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Special forces and police investigate at the scene of a destroyed section of railway tracks on the Deblin-Warsaw route near the Mika railway station, central Poland, 17 November 2025. (EPA)
Polish train track that helped transport aid to Ukraine destroyed in ‘act of sabotage’ 
WARSAW — A train track between the Polish cities of Warsaw and Lublin was destroyed in an “unprecedented act of sabotage” over the weekend, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday, noting that the railway is “crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine.”An “explosive device” blew up the rail track on Sunday, Tusk said in a post on X, adding separately that the attack “directly (targeted) the security of the Polish state and its civilians.”Destruction was also identified along the same route further down the railway line, he said.“We will catch the perpetrators, whoever they are,” the leader vowed, without saying who he believed was responsible for the damage.The explosion, which did not cause any injuries according to Tusk, is the latest in a string of...
November 17, 2025

Polish train track that helped transport aid to Ukraine destroyed in ‘act of sabotage’ 

Shabana Mahmood
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under UK asylum reforms
LONDON — Illegal migration is "tearing the country apart", the UK's home secretary has said, as she prepares to unveil major plans to overhaul asylum policy.New measures set to be announced by Shabana Mahmood on Monday will include people granted asylum needing to wait 20 years before they can apply to settle permanently.The plans will also see those granted asylum have their refugee status regularly reviewed and those whose home countries are then deemed safe told to return.Mahmood told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg program she saw tackling illegal migration as a "moral mission".Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the Conservatives would deport illegal migrants "within a week", while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called for asylum seekers to have the right...
November 17, 2025

Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under UK asylum reforms

A drone killed at least two people at a market in Chornomorsk in southern Ukraine
Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv
KYIV — At least four people were killed when a Russian drone penetrated an apartment block in eastern Kyiv, during a wave of strikes throughout the Ukrainian capital.Condemning the attacks as vile and calculated, President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 430 drones and 18 missiles had been launched and dozens of high-rise buildings damaged.As emergency workers sifted through the wreckage of the block of flats in the Lisovyi area, one Kyiv resident called Vita described how the drone had pierced the building, exploding on the other side.Several other regions were also targeted. A drone attack on a market at Chornomorsk in the south of the country killed two people.The Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk was hit in an overnight Ukrainian attack. Fire broke out at the major Sheskharis oil...
November 14, 2025

Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv

An apartment building damaged during what local authorities called a Ukrainian drone attack in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Friday
Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian assassination plot 
MOSCOW — Russia’s security service has claimed it foiled a plot by Ukraine to assassinate a high-ranking Kremlin official inside Russia as the alleged target visited a graveyard.The claim by Russia’s Federal Security Service – the FSB – came as residents of Kyiv experienced another heavy night of deadly Russian aerial attacks that killed at least six people, according to Ukrainian officials.Ukrainian special services were planning to target the unnamed official, described as “one of the highest-ranking officials of the Russian state,” while he was visiting the graves of his relatives at a cemetery outside Moscow, according to a Friday statement by Russia’s FSB.The FSB also claimed in its statement that Ukraine is planning similar attacks inside Russia.CNN could not...
November 14, 2025

Russia claims to have thwarted Ukrainian assassination plot 

Galatasaray fans cheer during a Turkish Super Lig soccer match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe in Istanbul, 19 May, 2024
Turkish football imposes temporary bans on 102 players over 'moral crisis' betting scandal
ISTANBUL — Turkey's football authority temporarily banned 102 top-tier club players on Thursday over a widening betting scandal.The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) suspended 25 players from the Süper Lig and 77 from the second-tier first division for terms ranging from 45 days to one year.Galatasaray and Turkey defender Eren Elmalı was suspended for 45 days. Club teammate and Turkey Under-21 centre back Metehan Baltacı was suspended for nine months. Konyaspor and Senegal winger Alassane Ndao received a 12-month suspension.Elmalı posted on Instagram this week that he bet on a game about five years ago that did not involve his own team. He joined Galatasaray this year.Baltacı also admitted past bets but insisted they were not games he played in."Years ago I placed a bet at a...
November 14, 2025

Turkish football imposes temporary bans on 102 players over 'moral crisis' betting scandal

Germany plans to boost its army to 260,000 by 2035
Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers
BERLIN — Germany's coalition government has agreed a new military service plan to boost troop numbers following months of wrangling between political forces.The new military service plan will mandate all 18-year-old men to fill out a questionnaire on their suitability to serve and, from 2027, to undergo medical screening.The decision comes as Berlin aims to create Europe's strongest conventional army.The boss of Germany's biggest defence firm, Rheinmetall, has told the BBC he believes that target could be met in five years.Lawmakers are expected to vote on the plan by the end of 2025.Armin Papperger said Chancellor Friedrich Merz's aim to boost the Bundeswehr was "realistic" and he told the BBC that "clear decisions" were coming from government.Earlier this year...
November 14, 2025

Germany agrees new military service plan to boost troop numbers

Debris is seen at a crash site of a Turkish military cargo plane in Georgia's Sighnaghi municipality, 12 November, 2025
Turkey grounds C-130 planes after crash kills 20 military personnel
ANKARA — Turkey has temporarily grounded all of its C-130 military cargo planes as a precaution, the defence ministry said on Thursday, following a crash in Georgia that claimed the lives of all 20 military personnel on board.The cargo plane was flying from Azerbaijan back to Turkey when it went down in Georgia's Sighnaghi municipality close to the Azerbaijani border on Tuesday.The cause of the crash is still being investigated.The military personnel were part of a unit responsible for the maintenance and repair of Turkish F-16 jets that had flown to Azerbaijan to participate in the country's Victory Day celebrations.The National Defence Ministry said C-130 flights were temporarily suspended to allow the aircraft to undergo detailed technical inspections.Only those who...
November 13, 2025

Turkey grounds C-130 planes after crash kills 20 military personnel

A soldier fires from a RPG-7 during training in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
Ukrainian forces withdrew from several villages in southeastern Zaporizhzhia
KYIV — Ukrainian forces withdrew from several villages in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to the Southern Defence Forces.Kyiv troops retreated from Rivnopillia to "defensible positions to safeguard the lives of their personnel," the military command said, adding that the advance of the Russian forces in this sector has been halted amid ongoing heavy fighting along the line.In the Oleksandrivka and Huliaipole sectors, the Russian army continues mass strikes and has stepped up assault operations near the settlements of Pryvilne, Zelenyi Hai, Rivnopillia, Pavlivka, Vorone, Stepove and Novopavlivske.Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Tuesday that the situation has "significantly worsened" in eastern parts of the region amid fierce fighting with Russian...
November 13, 2025

Ukrainian forces withdrew from several villages in southeastern Zaporizhzhia

Health workers stand in a corridor in an NHS hospital
Thousands of NHS staff in England to lose jobs after deal approved
LONDON — Thousands of NHS staff redundancies in England will now go ahead after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the health service to overspend this year to cover the cost of pay-offs.The government said earlier this year 18,000 admin and managerial jobs would go with NHS England, the body that runs the NHS, being brought into the Department of Health and Social Care alongside cuts to local health boards.NHS bosses and health ministers had been in talks with the Treasury over how to pay for the £1bn one-off bill with the health service wanting extra money.The Treasury blocked that, but the BBC understands a compromise has been reached with the NHS permitted to overspend this year.As the job cuts result in savings in future years, the NHS will be expected to recoup the...
November 12, 2025

Thousands of NHS staff in England to lose jobs after deal approved

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting
UK Health Secretary Streeting denies plotting against PM after leadership claims
LONDON — UK's Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said suggestions from the prime minister's allies that he is seeking to challenge for the leadership are "self-defeating nonsense" and has urged Sir Keir Starmer to sack whoever is briefing the media.On Tuesday evening, friends of Sir Keir had told several news outlets his job might be under immediate threat and that they were particularly suspicious of Streeting's leadership ambitions.Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, the health secretary said he could "not see any circumstances under which I would do that to our prime minister".He added that briefings to the press against him were "the worst attack on a faithful since Joe Marler was banished in The Traitors final"."Someone has definitely been watching too much Celebrity...
November 12, 2025

UK Health Secretary Streeting denies plotting against PM after leadership claims

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