Society
On World AIDS Day, reports warned U.S. and European aid cuts to the global HIV response could cause about 3.3m additional infections by 2030.
Jupol, the main National Police union, called an urgent demonstration in Valencia for Dec. 3, 12:00–14:00 to denounce the killing of an off‑duty officer in Vinalesa and demand protective measures.
Hong Kong police arrested 13 people in connection with the Wang Fuk residential complex fire, authorities said, as anger grew and death tolls remained disputed amid allegations of regulatory failures.
Australian police charged four men in Sydney over an alleged international satanic child sexual abuse material ring, accusing them of possessing and distributing ritualistic child-abuse images, authorities said.
Police summoned the principal of Rome’s Liceo Giulio Cesare to give information after a circulated list alleging rapes named classmates, prompting student protests and the preventive suspension of three pupils.
Austrian influencer Stefanie Pieper’s body was found in a suitcase in a Slovenian forest on Saturday after her ex‑boyfriend confessed to killing her.
Ludwig Minelli, founder of Swiss assisted‑suicide group Dignitas, died by assisted suicide on Nov. 29, days before his 93rd birthday.