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UK government considers smart glasses ban over secret filming concerns

Minister hints at restriction on selling technology ‘to certain users’ amid worries over surreptitious filming of womenThe government is considering placing restrictions on smart glasses amid concerns the technology is being used to surreptitiously film women, a minister has said.Speaking in the House of Commons, the safeguarding minister, Satvir Kaur, hinted at a ban on selling the technology “to certain users”. Continue reading...

Serbia detains police officers over alleged use of force against protesters

Interior ministry claims suspects tortured and intimidated protesters detained in garage of government compoundSerbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer on Wednesday for ⁠allegedly using excessive force against detainees during anti-corruption protests last year in Belgrade, the country’s interior ministry ⁠said.Anti-corruption protests swept ⁠across Serbia, ​a candidate for European Union membership, in 2025 and 2026 after 16 people die…

Bob Dylan comes knockin' on pope's door as Leo welcomes legend to Vatican

VATICAN CITY -- Bob Dylan came knockin’ on Pope Leo XIV’ s door Wednesday, as the American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican said the encounter was brief, with Leo giving Dylan a rosary and Dylan presenting the pope with a copy of his autobiography, “Chronicles: Volume One.” Leo had quoted from an unpublished protest song Dylan penned in 1963, “Go Away You Bomb,” in his 2026 boo…

Ukraine raises death toll from Russian strike on Zaporizhia to 40 people

Ukrainian authorities have raised the death toll from a Russian attack on an aid centre in the Zaporizhia region in the southeast of the country to 40 people. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the raised toll on Wednesday, adding that some bodies had not yet been accounted for and that more than 30 people may still be under the rubble. The strike on Monday was one of the deadliest strikes on civilians of Russia’s nearly five-year-long war on its neighbour. It came as K…

How Chinese AI is censoring the controversy around Mbappé’s Chairman Mao comments

Footballer Kylian Mbappé sparked a wave of condemnation across China when he implied that Chinese leader Mao Zedong was a dictator. In China, information about this controversy is being censored by Chinese AI chatbots. French footballer Kylian Mbappé made a joke about former Chinese leader Mao Zedong back in mid-October when he appeared on "The Bridge", a French podcast featuring athletes. When the host asked Mbappé which image of himself he found the funniest, the player ci…

Winners, losers, the EU: Five takeaways from the US midterms

The Democrats not only made significant gains in Tuesday's midterm elections but also took control of both chambers of Congress. Here are five insights that can be drawn from this moment. The storming of the Capitol, attempts to change the rules of the electoral process, a spate of presidential executive orders to bypass Congress and many more examples sparked concerns that the US' vaunted democracy was being transformed into an authoritarian system under Donald Trump. But t…

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Will the US resume its attacks on Iran?

That’s the warning from Iran as fears grow that the United States could renew all-out war after US President Donald Trump warned his country could attack Iran once US midterm elections were over. Trump’s Republican Party suffered a severe blow in the congressional elections, losing its majority in both the House and the Senate. And Trump has conceded that the US-Israel war with Iran was partly to blame. With the region on edge again, mediators have been trying to bring Tehra…

Food grown in illegal West Bank settlements being sold in Australia as ‘produce of Israel’

Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlementsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, a new analysis of trade data has shown.The human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial…

Iranians celebrate Democrat victory in US midterms

Iranians celebrated the US midterm results as a victory for Iran, after US President Donald Trump acknowledged the Republicans’ crushing defeat was partly due to the war. Now, attention turns to whether a Democratic majority in Congress can challenge Trump’s military decisions.

Democratic progressive wing notches win in California Central Valley

Democratic candidate Randy Villegas has defeated Republican incumbent David Valadao in the race for California’s 22nd congressional district, clinching one of the state’s most closely watched congressional races and notching another win for the Democratic Party’s progressive left. Villegas, an educator who grew up in the Central Valley as the son of Mexican immigrants, ousted the Republican representative after a campaign that won support from figures such as Senator Bernie…

Blue wave across America: do US midterms signal beginning of the end for Trump?

One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. He asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot and they did. Voters across the United States chasing Donald Trump's Republican majorities from both houses of Congress. How big a landslide for the Democrats? We’ll add up final ballot counts and ask if it’s the beginning of the end for a US president, who's broken norms in his seco…

Mother and daughter killed in grizzly bear attack, Canadian authorities confirm

Conservation officers say more than one bear may have been involved in attack on women near their homeSearch teams in Canada have discovered the body of a 20-year-old woman and confirmed that both she and her mother were killed in an attack that conservation officers now believe could have involved multiple grizzly bears.Late on Tuesday, conservation officers in British Columbia said the two women, who were reported missing over the weekend, were located near a trail a short…

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Hakeem Jeffries promises ‘affordability’ focus after Democratic midterm win

Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries has celebrated his party’s sweeping victory in the United States midterm elections, calling the results an “American tsunami” as Democrats have taken control of both chambers of Congress. “It wasn’t simply a blue wave. It was an American tsunami,” Jeffries said at a news conference on Wednesday, a day after Democrats pulled off upsets in several Republican strongholds. Jeffries said Democrats expect to win at least 255 House seats once…

36 years later: Hungary opens Communist-era secret service files

On November 4, 1956, tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers and tanks swept into Hungary, brutally suppressing the country's anti-Communist uprising. Decades of dictatorship followed, relying on Hungary's brutal secret police to keep the system in place. Events on Nov. 4 this year represent something of a reckoning with this dark chapter of Hungarian history. Prime Minister Peter Magyar's government is ordering the full release of the country's secret police "agent files," whi…

Russia attacks Ukrainian aid hub in one of the deadliest strikes since war began

Russian strikes on an aid hub killed at least 40 people - making it one of Russia's deadliest attacks on Ukrainian civilians since the full-scale invasion began, officials said.

The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the US-Israel relationship

Even Trump seems to recognize that the relationship has become a political liability, and may never be the sameSend us your questions about the midterm resultsTrack live results from all 50 statesOn the eve of a midterm election that ended in an unequivocal rejection of his brand of politics, even Donald Trump seemed to recognize that the US-Israel relationship had become a political liability.Trump’s 11th-hour suggestion, on election morning, that he would cut military aid…

WHO approves trials for two new Ebola vaccines

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved clinical trials for two new Ebola vaccines, as doctors fight to control the largest outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On Monday, WHO expert groups recommended adding two vaccine trials designed to fight the Bundibugyo strain, which has killed more than 5,300 people, most in the DRC, since May. Public health agencies have struggled to contain the Bundibugyo virus, which has a fatality rate o…