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Video from inside the driver’s cabin captured the moment a train derailed in India’s Assam state.

A new authoritarianism study has revealed a new low in satisfaction levels with the functioning of German democracy. Meanwhile, the Bundeswehr has banned Chinese-made drones. DW has more.

Capture of man from Java follows reports that hundreds are being recruited from the south-east Asian country as Moscow seeks to boost its war effort Ukraine says it has captured its first Indonesian prisoner of war, amid what it says is a spike in recruitment by Russia from the south-east Asian nation. The 49-year-old man from Java was taken to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region to take part in a Russian assault, but managed to reach Ukrainian-held territory after the group came under drone attack, according to Ukraine’s state-run I Want to Live project. He was then captured by the Ukrainians. Continue reading...

Spain’s King and Queen have joined families of the 69 victims from a deadly train collision at a state funeral.

Aranza Aidelany Pardo's mother says a Tamaulipas state police helicopter fired the shot that killed her 7-year-old during a Gulf Cartel operation.

Legal battle escalates as far-right US podcaster continues to spread false claims that France’s first lady was born a man Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have brought a fresh defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens in her home state of Tennessee, in an escalation of a transatlantic legal battle as the far-right US podcaster continues to spread false claims that France’s first lady was born a man. The Macrons first sued Owens and her media companies in July 2025 in Delaware in response to what the French first couple called “verifiably false and devastating lies” being repeated by Owens on her podcast and on X. According to that lawsuit, those lies included that Brigitte Macron, 73, was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux – who is actually her older brother – and committed identity theft to hide a gender transition; that Emmanuel Macron was elected as French president as part of a CIA mind-control program; and that the couple are blood-related relatives committing incest. Continue reading...

Voters adopted extreme policy requiring medical sex verification for all girls who want to play team sports Parents of student athletes in Washington state have sued to block a ballot initiative banning transgender girls from women’s sports teams, calling the measure discriminatory and warning it would lead to “invasive” genital examinations for female athletes. Last week, voters in the solidly Democratic state passed Initiative 638 , a major setback for LGBTQ+ rights amid the “blue wave” of the US midterm elections. Nebraska, Colorado and Arizona adopted similar anti-trans sports bans, though advocates say Washington state’s policy is particularly extreme due to its medical sex verification requirement for all girls who want to play team sports. Continue reading...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there is “no need” for further major combat operations against Iran

Relatives of the 69 people killed in a high-speed rail collision in Spain last month attended a state funeral Tuesday

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio talked to the press Tuesday as the G7 meets in Paris. He said he saw no need to resume major combat operations against Iran because economic restrictions were working so effectively. He also hailed US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi as "very productive" and said the discussions should be expanded to include Europeans at the table.

Conservation group acquires former US president’s family farm with plans to transfer it to the state in 2028 Jimmy Carter ’s family farm has been acquired by a group dedicated to permanently protecting the south-west Georgia land where the late former president’s conservation ethic took hold, officials announced on Monday. A statement from the Conservation Fund said it plans to open Carter’s family farm – on about 2,458 acres (995 hectares) outside his home town of Plains, Georgia – to the public for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation as soon as 2027, with the group set to transfer the land to the state’s natural resources department in 2028. Continue reading...

Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’ Cop31 live – latest updates China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels , and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approach this year’s climate summit. As Cop31 opens – this year the climate conference is in Turkey – there is plenty of speculation about whether China will finally step into the leadership role that it has long avoided. In its latest “five-year plan” adopted in March 2026, China for the first time pledged to “actively participate in and lead global climate governance”. Cop31 could provide the first indications Beijing is ready to put that rhetoric into action, something it has historically been reluctant to do. Continue reading...

A video showing two men engulfed in fire as spectators laugh has prompted Ohio State University to suspend a fraternity.

A banking crisis that saw the president of Paraguay impeached Friday, November 6, continues to rock the country with protesters back on the streets. The Ueno Bank started as a digital first bank, attracting many low income customers, quickly growing to become a major bank in charge of state pensions and holding the accounts of several government institutions before having its accounts frozen by the central bank due to solvency concerns.

President Claudia Sheinbaum drew a firm line barring U.S. forces from operating on Mexican soil. But in a northern border state, one local partner quietly helped the agency build a foothold.

Myanmar’s military has seized a key resistance command headquarters and 10 other bases in the country’s southern region

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is rolling out gold-vaulting services as part of efforts to make the city-state Asia’s top gold-trading hub.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterparts from the Group of 7 developed democracies are turning their attention toward Ukraine and how to support it in its struggle to defend itself from Russia

It's been about four years since the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un first publicly accompanied her father on major state events

Campaign over Prop 40, as measure was known, was most expensive in state history, flush with Silicon Valley dollars California billionaires won a contentious ballot measure campaign, defeating a proposed one-time tax on their wealth. The bruising campaign over Proposition 40 was the most expensive in state history and witness to back-and-forth dealing from tech billionaires and democratic leaders, including Gavin Newsom, the governor, who steadfastly opposed the measure. While supporters of Prop 40 cast it as a solution to drastic healthcare cuts from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, opponents led by prosperous billionaires mounted an influential campaign saying the billionaire tax was instead “an everyone tax”. Continue reading...

Angie Pena's disappearance in 2022 exposed what prosecutors called a sex-trafficking network and state corruption.

President Trump says he's halting aid to Israel. Israelis are worried. But experts say the U.S. is just shifting aid from the State Department to the Pentagon, with less congressional oversight.

‘Not particularly complex’ defrosting hack has been attributed to Iran, with presumption it is linked to others across Europe Iranian hackers like to send a message. In 2023 a state-backed group interrupted TV streaming services in the United Arab Emirates to broadcast a deepfake report on the war in Gaza. In the same year, hackers affiliated with Iran displayed the slogan “down with Israel” on the screens of water-control equipment made by an Israeli firm. Continue reading...

Measures against the Jewish state’s banks could damage the financial-services industry in the British territory.

The university and local police are conducting investigations into Sigma Alpha Epsilon and have placed them on interim suspension A fraternity at Ohio State University has been temporarily suspended while authorities investigate a video that appears to show two panicked men engulfed in flames. A video shared on social media shows one individual with his sweatpants on fire who then lunges at a second individual and tackles him to the ground. The second man’s clothing also catches fire, and they both roll on the ground while removing their clothes as several onlookers intervene. Continue reading...

Hacked death records reveal scale of losses since Moscow launched full-scale invasion nearly five years ago Ukraine war briefing: post war ‘security guarantees’ a key focus in upcoming Abu Dhabi talks, says Rubio Europe live – latest updates More than 400,000 Russians have been killed fighting in Ukraine since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion nearly five years ago, according to leaked data from the country’s state statistics agency, Rosstat. The data, obtained by the Belarusian opposition-linked hacker group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hacking collective Silent Crow, contains more than 11 million death certificates, including details of the deceased’s age, place of residence and location of death. Continue reading...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is under investigation by the tech giant's board after admitting to an affair with a woman the U.S. government suspects of spying for China. Jo Ling Kent reports.

G7 foreign ministers began two days of talks in Paris on Monday as they grapple with multiple unresolved global crises. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is likely to face questions about whether the Trump administration will shift its positions on the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran in particular following the Democrats sweeping victory in the midterms. France 24’s Clovis Casali has more.

Call for overhaul of manually operated level crossings after delivery worker was killed by passenger train in Kent An Amazon delivery driver was killed by a train after he drove his van on to railway tracks at a manually operated level crossing, apparently without realising he needed to open the exit gate first, an official investigation has reported. Safety inspectors said there was “an obvious risk of further tragedy”, with a second similar fatal event still being investigated, and called for an overhaul of this type of crossing. Continue reading...

Germany is set to get its first female president after Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party nominated Ilse Aigner, a center-right politician with appeal to liberals, to become the country’s head of state next year

The state prosecutor's office said that Aranza, a 7-year-old who was born in the United States, was hit in the head by police gunfire.

Russian investigative newspaper Novaya ⁠Gazeta was winding ​up its operations on Monday, November 9, and preparing to quit its central Moscow office after holding its ​final editorial meeting, bowing to what it said was a campaign of state pressure that had made it impossible to carry on reporting.

Saudi Arabia intercepted incoming missiles from Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting the kingdom's capital and other regions on Sunday, November 8, with falling debris damaging a building belonging to the state-owned oil giant Aramco in Riyadh’s financial district. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered Ibrahim Charara, Lebanon’s consul general in Detroit, to leave the country

Drivers warned to take care as ‘perfect’ weather conditions for mist affect areas of England, Wales and Northern Ireland Thick fog will shroud much of the southern half of England, the eastern half of Wales and most of Northern Ireland throughout the early part of the week, forecasters have said, as commuters are told to expect delays. There was disruption to flights at Heathrow airport on Monday, while an incident involving 30 vehicles closed a major road in Kent on Saturday evening. Continue reading...

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Sir Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. The controversy surrounding the fate of Adolf Hitler's Eagle's Nest, the Nazi-era mountaintop complex in the Bavarian Alps, raises profound questions about the relationship between architecture, historical memory and political extremism. At the heart of the debate lies a difficult distinction: preserving the material evidence of history is not necessarily the same as preserving the symbols through which a criminal regime sought to glorify itself. "This is a Nazi vanity project," Evans argues and his conclusion is unequivocal: the mountain must be "restored to its natural state."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies this week

Ben Carroll refuses to be drawn on latest opinion poll that puts Labor at all-time low of just 18%, behind One Nation on 21% and the Coalition on 33% Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast Victorian Labor MPs are both sceptical and seriously concerned about a new poll ahead of the state election showing the party trailing third behind One Nation, with its primary vote at an all-time low of just 18%. The DemosAU/PremierNational, first published by the Herald Sun on Monday, showed Labor’s primary vote share has crashed seven points to 18%, putting it in third place behind the Coalition’s 33% and One Nation’s 21%. At the same time, the Greens improved their primary vote to 17%, an increase of three points since September. Continue reading...

US secretary of state says Iran's negotiation demands are 'outrageous and ridiculous, and really not realistic'.

Rio Bravo mayor freed by captors after being abducted in Zacatecas state, known for cartel-linked violence.

He was kidnapped for several hours while traveling in the state of Zacatecas.

Ilse Aigner, speaker of the Bavarian state parliament, belongs to the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) party.

Iranian state media report blasts in Qeshm Island in Strait of Hormuz and the cities of Jask, Sirik and Bandar Abbas.

Two weeks of public hearings will begin on Monday morning, right in the middle of the state election campaign Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast The commitment that made Ben Carroll premier may ultimately cost him the election. On Monday morning, right in the middle of a state election campaign, the royal commission into Victoria’s Big Build will begin two weeks of public hearings. Continue reading...

At least 44 people were killed in a brutal assault by a group loyal to the Islamic State, officials said. The area is a hot spot of the growing Ebola outbreak.

Sunshine state emerged as the lone flag bearer of the Maga agenda, but even there, the GOP finds itself on the defense After the dust settled on Tuesday night’s near-annihilation of the Republican party nationwide, a single red flag fluttered defiantly in Florida, now a last bastion of the Maga movement that has dominated politics in the US for a decade. Voters in the Sunshine state bucked the national trend, just barely, to elect two close allies of Donald Trump into office: congressman Byron Donalds as its first Black governor, and Ashley Moody to the US Senate. Continue reading...

The president’s announcement comes days after an earlier attack on Iran was made public, and as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have accelerated Donald Trump has said the US military on Friday carried out a new round of limited strikes on Iran, targeting an air defence system, describing the action as “minor.” Iranian state media reported the sound of two explosions in the Suza area of Qeshm Island, which is in the strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway for oil shipments that has been disrupted since the beginning of the US war on Iran in February. Continue reading...

The EU office carries out probes at Spanish rail network administrator, safety agency and state auditors.

One of Haiti’s most powerful gangs says it has reached out to a state agency responsible for dismantling armed gangs in a push for “peace, stability and national reconciliation.”

The series of hoax bomb scares sent to several Irish media outlets and European airlines are likely part of a coordinated campaign of disruption, according to the Irish government. Dozens of commercial flights have been targetted by email with threats said to be over and above the typical hoax in specificty. Ireland's broadcaster RTE who's staff evacuated the premises this morning and several Italian airlines, say they received a mesage cliaming to be from a Russian extremist group calling itself the Fighters of the Male State, which denied its implication. France 24's Jean-Emile Jammine speaks to Eric Schouten, founder and CEO of Dyami Security Intelligence.