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Two devices that ignited in Europe, officials say, were part of a covert operation to put them on cargo or passenger aircraft

Employees say ‘Israel must be held to account for its actions’ and that failing to do so dehumanises Palestinians.

A Russian soldier has spoken of how North Korean troops deployed to fight against Ukraine endangered their own unit by shooting in the wrong direction.

Germany has condemned what it called “a massive, coordinated attempt” to prevent Moldovans abroad from voting in the second round of the country’s presidential election.

Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said vote buying, manipulation and bomb threats against Moldovan polling stations – “even in Germany” – were aimed at “the heart of European democracy”, and showed that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “will stop at nothing”.r:

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Sunday that the strikes have targeted two residential buildings, sheltering hundreds of people in the last 2 days.

Days after Samuel Paty, 47, showed his pupils the caricatures, in 2020, an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin stabbed him repeatedly and beheaded him outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris.

With nearly 99% of votes counted in the second round of the presidential election held Sunday, Sandu had 55% of the vote, according to the Central Electoral Commission, or CEC, compared to 45% for Alexandr Stoianoglo, a former prosecutor general who was backed by the pro-Russia Party of Socialists.

SAO PAULO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who sustained a head injury last month, underwent imaging tests on Sunday in Brasilia, with the medical report saying his condition has remained stable. Lula can perform his usual activities, and his situation will be reassessed in a week, the report issued by the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Brasilia showed.

In late October, Lula fell at home and suffered a small brain hemorrhage and trauma to the back of his head that required stitches, his personal doctor Roberto Kalil has said.

The outcome left African and Latin American nations furious and prompted some to refuse to engage on other biodiversity issues.

India has been described as an adversary for the first time in an official Canadian government document. That description came in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, on Tuesday.

The saint — whose name means roughly “Holy Death” — is often worshipped by convicts, drug addicts and criminals, along with other people who feel excluded or are experiencing difficulties in life.

The saint, who is not recognized by the Roman Catholic church, is usually depicted as a female skeleton, and is supposed to protect her followers from death.

But that didn’t work for “La Madrina Chayo,” a woman considered a leader of the cult in the north-central state of Guanajuato.

The IDF announced that Farouk Amin Alasi, the Hezbollah commander of the Khiam area, was struck and killed by the Israel Air Force (IAF). Alasi was known for orchestrating anti-tank missile and rocket attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee Panhandle, particularly targeting Metula.

In addition to Alasi, the IDF also eliminated Yousef Ahmad Nun, a Radwan Forces company commander in the Khiam area. Nun was held accountable for launching rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli communities in the Galilee region and IDF troops operating in the area.

“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.

The Israel Defence Forces' elite Shayetet 13 naval commando unit on Friday night captured a senior Hezbollah figure in Northern Lebanon.

The IDF confirmed the operation in Batroun, south of Tripoli, on Saturday.

The terrorist, identified as Imad Amhaz, is considered to be a "significant source of knowledge" in the terror group's naval force

A UN committee has urged Peru to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a “crime against humanity”.

Forced sterilisation was part of a programme implemented by Peru’s then president Alberto Fujimori during the final four years before he left office in 2000 after a decade in power.

Frustration over the cost-of-living crisis has led to several mass protests in recent months. In August, at least 20 people were shot dead and hundreds more were arrested at a protest demanding better opportunities and jobs for young people.

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Australia will increase its missile defence capability after China’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the South Pacific raised “significant concerns” and as the Asia Pacific region enters a “missile age”.

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Australia has previously said it would spend 74 billion Australian dollars ($49bn) on missile acquisition and missile defence over the next decade, including 21 billion Australian dollars ($13.7bn) to fund the Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise, a new domestic manufacturing capability.

“We must show potential adversaries that hostile acts against Australia would not succeed and could not be sustained if conflict were protracted,” Conroy said in the speech.

China appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly expanding maritime power.

Former workers at Tasmania's then-largest puppy farm have broken their silence, revealing details about what they saw happen and were asked to do while working at Tasmanian Labradoodles.

One worker was asked to put live puppies in the freezer, while others saw evidence of overbreeding and dogs being shaken to the point of being stunned so they would sit still for a photo for prospective buyers to see.

A sweeping new security and defence partnership pact between Japan and the European Union was unveiled on Friday in Tokyo. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell described it as "the first agreement of this nature" between the EU and an Asia-Pacific country.

"World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries," Dimon said.

The bloc should green-light a “fully fledged intelligence cooperation service at the EU level,” said former Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in a sweeping new report.