Peru's government has severed diplomatic relations with Mexico over the asylum claim of former Peruvian prime minister Betssy Chávez
Peru’s government has announced the country is severing diplomatic relations with Mexico over the asylum claim of former Peruvian prime minister Betssy Chávez, who is under investigation for rebellion.
Peruvian foreign minister Hugo de Zela told reporters that Mexico’s decision to grant Chávez asylum at its embassy in Peru’s capital, Lima, constituted an “unfriendly act” that adds to the existing tensions between the two countries. The office of Peru’s president José Jerí in a statement then accused Mexico’s government of “repeated” interference with the internal affairs of the South American country.
Zelenskyy says the air defence systems being put into action while in embattled eastern city Russian troops haven’t advanced over past day. What we know on day 1,350
Ukraine has received more US-made Patriot air defence systems from Germany to help it counter Russia’s daily barrages, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.“More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation,” the Ukrainian president said on social media. “Of course, more systems are needed to protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of our state.” The Patriot systems are the most effective weapon against Russian missiles and Zelenskyy has pleaded with western partners to provide more of them. He thanked Germany and its chancellor Friedrich Merz for the Patriots.
Russian drones hit a house and killed a man as well as injuring five members of his family in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region, authorities said. Two women were also injured in a separate Sumy attack overnight to Monday. “The Russians cynically targeted people – deliberately, at night, while they were sleeping,” regional head Oleh Hryhorov said. Russian missiles started a fire at a business in the central city of Dnipro, injuring one man, and also struck energy infrastructure in the southern Mykolaiv region.
Russia said on Monday its troops had advanced in the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk but Ukraine said its forces were holding on. The Russian defence ministry said its soldiers were destroying what it described as surrounded Ukrainian formations near the railway station and industrial zone of Pokrovsk – a key logistics hub dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk” – and had entered the city’s Prigorodny area and dug in there.
Zelenskyy said Russia was massing troops by the nearby town of Dobropillia, where Kyiv’s forces advanced earlier this year in a counteroffensive. Describing the situation in Dobropillia as complicated, he said Russian forces had lost the initiative in the area but were bringing in more troops. He said Pokrovsk remained under severe pressure but Russian troops had made no gains in the past day. Up to 300 Russian servicemen were still in the city, he said. “About 30% of all combat actions on the front take place in Pokrovsk.” Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said his forces had stepped up pressure on Dobropillia with the aim of forcing Russia to divert its focus away from Pokrovsk. The battlefield reports could not be independently verified.
The Russian army made steady gains in Ukraine in October as it focused attacks on the eastern Donetsk region, an AFP analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War showed. Russia took 461 sq km (286 sq miles) from Ukraine in the month, the data showed. That pace was in line with the average monthly gain this year, down from a surge in July when Russia seized 634 sq km. Russia now controls 81% of the Donetsk region, while controlling – or claiming to control – 19.2% of Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula.
A computer game-style drone attack system has gone “viral” among Ukrainian military units and is being extended to reconnaissance, artillery and logistics operations. Rob Booth has the story.
Ukraine will set up offices for arms exports and joint weapons production in Berlin and Copenhagen this year, Zelenskyy said on Monday. He said naval drones and artillery systems were among the weapons that Kyiv would be able to export, he said. “This is [about] co-production and export … of the weapons that we can allow ourselves to sell, in order to have more money for our internal production of deficit items for which we don’t have the money.”
Zelenskyy said he discussed additional support for Ukraine’s energy sector in a call with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, amid ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy supply as winter approaches. “We are working to cover the amount needed for gas imports,” Zelenskyy said, adding that von der Leyen promised additional assistance.
Ukraine is showing “remarkable commitment” to joining the EU but must reverse recent negative trends in the fight against corruption and accelerate rule of law reforms, the European Commission has said in a draft text. The text – seen by Reuters on Monday and part of an EU enlargement report expected to be adopted on Tuesday – said that “despite the very difficult circumstances the country finds itself in on account of Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine continued to demonstrate remarkable commitment to the EU accession path over the past year”. Ukraine has been pushing to make progress on its 2022 application to join the EU, despite the challenges of Russia’s war and EU member Hungary blocking Kyiv from formally moving to the next phase of negotiations.
France opened investigations against the e-commerce giant for selling the items, just days before it was due to open a physical store in Paris
E-commerce company Shein has announced it will ban sex dolls from sale on its sites, after French authorities condemned the company for featuring some that resembled children.
In a statement on Monday, the company said that it was imposing a “total ban on sex-doll-type products” and had deleted all listings and images linked to them. A spokesperson told the AFP news agency the ban applied globally.
Sheffield Hallam University ordered professor to cease human rights study into Uyghurs forced labour in China
An investigation into allegations that a British university was subjected to pressure from Beijing authorities to halt research about human rights abuses in China has been referred to counter-terrorism police.
The Guardian reported on Monday morning that Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC) research institution, had ordered professor Laura Murphy to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in the country in February.
Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’
Experts have found weaknesses, some serious, in hundreds of tests used to check the safety and effectiveness of new artificial intelligence models being released into the world.
Computer scientists from the British government’s AI Security Institute, and experts at universities including Stanford, Berkeley and Oxford, examined more than 440 benchmarks that provide an important safety net.
Australian households in three states will be promised access to at least three hours a day of free solar power, regardless of whether they have rooftop panels, the federal government has announced.
The “solar sharer” offer will be available to homes with smart meters – which is the majority of homes – in New South Wales, south-east Queensland and South Australia from July next year, with other areas to potentially follow in 2027.
President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’
On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, President Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
Lawyers for Patterson, 51, signalled they would be appealing last month, but the deadline for her to lodge the challenge to the court of appeal passed late yesterday.
Banks was convicted of killing 13 people, including his own children, in 1982 shooting in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the US, has died.
Banks, 83, died on Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state department of corrections said. Banks died of complications from renal neoplasm, or kidney cancer, said Montgomery county coroner Dr Janine Darby.
Those among the 42 million enrolled in the program worry that cutoff of the benefit will send their lives into a tailspin
Across the country, Americans who depend on government help to buy groceries are preparing for the worst.
As a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Donald Trump has threatened to, for the first time in the program’s more than 60-year history, cut off benefits provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (Snap). A federal judge last week prevented the US Department of Agriculture from suspending Snap altogether, but the Trump administration now says enrollees will receive only half of their usual benefits.
A video that went viral captured Sean Charles Dunn hurling his sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub
Throwing a sandwich at a federal agent turned Sean Charles Dunn into a symbol of resistance against Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. This week, federal prosecutors are trying to persuade a jury of fellow Washington DC residents that Dunn simply broke the law.
That could be a tough sell for the government in a city that has chafed against Trump’s federal takeover, which is entering its third month. A grand jury refused to indict Dunn on a felony assault count before the office of Jeanine Pirro, a US attorney, opted to charge him instead with a misdemeanor.
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material
Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material.
Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking will become a criminal offence under amendments to the Crime and Policing bill tabled in parliament on Monday.
David Moyes, the manager who oversaw a disastrous relegation for Sunderland eight years ago, found a very different club on his first return to the Stadium of Light. Back then, the club were on a downward slope. Now, things are on the up.
Régis Le Bris’s side moved up to fourth place ahead of Saturday’s home game against the Premier League leaders, Arsenal, after a 1-1 draw against Moyes’s Everton. A deflected strike from the impressive Granit Xhaka cancelled out Iliman Ndiaye’s brilliant opening goal.
Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20
More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned.
In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has accepted he shares some of the blame for a serious injury to the team’s quarterback, Jayden Daniels.
Daniels, who had one of the greatest rookie campaigns of all time last season, suffered a dislocated left elbow in Sunday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Although Daniels throws with his right arm, the injury has left his season in doubt. The injury was serious enough that the television broadcast did not show replays and several players turned away as Daniels was treated my medical staff.
The death of the three-time Oscar nominee, whose starred in films including Chinatown, was announced by her daughter Laura Dern
Oscar-nominated actor Diane Ladd has died at the age of 89.
The actor, whose credits included Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Chinatown and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, died at her home in Ojai, California. The news was announced in a statement shared by her daughter, Oscar-winning actor Laura Dern.
Defender may face hostile reception from Anfield crowd
Slot says he has ‘great memories’ of Real Madrid full-back
Xabi Alonso has told Trent Alexander-Arnold to enjoy his “nice” return to Liverpool as the Real Madrid defender prepares to face his boyhood club for the first time since his acrimonious summer departure.
Alexander-Arnold is likely to receive a hostile reception at Anfield after he angered Liverpool fans by leaving at the end of his contract last season. The England international would have exited on a free transfer but for Real paying an £8.5m fee to cancel his Liverpool contract early and include him in their squad for the Club World Cup.
Law aimed at tackling harassment will criminalise protests outside homes of MPs in England and Wales amid rise in complaints
Activists could be jailed for up to six months for protesting outside MPs’ homes in England and Wales under a new law aimed at tackling harassment of politicians after a surge of intimidation complaints.
The law would criminalise protests outside the homes of MPs, peers and councillors as well as others who have stood for public office – and is likely to draw further criticism that the government is squeezing the right to protest.
Punta Peuco – where military human rights offenders enjoy privileged conditions – set to join public prison network
Inmates at an infamous high-security military prison in Chile, which houses the perpetrators of dictatorship-era human rights crimes, are set to lose their privileged conditions under plans to incorporate the prison into the public prison network.
President Gabriel Boric announced on Monday that Punta Peuco is being transformed into a regular prison to help deal with overcrowding in the penitentiary system.
In a new interview, the late-night host opened up about the end of his late-night series calling it ‘the first number one show to ever get cancelled’
Stephen Colbert has opened up about the shock cancellation of The Late Show in a new interview, calling it: “The first number one show to ever get cancelled.”
In a GQ interview, the 61-year-old host and comedian said the decision came as a surprise to him and one that didn’t have any preamble.
Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month
Donald Trump has said that he doesn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is despite pardoning the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in October.
The US president was asked in a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday why he pardoned Zhao, who is also known as “CZ”, for enabling money laundering despite him causing “significant harm to … national security” according to federal prosecutors.
7 min Dewsbury-Hall gets to the byline in the area and screws the ball back towards Ndiaye at the near post. His shot is blocked, as is Barry’s follow-up.
6 min Now Sunderland are enjoying their first decent spell of possession. A sinuous run from Traroe gets the crowd excited before the move breaks down. Everton counter and Dewsbury-Hall’s long through pass towards Barry is cut out by the last defender, Mukiele I think.
Zohran Mamdani walked across Brooklyn Bridge while Andrew Cuomo headed to the Bronx
The candidates for New York City mayor spent a frantic final day campaigning across the city, as voters prepare to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched races in the city’s history.
Panorama spliced together clips to make it appear clearer US president encouraged January 6 attack, former external adviser says
The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation.
An edition of Panorama, broadcast a week before the US election, spliced together clips of a Trump speech made on January 6. The spliced clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.”
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