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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia's military of deliberately killing civilians in an overnight barrage that destroyed an apartment block in the northern town of Pryluky, which he called a macabre birthday gift for Vladimir Putin on the Russian leader's 74th birthday.
· 2 sourcesAt least 73 detained immigrants at the Folkston D Ray James ICE processing center in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike to protest their prolonged detention and conditions inside the privately-run facility, according to advocates and family members. The strike began this week with participants releasing a video and an open letter detailing their demands and allegations of mistreatment.
Reform UK has cleared two senior officials of breaking laws that ban foreign donations, despite the matter remaining under police investigation. An internal party inquiry found no breach of funding rules by Nigel Farage's press adviser and the party's head of policy, who were filmed discussing a scheme involving a US donor.
· 2 sourcesThree years after the October 7, 2023 attacks, Washington continues to provide near-complete military support to Israel, with aid flowing under both the Biden and Trump administrations even as the Gaza war has expanded into a broader regional conflict, including a US-Israeli war with Iran.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric-shock gloves in August, despite a previously unreleased army study showing the devices caused intense pain, immediate cessation of resistance, and lingering apprehension among participants, according to records obtained by watchdog American Oversight and shared with the Associated Press.
A Palestinian man was killed and 16 others wounded in an attack by Israeli settlers under military protection during the olive harvest near Burqa in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities reported on Wednesday.
Ten people who came into contact with a man who died of Ebola in Kenya have been quarantined, health officials have confirmed, as the country confronts its first-ever case of the virus. Authorities are also tracing 57 other contacts after the patient travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through several cities and airports before dying in a Nairobi hospital on Monday.
The husband of a GP has appeared in court charged with her murder after she was found dead at their home in Norfolk. Mark Cain, 45, appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, where he was remanded in custody.
· 2 sourcesThe husband of GP Dr Hannah Terry has appeared in court charged with her murder after her body was found at their home in Dersingham, Norfolk, on Sunday. Mark Cain, 45, spoke only to confirm his identity during a brief hearing at Norwich Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody pending a further appearance at King's Lynn Crown Court on Thursday.
A man has admitted to sexually assaulting a woman who was drugged and abused by her husband without her knowledge, in a case involving multiple co-defendants in the Stockport area of Greater Manchester.
· 3 sourcesThree years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, which killed nearly 1,200 people and sparked Israel's war on Gaza, Israeli society has undergone fundamental changes, observers say. A sense of collective trauma, amplified by political rhetoric and media hysteria, has pushed the country to the right, while the war has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and expanded to several regional states.
Home Office immigration enforcement officers have arrested three people in London in connection with a suspected criminal network accused of helping Bangladeshi migrants file false asylum claims by pretending to be gay. The arrests follow a months-long investigation triggered by caseworkers spotting patterns in suspicious applications.
A Scottish court has refused serial rapist Christopher Malcolm's appeal against his 16-year jail sentence, a decision that survivors described as an 'incredible relief' after months of anxiety. Malcolm, 37, was convicted in July on 12 charges involving four women, and had lodged his appeal in August.
Australian cricket great Ellyse Perry has refused to set a timeline on her retirement, declaring she still loves the daily challenge of getting better and working with her teams. The 35-year-old spoke in Brisbane ahead of the three-match one-day series against Bangladesh, which begins on Friday at Allan Border Field.
· 3 sourcesRichard E. Grant has produced what the Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times call the most chaotic television moment of the year, revealing himself as a traitor on The Celebrity Traitors UK just five minutes after being recruited into the role.
· 3 sourcesAugust Hanning, who headed Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office announced Tuesday. A former BND employee is also in custody, accused of supplying Hanning with roughly 2,000 classified documents in exchange for payment.
· 3 sourcesTropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday off eastern Mexico and is expected to strengthen into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm would be the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season, the latest first hurricane since 1905.
· 2 sourcesU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Iran has passed up multiple chances to reach a deal on its nuclear program, as talks between Washington and Tehran over a lasting Middle East peace agreement remain stalled. The absence of an agreement has coincided with increased attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, where vessels now rely on U.S. military protection to navigate the critical waterway, and oil prices have moved higher following separate attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on airports in Saudi Arabia.
Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, a California couple accused of abusing at least 14 surrogate-born children in what prosecutors have called a 'House of Horrors', pleaded not guilty at a Pasadena courthouse on Tuesday, CBS News reported.
· 2 sourcesShiranthi Rajapaksa, the 73-year-old wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was arrested at her Colombo home on Wednesday by anti-corruption authorities over allegations that donations intended for a children's hospital scanner were misused. She returned from Singapore on Monday and had filed a court petition to block the arrest, with a hearing scheduled for 12 October.
· 2 sourcesThe Australian Defence Force has suspended operational use of the Supacat troop-carrying vehicle involved in a fatal rollover that killed a soldier during a training exercise at the Mount Bundey training area in the Northern Territory on Monday evening.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned France to bring its finances under control, as the country faces surging bond yields, a fractured parliament, and ongoing student protests.
US President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the death of a lab worker at a plague research centre in Siberia, as the World Health Organization urges Russia to share information transparently under international health regulations.
The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged governments across major economies to implement fiscal consolidation, warning that global debt-to-GDP ratios are at their highest level since the Second World War and on track to reach 100% in the coming years.
· 3 sourcesFrance has suspended the use of stun grenades by police at student-led protests, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Wednesday, after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand in Lens when a grenade was fired. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is due to address the nation later today as more than 500 schools remain fully or partially shut.
· 6 sourcesAustralian portrait artist Ralph Heimans, whose subjects have included Queen Elizabeth II, has unveiled an oil-on-canvas portrait of the late English anthropologist Jane Goodall in Washington, more than a decade after he first resolved to paint her at a Westminster Abbey service.
· 3 sourcesTravis Head has reignited a simmering feud between Australia's current and former Test cricketers, delivering a pointed riposte to criticism from past greats including Matthew Hayden over the surprise selection of Nic Maddinson and the touring side's recent batting displays.
· 3 sourcesEssendon has traded two of its premier players, Zach Merrett to Hawthorn and Jordan Ridley to Geelong, by lunchtime on Wednesday, a full week before the AFL trade period closes on October 14, in what has been described as a reset of the club's approach at the trade table.
· 3 sourcesA Chinese mother who immigrated to Perth to give her daughter a fresh start after bullying at home was murdered in a hotel room by a man she trusted. Nongyu Peng, 42, was killed by an overdose of GHB administered by 27-year-old Ruihong Nie in February 2024, according to reports from the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
· 4 sourcesCoalition and Greens senators have joined forces to oppose the Albanese government's plan to abolish the private health insurance rebate bonus for Australians aged over 65, as new modelling reveals the majority of those affected have an annual income below $37,000. The bipartisan revolt threatens the reform's passage through parliament and the $3 billion in savings Labor is counting on to fund aged care beds and cover its backdown on charging older Australians for at-home care services.
· 3 sourcesA death row prisoner is alive and speaking after an execution was botched, according to reports carried by several Australian news outlets on Tuesday. No details have been released about the prisoner, the location of the execution, or what went wrong.
· 4 sourcesLawyers and charities have filed a police super-complaint alleging that forces in England and Wales are routinely failing to investigate image-based abuse, with charges brought in an average of just 4.5% of cases last year despite a surge in reports. The complaint, submitted by Leigh Day, the Centre for Women's Justice and #NotYourPorn, argues that the policing response is 'fragmented, inconsistent and incapable of meeting the scale of the threat.'
· 2 sourcesUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh from custody, two days after he was granted bond. His deportation case, however, continues with the next hearing scheduled for October 27.
· 2 sourcesTourism operators in the Northern Territory are calling on the federal government to establish a dedicated resilience fund to help businesses survive the coming wet season, warning that rising costs, reduced flights and the impact of extreme weather earlier this year have left many small and family-run operators at risk of closure.
· 2 sourcesAt least 24 people, including four children, have been killed and more than 50 wounded in a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday, with the heaviest loss of life in the northern city of Pryluky, where a five-storey residential building was obliterated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the assault, which coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's birthday, was one of the 'most vile' of the war, involving 70 missiles, many of them ballistic.
· 4 sourcesSpeculation that Powderfinger may reunite has intensified, with multiple major news outlets now covering the cryptic billboards that appeared in three Australian cities. The Sydney Morning Herald published a follow-up report on Wednesday, adding to the buzz surrounding the band that broke up 16 years ago and last performed together in 2017.
· 7 sourcesKemi Badenoch, the leader of the UK Conservative Party, is expected to use her party conference speech to announce plans to cut inheritance tax and argue that the UK faces a 'battle of ideas' over public spending.
Kemi Badenoch will use her keynote address at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham to announce plans to reverse large parts of Labour's tax increases on London, as she positions the Tories as the party of tax cuts in an emerging battle with Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday in a coordinated wave of protests led by high-school pupils and joined by parents, university students and unions, with police firing tear gas in Paris and Marseille as part of 'Act Three' of a movement demanding more resources for schools and an end to what protesters call police repression.
A senior police officer broke down in the witness box during the murder trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon as she described finding the remains of the two men he is accused of killing.
· 3 sourcesThe highest-paid head of department in Queensland earned more than $900,000 in the 2025-26 financial year, with more than half a dozen public servants paid more than Premier David Crisafulli, according to annual reports released by the state government.
· 3 sourcesDavid Rush, 49, a former CIA officer, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a sweeping $200m scheme involving fake contracts and real estate, and has admitted to disclosing secrets to a foreign government in a disclosure prosecutors said could endanger lives.
A sexual assault lawsuit against Cornell University fraternity members has reignited debate over consent laws in the United States, particularly the legal distinction between voluntary and involuntary intoxication. The woman, identified as Jane Doe, alleges she was drugged and raped after drinking and being pressured to snort ketamine at a fraternity house in 2024. Under current New York law, a person who voluntarily consumes alcohol or drugs is not automatically considered unable to consent, a provision critics call the 'voluntary intoxication loophole'.
The High Court of Australia has found that New South Wales coal mines must account for the emissions created when their product is burnt overseas, a decision an international climate law expert has labelled a 'game changer' for the industry.
· 6 sourcesA leading constitutional expert has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government of 'grey corruption' over a $6 million grant to a golf club in his electorate, describing the grants scheme as a 'farce' that dressed up political favours as sound public policy.
· 5 sourcesNick Blakey has flown to Melbourne to explore a trade from Sydney, with Geelong his preferred destination, but Gold Coast has entered the race with coach Damien Hardwick set to meet the 26-year-old. Reports from Monday indicate significant progress has been made in negotiations, though no deal is yet finalised.
· 8 sourcesLibya's eastern-based House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to remove Speaker Aguila Saleh after 12 years, electing Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi as his replacement amid growing discontent among lawmakers over his leadership.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday in Singapore that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a key driver of countries' relative fortunes in the world economy, but that the triple forces of AI advancement, soaring energy costs and record public debt are testing already underwhelming global growth.
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