Australia's High Court has backed Hunter Valley residents who challenged a plan to double coal output at Mount Pleasant until 2048, ruling that planners ignored 98 per cent of the mine's emissions because the coal would burn overseas.
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Police used tear gas as students, teachers and parents staged France's largest school protest day yet, demanding teachers, smaller classes and repairs amid a budget squeeze.
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Israeli strikes killed Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, a day before the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, as the UN Secretary-General urged that the ceasefire become permanent.
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The Azawad Liberation Front announced a controlled withdrawal from Kidal on October 6 after strikes it says began around October 3. Mali announced large-scale operations; control of the town is unclear and no casualty toll has been reported.
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Kenya confirmed its first imported Ebola case after a Kenyan citizen who had lived in Congo for seven years died in Nairobi. Officials are tracing contacts, passengers and crew.
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Norway's football federation has filed parallel complaints asking FIFA's ethics and governance committees to examine President Gianni Infantino's conduct over three controversies, from a peace prize to a shelved World Cup sell-off plan.
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Bulgaria launched a search operation after drones struck two commercial vessels in the Black Sea and the Togo-flagged Alfa Watan sank at the scene. The attack extends the Ukraine war's danger to civilian shipping lanes far beyond the front line.
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A Gazan survivor writes that recovery cannot begin while the danger never ends. This is not a humanitarian crisis to be managed — it is a genocide with perpetrators, and every demand that Gaza heal on schedule is a demand to absolve the killers.
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Tankers are being hit almost daily in the Strait of Hormuz, yet Gulf crude exports topped pre-war levels for 14 days in September. Shipping data shows 18.3 million barrels a day flowing through the world's most dangerous waterway — and the crews who sail it are paying the real price.
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German federal prosecutors arrested 80-year-old August Hanning, who led the BND from 1998 to 2005, on suspicion of treasonous espionage. His former chief of staff allegedly fed him some 2,000 classified documents destined for a foreign intelligence service.
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Ukraine launched one of its largest drone waves on Moscow overnight on Oct 6, killing two, injuring nine and setting a major oil depot ablaze, Russian officials said. The strike deepens a reciprocal drone war that also saw Russian attacks hit Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv the same night.
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye on October 5 activated their trilateral mutual-defence pact for the first time since signing it on August 7, agreeing to rapidly deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia after escalating Houthi missile and drone attacks on Saudi territory.
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France began a second week of school closures on October 5 as student protests over crumbling buildings, teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms spread nationwide. Up to 500 of 3,700 high schools are shut; 24 schools burned or ransacked, 78 staff injured, around 5,000 arrested.
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Singapore referred eight civil servants to the police after a US paper alleged S$270 million of property buys near planned MRT stations before announcement. Minister Chan Chun Sing said the referral does not establish wrongdoing; 191 officials' 2007-2014 transactions were reviewed.
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Two commercial vessels were hit by drone strikes inside Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea on Tuesday. The Togo-flagged Alfa Watan sank with its crew missing; the Palau-flagged Able caught fire and was abandoned. First reported drone attack in NATO-member Bulgaria's waters.
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Kenya has recorded its first confirmed Ebola case, a citizen who arrived in Nairobi from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday and has since died. Health minister Aden Duale said 28 contacts were identified as the virus escapes a Congo outbreak that has killed over 4,000.
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The West Bank's olive harvest has opened under assault. Settlers and soldiers have wounded farmers in Kafr Qaddum, Beita, Jamma'in and Osarin, detained journalists, and torched homes and vehicles, with 259 attacks recorded since the season began and 30 Palestinians killed by settlers this year.
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More than 2.2 million Yemeni children under five are acutely malnourished and severe cases are rising, yet the 2026 aid plan is only a fifth funded. An Al Jazeera investigation asks where the billions went, and why children like eight-year-old Tahani still die of hunger.
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President Bola Tinubu confirmed all 25 passengers and seven crew aboard the Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 were killed when it crashed near Igbokoda, Ondo State, on Monday, and declared three days of national mourning with flags at half-mast.
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Civilians fleeing the spread of fighting in Tigray report men and boys seized on streets, in markets and at mines by a new alliance of armed groups and pressed into service. Human Rights Watch has documented cases involving children as young as 15; the TPLF calls it a 'mistaken narrative'.
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A mass housing protest in Barcelona ended in clashes on October 6, with fires, barricades and tear gas, as tens of thousands marched across Spain against soaring rents and evictions. The unrest followed parliament's failure on rent protection and the eviction of an 87-year-old wheelchair user.
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Sri Lanka is sending a five-member delegation to Saudi Arabia to seek relief for Sivarasa Anojan, the 27-year-old Tamil worker whose five-year term over a Facebook comment was reportedly raised to a death sentence on appeal. Former FM Ali Sabry has urged clemency.
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Russian bombs struck a residential area of Kharkiv on Monday, killing six people and injuring nearly 60, Ukrainian officials said. A drone hit an apartment block in Zaporizhzhia; one person was killed in Sloviansk.
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Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan agreed on October 5 to immediately implement their August mutual-defence pact and rapidly deploy forces to the Kingdom, as Houthi attacks on Saudi territory escalate and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government launches a major counteroffensive.
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Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, Amazon's cloud division has admitted the loss is permanent: the Bahrain region is a total write-off, and one UAE availability zone is gone forever. What died in the Gulf was not just data, but the central promise of the cloud era — that redundancy could survive anything.
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A new Amnesty International report, built on a former DGST officer's testimony and forensic evidence, documents how Morocco's intelligence service deployed Pegasus spyware and covert surveillance against journalists and activists.
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Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over measles — a US first since the 2025 surge. New York has 108 cases this year, 92 since July in under-immunized rural areas, as the US logs nearly 3,900 cases and Pennsylvania tops 1,000 with five deaths.
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The US Justice Department has filed denaturalization actions against 40 naturalized citizens — its largest single-period filing. With 88 cases since January 2025 and 250 planned this year, critics warn a rarely used tool is becoming a political weapon.
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Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told the New York City Council that AI companies do not know how to stop their models developing goals of their own, calling the industry 'extremely reckless' — and warning that 'we don't understand its drives'.
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Sworn in on Oct 5 for another five-year term, Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed insisted the landlocked nation must have Red Sea access — as federal forces closed in on Mekelle, Eritrea cut diplomatic ties, and analysts warned of a wider Horn of Africa war.
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Activists smashed the glass doors of Cornell's Day Hall at 3 a.m. on Oct 5 and spray-painted 'Smash the patriarchy' in red — fury over a lawsuit alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members gang-raped a student in 2024. Students rallied that evening demanding the fraternity system be abolished.
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A 28-year-old technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after reporting she had broken a test tube of live bacteria. Russia calls it pneumonia of unknown origin — but quarantined nearly 200 contacts and cordoned off hospital wards.
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A Palestinian worker was shot dead and two others wounded by Israeli forces at the entrance to Bani Naim, north of Hebron, on Monday — the bloodiest in a wave of settler and military violence across the occupied West Bank, from demolished homes to olive harvesters beaten in their fields.
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Trump said a 'threat' forced the withdrawal of all US bombers from RAF Fairford after the Pentagon confirmed the aircraft — B-1s, B-2s and B-52s used for strikes on Iran — had been flown back to the United States, following a suspected terror plot against the English base.
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With petrol at $4.36 a gallon and diesel at a record $6.32, Donald Trump insisted on Monday that the Strait of Hormuz is flowing again and blamed Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries and Democratic-run states for the pain at the pump.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that Mexico has asked the US for evidence that gunfire came from the Mexican side of the border, after the ambassador's claim triggered the deployment of hundreds of troops on both sides of the Rio Grande.
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Sunday that 'development and preservation' of the ancient Herod's Pool reservoir has begun. The pool was filled this summer with water diverted from a Palestinian farmer's spring near Fasayil — a diversion Israel's military has acknowledged.
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