A migrant who was deported to France under the “one-in, one-out” deal has re-entered the UK on a small boat. The man was detained, and it is understood that the Home Office intends to send him back to France for a second time. He told the Guardian he was a victim of modern slavery at the hands of traffickers in northern France.

A major overhaul of the education system is underway, with qualifications for over-16s, GCSE resits and tuition fees all set to change. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson sat down with ITV News Digital Political Reporter Lewis Denison to discuss all the plans. Most significant among the policies is the creation of a new V-level qualification which will be available for pupils aged 16 to 19 to study.

The man thought to be the only remaining candidate to chair the national grooming gangs inquiry has withdrawn from consideration for the role. Former police officer Jim Gamble withdrew his name from consideration, saying he did not feel he had a "consensus of trust" among the survivors' group on account of his previous profession. Gamble pointed to a "toxic environment" surrounding the chair's selection, and "political opportunism and point-scoring," calling it out as regrettable given the severity of the inquiry's purpose.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appeared to back a committee inquiry by MPs, with the power to summon Prince Andrew to parliament for questioning. Starmer was asked by Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed Davey during PMQs if he would support such a move in relation to the revelations earlier this week that the prince had not been paying rent to live at the Royal Lodge…

For more than a century, Labour’s reign over Caerphilly in Wales has felt as immovable as the giant medieval castle that dominates the town centre. But on the eve of Thursday's Senedd by-election, that sense of permanence is crumbling. Labour is defending a seat where it governs at all three levels of government, and polls suggest votes are peeling away in two very different directions: …

As long as the ceasefire holds, it should mean an end to the killing in Gaza - but this phase of the peace is bringing fresh pain. In the terms of the deal, Israel must return more than 1,900 living Palestinians, as well as around 360 bodies. This means mass burials in a long line of graves. But many remains still have to be identified - in groups, people come to look for any sign of their missing loved ones.

First Lady Emine Erdoğan has declared that the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals represent a vision for an inclusive world where everyone progresses together, emphasizing that realizing this vision depends on all nations accepting their responsibilities. She made these remarks during the ministerial session of the Global Zero Waste Forum in Istanbul, which brought together international participants to discuss sustainable development strategies.

Türkiye has dispatched 25 trucks carrying humanitarian assistance from its 17th "Ship of Kindness" aid vessel to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. The shipment, containing over 900 tons of relief supplies including baby formula and ready-to-eat meals, represents Türkiye's ongoing commitment to addressing humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip. A convoy of 25 trucks transporting humanitarian aid from Türkiye began its journey Saturday from Egypt's al-Arish Port toward the Rafah border crossing for delivery to Gaza.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters have mobilized across Israel to resist mandatory military service requirements, staging demonstrations that disrupted major transportation routes throughout the country. The widespread protests featured participants chanting "better death than the army" and expressing willingness to face imprisonment rather than comply with conscription orders. Protest Locations and Police Response Demonstrators blocked critical highways in central, northern, and southern Israel, including Highway 4 near Bnei Brak and Bar-Lev Street in Jerusalem, where some protesters threw stones at vehicles and obstructed light-rail operations.

The Palestinian group Hamas on Wednesday welcomed an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rebuking Israel over Gaza aid restrictions, saying the ruling confirms that Israel commits acts of genocide by deliberately starving Palestinians and cannot legally enforce settlement policies in the occupied territories. In a statement, the movement said the ICJ advisory opinion rejected Israel’s claims against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and reaffirmed the vital humanitarian role of the agency and other UN institutions in providing aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

I attended my local No Kings rally near where I live in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. As I wrote on Facebook when I got home: “Just got home from my local No Kings march. Between the Hamasniks screaming ‘Death to Israel!’ and the antifa hooligans toting Bushmasters and all the other assorted terrorists, I barely got out of there with my life.”

President Trump’s unilateral, indiscriminate “drug boat” bombings have expanded from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. “Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on Wednesday. “The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics.

BAGHDAD: Iraq has banned US user-generated videogame platform Roblox due to concerns over child safety, the government said, joining other countries in cracking down on virtual worlds. The government said late on Sunday that the ban was motivated by concerns that the game allowed direct communication between users in ways that exposed children and adolescents to attempts of exploitation or cyber-extortion, and that its content was “incompatible with social values and traditions.”

RAMALLAH: Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin said Wednesday he had ordered the deportation of 32 foreign activists who had helped Palestinians harvest olives in the occupied West Bank, on the grounds they violated a military order. Levin said the deportation order came after a complaint filed by Northern West Bank Settlements Council president Yossi Dagan, who said the activists were “anarchists who carried out provocations in the Samaria area.”

NEW YORK CITY: The US on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to ease sanctions on Syria, saying this would be a crucial step in efforts to help stabilize the country and support its political transition. The US permanent representative to the UN, Mike Walz, told council members the Syrian government must seize the “historic opportunity” created by President Donald Trump’s decision to pursue sanctions relief for the country.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The International Court of Justice said on Wednesday that Israel must allow the UN aid agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian territory. The Hague-based court was asked last year by the UN General Assembly to determine Israel’s legal obligations after the country effectively banned the agency, the main provider of aid to Gaza, from operating there.

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has lifted a key restriction on Ukraine’s use of some long-range missiles provided by Western allies, enabling Kyiv to step up attacks on targets inside Russia and increase pressure on the Kremlin, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Ukraine used a British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile on Tuesday to strike a Russian plant in Bryansk that produced explosives and rocket fuel, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces announced on social media.

Barclays BARC 4.87%increase; green up pointing triangle said it reviewed its entire credit book for financial weakness and other red flags after losing nearly $150 million from the sudden bankruptcy of subprime auto lender Tricolor. The British bank was a main lender to Tricolor, which collapsed amid allegations of fraud in September, raising concerns among investors about potential problems in opaque private lending.

0940 ET – U.S. natural gas futures extend their rally on the recent shift in the weather outlook away from overly mild to near normal for late October and early November. Still, cold air needed for substantially bullish outcomes remains scarce, Eli Rubin of EBW Analytics says in a note. “Price volatility is likely in a natural gas market torn between strong near-term supply and longer-term supply adequacy concerns for 2026.” Nymex natural gas is up 1.4% at $3.524/mmBtu. 

Front Month Comex Gold for October delivery lost $43.30 per troy ounce, or 1.06% to $4044.40 today —Down for two consecutive sessions —Down $292.00 or 6.73% over the last two sessions —Down three of the past four sessions —Lowest settlement value since Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 —Off 6.73% from its 52-week high of $4336.40 hit Monday, Oct. 20, 2025 —Up 57.63% from its 52-week low of $2565.70 hit Friday, Nov.

The U.K.’s competition watchdog said it would strengthen its monitoring of Alphabet’s GOOGL 0.24%increase; green up pointing triangle Google and Apple AAPL -2.35%decrease; red down pointing triangle mobile ecosystems under a new law governing business conduct for Big Tech, a setback for the companies as they face added scrutiny across the Atlantic. The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday that both Google and Apple’s mobile platforms qualify as companies with so-called strategic market status under the U.K.’s digital markets, competition and consumer law, which is designed to make it easier for the businesses that rely on tech giants’ ubiquitous services to reach customers.

Cable maker Prysmian is increasingly using recycled copper in the U.S. as Chinese buyers steer clear of the scrap market, its chief executive said, a sign of how trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies are rewiring commodity flows. Copper is a critical metal for modern infrastructure. It is essential for conducting electricity in power grids and a range of defense systems while data centers need it to power artificial-intelligence models, among other uses.

Interest in American M.B.A. programs is shrinking as schools in Asia boom, according to a new survey. Many international students are opting for schools closer to home amid worries about tighter U.S. visa restrictions and job security. Priscilla Chan is making a multibillion-dollar wager to outsmart disease. The de facto leader of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—which she launched with her husband Mark Zuckerberg—is leading the group’s effort to unlock the hidden causes of disease.

U.S. crude oil inventories fell for the first time in four weeks as refineries raised their capacity use, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Commercial crude oil stocks excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 961,000 barrels to 422.8 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 17 and were about 4% below the five-year average for the time of year, the EIA said.

The U.S. and Qatar sent a joint letter to the heads of European Union member states asking the bloc to repeal its corporate sustainability rules or scrap some of the provisions. The letter from U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi sent on Wednesday said the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will have unintended consequences for liquefied natural gas exports and the availability of affordable energy for EU consumers.