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Food-borne illness is not just a risk from meat and seafood. Recent outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce, cucumbers and melons show fresh produce needs proper washing, and a quick splash is not enough. Experts say the answer is simple: wash produce under cold running water right before eating, dry it with a clean towel, and skip the soap, bleach and commercial washes.
· 3 sourcesThe Financial Conduct Authority has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower who took his own life after raising concerns about alleged links between US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, the regulator and campaigners confirmed over the weekend.
· 5 sourcesA homemade bomb has been discovered near the new City Rail Link (CRL) train station in Auckland, according to reporting by RNZ. The device was found on October 6, 2026, though further details have not yet been released by authorities.
· 2 sourcesMatildas and Manchester City forward Mary Fowler has withdrawn from the upcoming international friendlies against Germany and Haiti, with Football Australia citing undisclosed personal circumstances. The announcement was made on Tuesday, a day after Fowler made her 100th appearance for Manchester City. The decision comes as her partner, NRL star Nathan Cleary, recovers from surgery on both legs.
· 3 sourcesSydney Roosters forward De La Salle Va’a has revealed his desire to make a shock cross-code switch to the NFL, and is poised to ask the premiers for an off-season window to pursue his ambition through the sport’s International Pathways Program.
· 3 sourcesDonald Trump says he will stop using taxpayer money for political advertising ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, after a bipartisan backlash over government-funded ads promoting the president and his agenda. The move comes as Trump disputes media coverage of his campaign rallies that has shown rows of empty seats.
· 5 sourcesPolice are investigating after a man was found dead inside a unit on North Road in Woodridge, Logan, south of Brisbane on Tuesday morning.
· 3 sourcesA Gold Coast rugby league club is grappling with the loss of two young players who died by suicide within days of each other, prompting calls for children to seek support if they are struggling.
· 4 sourcesFormer ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has pleaded not guilty to all charges at an arraignment hearing in the ACT Supreme Court, with the trial unlikely to begin before mid-2027 due to court scheduling constraints.
Russian gold is flooding into Hong Kong at a record pace, with imports in the first seven months of 2026 already surpassing the previous annual record, as Western sanctions reroute bullion once bound for London toward China and other Asian markets. Hong Kong imported 112.7 tonnes of Russian-origin gold between January and July, according to precious metals investment firm BullionVault's analysis of Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data, up from 92.1 tonnes in all of 2025 and just 3.3 tonnes in 2021.
Amnesty International has released a report detailing widespread surveillance of Moroccan journalists, activists, and lawyers, allegedly using Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group, with a former employee of Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) acting as whistleblower.
A mine explosion inside the Demilitarized Zone on September 21 that injured three South Korean soldiers has sparked a diplomatic dispute, with Seoul concluding that North Korea buried the device south of the Military Demarcation Line and Pyongyang rejecting the finding and refusing offers of talks, testing President Lee Jae-myung's engagement policy.
Police clashed with protesters outside Kosovo's Parliament in Pristina on Monday evening after lawmakers adjourned without passing reforms that would limit the powers of a Hague-based war crimes court. Twelve people were injured, according to a hospital official, as hundreds of demonstrators tried to block politicians from leaving the building.
The US Department of Justice has filed 40 new cases seeking to strip naturalised Americans of their citizenship, which Attorney General Todd Blanche called the largest denaturalisation effort in modern history. The petitions, filed between late August and early October, target individuals accused of serious offences including money laundering, child sexual abuse, visa fraud, tax evasion and, in two cases, espionage on behalf of China.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a disaster emergency on Monday over a measles outbreak, temporarily expanding the ability of health professionals to administer MMR vaccines. The declaration, in effect through November 4, comes as the state has recorded 108 cases this year — 7 in New York City and 101 elsewhere — with 92 cases since July 15 in rural communities with low vaccination rates. Neighbouring Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, the largest US outbreak in three decades.
· 2 sourcesAnalysis of port records and ship-tracking data has found that over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded at South Korean ports onto seven tankers and shipped to Russia’s far east in July and August. Three of the vessels were under sanctions by the UK and EU, raising questions about whether Seoul is becoming a weak link in Western efforts to pressure Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed a Russian drone attack for the fatal sinking of a Turkish civilian cargo ship in Romania's section of the Black Sea, as a recent wave of strikes raises alarms that the conflict may spill beyond Ukraine's borders.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and injured several others in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank on Monday, as violence in the territory intensifies weeks before Israeli elections. Troops opened fire on a vehicle near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, after the military said the car had rammed an army vehicle. Palestinian officials named the deceased as Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali, 38, and said Israeli forces had withheld his body.
At least 30 people have drowned and dozens more are missing after two boats collided on the Congo River in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Monday. The accident occurred Sunday evening near the Ngombe-Lukolela area in Equateur province.
A 28-year-old laboratory researcher at an anti-plague institute in Siberia has died after a suspected exposure to pneumonic plague, triggering a quarantine and international concern. US President Donald Trump has offered American assistance, while the World Health Organization says the risk to the general population appears low based on available information.
· 7 sourcesRussian jet-powered drone strikes have increasingly targeted Ukrainian data centers in Kyiv since September 23, disrupting mobile phone and internet services for thousands of people and prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to warn of the urgent need for greater air defense capabilities.
The US military has ordered a 48-hour halt to operations on Okinawa, banning off-base liberty and alcohol for all personnel after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of murdering a Japanese woman, with a 30-day curfew to follow.
· 2 sourcesParts of the Perth CBD were closed this morning as the Land Forces Exhibition got underway at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, with a heavy police presence and special powers deployed after violent protests at the same event in Melbourne two years ago.
· 4 sourcesCable industry groups have notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they will sue to block the agency’s repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits how many broadcast TV stations a single company may own. The groups argue the decision will give large broadcasters leverage to demand higher retransmission fees, ultimately raising costs for consumers.
Dawood Safi, a 28-year-old Afghan refugee, has been given an indefinite hospital order and recommended for deportation after killing a dog walker and attacking two other people in a knife rampage in west London. The attacks began at his home on 27 October 2025 and ended with the stabbing of 49-year-old Wayne Broadhurst, who was walking his dog.
St Kilda's demand for Geelong's first-round draft pick and a player in exchange for Rowan Marshall is driven by the Saints' own ambitions to recruit Brisbane midfielder Sam Marshall, creating a complex three-way trade puzzle that explains the club's ambitious asking price.
· 7 sourcesConservative leader Kemi Badenoch has denied her party described its proposed £10bn air defence system as a British 'Iron Dome', despite the party's own press release using that phrase, as she rejected criticism that the budget was inadequate for the scale of the project.
· 4 sourcesPhosphate, long overlooked as a humble fertiliser ingredient, has become a strategically critical commodity as global supply chain shocks, Middle East disruptions and a Chinese export halt squeeze world food supply, according to a report from Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald.
· 2 sourcesThe Guardian is hosting a live reader Q&A on 6 October with its political and global correspondents to examine how the war with Iran is reshaping American politics and whether it will cost Trump's party at the midterm elections.
A 48-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a seven-year-old girl to death in an unprovoked attack on a sidewalk in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has insisted his landlocked country must gain access to the Red Sea, repeating the demand as he was sworn in for another five-year term and as federal forces pushed back opposition fighters in the northern Tigray region.
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to a career low of 32%, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, with Latino voters turning sharply against the administration a month before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows President Donald Trump's approval rating stuck at a record low of 32 percent, with support among Hispanic voters dropping to 24 percent — its lowest point of his presidency — as the November midterm elections approach.
The Australian Army soldier killed in a vehicle rollover at a Northern Territory training ground has been identified as Corporal Brendan Hannam, a 28-year-old father of two who served in Afghanistan and trained Ukrainian forces. Chief of Army Susan Coyle described him as a 'much beloved junior leader' who would 'give the shirt off his back for anybody.'
· 8 sourcesFrance is bracing for a nationwide day of school protests on Tuesday after organisers called for mass mobilisation following a week of demonstrations that saw hundreds of schools blockaded, at least 190 students injured, and more than 5,000 people arrested. The movement, which began in September in Paris and has spread across the country, is demanding greater investment in education.
Pennsylvania has recorded a sixth death in its measles outbreak, with the state's case count rising to 1,137 and hospitalizations to 219. The latest fatality, announced Monday by the Franklin County coroner, was a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman with underlying conditions, as a dispute continues between state officials and the CDC over how measles deaths are classified.
· 3 sourcesA Nigerian Air Force plane crashed in southwestern Nigeria on Monday, killing all 32 people on board, according to officials. The aircraft went down near a naval base in the Igbokoda area of Ondo State.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has unveiled the Coalition’s long-awaited migration policy, pledging to slash net overseas migration to 100,000 in the first two years of a Coalition government — a cut of two-thirds from current levels that he described as “the biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”. The plan would reduce the number of temporary visa holders by around 650,000 over four years while abolishing temporary graduate visas and halving Australia’s humanitarian intake, but adds 100,000 skilled migrant places.
· 16 sourcesConservative leader Kemi Badenoch has arrived at the party's annual conference with her position secure and her MPs in an unusually united mood, as colleagues said the party must now focus on the economy rather than cultural battles to win back voters.
Firefighters are working to contain bushfires near Toowoomba, Queensland, according to reports published on Monday, 5 October 2026.
· 3 sourcesFlávio Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, has won the most votes in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, securing a place in a runoff against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 25 October, according to results reported by The Guardian.
Pacific leaders and delegates gathered in Fiji this week for pre-COP climate meetings co-hosted by Australia, pressing world governments to honour climate commitments and ensure small island states get a fair say in global climate governance ahead of the COP31 summit in Turkey in November.
With US midterm elections approaching, President Donald Trump has blamed Democrats and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries for soaring petrol prices, despite data showing that exports through the Strait of Hormuz have plunged 97 percent since the US-Israel war with Iran began. The average US petrol price has risen to $4.36 per gallon, up from $2.98 before the conflict started in late February, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).
The United Kingdom has reportedly threatened to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Israel proceeds with plans to close the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem by October 8, in retaliation for British sanctions on illegal settlements.
The National Party has pledged to reduce foreign aid outside the Pacific and make the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade more efficient, redirecting the savings into a $604 million uplift in Pharmac's medicines budget and an expansion of free cancer screening, if it leads the next government.
Families in rural Australian communities are being locked out of the federal government's Building Early Education Fund (BEEF), according to childcare advocates and residents who gathered at forums in Longreach and Blackall. They say the fund's eligibility criteria exclude council-run and local not-for-profit centres that are the backbone of early childhood education in remote areas.
Bestselling author and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86, his publisher HarperCollins announced on Monday. Archer, who sold more than 300 million books over a five-decade career, died "suddenly and peacefully at home" between writing sessions, just one day before the release of his final novel, Adam and Eve.
· 12 sourcesBarack Obama will travel to Detroit on 24 October to rally with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for one of the most consequential Senate seats in the country, the Michigan Democratic party announced on Monday. The event, which will also feature gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson, falls on the first day of in-person early voting, 10 days before election day.