The US Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. They allege monopoly, and that the company raised prices for shoppers and imposed punishing fees against sellers on its platform.

Yesterday, a judge in New York ruled that Donald Trump had consistently inflated the value of his assets, thereby committing fraud. The decision has the effect of canceling the business certificates underlying the operation of some of Trump's New York properties.

More than 53,000 of the 120,000 inhabitants of the Nagorno-Karabakh region have fled into Armenia since Azerbaijan launched an attack on the region last week, and then lifted its 10-month blockade on the region's only road into Armenia.

A mass exodus of thousands of ethnic Armenians has begun just days after Azerbaijan grabbed control of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. 6500 have already arrived in Armenia.

In Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014, the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet has been hit by a Ukrainian missile.

The Palestinian International Cooperation Agency (PICA) rescue team yesterday finished their week-long mission in flood-stricken Derna in Libya and were heading back to the occupied West Bank. Raed Qazmouz, head of the rescue team, said: "When we hear a call for help from anyone, we answer the call, in spite of the suffering we experience as Palestinians living under Israeli occupation."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today addressed a closed session of the US Senate, where there is bipartisan support for continued aid to Ukraine. A far right group of House Republicans, however, oppose more aid. Still, the Biden Administration has announced another $325 million in "presidential drawdown assistance" for Ukraine, including new air defense.

After Azerbaijan's offensive one day ago to take control of the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic Armenians have agreed to a Russian proposal for a ceasefire.

The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni has approved new measures to control immigration, and has called for a naval blockade of human smuggling from North Africa.

In a remarkable development, Canada has expelled a top Indian intelligence diplomat over what it says are "credible allegations" that the Indian government was complicit in the June murder of a Canadian citizen. Hardeep Singh Nijjar had advocated for the creation of a separate Sikh state in the Punjab region of India.

For the second time this year, Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland has suspended its Human Rights Act. That will allow the government to hold more children in detention, including some as young as 10 years old.

Donald Trump posted a Rosh Hashanah message on his Truth Social platform, calling Jews who vote for Democrats and did not vote for him as “very disloyal” to Israel.

Scientists are warning that humankind has crossed six of the nine boundaries beyond which maintaining a healthy planet becomes difficult. They include biosphere integrity, land use, nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment, climate change, fresh water, synthetic pollution and ocean acidification. The earth is now said to be “well outside the safe operating space for humanity.”

TikTok has been fined 345 million euros by EU regulators for violating EU privacy laws in their handling of children’s personal data.

The death toll from catastrophic floods in the Libyan city of Derna has surpassed 11,300. Another 10,100 are said to still be missing.