Watch: What could Trump’s energy ceasefire mean for Ukraine?
The BBC's Dan Johnson reports from Kyiv, where Ukrainians face another winter with electricity outages.
Saudi Arabia further suspends flights after latest deadly Houthi attack on airport
Energy minister says ‘fear has no place in the Saudi lexicon’ as paramilitary group again breaches stretched defences
Saudi Arabia has been forced to suspend all flights to and from its main international airport in Riyadh until next Saturday after a further round of Houthi missile attacks caused more damage and left one person dead. Some airlines, including Gulf Air and Bahrain Air, had already said they were cancelling flights until next Saturday. More missiles were fired at Saudi Arabian cities by the Houthis on Monday, Saudi Arabian’s military spokesperson said.
The Gulf nation announced it was suspending flights from Riyadh, its second busiest airport, after Houthi missiles killed 13 people on Saturday and left more than 300 injured. Saudi state TV broadcast CCTV footage that showed passengers deluged in smoke and falling masonry as they queued at the airport terminal to board a plane just as the Houthi missile struck.
Continue reading...Adieu aux ‘Enfants Rouges’: Tears and shock as fire destroys Paris’s oldest covered food market – France 24
- Adieu aux ‘Enfants Rouges’: Tears and shock as fire destroys Paris’s oldest covered food market France 24
- Fire Devastates the Oldest Covered Food Market in Paris The New York Times
- Fire destroys Marché des Enfants Rouges, ‘coolest market in Paris’ The Guardian
- Fire destroys French capital's 'Enfants Rouges' covered food market Reuters
- Oldest covered market in Paris 'completely destroyed' in overnight fire Le Monde.fr
Thousands march to Indian Supreme Court to demand election chief resign
The march follows a chaotic weekend in Delhi which saw thousands of protesters detained by police.
Why the US is bringing back firing squads
The execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan would be the first time the US Army had used a firing squad since 1945.
Why are the Houthis striking Saudi airports? – Al Jazeera
- Why are the Houthis striking Saudi airports? Al Jazeera
- Why are the Houthis attacking Saudi airports and how are the missiles getting through? The Guardian
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- The Only Thing the Houthis Have Done Successfully The Atlantic
Children and women included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers
Farage’s party says it would ‘embed’ immigration enforcement in UK and use ‘aerial imaging’ to identify people
Children and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on people being granted asylum.
The party’s most hardline immigration policies to date were condemned by refugee charities and others as “unworkable” and an abandonment of Britain’s tradition of helping victims of war after they were announced by Nigel Farage on Monday.
Continue reading...Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford for work on ‘smoothing’ crises
US economists developed models that help central bankers and finance ministers to stabilise their economies
Two US economists have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for their work developing models that help central bankers and finance ministers to stabilise their countries, avoiding long recessions and runaway inflation.
Robert Hall of Stanford University, California, and Michael Woodford of Columbia University, New York, were recognised for developing the “microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”, giving policymakers better tools to smooth out the peaks and troughs of their economies.
Continue reading...Tom Cruise film Digger forecast to become one of Hollywood’s biggest flops
The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.
More part-time bosses and co-CEOs could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s pay gap
Uneven caring responsibilities combined with a lack of flexible work options have prevented women from staying in senior positions, research suggests
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More part-time bosses and “co-CEOs” could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s gender pay gap, the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency says.
WGEA warned resistance to gender equality was growing and urged employers to make management more flexible to reduce the gender pay gap, where women earn $0.79 for every $1 a man makes on average.
Continue reading...Rescued turtles return home after NSW government cut flows to wetland
Environmental water to the area was halted after a complaint from a private landholder, leading to the deaths of wildlife and sheep
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Freshwater turtles rescued from a dried-up water hole in western New South Wales after the state government cut environmental water to the area are being returned home.
Late last month, 10 broad-shelled turtles and three Murray River turtles were released back into the Gingham water hole in the state’s Gwydir region.
Continue reading...Julie Inman Grant may be able to limit Australians seeing a livestreamed US execution – but it could start a diplomatic incident
A history of tech giant legal challenges and US political criticism shows there’s no easy solution for the eSafety commissioner
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Australia’s online safety regulator has a few levers to limit the public seeing the US’s planned livestream of an execution, but history suggests it will lead to a very public fight.
The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced last week the planned execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would be livestreamed when the military execution is carried out in early December.
Continue reading...Australian democracy campaigner detained in Vietnam on alleged terrorism offences uncontactable, wife says
Tran Hiep spent his 51st birthday alone in a notorious detention centre in Ho Chi Minh City after his sudden arrest last month
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Tran Hiep spent his 51st birthday alone in a notorious detention centre in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City after his sudden arrest last month.
The Melbourne-based Vietnamese-Australian democracy campaigner hasn’t been heard from since mid-September when Vietnamese authorities detained him for alleged terrorism and forging identity documents.
Continue reading...Rent-tech platforms sidestepping credit card surcharge ban with new fees and paid ‘memberships’
Tenants encouraged to seek free options after online property platforms respond to Reserve Bank’s credit card payment reform
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Online property management platforms are charging renters new fees or pushing them on to paid “memberships” to avoid processing costs associated with card payments in the wake of the ban on surcharges.
Tenants have been encouraged to challenge or bypass additional fees charged by so-called rent-tech platforms, including in Victoria, where fees on rent payments are banned.
Continue reading...Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained – The Moscow Times
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- Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia Reuters
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- Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant BBC
US detains man accused in multi-billion Venezuelan money laundering scheme
US officials had been offering a reward of $10m (£7.5m) for information leading to Álvaro Pulido's arrest.
Coast-to-coast cleanup after three storms batter North America – NBC News
- Coast-to-coast cleanup after three storms batter North America NBC News
- Hurricane Simon lashes Mexico's Pacific coast, pounds resorts and vulnerable towns CBS News
- 2 Pacific Storms Barrel Toward Mexico The New York Times
- Hurricane Simon crawls along Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing floods and evacuations Reuters
- Two deaths reported as Hurricane Simon, storm Rachel batter Mexico’s coast Al Jazeera
Azerbaijan’s school hijab ban: What’s behind it, and what’s next? – Al Jazeera
- Azerbaijan’s school hijab ban: What’s behind it, and what’s next? Al Jazeera
- Azerbaijan reportedly blocks social media access as hijab protests continue OC Media
- Monitoring of compliance with dress code rules in state general education institutions has begun 1News.az
- Student protests over headscarf ban Yeni Şafak English
- Saakashvili backs Azerbaijan: “A courageous step!” TodayPress.tv
Fugitive businessman taken into US custody in Venezuela bribery case
A businessman wanted in the US for allegedly bribing top Venezuelan officials has been taken into custody
A businessman wanted for years in the US for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody.
Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into his longtime business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the state department had been offering a reward of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest.
Continue reading...Super El Nino could make 2026 record hottest year: climate monitor – Yahoo
- Super El Nino could make 2026 record hottest year: climate monitor Yahoo
- Surface air temperature for September 2026 Copernicus Climate Change
- September 2026: 2nd-hottest September for Earth, hottest for the U.S. Yale Climate Connections
- September 2026 was the third-warmest September for Europe https://eu-space.europa.eu/
- Record sea temperature recorded in the central Pacific — BBC News UA.NEWS