A nurse was killed and another health worker was severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Bafwasende, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization said. The attack comes as distrust and violence against responders hinder efforts to contain an outbreak that has spread to four countries.
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The attack occurred on Saturday in Bafwasende, Tshopo province, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Local authorities had not publicly commented on the attack or identified suspects at the time of the report.
DRC Ministry of Health data showed more than 9,800 cases and 4,700 deaths since the outbreak began in May.
The article describes this as the deadliest Ebola outbreak in DRC history and the outbreak with the widest geographic spread in Africa.
The outbreak has been reported in four countries across eastern, central and western Africa.
Uganda announced a 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from DRC who have a history of travel there.
The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine or specific treatment.
WHO urged stronger cross-border monitoring and cooperation, while advising against travel or trade restrictions on affected countries.
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US Central Command said US forces have helped Gulf countries ship more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil since June and supported the safe passage of more than 3,000 commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Oil exports from the region recovered to prewar levels in September, while Brent crude prices remained above their February level.
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CENTCOM said more than 3,000 commercial vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz with US support over six months.
CENTCOM reported that more than 95 percent of ships using the strait had sailed through safely in recent months.
Admiral Brad Cooper visited the region and said the US remained committed to freedom of navigation through the strait.
Cooper said primary shipping routes through the strait were clear of Iranian mines.
Kpler estimated that 16.5 million barrels of oil per day left the region in September, excluding Iran, matching the prewar average.
Analysts attributed the export recovery to ship-to-ship transfers, US military escorts and greater use of pipelines.
Brent crude futures were about $114.50 a barrel on Sunday, compared with a February 27 settlement of $72.48.
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A Victorian Supreme Court judge rejected convicted murderer Andre McKechnie’s appeal against a long-standing ban on Vegemite in Victoria’s prisons. The state says the spread can help hide contraband or brew alcohol, and the court found McKechnie had not shown that the ban violated rules on inmate health and well-being.
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McKechnie, 54, argued that the ban denied him the right to enjoy Australian culture.
Victoria has banned prisoners from consuming Vegemite since 2006.
Corrections Victoria said Vegemite’s smell can disguise contraband and distract drug-detection dogs.
Authorities also say prisoners could use the spread to brew alcohol.
The judge said McKechnie’s cultural rights were limited by his prison sentence.
McKechnie is serving a life sentence for stabbing a property developer to death in Queensland in the 1990s.
Vegemite is also banned in prisons in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.
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President Donald Trump attacked Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Michigan rally, making unsupported claims about his religion and alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The race against Republican Mike Rogers could affect which party controls the Senate after the November 3 midterm elections.
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Trump called El-Sayed a “jihadist” and falsely claimed he wanted to impose Islamic law in the United States.
Trump said El-Sayed would face a metal detector at the Senate and claimed his election could threaten Christmas.
El-Sayed is a U.S.-born citizen and former public health official who has pledged to uphold the Constitution.
The article says there is no evidence El-Sayed belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood or another foreign organization.
El-Sayed and Rogers are competing for Michigan’s open Senate seat, which is currently held by retiring Democrat Gary Peters.
Republicans hold 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and 35 Senate positions are up for election in 2026.
Trump spoke for nearly two hours to hundreds of supporters in Port Huron on Sunday; protesters gathered outside the rally.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth, non-consecutive term, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election. Flávio Bolsonaro called for the result to be annulled, citing a two-hour voting extension approved by a Supreme Court justice, while leaders and politicians from several countries congratulated Lula or commented on the vote.
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Lula defeated right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential runoff on October 25, 2026.
Flávio Bolsonaro called for the vote to be annulled over a two-hour voting extension approved by Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin.
Both candidates had requested additional voting time, according to the article.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney congratulated Lula.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders congratulated Lula, while Donald Trump Jr. criticized the voting extension.
Congressman Ro Khanna said President Donald Trump should respect the election results.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Chilean President José Antonio Kast, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, and Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino also congratulated Lula.
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A Sydney court heard a covert recording of accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon speaking with a friend during a prison visit. Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to charges over the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, and his trial continues.
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Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon on 19 February 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges and aggravated break and enter.
The friend, whose identity is suppressed, recorded a prison conversation on behalf of police in December last year.
In the recording, Lamarre-Condon apologised and said he took accountability for involving his friend.
Lamarre-Condon disputed parts of his friend’s police statement, including the claim that Davies was killed to eliminate a witness.
He said Baird had previously had a key cut for him and claimed he entered the home to retrieve belongings.
Lamarre-Condon told his friend that before the killings he had tested his gun in the Royal National Park because he planned to return there to take his own life.
The trial is before Justice Natalie Adams in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term, receiving more than 51% of the vote and defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula thanked young voters, while Bolsonaro said he would not concede and would seek to annul the result.
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Lula won an unprecedented fourth term as Brazil’s president.
Lula received more than 51% of the vote.
Lula defeated right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
Lula thanked young voters for helping him win.
Bolsonaro said he would not concede defeat.
Bolsonaro said he would seek to annul the election result.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential runoff with more than 51 percent of the vote, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who received 48 percent. The win gives Lula a fourth, non-consecutive term after he placed second to Bolsonaro in the first round. A late extension of voting hours caused confusion and prompted Bolsonaro to say he would seek to annul the result.
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Electoral authorities declared Lula the winner after counting 98.76 percent of ballots.
Lula won more than 51 percent of the runoff vote, while Flávio Bolsonaro received 48 percent.
In the first round on October 4, Bolsonaro received 47.03 percent and Lula received 45.16 percent.
Lula campaigned on cost-of-living concerns and the future of his social programs.
Lula gained support as results came in from Brazil’s northeast, a stronghold for his Workers’ Party.
Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered polling stations that were still open to remain open for two extra hours.
Bolsonaro said he would seek to annul the election, arguing that the extended voting hours confused voters.
At age 80, Lula is set to become the oldest Brazilian president sworn in since the country returned to democracy.
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North Korea told the UN Security Council that South Korea fabricated accusations over a September 21 landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone that injured three South Korean soldiers. South Korea and the U.S.-led UN Command have blamed North Korea for the blast, while Pyongyang rejects the charge; Seoul has proposed military talks to clarify the border and reduce the risk of clashes.
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North Korea’s permanent representative to the UN sent a letter to the Security Council accusing South Korea of falsely blaming Pyongyang for the explosion.
The September 21 explosion in the Demilitarized Zone injured three South Korean soldiers.
North Korea’s letter warned that violations of its sovereignty could prompt self-defence.
Pyongyang described its border fortification work as an exercise of its sovereignty and criticized South Korea’s warning shots at North Korean soldiers.
South Korea says it fires warning shots when North Korean soldiers cross the Military Demarcation Line.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry told the Security Council that North Korea was responsible for the blast and called it a violation of the armistice agreement.
The U.S.-led UN Command said placing mines would violate the 1953 Armistice Agreement.
South Korea’s Defence Ministry proposed military talks to confirm the border’s precise location and reduce the risk of accidental clashes.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected to a fourth term after narrowly defeating right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. BBC correspondent Ione Wells explains the result from Brasília.
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Lula won election to a fourth term as Brazil’s president.
Lula narrowly defeated Flávio Bolsonaro.
Flávio Bolsonaro is described as right-wing.
Lula is described as left-wing.
The vote was close.
BBC correspondent Ione Wells is in Brasília.
The video explains Brazil’s election results.
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is considering moving the White House press corps from its historic location. In a Truth Social post about comedian Bill Maher, he said he was not building a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room and had never intended to do so.
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Trump confirmed that he is considering moving the White House press corps.
The press corps currently works from a historic location, according to the article.
Trump made the statements Sunday.
He posted on Truth Social.
The post discussed comedian Bill Maher.
Trump denied plans to build a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room.
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A Victorian court rejected prisoner Andre McKechnie’s challenge to the ban on Vegemite in Victorian prisons. The judge said the ban was justified by prison security and safety concerns, and did not breach his rights to adequate food or cultural practice.
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McKechnie argued that denying him Vegemite prevented him from practising Australian culture and harmed his connection to family and community.
Victoria banned Vegemite in prisons in 2006, citing concerns that it could interfere with narcotic detection dogs and be used to brew alcohol.
Justice Claire Harris ruled that the ban was a proportionate measure tied to prison authorities’ security, management and welfare duties.
McKechnie is serving a life sentence for the stabbing murder of Queensland property developer Otto Kuhne.
Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania also ban Vegemite in prisons, while New South Wales allows it in correctional centres.
Vegemite was developed in Melbourne in 1923 as an alternative to Britain’s Marmite.
Bega bought the Vegemite brand from Kraft in 2013.
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President Donald Trump criticized comedian Bill Maher in a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, after Maher discussed their October 15 White House dinner on his HBO show. Maher said he valued meeting Trump while continuing to criticize him, and Trump disputed parts of Maher’s account, including how long the dinner lasted.
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Trump called Maher a “complete and total loser” and told him not to call again.
Maher discussed the dinner on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher.
Maher said he enjoyed the dinner and described Trump as listening without interrupting or getting angry.
Maher said he raised immigration enforcement, Afghanistan, the Supreme Court and the 2020 election during the dinner.
Trump said the dinner lasted “two hours, maybe less,” disputing Maher’s account that it lasted four hours.
Trump described the gathering as a good meeting and said everybody was happy.
Musician Kid Rock and ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith also attended the dinner.
Trump praised Karoline Leavitt’s appearance on Maher’s show while criticizing how the program treated her.
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Storms Boelo and Austen hit northern Europe within 24 hours, killing one person, injuring others and disrupting electricity, transport and phone networks. Authorities reported more than 150,000 homes without power in the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Sunday.
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More than 82,000 homes in the United Kingdom, nearly 60,000 in France and at least 10,000 in Germany had no electricity on Sunday.
A falling tree killed a 60-year-old man in southwestern Scotland and injured two women in central Scotland.
Winds reached 135 km/h (84 mph) in parts of western Scotland, where fallen trees and power lines blocked roads and rail lines.
French energy company Enedis said 288,000 homes lost power at the peak of storm Austen on Saturday; about 59,000 remained without power on Sunday.
In Germany, the outage around Freiburg-Breisgau disrupted mobile phone service and led the town’s main hospital to limit care to emergencies.
The storms injured people in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, including three crew members aboard a freight ship near the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog.
Hundreds of flights across northern Europe were cancelled or diverted, including at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
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Social media posts use “ferritin face” to describe signs such as pale skin, dark circles, hair loss and brittle nails, which they link to low iron stores. Doctors say these signs can have many causes and cannot show someone’s ferritin level; a blood test is needed to confirm iron deficiency.
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Ferritin is a protein that stores iron, and its level indicates the body’s iron stores.
Iron stores can run low before haemoglobin falls enough to cause anaemia.
UK guidance cited in the article says ferritin below 15 micrograms per litre indicates absent iron stores, while below 30 generally indicates low stores.
Low iron may occur alongside fatigue, hair shedding, pale skin or brittle nails, but these signs are not specific to iron deficiency.
Consultant haematologist Drew Provan said appearance alone cannot determine ferritin levels and described visual signs as subjective and unreliable.
GP Aziza Sesay said changes in skin colour may be less obvious in people with darker skin.
Lucy M, 32, said a test in 2021 found her ferritin was 12 micrograms per litre after she experienced palpitations, fatigue and hair loss.
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Sharon Osbourne told BBC News that she visits Ozzy Osbourne’s grave every day and is learning to live with her grief. The family is preparing to release a film about his final concert with Black Sabbath, held in Birmingham less than three weeks before his death at age 76.
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Ozzy Osbourne died at home in Buckinghamshire, 15 months before the interview, after suffering a heart attack.
He had Parkinson’s disease and a fractured vertebra, according to the article.
His final concert took place at Birmingham’s Villa Park less than three weeks before his death.
Thousands of fans lined the streets of Birmingham during his funeral procession and left tributes.
The family collected, sorted and photographed fans’ cards and messages; they composted the flowers for the family garden where Ozzy is buried.
Sharon said she talks to Ozzy regularly and can see his grave from her window.
Sharon and Ozzy met in 1970 and married in 1982.
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed criticized President Donald Trump during a Sunday interview on Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation. Asked about attacks by Republicans and Trump on his family background and faith, El-Sayed said Trump has as much regard for the Constitution as “a piece of toilet paper.”
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Abdul El-Sayed is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan.
El-Sayed made the remarks on Sunday in an interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton.
The interviewer asked about attacks by Republicans and Trump on El-Sayed’s family background and faith.
El-Sayed compared Trump’s regard for the Constitution to “a piece of toilet paper.”
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Indian cartoonists Satish Acharya and Manjul say Instagram restricted their work in India without giving them clear explanations. Meta says it may temporarily restrict accounts to comply with Indian IT Rules, which let authorities and courts order platforms to block or limit content.
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Instagram restricted Acharya’s profile in India from 28 September to 6 October, then blocked it again for three days in October.
During the restrictions, users in India could not find Acharya’s profile through search or open it through a web link.
Manjul said Instagram restricted a post criticizing the Election Commission over changes to voter rolls.
Meta did not provide the BBC with specific reasons for restricting Acharya’s account or Manjul’s post.
India’s IT Rules allow authorities and courts to order social media platforms to remove or restrict content.
The Indian Express reported that government agencies sent nearly 195,000 blocking and content-restriction orders through the Sahyog portal from March to July; the figures do not show how many items platforms restricted or removed.
Several media outlets reported that authorities asked Meta to prevent its recommendation systems from steering users toward a limited set of narratives and to strengthen checks on content that could cause public disorder or incite violence.
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Gadi Eisenkot held his final campaign rally ahead of Israel’s upcoming national election. He called for Benjamin Netanyahu to leave office and presented himself as a moderate alternative in the first national election since the October 7 attacks.
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Eisenkot held his final campaign rally on Sunday.
He said, “Netanyahu must go home.”
Eisenkot is a former military chief.
He is running as a rival to Benjamin Netanyahu.
The election is Israel’s first national election since the October 7 attacks.
Eisenkot has positioned himself as a moderate alternative to Netanyahu.
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