Reuters in Kinshasa    Denis Mukwege won the Nobel peace prize in for his campaign against sexual violenceThe Nobel peace prize winning gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, renowned for helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has announced plans to run for president in December.Mukwege,...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor    Rival governments urged to work together to best manage donations for city after catastrophic floodingThe government in eastern Libya has been forced to postpone a reconstruction conference for the stricken city of Derna amid concerns about how donations will be spent and a lack of coordination...

Alice Fowle and Morgan Thomas (MetDesk)    Cape Town mayor declares major incident as roads closed and , people left without electricityExtreme rain and strong winds across South Africa’s Western Cape province have caused flooding, torn off roofs, destroyed crops and damaged roads this week. It is estimated that the hour rainfall...

Kaamil Ahmed    Tanzania government blamed for violence against villagers in national park, while thousands more people face losing their homesThe World Bank is investigating allegations of killings, rape and forced evictions made by villagers living near the site of a proposed tourism project it is funding in...

Lorenzo Tondo in Sfax and Tunis    As EU prepares to send money as part of bn deal, people trying to reach north African country detail border pushbacks’ It’s a torment’: refugee tells how his family died in desertMigrants from sub Saharan Africa have spoken of their horror at being forcibly returned to remote desert regions...

Lorenzo Tondo in Sfax and Tunis    Pato Crepin’s wife and six year old daughter were repeatedly pushed back by authorities in Tunisia, which has signed a bn deal with the EU I had to drink my own urine’: Africans tell of being forced back into desert at Tunisia borderPato Crepin had walked for three days through the desert and...

Associated Press in Sà£o Paulo    Thousands affected as government vows to stamp out land grabs in protected areasBrazil’s government has begun removing thousands of non Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.The Brazilian intelligence agency...

Julian Borger in Washington, Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi and Luke Taylor    Security council approves mission but UN faces concerns over outside force with its own record of abusesKenya’s offer to send police to Haiti sparks human rights concernsThe UN security council has voted to send a Kenyan led multinational security force to Haiti to help its government combat...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto    Couple have not yet been identified and bear demonstrating aggressive behavior’ was killed by park rangersTwo people and their dog have been killed in a rare grizzly bear attack in Canada’s Banff national park, and the bear was later killed by park rangers.The couple have not yet been identified...

Associated Press    A structural failure’ during Sunday service trapped dozens in Santa Cruz church in Gulf coast city of Ciudad MaderoThe roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least people and injuring about , authorities said as searchers probed the wreckage late...

Thomas Graham    Gonzalo S nchez de Lozada and former defence minister agree to pay for violence in which protesters were killedA former Bolivian president and his defence minister have agreed to pay damages to the families of people killed by the military during their government, in a landmark settlement...

Donna Ferguson    The explorer is widely thought of as an exploiter today, and didn’t know east from west. But a version of his boastful missive is expected to fetch up to . m at auctionIn , Christopher Columbus wrote a letter that would change the landscape of the modern world. I sailed to the Indies with...

Justin McCurry in Tokyo    Japanese talent agency to create new firm to manage artists as it tries to distance itself from disgraced founderThe Japanese talent agency Johnny amp; Associates, whose late founder has been accused of sexually abusing hundreds of boys and young men, will change its name and establish a new firm...

Agence France-Presse    Ngo Thi To Nhien detained over charges of appropriating documents’, a government spokesperson confirmedVietnam state media has confirmed the arrest of the director of an independent energy policy thinktank the sixth expert working on environmental issues to be taken into custody in the past two...

Agence France-Presse    Runoff vote was widely seen as a referendum on whether to pursue closer ties with China or India, both vying for influence in the island nationPro China candidate Mohamed Muizzu won Saturday’s presidential election in the Maldives, a result set to once again upend the archipelago’s relationship...

Josh Taylor    As the website boasts about increased revenue, some partners say they have not been paid for monthsTravel website Booking.com has left many hotel operators and other partners across the globe thousands of dollars out of pocket for months on end, blaming the lack of payment on a technical issue ...

Agence France-Presse in Malé    Pro Delhi incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih faces uphill battle against Beijing leaning frontrunner Mohamed Muizzu as contest remains on knife’s edgeThe Maldives started voting on Saturday to decide their next president, in an elections widely seen as a referendum on whether to hitch their fortunes...

Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent    Timor Leste’s president alludes to spying scandal as he brushes off concerns about new strategic partnership with BeijingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian intelligence agencies know very...

Emily Wind    More than , people affected after about , lightning strikes recorded. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastResidents of Pine Scrub and Leeka in Tasmania urged to leave amid out of control fireA bushfire emergency warning has...

Adeshola Ore and Australian Associated Press    Emergency warnings have been issued for Briagolong, Seacombe and Loch Sport in Gippsland, amid total fire ban in Sydney and parts of NSWFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastResidents are being told to evacuate...

Australian Asscoaited Press    Facebook owner issues summons to demand files as it prepares defence over accusations it allowed bogus ads to use billionaire’s imageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFacebook’s parent company Meta has...

Caitlin Cassidy Higher education reporter    The compliance blitz’ aims to crack down on rorts in the sector with the establishment of an integrity unitFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government will launch a . m compliance blitz ...

Katharine Murphy Political editor    Latest survey suggests of voters remain in play as Anthony Albanese says one on one chats will shape referendum outcomeRead our voice referendum explainer and see the latest voice poll resultsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMore Australians intend to...

Andrew Messenger    Anthropologist Pascale Taplin says native title being likened to slave’s title’, as conspiracists exploit concept of Indigenous sovereigntyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIndigenous Australians are...

Guardian staff and agencies    EU promises another bn in military aid to Ukraine at surprise meeting in Kyiv; White House says it is in touch with allies about continued funding for UkraineSee all our Ukraine coverageThe EU is set to give Ukraine a military aid package worth bn . bn , the EU’s top diplomat has said, after...

Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (now); Tom Ambrose and Mark Gerts (earlier)    Meeting takes place amid concerns over cracks in US funding and after a pro Russian populist party won the most votes Slovakia’s electionAt a glance: what we know on day of the invasionThe German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has arrived in Kyiv, a spokesperson for her ministry said.The...

Luke Harding in Kyiv and Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels    Josep Borrell condemns inhumane’ Russia as bloc offers training for soldiers and fighter jet pilotsRussia Ukraine war latest news updatesUkraine is set to receive billions of euros more in military aid, as well as training for fighter pilots, the EU’s top diplomat has said, after a historic ...

Jon Henley    Three time former prime minister, who promised to end military aid to Ukraine, expected to seek deal with two other partiesSlovakia’s president has asked Robert Fico, a populist, pro Russian three time former prime minister who campaigned on a promise to end military aid to Ukraine, to try to form...

Pjotr Sauer in Yerevan    What is left for the UN to monitor ’ asks one refugee who crossed the border to escapeNearly the entire ethnic Armenian population has left Nagorno Karabakh, as the first United Nations mission arrived in the largely deserted mountainous region on Sunday.Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the...

Miranda Bryant in Stockholm    Group of claim they were fitted with an IUD between and without consent or knowledge Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state.The group of women, some of whom were as...

Ella Creamer    Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the countrySyrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa, whose novels set in Aleppo memorialised a city ruined by civil war, has died aged .The writer died from cardiac arrest at his home...

Bethan McKernan in Ramallah    Despite outward positivity, sources say normalisation deal unlikely to happen any time soonA potential normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is being treated with scepticism by Palestinian negotiators, despite outwardly positive signals from Palestinian officials, several sources with...

Peter Beaumont    Blaze started after fireworks lit during celebration in Nineveh province, according to local mediaMore than people have been killed and others injured in a fire at a wedding reception in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, attracting global messages of sympathy...

Ben Doherty    Save the Children, representing women and their children, argues the government has the power, and an obligation, to bring them homeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThirty one Australian women and...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor    Eight questioned over claims that negligence and mistakes contributed to disaster in which thousands diedLibya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending a full inquiry into the collapse of two dams during torrential rain that left thousands dead in...

Ruth Michaelson    Senator Menendez was indicted on a set of explosive charges of corruptly aiding the government in CairoUS politics live updates The indictment of Senator Bob Menendez on charges of corruptly aiding the Egyptian government has set the stage for a week of renewed pressure on US lawmakers to...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent    Escalating violence comes at a time when the economy is in tatters and the caretaker government powerlessThe scenes of horror pictured on Friday have become all too familiar in Pakistan. This time it was a twin attack. A procession to mark the birthday of the prophet Muhammad and a police station...

Shah Meer Baloch in Karachi, and Peter Beaumont    Suicide bombing kills at least at parade to mark prophet’s birthday, while five die in attack in police compoundAt least people have died in bomb attacks on two mosques in Pakistan as the country’s deteriorating security situation was laid bare on a public holiday held to celebrate the...

Shah Meer Baloch    Call to set up role comes as report alleges retailer uses factories that violate minimum wage requirements and workers’ rightsPakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, has reportedly asked the British fast fashion brand Boohoo to increase its presence in the country, despite claims...

Diane Taylor    British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challengeA group of Tamil asylum seekers stranded on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean have won their fight against being forcibly returned to Sri Lanka after a government climbdown.The group are on Diego Garcia,...

Patrick Greenfield    Tally rises to , but is still a far cry from former half a million, and Javan and Sumatran rhino remain critically endangeredGlobal rhinoceros numbers have increased to , despite populations being ravaged by poaching and habitat loss, new figures show, with some species rebounding for the...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Leyland Cecco in Toronto    Announcement of security threats’ follows Justin Trudeau’s claims India was involved in Sikh activist’s killingRelations between India and Canada have further deteriorated after Delhi announced it was suspending visa services for Canadians due to security threats faced by its embassy and...

Richard Partington Economics correspondent    Average food basket down by . amid fierce supermarket competition, says the British Retail ConsortiumFood prices dropped in the UK in September for the first month in almost two years, according to retail industry figures, offering consumers some respite amid the cost of living crisis.The...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor    Justice secretary to tell conference he will introduce Jade’s law’ later this year to protect families from jailed abusersNew powers to stop people who have killed their partners from gaining parental rights to surviving children will be introduced before the end of the year, the justice...

Ella Creamer    The listed collections range from zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen PaisantThe shortlisted poetry collections for the TS Eliot prize announced today reflect the disruption of the present moment, said the chair of...

Ben Quinn    Suspended GB News presenter has been accused of using pseudonym to solicit images from former Sun colleaguesThe GB News presenter Dan Wootton is under investigation by police as a result of allegations that were made against him earlier this year.Wootton has previously been accused of using a...

Pippa Crerar Political editor    Exclusive: PM claims he has changed phone since running the Treasury and did not back up the messagesRishi Sunak has failed to hand over his WhatsApp messages from his time as chancellor to the Covid inquiry despite the high court ruling that ministers should disclose their communications for...

Ben Quinn Political correspondent    Business secretary privately met media mogul in apparent breach of ministerial code of conductKemi Badenoch failed to declare a meeting that she held with Rupert Murdoch days after she was appointed to the cabinet in a breach of transparency rules.The business and trade secretary reacted angrily...

Joan E Greve    Far right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker’s bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdownCongressman Matt Gaetz, a hard right Republican of Florida, introduced a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker on Monday, expressing outrage over the Republican leader’s...

Lauren Aratani in New York    Ex president rails against judge and prosecutors accusing him of years long fraud they say inflated his wealth by as much as . bnDonald Trump attacked the judge and New York prosecutors who have charged him with orchestrating a years long fraud on Monday as state prosecutors accused the former...