Controversial billionaire Elon Musk has called the Australian government “fascists” over its attempts to tackle deliberate lies spread on social media.

The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 226 on Thursday, the government’s disaster agency said, as flood pressure eased in the capital Hanoi.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to interfere with a lower court decision to keep Donald Trump’s already-decided criminal case over hush money paid to a porn star in state court, dealing another blow to the former U.S. president’s bid to move the case to federal court.

New York’s top court on Thursday upheld a judge’s gag order on Donald Trump in the case in which the former U.S. president was convicted on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not participate in another presidential debate against Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 election, after several polls showed his Democratic rival won their debate earlier this week.

Russian shelling on Thursday killed three Ukrainians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and wounded two others in a village in the frontline Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said.

Australia will give Vietnam $3 million for humanitarian relief after a deadly typhoon killed more than 150 people.

A group of about three dozen US state and local election officials have raised serious concerns about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver millions of ballots for the 2024 presidential election.

Russian forces have begun a significant counter-offensive against Ukrainian troops who smashed their way into western Russia last month, and have taken some territory back, pro-Russianwar bloggers and a senior Russian commander say.

Shootouts in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa have kindled fears that an intra-cartel war is about to break out in the wake of the arrest of legendary trafficker, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in July.

Anti-war protesters and police clashed outside a defence exhibition in the Australian city of Melbourne, with police using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray on parts of the crowd.

The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi has risen to 141, the government said as it warned that flood waters were causing the Red River to rise rapidly and threaten to inundate downtown districts of the capital Hanoi.