At least five American families connected to the US embassy in Colombia reported symptoms of “Havana syndrome”, the mysterious neurological illness that has afflicted over 200 American diplomats worldwide.

🔴🔴 A man wielding a bow and arrow killed and injured multiple people in a town outside the Norwegian capital.
Law enforcement in Kongsberg, 50 miles southwest of #Oslo, said that the suspect was arrested.

⚡️ Fighting resumes in Ethiopia’s Afar region.

🔴 At least 1 killed, 6 wounded in shooting in the vicinity of Palace of Justice in Beirut: Medical sources

Update: #Beirut Sniper fire kills 3 and wounds 20 at Hezbollah-led protests against Judge Tarek Bitar near the Justice Palace.

The army intervened, gunfire hasn't stopped.

Beirut: 6 people were already killed during shootings across the city.

Lebanon's Hezbollah, Amal movement accuse Lebanese Forces Party of carrying out an armed attack against their demonstrators in Beirut: Joint statement

Hezbollah reinforcements in Beirut.

A bomb blast targeting Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province leaves at least 30 dead

🔴The Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after he was stabbed several times during a surgery at his constituency in Essex.

Amess, 69, an MP since 1983 and who represented Southend West in Essex since 1997, was stabbed several times at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. He is the second MP to be killed in just over five years, following the murder of Jo Cox.

Death toll from mosque bombing in Afghanistan rises to 47, according to local officials

BREAKING: The stabbing to death of Conservative British MP Sir David Amess has been declared a terrorist incident by police, BBC.

#IslamicState claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed more than 40 people during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of #Kandahar.

A week ago Islamic State Khorasan Province committed a suicide attack that left nearly 50 people dead in the northern city of Kunduz.

Israel has allegedly assassinated Midhat Saleh, an ex-member of the Syrian parliament who previously served 12 years in Israeli prison.

An Iran-flagged supertanker is about to set sail from Venezuelan waters carrying 2 million barrels of heavy crude provided by state-run oil firm PDVSA. The shipment is part of a deal agreed by PDVSA and its counterpart National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

The Saudi-led coalition supporting #Yemen’s government says it has killed 160 Houthi rebels in air raids south of the strategic city of Marib, where loyalists say rebels have made advances.

The Houthis began a major push to seize Marib province in February and, after a lull, they have renewed their offensive in recent weeks.

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in the province this year, nearly 10,000 of them in September alone, according to the United Nations migration agency.

⚡️Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state who played a pivotal role in attempting to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died from complications from Covid-19 aged 84.

A Venezuelan opposition alliance and the Norwegian government urged President Nicolas Maduro’s government to return to talks it suspended following Colombian businessman Alex Saab’s extradition from Cape Verde to the United States.

Saab, a Venezuelan envoy and ally of Maduro, is expected to appear in a Miami court today on money laundering charges.

On Friday the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations decided not to invite General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s blood-soaked junta, to an upcoming summit. The unprecedented move is a sign of the bloc’s frustration with the military regime that seized power in February. It has failed to comply with a roadmap to peace brokered by ASEAN, and prevented a special envoy meeting the deposed civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

#NorthKorea fired a submarine-based ballistic missile into Japanese waters on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s armed forces, its first in two years. Its measured flight path was more than 400km—although in effect the range of sub-based munitions is nearly global.

The launch prompted #Japan’s new prime minister to cut short his first day of campaigning. The UN has prohibited North Korea from testing all such missiles but that apparently has done little to slow its weapons programme.

Last week the country’s supremo, Kim Jong Un, vowed to build an “invincible military”.

An air strike hit the capital of Tigray region in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday morning, regionally controlled television said, reporting the second attack on the city of Mekelle this week.

Tigrai Television, controlled by the region's Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), reported the attack targeted the city centre.