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Macron labels Paris suburb shooting a 'racist terrorist attack'

French President Emmanuel Macron has described a drive-by shooting west of Paris that killed one person and wounded five others, including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times, as a 'racist terrorist attack'. The 39-year-old suspect, named as Kevin T., was arrested after a 15-minute rampage through Trappes and La Verrière, and authorities said he had booby-trapped his home with gas canisters and electric wires connected to a timer. Anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating whether the attack was motivated by race or religion.

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DOJ to send election monitors to Washington's King County for midterms

The U.S. Department of Justice has informed King County, Washington, that it will send federal election monitors for the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The agency says it is deploying monitors nationwide for what the head of its Civil Rights Division described as the "largest monitoring effort" ever.

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Min Jin Lee's new novel takes on the tyranny of ambition

Pachinko author Min Jin Lee has returned with American Hagwon, a novel that follows a Korean family from Seoul to Sydney and California after the Asian financial crisis, and takes aim at the promise that education can protect people from being 'made obsolete' under capitalism. In an interview, Lee praised Australia's social institutions as a contrast to the United States.

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Netanyahu asks for plan to use crypto to dodge possible banking sanctions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has asked for a plan to use cryptocurrency and blockchain networks to help Israel get around possible banking sanctions, warning that American military aid will eventually end. He spoke in a televised interview four days before Israel's national election.

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Sydney Marathon champion Jepchirchir provisionally banned over EPO finding

Kenya's world marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended after an out-of-competition sample collected in Kenya returned an adverse analytical finding for the blood booster EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.

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Fifth Circuit rules Trump can detain illegal immigrants without bond hearings

A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration may detain certain illegal immigrants indefinitely without bond hearings while their deportation cases proceed, handing the White House a significant legal victory on a core immigration policy.

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Russell Brand trial: accuser testifies comedian raped her after consensual sex turned non-consensual

Russell Brand is on trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, where one of six accusers told the jury that the comedian raped her in his Hampstead home after a consensual encounter, with the court hearing both graphic testimony and the defence’s suggestion that she had agreed to the acts. The 51-year-old entertainer denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault relating to six women across a decade from 1999.

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India's Gen Z 'Cockroach Party' takes on Modi government over 130 million deleted voter names

Five months after its founding, India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has escalated protests against the reported deletion of approximately 130 million names from voter rolls, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The movement, led largely by Gen Z and college graduates, has faced a government crackdown and the detention of two of its spokespersons.

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Israel's 'Generation Right': record number of first-time voters leans right ahead of October 27 election

A record number of first-time voters, most of them on the political right, will help decide Israel's legislative election on October 27, the country's first national vote since the October 7, 2023 attack. Polls cited by Israeli media say roughly three quarters of Jewish first-time voters identify as right or centre-right, a share significantly higher than the population at large, and surveys show more than 16 percent of new voters plan to back far-right parties.

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Tigray caretaker administration urges rebels to disarm as commander vows continued fight

A senior official in Tigray's new federally backed administration called on rebel fighters to lay down their weapons on Friday, hours after a rebel commander pledged to keep resisting government-backed forces, deepening the collapse of the peace agreement that ended the region's 2020-2022 war.

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US exempts some Canadian goods from tariffs in bid to aid Republicans before midterms

The White House has announced it will lift 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods starting 30 October, exempting products such as plywood, paper products and refrigeration equipment while imposing new levies on other items. The exemptions, first disclosed by Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, come ahead of the 3 November midterm elections and as the US and Canada remain locked in a trade war that began after talks collapsed this summer.

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Argentina drops criminal investigation into President Milei over $Libra crypto crash

A criminal investigation into Argentine President Javier Milei and his sister Karina Milei over their links to the collapse of the $Libra cryptocurrency has been dropped, after a federal judge dismissed the case at the request of prosecutors.

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Russian attacks turn Kyiv into a front-line city as residents sleep in the metro

Russian attacks are increasingly turning Kyiv into a front-line city, with residents sleeping in subway stations, a 14-year-old killed in his own home and the military administration warning that 2026 could be the deadliest year for the capital since the full-scale invasion began.

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US adjusts 50% tariffs on Canadian motor vehicle products, dropping some items and adding others

President Donald Trump has further modified the 50 percent additional tariffs the United States applies to certain Canadian motor vehicle products, removing some goods from the levy and adding others, effective October 30. The White House says the change continues to offset what it describes as Canadian discrimination against US commerce.

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Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention of presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez

A judge in Ecuador has ordered the pre-trial detention of former left-wing presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, a day after her arrest on alleged money laundering charges, deepening a confrontation between her Citizen Revolution party and the right-wing government of President Daniel Noboa.

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Macron labels Paris suburb shooting a 'racist terrorist attack'

DOJ to send election monitors to Washington's King County for midterms

Min Jin Lee's new novel takes on the tyranny of ambition

Netanyahu asks for plan to use crypto to dodge possible banking sanctions

Sydney Marathon champion Jepchirchir provisionally banned over EPO finding

Fifth Circuit rules Trump can detain illegal immigrants without bond hearings

Russell Brand trial: accuser testifies comedian raped her after consensual sex turned non-consensual

India's Gen Z 'Cockroach Party' takes on Modi government over 130 million deleted voter names

Israel's 'Generation Right': record number of first-time voters leans right ahead of October 27 election

Tigray caretaker administration urges rebels to disarm as commander vows continued fight

US exempts some Canadian goods from tariffs in bid to aid Republicans before midterms

Argentina drops criminal investigation into President Milei over $Libra crypto crash

Russian attacks turn Kyiv into a front-line city as residents sleep in the metro

US adjusts 50% tariffs on Canadian motor vehicle products, dropping some items and adding others

Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention of presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez

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Australia

Ex-wife sentenced for role in death of Adelaide mother

NCA bomber reported to have refused food and medication before death

Qantas downgrade refusal and other reader travel gripes

Women who kill: new data shows they are mostly killing their abuser

US Politics

Supreme Court to hear Arizona proof-of-citizenship voting law in December

Trump drops some Canada tariffs in boost to embattled Maine senator Susan Collins

Trump signs executive order targeting mortgage insurance and refinancing costs

Trump says he ordered Justice Department lawsuit to block Alaska Senate certification

Geopolitics

Ukraine says it has reversed Russia's territorial gains this year

Russia, Ukraine and US to hold trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi in November, Kremlin confirms

Ukrainian drone attack shuts Moscow airports, reportedly strikes semiconductor plant

Moscow airports closed almost daily as Ukraine pushes to make Russian airspace unsafe