Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called discussions about Iran with the United States “positive.” He said on X that he met with President Donald Trump and the vice president in Washington and discussed the regional situation.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is Qatar’s prime minister.
He described talks about Iran with the United States as “positive.”
He posted about the meeting on X Monday evening.
He said he met President Donald Trump in Washington.
He also said he met the vice president.
The leaders discussed the situation in the region.
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Demolitions in Harare’s St Martins Extension have left residents homeless, including people who say they bought land through council-linked processes and spent years building homes. The city says it is enforcing planning rules against unauthorised construction, while residents dispute how the operation relates to their land documents and court orders.
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Methro Masunga said she began paying for her residential stand in 2015, received an allocation in 2019 and obtained official documents through a city council process in 2020.
Masunga and Memory Chengeta said their homes in St Martins Extension were demolished, and both have since lived in makeshift shelters there.
Joachim Nhete said he used his retirement package to buy land and build a home, investing more than $10,000, before losing the house.
The City of Harare says the demolitions target structures built without required approvals or on land not designated for housing.
City council records reviewed by Al Jazeera list more than 5,000 houses facing demolition under 37 outstanding High Court orders; the article says these figures do not count only homes already demolished.
A council task force separately inspected 22,255 sites to identify structures on prohibited or unauthorised land.
A consent order issued on October 29, 2025, set aside demolition notices for named applicants in St Martins Extension and barred the city from evicting them or demolishing their homes without a valid court order.
The consent order did not automatically protect every property in St Martins, and the article does not establish whether Masunga, Chengeta or their properties were covered.
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Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are set to hold another round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi, with discussions expected to cover security guarantees and potentially territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says battlefield gains have improved Ukraine’s negotiating position, while U.S. officials and Secretary of State Marco Rubio describe the path to an agreement as uncertain.
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The talks are scheduled for Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and will be the third round there this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are leading the U.S. delegation.
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian military gains and long-range strikes had strengthened Ukraine’s position; Russia disputes his claim that it is suffering record losses.
A U.S. official said both countries had privately shown some flexibility on a possible territorial exchange.
The U.S. official said security guarantees for Ukraine, possibly modeled on NATO’s Article 5, would be a central topic.
Russia occupies roughly 20 percent of Ukraine, including Crimea and parts of the Donbas region.
Ukraine’s delegation will be led by Rustem Umerov, while Russia’s delegation will be headed by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky.
Russia has said European officials will not participate in the negotiations, which it describes as a three-way format.
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President Donald Trump said he sees “no reason” to escalate attacks in the Iran war and described the situation as “status quo.” On Monday, he met with Qatar’s prime minister to discuss strategies for a new ceasefire with Iran.
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Trump said he sees no reason to escalate attacks.
Trump described the Iran war as being at “status quo.”
Trump met with Qatar’s prime minister on Monday.
The meeting covered strategies for a new ceasefire with Iran.
CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata reported on the conflict’s status.
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President Donald Trump said the Iran war was “militarily” effectively over and that further U.S. attacks were highly unlikely, while warning that U.S. forces remained ready if circumstances changed. He said negotiations were gaining momentum, but Iranian officials have previously expressed doubt about his statements, and no end to the conflict was announced.
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Trump said the United States was maintaining the status quo partly at the request of neighboring countries.
He said he would not formally declare the conflict over because Gulf allies could still face Iranian aggression.
Trump said a U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports was helping make the region more secure.
Trump met Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani and discussed efforts to end the war.
Qatar’s prime minister described his discussions with Trump and Vice-President JD Vance as positive and focused on reaching a deal.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been hit by Iranian strikes during the war, and threats of attacks have disrupted air travel.
The article says the war began after joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in February and that peace efforts have largely used intermediaries.
Republican Thomas Massie requested a House vote to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth over the war; Trump dismissed the effort as a sham.
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Amnesty International urged El Salvador and Haiti to publish the agreement covering the deployment of about 2,000 Salvadoran troops to Haiti. It called for clear rules on the use of force, oversight and accountability, and independent investigations into alleged rights violations.
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El Salvador has sent about 2,000 troops to Haiti since four Salvadoran personnel disappeared in mid-October.
Most of the Salvadoran troops are not part of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force.
Amnesty said the public should be able to learn how the forces are overseen and how to report possible violations safely.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele initially said the deployment aimed to bring the missing personnel home.
Bukele later suggested the deployment could also seek to eliminate gangs in Haiti.
Amnesty urged Bukele and Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime to ensure Salvadoran operations comply with international human rights law.
Amnesty called for prompt, independent and impartial investigations into allegations of human rights violations.
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Cameroon President Paul Biya announced that legislative and local elections will take place on February 7, 2027, after two postponements. The announcement comes amid opposition pressure following protests over Biya’s re-election and government restrictions on an opposition party.
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Biya announced the election date in a decree read on public radio on Monday.
Cameroon has postponed the legislative and local elections twice.
Lawmakers’ terms were extended to December 20, while municipal councillors’ terms were extended to February 28, 2027.
Biya has ruled Cameroon since 1982 and won re-election in October 2025.
Human Rights Watch lawyers said security forces detained up to 2,000 people after protests over the election; some detainees remain in custody, according to the article.
Authorities suspended the Cameroon National Salvation Front last month.
The party’s defeated presidential candidate, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, went into exile in The Gambia after claiming victory.
A constitutional reform reintroduced the vice-president post in April; its holder is expected to succeed Biya if he dies in office.
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Israel’s Shin Bet found no evidence of foreign interference in last month’s election. Allegations of interference sparked a political storm after Palestinian-Israeli parties made historic gains.
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The Shin Bet is Israel’s internal security service.
The agency found no evidence of foreign interference in the election.
The election took place last month.
Allegations of interference sparked a political storm.
Palestinian-Israeli parties made historic gains in the election.
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France blamed an Iranian military hacking unit for attacks on refrigeration systems at about 700 retail locations on Oct. 11–12. French officials said the attacks caused food losses worth tens of millions of euros and at least 15 fires; France plans to summon Iran’s ambassador and seek new EU sanctions.
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France’s foreign ministry attributed the attacks to Iran on Nov. 9.
The government’s Cyber Crisis Coordination Center named Shahid Kaveh, a unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hackers raised temperatures in refrigeration equipment, according to French officials.
The operation also targeted equipment at small hydroelectric facilities, with limited effects, according to an intelligence report.
French intelligence linked Shahid Kaveh to online personas including CyberAveng3rs and Soldiers of Solomon.
Investigators found attack infrastructure that scanned industrial equipment using techniques previously associated with Shahid Kaveh.
France has not publicly linked a separate wave of refrigeration attacks from the previous week to the same hackers.
French intelligence has linked the unit to earlier attacks on Israeli refrigeration equipment and industrial controllers made by Unitronics.
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A 16-year-old in Australia who admitted preparing for a terrorist act told a court that online extremist content influenced him and that he used ChatGPT to research his plans. The New South Wales Supreme Court sentenced him to a three-year community corrections order, saying he had no concrete attack plan and had shown remorse.
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The teenager, identified in court as RK, was 14 when the offending occurred in 2024.
He said he first encountered extremist material on TikTok, then viewed increasingly violent content and discussed it with people online.
RK focused on the Sydney Opera House as a possible target and asked ChatGPT about its security arrangements.
He used Telegram to seek instructions for making a pressure cooker bomb and tried to contact Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but did not reach him.
The court said RK had not obtained bomb-making materials and had no concrete plan to carry out an attack.
Justice Stephen Campbell imposed a three-year community corrections order instead of jail time.
The judge said RK had expressed remorse and had undergone six sessions of religious and ethical training with a Muslim cleric.
An Australian security official told a parliamentary inquiry that detecting and disrupting online radicalisation among young people had become challenging.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot blamed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for an October cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators in France. The attack affected refrigerators in hundreds of stores nationwide.
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Jean-Noël Barrot is France’s foreign minister.
Barrot blamed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the attack.
The cyberattack occurred in October.
The attack affected supermarket refrigerators.
Hundreds of stores across France were affected.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said there was “positive momentum” toward ending the war on Iran after talks with Qatar’s prime minister. The Qatari leader delivered a ceasefire proposal from Tehran, while Gulf allies’ security remains a key U.S. priority, according to Al Jazeera’s report.
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Donald Trump said there was “positive momentum” toward ending the war on Iran.
Trump made the comments after meeting Qatar’s prime minister.
Qatar’s prime minister delivered a ceasefire proposal from Tehran.
The proposal was intended to help end the war on Iran.
Al Jazeera correspondent Kimberly Halkett reported on the talks.
The report said the security of Gulf allies remains a key U.S. priority.
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A Honduran court postponed its verdict in the trial of four men charged with crimes linked to Angie Peña’s 2022 disappearance. The court said it needs more time to review evidence and wait for an interpreter to return; it set November 20 as the new date.
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The verdict had been expected on Monday, when the court announced the delay.
Two U.S. citizens, Harold Green and William James Murdock, face human-trafficking charges.
U.S. citizen Gary Lee Johnston and Honduran citizen Gustavo Trejo are accused of criminal association.
The defendants’ lawyers deny their clients’ involvement and have sought acquittals.
Peña went missing on January 1, 2022, after leaving by jet ski from West Bay on the Honduran island of Roatán; the jet ski was later found in Belize.
Prosecutors allege the suspects belonged to a network involved in drug trafficking and sex trafficking of minors, and say police and at least one judge helped it. The officials were not named.
A key protected witness, Dereck McNeil, was killed in August. Before his death, he alleged corruption in a special prosecutor’s office unit; the unit’s director denied wrongdoing and said it did not investigate Peña’s disappearance.
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UK newspapers lead with Russell Brand’s sentencing to 10 years and six months after his conviction for rape and sexual assault involving four women. Several papers highlight the judge’s remarks and allegations reported against Brand; others also cover Nvidia’s investigation into CEO Jensen Huang and the effect on the company’s shares.
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Brand was sentenced on Monday to 10 years and six months in prison.
The article says Brand was convicted of rape and sexual assault involving four women between 2004 and 2009.
Judge Joel Bennathan criticised Brand in his sentencing remarks, according to several newspapers.
The Daily Telegraph reports allegations against Brand by his former girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith.
The Financial Times reports Nvidia shares fell by as much as 8% in early trading after the company launched an investigation into Huang.
The article says Huang admitted to having an affair and apologised.
The Daily Express reports that TV presenter Tommy Walsh has died at age 69.
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Prince William said the UK armed forces must do more to protect women from sexual harassment and create a more respectful culture. After meeting service women from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, he described concerns including unwanted attention, sexualised bullying and inadequate responses to complaints.
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William shared the concerns in an article he guest edited for Country Life magazine.
The article cites a Ministry of Defence survey in which 67% of service women said they faced unwanted sexualised behaviour each year.
The survey found that 30% of service women had considered leaving the armed forces because of such behaviour.
The article discusses Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, who died by suicide in 2021 after facing unwanted attention and reporting a sexual assault.
An inquest into Beck’s death heard that the complaints system had not responded adequately.
The article also refers to allegations of sexual assault and harassment at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate.
Chief of the Defence Staff Richard Knighton said the experiences of women in the armed forces had not always met expected standards and that change must continue.
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A British court sentenced actor and comedian Russell Brand to 10 and a half years in prison on Monday. The report says the sentence was for raping one woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others; its headline says the judge called Brand a “sexual predator.”
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Russell Brand is a British actor and comedian.
A court sentenced Brand to 10 and a half years in prison.
The report says the sentence covers the rape of one woman in 2009.
The report says Brand was also sentenced for sexually assaulting three other people.
The headline says the judge called Brand a “sexual predator.”
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The article is titled “My life as the UK's youngest lighthouse keeper” and is labeled as a story from Scotland. The supplied page contains an embedded video, but it does not provide details about the keeper or the lighthouse; it says the video cannot be played.
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The article title describes its subject as the UK's youngest lighthouse keeper.
The page labels the story as being from Scotland.
The page lists lighthouses as a related topic.
The page lists listed buildings as a related topic.
The page says JavaScript must be enabled to play the video.
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Beau Lamarre-Condon denied in court that he was obsessed with Jesse Baird, saying he was “smitten” with him and liked him for who he was. The former police officer is on trial in Sydney, pleading not guilty to the murders of Baird and Luke Davies and to aggravated break and enter.
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Prosecutors accuse Lamarre-Condon of shooting Baird and Davies with his police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
Lamarre-Condon testified that he and Baird had sexual encounters in October and November 2022 before beginning romantic dates in December.
He said he did not agree that he was obsessed with Baird, but described himself as “smitten.”
Lamarre-Condon said he sometimes felt insecure when Baird did not reply to his messages promptly.
He told the court he used Baird’s phone during a cabin holiday to unfollow two or three people and see whether Baird was messaging other men romantically.
During questioning about messages with a friend, Lamarre-Condon told the prosecutor he thought he was being misled; the judge directed him to answer the question.
The trial is continuing in the New South Wales Supreme Court.
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U.S. officials say Russia and Ukraine have shown limited private flexibility over control of eastern Ukraine ahead of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi. The sides still disagree over Donetsk, and officials say territorial questions are tied to plans for postwar security. The United States also plans to propose involving European countries in the discussions.
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Senior officials from Russia, Ukraine and the United States are due to meet in Abu Dhabi for trilateral talks.
Moscow wants Ukraine to give up the parts of Donetsk it still controls.
Kyiv wants to freeze the current line of control and keep those areas.
A U.S. official said both sides had shown some private flexibility, though neither had changed its public demands.
The proposed postwar security framework includes consultations, crisis hotlines and reciprocal steps to reduce tensions.
U.S. officials also raised restarting the largely paused NATO-Russia Council.
The United States plans to propose a broader format that would include European countries.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have called for Europe to be involved.
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The article says conflict-related energy price increases could raise typical UK household bills by about £460 a year from January, while low European gas stocks may add pressure over winter. It describes a global contest in which the United States promotes oil and gas and China exports clean-energy equipment, leaving the UK balancing affordability, energy security and emissions cuts.
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British Gas, EDF and E.ON forecasts cited in the article suggest a typical UK household’s bill could rise by more than a quarter, or about £460 a year, in January.
The article says US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and drove oil and gas prices higher.
Europe’s winter gas storage is at its lowest level since records began in 2011, according to the article.
The article describes the United States as expanding oil and gas production and urging allies to buy its fuels, while China exports solar panels, batteries and electric cars.
The UK government blocked Ming Yang’s proposed £1.5 billion wind turbine factory in Scotland, citing national security, after US lawmakers urged it to do so.
The government approved the Jackdaw North Sea gas field last month, according to the article.
The UK gets nearly a quarter of its imported gas from the United States and much of its clean-energy equipment from China.
UK Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said affordability is her overriding objective and called homegrown clean energy a way to reduce exposure to global markets.
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