A keeper at Beekse Bergen Safari Park in the Netherlands died Tuesday after a leopard attacked her while she was caring for two Persian leopards. The park said it will launch an independent investigation to establish what happened.
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The keeper was attacked in an indoor leopard enclosure at the park in the south of the Netherlands.
The leopards were inside because of bad weather, and staff are usually kept away from them.
The enclosure had no cameras, so the circumstances of the attack are unclear.
The keeper suffered serious injuries to her head and neck and underwent emergency surgery before dying Tuesday.
The park said she had worked there for nearly 40 years, with a few short interruptions.
A park spokesperson told local media that the leopards were behaving naturally.
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Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Edward Djerejian discusses how the Gaza war may affect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chances of reelection. The supplied article text does not include Djerejian’s specific assessment or conclusions.
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Edward Djerejian is identified as a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Djerejian discusses the Gaza war’s possible effect on Netanyahu’s reelection chances.
Benjamin Netanyahu is identified as Israel’s prime minister.
CBS News presents the segment as a video.
The video is listed as 6 minutes and 13 seconds long.
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The column examines Nigel Farage’s response to a remark by Raheem Kassam, a close associate, who called Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer.” In a BBC Breakfast interview, Farage pointed to Kassam’s Indian heritage while disputing the implications of the remark; the column also describes differing reactions from Reform politicians Robert Jenrick and Danny Kruger.
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Raheem Kassam called Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer.”
The article says Kassam had previously served as chief of staff in one of Farage’s political organisations and was being discussed as a possible next chief of staff for Reform.
Nigel Farage discussed Kassam’s remark in an interview with BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent.
During the interview, Farage said Kassam was of Indian heritage.
Robert Jenrick described Kassam’s comment as “forensic journalism,” according to the article.
Danny Kruger argued that the phrase was not racist, saying he did not think Farage’s friends were racist.
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Brazilian environmentalists and Indigenous groups welcomed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection, hoping his government will continue efforts to curb Amazon deforestation. They warned that a Congress with strong far-right and agribusiness representation could weaken environmental protections, while Lula’s support for offshore oil drilling has also drawn criticism.
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Lula defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday’s runoff, receiving 51.78% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48.21%.
Lula won by 4.4 million votes after trailing in the first round.
Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede and said he would ask the electoral court to nullify the result; the results were scheduled for certification on Dec. 18.
Indigenous groups and advocacy organizations mobilized voters in the Amazon, and court rulings helped secure transportation to polling places for people in remote areas.
About 60% of the Amazon rainforest lies in Brazil, and the forest absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Lula’s government announced the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record the previous week, according to the article.
The Climate Observatory said seven in 10 incoming lawmakers oppose its climate and environmental agenda.
Environmentalists criticized Lula’s support for drilling for oil in offshore waters near the Amazon.
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Two British men have been charged with national security offenses over an incident at RAF Fairford. The alleged plot has been described as Iran-linked, and the men are due to appear in court.
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Authorities charged two British men.
The charges concern national security offenses.
The case involves an incident at RAF Fairford.
RAF Fairford is a British air base used by the United States.
The alleged plot is described as Iran-linked.
The two men are due to appear in court.
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Footballer Kylian Mbappé apologized for comments about late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, calling them “ill-judged.” The remarks led several Chinese brands to drop him, and China’s foreign ministry criticized him.
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Kylian Mbappé is a footballer.
Mbappé made comments about Mao Zedong, China’s late leader.
Mbappé described his comments as “ill-judged” and apologized.
Several Chinese brands dropped Mbappé after the remarks.
China’s foreign ministry criticized Mbappé.
The BBC’s China correspondent Stephen McDonnell explained the controversy in a video.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brazil cancelled Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s passports after he missed a Supreme Court deadline to surrender them in a money laundering investigation. Police said they are trying to locate him; his whereabouts remain unknown, and officials reported no evidence that he entered Argentina through regular channels.
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Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing in the money laundering probe.
A court gave him 24 hours on Monday to turn in his passports.
Federal police sources said the deadline passed and his passports were cancelled on Tuesday.
Argentina said it had no record of Bolsonaro entering the country and found no flight plan listing his family on a plane checked at Iguazu International Airport.
A senior Brazilian police official said Bolsonaro had not left Brazil through a regular migration point.
Bolsonaro lost Sunday's presidential runoff to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro has not officially conceded and said he would seek to annul the result over alleged voter irregularities; his Liberal Party acknowledged Lula's victory.
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Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro missed a deadline to surrender his passport after a court revoked it, and reports said he may have gone to Argentina after losing the presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazilian federal police are checking with Argentine authorities because they found no record of him crossing a regular immigration checkpoint; Bolsonaro has said he did not plan to leave Brazil.
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A Supreme Court justice revoked Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport in connection with a criminal investigation.
Bolsonaro missed an 11 a.m. deadline to hand his passport to federal police on Tuesday.
News outlets reported that Bolsonaro may have crossed into Argentina and considered traveling onward to the United States.
Bolsonaro posted a video saying he had never considered leaving Brazil.
Federal police are asking Argentine authorities whether they have a record of Bolsonaro entering the country.
Police are investigating Bolsonaro for possible involvement in an alleged money-laundering scheme involving betting companies.
The article says Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest and Eduardo Bolsonaro is living in the United States.
Political analysts quoted in the article said the family’s legal and political troubles could weaken its influence on Brazil’s right.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad have traveled to Israel to vote in a closely watched national election. Many describe the vote as a civic duty or a chance to influence the country’s direction, though analysts say it is unclear how expatriates will vote.
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Ronnie Teram Gil-Ad spent about $3,000 to travel from the United States to Israel and planned to stay for 36 hours.
Yael Natra traveled from Toronto to vote, saying it was the first time in 20 years abroad that she felt compelled to take part in an Israeli election.
AID Coalition estimates that as many as 67,000 Israeli citizens have arrived from abroad to vote, based on surveys and registration data.
The organization estimates about half of the arriving voters came from the United States, with others coming from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
UnXeptable co-founder Offir Gutelzon helped organize flights for voters; the group says it aims to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The election is Israel’s first national vote since the Hamas attack and the start of the Gaza war three years ago.
The opposition bloc is led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, who left Netanyahu’s government in 2024.
Turnout could reach 70% of Israel’s roughly 7.3 million registered voters, but parties will still need to form a governing coalition after the election.
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