- Russia launches strikes across Ukraine after Trump-Putin meeting cancelled Financial Times
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- Russia’s new energy assault pushes Ukrainians into another winter of blackouts AP News
- How Russia’s new tactics pose fresh winter threat to Ukraine Al Jazeera
- Swarms of Russian drones plunge parts of Ukraine into darkness, as Zelensky turns to Europe again CNN
Louvre reopens three days after French crown jewels stolen
The world's most-visited museum shut its doors after jewels worth tens of millions were stolen on Sunday.
Tip on GoFundMe leads to arrest of suspect in deadly 2017 Arizona stabbing
Message sent to fundraising site led investigators to man accused of stabbing Evin Paulos about 30 times
A tip sent to an online fundraising campaign recently allowed investigators to jail the prime suspect in a deadly 2017 stabbing in Arizona – a case which otherwise appeared as if it might not yield any arrests, according to authorities.
The remarkable chain of events, which began with a tip to a page on the GoFundMe platform in September, led to the 15 October arrest in Mexico of Michael Anthony Arredondo, who is accused of stabbing Evin Paulos about 30 times and killing him while the two were traveling together.
Continue reading...Japan says it plans to tell Trump it will build up military and upgrade security strategy – NBC News
- Japan says it plans to tell Trump it will build up military and upgrade security strategy NBC News
- Exclusive: Japan’s new leader to woo Trump with promises on pickups and soybeans Reuters
- Japan plans to tell Trump it will build up its military after years of 1% defense spending Fox News
- Japan’s New Leader Is Set to Face a Trump Test Bloomberg.com
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At least 63 people killed in a crash of buses and other vehicles in western Uganda – AP News
- At least 63 people killed in a crash of buses and other vehicles in western Uganda AP News
- Verifying aftermath pictures of devastating Uganda bus crash BBC
- Bus collision on highway near Uganda’s capital Kampala kills 63 people Yahoo
- At least 63 killed as 2 buses hit head-on in multi-vehicle crash in Uganda, police say CBS News
- Dozens Dead as Overtaking Buses Crash Head On Newsweek
Russia and Ukraine trade missile attacks after Putin-Trump talks shelved – Europe live
Russian missile attack kills multiple people in Kyiv after Ukraine strikes a chemical plant making gunpowder, explosives and fuel in Bryansk
One of two Ukrainians detained for drug possession had shared photographs and coordinates of critical Polish army infrastructure with a Russian speaker, Polish prosecutors said on Wednesday, reports Reuters.
Poland says it has been targeted with tactics such as arson and cyber-attacks in a “hybrid war” waged by Russia to destabilise nations that support Kyiv in the Russian war in Ukraine. Moscow has denied such accusations.
Correspondence was revealed on a secured telephone belonging to Bohdan K, which shows that he had been providing a Russian-speaking person with photographs and geographical coordinates of critical infrastructure at the disposal of the armed forces of the Republic of Poland.
The suspect pleaded not guilty and expressed pro-Russian views and questioned Ukraine’s sovereignty.
Continue reading...Grooming gangs inquiry will never be watered down, home secretary says, after survivors resign from panel – UK politics live
Keir Starmer likely to face PMQs grilling on claims the inquiry has descended into ‘chaos’
UK inflation was unchanged last month at 3.8%, confounding expectations of a rise, in welcome news for the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as she plans for her crucial budget next month, Heather Stewart reports.
Another topic that is likely to come up at PMQs today is a Times report saying that Chris Wormald, the cabinet secretary, who was only appointed in December last year, is expected to be replaced within months.
Continue reading...Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.
Signs of peak inflation open door to earlier Bank of England interest rate cuts
Policymakers under pressure for rethink after price growth in UK remained at 3.8% in September
Has UK inflation peaked? The latest official figures showing price growth in the UK stayed at 3.8% in September seem to suggest so.
The statement cannot be made with absolute certainty yet but many economists reacted to the latest consumer prices index (CPI) data with a message that the only direction for inflation over the rest of the year was down.
Continue reading...Taiwan reports its first case of African swine fever and culls scores of pigs – AP News
‘We fear for our souls’ – Nigerian farmers need armed guards to protect them from jihadists
Armed guards and special buses are increasingly used to coax terrified farmers back into growing food.
Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack
Explosions heard across Ukrainian capital after ballistic missile strikes, with further blasts reported in other regions
Russian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, killing six people including a six-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings.
The attacks lasted most of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at least four ballistic missiles. A series of loud explosions could be heard across the city.
Continue reading...Two dead at Melbourne beach as wild wind batters state, while parts of Sydney hit by record-breaking heat
Sydney’s Observatory Hill peaks at 37C on Wednesday – below the 39C forecast – as the mercury in other parts of the city neared 40C
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Two men have died after being pulled from the water at a Victorian beach amid wild weather in the state.
On Wednesday evening, Victoria police confirmed two men were found unresponsive in the water at Frankston beach, on the Mornington Peninsula, just after 5pm. The men, who are yet to be identified, could not be revived.
Continue reading...French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence – Hacker News
- French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence Hacker News
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- Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars BBC
- Nicolas Sarkozy to have permanent police protection in prison The Guardian
- Former French President Sarkozy accompanied by police officers overnight as he starts prison sentence CNN
NSW police officer who allegedly assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas charged with grievous bodily harm
Senior constable will now face two charges, including grievous bodily harm which carries maximum penalty of 14 years
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A New South Wales police officer will now face a second charge over the alleged assault of Hannah Thomas, who sustained a serious eye injury after she was arrested at a protest in June.
NSW police said the 33-year-old senior constable, who last month was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, was on Wednesday also charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm.
Continue reading...‘Prime minister’s choice’: Sussan Ley walks back call for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as US ambassador
Liberal minister Jane Hume earlier described calls for the former prime minister to be removed as ambassador as a ‘little bit churlish’
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Sussan Ley has walked back her calls for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as Australia’s ambassador to the US, after earlier saying his position was “untenable” after comments from the US president.
The former Australian prime minister sat across from Donald Trump on Tuesday as he inked a deal on critical minerals with Anthony Albanese in a bid to break China’s stronghold on the market.
Continue reading...Trump repeats claim India will cut Russian oil imports
The US has put pressure on India to reduce its energy purchases from Russia in a bid to hit the Kremlin's war chest.
Albanese has worked out a way to deal with Trump – even if there are areas where they don’t see eye to eye
The warmness shown by the US president was held up as vindication of the PM’s foreign policy acumen, and the nerve he had shown in not begging for an earlier meeting
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Outside the White House cabinet room hangs a painting of Donald Trump flanked by Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, in front of a billowing American flag.
The fan-fiction rendition of three Republican leaders, proudly displayed on a main thoroughfare amid a gallery of other photographs and portraits of Trump, is far from the oddest thing in the home and office of the 47th president. The White House is a homage to gilding and gold, crown moulding daubed in glittering paint, with knick-knacks gaudy and glistening stuffed on to his shelves, a Diet Coke button on his desk, and a new ballroom requiring the partial tear-down of the historic East Wing.
Continue reading...UK inflation unexpectedly remains at 3.8% for third month in a row
Annual September rate confounds forecasts of a rise, as pace of food price growth slows for first time since March
UK inflation was unchanged last month at 3.8%, confounding expectations of a rise, in welcome news for the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as she plans for her crucial budget next month.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that inflation measured on the consumer prices index remained at the same level in September as in August and July.
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