France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack

Vladimir Putin has signed a record national budget aimed at boosting the military amid staggering losses on the battlefield. After the budget was passed by the lower house of the parliament, speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said it was developed specifically to fund the military and to mitigate the impact of international sanctions imposed after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Part of the Russian budget is secret as the Kremlin tries to conceal its military plans and sidestep scrutiny of its operation in Ukraine. But independent business journalists Farida Rustamova and Maksim Tovkaylo said this month that around 39 per cent of all federal spending will go towards defence and law enforcement in 2024. It comes as data published by the UK Ministry of Defence, provided by Ukraine’s General Staff, showed the number of Russians casualties had risen to an average 931 a day this month. UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Putin is stepping up his invasion - senselessly sending more Russians to die than at any time since the war began.” Read More Russian forces encircle Ukraine’s Avdiivka and ‘ready to storm city’ after months-long offensive Russian supermarkets are full of fruit, vegetables, cheese and meat. But shoppers can’t afford any of it A Dutch museum has sent Crimean treasures to Kyiv after a legal tug-of-war between Russia, Ukraine Ukraine and the Western Balkans top Blinken agenda for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the once-feared Zulu nationalist and historic leader of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) which presided over South Africa's deadliest violence ahead of the first all-race elections, died Saturday...

A model has died just hours after undergoing a liposuction procedure. Luana Andrade was seen posing in a gym in tight-fitting black sportswear just hours earlier. The beaming 29-year-old was lying on an exercise mat taking a selfie. She wrote for her 490,000 Instagram followers on Monday (6 Oct): “At my favourite place.” But the influencer the following day on Tuesday (7 Oct) morning. Despite her slender figure, Andrade decided to undergo a liposuction procedure at a hospital in her home city on Monday (6 Oct) afternoon. In a statement, the hospital said she passed away of a “massive pulmonary embolism”, in São Paulo, Brazil. A São Luiz Hospital spokesperson said: “The surgery was interrupted and the patient underwent tests that revealed massive thrombosis. “She was transferred to the ICU where she underwent medication and hemodynamic treatment. “The liposuction procedure was carried out by a private surgeon and anaesthetist hired by the family.” The influencer was taking part in the Brazilian reality TV show ‘Power Couple’ with her boyfriend João Hadad at the time of her death. João said he was “broken” and living his “worst nightmare” following news of Luana’s death. He remembered his girlfriend as an "extraordinary" person who “captivated the world with her grace and elegance”. He said Luana was born and raised in São Paulo and had been living with him for around four months in Greater Vitória. One of her former colleagues, TV presenter Adriane Galisteu, said: “Oh my God, I can't believe it!. “My heart is torn apart. “My deepest condolences to family, friends and João Haddad.” An investigation into Luana’s death is ongoing. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings

More than 1,000 people have died from dengue in Bangladesh's worst outbreak on record, official data shows, with rising temperatures due to the climate crisis driving the ongoing spread as more cases are reported away from dense urban centers for the first time.

After a mild start to the U.S. Open, the forecast calls for much higher temperatures in the second week

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Russia’s prized Black Sea Fleet is struggling to contend with threats to Ukraine’s southern flank, according to British military intelligence. In its morning briefing, the Ministry of Defence said: “In recent weeks, the Naval Aviation component of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has assumed a particularly important role in the Fleet’s operations as it struggles to deal with concurrent threats on the southern flank of the Ukraine war. “Naval Aviation is emphasising maritime air patrol operations, highly likely with a primary mission of the early identification of uncrewed surface vessels.” The MoD’s latest update comes after a person was killed and six injured, including two children, as Russian shelling continued to hammer Ukraine‘s southern region of Kherson overnight. On the Telegram messaging app the governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Russian forces had launched 71 attacks in the past 24 hours, “aimed at the residential districts”, as well as shops and medical infrastructure, among other establishments. Twenty of the air and land attacks targeted the city of Kherson, the region’s administrative district, the governor added, while authorities promptly doused a fire sparked by shelling early on Monday. Read More Congress didn't include funds for Ukraine in its spending bill. How will that affect the war? Ukraine is increasing the pressure on Putin – it cannot afford support from the West to slip now Wagner succession: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son ‘set to be next mercenary boss’ Elon Musk mocked by Ukraine’s parliament over tweet taunting Zelensky

Investigators are continuing to scour the ocean floor for any insight into how a "catastrophic implosion" killed all five passengers of a Titanic-bound submersible that suddenly lost communication with its mother ship over the weekend, officials said.