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Under an IMF scenario where oil reaches $US130 a barrel from late 2026 through early 2027, Australian petrol prices could rise 30c a litre to about $2.70 and lift inflation to as high as 4.5% by late 2026, pressuring the RBA to hike rates, economists say.

Amid renewed Tigray fighting, the UAE on September 25, 2025 condemned TPLF attacks and airport seizures, with minister Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan backing Ethiopia's sovereignty, while Saudi Arabia has stayed silent despite reported 2025 mediation offers and past Ethiopia-Eritrea diplomacy.

The IMF's World Economic Outlook report, released in Bangkok, cut the UK's 2027 growth forecast from 1.3 per cent to 1.2 per cent as Chancellor John Healey prepares a Budget amid energy bills set to rise above £2,000 in the New Year.

Zelenskyy branded Trump's plan to lift sanctions and import millions of tons of Russian diesel a 'weak decision' and 'gift to Putin,' approved further drone strikes on Russian refineries despite Trump's call for Ukraine to replace him, and insisted via Telegram that 'any de-escalation steps must be mutual,' drawing defense from rival Petro Poroshenko.

Una encuesta de POLITICO Poll realizada por PF Global en septiembre muestra que el 58% de los españoles teme un conflicto armado con Marruecos por Ceuta y Melilla en los próximos diez años, tras la entrada de más de 70.000 migrantes en Ceuta entre el 30 y 31 de julio.

The IMF warned that UK inflation will hit 3.3% in 2026 and 2.8% in 2027, higher than previously forecast, while UK GDP grows 1.3% this year before slowing to 1.2% next year, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government and Chancellor John Healey facing budget pressure ahead of the October 28 Budget.

Raphaël Glucksmann won France's 2026 center-left primary with over 66% of the first-round vote, but polls show him trailing Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and Edouard Philippe as he courts French Greens, Socialist factions, and centrist voters while awaiting François Hollande's next move.

In its Tuesday World Economic Outlook published in Bangkok, the IMF revised global growth to 3.1% for this year and 3.4% for 2027, raised UK growth to 1.3% for 2026, and warned that depleted emergency oil stocks and high government debt could test the global economy's resilience as the US-Iran war keeps oil prices and global inflation at 4.7%.

A September POLITICO poll by PF Global found 58 percent of Spaniards believed tensions over Ceuta and Melilla, which saw over 70,000 migrants arrive in late July, were likely to spark an armed conflict with Morocco within the next decade, as King Felipe VI began tours of the exclaves on Tuesday.

Rachel Maddow calculated that Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) paid $1,300 of a $1,357.50 "double" repayment claim to Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, Kansas, for 2020 campaign cookies, leaving him short $57.50 — or about $112 short if the 18 percent APR he charged his medical patients were applied over six years.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate, arguing at the Labour Party Conference and in the House of Commons that 'Brexit has done more harm than good', while planning to deepen UK-EU ties at a Brussels summit on Friday 20 November and floating a possible in-out referendum in Labour's next manifesto, amid accusations from Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson over his claim of Russian interference in the 2016 referendum.

Journalist Jim Acosta told former Republican lawyer George Conway on the debut episode of Conway's podcast 'Psycho Politics' that President Donald Trump's recent rally comments, including 'I could say the stupidest things, and you would clap,' show a '25th Amendment crisis' as Trump stumps for Republicans in formerly safe districts.

On Tuesday, about 650 offenders in England and Wales serving up to two and a half years will be released after a third of their sentence as part of the government's early release scheme, while probation union Napo prepares a strike ballot over a 5% pay offer and MPs consider court reforms dropping judge-only trials but ending jury trials for 5,500 cases.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Prime Minister Andy Burnham in the Commons of 'unpicking' the Brexit deal ahead of the November 20 UK-EU summit in Brussels, where both sides aim to finalise a food and drink accord, youth mobility programme and emissions trading agreement.

On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, a major internet blackout hit UK broadband providers BT, Sky, Vodafone and EE, with Downdetector tracking the outages and one BT customer reporting a fault lasting nearly 12 hours with service hoped to be restored by 3pm.

A retired decorator from Woking is selling 42 mint-condition Pokémon master sets, purchased for around £300 each in the late 1990s via eBay from a Malaysian seller, at Ewbank's Auctions in Surrey on October 21, with head of trading cards James Spooner estimating the collection could fetch up to £270,000.

Katie Louise Marshall, 32, died on September 24 from bacterial pneumonia, inhalation injury and flash burns after a paint canister in a bin bag exploded on a garden bonfire in Newport, Gwent on June 26, an inquest at Gwent Coroner's Court heard, with senior coroner Caroline Saunders adjourning proceedings to June 9, 2027.

Mark Lord, 63, appeared at a hearing before Judge Nicholas Clarke KC on Monday, charged with murdering his 94-year-old father Allan Lord, whose body was found at a house on Bryngs Drive in Harwood, Bolton at 11.35am on Wednesday; he was remanded in custody and will appear at Bolton Crown Court on November 16, with a trial date set for March 30 next year.

During a Monday night debate for the Colorado 4th Congressional District seat, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was fact-checked by KUSA-TV moderator Kyle Clark after claiming the U.S. attacks on Iran were 'never about regime change.'

At a Monday rally in Youngstown, Ohio, President Donald Trump told former NFL coach Jon Gruden that WNBA player Sophie Cunningham is 'beautiful' but implied she helps attendance rather than scoring, prompting critics like Mehdi Hasan and Michael Salfino to call him an 'old creep' and a 'pig' on X.