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BBC News with Chris Barrow.
Russian police say a blast at a restaurant in Moscow has killed three people and wounded 20 more. Reports say a woman tried to bring an improvised explosive device into the restaurant which went off, killing the woman, the security guard and a guest. From Moscow, here's Steve Rosenberg. The restaurant is located in one of Moscow's famous Stalin-era skyscrapers. On Saturday evening, it had been closed to the public and was hosting a private function. The authorities have not disclosed the guest list or said anything about who they believe was the target of the attack. Many Muscovites will suspect a link to the war in Ukraine. In the last couple of years, several senior Russian military figures have been assassinated in and around the Russian capital. For those attacks, Moscow has blamed Kyiv. The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, is under sustained pressure after he was forced to scrap his plan to sell a stake in the World Cup and other football tournaments to private investors. The governing body of North and Central American and Caribbean football has said a comprehensive reckoning with the presidency was imperative. Mr. Infantino is facing re-election next year. BBC Sports' Jane Dougal considers how a challenger might emerge. "Now the current president's reputation is in tatters. If 43 of the 211 member associations request it, an extraordinary FIFA congress could be triggered. A vote of no confidence could then follow. Currently, no one has said they will run against Mr. Infantino in the contest next March, but they have until the 18th of November to do so. Police in Peru say a small plane with 13 people on board has crashed in the Nazca desert in the south of the country. There are no survivors. More details from Peter Bowes. Police at the scene have said there were no survivors, given the severity of the crash. Images posted on social media appear to show the smoldering wreckage of the aircraft about 240 kilometers south of Lima. There is no immediate indication of what caused the crash and the nationalities of the passengers on board have not been released. Dozens of small aircraft operate in the area, carrying mainly foreign visitors over the Nazca lines, a World Heritage site famous for its ancient geoglyphs, vast figures etched into the desert. Police in Sri Lanka say at least one inmate has been killed and another six injured in a riot at a prison outside Colombo. Police commandos have been deployed to guard the high-security Mahara prison. A curfew has been imposed in areas around the jail complex. The latest violence came about a month after clashes at another overcrowded prison that killed 10 guards and 21 inmates in Sri Lanka's worst prison riots in years. You're listening to the latest world news from the BBC with me, Chris Barrow. The European Union has convened emergency talks on Tuesday to discuss the migration crisis in Ceuta after tense exchanges between Spain and other member states. In a joint letter, 22 EU countries expressed serious concern about the influx of more than 50,000 people into the Spanish territory from Morocco. President Zelenskyy of Ukraine has renewed his appeal for Western air defenses after a deadly attack on Kyiv in which only one out of 27 ballistic missiles was shot down. He said this was due to a lack of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors. Ukraine has kept up its attacks on Russia, hitting three more oil refineries. Hungary's Prime Minister Péter Magyar says the country is shutting down its only nuclear plant because of an ongoing drought. The Danube is so low that it can't be used to cool the Pax power plant, which produces almost half of the country's electricity. Two days ago, Mr. Magyar also urged Hungarians to limit energy consumption at peak times. The Danube has hit its lowest level in 30 years, prompting neighboring Romania to halt a nuclear reactor at the Cernavodă power plant. The mountaineering world is mourning the deaths of a celebrated British Nepali climber, Nirmal Purja, and nine others in an avalanche that struck Pakistan's Broad Peak on Thursday. The former British special forces soldier was 43. Caroline Davis is in Islamabad. The record-breaking mountaineer, Nirmal Purja, known as Nims, was well known for appearing in a Netflix documentary about his climbing feats. Purja was one of a group of 10 climbers to have gone missing when the avalanche hit on Thursday. In a statement his brother said, he felt as though he had lost his whole world. He said, "My brother was not only my younger brother, he was my heart." While Pakistan's authorities have only confirmed they have the remains of three climbers, drones have spotted bodies on the mountain. Rescuers have not been able to reach them yet to confirm their identities or condition. BBC News. |