The UK Privy Council unanimously ruled that Trinidad and Tobago’s laws must not criminalize private, consensual sex between adults of the same sex. The decision restores activist Jason Jones’s 2018 legal victory and could affect other Caribbean countries that use the Privy Council as their final court of appeal.
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The Privy Council overturned a 2025 Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal decision that had reinstated criminal penalties for consensual anal sex.
Jones first won a High Court ruling against the laws in 2018.
All five Privy Council judges ruled that sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act 1986 must be read consistently with the constitution.
The ruling protects private, consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex from criminalization under those provisions.
The Privy Council is the final court of appeal for Trinidad and Tobago and several other Commonwealth countries.
Jones said he does not yet feel comfortable living in Trinidad again.
The article notes that a court in St Lucia struck down laws criminalizing consensual gay sex last year.
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French police searched the Ritz hotel and other properties linked to Mohamed Al Fayed as part of an investigation into an alleged international network that trafficked women. The probe, opened in 2025, seeks to identify accomplices of Al Fayed and his late brother Salah; investigators have questioned people and are examining digital devices.
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Police searched the Ritz in Paris, Villa Windsor and Castel Sainte-Therese in Saint-Tropez.
Prosecutors said people were held for questioning and investigators examined computers, phones and other digital media.
The investigation concerns allegations of aggravated human trafficking, procuring prostitutes and rape.
Mohamed Al Fayed died in 2023 at age 94 without charges having been brought against him.
French investigators have heard from at least five complainants, with the latest interview in October, according to sources close to the case.
Complainants allege that young women seeking jobs at Harrods or as assistants were recruited and given fabricated jobs.
Some complainants said they believe they were drugged; one former Ritz employee said she was transported between France and Britain.
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Israel’s new parliament has been sworn in amid a political deadlock. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot have both called for a national government.
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Israel’s new parliament has been sworn in.
Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s prime minister.
Gadi Eisenkot is the opposition leader.
Netanyahu called for a national government.
Eisenkot also called for a national government.
The calls came amid a political deadlock.
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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Salvadoran troops helped target the 400 Mawozo gang’s headquarters in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. The operation, reportedly carried out by Haitian police with Salvadoran support, left 20 people dead; rights groups have called for transparency and safeguards as El Salvador deploys troops in Haiti.
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Bukele said the operation destroyed the home of gang leader Lanmo San Jou and the 400 Mawozo gang’s headquarters.
The operation reportedly took place on Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince.
Reports said 20 people were killed in the operation.
Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime is due to visit El Salvador next week to discuss the Salvadoran troop deployment.
El Salvador has sent about 2,000 troops to Haiti since four Salvadoran personnel went missing in mid-October.
Most of the Salvadoran troops are not part of the United Nations-backed Gang Suppression Force.
Amnesty International called on both governments to publish the deployment agreement and explain how forces are supervised and held accountable.
Haiti plans to hold elections in July and October next year, its first elections in more than a decade.
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UK minister Hamish Falconer said Britain is willing to discuss contributing to EU infrastructure funds as part of talks on joining the European electricity market, but the government has not accepted that the contribution should be required. The UK and EU are also negotiating on defence cooperation, youth mobility, food and drink, carbon emissions, and industrial policy.
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Five European leaders said Britain would need to contribute to the EU cohesion fund to join the electricity market.
The EU cohesion fund supports economic development in poorer regions of the bloc.
Falconer said the UK had not accepted a link between joining the electricity market and contributing to the cohesion fund.
Negotiators hope to reach agreements on food and drink, carbon emissions, and youth mobility at an upcoming UK-EU summit.
Talks over UK participation in the EU’s €150 billion Safe defence loan scheme collapsed after the sides disagreed over the UK’s contribution.
Falconer said he hoped Britain could join a future Safe2 defence scheme on acceptable terms.
The UK and EU are discussing a youth mobility scheme, with tuition fees for EU students at UK universities among the sticking points.
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Russell Brand’s films and shows remained available on major streaming platforms in the United States and United Kingdom after a jury convicted him of rape and sexual assault. The article counted 21 titles available in the U.S. across several services and reported that Netflix and other platforms had been asked for comment.
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A jury convicted Brand on November 5 of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
Brand was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London to more than 10 years in prison.
The convictions concerned crimes against four women from about two decades ago; Brand denied the charges.
As of Tuesday morning, the article counted 21 of Brand’s titles available for streaming in the U.S.
Prime Video and The Roku Channel each hosted six titles; Netflix and Max each hosted four.
The article said Brand’s stand-up show Russell Brand: Re:Birth could be found on Netflix through a search engine, though it did not appear in searches on Netflix’s site.
Jurors cleared Brand on two other rape counts and one count of attempted indecent assault.
London’s Metropolitan Police said they were investigating two further rape allegations that had not resulted in charges.
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Slovyansk, part of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk defensive belt, is facing frequent Russian drone, missile and glide-bomb attacks that have damaged buildings and driven many shops to close. The city’s future is a central issue in renewed talks involving Ukraine, Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi, as Ukraine resists calls to give up the territory.
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Slovyansk is one of four cities in Ukraine’s heavily fortified defensive belt in the part of Donetsk still under Ukrainian control.
The BBC report describes Russian drones, missiles and glide bombs threatening the city.
Many buildings in Slovyansk have been damaged or destroyed, including a school hit by glide bombs.
Ukrainian drone-unit members Tetiana and Yasha escorted the BBC crew through the city and monitored threats from the air.
Russia wants Ukraine to surrender the fortified cities, which are central to renewed peace talks in Abu Dhabi.
Ukrainian officials worry that giving up the cities would make it easier for Russian forces to advance farther west.
Russia has captured nearly 90% of the Donbas, which includes the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the report says.
Ukraine’s general staff reported that more than 54,000 Russian troops were killed or injured in October.
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French judo champion Teddy Riner announced a bid for the 2027 French presidential election. The article reviews the political careers of former athletes Imran Khan and George Weah, whose paths included both high office and setbacks.
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Teddy Riner is a French judo champion and has announced he will run in the 2027 French presidential election.
Imran Khan captained Pakistan to its only Cricket World Cup victory in 1992.
Khan became a member of Pakistan’s parliament in 2002 and prime minister in 2018; he left office in 2022.
Khan has been imprisoned since August 2023 while facing charges including corruption and inciting violence; he says his imprisonment is politically motivated.
George Weah won the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 1995, becoming the first African to win both in the same year.
Weah lost Liberia’s 2005 presidential runoff, later became a senator in 2014, and won the presidency in 2017.
Weah lost his bid for a second presidential term to Joseph Boakai in 2023.
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A study of more than 71,000 women in South Korea found that higher consumption of some sugary foods was associated with greater breast cancer risk. Researchers found no such association for fruit, and the study does not establish that sugar causes breast cancer.
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The study used data from the Health Examinees-Gem study, collected between 2004 and 2013, and followed participants for an average of about nine years.
Researchers identified about 700 new breast cancer cases among the participants.
Women who ate ice cream more than once a week had a 26 percent higher risk than women who did not eat it.
Women who ate sugary cereal more than once every two months had a 34 percent higher risk than those who never ate it.
Women who ate more than two weekly servings of high-sugar foods had a 28 percent higher risk than those who ate less than one serving per month.
The researchers found no association between greater fruit consumption and breast cancer risk.
The study appeared in the European Journal of Nutrition on October 31.
The researchers said factors including alcohol consumption and body mass index affected the strength of the associations.
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The UK is considering a broad expansion of its planned social media ban for children under 16, potentially bringing services such as YouTube Kids, Spotify and gaming platforms within its scope. Ministers are weighing rules based on recommendation systems and user-generated content, while a later set of regulations could cover online marketplaces with messaging features.
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The ban is scheduled to take effect in March, and the government is considering rules that could cover as many as 150 platforms.
The proposals are expected to go to cabinet for approval this week, with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy expected to present regulations to Parliament in December.
The working proposal focuses on recommendation systems and content created by users.
YouTube Kids, Spotify and Lego Play could potentially fall within the proposed rules, although the government had previously said educational services and music streaming would be exempt.
Technology companies argue that removing recommendation systems could make some services difficult to operate.
The government is considering a second set of rules for next spring that could include marketplaces such as Vinted, eBay and Depop.
Officials have discussed the marketplace proposals with retailers, some of whom reportedly objected to bringing sites with messaging features into scope.
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Train driver Andrew Johnson told a jury that he had about 10 seconds to move his train onto a slower track after hearing a report of a stabbing. He said he directed the London-bound train to Huntingdon, where it stopped during the attack on 1 November last year.
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Johnson was driving an LNER service from London when it stopped at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
He testified that the train was travelling at 122 mph when an alarm indicated someone was trying to open a passenger door.
Johnson said he heard someone report over the intercom that a knifeman was stabbing people.
He said he chose to switch to the slow line and asked a signaller to get the train to Huntingdon and contact police.
The train arrived at Huntingdon at 19:44 GMT, and Johnson had to override the system to open its doors because the station was not a scheduled stop.
Anthony Williams, 33, denies 10 attempted-murder charges relating to the train attack and four more charges relating to earlier alleged attacks in Peterborough and London.
The court has heard that whether Williams carried out the attacks is not in question; jurors must decide whether he intended to kill.
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Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton visited Egypt’s North Sinai region on November 10, 2026, to see how humanitarian aid for Gaza is stored and coordinated. The visit came as floods displaced people in Gaza and Israeli airstrikes continued, according to the article.
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North Sinai Governor Khaled Megawer welcomed Hamilton and showed him Egyptian Red Crescent aid warehouses.
Hamilton asked aid workers how often they can enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
The World Health Organization said last month that delays in delivering medicine, prosthetics, and other supplies to Gaza could have serious consequences.
Flooding in Gaza killed at least five people, including four children, and displaced thousands, the article reported.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said it had recorded more than 2,100 distress calls by Monday and warned that more than 2,000 buildings could collapse.
Local health sources said Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people in Gaza on Tuesday.
Hamilton founded Mission 44 in 2021 to support young people pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there is no need for further major combat operations against Iran. He cited the effectiveness of economic sanctions and pressure, speaking after a G7 meeting in Paris.
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Marco Rubio is the U.S. secretary of state.
Rubio said further major combat operations against Iran are not needed.
He pointed to economic sanctions and pressure as effective.
Rubio made the remarks after a meeting of G7 nations.
The G7 meeting took place in Paris.
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British Defence Minister Luke Pollard says Russian naval activity around the UK rose 41% in the first nine months of 2026. The Royal Navy plans to expand cooperation with nine other northern European countries on sea drones and warships, while the UK also plans investment in underwater drones and sensors to monitor Russian submarine activity.
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Pollard described the 41% rise in Russian naval activity around the UK as a major increase.
The proposed Northern Navies Initiative would allow sea drones from participating countries to work with allied warships.
The initiative involves the UK, the Netherlands, and Baltic and Nordic countries.
A parliamentary defence committee warned that shortages of available warships and submarines could weaken the UK's ability to deter Russian aggression.
The UK budget allocated an extra £10 billion a year for defence from 2030, according to the article.
The UK's defence investment plan includes £1.5 billion for sea drones over four years.
The UK will spend a further £90 million on underwater drones and sensors to monitor the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap.
Pollard said Russian spy ships, including the Yantar, had operated near UK waters and sought information about critical infrastructure and undersea cables.
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Germany marked the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom against Jewish people in Nazi Germany and Austria. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany faces a historic test over antisemitism.
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The article was issued on November 10, 2026.
The anniversary marked 88 years since Kristallnacht.
Kristallnacht is also known as the Night of Broken Glass.
The pogrom targeted Jewish people across Nazi Germany and Austria.
The article describes Kristallnacht as a critical escalation toward the Holocaust.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany faces a historic test over antisemitism.
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Ron Dermer, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and a close ally of Benjamin Netanyahu, described Israel as a testing ground and showcase for U.S. weapons. The article examines U.S.-Israeli military technology ties as President Donald Trump moves to end roughly $4 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel by the end of 2026.
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Dermer said Israel’s active conflicts let it test and display advanced military technologies.
A Foreign Ministry source said Israel’s use of technology in conflict can help keep Americans safe.
The United States and Israel cooperate on military technology, including air defense.
The article says the U.S. Army uses Israeli-designed systems to protect Abrams tanks, and Israel operates a version of the U.S.-made F-35.
Trump announced that the United States would end roughly $4 billion in aid to Israel by the end of 2026.
The United States currently provides Israel about $3.8 billion in military aid each year under an agreement due to expire in 2028.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration believes Israel can buy U.S. weapons without receiving aid funding.
Israel reported record weapons sales for 2025, which had more than doubled over five years.
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French students have protested since September, calling for school building renovations, more teachers and university reforms. The demonstrations later grew into broader cost-of-living protests involving unions and political activists, and some have turned violent.
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Students began protesting in France in September.
Their demands include renovating school buildings and hiring more teachers.
Students have also called for university reforms.
The protests later expanded to include cost-of-living concerns.
Trade unions and political activists joined the wider protests.
Some demonstrations have turned violent.
The article says students vow to continue applying pressure for better learning conditions.
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President Donald Trump said the United States was maintaining the status quo with Iran and that the war was “militarily, effectively over.” The article reports that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains sharply reduced, attacks and threats continue, and the conflict has raised energy costs in several regions.
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UK Maritime Trade Operations data put commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz about 65 percent below prewar levels.
The United States continues to maintain a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said two oil tankers struck mines and caught fire; UK Maritime Trade Operations also recorded a strike on another tanker.
AAA figures for November 10 put U.S. gasoline at $3.98 per gallon and diesel at $6.16 per gallon, about 30 percent and 65 percent higher than a year earlier.
The International Energy Agency considers the Iran war the largest oil supply disruption in history.
European energy regulators estimated that the conflict added €18 billion to €33 billion to Europe’s gas import bill.
The article says Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline was attacked and Saudi air defenses intercepted missiles launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary said Washington must meet seven Iranian conditions before the Strait of Hormuz can reopen.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has threatened to block negotiations on the EU’s 2028–34 budget unless member states agree to support Ukraine’s funding needs. Slovakia’s Robert Fico called the demand “typical blackmail,” while leaders from several countries have said they will not join the next Ukraine funding round.
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Merz wants EU leaders to discuss Ukraine’s financing at a summit in Dublin.
Ukraine has requested €70 billion to cover a budget shortfall after increased costs from Russian attacks.
The EU has pledged to find €45 billion, with allies including the UK and Canada expected to provide the remainder.
The EU previously agreed to lend Ukraine €90 billion for 2026 and 2027.
Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia opted out of the previous loan and have indicated they will also stay out of the next funding round.
Bulgaria has joined those countries in opposing participation in the next round.
Merz says all member states must contribute to Ukraine’s financial support as a condition for resolving the funding shortfall and discussing other budget matters.
Germany is seeking to let a qualified majority, rather than every member state, decide on Ukraine funding.
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Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei accused the United States of spreading false reports about talks to end the war. President Donald Trump downplayed the likelihood of renewed strikes amid talks with Qatar.
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Mohsen Rezaei is Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
Rezaei made the accusation on Monday.
Rezaei posted his accusation on X.
He said the United States was “manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks” to end the war.
President Donald Trump downplayed the likelihood of renewed strikes.
The article says talks with Qatar were taking place.
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