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> Dozens of people were killed and 150 more were injured after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital Seoul, South Korean officials said.

> Police, which were restricting traffic in nearby areas to speed up the transportation of the injured to hospitals across the city, also confirmed that dozens of people were being given CPR on Itaewon streets.

> A local police officer said he was also informed that a stampede occurred on Itaewon's streets where a crowd of people gathered for Halloween festivities.

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> The attack in Mogadishu occurred on a day when the president, prime minister and other senior officials were meeting to discuss expanded efforts to combat violent extremism, especially by the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab group that often targets the capital.

> The Somali Journalists Syndicate, citing colleagues and police, said one journalist was killed and two others wounded by the second blast while rushing to the scene of the first.

> The attack occurred at Zobe junction, which was the scene of a huge al-Shabab truck bombing in 2017 that killed more than 500 people.

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> BRUSSELS: The European Union has frozen Russian assets worth around 17 billion euros since Moscow invaded Ukraine, EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said in an interview published Saturday.

> The total of frozen assets was 14.5 billion euros by mid-September, when the Commissioner criticised the lack of efforts from several member states, including Hungary.

> "So far, the assets of 90 people have been frozen, more than 17 billion euros in seven member states, including 2.2 billion euros in Germany," he told German media group Funke, including the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

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> WARSAW, Poland - Poland has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse to build the central European country's first nuclear power plant, part of an effort to burn less coal and gain greater energy independence.

> Poland is planning to spend $40 billion to build two nuclear power plants with three reactors each, the last one to be launched in 2043.

> Poland has planned for decades to build a nuclear power plant to replace its aging coal-fired plants in a country with some of the worst air pollution in Europe.

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> Qatar has spent more money on gifts and trips for British MPs in the past year than any other country, according to Observer analysis that reveals the Gulf state's lobbying efforts ahead of next month's football World Cup.

> The gifts for the past 12 months also far outstripped those from Qatar in any other year for which records are available, revealing how authorities ramped up efforts to charm British MPs ahead of the World Cup.

> During two trips, in October 2021 and February 2022, British MPs travelled to Qatar to discuss issues including "Preparations for the World Cup, workers' rights reform and bilateral relations", as well as Qatar's "Humanitarian and political response to the Afghanistan crisis", transparency logs show.

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> Thousands of demonstrators defied an official ban to march on Saturday against the deployment of new water storage infrastructure for agricultural irrigation in western France, according to organisers.

> The deployment of giant water "Basins" is underway in the village of Sainte-Soline, in the Deux-Sèvres department, to irrigate crops, which opponents claim distorts access to water amid drought conditions.

> The Sainte-Soline water reserve is the second of 16 such installations, part of a project developed by a group of 400 farmers organised in a water cooperative to significantly reduce mains water usage in summer.

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> Russia has announced that it is suspending its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, supposedly because of the "Terrorist attack" in Sevastopol Bay on the morning of Saturday, 29 October.

> In particular, the Russian Defence Ministry stressed that the reason for withdrawing from the initiative is the "Terrorist attack" carried out by the "Kyiv regime", allegedly with the participation of British specialists.

> Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry, said earlier on Saturday that the attack was targeted at ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were involved in ensuring the security of the grain corridor.

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> Russian remains an official language in the former Soviet country, where even many ethnic Kazakhs - including government officials - speak Russian more fluently than Kazakh, although that situation has recently been changing.

> The clubs became instantly and unexpectedly popular as thousands of Russian-speakers in Kazakhstan decided to learn Kazakh, a trend Skalozubov and some club members link to the political atmosphere created by the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.

> "You began to think about how the Russian colonization affected local languages in the Soviet states," she told RFE/RL. "Before, we probably regarded Kazakh as a somewhat secondary language that you didn't have to learn. Now, I realize that Kazakh is important, that it is part of my life in Kazakhstan, and that if don't learn Kazakh I would be like a stranger here."

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> The head of the Royal Navy has ordered an investigation into allegations of bullying and sexual harassment against women in the Submarine Service.

> Louise - not her real name - spent several months at sea on board Royal Navy warships and says sexual harassment is rife in the navy because it is "Normalised".

> Emma Norton, from charity the Centre for Military Justice, said any investigation would still involve "The Royal Navy investigating the Royal Navy".

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> Dutch high-tech companies are unknowingly selling their technologies to companies set up by the Russian secret service, the head of the Dutch military secret service has told the Financieele Dagblad. MIVD chief Jan Swillens told the paper in an interview that the Russian military intelligence organisation GRU has set up front organisations and companies with the aim of purchasing technology in the Netherlands and smuggling it to Russia for military purposes, thus evading sanctions.

> In March, the foreign affairs ministry expelled 17 Russian diplomats for espionage, some of whom worked for GRU and were tasked with purchasing knowledge and technology for the Russian army.

> 'There is very little sense of the Russian interest in our technology and political knowledge,' he said.

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> Russia will suspend its participation in the United Nations-brokered grain export deal with Ukraine after drone attacks on the Crimean city of Sevastopol, the country's defense ministry announced Saturday.

> In July, following months of negotiations, ministers from both Ukraine and Russia signed the agreement brokered by the UN and Turkey.

> UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told CNN Saturday: "We've seen the reports from the Russian Federation regarding the suspension of their participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative following an attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet. We are in touch with the Russian authorities on this matter."

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> Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his left-wing challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have faced off in their final televised debate ahead of Sunday's tense run-off vote.

> In their first head-to-head debate this month, Lula blasted Bolsonaro's handling of a pandemic in which nearly 700,000 Brazilians died, while Bolsonaro focused on the corruption scandals that tarnished the reputation of Lula's Workers' Party.

> Lula promised to revive those boom times, while Bolsonaro suggested current social programmes are more effective.

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> War analysts have described a picture of Russian forces struggling to make any significant gains across Ukraine in recent days.

> The latest analysis from the US-based Institute for the Study of War said they are "Not making significant progress around Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast or anywhere else along the front lines in Ukraine".

> Mr Prigozhin, who reportedly confronted Vladimir Putin over Russia's stalling war effort, acknowledged the slow pace of the ground operations near Bakhmut last week.

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> LONDON, United Kingdom - The ways the Philippine government has repressed the media are part of a global trend on attacks on press freedom, legal experts said during the 2022 Reuters Trust Conference held in London on Wednesday, October 26.

> The Duterte government enforced the feared anti-terror law at the height of the pandemic in 2021, a law slammed across political aisles in the Philippines as a pretense to crack down on dissenters.

> Under Marcos government, red-tagging against journalists or the vicious linking of media personalities to communist rebels has not ceased.

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> Mehrshad Shahidi, uno chef di 19 anni, stato ucciso mercoledì notte dagli agenti di sicurezza iraniane nella città di Arak, durante la repressione delle proteste scoppiate dopo la morte della 22enne Masha Amini mentre si trovava sotto custodia della polizia morale iraniana.

> Ieri sera, Amnesty aveva fatto sapere che "Almeno 8 persone erano morte nelle ultime 24 ore" durante le proteste.

> Secondo Hrana, l'agenzia per gli attivisti dei diritti umani iraniani, sono almeno 266 le persone che hanno perso la vita dall'inizio delle proteste.

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> The European Union has struck a deal on a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change.

> Negotiators from the EU countries and the European Parliament, who must both approve new EU laws, as well as the European Commission, which drafts new laws, agreed that car makers must achieve a 100 per cent cut in CO2 emissions by 2035, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country bloc.

> Volkswagen boss Thomas Schaefer this week said that from 2033, the brand would only produce electric cars in Europe.

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> US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said "All relevant parties" should support the resolutions to designate terrorists under the United Nations Security Council's 1267 list.

> Many members of the Security Council, including the United States, have adopted its sanctions against the terrorists behind these attacks, Blinken pointed out.

> "But our efforts are more effective when we act together which is why we work with India to put forth nomination to designate several terrorists to UN 1267 committee. All relevant parties should support these resolutions and no nation should stand in their way," the US Secretary of State said.

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> An American academic who has expressed controversial views about racial differences in intelligence has been made an early career fellow in the University's Philosophy faculty.

> In 2019 Nathan Cofnas became embroiled in controversy over an article he wrote, in which he argued that genetic differences in IQ could exist between racial and ethnic groups.

> He compared hypothetical racial differences in intelligence to gender-based differences, arguing "Virtually everyone believes in physical and psychological differences between men and women, and essentialize these differences", but that didn't stop "Men in the West from supporting women's rights, and didn't prevent great progress towards the end".

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> Australia has dropped its opposition to a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons in a vote at the United Nations in New York on Saturday.

> The Nobel peace prize-winning International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons had been urging Australia to vote in favour of the UN resolution on Saturday - or at least abstain in order to "End five years of opposition to the TPNW under the previous government".

> Wong told the UN general assembly last month that Australia would "Redouble our efforts" towards disarmament because Russian president Vladimir Putin's "Weak and desperate nuclear threats underline the danger that nuclear weapons pose to us all".

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> KYIV, Ukraine - Relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure prompted Ukrainian authorities on Friday to announce worsening blackouts around the country's largest cities, with Kyiv's mayor warning that the capital's power grid is working in "Emergency mode" with energy supplies down as much as 50% from pre-war levels.

> The Russian president sought to dispel criticism of a chaotic call-up of 300,000 reservists for service in Ukraine by ordering his defense minister to make sure they're properly trained and equipped for battle.

> Russian forces have frequently used converted S-300 missiles to strike ground targets in Ukraine.

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> United Nations special envoy Noeleen Heyzer has condemned an air raid by Myanmar's military in northern Kachin state that killed as many as 80 people, as she warned that a human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled country is exacting "a catastrophic toll on the people".

> Making her first briefing at the UN in New York since she visited Myanmar in August and met the head of the military government, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Heyzer said resistance to military rule was continuing in the country.

> "We are deeply saddened by the growing casualties, and the immense suffering that ordinary people in Myanmar have endured," the bloc's chair said, adding the violence was undermining efforts to implement a peace "Consensus" agreed between ASEAN and Myanmar's general last year.

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> Gang violence, kidnapping and intimidation has forced about 96,000 people to flee their homes in Haiti's capital, the UN's International Organization for Migration said on Friday, as the country faces a crisis that has prompted the government to request the immediate deployment of foreign troops.

> Gangs are believed to control some 60% of Port-au-Prince, raping women, children and men and setting homes on fire as they fight to control more territory in the wake of the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, according to the UN. Haitians also are struggling with dwindling supplies of fuel, water and other basic goods at the same time as a cholera outbreak, with concerns growing over the unhealthy state of government shelters where thousands of people have been living for months after fleeing gang violence.

> The government this month requested help from foreign troops after one of Haiti's most powerful gangs surrounded a key fuel terminal in Port-au-Prince in mid-September, forcing gas stations and key businesses to close.

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> KYIV, Ukraine - Relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure prompted Ukrainian authorities on Friday to announce worsening blackouts around the country's largest cities, with Kyiv's mayor warning that the capital's power grid is working in "Emergency mode" with energy supplies down as much as 50% from pre-war levels.

> The Russian president sought to dispel criticism of a chaotic call-up of 300,000 reservists for service in Ukraine by ordering his defense minister to make sure they're properly trained and equipped for battle.

> Russian forces have frequently used converted S-300 missiles to strike ground targets in Ukraine.

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> Iran appears to have entered a cycle of deadly violence after three more people were killed by security officers overnight during a protest rally held after the funeral for another protester killed on Wednesday.

> Hengaw, a Norway-based human rights group, said security forces shot dead at least three protesters in the city of Mahabad near Iran's western border with Iraq on Thursday night.

> The deadly gunfire came after mourners paying tribute to Ismail Mauludi, a 35-year-old protester killed on Wednesday night, left his funeral and made their way towards the governor's office.

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> The Government is making councils buy 40,000 mirrors to put inside polling stations in order to comply with its own laws requiring voters to show ID, i can reveal.

> It has now emerged that this will involve the purchase of a new mirror for every one of the 40,000 polling stations in the UK ahead of the local elections scheduled for next May. Minister Andrew Stephenson said in a response to a written parliamentary question: "We estimate that one mirror will need to be purchased for each polling station and assume that there are 40,000 polling stations based on the 2019 elections."

> "It's vital people's needs are addressed when attending a polling station, but it's not just the lack of mirrors and privacy booths that will deter voters but the unnecessary requirement to show photo ID instead.".

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