A Kenyan court has found self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie and about 30 co-accused guilty of murder over the starvation deaths of 191 people, 190 of them children. Prosecutors said Mackenzie's Good News International Church ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death. His wife Rhoda Maweu was among those convicted.
Sky News – World Sky News – World A Kenyan court has found self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie and about 30 co-accused guilty of murder over the starvation deaths of 191 people, 190 of them children. Prosecutors said Mackenzie's Good News International Church ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death. His wife Rhoda Maweu was among those convicted.
BBC News – World A major fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta killed four service members and injured dozens, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. The blaze began Saturday and spread beyond the base into surrounding rural areas amid fierce winds. Carney called it one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canada's armed forces on Canadian soil.
BBC News – World Israeli police detained 10 people in a rare raid against West Bank settlers following a weekend of attacks that injured US photojournalist Heidi Levine, European diplomats and Palestinians during the olive harvest. The arrests came amid a spike in settler violence and international pressure to investigate such assaults.
BBC News – World The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says funding shortages are forcing it to slash food assistance in Gaza, reducing monthly coverage from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. The agency warned that about 500,000 Gazans will lose critical aid, while two-thirds of the population faces acute food insecurity and 200,000 are at risk of famine. The cuts come despite a U.S.-brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire.
NYTimes – World The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.
Sky News – World U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel's October 27 legislative election, calling him a "Strong, Brave, and Brilliant" leader and warning that the U.S. may not "do this work" if Israel changes leaders. The endorsement comes despite recent divergence between the two leaders on Iran and Gaza and polls showing Netanyahu and his far-right partners currently lack a majority.
NYTimes – World Pope Leo XIV will resume Vatican audiences on 20 October, his first general audience since undergoing lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said. He was discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday and appeared in St Peter's Square, pledging a gradual return to duties after the lower lobe of his right lung was removed.
Sky News – World An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Bulgaria after a bomb threat. A MiG-29 fighter jet escorted the Airbus jet, which landed safely with all passengers and crew unharmed, officials said.
NYTimes – Business Elon Musk pledged on Monday to give one share of SpaceX to every child in America next year, saying on social media that the gift "will be the first of many." The pledge followed a Sunday announcement by artificial intelligence company Anthropic that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new "public benefit" fund.
BBC Sport A major fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta killed four service members and injured dozens, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. The blaze began Saturday and spread beyond the base into surrounding rural areas amid fierce winds. Carney called it one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canada's armed forces on Canadian soil.
