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Feral deer will become Australia’s next feral pig problem without prompt action, report warns
<p>The invasive species has increased in spread and numbers and is costing farmers millions of dollars</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>An unpublished government report on feral deer shows Australia is failing in its efforts to stop the spread of what one advocate warns could become “Australia’s next <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/30/feral-pigs-queensland-rainforests-rivers-sacred-sites">feral pig</a>”.</p><p>The five years from 2020-2025 over which the national feral deer action plan was assessed covers a period in which the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/27/deer-high-visibility-jacket-british-columbia">famously elusive</a> species has increasingly encroached upon major cities, leading to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/15/oh-deer-animal-seen-crossing-anzac-bridge-and-near-train-tracks-in-central-sydney">more frequent encounters</a> – including a memorable occasion in which two men in various degrees of undress were fined after becoming lost in the bush when they were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/28/buck-naked-nude-sunbathers-fleeing-deer-fined-for-breaking-sydney-lockdown">spooked by deer while nude sunbathing</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/30/australia-feral-deer-problem-report-national-action-plan">Continue reading...</a>
GB Oct 30, 2026The Guardian World World03
China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials
<p>The unprecedented number of empty seats at the fifth plenum – a symbol of expulsions – serve as a symbol for the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping</p><p>China expelled a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP) as it concluded a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/xi-jinping-corruption-crackdown-china-fifth-plenum">major political gathering</a>, which saw an unprecedented number of empty seats indicating the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping.</p><p>A record 33 members were expelled at this week’s fifth plenum, a gathering of top officials that takes place roughly once a year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/china-expels-record-number-communist-party-xi-jinping-purges-officials-fifth-plenum">Continue reading...</a>
GB Oct 30, 2026The Guardian World World04
Flash floods kill five in Syria
Four children drowned while a man died after his car was caught in floodwaters.
QA Oct 30, 2026Al Jazeera English