Poland began two days of national mourning after a gunman killed six people and wounded 15 in Krakow’s Main Square. Prosecutors opened a murder and attempted-murder investigation, treating the attack as a suspected terrorist offense; the 24-year-old suspect was wounded by police.
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The shooting took place in Krakow’s Main Square, a busy tourist area in the city’s Old Town.
Four women and two men were killed; three women and one man were Polish, while the other victims were a British man and a woman from an unidentified country.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect held radical, ultranationalist views and appeared fascinated by far-right ideologies.
Police officers shot and wounded the suspect.
Two officers who intervened remain hospitalized; one was still in a coma and the other had woken from a coma, officials said.
Authorities found the bodies of the suspect’s sister, mother and father at the family home, and said they likely died from gunshot wounds.
Officials said they recovered 11 guns: seven from the family home and four from the suspect or his car.
Poland began two days of national mourning, and the traditional hourly trumpet call from St. Mary’s Basilica was paused overnight.
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King Charles led the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London, laying a wreath before a two-minute silence and a march-past honouring people who died in conflict. About 10,000 veterans took part, including 12 World War Two veterans; Prime Minister Andy Burnham and other political leaders also laid wreaths.
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The two-minute silence began at 11:00 GMT as Big Ben sounded.
About 10,000 armed forces veterans took part in the march-past.
Twelve World War Two veterans joined the march, down from 20 the previous year.
Annie Duplock, aged 103, took part for the first time; she had served in the Women's Land Army during World War Two.
Nine former prime ministers attended, according to the article.
Nigel Farage laid a wreath for the first time as Reform UK leader, after the party gained enough MPs to qualify.
Prince William and Princess Anne attended, while Queen Camilla and Catherine, Princess of Wales, watched from a balcony.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he wanted to ensure veterans sleeping rough were offered suitable accommodation before Christmas.
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Two surgeons who were having lunch with their families in central Krakow rushed to help after a mass shooting. One surgeon treated a police officer shot in the chest, and his colleague said the action stopped the bleeding and undoubtedly saved the officer’s life.
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Six people were killed and 16 were injured in the shooting at Krakow’s market square.
The injured included police officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański.
Surgeons Michał Pędziwiatr and Mateusz Wierdak treated victims and the apparent attacker after the shooting.
Wierdak packed bandages into the chest wound of a police officer while waiting for an ambulance.
Pędziwiatr called John Paul II Hospital and urged that the officer be taken there for specialist care.
Police identified three people found dead in the alleged gunman’s apartment as the suspect’s parents and sister.
Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office is investigating, with a unit that specializes in terrorist offences leading the inquiry.
Six Dublin Civil Defence volunteers also reportedly helped injured people, including by performing CPR and controlling severe bleeding.
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Iranian state media reported that authorities executed Hassan Dioband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh over alleged armed attacks during January’s anti-government protests in Karaj. The report said the Supreme Court upheld their convictions; the executions add to a series of death sentences linked to the protests, which drew concern from the UN human rights chief.
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Iranian state news agency Tasnim reported the executions.
Authorities accused the three men of using weapons and setting fire to public facilities in Karaj, west of Tehran.
Tasnim said the Supreme Court upheld their convictions and found them guilty of activities on behalf of Israel, the United States and hostile groups.
The protests began in December amid rising living costs and grew into nationwide anti-government demonstrations that peaked on 8 and 9 January.
Iranian authorities reported more than 3,000 deaths during the unrest and blamed the violence on acts orchestrated by the United States and Israel.
Foreign-based non-governmental organizations reported higher death tolls, and the BBC received accounts alleging security forces fired on unarmed protesters.
The article said UN human rights chief Volker Türk had raised alarm over rising use of the death penalty in Iran.
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HMRC information released under a freedom of information request shows that the UK spent at least £100m on inland border facilities planned after Brexit that were never used or did not operate at full capacity. The sites were built or prepared for checks on goods from the EU, but the government scaled back some checks and decommissioned several facilities.
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The National Audit Office previously estimated the overall cost of Brexit at £4.7bn, including changes to customs software and other systems.
Five of the seven inland border facilities in England and Wales never became operational, according to the article.
The planned Dover-area site at Guston cost £28m for land procurement and initial ground works, but remains a field.
Portsmouth’s border facility cost £23m and has never been used at full capacity; the government provided £17.1m, and the city council covered the shortfall.
Birmingham’s planned facility cost £17m, including £11m to build it and £6m in closure costs.
The Warrington site cost £17m to acquire, build and decommission, while the Ebbsfleet site cost £10m to prepare and close.
The North Weald site near Stansted cost £5m to build and close.
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A boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized off northwestern Senegal, killing at least 21 people. Senegal’s Interior Ministry said one person had been rescued, the death toll was provisional, and search efforts were continuing.
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The boat sank off the Loumpoul dunes in Senegal’s Kebemer department, according to media reports.
The capsizing reportedly happened on Saturday.
The Interior Ministry said rescuers had recovered 21 bodies and saved one person.
The ministry said it was helping victims’ families as the search continued.
Le Soleil reported that most victims came from the Leona and Thieppe districts.
Walking Borders reported that 635 people died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from West Africa in the first five months of the year.
Authorities on Spain’s El Hierro declared an emergency after more than 3,300 people arrived on about 30 boats since November began.
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Egypt reopened its embassy in Tripoli after 12 years, in a move analysts say signals a change in Cairo’s approach to Libya. The shift comes amid new contacts among Libya’s rival sides and regional changes, including closer coordination between Turkey and eastern Libyan forces.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty inaugurated the embassy in Tripoli on Saturday.
The embassy had been closed for 12 years because of security concerns.
Libya has remained politically divided since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, with rival authorities in the west and east.
Egypt had been widely seen as backing eastern forces led by Khalifa Haftar.
Analysts said Cairo may be seeking more balanced relations with Libya’s rival parties and may want to discourage Haftar from acting alone.
In July 2026, Turkey and the Libyan National Army reached agreements on military facilities, surveillance systems, and training for eastern Libyan officers.
Libyan rivals recently signed a 4+4 agreement that outlines a possible roadmap to presidential and legislative elections over the next two years.
Egypt has also grown more concerned about the expansion of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces near its southern border.
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COP31 opens in Antalya, Turkey, with nearly 190 countries expected to take part. Australia will lead the formal negotiations under an unusual arrangement with Turkey, and host officials say they want concrete progress on emissions cuts and climate finance.
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The summit begins on Monday in Antalya, Turkey.
Australia’s climate and energy minister, Chris Bowen, will preside over the formal negotiations, while Turkey hosts the talks.
Bowen said the summit should deliver a tangible step forward on implementing emissions cuts and providing climate finance.
Negotiators are expected to face disputes over climate finance and the pace of greenhouse gas reductions.
Adão Soares Barbosa, chair of a negotiating group representing 44 least-developed countries, called for climate finance, adaptation support and action on loss and damage.
The United States will not send a delegation for the second year in a row, according to the article.
Twenty Democratic members of Congress traveled to Antalya, while the article says their party’s success in the recent midterm elections could help them oppose Trump administration efforts to change pollution rules and clean-energy support.
Australian climate advocates and more than 500 scientists have urged Australia to stop approving coal and gas projects.
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UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said women who report abuse in media and other public institutions are often not protected. After Russell Brand was convicted of rape and sexual assault, she urged media organisations to adopt stronger protections for whistleblowers and said the government was considering further steps.
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Nandy said power imbalances and insecure contracts can make it costly for women to speak up.
She said institutions across media, politics and public life have not done enough to protect women who allege abuse.
Nandy praised the BBC for joining the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, a whistleblowing body, and said it could do more.
She called on other media organisations to put protective practices in place.
Brand was found guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
After the verdicts, it emerged that Brand was under investigation over two further rape allegations.
Nandy said the government was considering additional measures to protect whistleblowers.
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A magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck central Japan, injuring more than 20 people. Surveillance footage showed streets and apartments shaking, while broken windows and delays to trains at Nagoya Station were reported.
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The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.7.
It struck central Japan.
More than 20 people were injured.
Surveillance footage captured streets and apartments shaking.
Windows broke during the shaking.
Trains at Nagoya Station were delayed.
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A dispute between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over forming a government has raised the possibility of rival administrations in northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region. The KDP reactivated the regional parliament without the PUK, which then withdrew from the government; analysts say the split is serious, though the article reports no recent violent flare-ups between the parties.
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The KDP and PUK have traditionally shared power in the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The regional parliament met in Erbil without PUK participation after a two-year delay.
PUK leader Bafel Talabani withdrew his party from the government after the parliamentary session.
The KDP is strongest in Erbil and Dohuk, while the PUK’s base is in Sulaimaniyah.
In the October 20, 2024, regional election, the KDP won 39 seats and the PUK won 23.
The New Generation Movement won 15 seats, and the KDP needed an agreement with the PUK or other parties to form a government.
The region previously had separate local governments in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah during conflict between the KDP and PUK in the 1990s.
Iraq’s post-2003 constitution recognizes the Kurdish region as a federal entity with legislative, executive, and judicial powers.
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy rejected accusations that she politicised Remembrance Sunday by linking it to the UK’s return to the Erasmus+ student exchange scheme. The UK is due to rejoin the expanded scheme in January, and applications are set to open later this month.
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Nandy said Erasmus+ could help young people understand the wartime sacrifices made across Europe.
Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake called Nandy’s remarks “tone deaf” and urged her to apologise.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said linking Erasmus+ to Remembrance Sunday was in poor taste.
The Veterans Institute chief executive said the day should focus on honouring the fallen rather than party politics.
The UK will pay £570m to join Erasmus+, which the government says is a 30% discount.
The scheme will include year-abroad placements, cultural exchanges and train passes for 18-year-olds to visit EU countries.
Applications for Erasmus+ are due to open later this month.
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About a dozen Second World War veterans attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London, possibly for the last time outnumbering the nine former prime ministers present. King Charles led the wreath-laying and two-minute silence, followed by a march-past involving about 10,000 veterans and more than 300 armed forces and civilian organisations.
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The oldest Second World War veteran at the service was Jeffrey Brereton, who served as an RAF mechanic during the Battle of Britain.
Andy Burnham took part in the ceremony for the first time, and all nine former prime ministers attended.
Nigel Farage laid a wreath for the first time after Reform UK reached eight MPs, exceeding the six-seat threshold for party leaders to take part.
King Charles, in a field marshal’s uniform, laid the first wreath and led the two-minute silence.
A soldier fainted shortly before the ceremony and was taken away on a stretcher.
About 10,000 veterans took part in the march-past, including eight-year-old Ronan Doncaster, who walked in honour of his father, a Coldstream Guardsman who died in April 2024.
Services also took place in Enniskillen and Edinburgh; the Enniskillen service recalled the 1987 IRA bombing that killed 11 people at the event and a 12th victim years later.
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Poland began two days of national mourning after a 24-year-old gunman killed six people in Krakow on Saturday. Prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation into the attack and are examining whether the suspect also killed three family members found dead at his home.
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The suspect opened fire in Krakow’s historic city centre on Saturday.
A British national was among the six people killed, police said.
Authorities said 15 people were wounded, including nationals of Austria, Britain, Germany, Portugal and Russia.
Police found three more bodies, identified as the suspect’s parents and sister, at his home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski.
The suspect was wounded during police action and remained in critical condition in hospital.
Prosecutors are investigating the killings and attempted murders, including of police officers, as a terrorist offence.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said the suspect was influenced by far-right and ultranationalist views.
Krakow’s main square and nearby streets remained closed, and mourners left candles as flags at city hall flew at half-mast.
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Russian overnight strikes on energy facilities left more than 600,000 people without electricity in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region and another 250,000 without power in the Kharkiv region. Repair crews are working, but the timing of electricity restoration is unclear in Kharkiv, and repeated attacks are complicating repairs in Dnipropetrovsk.
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Ukraine’s energy provider DTEK reported outages across several districts in Dnipropetrovsk region, including the city of Dnipro.
DTEK said engineers were trying to repair the damaged facility, but repeated attacks were making the work harder.
A strike on infrastructure in Kharkiv region left about 250,000 people without power.
Zlatopil Mayor Mykola Baksheyev said no casualties had been reported there and that officials could not yet estimate when power would return.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said the previous day’s attack affected energy facilities in five regions and disrupted electricity transmission in Kyiv.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of escalating attacks ahead of U.S.-brokered talks scheduled in Abu Dhabi for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces would continue strikes on Ukrainian fuel and energy infrastructure that it says supports the Ukrainian military.
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South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) won the largest share of votes in municipal elections but fell to about 31 percent, roughly 14 percentage points below its 2021 result. It failed to win a majority in any of the eight major metropolitan areas, so coalition negotiations will shape local governments.
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With 99 percent of votes counted, the ANC had about 31 percent nationally and the Democratic Alliance (DA) had about 25 percent.
Former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party received about 10 percent, placing third.
The ANC did not win an outright majority in any of the eight major metro areas, including Johannesburg and Pretoria.
In Johannesburg, the DA led with about 35 percent, compared with 20 percent for the ANC.
Parties have 14 days to negotiate before city councils are formed.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula called the result “catastrophic” for the party and said it would not seek positions at any cost.
The article links the ANC’s declining support to voter frustration over corruption, unemployment above 34 percent, and problems with basic services such as water and electricity.
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King Charles led the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in central London. Members of the Royal Family, senior politicians and veterans joined him.
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King Charles laid a wreath at the Cenotaph on Whitehall.
The ceremony marked Remembrance Sunday.
Other members of the Royal Family attended.
Senior politicians and veterans joined the commemoration.
The ceremony took place in central London.
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A couple staying at Hotel Aperto in Tokyo found what appeared to be a hidden camera attached beneath their television. The hotel manager confirmed it was a camera, and police examined its empty SD card and searched the room; the couple left the next day because they no longer felt safe.
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Sedef Demir said she noticed a small lens beneath the television in the hotel room.
Demir and her husband found an SD card inside the device after removing it.
The hotel manager confirmed that the device was a hidden camera and apologized.
Police examined the SD card, which they said was empty, and searched the room for other cameras.
Demir said police told the couple they could not pursue criminal charges based on what they found.
The hotel manager suggested the camera might have been left by a previous guest; Demir said they did not know who installed it.
The couple declined an offer of a free extra night and checked out the following day.
Booking.com said hidden recording devices are prohibited in private spaces and that properties can face warnings, suspension, or removal from its platform.
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See My World will hold a film festival at Manchester’s Contact theatre on 21 November, showcasing independent creators from the African diaspora in northern England. Its organisers say the programme draws on pan-African philosophies and the legacy of the 1945 Pan-African Congress, while aiming to make films and festival activities more accessible.
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See My World is part of a year-round programme of pan-African arts, culture and events.
The festival will feature films of up to 30 minutes from across genres, and it will not charge screening fees.
CEO and artistic director Tunde Adekoya said the festival takes inspiration from Kenyan writers John Mbiti and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
Mbiti’s concept of Sasa na Zamani describes how the past informs what happens next.
The festival will screen See My World documentaries, including Homage, about dance, and Poetic Justice, about pan-African thought and Manchester’s poetry scene.
The programme will include exhibitions, performances, discussions, question-and-answer sessions and workshops.
Organisers say they want to challenge festival structures they see as excluding communities and improve access to films and stories.
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French activists and health workers are calling for limits or a ban on tear gas at protests, citing reports of severe period pain and increased bleeding after exposure. Police used 22,000 canisters on October 17, as concerns grow about injuries, health risks and weak regulation of the weapon.
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Protests have taken place across France since September, amid concerns about school conditions and the cost of living.
A tear gas canister fired at close range shattered the jaw of a 14-year-old student in a Paris suburb.
Activists and health workers say reports of painful periods and increased bleeding after tear gas exposure deserve more attention.
The article says tear gas commonly causes burning, watery eyes, coughing, chest tightness, breathing difficulty and skin irritation.
The article notes that children, pregnant people, older adults, and people with certain health conditions may be more vulnerable to tear gas.
UN human rights guidance warns that large doses can cause severe damage, including tissue death in the respiratory and digestive tracts, lung swelling and internal bleeding.
French police fired 22,000 tear gas canisters on October 17, according to the article.
Amnesty International says it has documented more than 500 cases of tear gas misuse worldwide since 2018.
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