Spain deported more than a dozen migrants from Ceuta after rejecting their asylum applications, and said Morocco had agreed to receive them. Amnesty International warned that the deportees’ human rights could be at risk, while Spain’s Interior Ministry said the removals included safeguards and that the European Union considers Morocco a safe country.
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The Interior Ministry said the deportations took place on Tuesday.
NGOs told Reuters that 16 people from African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries were deported.
The deportation was the first of its kind since a mass crossing from Morocco into Ceuta in July.
The article says about 80,000 people entered Ceuta over 48 hours in late July and at least 100 people died during the crossing.
Amnesty International said Spain was not ensuring human rights guarantees for people crossing its borders in Ceuta and Melilla.
The Interior Ministry said the migrants’ asylum applications had been rejected and that the deportations included necessary safeguards.
About 8,000 migrants remained in Ceuta after most of those who arrived in July left within days.
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A fire swept through Guryong Village, described in the article as Seoul’s last shanty-town. More than 100 people evacuated, and no injuries were reported.
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The fire occurred in Guryong Village in Seoul.
More than 100 people evacuated.
No injuries were reported.
The village’s homes are tightly packed.
The article says highly flammable building materials make the area vulnerable to fires.
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The Triglav glacier on Slovenia’s highest peak has lost its final visible ice after years of rapid melting. Researchers say its disappearance removes an important record of climate change, while a smaller glacier on nearby Mount Skuta is expected to last for a few more years.
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Triglav is Slovenia’s highest peak and holds a central place in the country’s national identity.
Historical records suggest the Triglav glacier covered about 40 hectares in the mid-1800s.
Its area had fallen to 14 hectares by 1946, when formal measurements began.
The glacier lost 93% of its surface area between 1983 and 2003.
In recent years, the remaining ice shrank to scattered pockets, and photos taken this month showed none remained.
Researchers found that a five-metre ice core taken in 2002 came from a spot that was bare rock the following year.
A remaining ice patch on Mount Skuta is more shaded and may last a few more years.
The article reports that Western Europe had its hottest summer on record in 2026, with at least 50,000 estimated heat deaths.
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French lawmakers held a minute of silence for Pengo Bossio Wangi, who died in a shooting last week. The shooting was described as a racist attack and left at least five other people wounded, including a 12-year-old girl.
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Pengo Bossio Wangi died in a shooting last week.
The attack was described as racist.
At least five other people were wounded.
A 12-year-old girl was among those wounded.
French lawmakers held a minute of silence for Wangi.
FRANCE 24 reporter Claire Paccalin reported from the scene.
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Brazilian police cancelled Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports after he missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender them. He is under investigation for alleged money laundering and campaign funding, and authorities are checking whether he left Brazil; Argentina says it has no record of his arrival.
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The Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports to police within 24 hours as part of a money-laundering investigation.
Police cancelled his passports after he failed to meet the deadline.
Federal officers are checking border crossings for evidence that Bolsonaro travelled to Argentina.
Argentine authorities told the BBC they have no record of Bolsonaro entering the country.
Brazil’s Supreme Court also ordered an investigation into his campaign over alleged foreign funding.
Bolsonaro lost the presidential run-off to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won 51.79% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48.21%.
Bolsonaro has not conceded and has called for the election to be annulled; his Liberal Party has accepted the result.
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The article says Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC released a political ad that Haley Stevens criticized as “fearmongering.” The provided excerpt does not describe the ad or give further details about Stevens’s response.
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Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC put out the ad.
The headline describes the ad as anti-Israel.
Haley Stevens criticized the ad.
Stevens called the ad “fearmongering.”
The provided article excerpt contains no further details about the ad or the criticism.
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Police responded to a disturbance at a youth soccer game in Winter Park, Florida, after a league official asked them to address a dispute with the parents of a 3-year-old player. The official said the boy was advanced for his age but had pushed other players; his parents said he was removed because he was good at soccer. Police described the incident as a civil matter, and a fundraiser for the boy had raised more than $25,000, according to the article.
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A league official contacted the Winter Park Police Department about a disturbance involving the boy’s parents.
The official told officers the boy was very advanced compared with the other children and had pushed players.
The boy’s parents told officers they believed he was being removed because he was too good at soccer.
Police said the family cooperated and classified the incident as a civil matter.
Body-camera footage shared by the family does not show physical contact between the boy and other players.
The official told officers he wanted the boy removed and said he would give the family a refund.
The family set up a fundraiser to help pay for soccer registration, training, equipment, travel and other costs.
The fundraiser had raised more than $25,000, according to the article.
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Mourners buried four members of a family, including three children, who were killed in Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria. Jordan said the strikes targeted ISIL militants after a deadly church attack that it linked to militants across the border.
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Mourners buried four members of a family.
Three of the four people killed were children.
The family members died in Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria.
Jordan said the strikes targeted ISIL militants.
Jordan said the strikes followed a deadly church attack.
Jordan linked the church attack to militants across the border.
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Rep. Mark Takano criticized President Donald Trump for suggesting that the settlement of Camp Lejeune veterans’ toxic exposure claims could depend on the midterm election outcome. The article focuses on the dispute over whether those claims’ settlement should be tied to the elections.
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Rep. Mark Takano criticized President Donald Trump.
Trump suggested the settlement of Camp Lejeune veterans’ toxic exposure claims could depend on the midterm election outcome.
The claims involve toxic exposure at Camp Lejeune.
The article concerns settlement of veterans’ claims.
The article links the settlement issue to the midterm elections.
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Israeli voters went to the polls on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, in a tense national election. The vote was widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack and the wars that followed.
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Israel held a national election on October 27, 2026.
The election was described as tense.
The vote was widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s leadership.
The Hamas-led attack on Israel took place on October 7, 2023.
Wars in the Middle East followed the attack.
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Brazil’s Liberal Party said it recognizes the election results that gave President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva victory. Party president Valdemar Costa Neto announced the position on X, while the far-right leader Bolsonaro has not conceded.
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Brazil’s Liberal Party backed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
The party recognized the election results leading to Lula’s victory.
Valdemar Costa Neto is the party’s president.
Costa Neto announced the party’s position in a statement on X.
Bolsonaro has not conceded the election.
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A Florida surgeon remotely removed the prostate of a 66-year-old cancer patient in a procedure conducted between two AdventHealth hospitals 35 miles apart. The operation took place as part of an FDA-authorized research study; the authorization allows testing but is not FDA approval or clearance.
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Dr. Vipul Patel operated from an AdventHealth facility in Celebration, Florida, while the patient was at an AdventHealth facility in Minneola.
Surgeon Marcio Moschovas provided onsite support during the procedure.
The patient was recovering well after surgery, AdventHealth told ABC.
The operation expanded the study to U.S. hospitals after 10 investigational telesurgeries between Orlando and Luanda, Angola.
Researchers are evaluating telesurgery’s safety, reliability and cybersecurity.
Telesurgery carries risks including equipment or connection failures, so an onsite team must be ready to take over.
AdventHealth said the procedure did not establish the technology’s general clinical performance.
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Israeli voters went to the polls on October 27 in the country’s first national election since the October 7, 2023 attack. Turnout reached 55% by 4 p.m. local time, and the election will test Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political standing.
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The election took place on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
It was Israel’s first national election since the October 7, 2023 attack.
Voter turnout reached 55% by 4 p.m. local time.
The article described turnout as unseen in decades.
The election presents a verdict on veteran right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The electorate was deeply divided.
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The Justice Department charged former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides with making false statements to Congress about the FBI’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. It later added obstruction charges, which both defendants deny; Floris’s lawyers called the prosecution a serious abuse of the criminal charging process.
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Floris and Benavides appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday after criminal complaints charged them with making false statements to Congress.
The Justice Department alleges Floris made false statements on July 19, 2023, and Benavides made false statements on September 28, 2023.
The allegations concern congressional inquiries into whether FBI investigators sought to suppress or discredit material from Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election.
The Justice Department later added a charge of obstructing a congressional proceeding against both former officials.
Court documents say the government relies on witness accounts and FBI records, including evidence it says shows the defendants knew about the Hunter Biden investigation.
The Justice Department alleges the statements aimed to minimize or conceal the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force’s communications about the investigations and impede Congress’s inquiry.
Floris’s attorneys argued that the new filing was procedurally improper and sought to avoid scrutiny at a scheduled preliminary hearing.
Floris and Benavides deny the charges.
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Alex Pretti’s parents held their first news conference and called on the Department of Justice to be transparent about their son’s death. The article says federal agents killed Pretti on January 24; his family described the past year as miserable.
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Pretti’s parents held their first news conference about his death.
The family called on the Department of Justice to be transparent.
The article says federal agents killed Alex Pretti on January 24.
Pretti’s parents described the past year as “miserable.”
The article was published on October 27, 2026.
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A rare sea aster mining bee has been spotted at Steart Marshes in Somerset, far west of its usual range along England’s south and east coasts. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust says saltmarsh restoration created habitat with abundant sea aster, the flower the bee relies on for food.
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Naturalist Nigel Phillips found the bees at Steart Marshes.
Phillips said he saw several groups of nests in dry, sandy ground.
The sea aster mining bee relies on sea aster flowers for food.
The restoration project at Steart Marshes was completed in 2014.
The project turned former farmland into coastal wetland by allowing seawater to flow back across the fields.
The reserve has many coastal wildflowers, including sea aster.
Of 290 invertebrate species recorded in saltmarsh habitats across the UK, 148 are found only in saltmarshes.
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Federal agents searched a Beverly Hills home where former congressman Eric Swalwell had spent time, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter. Swalwell has denied criminal wrongdoing; the investigation follows sexual misconduct allegations and earlier searches and device seizures.
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The searched home belongs to developer and Swalwell donor Stephen Cloobeck, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The FBI said it conducted an operation in the Los Angeles region related to an ongoing criminal investigation and declined further comment.
Swalwell resigned from Congress in April after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced.
A former staffer has alleged that Swalwell raped her at a New York City hotel in 2024; Manhattan prosecutors say they are investigating.
Federal agents seized Swalwell’s electronic devices at San Francisco airport and searched his Washington, D.C., home in August.
Los Angeles prosecutors were reported to be weighing charges.
Swalwell represented a California House district from 2013 until his resignation and was a prominent critic of Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump said he would respect the results of next week’s midterm elections “if they’re honest elections.” He spoke at Joint Base Andrews before leaving for a campaign trip to Texas, amid Democratic concerns about his pre-election remarks.
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Trump made the comments on Tuesday at Joint Base Andrews.
He was departing for a campaign trip to Texas.
Trump said he would respect the midterm results if he considers the elections honest.
Democrats have voiced concerns about his pre-election rhetoric.
On Monday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was “watching closely.”
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Russell Brand told police in interviews between 2023 and 2025 that he had never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. He denies the charges he faces at Southwark Crown Court in London, where prosecutors are expected to finish their case on Wednesday.
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Brand was interviewed by police four times between 2023 and 2025.
In a prepared statement in November 2023, Brand said he had never engaged in non-consensual activity.
Brand said the allegations stemmed from what he called a defamatory and fictitious documentary.
The judge said there was insufficient evidence to support the indecent assault charge and directed the jury to find Brand not guilty of that charge.
The charge concerned a woman who said Brand grabbed her arm and tried to drag her into a toilet in 2001.
The indictment was amended to include an attempted indecent assault charge, which Brand denies.
Brand denies three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one charge of attempted indecent assault.
The defence is expected to begin after the prosecution concludes its case.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law requiring schools to prohibit students from possessing or using personal mobile devices throughout the school day. Schools must adopt compliant policies by the start of the 2027–28 school year, with exceptions for certain medical, disability, language-learning and instructional needs. The measure is part of a wider national shift: a July report found that at least 40 states had enacted policies on cellphone use in schools.
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Pennsylvania Senate Bill 1014 requires restrictions to cover classes, lunch, recess and transitions between classes.
The law applies to public school districts, charter schools, career and technical schools, cyber charter schools, and private and nonpublic schools.
Exceptions include documented medical, disability or special education needs, English-language learning devices, and some pre-approved instructional uses.
Federal data from 1,490 public schools found that more than half of school leaders believed cellphone use harmed academic performance.
Nearly three-quarters of surveyed school leaders reported negative effects from cellphone use on students’ mental health and attention span.
Alabama and Arkansas enacted restrictions covering the school day in 2025.
Florida’s 2025 law bars elementary and middle school students from using cellphones throughout the school day, while high school restrictions apply during instructional time.
Georgia extended bell-to-bell device restrictions to students in grades 9–12 through a 2025 law.
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