Lewis Walker

Egypt frees prominent investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat, whose arrest was condemned by human rights campaigners.
BBC News – Middle East

Colombia’s largest armed rebel group, the Farc, stopped buying guns and ammunition at the end of September, its leader says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A Russian document circulating at the UN proposes a constitutional reform process in Syria lasting 18 months to be followed by presidential elections.
BBC News – Europe

George Osborne should postpone planned reforms to tax credits, says a group of MPs warning that there can be no “magic bullet” to protect low-paid workers.
BBC News – UK

A judge in Kansas gives a death sentence to a white supremacist who killed three people at a Jewish centre last year.
BBC News – US & Canada

Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger and disease in east and southern Africa as El Nino causes drought and flooding, the UN says.
BBC News – Africa

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Last Saturday, baseball fans everywhere got to see the best the Arizona Fall League had to offer in the annual Fall Stars Game. Tuesday’s Mesa-Surprise game affords the opportunity to see many of those Fall Stars […]

A “deeply concerning” slowdown in trade, particularly with China, will lead to lower global economic growth this year, the OECD says.
BBC News – Business

A Jordanian policeman opens fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Venezuelan Defence Minister Gen Vladimir Padrino says a plane which apparently violated Venezuelan airspace belonged to the US Coast Guard.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia should be suspended from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron says he has no “emotional attachment” that would stop him backing a UK exit if his EU renegotiation fails.
BBC News – UK

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigns amid criticism of his handling of racial issues.
BBC News – US & Canada

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sacks the head of the anti-corruption agency, Ibrahim Lamorde, but gives no reason for his removal.
BBC News – Africa

After swatting away an attempted alley-oop, Russe
Oklahoma City Thunder

The A’s promoted two members of their front office Friday, naming Billy Owens assistant general manager/director of player personnel and Dan Feinstein assistant general manager, pro scouting and player […]

48 hours isn’t all that long, but after the stretch of four games in five nights that the Thunder just had, it seemed like a week.
Oklahoma City Thunder

The government should take “decisive action” and support a third runway at Heathrow, the head of one of the UK’s biggest business groups says.
BBC News – Business

The UK is “letting down” its allies by failing to launch air strikes against terror group Islamic State in Syria, Britain’s top military commander says.
BBC News – Middle East