Netanyahu in poll rebound after Hezbollah attacks

The Israeli PM's party would win the most seats if an election were held but the opposition bloc would have more overall, a poll shows.

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Campaigner who ignited euthanasia debate in Hungary dies

The prominent human rights lawyer campaigned to legalise euthanasia in Hungarian and European courts.

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Woman left in ‘constant’ fear after being stalked by Australia Post employee

Man left voice recording in 64-year-old’s mailbox, outlining how he had been watching her on his mail run, but quit when confronted by his employer

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An Australia Post employee allegedly stalked a 64-year-old woman he encountered on his mail run, prompting police to apply for a personal safety intervention order against him.

The 41-year-old man resigned when confronted by the organisation but the victim said she has been left in fear and does not think Australia Post’s investigation into the matter was adequate.

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Young Lebanese girl left fighting for life after Israeli strikes

Noor Mossawi, aged six, is one of a number of people in critical condition in a hospital in eastern Lebanon.

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Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair

Exclusive: Former Australian PM witnessed ‘shocking act of perjury’ and says MI5 are still trying to hide something

The former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused the UK government of hypocrisy and concealment over the way it continues to block the release of secret files about the Spycatcher affair.

Before entering politics, Turnbull was a barrister for Peter Wright, a retired senior MI5 intelligence officer who revealed a series of illegal activities by the British security services in his memoir Spycatcher.

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'The worst moment the country has passed through': Fear on the streets of Beirut

Lebanon is a country that knows war - but for some Israel’s recent escalation already feels worse.

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Top Russia diplomat warns west not to fight ‘nuclear power’ in UN speech

Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear posture

Russia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.

Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the west of using Ukraine – which Russia invaded in February 2022 – as a tool to try “to defeat” Moscow strategically, and “preparing Europe for it to also throw itself into this suicidal escapade”.

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Drone video shows Hurricane Helene's path of destruction

Drone video shows Hurricane Helene's path of destruction

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Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei’s austerity measures hit hard

Far-right president has been battling inflation by imposing steep cuts in spending, resulting in widespread poverty

Argentina’s poverty rate has soared to almost 53% in the first six months of Javier Milei’s presidency, offering the first hard evidence of the far-right libertarian’s tough austerity measures are hitting the population.

The new poverty rate, reported by the government’s statistics agency on Thursday, is the highest level for two decades, when the country reeled from a catastrophic economic crisis, and means 3.4 million Argentinians have been pushed into poverty this year.

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Watch: Reporter captures moment air strike hits Beirut

BBC reporters capture the moment and aftermath of an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon.

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Pope says church must be ashamed of Belgium sexual abuse

Belgium's King Philippe levelled direct criticism at the pontiff, saying it had "taken far too long for the cries to be heard and acknowledged".

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The NYC mayor's dramatic day in under 60 seconds

Eric Adams is charged with five counts of criminal offenses, including bribery, wire fraud, and illegal campaign donations.

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Zelenskyy meets Biden to pitch ‘victory plan’ to end war with Russia

Ukraine president visits White House in effort to shore up US support, amid rising tensions between him and Tump

Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have met at the White House where the Ukrainian leader is expected to present a high-stakes “victory plan” to end the war with Russia with additional American aid.

Zelenskyy has kept the details of the plan secret, but US officials have said it includes additional American aid in the military, economic and political spheres to prevent a Ukrainian rout on the battlefield and “provide the people with the assurance that their future is part of the west”.

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NYC mayor charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign funds

Eric Adams is accused of illegally accepting foreign campaign donations and $100,000 in luxury travel benefits from Turkish nationals.

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Three men charged in Germany over Michael Schumacher blackmail plot

Chief suspect threatened to release private photos and demanded €15m from F1 star’s family, prosecutors say

German prosecutors are bringing charges against three men arrested this year over an alleged blackmail plot targeting the family of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher.

They said the chief suspect, a 53-year-old man from the western city of Wuppertal, had threatened to release private photos and videos and demanded €15m (£12.5m) from Schumacher’s family.

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Watch: Hijacked bus chased by police cars through downtown LA

A passenger is shot dead after a gunman hijacked a bus and was chased by police for an hour.

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Biden struggles to contain conflict as Israel and Hezbollah on the brink

As the US president called for restraint in a speech at the UN, Israel's leader vowed to continue striking Hezbollah.

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Journalist's apology not enough to satisfy Ghanaian king

Media personality Afia Pokua grovelled to the Ashanti king on her knees but it was not enough.

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Sri Lanka's new president dissolves parliament

Anura Kumara Dissanayake calls a general election, dissolving the parliament where his party only holds three seats.

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Spanish police arrest five people over fake Brad Pitt scam

Suspects accused of conning two women out of €325,000 by pretending to be Hollywood star online

Spanish police have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of €325,000 (£271,000) by posing as the Hollywood star Brad Pitt online.

The suspects made contact with the women on an internet page for fans of the Oscar-winning actor and led them to believe “they had a sentimental relationship with him”, Spain’s Guardia civil police force said in a statement on Monday.

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US to ban Chinese tech in cars

Officials say they are worried the technology could allow enemies to "remotely manipulate cars".

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ACCC sues Coles and Woolworths over allegations of ‘illusory’ discounts on common products

Competition watchdog alleges supermarkets briefly increased prices on hundreds of products before placing them in discount promotions

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The competition regulator is suing Coles and Woolworths over allegations they misled shoppers by engaging in “illusory” discounts on hundreds of common supermarket products.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claimed on Monday that the major chains derived significant revenue from the sale of tens of millions of products sold through promotions that the regulator says breached consumer law.

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Māori language ‘at risk’ as a result of government policies, commissioner says

Prof Rawinia Higgins tells the Guardian that te reo Māori is under threat from the rightwing coalition despite long-running efforts to revive it

New Zealand’s Māori language commissioner has described government policies to limit the use of the Indigenous language in the public service as “a risk” to the half-century effort to revive it.

“Any affront to the efforts that we have been making has to be taken seriously,” the commissioner, Prof Rawinia Higgins, told the Guardian. “We’re seeing a reaction – only from a small corner of people, but enough that we don’t want that to snowball.”

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News live: Chalmers reveals $149bn cut to national debt under Labor; Australia overtakes Russia in Asia influence rankings

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says gross debt at the end of 2023-24 was $907bn. Follow the day’s news live

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Katy Gallagher was also up on ABC RN this morning, where she was again asked about the Greens’ position regarding the RBA reforms. She responded:

Well, I just think the Greens are out of control at the moment, full of self importance and out seeking populist approach to everything. It’s crazy what they’re saying to us.

So if that’s their ultimatum – and you know, it’s a bit unseemly, Nick McKim going around issuing ultimatums – you know, no, we won’t work with that, because that is crazy. It’s economically irresponsible, and we won’t do it.

They remain on the table. We’re pretty keen on them. So is the bank, and we certainly thought that the Reserve Bank support for these reforms would sway the Liberal Party… The treasurer has been working with the shadow treasurer closely on it, but they’ve dealt themselves out, for whatever reason…

[The Greens are] just trying to be populist, but [that] can cause a lot of damage at the same time… The Greens political party are teaming up with the Liberal Party. I think it’s Peter Dutton and Adam Bandt working together to frustrate sensible challenges that are in the long-term interests of the country.

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Abba's Björn Ulvaeus marries in Copenhagen

The wedding took place in Copenhagen in the presence of close friends and family.

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Trump says too late for another debate as Harris pushes for second clash

Kamala Harris had "gladly" accepted CNN's invitation to debate two weeks before the election.

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Sicily: fear of foreign actors prompts security request for wreck of luxury yacht

Officials concerned about sensitive hard drives of tech mogul Mike Lynch, who died in sinking of Bayesian

Italian authorities have confirmed a request for additional security around the wreck of the luxury yacht Bayesian, which sank in August killing seven, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after fears were raised that material in watertight safes onboard could be of interest to foreign governments.

Italian prosecutors fear that would-be thieves might try to reach the wreckage in order to loot expensive jewelry and other valuable objects onboard, including intelligence data, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources.

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Watch: Russia dissident freed in prisoner swap vows to return

A dissident freed by Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War vows to return to the country.

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Flight diverted after passenger finds live mouse in meal

The furry stowaway forced a Scandinavian Airlines plane to make an emergency landing.

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'Our husbands didn't go to war for Ukraine so we can sit around crying'

A study suggests 54% of Ukrainians suffer from PTSD as Russia's war of conquest grinds on.

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Guinea stadium massacre fugitive extradited from Liberia

Claude Pivi, Guinea's most wanted fugitive, has been on the run since last year's dramatic prison break.

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Violent protests erupt in Martinique over high cost of living with 14 injured

French Caribbean island sees scenes of vehicles engulfed in flames and gutted buildings as officials impose curfew

Officials in the French Caribbean island of Martinique have imposed a 9pm to 5am curfew in parts of its capital to quell escalating violent protests over the high cost of living.

According to Radio France International (RFI), at least 14 people, including 11 police, have been injured – some by firearms – as alarming scenes on social media showed vehicles engulfed in flames, gutted buildings and heavily geared riot police marching towards the protests.

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Watch: Timelapse of supermoon rising over California

A supermoon lights up the sky across the world along with a rare partial lunar eclipse.

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Australia politics live: NSW to review 40 years of unsolved murders in response to gay hate inquiry

The NSW government will accept all 19 recommendations made by the landmark gay hate crimes inquiry. Follow today’s news live

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Our diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour has been following the UN vote in New York.

There was applause across the UN general assembly chamber when the motion demanding Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories was passed by 124 votes to 14 with 43 abstentions.

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Walkie-talkie explosions spark fresh day of chaos in Lebanon

A second wave of communication device explosions killed at least 20 people, Lebanese officials say.

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Venezuela opposition leader says he was forced to sign letter accepting Maduro victory

Edmundo González says he signed election letter under duress as condition for allowing him to flee to Spain

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Venezuela’s opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, has said he was coerced into signing a letter recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the country’s disputed election as a condition for letting him flee to Spain.

The revelation of the letter is the latest strain to the country’s political crisis, which was exacerbated by the disputed election results and González’s recent departure for exile in Spain.

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In Ukraine, Trump plot suspect remembered as a 'delusional' reject

Ryan Routh became fixated on the war to an "unhealthy level", despite being turned down by Ukraine’s International Legion in Kyiv.

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Video appears to show pager explosion at Lebanon supermarket

BBC Verify has examined dozens of videos after reports of thousands injured and several killed by handheld pagers exploding in Lebanon.

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Starmer puts ‘pragmatism’ before perceptions in meeting with Meloni

Some Labourites may see a hard-right populist but the British PM has an eye on the immigration policies of an ally

Keir Starmer will be under no illusions at the level of discomfort some in his party may have felt at the sight of their leader smiling and joking with Giorgia Meloni as they strolled through the gardens of the Villa Doria Pamphili on his trip to Rome on Monday.

The Italian prime minister’s brand of hard-right populism is far out of the comfort zone of many Labour MPs, and even though she governs, for the most part, from the centre-right, they are unable to shrug off her party’s neo-fascist roots.

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Jane's Addiction cancel tour after on-stage brawl

The US band say they have made the "difficult decision to take some time away as a group" following the fight.

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Jackson 5 singer Tito Jackson dead at 70

Tito was an original member of the Jackson Five pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson.

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Pipeline explosion in Texas causes pillar of fire

Firefighters are battling the blaze in La Porte, near Houston, as residents near the area were urged to evacuate.

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Vance doubles down on false 'pet-eating' claims

The baseless claims targeting Haitian immigrants have led to several security threats in the town of Springfield, Ohio.

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Trump is 'safe following gunshots in his vicinity' - campaign

The US Secret Service confirmed in a post on X that they were investigating a "protective incident" involving Trump.

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‘It’s the height of horror’: protests in 30 French cities in support of Gisèle Pélicot

Outrage at ordeal of woman raped after being drugged by husband leads to marches across the country

Hundreds of protesters gathered across France on Saturday in support of Gisèle Pélicot, the woman whose husband drugged her and invited more than 80 men to rape her at their home over the course of a decade.

Feminist groups organised about 30 protests in cities including Paris and Marseille. Demonstrators also gathered in Brussels. At Place de la République in Paris, protesters held placards with messages of support for victims of sexual violence. One read: “Gisèle for all. All for Gisèle.”

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Floods devastate parts of Romania and Czech Republic

Flash flooding brought by storm damaged thousands of homes and buildings across parts of Europe.

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Putin draws new red line on long-range missiles

Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine using the West's long-range missiles would mean Nato countries "fighting with Russia".

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‘Ukraine must defend itself’: Washington leaders dismiss Putin’s war talk

Russian leader’s warning of potential direct war with Nato regarded as sabre-rattling to weaken support for Ukraine

US officials and lawmakers have shot back at Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader said that Nato’s potential lifting of restrictions on Ukraine to launch long-range strikes into Russia would mean Nato countries were “at war” with Russia.

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, is meeting with the US president, Joe Biden, on Friday at the White House, where the two are expected to discuss – though not necessarily announce – a loosening of restrictions on Storm Shadow missiles that would allow Ukraine to strike targets as far as 155 miles inside Russia.

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UN says Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six of its staff

Israel's military alleges that three Unrwa employees were among nine Hamas fighters killed.

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Families cling to hope in Belarus after first release of political prisoners

Dozens of prisoners were freed unexpectedly this summer, now relatives are hoping more will follow.

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Putin: lifting Ukraine missile restrictions would put Nato ‘at war’ with Russia

Comments come after Antony Blinken hints US will lift restrictions on Kyiv’s use of weapons inside Russia

Vladimir Putin has said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean Nato would be “at war” with Moscow.

Putin spoke as US and UK top diplomats discussed easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia, which Kyiv has been pressing for, more than two and a half years into Moscow’s offensive.

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Harris and Trump both attend 9/11 memorial in New York

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump shook hands again on Wednesday at the event, hours after their debate showdown.

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Blinken hints US will lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range arms in Russia

Decision understood to have already been made in private as secretary of state says in Kyiv that US will continue to adapt policy

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.

Speaking in Kyiv alongside the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, Blinken said the US had “from day one” been willing to adapt its policy as the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine changed. “We will continue to do this,” he emphasised.

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Thousands flee Vietnam floods after typhoon hits

One of the country's largest rivers reached its highest level in two decades on Wednesday.

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Celebrity ‘son of God’ pastor surrenders in Philippines after two-week manhunt

Apollo Quiboloy, who is also wanted in US on child trafficking charges, surrenders to police after ultimatum

An influential pastor wanted in the US on child trafficking charges has been arrested in the Philippines, after a 16-day manhunt across a vast compound that included a network of underground tunnels and dozens of buildings.

Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church, who claims to be the “appointed son of God” and was a spiritual adviser of the former president Rodrigo Duterte, is facing various charges, including in the US where he is wanted over alleged trafficking of women and girls as young as 12.

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Neighbours criticise German move to extend border controls

Poland's prime minister says Berlin's decision to impose controls on all land borders is unacceptable.

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Fugitive former mayor Alice Guo arrives in Philippines after deportation from Indonesia

Arrest warrant was issued for Guo, who is accused of having links to Chinese criminal syndicates, after she failed to appear before a Senate inquiry

Alice Guo, a fugitive former mayor of a town in the Philippines accused of having links to Chinese criminal syndicates, has arrived back in the Philippines after she was deported from Indonesia.

Guo, whose case has gripped the Philippines, was the subject of an arrest warrant after she failed to appear before a Senate inquiry investigating financial scams and human trafficking found to be taking place at a sprawling compound in her town, Bamban, in Tarlac province.

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Russia’s shadow oil fleet and Gaza ceasefire plan to top US-UK talks in London

Antony Blinken to meet David Lammy in precursor to Joe Biden’s talks with Keir Starmer in Washington

Moscow’s use of a shadow fleet transporting western-sanctioned oil, Ukraine’s call to fire to fire UK-supplied missiles into Russia, and the value of publishing a new version of the US ceasefire plan for Gaza will top US-UK talks in London being attended by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state.

His meeting this week with the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, will make him the most senior US official to visit the UK since Labour’s general election victory in July. It is also a precursor to talks in Washington between Joe Biden and Keir Starmer at the end of the week.

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Pope Francis welcomed in remote Vanimo in Papua New Guinea

In Vanimo, a town near the border with Indonesia, the Pope donned a traditional Bird of Paradise feathered headdress.

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An 'argument over notebooks' led to murder at an Indian school - and set a city ablaze

The killing of a Hindu boy, allegedly by his Muslim classmate, sparked religious tensions in an Indian city.

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Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later

Akara tells the BBC about the journey his phone took after it was snatched from his hands by thieves.

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Magnitude 4.5 earthquake hits Hunter region at Muswellbrook

Thousands of reports lodged after quake hit NSW area around 6am, two weeks after previous quake of similar size

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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has hit the Hunter region of New South Wales early Saturday morning, two weeks after an earthquake of a similar size struck the region.

The earthquake struck Muswellbrook, 125km north-west of Newcastle, just before 6am on Saturday, with thousands of reports lodged with Geoscience Australia from those who felt the shake.

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Space station timelapse captures stunning 'orbital sunrise' over Earth

The footage - captured by a Nasa astronaut - shows the skies brighten as the International Space Station passes over Europe.

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Michel Barnier's journey from Mr Brexit to French PM

France's new prime minister is best known even in his native France as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator.

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Uganda's Bobi Wine recovering from police assault - party

His party says he is to undergo surgery to remove fragments from a tear-gas cannister.

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Drought dries up lake to reveal sunken Greek village

It is only the second time the village's ruins have been visible since it was abandoned decades ago.

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Ukraine says soldiers among 51 killed in Poltava missile attack

President Zelensky says two Russian missiles struck a military training institute.

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Extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land

The number of illegal outposts has risen in the past five years to 196, BBC analysis has found.

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Two US soldiers assaulted by nationalist youth group in Turkey, authorities say

Fifteen suspected assailants, members of the Turkey Youth Union, were detained after attack in port city of Izmir

Two US military service members were “physically attacked” in the port city of Izmir in western Turkey on Monday by members of an anti-American youth group, authorities said.

Fifteen suspected assailants were detained in the attack on the two service members, who were dressed in civilian clothing at the time of the incident. Five other US service members joined in the incident after seeing the violent encounter, officials said.

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US seizes Nicolás Maduro’s jet and flies it to Florida

Move is apparent escalation of pressure on Venezuelan leader over heavily contested claim of victory in July poll

US authorities have seized Nicolás Maduro’s plane in an apparent escalation of pressure on the Venezuelan president, more than a month after his widely contested claim of victory in the country’s national elections.

US authorities confirmed on Monday they had seized Maduro’s jet in the Dominican Republic after determining it was allegedly purchased in violation of US sanctions. The plane, described by US officials as Venezuela’s equivalent to Air Force One, has been flown to Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

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Children die in building collapse after Nigeria flooding

Intense floods are battering the West African country - so far at least 179 people have died.

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At least 41 hurt in Russian air strikes on Kharkiv

The regional head accused Moscow of targeting civilians after a supermarket and sports complex were hit.

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Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart

Likely win in Thuringia and second place in Saxony highlight how eastern voters are asserting their own political identity

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After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the former West German chancellor Willy Brandt predicted that reunification would finally allow “what belongs together to grow together”.

How optimistic that image of organic healing sounds 35 years on. Tonight’s historic election results from Thuringia and Saxony paint a picture of a Germany whose eastern and western regions are, if anything, drifting further and further apart.

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