The U.S. Defense Department is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it failed to protect sensitive personally identifiable information from a cyber breach that exposed data belonging to millions of current…
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC, for decades the most feared endorsement in Washington — told its members on Wednesday, October 21, that it will no longer endorse candidates, contribute to them…
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Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the Justice Department’s third-highest-ranking official, filed recusal motions on Tuesday against U.S. District Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim in the District of…
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World / Twenty-one countries met in Geneva to align the crowded mediation effort for Sudan. Their closing statement rejected parallel governments and outside fuelling of the war — but the army and the RSF, whose…
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The numbers arrived in a stack, the way enforcement announcements do. Between September 1 and Wednesday, October 21, the Justice Department’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division, 13 U.S. Attorney’s offices and…
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FIFA has suspended Egypt coach Hossam Hassan and forward Mostafa Zico for three and five matches respectively, the Egyptian Football Association said on Monday, October 19, after they criticised the referee following…
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The World Meteorological Organization’s new seasonal outlook, presented in Geneva on Wednesday, predicts the El Niño event now under way will become “extremely strong,” with temperatures in the central Pacific rising…
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Arsenal left Munich with a 2-2 draw on Wednesday night that will feel, in different proportions, like both a point gained and two points dropped — and the same is true for Bayern. The visitors lost Bukayo Saka to a…
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For the first time since 2010, the United States women are not the world gymnastics champions. China won the women’s team final at the World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Wednesday, October 21, scoring…
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She was taking items out of the boot of her car, outside the electorate office she has run in Wangaratta since 2019, when the vehicle came for her. By Monday night in Australia, Dr Helen Haines — the independent…
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King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prince William visited Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales, on Wednesday, October 21, to mark sixty years since the Aberfan disaster. At 9:15 on the morning of October 21, 1966…
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War / Middle East — Washington spent Wednesday morning preparing to pull people out of the Gulf. By the afternoon, for Saudi Arabia, the order had been given.
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Emmanuel Macron does not usually lose his temper with allied leaders in public, and he did not name one on Wednesday. He did something close. Speaking to reporters in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, October 21, during a…
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The mayor of Kissimmee, Florida was arrested on Wednesday morning, October 21, and charged with grand theft and an organized scheme to defraud, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced in a post on X. Jackie…
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A powerful blast was heard in Aden, in southern Yemen, on Wednesday, October 21, with smoke rising near Aden International Airport, an Al Jazeera journalist on the ground and a police official in the city reported. A…
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North Korea has told its border troops to take “prompt and resolute action” if South Korean forces threaten their safety, state media reported on Wednesday, after Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong…
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The PHP project released emergency security updates on Wednesday for two critical vulnerabilities that can let an attacker run code on a web server without ever logging in. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar ended eight days of public silence on Tuesday night with a roughly one-minute video posted to TikTok, filmed in the back seat of a car, in which she thanked supporters who had sent $5, $10 and $20…
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The phrase was repeated so often in the spring of 2020 that it became part of the furniture of Britain’s pandemic: ministers had thrown “a protective ring” around the country’s care homes “right from the start”. On…
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Slovakia is restarting formal government consultations with Russia for the first time since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The Slovak Foreign Ministry said late on Tuesday, October 20, that the…
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Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, face a “significant” sabotage threat — the second-highest level in the military’s own assessment — according to an internal security document obtained by the broadcaster WDR…
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Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 31 suspects in an investigation into share transactions involving four listed companies, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday, and 26 of them have…
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Iranian projectiles struck the headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group based in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, on Wednesday, according to the party and regional news outlets.…
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Former Hungarian central bank governor György Matolcsy was detained on Wednesday morning along with other people connected to an ongoing investigation into operations at the central bank under his governance, the…
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A hazardous materials release in north Toledo, Ohio, forced everyone within one mile of a Progress Avenue industrial site to evacuate late on Tuesday, October 20, and everyone within three miles to shelter in place…
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France’s Yellow Vest movement formally filed plans on Wednesday for a major march through Paris this Saturday, October 24 — a route from Place de la Bastille to Opéra, through districts ransacked four days earlier —…
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Turkey will submit to parliament a mandate allowing military personnel to be deployed to Saudi Arabia under its joint defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a lawmaker from the ruling AK Party told Reuters on…
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Georgia’s Constitutional Court opened hearings on Wednesday, October 21, in a lawsuit filed by the ruling Georgian Dream party seeking outright bans on the country’s five main opposition parties — a case civil…
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Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia signed a defence cooperation agreement in Doha on Wednesday, October 21, aimed at boosting defence cooperation and strengthening their defensive capabilities, Turkey’s Defence…
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Brad Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th congressional district, said on Wednesday, October 21, that he had been detained by the Israel Defense Forces while harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank.…
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