Communities across the northern Caribbean are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. The storm has left many without homes, power or communication.

China's factory activity shrank for a seventh month in October, an official survey showed on Friday, suggesting the need for more stimulus to boost domestic demand, with efforts to ship goods abroad merely exporting price wars.

Prosecutors allege man was conducting training for Ukraine’s army when he was recruited by the FSB, Moscow’s spy bureau. What we know on day 1,346 A British ex-army instructor has been arrested in Kyiv and accused of spying for Russia while posing as an adviser to the Ukrainian army. Ukraine has accused the man of passing information to Moscow about other foreign military advisers in Ukraine and the coordinates of army training centres. The Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office alleged he arrived in Ukraine in 2024, conducted military training for the army and worked in the border guard before agreeing to collaborate with Moscow. Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, alleges the Russian FSB spy bureau gave the man instructions on making explosive devices and also provided him with a handgun and ammunition, while the prosecutor general claimed he “attempted to establish access to the command of military units” in exchange for $6,000. He faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Britain’s Foreign Office told Agence France-Presse that it was “aware of reports that a British national has been detained in Ukraine … We remain in close contact with the Ukrainian authorities.” Pjotr Sauer writes that Russian commanders are executing or deliberately sending to their deaths soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, according to a new investigation by the award-winning independent outlet Verstka, which paints a bleak picture of internal violence within the Russian army. Verstka cited testimonies from soldiers who said commanders had appointed “execution shooters” to open fire on refusers and later dump their bodies in rivers or shallow graves, registering them as killed in action. Other accounts describe commanders using drones and explosives to “finish off” wounded or retreating soldiers. Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and other targets, forcing nationwide power restrictions and killing seven people including a seven-year-old girl, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. Regional officials said two energy facilities in the western Lviv region had been damaged. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, said its thermal power stations in a number of regions were under attack. “This attack is a bad blow to our efforts to keep power flowing this winter,” said Maxim Timchenko, DTEK’s CEO. The Ukraine government announced nationwide limits on electricity supplies to retail and industrial consumers. In some regions, water supplies and heating were also disrupted. The attacks hit energy facilities in central, western, and south-eastern regions, Ukrainian officials said. Regional officials said two men were killed in the south-eastern industrial city of Zaporizhzhia, and a seven-year-old girl from the central Vinnytsia region died in hospital from her injuries. The regional governor said a later drone strike on a village south of Zaporizhzhia killed one person and injured another. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said in his nightly video address that a bomb hit a thermal power plant in Sloviansk in eastern Donetsk region, killing two people and injuring others. Prosecutors in Donetsk region said Russian attacks on dwellings in the city of Kramatorsk killed one person and injured three. Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 650 drones and 50 missiles in the attacks. Most of the drones were neutralised and two-thirds of the missiles were downed, he said. Air defence units shot down 592 drones and 31 missiles, the air force said. In Sumy, a city near the northern border with Russia, the regional governor said 10 Russian drones attacked the city in an hour early on Friday. Two people were injured when two apartment buildings were hit and pictures posted online showed several apartments ablaze. Air alerts lasted nearly the entire night in Kyiv, where residents took shelter in deep underground metro stations. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had been attacking facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. Moscow denies targeting civilians and has said its strikes are responses to Ukraine’s attacks on Russian infrastructure; however, Russian missiles and drones frequently, conspicuously and directly hit civilian homes and facilities. Ukraine has launched regular drone attacks on military and oil sites that it says support the war. “[Russia’s] goal is to plunge Ukraine into darkness. Ours is to preserve the light,” said the Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko. “To stop the terror, we need more air defence systems, tougher sanctions, and maximum pressure on the aggressor.” Continue reading...

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King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew is to leave his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor after he was served with a formal notice to surrender the lease, Buckingham Palace has said. King Charles has initiated a “formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew”, who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the palace said. Continue reading...

'Shell' certainly has a tough exterior, with its messaging barely penetrating past skin deep. Still, it's a rollickingly enjoyable ride with enough laughs and gore, plus effortlessly clever performances from Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson to make it worth your time.

Five new arrests have been made in the investigation into the Louvre jewellery heist, according to reports in French media.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he has instructed the Department of Defense to immediately start testing nuclear weapons.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the U.S.

Authorities said the operation included officers in helicopters and armored vehicles and targeted the notorious Red Command in the sprawling low-income favelas of Complexo de Alemao and Penha.

The bodies of at least 18 migrants, who died when their boat capsized west of Libya's capital Tripoli, were recovered while over 90 survivors were rescued, a local Red Crescent branch said on Tuesday.

The National Hurricane Center says Jamaica should expect catastrophic damage.

At a crucial moment for the US economy, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they will have to do so with limited fresh data.

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.

Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region last week. Video released by local activists showed a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range. Continue reading...

Brazilian farmers beef up soybean production as China halts business with US during trade fight

Incident follows several crocodile sightings around Cape Tribulation in the past month as breeding season begins and risks of aggression increase * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 14-year-old boy has been hospitalised after he was attacked by a crocodile while fishing at a beach in far north Queensland, authorities said. He sustained wounds to his leg and torso on Saturday afternoon at Myall Beach, Cape Tribulation, a small coastal community 140km north of Cairns, a Queensland ambulance service spokesperson said. Continue reading...

A U.S. warship will remain in Trinidad and Tobago through Thursday, officials said.