between the two neighbours and threatening to expand the two-week-old conflict in northern Ethiopia into a wider regional war.
· 3 sourcesRacially and religiously motivated hate crimes reached record levels in England and Wales in the year to March 2026, according to new Home Office figures, with offences targeting Muslims and Jewish people rising sharply and a government-appointed monitoring body warning that attacks on mosques are becoming more severe.
· 2 sourcesYemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have stepped up attacks on Saudi Arabia's capital, with explosions heard in Riyadh on Thursday, flights disrupted at its main airport and office workers told to stay home, as the kingdom's campaign against Houthi gains in Yemen reignites a civil war that has displaced 200,000 people.
Police Scotland has revealed that up to 50 serving officers are currently suspended over allegations of violence against women and girls, with Chief Constable Jo Farrell describing the issue as an epidemic. Farrell stated in an interview with BBC Scotland News that between 40 and 50 officers are investigated for such offences and she expects more to face sanctions. A review is under way into the case of former officer Alan Greer, a serial rapist who died by suicide, and 8,000 staff require re-vetting after regulatory changes earlier this year.
· 2 sourcesA British judge has ruled that search warrants used to raid the homes of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were unlawful, after Thames Valley Police conceded it obtained the powers under the wrong statutory provision. The ruling is a significant legal victory for the former prince, but the judge stressed the quashing of the warrants does not end the investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
· 9 sourcesIsrael has ordered the British consulate in East Jerusalem to reduce its diplomatic staff to a seven-person task force, enforcing a 30-day closure deadline first announced in September. The UK insists the building is not closing and will operate as a 'UK Mission, Jerusalem', with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband describing the staff reduction as a temporary withdrawal for security reasons.
· 3 sourcesA senior coroner has ruled that three sisters who drowned in the sea off Brighton in May took their own lives, after the women made a pilgrimage to the lake in Birmingham where their mother died 16 years earlier. Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31, were recovered from the water in the early hours of 13 May, hours after arriving by taxi. The inquest heard the sisters could not swim and sea conditions were adverse.
· 7 sourcesUkrainian authorities have raised the death toll to 33 from a Russian glide bomb attack on civilian buses in Kramatorsk, as the regional governor ordered all public transport suspended in the eastern frontline city and neighbouring Slovyansk, citing the safety of civilians.
· 12 sourcesAt least 33 people were killed and 18 wounded in a Russian glide bomb attack on two civilian buses in the frontline city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, local rescue officials said. The strike is the latest in a dramatic surge of Russian attacks that the United Nations says has made 2026 the deadliest year of the war for Ukrainian civilians.
· 6 sourcesCanadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, prompting the famously private 76-year-old to joke that the Swedish Academy judges were 'crazy' for picking her. Carson was in Iceland, 'listening to the wind', when she learned of the award.
· 11 sourcesTens of thousands of young people and adults have taken to the streets in France, Spain and the UK in recent weeks, in a wave of protests over high school education, housing costs and employment prospects. Further strikes are planned in France today.
Protests at French high schools resumed on Thursday despite the prime minister’s pledge to act, as university students swelled the ranks of demonstrators demanding better funding and conditions. NBA star Victor Wembanyama publicly backed the movement, calling it a response to 'systemic inequalities.'
· 6 sourcesVoting has opened in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, a contest The Guardian describes as a key gauge for Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Green Party leader Zack Polanski. The north London seat, previously held by Keir Starmer, is a traditional Labour stronghold, but Polanski's energetic campaign aims to replicate his party's shock February victory in Gorton and Denton.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and former prime minister Tony Abbott have linked the Coalition's proposed migration cuts to the Bondi massacre, framing the policy as a response to social cohesion concerns, while Labor pushes back on claims about the mix of migrants entering Australia.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and former prime minister Tony Abbott have linked the Coalition's migration clampdown to the Bondi massacre, as the opposition faces continued pressure to clearly explain the economic rationale for its plan.
A Conservative MP's claim that Luton contains "no-go zones" where white people refuse to go has been roundly condemned by residents, who insist the Bedfordshire town is safe and welcoming.
A report from the Transition Security Project warns that Britain's military is too focused on global commitments at the expense of domestic defence, and that the government's planned increase in spending risks further waste without a change in posture. The UK has the most overseas-oriented military among European nations, with nearly a quarter of the defence budget committed across five continents, the analysis found.
Three years on from the October 7, 2023 attacks and the start of the war in Gaza, the Middle East has been fundamentally redrawn by conflict. The balance of power has shattered, with Iran's regional network severely weakened, Israel increasingly isolated from its traditional allies, and the United States engaged in an open war with Tehran, according to an analysis.
Three years after the war in Gaza began, Al Jazeera spoke to Palestinians about the few possessions they took when forced to flee their homes. Their stories reveal profound personal losses and the impossible choices made in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced entire communities.
The youngest boy charged over the death of good Samaritan grocer Van Viet Truong in Sunshine has had all charges withdrawn. Prosecutors told a children's court they could not overcome the principle of doli incapax, which requires proving children under 14 knew the serious wrongfulness of their alleged actions.
An average of 17 older Australians died each day last year while waiting to receive home care, according to new health department data that showed 6,436 people approved for Support at Home died in 2025-26 before receiving their funding.
A BBC News investigation has found that a former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity, Bassam al-Hassan, is being protected and financially supported by US and Lebanese authorities in Lebanon, reportedly in exchange for information about the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice.
US President Donald Trump has proposed creating a presidential retreat similar to Camp David at his Florida golf club, with the club covering construction costs as a 'gift' to Americans and providing free memberships to future presidents and accommodations to visiting foreign dignitaries.
The Indonesian government has been accused of 'gross negligence' in a class action lawsuit filed by indigenous and civil society groups over its handling of wildfires that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia in toxic haze. The case, lodged in West Kalimantan, names President Prabowo Subianto and the provincial governor among 10 defendants, seeking comprehensive recovery measures including healthcare costs for affected residents.
A former Buddhist head monk who sexually abused children as young as four has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, with the victims expressing disbelief as supporters lauded him in court.
· 4 sourcesThe Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) has issued an urgent warning that patients of an unregistered Sydney practitioner may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV after she continued to operate from a home in Redfern despite a prohibition order. The practitioner, known as I-Pei Pan, Dr Pan and Dr Pan Pan, was banned from advertising or administering any health service in March 2025 after the HCCC found she had provided invasive procedures, infusions and injections at a CBD clinic on Sussex Street. A search of that clinic earlier this year uncovered veterinary surgical equipment and evidence of procedures breaching skin penetration laws. Despite the ban, the HCCC says Pan continued to practise privately from a Redfern home, and a search of that address on September 22 seized large amounts of imported and unapproved medicines, along with specula, needles, dental needles, syringes, cannulation tubes and infusion sets. The HCCC also understands that gynaecological conditions in women who visited Pan may have been overlooked or treated incorrectly. Authorities are urging former patients to monitor for skin infections and seek medical advice.
· 3 sourcesSouth Korea has said it will take legal action if an investigation finds domestic law was broken by shipments of fuel from its ports to Russia, after a Guardian report revealed over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded onto tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia's far east in July and August.
· 2 sourcesA Parisian mayor required medical treatment after riot police tear-gassed him as he attempted to stand between officers and student demonstrators during nationwide protests over school conditions in France.
Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar, known for his intense performances and distinct dialogue delivery, has died at the age of 75 in Goa, his son Malhar told BBC Marathi. He suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at his home in the early hours of Thursday.
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was repeatedly stabbed by a boy after she refused to date him has described the sentence as 'disgraceful' after the attacker avoided jail time.
Malcolm Rewa, the man convicted of murder and multiple rapes in one of New Zealand's most notorious criminal cases, has filed an appeal seeking an earlier release from prison, RNZ reports.