The family of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student murdered in Southampton, say police gave them changing accounts and did not initially tell them that officers handcuffed him while he was dying. Hampshire’s chief constable apologized for the police response, while a police watchdog investigation is expected to conclude early next year and the UK government has announced an independent inquiry.
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Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed in Southampton on 3 December 2025 while walking home from a night out.
Vickrum Digwa was convicted of Nowak’s murder and sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 21 years.
Body-camera footage shown at trial captured Nowak saying, “I've been stabbed”; an officer replied, “Don't think you have, mate.”
Nowak’s family said they first saw the footage on the first day of Digwa’s trial.
His father said police accounts changed over time, and the family said they felt they had not been told the truth.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Constable Alexis Boon apologized and said police had failed Nowak when he needed them.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct said its investigation into possible police failures is expected to conclude early next year; the family said it had previously told them no officers would face a conduct or criminal investigation.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced an independent inquiry into the murder, led by former lord chancellor Alex Chalk.
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The article says Chinese leader Xi Jinping has built a closer working relationship with President Donald Trump, and argues that a Democratic victory in the U.S. midterms could make that relationship harder to maintain. It says the two governments’ trade truce and broader diplomatic understanding are important to Beijing, while the White House has extended the truce only through January 10.
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The article says Xi and Trump have held two summits this year and are expected to meet twice more.
China says the U.S. midterm elections are a domestic matter, according to the article.
The article says Beijing would prefer Republicans to retain control of Congress because it expects Trump to keep Republican China hawks in check.
At a summit in Busan, South Korea, the two countries agreed to scale back an escalating tariff dispute.
The Busan agreement included China pledging to buy U.S. soybeans and reduce export controls on rare earth metals.
In September, Chinese negotiators sought to extend the agreement through late 2028, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved a two-month extension to January 10.
The article says a Democratic takeover of the House and Senate would leave Trump with executive powers but could increase congressional opposition to his foreign policy.
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Russell Brand’s lawyer told jurors at Southwark Crown Court that Brand denies the charges and that media coverage in 2023 influenced the women who later made allegations. Prosecutors rejected that argument in their closing speech; jurors are considering allegations of rape and sexual assault involving six women over a period beginning in 1999.
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Brand denies the charges against him.
The article says Brand is accused of seven offences, including rape and sexual assault, involving six women.
The allegations cover a period of about 10 years beginning in 1999.
In his closing speech, Brand’s barrister Ian Winter KC argued that coverage by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Times newspapers in 2023 affected the women’s accounts.
Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC denied that the 2023 reporting caused the women to invent or reshape their accounts.
Winter argued that Brand believed the women consented and said he respected women who said no.
The article reports that the earliest allegation concerns an event in Bournemouth in 1999.
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Karl Bushby returned to Hull after a 28-year journey on foot that covered 36,000 miles and 29 countries. He was welcomed by a crowd in the city before planning to finish the final leg at his childhood home.
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Bushby left the army in 1998, aged 29, intending to walk around the world.
He walked about 36,000 miles across four continents during the journey.
He crossed the Bering Strait over frozen sea and traversed Central America's Darién Gap.
Bushby said he followed two rules: not to return home before completing the journey and not to use transport to advance it.
He arrived in Hull on the same date he had set off 28 years earlier.
A crowd welcomed him at Queen Victoria Square as he pushed his trolley, called Beast 2.
The article says his return will make him the first person to walk continuously across the world, visiting 29 countries.
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Dozens of pro-Palestinian students protested at the University of Hamburg in Germany, blocking building entrances and chanting slogans. Riot police formed a security cordon and arrested students.
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Dozens of students took part in the protest.
The protest took place at the University of Hamburg in Germany.
Students blocked building entrances.
Protesters chanted slogans.
Riot police formed a security cordon.
Police arrested students.
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Italy has more journalists under police protection than any other European country, according to the article. Journalists there face threats and intimidation, while European Union measures to protect press freedom are being implemented slowly.
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Italy has the largest number of journalists under police protection in Europe.
The article describes journalism in Italy as especially exposed to threats and intimidation.
European Union press-freedom protection measures are slow to take effect.
FRANCE 24 reported on the issue in a video published on November 2, 2026.
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Greenpeace activists placed boulders on the seabed in the Southern North Sea marine protected area, creating a barrier they say will deter bottom trawling across 116 sq km. The group says it will patrol the zone, arguing that fishing continues there despite the area’s purpose of protecting harbour porpoises and their food supply.
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Activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise dropped boulders in the Southern North Sea marine protected area.
Greenpeace says the boulder barrier covers 116 sq km, or about 45 square miles.
The protected area lies off England’s east coast, from north of Dogger Bank to the Strait of Dover.
The area supports nearly 20% of the UK North Sea harbour porpoise population.
Bottom trawlers recorded more than 37,200 fishing hours in the protected zone in 2025, according to the article.
Greenpeace says the Arctic Sunrise will patrol the zone in the coming days to deter other forms of industrial fishing.
A Greenpeace analysis says bottom trawlers and dredgers disturbed a combined 55,600 sq km of marine protected area seabed in 2025.
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A court heard testimony that Anthony Williams behaved erratically on a train the night before a stabbing attack on a London-bound train on 1 November 2025. Williams denies 14 counts of attempted murder, and jurors must decide whether he intended to kill the people named in the charges.
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Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of attempting to murder 10 people on a train that made an emergency stop in Huntingdon.
Passenger Keirah Lee-Oakman said Williams talked to himself, made references to the devil and behaved aggressively on a train the previous night.
Lee-Oakman texted British Transport Police about his behavior.
Police officers attended at Stevenage station but did not continue following the man after he went onto the tracks and they deemed it unsafe.
Passenger Abbie Harrison-Evans said Williams repeatedly grabbed a black rucksack and said, “I’m going to do it.”
Ethan Daniels testified that he heard Williams say, “I am the baddest, no-one is as bad as me.”
Williams is also accused of trying to kill three people in Peterborough and a teenager on a Docklands Light Railway train in London.
The trial has heard that whether Williams carried out the attacks is not in question; jurors must consider whether he intended to kill the people named in the charges.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Qatar is facilitating indirect talks between Iran and the United States. He said Iran’s seven-step peace plan could be implemented within two days if Tehran’s demands are met.
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Esmaeil Baghaei is Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Qatar is facilitating indirect talks between Iran and the United States, Baghaei said.
Iran has proposed a seven-step peace plan.
Baghaei said the plan could be implemented within two days if Iran’s demands are met.
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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is due to set out changes to settlement rules for legal migrants, after a consultation drew about 200,000 responses. Her original proposal included a 15-year qualifying period for some lower-paid migrants, but critics in Labour and elsewhere argued that changing the rules would be unfair to people who arrived under earlier terms.
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Mahmood said she wanted migration policy to be fair to people seeking a new life and to people already in the UK.
About 200,000 people responded to the consultation, including about 140,000 visa holders, according to the article.
Mahmood cited net migration of 2.6 million between 2021 and 2024 when explaining the need for action.
Her original plan proposed a 15-year qualifying period for settlement for a group of lower-paid migrants who bring non-working dependants and children.
Mahmood said that under then-current rules, members of this group would usually qualify for benefits and council housing five years after arrival.
Angela Rayner criticized the proposal as unfair to migrants who had arrived in good faith under different rules.
The article says parts of Mahmood's original plan are being revised, but the provided text does not specify the changes being announced.
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A lorry carrying explosives detonated near a military base in Planadas, in Colombia’s Tolima province, killing at least four people, including a two-month-old baby, according to the local governor. The blast damaged a hospital and other buildings; authorities have not identified who was responsible. The attack came amid increased violence by armed groups after President Abelardo de la Espriella ended peace talks and expanded military operations against them.
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The explosion occurred on Sunday near a military base in Planadas, western Colombia.
At least four people died, including a two-month-old baby girl, according to Tolima Governor Adriana Magali Matiz.
The blast damaged a nearby hospital and several other buildings, including a pharmacy.
Authorities have not said who carried out the bombing.
Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella ended peace talks with some armed groups and expanded operations against illegal groups.
On Saturday, a motorcycle carrying explosives killed one police officer and injured six in Huila province.
An October 23 drone attack on a Navy boat in Cauca province killed one marine infantryman and injured four.
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Protests in France may be losing momentum, as most high schools reopened despite calls for new blockades and attendance at weekend demonstrations fell for the third week in a row. Political expert Renaud Foucart said the protests could fade because it is unclear who demonstrators are protesting against while the government lacks a parliamentary majority.
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Most French high schools reopened despite calls for new blockades.
Attendance at weekend demonstrations fell for the third consecutive week.
Renaud Foucart is a senior lecturer in economics at Lancaster University.
Foucart said the protests may fade because demonstrators lack a clear political target.
He said the turnout over the past month showed disappointment with political debate in France.
The report was published on November 2, 2026.
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Ukraine’s military accused Russia of using a six-day ceasefire around Russian-controlled Oleshky to bring in ammunition, rotate troops and strengthen defenses. The pause enabled aid deliveries and evacuations, which Melania Trump called a success; the Ukrainian military’s claims about Russian movements could not be independently verified by Newsweek.
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The localized ceasefire began on Tuesday and ended late on Sunday.
The pause aimed to bring aid to Oleshky and evacuate residents from the city in Ukraine’s Kherson region.
Melania Trump said the evacuation operations were a success, and Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said nearly 800 people had been evacuated.
Ukraine’s military said Russia used the pause to rotate troops, reinforce positions, add anti-drone defenses and deliver ammunition around Oleshky.
Newsweek said it could not independently verify Ukraine’s military claims and had asked Russia’s Defense Ministry for comment.
Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova said mines were cleared from roads before an aid convoy reached the city on Friday.
Oleshky has been under Russian control since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Evacuees traveled through Crimea and Russia to Belarus before crossing back into northern Ukraine, according to the article.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II said the country would confront terrorism after an attack on a church in Karak killed nine people and wounded dozens. In a parliamentary address, he also warned about regional tensions, raised concerns over Jordan’s water security, and urged lawmakers and officials to serve the public interest.
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The attack on a church in the southern city of Karak occurred about two weeks before Abdullah’s address and killed nine people, wounding dozens.
Abdullah said Jordan would confront terrorism through national unity and public awareness, supported by the army and security services.
The king asked lawmakers to observe a minute of silence for the victims.
Abdullah called Israeli expansionist ambitions the greatest threat to the region’s future and security.
He said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continued and that assaults persisted in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Abdullah pledged to protect Jordan’s scarce water supplies and said Jordanians’ access to water would not be held hostage by any party.
He told lawmakers that differences of opinion could strengthen the country if they served Jordan’s interests, and urged the government to improve living conditions.
Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, and millions of Jordanian citizens are of Palestinian origin.
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Dutch authorities have increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of Jos Leijdekkers to 2 million euros, a record amount. They say the fugitive is believed to be in Sierra Leone, while he has been convicted in absentia in the Netherlands and Belgium for drug-related crimes and other offenses.
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The Dutch Public Prosecution Service and police raised the reward tenfold to 2 million euros ($2.2 million).
Leijdekkers, also known as “Bolle Jos,” is 35 and is considered a major figure in the international cocaine trade.
A Rotterdam court sentenced him in absentia in 2024 to 24 years in prison for cocaine shipments totaling nearly 7,000 kilograms, an armed robbery, and ordering a killing.
He has also received a 79-year prison sentence in Belgium.
Dutch police believe Leijdekkers is hiding in Sierra Leone, where authorities said in January 2025 they were certain he was located.
Images shared on social media appeared to show a man resembling Leijdekkers at a religious service attended by Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio.
Europol said intercepted messages allegedly linked Leijdekkers to the disappearance of Naima Jillal, who went missing in Amsterdam in 2019.
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Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said a Russian Su-57 fighter jet exploded while its engine was starting at Akhtubinsk airfield on October 29. The claim has not been independently confirmed, and Newsweek said it had requested comment from Russia’s Defense Ministry.
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Ukraine’s GUR said the incident happened at Akhtubinsk airfield in Russia’s Astrakhan region.
GUR said the Su-57’s engine was starting when the incident occurred.
Ukraine’s agency said low-quality jet fuel can cause the aircraft’s engines to explode or suffer catastrophic damage.
Russia describes the Su-57 as its most advanced stealth fighter and a fifth-generation aircraft.
Western aviation experts have questioned whether the Su-57 is stealthy enough to qualify as a fifth-generation aircraft.
Ukraine estimates that each Su-57 costs about $150 million.
Newsweek said it had contacted Russia’s Defense Ministry for comment.
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Yemeni government forces have launched a counteroffensive against the Houthis in al-Jawf as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen. The fighting centers on high ground east of al-Hazm, which could help government forces monitor Houthi supply routes and advance toward the provincial capital.
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Operation Dawn of Yemen began last month to reverse Houthi territorial gains and restore government control.
A government field commander said forces had taken control of the Huwaishan mountain range east of al-Hazm.
The commander said government troops had partial control of the road on the Al-Alam front.
The Houthis took al-Hazm in March 2020 and control the city and 10 other districts in al-Jawf.
Government forces control Khabb wa ash Sha’af, a district that makes up 82 percent of al-Jawf’s area.
Al-Jawf borders Saudi Arabia and connects to Hadramout, Saada, Sanaa, Amran and Marib.
A military researcher said the high ground could help government forces observe Houthi movements and supply lines.
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Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, and experts estimate that a woman dies from childbirth complications every two hours. The report says access to health care for Afghan women has become more difficult since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, amid a strain on maternity services described as more patients and fewer doctors.
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Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
Experts estimate that a woman dies every two hours from complications during childbirth.
Access to health care for Afghan women has become increasingly difficult since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
The report focuses on the struggle to provide maternity care in Afghanistan.
The article is based on reporting from inside Afghanistan.
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The Institute for the Study of War said Russian forces lost more territory than they gained in October, marking a second consecutive month of net territorial losses. Ukraine reported 54,400 Russian troops killed or seriously wounded during the month, the highest monthly figure since Russia’s full-scale invasion began; those casualty figures have not been independently verified in the article.
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ISW assessed that Russian forces consolidated or captured about 53 square miles in October but lost more territory than they gained.
Russian gains were reported in the Sumy and Zaporizhia regions, while losses occurred in other frontline sectors, including Donetsk.
ISW said Ukrainian forces had seized the initiative in the Kupiansk, Lyman, and Oleksandrivka directions and were contesting it in western Zaporizhia.
Ukraine’s General Staff reported that 54,400 Russian troops were killed or seriously wounded in October, the highest monthly total since the full-scale invasion began.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces commander said Russian losses were highest in the Dobropillya, Oleksandrivka, and Hulyaipole directions.
The article said casualty totals had exceeded 40,000 for four consecutive months, citing Ukrainian figures.
ISW said Russia was increasing its use of long-range missiles and jet-powered drones to strike Ukraine; Amnesty International said Russian attacks were targeting energy and heating infrastructure.
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Iliana Iotova won Bulgaria’s presidential runoff on Sunday. The largely ceremonial election took place amid security concerns after drone attacks targeted commercial vessels in the Black Sea.
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Iotova won the presidential runoff vote in Bulgaria.
The vote took place on Sunday.
Bulgaria’s presidency is largely ceremonial.
Iotova favors dialogue with Moscow.
Iotova opposes military aid to Ukraine.
A series of drone attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea raised security concerns.
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