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Syria is holding its first parliamentary elections since the fall of its longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, in a tentative step towards democratic polls that have been criticized as biased in favour of the country’s interim leaders.

Trump’s supporters have targeted the Pope after he suggested that supporting the death penalty and mistreatment of immigrants is ’not really pro-life’.

Haitian journalist Gary Tesse was murdered in October 2022. The person allegedly responsible is former Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, who is also accused of seizing large tracts of land, which he then resold to enrich himself.

A US federal agent on Saturday, October 4, shot a motorist who was allegedly armed and blocking law enforcement vehicles in Chicago, while a judge blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to deploy troops into Portland.

During China’s week-long National Day holiday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) intensified its “Clean Net” campaign to remove online content that “incites negative emotions” or “promotes pessimism.”

A British teenager missing in Thailand is feared to have been pulled into a scam operation run by Chinese gangs.

Gisèle Pelicot, who survived almost a decade of rape involving dozens of men after she was drugged by her ex-husband, will attend court in France again on Monday after one of the men convicted of raping her faces a second trial after appealing against his verdict.

The environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has informed Swedish officials that she is experiencing harsh treatment in Israeli custody following her detention and removal from a flotilla delivering aid to Gaza, according to correspondence reviewed by the Guardian.

Donald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard in another city by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said border patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over.

Two girls were discovered dead on a New York City train in the early hours of Saturday morning in a "subway surfing" stunt that went tragically wrong, officials confirmed.

Large numbers gathered at pro-Palestinian rallies across Europe on Saturday, demanding an immediate cessation of the war in Gaza and the release of activists from a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the region.

Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, abruptly dismissed the navy chief of staff on Friday, removing an aide who had been central to the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the Pentagon.

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has won the Czech Republic parliamentary elections, preliminary results show, but fallen short of the overall majority.

In June 2024, Austria revoked the accreditation of two correspondents for the state-controlled Russian news agency TASS — Ivan Popov and Arina Davidyan — on the suspicion that they were not journalists, but spies for the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.

Taiwan has pledged to resist pressure from Washington to move half of its chip production capacity to the United States, challenging the Trump administration.

Namibia has deployed hundreds of soldiers as part of efforts to contain wildfires that have burned through around a third of the territory of one of the largest game reserves in Africa.

A British man was found dead at a hotel in Dubai after swallowing several packages of drugs.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.

Belgian police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators outside the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels on Thursday night, breaking up a protest against Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla and the arrests of activists aboard.

A New York federal judge has sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to four years and two months in prison following his conviction this summer on federal prostitution-related charges.

A hacking group claims to have extracted data from a GitLab instance associated with Red Hat’s consulting business, obtaining 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers.

Czechs have begun voting in an election likely to oust their centre-right government, with polls favouring the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to return to power on pledges to raise wages and improve growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.