Iranian students defy security forces after violence at university
Rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran and Isfahan
Patrick Wintour and Haroon Janjua
Iranian students have stepped up their protests in defiance of a crackdown by security forces, who allegedly cornered and shot a number of students at a prestigious university in Tehran on Sunday night.
Anti-government protests ignited by the death of a young woman in police custody in mid-September have spread around the country at various levels of intensity, revealing a cultural chasm between Iran’s educated youth and an elderly male religious establishment.
In his first remarks on the protests, the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, gave strong backing to security forces and accused the US and Israel – the Islamic Republic’s arch-adversaries – of orchestrating the disturbances. “If there had been no issue of the young woman’s death, they would have used another pretext to stir up unrest and riots at this time,” Khamenei said.
Anti-war Russian reporter who protested live on TV flees house arrest
Marina Ovsyannikova has been detained since August
A Russian TV journalist who staged a live on-air protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been put on a wanted list by Moscow after apparently escaping house arrest.
Marina Ovsyannikova made international headlines in March, just weeks after the Ukraine war started by walking out in front of studio cameras during an evening news broadcast on the flagship Channel One with a placard that read, “Stop the war” and “They’re lying to you”.
She was fined 30,000 roubles (£460) for her protest but continued her oppostion to the war. During a subsequent solo protest in Moscow, she held up a poster which read: “Putin is a murderer, his soldiers are fascists.”
Against the odds: Brazil's Bolsonaro defies polls to force challenger Lula into presidential run-off
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as "Lula") may have come out ahead with 48.4 percent of the vote in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, but the winner of the night might still be incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. With 43.2 percent of the ballot, the far-right leader comfortably beat pre-election polls and is now on course to face off with his leftist rival in a nail-biting run-off that few observers saw coming.
In the final run-up to the election, and after two months of tense campaigning in a deeply polarized Brazil, Lula’s supporters were swept up with enthusiasm after poll after poll predicted he would easily win the presidency. Their confidence grew even further after a last-minute survey – published on the eve of the vote – indicated that the former president could win the first-round vote outright.
But when the polls closed at 5pm local time, and the Brazilian left gathered en masse to watch a ballot count they were confident would sway sharply in Lula’s favour, a tense wait began.
Daughter of Aum Shinrikyo cult leader demands his remains
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 3, 2022 at 16:53 JST
The second daughter of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult leader, who was executed in 2018 for masterminding the deadly sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, is demanding the state turn over his remains and hair to her.
She filed a lawsuit on Oct. 2 at Tokyo District Court against the central government, her lawyers said on Oct. 3.
Chizuo Matsumoto, also known as Shoko Asahara, was hanged for his role in the March 20, 1995, sarin gas attacks on the capital’s subway system that killed 14 people and sickened thousands, as well as other acts of murder by his disciples, in July 2018.
Haiti’s public health crisis deepens as cholera cases reported
Haiti reports at least seven suspected deaths as outbreak hits amid rising gang violence, limited fuel and water access.
Haiti has reported at least two confirmed cases of cholera, local health officials and the World Health Organization (WHO) said, raising concerns that the disease will spread amid worsening gang violence and insecurity in the Caribbean nation.
In a statement on Sunday, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a branch of the WHO, said the two confirmed cases were reported in the greater Port-au-Prince area, while “clusters of suspected cases and deaths” also were under investigation.
Hong Kong is opening up to tourism -- but is it too late?
Jake Kwon, CNN • Updated 3rd October 2022
Indonesia: Fans 'died in the arms' of players in stadium crush
Football fans "died in the arms" of players during a crush at Indonesia's Kanjuruhan stadium, the home team coach has said, as the number of children killed in the tragedy rose to 32.
Javier Roca said the crush at the match in Java, in which 125 people lost their lives, left him "mentally shattered".
Authorities say the youngest victim of Saturday's disaster was just three.
Some 18 officers are being investigated after police fired tear gas at fans who invaded the pitch when the match ended.
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