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The much-awaited trial of the man accused of murdering former prime minister Shinzo Abe starts on Tuesday.

Lithuania’s two border crossings with Belarus, at Medininkai and Šalčininkai, were both closed for several hours as a result of the balloon incidents.

Tom Hayes, the first banker jailed over Libor interest rate rigging, is suing his former employer UBS for $400m (£300m), claiming he was a “hand-picked scapegoat” for the Swiss bank as it tried to avoid regulatory scrutiny.

Turkey’s football federation revealed that 371 of its 571 referees hold betting accounts, prompting the prosecutor’s office to open an investigation into alleged match-fixing.

Germany is becoming a frontline for hybrid warfare, with German intelligence warning that Russia is recruiting so-called "low-level agents" — ordinary civilians paid small amounts to carry out acts of sabotage or espionage.

Protesters returned to Morocco’s streets a month after anti-corruption rallies swept the country, this time demanding freedom and justice for more than 1,500 detained demonstrators. Hundreds have already been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

Singer Vanessa Rios has died aged 42 after a battle with a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer.

A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both crashed in the same half hour on Sunday during separate routine operations over the South China Sea, with all crew members safely rescued, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

The Solomon Islands state water company terminated its contract with an Indian firm that was years behind schedule to build a clean water treatment plant.

The party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won Sunday’s midterm elections after a campaign in which US president Donald Trump announced a $40bn bailout for the country and made continued aid conditional on the victory of his Argentinian counterpart.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a powerful category 4 hurricane on Sunday, threatening days of catastrophic winds and rain in the northern Caribbean, while Jamaica’s government ordered mandatory evacuations for vulnerable areas across the country including in the capital, Kingston.

A British commentator allegedly applauding the Oct 7 massacre has been detained by US authorities and is facing deportation back to the UK.

Jimmy Carr has called disgraced writer Graham Linehan ’brave’ while on tour in the US.

A mother said, ’she felt the wind knocked out of her’ when her daughter’s rapist avoided prison because of his age.

A diplomatic dispute has arisen over the “illegal” detention of a Ukrainian scientist, who has been accused by the Kremlin of undermining Russia’s industrial krill trawling efforts in Antarctica.

Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will raise US tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario government, which has further strained one of the world’s largest trade partnerships.

Russia has tested a new nuclear-powered cruise missile with an unlimited range, the country’s top general said.

Britain must support China’s ownership of Taiwan or risk a breach in diplomatic relations, China’s ambassador to the UK has suggested.

The Trump administration is seeking to keep damaging information in the Epstein files from reaching the public, according to former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

A number of people have been arrested over the theft of precious jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris, the city’s prosecutor has said.

Thailand and Cambodia have signed an expanded ceasefire agreement during a ceremony attended by US President Donald Trump, whose threats of economic pressure encouraged the two nations to halt skirmishes along their disputed border earlier this year.

A crowd reportedly composed of migrants broke out into a mass brawl in the streets of Moscow, with mobs armed with iron bars and shovels seen chasing panicked local residents.

A British tourist has died after a 20ft fall from a hotel balcony in the Canary Islands.

More than 50,000 people took to the streets of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of last year’s deadly floods and denounce the authorities’ handling of the disaster.