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A fire in Lyon during a protest, October 6, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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- Students, teachers and parents marched in cities across France and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. Follow our live updates.
- Light attack aircraft and military vehicles have arrived at the new China-Laos joint training facility, according to satellite images reviewed by Reuters.
- Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance to retake the coast around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha, the government said. In response, the Houthis said they had attacked key locations in Saudi Arabia.
- President Donald Trump's approval rating held at a record low in recent days, as many Hispanic voters panned his job performance and planned to spurn his Republican Party in next month's midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. Meanwhile, in another poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans said that it is inappropriate to use taxpayer funds for TV ads featuring the president around an election.
- California's Governor Gavin Newsom has lashed out at President Trump for remarks to a crowd of his supporters in Nebraska's farm belt suggesting that Iran could "take out" a major US city like Los Angeles or San Diego.
- Cornell University students staged a mass rally voicing solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape allegations have ignited a national uproar and demanding that the Ivy League school take firmer action against sexual violence on campus. The Reuters World News podcast has more.
- Russia's health watchdog said that no cases of plague had been detected among people who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died on Friday.
- Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin", the award-giving body said.
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A person wears an image of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro and a US President Donald Trump hat, in Brasilia, Brazil. REUTERS/Diego Herculano
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The biggest winner in Brazil's blockbuster weekend election did not even appear on the ballot.
Banned from public office, former President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest, serving a 27-year sentence for a coup plot after his 2022 election loss. The 71-year-old watched from confinement on Sunday as his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, scored an upset victory over leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first round of the presidential election.
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Castellers de Vilafranca form a human tower called "castell" during a biannual human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain, October 4. REUTERS/Albert Ge
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Teams compete to build towering human pyramids at Catalonia's largest castells competition in Tarragona, Spain.
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