A man suspected of killing one person and injuring five in shootings near Paris was taken out of police custody for psychiatric observation, French anti-terrorism officials said. The evaluation is expected to last about 48 hours and will assess whether he can be questioned; President Emmanuel Macron described the attack as racist terrorism.
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The shootings took place Friday in Trappes and nearby La Verrière, where the suspect allegedly fired from a car.
Pengo Bossio Wangi, a 26-year-old French-Congolese martial artist, was killed.
Five people were injured; three were taken to hospital in serious condition, including a 12-year-old girl who was reported to be critical.
The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office said a psychiatric expert recommended the evaluation.
Officials said the evaluation will help determine whether the suspect should remain in police custody.
The suspect was found with cannabis and cocaine in his bloodstream, according to the prosecutor’s office.
French media reported that investigators found a Bible, a Quran and a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf at the suspect’s home.
Local media reported that the suspect had four previous convictions that had been automatically expunged and was not known to French intelligence services.
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Portuguese police dismantled housing protest camps in Lisbon and Porto early Sunday, arresting 31 people and removing 171 structures, according to police. The raids followed days of clashes as campaigners protested rising housing costs; police and protest organizers gave differing accounts of the number of people injured and the force used.
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Officers cleared more than 100 tents in Lisbon’s Rossio Square and about 50 tents in Porto’s Dom João I Square.
Police said 31 people were arrested for disobedience and 171 structures were removed.
Police reported that 11 people were injured, including three officers; the campaign group Casa Para Viver said more than 20 people were injured.
Reuters reported that 25 people detained in Lisbon were released and ordered to appear in court on Monday.
Campaigners began setting up housing protest camps in Porto in early October, with similar camps later appearing in Lisbon.
Portuguese house prices have more than doubled since 2017, while rents have nearly doubled, according to the article.
Campaigners oppose proposed legislation that would make evictions easier and end rent caps on new leases; the proposal passed its first parliamentary reading.
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A Japanese court indicted 20-year-old U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard on robbery and murder charges in connection with the death of a woman in Okinawa. Prosecutors allege he strangled the 39-year-old woman at a Naha hotel on Oct. 3 and took her backpack and belongings.
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Ballard is stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa.
Authorities arrested Ballard after the Oct. 3 incident.
The woman was a 39-year-old resident of Naha City.
Prosecutors allege Ballard strangled the woman with a telephone receiver cord at a hotel.
Prosecutors also allege he stole a backpack containing her wallet and other belongings.
NHK reported the indictment, citing the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office and other sources.
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A new CBS News Battleground Tracker analysis favors Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. CBS News elections and surveys executive director Anthony Salvanto said turnout remains a major factor.
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The article discusses the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker analysis.
The analysis favors Democrats.
The midterm elections are less than 10 days away, according to the article.
Anthony Salvanto discussed the tracker.
Salvanto said turnout is a big factor.
Salvanto is CBS News’ executive director of elections and surveys.
The analysis appeared in a CBS News segment dated October 25, 2026.
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Thousands gathered in Hamoud, southern Jordan, on Sunday to bury eight of the nine people killed in a shooting at a church during a funeral on Friday. Jordanian authorities called the attack extremist terrorism; the attackers remain at large, and officials have not said whether they were linked to an armed group.
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Nine people were killed and dozens were wounded in the attack at St George’s Greek Orthodox Church.
The Sunday burials took place beside the church in Karak province, southwest of Amman.
The ninth victim, Mohammed al-Qasous, was expected to be buried on Monday, according to his family.
Prime Minister Jafar Hassan attended the funeral service alongside government ministers and senior officials.
Jordan declared three days of national mourning.
King Abdullah promised a forceful response, while authorities continued to seek the attackers.
No organization had claimed responsibility, and officials had not established whether the attackers were connected to an armed group.
Muslims were among the wounded, and community members expressed solidarity across religious lines.
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Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa discussed her campaign, public school funding and health care in an interview on “Face the Nation” on Oct. 25, 2026. She said her campaign aims to attract voters across party lines and make public schools and children’s health care priorities.
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Hinojosa said voters are dissatisfied with both political parties and that her campaign offers a way beyond traditional partisan politics.
She said six or seven polls in the preceding six weeks showed her winning, while all polls placed the race within the margin of error.
Hinojosa said 181 Texas school districts operate on a four-day school week.
She blamed school funding pressures in part on Gov. Greg Abbott withholding funding in 2023 during a dispute over school vouchers.
Hinojosa said a voucher law passed the previous year diverted $1 billion from public schools to private schools.
She said school closures and teacher departures reflect the challenges facing Texas school districts.
Hinojosa said Texas has the highest number of uninsured children of any state and is among the states that have not expanded Medicaid.
She said expanding Medicaid is one possible way to improve children’s access to health care.
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The Justice Department sent California county election officials letters demanding information about roughly 20,000 voters it suspects are noncitizens and asking counties to set aside related ballots. County officials said they were already counting ballots, while California’s attorney general said the federal lists contained errors; a federal appeals court was set to hear arguments over the dispute.
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The letters, sent Friday, requested sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, and gave counties 48 hours to respond.
Federal officials warned that they could take legal action against officials who knowingly counted a noncitizen’s vote.
California officials said a list sent to Mendocino County included people who did not live there.
Napa County Registrar John Tuteur said his county would continue its election process; the federal letter named 42 people there.
Amador County’s letter named four people, and clerk-recorder Kim Grady was waiting for guidance from the state.
The Justice Department said it was not asking California to cancel registrations or conduct a voter purge.
The federal government sued California on Oct. 15 to stop the state from counting mail ballots from people it identified as likely noncitizens.
A panel of Ninth Circuit judges was scheduled to hear arguments Sunday on whether California must comply with the federal demands.
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Early reports showed high turnout in Serbia’s parliamentary election, with 46% of voters having cast ballots by 14:00 local time. The student-led opposition hopes strong participation will help it unseat President Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party, which has governed since 2012; voting was still underway, so no results were available.
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The reported 46% turnout by 14:00 was nearly one million voters higher than the comparable figure in the December 2023 election.
The snap election followed two years of student protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a train station canopy that killed 16 people.
The opposition Student List campaign says it will target corruption, political influence in public enterprises, and political control of the public broadcaster.
Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party denies corruption and attempts to influence the media.
Vučić cannot seek a third presidential term and is leading his party with the aim of becoming prime minister again.
Student organizers assigned at least two election observers to each of Serbia’s 8,210 polling stations amid concerns about fraud.
Polling was scheduled to close at 20:00 local time, with initial indications of results expected two hours later.
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Hundreds of thousands of people protested rising living costs and economic inequality across France on Saturday. Most marches remained peaceful, but clashes near Paris’s Porte de Vincennes and in several other cities led police to use tear gas, water cannon and batons.
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France’s Interior Ministry estimated that 410,000 people joined demonstrations nationwide; the CGT trade union estimated more than 800,000.
Police estimated that about 110,000 people attended the main Paris march.
Police made 1,314 arrests nationwide, and 53 law enforcement officers were injured, according to France 24.
Authorities deployed about 70,000 police officers and gendarmes across France, around 10,000 more than the previous weekend.
Police used tear gas and water cannon against a group of about 500 hooded youths near the Paris march’s endpoint.
Authorities reported responding to 75 fires and said 24 shops had been looted.
Clashes were also reported in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux and Grenoble, though most demonstrations were peaceful.
The Yellow Vests movement called for further demonstrations on October 31.
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Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign in Orleans on October 25, as France faced renewed cost-of-living protests and street violence. The National Rally leader has criticized President Emmanuel Macron’s government over public order and is polling as a frontrunner ahead of elections expected in April and May 2027.
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Le Pen was scheduled to address about 10,000 National Rally supporters in Orleans.
More than 400,000 people marched in major French cities on Saturday to protest rising living costs.
Clashes broke out after masked groups left the demonstrations, and police made more than 1,300 arrests.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez blamed much of the violence on what he called “ultra-left” extremists.
Police estimated that 13,000 people joined a Saturday protest against Le Pen in Orleans; organizers estimated twice that number.
Le Pen has proposed capped household energy bills, tax cuts and reducing France’s contribution to the European Union to address living costs.
Le Pen has criticized NATO and France’s support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.
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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci compared Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to the pigs in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” Scaramucci also predicted that Ramaswamy would lose to Democratic candidate Amy Acton.
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Scaramucci made the remarks on Sunday.
He posted on the social platform X.
Scaramucci said Ramaswamy had “disgraced himself.”
Ramaswamy is running for governor of Ohio as a Republican.
Acton is Ramaswamy’s Democratic opponent.
Scaramucci predicted Ramaswamy would lose the race.
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Hundreds of demonstrations took place across France on Saturday over the rising cost of living. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said many marches passed peacefully, but members of groups he described as “ultra-left” threw projectiles and fireworks at police.
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Demonstrations took place in cities across France on Saturday.
The protests focused on the rising cost of living.
Security forces were deployed in large numbers after violence at protests the previous weekend.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said marches in several cities passed off well.
Nuñez said people he described as members of “ultra-left” groups threw projectiles and fireworks at police.
The article includes comments from French Communist Party spokesperson Fatima Khallouk.
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The newly introduced Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act would create a federal tax incentive for film and television production. The proposal aims to counter the movement of production overseas.
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The Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act has been introduced.
The proposal seeks to establish a federal tax incentive.
The incentive would apply to film and television production.
The proposal aims to address production moving overseas.
The article does not state whether the measure has passed or describe the incentive’s details.
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Brazilian voters went to the polls on Oct. 25 for a closely contested presidential runoff between incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump. The result could shift Brazil’s political direction and affect U.S. influence in Latin America; polls had shown the candidates neck and neck.
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The runoff required a candidate to win more than 50% of the vote.
Flávio Bolsonaro led Lula by more than 2.2 million votes in the first round earlier that month.
More than 33 million of nearly 160 million eligible voters did not vote in the first round, despite compulsory voting.
The candidates campaigned on different approaches to U.S.-Brazil relations, climate change, social welfare, security and living costs.
Bolsonaro pledged to reduce food costs and take a tough approach to crime; Lula promoted debt relief for small businesses and free weekend public transportation.
Bolsonaro is under investigation over money he accepted from former banker Daniel Vorcaro to produce a film about his father.
The next president will appoint at least three of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices as vacancies arise.
Bolsonaro pledged to seek amnesty for his father, Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest for attempting a coup.
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An Al Jazeera True Crime Reports episode examines the 2006 murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu in Malaysia. It explores questions about who ordered her killing and whether officials covered it up.
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The episode says Shaariibuu was abducted from an affluent Kuala Lumpur neighbourhood in 2006.
It says she was taken to a jungle, shot twice, and killed with explosives.
The episode describes the murder as part of a major political scandal in Malaysia.
Mary Ann Jolley, an Al Jazeera senior reporter, appears in the episode.
Halla Mohieddeen hosts the episode, which Ryan Gaffney wrote.
Artists used AI-powered software to help create the episode’s illustrations.
The episode is an Al Jazeera Originals production.
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European governments are warning against renewed US-Israeli attacks on Iran as the war disrupts oil supplies and raises energy costs. Their calls for restraint mark a shift from the response at the start of the conflict, though European countries remain divided and continue to oppose Iran’s nuclear program.
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The United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, according to the article.
Britain, France and Germany initially condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes but did not condemn the opening US-Israeli attacks in their joint statement.
On Friday, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany and Italy met officials from Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt in Istanbul to discuss the war and the Strait of Hormuz.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warned that further escalation could have serious effects on hydrocarbon prices and urged both sides to show restraint.
The article says disrupted energy supplies and rising oil prices are increasing household costs as winter approaches in Europe.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has opposed the US-Israeli campaign and called it illegal, unjust and unjustified.
European warnings against renewed attacks do not mean governments have dropped their opposition to Iran’s nuclear program or regional activities.
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Sources told the article that Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Donald Trump for more public support before Israel’s Tuesday election. Final polls from three major Israeli television networks projected Netanyahu’s coalition well short of a majority, though Channel 14’s poll offered a more favorable result.
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A U.S. source and an Israeli source said Netanyahu spoke with Trump twice in three days and sought stronger public endorsements.
An Israeli source said Netanyahu proposed that Trump speak with Israeli reporters; a U.S. source said Netanyahu suggested wording for further statements.
A spokesperson for Netanyahu’s Likud party denied that he asked Trump for campaign support in recent days or before Trump’s endorsement.
Trump endorsed Netanyahu the previous Sunday and suggested that Netanyahu’s defeat could affect U.S.-Israel relations.
Three major Israeli television networks’ final pre-election polls projected 50 seats for Netanyahu’s bloc in the 120-seat Knesset.
Those polls projected 52 to 56 seats for Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc and 14 to 16 seats for two Arab Israeli parties.
Channel 14, described as pro-Netanyahu, projected 60 seats for Netanyahu’s bloc and 30 for Likud in a poll earlier that week.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said several Southern statewide races could be competitive for Democrats in the November 2026 midterms. He said Democrats erred by failing to invest in the region earlier and predicted a strong election for the party.
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Moore named Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina as states where he believes Democratic candidates could compete.
He said Democrats had underinvested in the South, not only during this election cycle but over a longer period.
Moore said he had personally invested in Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa’s campaign.
He described winning and improving health care, reducing child poverty and raising wages as candidates’ main goals.
Moore said he sees an energized and enlarged Democratic base while campaigning in Maryland and elsewhere.
The article said the 2026 midterm election was nine days away as of October 25.
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Gabon’s High Communication Authority announced on Saturday that it had restored access to social media, ending a ban imposed on 17 February. The regulator had said online content was fueling conflict and divisions; the ban drew criticism from the opposition and prompted many users to turn to virtual private networks (VPNs).
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The social media ban lasted about eight months.
The High Communication Authority announced the restoration in a televised statement.
The ban covered popular platforms including Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
Many Gabonese users relied on VPNs to access social media during the ban.
The suspension began amid social unrest, including strikes by teachers and civil servants over pay and working conditions.
The opposition described the suspension as an abuse of power.
President Brice Oligui Nguema won last year’s election with more than 90% of the vote, two years after his coup ended more than five decades of Bongo family rule.
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