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Millions face acute hunger in Sudan as conflict, drought and funding cuts aggravate the humanitarian crisis.
Millions face acute hunger in Sudan as conflict, drought and funding cuts aggravate the humanitarian crisis.
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Lula’s fourth term may have spared BRICS an internal fracture at a time when Trump is trying to reassert US power.
<p>Frontline near Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine quiet for first time in years ahead of planned evacuation</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/27/russia-ukraine-oleshky-serbia-france-europe-latest-news-updates">Europe live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/ukraine-troops-report-ongoing-problems-with-starlink-satellite-network">local ceasefire</a> in a southern Ukrainian city under Russian occupation appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with both sides ceasing drone attacks, ahead of an apparent evacuation of about 2,000 trapped and desperate civilians.</p><p>The temporary truce began at 3am in Russian-controlled Oleshky. The city sits on the Dnipro River and is about 3 miles from Kherson, a larger city on the opposite bank. Ukrainian troops <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/khersons-weary-holdouts-recall-occupation-nightmare-as-bombs-fall">recaptured Kherson in autumn 2022</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/oleshky-truce-ukraine-russia-putin">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Authorities demanded he hand over his passport after loss to Lula but far-right senator remains unaccounted for</p><p>The far-right senator <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/fl-vio-bolsonaro">Flávio Bolsonaro</a> has not been seen since Monday and missed a Tuesday-morning deadline to hand his passport to the federal police, fuelling rumours that he may have fled <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/brazil">Brazil</a> after losing Sunday’s presidential election.</p><p>A supreme court justice cancelled Bolsonaro’s passport minutes after the result in a ruling related to a criminal case against the senator. He until 11am to surrender the document to the federal police, but did not appear.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-argentina-fled">Continue reading...</a>
With the US reopening talks with Myanmar's military-backed government, and several Southeast Asian countries restarting diplomatic contacts, the EU is facing uncomfortable questions about its own boycott of the junta.