Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah is due to face a criminal court retrial over allegations that Mada Masr operated without a licence and published false news. The UN and press-freedom groups have criticised the case amid a wider crackdown on independent media in Egypt.
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Attalah heads Mada Masr, an independent Egyptian news outlet.
A court sentenced Attalah to one year in prison in absentia in 2024 over the charges.
Attalah says she learned of that sentence last month after her release in a separate case.
In the separate case, a court fined her three million Egyptian pounds, reported as about $56,000, and ordered Mada Masr shut down.
Attalah said Mada Masr had submitted licensing applications repeatedly over eight years without receiving answers.
The UN criticised what it called widening assaults on press freedom in Egypt and raised concerns about due process in Attalah’s prosecution.
The article reports that six journalists from the fact-checking platform Matsadaash remain in pretrial detention after their newsroom was arrested in September.
The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Egyptian authorities to end the crackdown and reverse Mada Masr’s shutdown.
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At least 39 people died when a migrant boat capsized off Senegal’s northwest coast. The report describes the disaster as one of Senegal’s deadliest migration tragedies in recent years and discusses why people continue to risk the journey.
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At least 39 people died in the boat capsize off Senegal’s northwest coast.
The incident involved a migrant boat.
The report describes it as one of Senegal’s deadliest migration tragedies in recent years.
Aissata Kane, the International Organization for Migration’s chief of mission in Senegal, appeared as a guest to discuss the risks of migration.
The program also reported that an attack in western Ethiopia killed 65 people, including 27 civilians.
Senegal won two taekwondo medals, including a gold, at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games.
Senegal moved to sixth place in the Youth Olympic Games standings.
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U.S. prosecutors charged three men they describe as Iranian-backed operatives over alleged attacks and attempted attacks in the United States and Europe, including a plot targeting RAF Fairford in England. Prosecutors allege the men acted for groups linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah; Iran has denied involvement in the Fairford incident. The charges add to earlier allegations against one defendant, who is jailed in New York and has pleaded not guilty.
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The defendants are Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani.
Prosecutors allege al-Hassani directed others to drive vans, including vans carrying fuel barrels, to RAF Fairford.
Prosecutors allege al-Saadi used coded calls to family members in Iraq to pass messages to al-Hassani and Mohajeri.
Al-Saadi, who holds Iranian and Iraqi citizenship, has been in U.S. custody since May and has pleaded not guilty to earlier charges.
U.K. police arrested six people after a report of suspicious activity at Fairford in September; all were released on bail, and two were later charged under the National Security Act.
The U.S. military withdrew its B-1 bombers from Fairford days after the incident.
Flight-tracking data showed the U.S. military had removed at least a dozen aircraft from RAF Mildenhall, another U.K. base, on Tuesday.
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Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime praised El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele after Salvadoran troops supported an operation that destroyed a suspected gang headquarters near Port-au-Prince. The deployment of more than 2,000 Salvadoran soldiers has raised questions about coordination with Haiti’s security forces and a UN-backed mission, as well as compliance with human rights law.
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Bukele said Salvadoran forces destroyed the home of gang leader Wilson Joseph, also known as Lanmo San Jou, and a 400 Mawozo gang headquarters in Croix-des-Bouquets.
A Miami Herald report said the attack took place Sunday and was carried out by a Haitian police task force backed by Salvadoran troops.
The Miami Herald reported that 20 people died, citing anonymous sources.
Joseph was not at the house during the attack, according to pro-government media in El Salvador.
Bukele sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti after four Salvadoran troops went missing following an October 18 ambush.
The deployment has raised concerns about rules of engagement and coordination with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force.
Amnesty International urged Haiti and El Salvador to ensure Salvadoran operations comply with international human rights law.
Dominican President Luis Abinader called for El Salvador and the Gang Suppression Force to coordinate, while offering support to Bukele.
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British police said they arrested a senior U.S. Army soldier stationed in the United Kingdom on Tuesday. The soldier is suspected of spying for Russia; the report provides no further details about the case.
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British police announced the arrest.
The arrested person is a senior U.S. Army soldier.
The soldier was stationed in the United Kingdom.
Police arrested the soldier on Tuesday.
Authorities suspect the soldier of spying for Russia.
The report does not state that the soldier has been charged or convicted.
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Algeria hosted a delegation from Lawrence, Kansas, on an all-expenses-paid trip. The visit thanked the city for welcoming Algeria’s national team during the World Cup.
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Algeria hosted the delegation from Lawrence, Kansas.
The trip was all expenses paid.
The visit was described as a thank-you to Lawrence.
Lawrence welcomed Algeria’s national team during the World Cup.
The article did not specify which World Cup or when the team visited Lawrence.
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A UK public inquiry into alleged SAS killings in Afghanistan has released photographs from two 2011 operations in Helmand province. The inquiry’s lead barrister said the images may be essential evidence of possible war crimes; investigators are now subjecting them to forensic analysis.
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The inquiry is examining allegations that SAS personnel killed unarmed civilians and detainees during night raids from 2010 to 2013 and planted weapons to conceal the killings.
The newly released photographs show people lying in beds with apparent head injuries, including blood around their heads.
Seventeen people were killed in the two operations shown in the photographs; the youngest victims were 15 and 14.
Lead barrister Oliver Glasgow said the images may contradict SAS accounts that insurgents opened fire on troops.
A military police investigator said the photographs raised concerns, but requested further testing was not carried out at the time.
The inquiry is now arranging expert forensic analysis of the photographs.
The public inquiry was established in 2022 after BBC Panorama reported on allegations concerning SAS raids in Afghanistan.
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Families displaced from Western Tigray have spent years living in a former school in Abi Adi, with shortages of food, clean water and medicine. Renewed fighting since September 2026 has deepened fears that they may not return home, while disputes over territory and governance remain unresolved despite the 2022 peace agreement.
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Displaced families from Western Tigray have lived for years in classrooms at a former high school in Abi Adi.
The Pretoria agreement, signed in November 2022, ended two years of war between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front but left major disputes unresolved.
Western Tigray remains disputed after Amhara forces took control during the war, and the return of displaced Tigrayans remains contentious.
Fighting escalated on September 22, 2026; TPLF forces launched an offensive the next day and seized Mekelle’s airport.
Federal forces and allied fighters retook Mekelle on October 4, while fighting continued elsewhere in Tigray.
The federal government established a six-month caretaker administration for Tigray to govern, restore public services and prepare for elections.
Human Rights Watch and other organisations warned the UN Human Rights Council that renewed hostilities threatened the peace agreement and cited reports of attacks near populated areas and displacement camps.
People at the Abi Adi displacement site report shortages of food, clean water and essential medicines, along with overcrowding.
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Pope Leo visited Argentina as the second leg of an expansive tour of South America. The visit followed his lung surgery; Argentina was the home country of the late Pope Francis.
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Pope Leo visited Argentina.
The visit was the second leg of his tour, according to the article headline.
The tour covers South America.
The article describes the tour as expansive.
Pope Leo’s tour followed his lung surgery.
The article identifies Argentina as the home country of the late Pope Francis.
CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reported on the visit.
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The U.S. Department of Justice charged three men it says were Iran-backed operatives with plotting attacks in the United States and Europe, including a suspected plot near RAF Fairford in England. The department alleges that Mohammad Ali al-Hassani directed preparations involving vans and fuel; Iran has denied involvement in the Fairford incident.
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The DOJ said an eight-count indictment against Mohsen Mohajeri, Mohammad Ali al-Hassani and Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi was unsealed on Tuesday.
Al-Hassani allegedly paid people in the UK to conduct surveillance and prepare logistics for the RAF Fairford plot.
The DOJ alleges that three vans were driven toward the base on 26 September; some reportedly contained barrels of fuel.
Police declared a major incident near RAF Fairford on 27 September after three suspicious vans were reported. No explosives were found, and police seized petrol.
Seven men have been arrested in the UK in connection with the Fairford incident, according to the article.
The DOJ said a group called HAYI claimed responsibility for 18 attacks in Europe in spring 2026, including seven in the UK.
The DOJ linked the alleged plots to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah; Iran has denied involvement in the Fairford incident.
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Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon denied making a fake Grindr account for Jesse Baird, a court heard during his double murder trial. He said he tried to check whether an email address linked to a man Baird had been seeing was active, but did not create or use an account in that man’s name.
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Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Baird’s Sydney home on 19 February 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
A friend previously testified that Lamarre-Condon made fake profiles of Baird on dating apps, including Grindr.
Under cross-examination, Lamarre-Condon said it had never happened that he told a friend he made a fake Grindr account related to Baird.
He told the court he attempted to use an email address he believed belonged to a man Baird had been seeing to check if it was active on the app.
Lamarre-Condon said he could not confirm the email address was that man’s and had seen it on social media.
The trial is being heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court before Justice Natalie Adams.
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Thomas Markle is back in custody after allegedly cutting off his ankle monitor, CBS News reported. He had been arrested on an allegation of possessing child sexual abuse material.
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Thomas Markle is Meghan Markle’s father.
Markle is back in custody.
Authorities allege that Markle cut off his ankle monitor.
Markle had been arrested on an allegation of possessing child sexual abuse material.
CBS News reported the update.
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A newly unsealed U.S. indictment alleges that Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi coordinated suspected terrorist plots from a Brooklyn jail using coded messages and payments. Prosecutors say the alleged plots targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, as well as RAF Fairford, a British base that has hosted U.S. troops and bombers.
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The superseding indictment charges al-Saadi and two other men with conspiring to carry out nearly 20 attacks.
Prosecutors allege the defendants acted for an Iran-aligned network that included the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Kata'ib Hezbollah.
Al-Saadi allegedly communicated with co-defendants Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani through calls with family members in Iraq.
British authorities detained six suspects in connection with the suspected RAF Fairford plot; all were later released on bail.
The United States withdrew bombers stationed at RAF Fairford and redeployed them to their home bases.
Al-Saadi is the only defendant currently in U.S. custody, and he pleaded not guilty in June to charges involving alleged plots across Europe.
Iran has denied involvement in the suspected plot.
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Prince George’s kingfisher drawing appears in a special edition of Country Life magazine guest edited by his father, Prince William. The edition also includes an interview with Catherine and William’s comments on supporting women in the British armed forces.
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Prince George drew the kingfisher at home in the spring, when he was 12.
The drawing appears in a 300-page special edition of Country Life published this week.
Prince William guest edited the edition.
Catherine gave an interview and discussed the healing power of nature.
William called for a more inclusive and respectful culture for women in the British armed forces.
The article connects William’s comments to the death of soldier Jaysley Beck in 2021; a coroner said the Army’s failure to act after harassment and sexual assault contributed to her suicide.
The edition also features Aston Villa manager Unai Emery, who praised William’s support for the club.
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Spain held a state funeral for 69 people killed in a train collision near Toledo. The King and Queen attended with victims’ families. The crash shook public confidence in the rail network, and the transport minister resigned.
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The crash killed 69 people.
The collision occurred about 60 kilometres from Toledo.
Spain held a state funeral on Tuesday for the victims.
The King and Queen attended the funeral.
Families of the victims attended the ceremony.
The crash shook public confidence in Spain’s rail network.
The transport minister resigned after the crash.
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Sonia Gandhi’s memoir recounts her experience of Indira Gandhi’s 1984 assassination and the grief that followed Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991. It also describes Sonia’s reluctance to enter politics before she later led the Congress party through two general election victories.
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Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two Sikh bodyguards.
The article says the bodyguards killed Indira in retaliation for the Indian army’s operation at the Golden Temple earlier that year.
Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister on the evening of his mother’s assassination.
Sonia Gandhi says she warned her husband that he would also be killed.
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991.
Sonia Gandhi writes that she initially resisted calls to enter politics.
She later led the Congress party through two general election victories.
Her new memoir is titled Belonging: A Journey of Love.
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Greta Thunberg criticized the United Nations COP31 climate talks in Antalya, Türkiye, on Tuesday, saying fossil-fuel industry influence and host-country conduct undermined efforts to address climate change. The conference, co-hosted by Türkiye and Australia, runs through November 20, with youth activists calling for meaningful action and more climate finance.
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Thunberg attended COP31 in Antalya, her first climate summit since the 2021 talks in Glasgow.
She said the talks included lobbyists paid by industries that benefit from the current economic and political system.
Thunberg urged leaders to prioritize people and the planet over profits and geopolitical power.
Türkiye and Australia promote renewable energy and rooftop solar, while continuing to rely heavily on fossil fuels, especially coal, for electricity.
The article reports that the talks follow a year of deadly climate-related disasters and an energy shock linked to the US-Israel war on Iran.
Youth activists at the conference are calling for more climate finance.
COP31 is scheduled to run until November 20 in Antalya.
COP32 is scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in November 2027.
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England’s higher education regulator said many university assessments are unsupervised and can be completed to a high standard with AI, sometimes in minutes. The regulator warned this could weaken the reliability of assessments and called for more AI-free or redesigned assessments; Universities UK said many institutions are already changing their approach.
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The Office for Students (OfS) and Advance HE based their research on the views of 244 higher education staff and 91 students from at least 127 universities.
The research found that students can sometimes use AI in ways staff cannot reliably detect.
Unsupervised assessments include coursework and remote online exams; a cited study found 93 UK universities still use remote exams in some form.
The OfS said closed-book and practical exams were among the most effective assessment formats.
The OfS reported cases where students completed entire assessments within minutes using AI and received grades similar to those of other students.
The research said students need clear guidance on when AI use is allowed and called for remote or non-secure assessments to remain valid despite AI access.
Universities UK said institutions were adding in-person exams, presentations, oral exams, process-based assessments and controlled uses of AI.
Under proposals being consulted on, universities that fail to meet OfS quality standards could face tuition-fee restrictions or limits on student numbers.
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Real Madrid winger Vinícius Júnior sent a video message to Zaher, a 13-year-old Sudanese boy who lost both legs in a 2024 drone strike. Now living in Cairo and walking with prosthetic legs after surgery and rehabilitation, Zaher hopes to accept Vinícius’s invitation to attend a Real Madrid match.
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Zaher and his mother were in Khartoum when a drone strike hit him in 2024.
The family had been unable to afford to flee as fighting between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces disrupted life in Khartoum.
Zaher spent nearly a year in Cairo, where he received surgery and rehabilitation and was fitted with prosthetic legs.
He can now walk and kick a football again.
Vinícius told Zaher he hoped he would return to playing football and invited him to attend a Real Madrid match together.
Zaher said the message uplifted him, and he hopes to get a visa so he can accept the invitation.
Unicef says more than 17 million children in Sudan need humanitarian assistance and it has verified at least 4,300 children were killed or maimed.
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Residents of Nairobi’s Kibera settlement fear more deadly flooding as Kenya enters its short rainy season and forecasters warn of a potentially strong El Niño. The government is clearing rubbish from rivers and drains, but officials say Nairobi’s drainage system is outdated and needs major investment.
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Agnes Shikoli, 62, lives close to the Ngong River in Kibera and says floods reached halfway up her home’s wall in March.
Shikoli’s sister died of electrocution after her home flooded during the earlier rains.
More than 60 people across Kenya died in flooding earlier this year.
Kenya’s short rainy season has begun, amid warnings that El Niño could bring intense rain and flooding.
A government programme called Climate Worx is clearing rubbish from Nairobi’s rivers, while workers also unclog drains across the city.
Nairobi County disaster management chief Bramwell Simiyu says the drainage system has gone years without maintenance and was designed for a much smaller population.
Simiyu says fully upgrading Nairobi’s sewerage and drainage system could cost up to $192 million.
Informal settlements near rivers face particular flood risks because homes are close to the water and can be swept away by flash floods.
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