— Action for Human Rights and Friendship (ADHA) is calling on the government to launch a parliamentary inquiry. "Despite 300 thousand euros [$336,000] announced for the Navy and the training of more than 300 agents, the association denounces the lack of lasting results in the face of the increase in irregular arrivals to the Canaries," ADHA said.
— AFP: Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said "We rule nothing out and will take all measures — including those we may not disclose publicly — that we deem proportionate and necessary to deter any further attacks." Hundreds of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, forcing many to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.
— Chicago Tribune: A British court ordered the outspoken 51-year-old "Get Him to the Greek" star to serve 10 1/2 years in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others on Monday. The offenses occurred when Brand's star was on the rise between 2004 and 2009. A jury convicted him on Thursday. He denies any wrongdoing. "Unjust," said Musk on his social media platform. "I don't believe these charges. I'm going to be honest. I don't," said Kelly. Brand admitted to Kelly in an April interview that he slept with a 16-year-old girl in Europe when he was 30, but argued that isn't against the law. "I was a very different person," said Brand, who shares Kelly's right-wing political bent. Brand married author Laura Gallacher in 2017. They have three children.
— Guardian: Under House rules, the vote would have to occur no later than Wednesday. Massie first introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth on 15 September, but House speaker Mike Johnson called US Congress into recess before it could be heard.
— The El Niño Heat Mortality Tracker reveals an extra 370,000 lives could be at risk over the next six months, with Nigeria, India, and Brazil forecast to bear the brunt of the crisis. Extreme weather has already caused more than 30,000 excess deaths in Europe, 1,300 deaths from Himalayan flash floods in Nepal, and exposed 146.5 million people in India to extreme heat.
— AP: For the first time since February, Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators are scheduled to hold talks on ending the full-scale war that is nearing the five-year mark, with security guarantees topping the agenda.
— In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, "more than 600,000 residents of the region have been left without power," power company DTEK said on Telegram after a "night attack has damaged important energy facilities". In another strike, a Russian drone hit "a critical infrastructure facility" in the northeastern Kharkiv region, the mayor of Zlatopil city, Mykola Baksheyev, said on social media. "Nearly 250,000 customers in the Kharkiv region were left without power," Baksheyev said.
— BBC: Hassan Dioband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh were accused of throwing Molotov cocktails and grenades, using bladed weapons and firearms, and setting fire to public facilities in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran's state news agency Tasnim reported. Tasnim said the three men were executed after the Supreme Court upheld their convictions and found them guilty of "participating in operational activities on behalf of the Israeli Zionist regime, the United States and hostile groups".
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