Wednesday 7th October 2026. Kenya Ebola. Ethiopia PM. Brazil endorsements. France protests. Russia plague. Black Sea ships hit...

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0:35 Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Wednesday, the 7th of October, 2026. Starting in Africa today. Kenya has reported its first case of Ebola after a man died after arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the DRC, over 8,600 cases of Ebola have now been confirmed and over 4,000 deaths, although the true numbers are expected to be much higher than this. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a second term yesterday, after winning elections earlier this week, government forces regained control of the Tigray region, where the powerful Tigray People's Liberation Front had been in control after the TPLF threatened to overthrow Abiy's government a few weeks ago.

1:47 In Nigeria, a military plane has crashed killing 25 people. President Bola Tinubu has declared three days of national mourning. Americas. In Brazil, two right-wing presidential candidates have endorsed Flavio Bolsonaro for the second round of the presidential election, which will take place on the 25th of October. In the first round, Bolsonaro won 47% of votes and President Lula da Silva won 45%. Bolsonaro is now widely expected to win the second round as well. Argentina's foreign minister has said that Argentina will stop the Falkland Islands from using oil fields around the Falkland Islands. Last month, at the United Nations General Assembly, President Javier Milley condemned the United Nations for

2:45 failing to stop the Sea Lion Project, which is a planned oil extraction from an oil field north of the Falkland Islands. The Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory, which Argentina claims as its own territory, using the name Malvinas. In the United States, Krista Pike, the Tennessee Prisoner, whose execution failed last week, is conscious and speaking, according to her lawyers. Asia. Russia should share more information about a death from plague, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. A laboratory worker at a plague research centre in Siberia died of pneumonic plague, However, Russian officials have said that everyone who has been in contact with her has tested negative. Plague is extremely rare in the 21st century. However,

3:50 it is almost always fatal if it is not treated within the first 24 hours of symptoms showing. Malaysia has returned around 10,000 migrants from Myanmar since January. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said, According to United Nations data, Malaysia has taken in around 193,000 refugees from Myanmar over the last few years during the Myanmar civil war. Europe In the Black Sea, a series of civilian cargo ships have been attacked by drones, with some European leaders blaming Russia.

4:35 Close to Romania, a cargo ship travelling from Ukraine to Italy has sunk in the Black Sea. The captain of the ship was killed and one crew member is missing, with 11 others rescued. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had targeted, quote, a civilian vessel in neutral waters carrying corn and owned by Turkey, end quote. Bulgaria yesterday said that two cargo ships were hit by drones in the Black Sea, with one of the ships being sunk and all crew missing. The crew of the other ship were rescued. Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Ruman Radev, said that the ships were targeted by both air and sea drones. However, Radev said that it was not clear which side the drones came from, referring to either Russia or Ukraine. Radev

5:32 has sometimes been accused of being pro-Russia. However, he denies this. In France, yesterday was the biggest day yet of protests by secondary school students. For two weeks, high school students have been protesting, saying that their schools are under-equipped and under-staffed. Police used tear gas on protesting students yesterday and protesters started fires. The French government has said that during these protests, over 700 police have been injured, as well as 215 adolescents and 85 school staff. And in Sweden, the Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to the Belgian particle physicist Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos. Neutrinos are extraordinarily tiny particles. that almost never interact with other matter.

6:33 Halzen has been working on detecting neutrinos in Antarctica since the 1990s. After receiving the Nobel Prize, Halzen said that a highlight of his career was discovering that it was possible to use ice to see neutrinos.

6:51 When we saw the first images of neutrinos, detected by our R & D project that eventually led to the construction of IceCube. We finally managed to use the ice to see neutrinos. I guess it was in 1996 or 7. That was the greatest excitement and the greatest excitement I ever felt about this project.

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