Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a ballistic missile attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport. Saudi Arabia said its forces intercepted the missile and carried out airstrikes against Houthi missile sites in Yemen. The attack followed recent strikes that had disrupted airport flights.
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Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed the group attacked King Khalid International Airport on Monday morning.
Saudi military spokesperson Turki Al-Maliki said Saudi forces intercepted a ballistic missile headed for Riyadh.
Al-Maliki said Saudi forces struck missile storage and launch sites in Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s civil defense agency warned Riyadh residents of potential danger and later said the danger had passed.
Flights at the airport had resumed hours before the claimed attack, after being suspended following recent Houthi strikes.
The article says U.S.-Iran talks remain stalled despite a memorandum of understanding signed in June.
U.S. intelligence director Jay Clayton said Iran had substantially increased efforts to target U.S. officials abroad.
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Jordanian security forces arrested three men in connection with a shooting at a Greek Orthodox church in Hammoud that killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen. Authorities said the suspects were injured in a shootout during their arrest; no group has claimed responsibility, and officials have not identified a possible militant link.
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The church attack occurred Friday during a funeral in Hammoud, in Jordan’s Karak governorate.
The attack killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen.
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said three suspects were arrested after a dawn shootout on Monday.
The directorate said all three suspects were wounded and no security personnel were injured.
Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya identified the three men as those responsible for the attack.
Authorities have not named the suspects or cited links to any armed group.
King Abdullah II called on authorities to respond forcefully to those seeking to undermine national unity.
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The article says Israel’s leading election candidates largely agree on security policy and do not offer a clear path to a two-state solution. It presents the main divide as domestic politics: whether Netanyahu’s government continues with less judicial oversight and its current coalition, or opponents govern under legal limits and without the coalition’s most extreme members.
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The article describes the election as taking place on Tuesday.
It says leading candidates have not questioned Israel’s wars following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack, including the war on Iran.
The article says most candidates have not set out a clear route to a two-state solution or an equitable settlement with Palestinians.
Benjamin Netanyahu said there would be no Palestinian state and that the land belongs to Israel.
Gadi Eisenkot said he considers the two-state principle a mistake.
Bezalel Smotrich called for ending the Oslo Accords, asserting sovereignty and encouraging migration from Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Yair Golan said a rapid move to a two-state solution is impossible and advocated civil separation and Israeli security responsibility.
The article says Haredi military conscription has become more prominent as the human and economic costs of war have grown; Shas and United Torah Judaism have sought legal protections from conscription for ultra-Orthodox youth.
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Jordanian security forces arrested three suspects after a gun attack at a Greek Orthodox church funeral in Karak governorate killed eight people and injured 40. The suspects were wounded in a three-hour confrontation and taken into custody; 27 injured people remained in hospital on Monday.
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Authorities found the three suspects in an abandoned house in Al-Jadeeda village on Monday.
The Public Security Directorate said the suspects refused to surrender and attacked security forces, who returned fire.
A government source said one suspect was in critical condition; no security personnel were reported injured.
A search of the site found firearms and live ammunition, Petra News Agency reported.
The attack took place on Friday at a funeral in Hamoud, about 120 km southwest of Amman.
Jordan’s Ministry of Health reported eight deaths and 40 injuries; 27 injured people remained in hospital on Monday.
King Abdullah II promised the attackers would face severe penalties and ordered a review of security procedures.
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Israeli forces sealed parts of Hebron after a Friday attack at a military checkpoint that killed two Israeli soldiers. The municipality said the operation displaced nearly 2,000 people from Ein Deir Baha, while residents said soldiers forced them from their homes and used some houses as military positions; the army said civilians left voluntarily.
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The attack on Friday killed two Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint in Hebron.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visited Hebron after the attack, days before Israel’s election, and promised a strong response.
Israeli forces sealed off Hebron and demolished an industrial area in the Farsh al-Hawa neighbourhood, according to the article.
The Hebron municipality said 370 families, nearly 2,000 people, were displaced from Ein Deir Baha.
Residents said soldiers ordered them to leave, in some cases giving families only minutes to evacuate.
Resident Fahed Ahmaro said soldiers took over his house and damaged its gates and furniture.
The Israeli military said people who wished to evacuate were allowed to leave temporarily and described their departure as voluntary.
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A man was found dead in floodwaters at Smothering Creek on Queensland’s Fraser Coast after days of heavy rain across parts of the state. Flooding also stranded campers, closed roads and prompted warnings for several rivers, with more rain possible before conditions return to typical spring weather.
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Police said the man was found unresponsive in Smothering Creek at Boompa shortly after 11am on Monday; an investigation is under way and police will report to the coroner.
Six campers were rescued from floodwaters at a campground in Leyburn on Monday morning, with no physical injuries reported.
Heavy rain from Thursday to Monday flooded rivers and roads across southern and eastern Queensland.
Blackdown Tableland recorded 439.4mm of rain over four days, the highest total listed in the article.
Flood warnings were in effect for rivers including the Bremer, Mary, Macintyre, Moonie, Warrego, Bulloo and Barcoo.
The Bureau of Meteorology said Queensland weather was expected to return to more typical spring conditions, with afternoon showers and storms.
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A High Court ruled that Bern Rogers is entitled to £127,500 for caring for her mother, Sheila, at home for 850 days. Rogers said she and her mother had agreed she would be paid; the executor of Sheila’s estate plans to appeal the award.
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Rogers cared for her mother, who had dementia and other health problems, for about two and a half years in Bristol.
Sheila moved into Rogers’s home in September 2017 and died in April 2020.
A High Court judge ruled in 2025 that Rogers had an informal agreement with her mother to receive reasonable payment for her care.
A judge set the payment at £127,500 in August 2026.
Rogers transferred £100,000 from her mother’s estate after her death and was charged with fraud and theft.
A jury found Rogers not guilty at a 2022 trial.
The estate’s executor, Rogers’s brother Andrew, said it was willing to pay genuine expenses and an additional amount for her efforts, but plans to appeal the judgment.
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Voice actor Eric Bauza, known for voicing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters, has died at age 46. His family said he died suddenly; Variety reported that the cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease and that he died at home on Sunday.
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Bauza voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other Looney Tunes characters.
He voiced several characters in the animated film Coyote vs. Acme and appeared in Forgotten Island.
He played Toad General in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Bauza won three Emmy awards for outstanding voice performance between 2022 and 2025.
He was born in Ontario and was of Filipino descent.
His family announced his death in a statement posted on Instagram.
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is considering moving the White House press corps from its historic location. In a Truth Social post about comedian Bill Maher, he said he was not building a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room and had never intended to do so.
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Trump confirmed that he is considering moving the White House press corps.
The press corps currently works from a historic location, according to the article.
Trump made the statements Sunday.
He posted on Truth Social.
The post discussed comedian Bill Maher.
Trump denied plans to build a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room.
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President Donald Trump criticized comedian Bill Maher in a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, after Maher discussed their October 15 White House dinner on his HBO show. Maher said he valued meeting Trump while continuing to criticize him, and Trump disputed parts of Maher’s account, including how long the dinner lasted.
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Trump called Maher a “complete and total loser” and told him not to call again.
Maher discussed the dinner on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher.
Maher said he enjoyed the dinner and described Trump as listening without interrupting or getting angry.
Maher said he raised immigration enforcement, Afghanistan, the Supreme Court and the 2020 election during the dinner.
Trump said the dinner lasted “two hours, maybe less,” disputing Maher’s account that it lasted four hours.
Trump described the gathering as a good meeting and said everybody was happy.
Musician Kid Rock and ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith also attended the dinner.
Trump praised Karoline Leavitt’s appearance on Maher’s show while criticizing how the program treated her.
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The article argues that French officials have focused on violent unrest to justify a security crackdown while drawing attention away from the causes of student protests. It describes injuries and arrests, and points to poverty, deteriorating school conditions, and missed teaching hours as sources of public anger.
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The article says protests began in September and that unrest included looting, damaged property, and fires.
It reports injuries to three teenagers: one suffered a fractured jaw and lost teeth, one lost sight in an eye, and one had a hand blown off.
By October 14, 7,950 people had been placed in police custody since the protests began; the article says 85 percent were minors.
The article reports that 2,700 people were taken into custody after October 17 protests and that police made another 1,000 arrests the following day.
The article cites an estimate of 9.8 million people living below France’s official poverty line and says 53 billionaires hold as much wealth as nearly half the population, citing Oxfam.
It describes overcrowding and poor facilities at schools in Mayotte and Paris suburbs, including water problems, mould, and unusable toilets.
The article cites education ministry figures that 20.2 million teaching hours were missed in state secondary schools in 2024–25, excluding Mayotte; 15 million were lost because absent teachers were not replaced.
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China’s Communist Party Central Committee has begun a four-day, closed-door meeting on strengthening party discipline and tackling corruption. The talks come as President Xi Jinping seeks greater compliance from officials and as China faces economic challenges and strained ties with the United States.
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About 300 Central Committee members are attending the fifth plenum.
The committee is discussing a draft policy on advancing “full and rigorous party self-governance,” according to Xinhua.
Xi’s anticorruption campaign has removed thousands of officials over 14 years, including dozens of Central Committee members.
Eight Central Committee seats are vacant, and 15 members are under investigation, according to the article.
The meeting is expected to have the lowest turnout since Mao Zedong died in 1976.
The campaign has also affected the military, with five of the seven members of the Central Military Commission toppled.
The plenum could appoint new members to the military commission or change how the party controls the military.
China is also grappling with weak domestic spending, a prolonged property-sector crisis, and difficult political and economic ties with the United States.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election with 51.79% of the vote, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro after trailing in the first round. Bolsonaro refused to concede, leaving the result politically tense.
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Lula received 51.79% of the vote, compared with Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.21%.
The margin was about 4.3 million votes.
In the first round, Bolsonaro received 47.03% and Lula received 45.16%.
The article says no first-round runner-up had won the runoff since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985.
Bolsonaro cited an extension of voting hours when refusing to accept the result; the article says both sides had called for the extension.
Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio’s father and a former president, is serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
Lula described the result as “a defeat for denialism.”
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Australian opposition leader Angus Taylor rejected calls to change parliamentary debate practices after an alleged attack left independent MP Helen Haines without both legs. Independent MPs Monique Ryan and Zali Steggall criticised Taylor’s response, saying political language can affect actions and urging a more respectful debate.
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A 43-year-old man has been charged over the alleged attack outside Haines’s electorate office in northern Victoria; the incident remains under investigation.
Parliament returned to Canberra a week after the alleged attack.
Taylor said robust parliamentary debate does not cause political violence and argued that violence and intimidation must be rejected.
Taylor called for judges to impose tougher penalties on people found guilty of intimidation or violence.
Barnaby Joyce said changes to parliamentary question time would not solve the broader problem.
Steggall said politicians, the media, election advertising and social media users should consider the impact of their words.
Ryan described Taylor’s response as “tone deaf” and said political leaders’ words matter.
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A Victorian Supreme Court judge rejected convicted murderer Andre McKechnie’s appeal against a long-standing ban on Vegemite in Victoria’s prisons. The state says the spread can help hide contraband or brew alcohol, and the court found McKechnie had not shown that the ban violated rules on inmate health and well-being.
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McKechnie, 54, argued that the ban denied him the right to enjoy Australian culture.
Victoria has banned prisoners from consuming Vegemite since 2006.
Corrections Victoria said Vegemite’s smell can disguise contraband and distract drug-detection dogs.
Authorities also say prisoners could use the spread to brew alcohol.
The judge said McKechnie’s cultural rights were limited by his prison sentence.
McKechnie is serving a life sentence for stabbing a property developer to death in Queensland in the 1990s.
Vegemite is also banned in prisons in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected to a fourth term after narrowly defeating right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. BBC correspondent Ione Wells explains the result from Brasília.
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Lula won election to a fourth term as Brazil’s president.
Lula narrowly defeated Flávio Bolsonaro.
Flávio Bolsonaro is described as right-wing.
Lula is described as left-wing.
The vote was close.
BBC correspondent Ione Wells is in Brasília.
The video explains Brazil’s election results.
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed criticized President Donald Trump during a Sunday interview on Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation. Asked about attacks by Republicans and Trump on his family background and faith, El-Sayed said Trump has as much regard for the Constitution as “a piece of toilet paper.”
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Abdul El-Sayed is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.
El-Sayed made the remarks on Sunday in an interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton.
The interviewer asked about attacks by Republicans and Trump on El-Sayed’s family background and faith.
El-Sayed compared Trump’s regard for the Constitution to “a piece of toilet paper.”
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Indian cartoonists Satish Acharya and Manjul say Instagram restricted their work in India without giving them clear explanations. Meta says it may temporarily restrict accounts to comply with Indian IT Rules, which let authorities and courts order platforms to block or limit content.
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Instagram restricted Acharya’s profile in India from 28 September to 6 October, then blocked it again for three days in October.
During the restrictions, users in India could not find Acharya’s profile through search or open it through a web link.
Manjul said Instagram restricted a post criticizing the Election Commission over changes to voter rolls.
Meta did not provide the BBC with specific reasons for restricting Acharya’s account or Manjul’s post.
India’s IT Rules allow authorities and courts to order social media platforms to remove or restrict content.
The Indian Express reported that government agencies sent nearly 195,000 blocking and content-restriction orders through the Sahyog portal from March to July; the figures do not show how many items platforms restricted or removed.
Several media outlets reported that authorities asked Meta to prevent its recommendation systems from steering users toward a limited set of narratives and to strengthen checks on content that could cause public disorder or incite violence.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term as Brazil’s president with 51.7% of the vote, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro. He faces a divided electorate, a Congress strengthened by right-wing parties, strained public finances, pressure to address violence, and tense relations with the United States under President Donald Trump.
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Lula won the October 25 runoff with 51.7% of the vote, compared with 48.2% for Flavio Bolsonaro.
The article says the narrow result reflects Brazil’s political divide and the continued strength of Bolsonarism.
The Liberal Party holds 121 of 513 seats in the lower house and 28 of 81 seats in the Senate, leaving Lula without a congressional majority.
Lula will need support from the center-right Centrao bloc to pass proposals, while lawmakers control a growing share of the federal budget.
Brazil spends more than it collects, public debt exceeds 80% of gross domestic product, and the central bank keeps interest rates high to curb inflation.
Lula faces pressure to tackle criminal groups and militias; he said he would support lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 for heinous crimes.
Trump imposed tariffs on Brazil last year and added a 25% tariff on some products this year, according to the article.
Lula has pledged to protect Brazil’s sovereignty while managing relations with the Trump administration.
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