Indonesia: At least 125 dead in football stadium crush
By Valdya Baraputri in Malang and Matthew Davis in London
BBC News
At least 125 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world's worst stadium disasters.
Hundreds were also hurt in aftermath of home team Arema FC's loss to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium late on Saturday in Malang, East Java.
The crush took place after police tear-gassed fans who invaded the pitch.
As panic spread, thousands surged towards Kanjuruhan stadium's exits, where many suffocated.
Fifa, the world's governing football body, states that no "crowd control gas" should be carried or used by stewards or police at matches.
Polls put Lula on brink of comeback victory over Bolsonaro in Brazil
But hopes leftwing former president will defeat Jair Bolsonaro tempered by fear a runoff contest could mean weeks of turmoil and violence
Tom Phillips in São Paulo
Brazil’s former leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is on the brink of an astonishing political comeback, with polls suggesting he is poised to defeat his far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday’s election.
Eve of election polls suggested Lula was within a whisker of securing the overall majority of votes that would guarantee him a first-round victory against Brazil’s radical incumbent, whose calamitous Covid response, assault on the Amazon and foul-mouthed threats to democracy have alienated more than half of the population.
“I’m going to win these elections so I can give the people the right to be happy again. The people need, deserve and have the right ... to be happy once more,” Lula, 76, told journalists on Saturday during a visit to São Paulo – one of the election’s three key battlegrounds, alongside the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.
Sabotage in the BalticAttacks Expose Vulnerability of European Infrastructure
The search for the perpetrators has begun following Monday's sabotage attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. Which countries could have been behind it, and how secure is Europe's critical infrastructure at the bottom of the sea?
By Maik Baumgärtner, Markus Becker, Ullrich Fichtner, Matthias Gebauer, Claus Hecking, Martin Knobbe, Marina Kormbaki, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Anna-Sophie Schneider und Gerald Traufetter
The route of the gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea could have been copied out of a cruise catalogue. From Ust-Luga near St. Petersburg, the route leads through the Gulf of Finland, then south past the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, past Gotland in Sweden, past Bornholm through Danish waters before approaching the German coast and ending in Lubmin in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It's a route where you wouldn't typically expect anything out of the ordinary to happen, a region intended for comfortable vacations. A place where all was well.
Burkina Faso coup leaders call for end to violence at French embassy in Ouagadougou
Security forces fired tear gas at dozens of rock-throwing protesters outside the French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital on Sunday, according to an AFP journalist, as unrest simmered in the West African country following its second coup this year.
Supporters of Burkina's newest putsch leader Captain Ibrahim Traore had gathered outside the building in Ouagadougou a day after he accused the man he deposed of hiding out at a French base to plot a "counteroffensive".
With French troops watching from the roof, the protesters had set fire to barriers outside and lobbed rocks at the structure when the tear gas volleys were fired.
Putin has his back to the wall with the clock ticking ever louder
Time is running out for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he knows it.
Meanwhile his bombast continues: announcing the annexation of Ukrainian territories on Friday, Putin declared Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson will become part of Russia “forever.” He is rushing to claim a victory and cement slender gains and sue for peace, running a dangerous political tab, regardless of the fanfare in Moscow.
He called on Ukraine to “cease fire” immediately and “sit down at the negotiating table,” but added: “We will not negotiate the choice of the people. It has been made. Russia will not betray it.”
He is doing his best to hide it, but he is losing his war in Ukraine. The writing is on the wall.
Rain-wrecked Tadami line reopens in full after 11 years
By TORU SAITO/ Staff Writer
October 2, 2022 at 15:06 JST
A popular rail line stretching across Fukushima and Niigata prefectures that is renowned for its breathtaking natural views resumed full operations 11 years after torrential rains rendered a 27.6-kilometer stretch unusable.
The Tadami Line operated by East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) offers spectacular mountain and river views.
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