Bomb threats targeting at least seven flights and an Israel-bound cruise ship prompted searches and temporary airport disruptions across Europe on Tuesday. All targeted planes landed safely, and authorities reported finding no explosives; officials did not identify who made the threats or assign blame.
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Airlines affected included Ryanair, Wizz Air, Scandinavian Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines.
Ryanair appeared to be the most heavily affected, with four flights targeted.
Warsaw Chopin Airport closed a runway while officials inspected a Scandinavian Airlines flight; Warsaw Modlin Airport also closed temporarily after a threat involving a LOT flight.
Two Italian Air Force Eurofighter jets escorted a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, where it landed safely.
Authorities inspected Ryanair flights in Spain and Bulgaria and a Wizz Air flight in Sofia; no explosives were found.
Police in the United Kingdom said they received threats involving four aircraft at Heathrow and another flight at Manchester, but identified no security issues after checks.
The incidents followed a Monday threat against a Wizz Air flight from London to Sofia, which diverted to Budapest and landed safely.
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Newspaper front pages focus on King Charles III’s comments on the transatlantic slave trade at a Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda. They also report on a High Court ruling allowing allegations against an unnamed celebrity to be reported, Andy Burnham’s planned EU talks, and other developments in technology and security.
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King Charles expressed what The Times described as his “most profound sorrow” over the transatlantic slave trade and called the period a shameful chapter of history.
The i Paper reported that the King stopped short of apologising and highlighted the Royal Navy’s role in ending the trade.
The Daily Express said critics viewed Andy Burnham’s £40 million aid offer as a step toward reparations; the article says Burnham has ruled out financial reparations.
The High Court refused an injunction sought by an unnamed celebrity, allowing reports of allegations made by a large number of women; a possible appeal remains pending.
The Guardian reported that Burnham plans to discuss youth visas and trade with European leaders at a Brussels summit on 20 November.
The Guardian said seven passenger flights across Europe were searched or diverted after malicious hoax bomb threats.
The Financial Times reported that Nvidia has verbally urged data-centre partners to limit dealings with China, citing anonymous sources.
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Greenland’s parliament voted to approve a security agreement with Denmark and the United States, which aims to strengthen U.S. military presence in the Arctic while keeping Greenland under Danish control. The deal still needs to complete Denmark’s parliamentary process before it takes effect.
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Greenlandic lawmakers approved the agreement by a vote of 16-0, with seven abstentions.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the agreement in September.
The agreement allows for more U.S. military bases in Greenland.
The deal would remain in effect if Greenland eventually chooses independence.
The agreement says the United States should award contracts related to the bases to Greenlandic sources to the maximum extent possible.
Danish lawmakers are expected to debate the agreement later this month.
Greenlandic residents quoted in the article expressed mixed views, including concerns about threats and doubts that the deal would benefit local people.
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A government-funded trial will offer multi-cancer blood tests to more than 20,000 patients aged 45 and over at about 200 GP surgeries in England. Researchers will assess whether the tests can help identify several cancers earlier and guide decisions about further investigation.
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The trial is led by the University of Birmingham and is called STRIDE-RCT.
Eligible patients will have symptoms such as pain or persistent bloating.
Patients will provide one or two blood tubes alongside routine tests.
Researchers will test samples for proteins or DNA fragments that may signal cancer.
The trial covers cancers including bowel, stomach, pancreatic, liver, ovarian, kidney and prostate cancer.
A positive result does not confirm cancer, and a negative result does not guarantee that a patient is cancer-free.
A separate NHS trial of the Galleri test did not meet its main goal of reducing diagnoses of late-stage cancers.
About 71,000 people in England are diagnosed each year with pancreatic, stomach, liver, ovarian or bowel cancer, and nearly 35,000 die from these diseases.
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South Africans are voting in local elections, with the African National Congress (ANC) facing the prospect of further losses after its support fell in recent years. Residents in Alexandra cited poor basic services and a lack of change as reasons some people plan not to vote, while first-time voter Sanele Ntombela said he hoped voting could help bring change.
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The elections will choose leaders for nearly 300 municipalities that oversee services such as water, electricity and refuse collection.
The ANC lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in the last national election, after holding power since apartheid ended in 1994.
The ANC's share of the general-election vote fell from 70% in 2004 to 40% two decades later.
Residents in Alexandra described rubbish, water and electricity problems, potholes and poor drainage.
Some young people in Alexandra said they were not registered to vote or did not intend to vote because they saw little change and worsening services.
Sanele Ntombela, an 18-year-old first-time voter, said he planned to vote and hoped it could lead to change.
President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected claims that the ANC was in decline at the party's final election rally.
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A UK parliamentary committee warned that delays to restoring the Palace of Westminster are increasing the risks of a major fire or other disaster and driving up costs. It urged Parliament to improve planning and decision-making, while MPs consider two renovation plans that could cost £15.6bn or £39.2bn.
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The cross-party Commons Public Accounts Committee said urgent action was needed to address risks at the Palace of Westminster.
The building has outdated electrics, leaking roofs, plumbing failures and crumbling masonry, and it requires 24-hour fire patrols.
Maintenance costs about £1.5m a week and are expected to rise to £2m a week.
The report estimates each year of inaction adds £420m to the restoration programme.
A full decant plan would move the Commons and Lords to temporary locations, take up to 24 years and cost about £15.6bn.
A staged decant plan could take 38 to 61 years and cost about £39.2bn.
The committee recommended that the clerks of the Commons and Lords produce an engagement plan within six months and provide stronger cost estimates and a timetable for a decision in 2030.
The report also called for simpler governance and a new select committee to scrutinize restoration officials.
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Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said the United States must act to prevent a return to all-out war. He described Tehran’s response to U.S. demands on nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz as “firm and rational,” but did not say what the response contained.
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Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf is Iran’s chief negotiator.
Qalibaf said it was up to the United States to prevent renewed all-out war.
He described Tehran’s response to U.S. demands as “firm and rational.”
The demands concerned nuclear weapons and opening the Strait of Hormuz.
Qalibaf did not specify what Iran’s response contained.
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President Donald Trump says the United States will suspend $4 billion in annual aid to Israel next year, while continuing arms sales. The news wrap also reports that investigators found plane parts nearly four miles from a Florida jet crash site and that a child in New York died after contracting measles.
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Trump says the United States will suspend $4 billion in annual aid to Israel next year.
Arms sales to Israel will continue, according to the report.
Investigators say they found some plane parts nearly four miles from a jet crash site in Florida.
A child in New York died after contracting measles.
The death is the first measles-related child fatality in New York in more than 30 years, officials say.
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Prince William warned that climate change could bring more severe wildfires to the UK and said preparation is crucial. During a visit to Treherbert, Wales, he praised the response to an August fire and raised concerns about the lack of firefighting aircraft.
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A major incident was declared in August as South Wales Fire and Rescue Service responded to 14 wildfires at once.
The Treherbert fire came within metres of the village, and residents were told to evacuate.
Firefighters received support from 22 other UK fire services, and soldiers helped create fire breaks and deliver water.
The response used 2.1 million litres of water, including supplies delivered with help from soldiers.
The National Fire Chiefs Council recorded 1,350 significant wildfires in England and Wales, more than 300 above the 2025 figure and over 1,000 above 2024.
A local firefighter described the season as the hardest he had faced and said some fires reignited after being doused.
William said the UK lacked firefighting aircraft and called for the country to take wildfires as seriously as continental Europe.
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Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente said Tuesday he would resign, six days after a high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 69 people. The crash followed a failure in a communications system on the Madrid-Seville line, and the government announced rail safety measures as the collision renewed concerns about the network.
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The Oct. 28 collision involved a moving high-speed train and another train stopped on the tracks.
The crash killed 69 people.
Puente announced his resignation after appearing before lawmakers about the crash.
Puente said he had decided to resign immediately after the collision but had not announced it publicly.
The communications system that supports the Madrid-Seville line’s safety system went down before the crash.
Central controllers in Madrid authorized a Renfe train to proceed while an Iryo train was stopped ahead.
A separate January crash on the Madrid-Seville line killed 46 people and remains under investigation.
The government said it would improve conditions in rail control centers and speed up adoption of a standardized European rail safety and signaling system.
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A mother was found dead and her 19-year-old daughter remains missing after a suspected grizzly bear attack near Bella Coola, British Columbia. Conservation officers are searching for the daughter, and the Nuxalk Nation says efforts to locate the bear are under way.
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British Columbia conservation officers began searching for the mother and daughter over the weekend.
An officer found the mother’s body on Sunday; the search for her daughter continues.
The suspected attack occurred near the Snooka West trail area, about 8 km east of Bella Coola.
Relatives reported Jenny Balcarras and her daughter missing, and a family member said their vehicle was found at a nearby trailhead.
Bella Coola is a community of about 2,100 people on British Columbia’s central coast.
Last November, a grizzly bear injured 11 people, including children, near a school group in the area; the bear was not found.
Nuxalk Nation chief Samuel Schooner said a trapping effort to find the bear was under way.
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Several flights across Europe received bomb threats on Tuesday, prompting searches, diversions, runway closures and an Italian Air Force escort. Authorities found no explosives in the incidents described, and no one was injured; officials had not established who made the threats or why.
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Affected airlines included LOT, Scandinavian Airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair.
A Ryanair flight from Dublin to Rome was escorted by two Italian Air Force Eurofighters after a reported threat; searches found no explosives.
A Ryanair flight from Lisbon landed at Rome's Fiumicino Airport after an email reported a bomb on board; security checks found no explosives.
A LOT flight from London to Warsaw diverted to Modlin Airport, which closed temporarily; a search found nothing on the plane.
Warsaw's Chopin Airport received a threat concerning an inbound Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen, and one runway was closed during safety procedures.
A Ryanair flight from Manchester landed in Murcia, Spain, after a threat; authorities reported no explosives and said 121 people were aboard.
A day earlier, a plane headed for Bulgaria diverted to Hungary after receiving a similar threat in flight.
A flight-security expert outlined possible explanations, including copycat threats, one person or group making multiple threats, or state-linked hybrid operations; authorities had not confirmed a cause.
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Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigned and withdrew from the 29 November general election after a train crash killed 69 people. He announced proposed rail-safety changes and €30 million in aid for victims’ families and injured passengers.
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The crash happened last week near Urda, about 80 miles south of Madrid.
A Renfe train struck the rear of a stationary train operated by Iryo.
A failed automatic safety system stopped trains on part of the track, but a control centre authorized the Renfe train to continue.
Puente proposed software to alert control centres to unusual traffic and an AI agent to help monitor the system.
Under the proposed rules, a second operator would confirm decisions made while the automatic safety system was down.
The train drivers’ union Semaf called strikes at Renfe for 10 and 12 November and criticized working conditions and the use of degraded systems.
A separate collision in Andalusia in January killed 46 people on the Madrid–Seville line.
Puente said the government would provide €30 million in aid to families of those killed and to people injured in the crash.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the 2026 U.S. midterm elections will affect the war in Ukraine. Speaking at a security conference in Germany, he thanked the United States for its support.
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Zelenskyy said the U.S. midterm elections will affect the ongoing war in Ukraine.
He spoke at a security conference in Germany.
He thanked the United States for its support.
The article does not specify how the elections could affect the war.
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc won the most seats in Israel’s general election, but it still faces a challenge in forming a government. Possible paths to a majority involve former rivals or far-right allies, and each comes with a political cost.
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Netanyahu leads the Likud party.
The Likud-led bloc won the most seats in the general election.
Winning the most seats did not by itself secure a government.
Netanyahu faces a challenge in assembling a majority.
Potential coalition partners include former rivals.
Potential coalition partners also include far-right allies.
Each possible route to a majority involves a political cost.
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Displaced Palestinian families have begun cleaning their homes in Hebron after Israeli forces withdrew from the city. Thousands of residents were only recently allowed to return following a 10-day siege.
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Israeli forces withdrew from Hebron after a 10-day siege.
Displaced Palestinian families have started cleaning their homes.
Thousands of residents were recently allowed to return.
Hebron is in the occupied West Bank.
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British international law expert Dapo Akande has been elected as one of the International Court of Justice’s 15 judges and will serve a term of at least nine years. His election restores British representation on the court after Christopher Greenwood lost his seat in 2017.
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Akande is a professor of public international law at Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College.
He qualified as a lawyer in Nigeria and is an elected member of the UN International Law Commission.
Akande has worked as counsel, adviser and expert in cases before international courts and tribunals, including the ICJ.
He said he would decide cases independently and impartially, applying the law.
The ICJ hears disputes between states and issues legal opinions.
In 2017, British judge Christopher Greenwood lost his seat, leaving the UK without a judge on the court.
The UK’s parliamentary process to complete its deal with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands is stalled amid objections from the Trump administration.
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King Charles told Commonwealth leaders that learning more about the history of slavery had strengthened his resolve to address past wrongs. He expressed sorrow but did not apologize or explicitly endorse reparations, while UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Britain did not support reparations and backed development assistance and debt-related support for Commonwealth countries.
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Charles spoke at the opening of the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda.
He said the transatlantic slave trade still casts a shadow over Commonwealth members and called the history shameful.
Charles said education, employment, trade within the Commonwealth and climate resilience could help address ongoing hardship.
Burnham said the UK did not support reparations for slavery.
Burnham said Britain supported Commonwealth countries through development assistance, debt support and green finance.
Reparations were not formally on the summit agenda, which included trade, climate resilience, finance, democracy and opportunities for young people.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne called for dialogue on reparatory justice and the lasting effects of slavery and colonialism.
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Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigned on Tuesday, six days after a train collision near Urda killed at least 69 people and injured dozens. Puente said he could not remain in office after two serious rail accidents in less than a year, including a deadly crash in Andalusia in January.
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The collision near Urda occurred on 28 October, south of Madrid.
A state-operated Renfe high-speed train struck the back of a stationary train operated by Iryo.
At least 69 people died and dozens were injured in the collision.
Puente announced his resignation at the end of a congressional session on 3 November.
He said he had decided to resign immediately after the disaster.
Opposition parties and some government allies had called for Puente to step down.
Leaked recordings appear to show a train was cleared to move even though another train had stopped about 25 kilometres ahead.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said authorities would investigate the details of the crash.
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Ukraine is investigating clashes between protesters and authorities at a military dormitory near Kyiv. About 100 people gathered after social media posts alleged that recruits were being tortured and abused; the incident has raised suspicions that it was engineered to discredit Ukraine’s war effort, possibly with Russian involvement.
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The clashes took place at a military dormitory near Kyiv.
Ukraine is investigating the incident.
About 100 people gathered at the dormitory.
The gathering followed social media reports alleging recruits were tortured and abused.
The article says there are suspicions the incident was engineered to discredit Ukraine’s war effort.
The title raises the possibility of Russian orchestration, but the article does not confirm it.
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