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A fire at the Savannah River Site, a federal nuclear complex in Aiken, South Carolina, triggered a Site Area Emergency on Wednesday evening, though officials said there was no indication of contamination beyond the site's boundaries.
India approved 2.12 trillion rupees ($22 billion) in military procurement on Monday, following an Indian military official’s statement that confrontations with Chinese soldiers were ongoing along its north-eastern border. The plans seek to modernise equipment as India seeks to counter China’s technological advancements, with experts citing Sino-Pakistan military ties as part of New Delhi’s view of Beijing as a threat.
Scotland has banned under-18s from buying all nicotine and herbal smoking products, including pouches, strips and pearls, under rules that took effect on 29 October. The measures, part of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026, also require anyone selling nicotine products to hold a valid registration by April 29, 2027, and bar vending machines from stocking such items.
· 3 sourcesAlbania's government has adopted measures imposing fines of up to €5,500 (US$6,130) on demonstrators who remain at protests that turn violent, even if they do not personally engage in violence, as the capital Tirana faces months of anti-government demonstrations calling for Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation.
· 2 sourcesPoundland has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, putting up to 12,000 jobs at risk across its 600 stores in the UK and Ireland, after its owner Gordon Brothers rejected a rescue bid backed by the chain's management. The legal measure, expected to be approved by the High Court on Thursday, would give the discount retailer 10 days of protection from creditors while a solution is sought. Gordon Brothers is understood to believe it can recover more by breaking up the business than by accepting the offer from Martin Property Group, a Northern Irish family-owned company.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran 'continues to give diplomacy a chance to succeed' as US officials warned Middle East allies to prepare for possible renewed military action against Iran after next week's midterm elections, according to diplomats briefed on the matter.
· 4 sourcesHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally passed a rule that will allow specialty pharmacies to sell six specific peptide drugs, overruling scientists at the Food and Drug Administration who have cited insufficient evidence of efficacy and potential danger.
Tens of thousands of people have crossed from Ethiopia into Kenya, fleeing fighting between regional forces in Moyale, with many new arrivals facing hunger and limited medical care as humanitarian aid cuts threaten relief efforts, according to reports.
A teenage boy from Darwin has been arrested and charged with alleged terrorism offences following a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police, NT Counter Terrorism Teams and ASIO. Police allege the boy had multiple social media accounts on which he accessed, discussed and reposted violent extremist material; devices found allegedly contained blueprints for 3D-printed firearms. The boy is scheduled to appear in children’s court on Thursday, October 29.
· 2 sourcesThe European Union plans to create the first subsea internet cable directly connecting Europe to Greenland, a project that could eventually extend to Canada and link with Japan and South Korea while notably bypassing the United States. The Pan-Arctic Cable is described as an EU flagship project in a European Commission joint communication published on October 20, 2026, that outlines a new European strategy for the Arctic.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a surprise visit to the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday, crossing the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge and lauding its “historic mission” to unite the two countries, a trip that signals Pyongyang wants to strengthen ties with Beijing.
· 3 sourcesA man has been extradited to New South Wales, where he is expected to face further charges, according to reports.
· 14 sourcesUS Vice President JD Vance has sent a letter to Iran's top security official proposing direct talks that would address Iran's nuclear program, marking the highest-level US outreach to Tehran in months, as President Donald Trump warns Gulf allies to prepare for a possible renewed military campaign after next week's midterm elections. Trump denied reports that he directed the initiative, saying the contact was about helping Iran obtain medical supplies.
· 9 sourcesAsh Hay scored twice in the closing stages to give Dundee a 3-1 home win over Kilmarnock, lifting the Dark Blues to fourth in the William Hill Premiership and dropping Killie to the bottom of the table.
· 2 sourcesVietnam has become the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, committing to peaceful and transparent space exploration, during a ceremony at the Vietnam International Digital Week in Ha Long.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested in New York City after allegedly spray-painting the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, defacing a section bearing victims' names with the address of his anti-gun website.
A 24-year-old man is due before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with the attempted murder of a taxi driver in west Belfast last year.
· 2 sourcesAustralia's defence chief has ruled out further action against senior military commanders over failures linked to alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, telling a Senate estimates hearing that Defence's response to a long-suppressed inquiry into the Special Air Service Regiment is complete.
· 8 sourcesAn eight-year-old girl has been seriously injured in a wolf attack at a German wildlife park, police have said. The girl was inside an enclosure at Johannismühle park in Brandenburg, south of Berlin, with a staff member and two other children when the attack occurred. She was taken to hospital by helicopter; no one else was hurt.
A Ukrainian military unit reported on Wednesday that it successfully sent a ground robot on a 12-mile supply run, with the vehicle navigating 93% of the journey autonomously using AI-powered navigation, cameras, and 3D mapping. The Lava Unmanned Systems Regiment of the 2nd Corps of Ukraine's National Guard called the mission a "first of its kind under combat conditions."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded the Coalition “nativist and protectionist” over its resistance to the European Union trade agreement, but Nationals leader Matt Canavan is pushing back and claiming the government’s $10 billion benefit figure relies on pre-Brexit projections. Albanese escalated the political fight by seizing on Liberal backbencher Alex Hawke's warning in a closed-door meeting that opposing the deal would be “nutty”, while Canavan detailed what he called the “fake figure”.
· 7 sourcesAn 18-year-old Papua New Guinean fisherman has been rescued after 41 days adrift in the Pacific, found severely dehydrated on Tuesday between the islands of Tarawa and Maiana, some 2,000 kilometres from his home in northern Bougainville. He is recovering in hospital in Kiribati's capital before being sent home.
A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was fatally stabbed inside a home in Armidale in the NSW New England region early on Thursday, in what police will allege was a domestic violence incident.
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Flavio Bolsonaro, who fled Brazil for the United States after losing the presidential election, revised his claim to being Brazil's 'leader' rather than its rightful president, in a letter posted on social media. His Liberal Party has acknowledged the election result, and its leader said there is no evidence of the electoral fraud Bolsonaro alleges. US President Donald Trump called the election 'a very great embarrassment to the people of Brazil' but said he would not get involved.
· 12 sourcesKazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has proposed withdrawing more than 21 percent of the country's National Fund, around 6.5 trillion tenge ($14.4 billion), to finance infrastructure projects through 2029, abandoning an earlier goal of growing the sovereign wealth fund to $100 billion. In an October 28 national address, Tokayev declared that 'Kazakhstan must turn into one big construction site.'
María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, is preparing an ambitious national tour aimed at forging a 'national agreement' to drive a political transition, after returning to the country following 10 months abroad.
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted 130-17 to condemn the United States' economic embargo of Cuba, continuing a more than three-decade tradition. The US and Israel voted against the resolution, while 25 countries abstained, including Germany and Italy, which had previously voted in favour. US officials welcomed the increase in abstentions as a sign of diplomatic progress, while Cuba accused Washington of threatening nations to change their votes.
· 2 sourcesEthiopia has taken delivery of 12 Russian Su-35 fighter jets and will acquire four S-400 air defence systems, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced during the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow. The aircraft arrived a year ahead of schedule under an earlier agreement with Russia, Abiy said, thanking President Vladimir Putin for expediting delivery.
· 4 sourcesEvacuees from the devastated Russian-occupied city of Oleshky arrived in Ukrainian-controlled territory on Saturday (Oct. 31), completing a 19-hour journey that took them through Russian-occupied Crimea, Russia and Belarus. The evacuation took place under a rare localized ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump; the truce allowed roads to be demined and humanitarian aid to reach the city after months of blockade.
· 18 sourcesThe Greenville Police Department has closed its investigation into the death of actor Hayden Panettiere, ruling it an accidental drug overdose.
· 8 sourcesThe White House has released a fact sheet asserting that President Donald J. Trump has ended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government, education, and the private sector through a series of executive orders and other actions over the past 21 months, replacing what it called radical and wasteful preferencing with merit and equal treatment.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the administration to negotiate with foreign trading partners to reduce imports of robotics, industrial machinery and their components, after a Commerce Department investigation found the current level of foreign reliance threatens to impair U.S. national security.
· 3 sourcesMyanmar's representative to the United Nations, Kyar Moe Tun, made an emotional appeal on Tuesday, urging member states to 'stop their silence on our suffering' and help end the country's crisis.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have asked a federal judge to make previous orders requiring the White House to restore their access permanent, saying they remain excluded from the Oval Office and Air Force One press pool and that the exclusions retaliate for coverage Trump dislikes.
· 2 sourcesThe UK government will allow graduates from selected 'high-compliance' universities to stay on two-year post-study visas, extending the current 18-month limit for institutions with strong labour market outcomes, according to Budget documents released following the Chancellor's speech to the Commons on Wednesday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected the Justice Department's emergency bid to force California to set aside mail-in ballots associated with roughly 20,000 people the department alleges are likely noncitizens, clearing the way for a potential Supreme Court appeal just days before the midterm elections.
· 20 sourcesJosh Inglis will resume on day three of the series-deciding third Test against South Africa in Cape Town with a Test century in his sights, as Australia seek to build a commanding lead after finishing day two at 4-330 in reply to the hosts' 329.
· 9 sourcesA new wave of Russian jet-powered drones is terrorising Ukrainian cities, flying at speeds of up to 600km/h and altitudes of 6,000m, outpacing existing air defences. Ukraine's ability to shoot them down has improved from 57% to about 75% according to the Institute for the Study of War, but the shorter window to intercept the drones and sheer numbers, 3,500 jet drones launched in September alone, are straining defences and driving up civilian casualties.
The National Indigenous Culinary Institute (NICI) has celebrated its largest graduating cohort to date, with 11 First Nations apprentices completing the commercial cookery program that places talented cooks in Australia's finest restaurants. The 2026 graduates, honoured at a long lunch designed by an alumni chef, represent the culmination of a pathway established by chefs such as Neil Perry and Matt Moran to increase Indigenous representation in high-end kitchens.
· 2 sourcesTreasurer Jim Chalmers has described social media as a “business model for hate”, blaming algorithmic rage-bait for toxic politics and abuse aimed at politicians, while a new survey shows half of young Australians now view the United States as a threat rather than a friend.
· 3 sourcesA federal jury in Boston on Tuesday convicted Eric Nshimiye, a 55-year-old Rwandan American father of four, of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying about his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Elon Musk as a "genius" and revealed the two are in "close contact" about satellite technology, as Moscow builds its own low-Earth orbit internet constellation. The comments came as Zelenskyy said Starlink and Starshield operations had been restored after restrictions earlier this month, and preparations were underway for a possible trilateral meeting involving Ukraine, Russia and the US.
· 8 sourcesThe Russian military has proposed moving the ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky forward by two days and widening it beyond the city into other parts of Kherson Oblast, and Ukraine has agreed, Marc Beckman, the senior adviser to US First Lady Melania Trump, told the Kyiv Independent. Beckman also said Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote a formal letter explaining that the first lady would be recognised as the exclusive intermediary from Russia.
ACT Policing has seized more than 40 weapons and made four arrests in Canberra since October 18 as part of a nationwide crackdown called Operation Athena, with one Dunlop gun owner alone surrendering 27 weapons and 4000 rounds of ammunition after compliance checks revealed anomalies.
Sunday night football will become a feature of the AFL fixture in 2027, with a match in the timeslot in each of the first 13 rounds for the first time, and overlapping Sunday games that hurt viewer satisfaction this year will be scrapped.
· 3 sourcesSocialist political commentator and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has filed a $72.5m defamation lawsuit against his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings, accusing him of falsely portraying Piker as a ‘violent racist’ who advocated the lynching of Black people. The suit, filed Tuesday in US district court for the District of Columbia, centers on a ‘cropped, shortened, and rearranged’ video clip that Jennings played on his podcast in August.
New internal polling commissioned by a Republican group shows Democrat Amy Acton leading Vivek Ramaswamy by eight points in Ohio's governor's race, up from a two-point lead earlier this month before an attack ad featuring her estranged mother began circulating on Oct. 19. The findings have heightened Republican anxiety that Ramaswamy's decision to air the deeply personal ad could backfire.
Jurors at Cambridge Crown Court have been shown CCTV footage of a train passenger confronting a knifeman with a frying pan during an attack on a Doncaster to King's Cross LNER service last year. Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of attempting to murder 10 passengers and staff on the train that made an emergency stop at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on 1 November 2025, and of attempting to kill three people in Peterborough the day before and a boy at a London railway station. He denies 14 counts of attempted murder. The footage played on Thursday also captured passengers barricading themselves inside with bicycles.
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