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Defence secretary says value for money and modernisation key for defence spending to ‘fight the wars ahead’ Wes Streeting started stockpiling food and water in case of a national emergency weeks ago, the defence secretary has said, as he talked up the threats to the UK and said his department has already begun ramping up its spending in response. Streeting spoke after the chancellor, John Healey, said he wanted defence spending to reach 3% of GDP by 2030 and 3.5% by 2035; having already asked Whitehall departments to find 1% cuts in their budgets for long-term investment to fund defence spending. Continue reading...

Filter straws to a disposable toilet - people in the US, Japan, Sweden and Netherlands on what's in their emergency stashes.

Humanitarian convoy brings food and medicine to Russian-held city where people have suffered severe shortages People living in the besieged Russian-held city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine were evacuated on Friday as part of a joint relief operation, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war. The city, which lies on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River, opposite Kherson, has suffered months of serious food and medical shortages, leading to warnings of starvation for the few thousand people remaining there, including about 50 children. Continue reading...

Officials say an oxygen cylinder exploded inside a parked ambulance at a government-run medical facility in southern Pakistan, killing at least 10 people, including a patient of the facility

Two men breached a fence at the Leipzig/Halle airport while practicing for a driving test. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced an industrial AI partnership with Nvidia. DW has more.

After a worker at a Russian plague research institute in Siberia died October 2, 2026, nearly 200 of her contacts were under medical observation. But authorities there denied pneumonic plague had caused the death.