The day’s top story from each region we cover, as reported on Kilwhiss News in the 24 hours to 20:00 UK time. Follow each link for our full summary and the original source.
UK
Dozens of UK government online services taken offline over critical PHP flaw: Thirty-two UK government online services have been taken offline and four more are partly unavailable while officials deal with a critical security weakness in the PHP programming…
Europe
French draft budget sets aside €2.3m for Macron’s post-presidency offices: France's draft budget for next year includes a €2.3 million provision to fund furnished offices for Emmanuel Macron once he leaves the Élysée Palace, according to a parliamentary report…
Scandinavia
More than a third of children held in Norway’s youth prisons convicted of new offences inside, NRK finds: More than one in three children who have served time in Norway's special youth prisons have later been convicted of offences committed while locked up, an investigation by the Norwegian…
Eastern Europe
Critics describe beatings and threats in Serbia days before Vucic seeks premiership: Activists, student protesters and opposition politicians in Serbia describe a climate of beatings, cyberattacks and threats ahead of Sunday's election, in which former president Aleksandar…
Canada
Canada takes government websites offline to patch critical PHP flaws found by AI: The Canadian government has temporarily taken several of its websites offline to fix two critical security flaws in PHP, the programming language behind a large share of the world's…
Alaska
Petrol hits $24.49 a gallon in Noatak as fuel costs dominate Alaska Senate race: Petrol in the northwest Alaska village of Noatak now costs $24.49 a gallon after an overnight jump of almost $8 in July, Alaska's News Source reports, in a survey of fuel prices across the…
USA
Trump’s political groups spend nearly $277m in late push for Republicans: President Donald Trump's main super PAC, MAGA Inc., has spent nearly $277 million since the start of September to support Republican candidates ahead of the 3 November midterms, according…
Australia
Man charged after threatening Western Australian minister’s staff with nunchucks: A 56-year-old man has been charged after allegedly threatening staff at the Perth electorate office of Western Australian state minister Hannah Beazley while holding nunchucks, police said…
New Zealand
NZ Police have run an AI test lab for over a year, documents show: New Zealand Police set up a laboratory to test artificial intelligence tools around August last year, according to documents released under the Official Information Act and reported by RNZ.
Asia
Indonesia resists calls to declare haze-causing wildfires a national disaster: Indonesia's government is refusing to classify the forest and land fires spreading across the country as a national disaster, saying it can manage the crisis without one, despite residents…
China
Xi Jinping says China faces ‘new Long March’ ahead of party plenum: Chinese President Xi Jinping has told a commemoration in Beijing that the country faces a "new Long March" and needs strong, united Communist Party leadership to meet today's challenges…
Africa
Nigerian bill would stop Abuja landlords demanding more than a year’s rent upfront: Nigeria's House of Representatives has passed the first reading of a bill that would bar landlords in the Federal Capital Territory, which includes Abuja, from requiring more than 12…
Middle East
Iran threatens Gulf oil sites and AI data centres if US and Israel attack again: A senior Iranian security official has warned that Iran would target oil facilities, undersea cables, data centres and artificial intelligence sites in up to seven Gulf countries if the…
Latin America
Update: UN rights experts ask Meta to explain its handling of Brazil election content: Independent UN human rights experts have asked Meta to explain whether its moderation, recommendation and AI systems disadvantaged one side in Brazil's presidential race, four days before…
AI & Technology
Huawei and DeepSeek narrowing gap with Nvidia’s AI ecosystem, SemiAnalysis says: A closer partnership between the Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek and Huawei is helping China catch up with Nvidia's chips and software, according to a report by the research firm SemiAnalysis…
