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Who is Kemi Badenoch, the first Black woman to lead Britain's Conservative Party?

The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken and she is the one to fix it
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FILE - Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch addresses members during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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A Lebanese ship captain is snatched by armed men and officials probe link to Israel

Lebanese officials say a ship captain was taken away by a group of armed men who landed on a coast north of Beirut and they're investigating whether Israel was involved
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A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor

A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 meltdown
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A device to remove debris from a reactor at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear power plant demonstrates to pinch a stone, as revealed in Kobe, western Japan, May 28, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
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India protests Ottawa's allegation its home minister ordered targeting of Sikh activists in Canada

India has officially protested the Canadian government’s allegation that the country’s powerful home minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists inside Canada, calling it “absurd and baseless.”
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FILE - Indian Home Minister Amit Shah speaks during a public meeting before Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel filed his nomination for the upcoming Gujarat state assembly elections in Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Koreans troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield
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In this image made from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, Russian snipers fire towards Ukrainian forces from an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
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UK Conservative Party picks Kemi Badenoch as its new leader

Britain’s Conservative Party has elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power
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FILE - Kemi Badenoch, Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade, Minister for Women and Equalities leaves after attending a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, on Jan. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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UK Conservative Party chooses Kemi Badenoch as new leader as it aims to rebound from election defeat

UK Conservative Party chooses Kemi Badenoch as new leader as it aims to rebound from election defeat
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Indian troops kill 3 suspected rebels in disputed Kashmir

Three suspected militants have been killed in gunfights with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir
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Indian paramilitary soldiers guard near the site of gun battle, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran's leader promises a punishing response

An attack on a central Israeli town has injured 11 as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel’s attack last week
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A man looks at damaged building after projectiles fired from Lebanon hit a home in Tira, central Israel, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Spain's government to send 10,000 soldiers and police to Valencia after deadly floods

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the government is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week that killed at least 211 people
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Volunteers walk in the mud to help with the clean up operation after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
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Archaeologists unearth an ancient Middle Kingdom Egyptian tomb in Luxor

Egyptian authorities say archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor
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November 02

Rescuers end search for survivors after 14 die in canopy collapse in northern Serbia

Serbian rescuers have stopped searching for survivors after pulling out 14 bodies from underneath tons of concrete from a fallen canopy at the entrance of a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad
November 02
People light candles for the victims after an outdoor roof collapsed at a train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
November 02

Iran's supreme leader threatens Israel, US with 'crushing response' over attack

Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies
November 02
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
November 02

Iran's supreme leader threatens both Israel and the US with 'a crushing response' over attacks on Iran and its allies

Iran's supreme leader threatens both Israel and the US with 'a crushing response' over attacks on Iran and its allies
November 02
November 02

Israel's path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone

Satellite imagery and data collected by mapping experts show extensive destruction in 11 villages in southern Lebanon located immediately next to the border with Israel
November 02
This Sept. 26, 2024, satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the village of Blida in southern Lebanon. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
November 02

‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence
November 02
Novelist John Banville looks at 'Diego Velazquez's 'Las Meninas' at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Madrid's great El Prado museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence. (AP Photo/Paul White)
November 02

Moldovans are voting in a pivotal presidential runoff. But voter fraud threatens its democracy

Moldovans vote this weekend in a presidential runoff race between a pro-Western incumbent and a Russia-friendly challenger
November 02
Moldovan historian and politician Octavian Ticu trains in a gym in Chisinau, Moldova, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
November 02

Japan plans automated cargo transport system to relieve shortage of drivers and cut emissions

Japan is planning an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka to make up for a shortage of truck drivers
November 02
Yuri Endo, an official at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, speaks with The Associated Press at the ministry office in Tokyo, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
November 02

Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 UN biodiversity summit in Colombia

Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 UN biodiversity summit in Colombia
November 02
November 01

Bolivia's president accuses supporters of former leader Morales of seizing 3 military barracks

Bolivian President Luis Arce has condemned the seizure of three military units by supporters of former President Evo Morales, calling it “an absolutely reprehensible criminal act that is far from any legitimate social claim of the Indigenous peasant mo...
November 01
Police arrive to clear roads blocked by supporters of former President Evo Morales, to prevent him from facing a criminal investigation over allegations of abuse of a minor while he was in office, in Parotani, Bolivia, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
November 01

Brazil's federal police indict 20 in connection with salt mine catastrophe in country's northeast

Brazil’s federal police have indicted 20 people for rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes
November 01
FILE - Homes stand abandoned due to ground subsidence caused by the Braskem mine in the Bebedouro neighborhood of Maceio, Alagoas state, Brazil, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
November 01

In cartel-plagued Mexican cities authorities warn adults not to wear masks on Halloween

Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country so wracked by drug cartel violence, there have been real fears about ghosts, ghouls and skeletons walking the streets
November 01
FILE - Masks are displayed for sale at the Mercado Sonora in downtown Mexico City, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
November 01

Death toll from Israeli strikes on villages in northeast Lebanon climbs to 45, local authorities say

Death toll from Israeli strikes on villages in northeast Lebanon climbs to 45, local authorities say
November 01
November 01

Brazil criticizes Venezuela for escalating tensions and personal attacks

Brazil’s government has broken its silence over growing tensions with neighboring Venezuela, with the Foreign Ministry saying it was surprised by “the offensive tone” adopted by Venezuelan authorities toward Brazil
November 01
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, left, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro attend family photo ceremony prior to Outreach/BRICS Plus format session at BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (Maxim Shipenkov, Pool Photo via AP)
November 01

29 Nigerian children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis

Twenty-nine minors in Nigeria could be facing the death penalty
November 01
FILE - People run away from tear gas during a protest on the street in Kano, Nigeria, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Sani Maikatanga, File)
November 01

What to know about changes to Mexico's Constitution that prohibit court challenges to amendments

Mexico’s federal and state legislatures, all dominated by the ruling Morena party, have passed amendments to the Constitution that prohibit courts from challenging any Constitutional reforms
November 01
FILE - President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks on her inauguration day after being sworn in at Congress in Mexico City, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
November 01

Slovak populist premier is in a spat with the UK ambassador to Bratislava over the war in Ukraine

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico has reacted angrily after the British ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.”
November 01
FILE - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives to a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
November 01

As data center industry booms, an English village becomes a battleground

The English village of Abbots Langley has become a flashpoint in a British battle over data centers
November 01
Stewart Lewis poses near his home in Abbots Langley, England, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. Plans to build a data center in a field on Abbots Langley's outskirts has pitted the national government's priorities against the interests of local villagers. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
November 01

Financial market worries over the UK budget appear to ease

Worries about this week’s tax-raising U.K. budget within financial markets appear to have eased with the interest rates charged on British debt steadying and the pound rising against most other currencies
November 01
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves speak with members of staff, during a visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, in Coventry, England, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Darren Staples, pool)
November 01

Tourists toss coins over a makeshift pool as Rome’s Trevi Fountain undergoes maintenance

Tourists eager to fulfill the fabled promise to return to the Eternal City are being forced to toss coins over a plastic barrier and into a small makeshift pool in front of Rome’s Trevi Fountain while the iconic attraction is being drained for maintenance
November 01
A small pool is seen in front of the Trevi Fountain to allow tourists to throw their coins in it, as the fountain has been emptied to undergo maintenance work that will last until around September 2025, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
November 01

Dutch junior finance minister quits after questions over his personal investments

The Dutch junior minister for finance has quit following criticism of his refusal to publish details of his personal investments
November 01
FILE - The Dutch parliament buildings in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)
November 01

Flooding in Spain leaves more than 200 dead

Spanish authorities are warning more rain is in the forecast. ABC News’ Patrick Reevell reports.
November 01
VIDEO: Flooding in Spain leaves more than 200 dead
November 01

Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan says the team found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls
November 01
FILE - Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, presents its first investigative report to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
November 01

8,000 North Korean soldiers to enter Ukraine in days: Pentagon

ABC News’ Patrick Reevell talks about what the escalation of troops by North Korea and Russia could mean in Ukraine, as well as in Asia.
November 01
VIDEO: 6,000 North Korean soldiers to enter Ukraine in days: Pentagon
November 01

Israeli airstrikes leave 6 paramedics dead in Lebanon

Six paramedics were killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon on Thursday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. ABC News’ Britt Clennett reports.
November 01
VIDEO: Israeli airstrikes leave 6 paramedics dead in Lebanon
November 01

Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on northeastern Lebanon on Friday rises from 8 to 24, the country's news agency says

Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on northeastern Lebanon on Friday rises from 8 to 24, the country's news agency says
November 01
November 01

Mauritius suspends access to social media ahead of parliamentary elections

The government of Mauritius on Friday banned access to social media websites ahead of parliamentary elections later this month
November 01
FILE—Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
November 01

Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh rally to demand protection from attacks

Tens of thousands of minority Hindus have rallied to demand that the interim government in Muslim-majority Bangladesh protect them from a wave of attacks and harassment and to drop sedition cases against Hindu community leaders
November 01
Bangladesh Hindus participate in a rally demanding that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo)
November 01

Roof collapse at Serbian railway station kills at least 8

Officials say a roof collapse at a railway station in northern Serbia has killed at least 14 people
November 01
Rescue service workers inspect a scene as a roof collapsed at a railway station, Friday Nov. 1, 2024, in Novi Sad, Serbia. (Interior Ministry of Serbia via AP)
November 01

Officials say a roof collapse at a railway station in northern Serbia has killed at least 8 people

Officials say a roof collapse at a railway station in northern Serbia has killed at least 8 people
November 01
November 01

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November 01
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
November 01

Japan and EU announce a security and defense partnership as regional tensions rise

Japan and the European Union have announced a security and defense partnership as they seek to step up military ties, including joint exercises and exchanges between their defense industries, amid growing tensions with China, North Korea and Russia
November 01
Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, right, shakes hands with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell after a press conference at the foreign ministry's guest house in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.(Kyodo News via AP)
November 01

A dissident film director from Belarus is released after 1 year of detention in Serbia

A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany
November 01
FILE - Prominent critic of the Belarusian government in Minsk, Andrei Hniot, speaks to media in front of the presidency building in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
November 01

Deaths of 10 newborns shake millions' trust in Turkey's health care system

Turkish prosecutors accuse 47 doctors, nurses and other medical workers of killing 10 newborns since last year through neglect or malpractice that aimed to defraud the country’s medical system
November 01
In this photo provided by the Eskici family, Eymen, the newborn son of Ozan Eskici and Ebru Eskici, lays in an incubator in the now closed Istanbul's Reyap Hospital neonatal intensive care unit in April 2019. (Eskici family via AP)
November 01

Spanish authorities raise death toll from devastating flash floods to at least 205

Spanish authorities raise death toll from devastating flash floods to at least 205
November 01
November 01

'Amateurish' thieves steal 2 Warhol prints, damage 2 more in botched heist at Dutch gallery

Thieves have blown open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stolen two works from a famous series of screen prints by American pop artist Andy Warhol
November 01
A man takes an image of a screen print depicting Queen Elizabeth II, one in a series of sixteen prints of four queens titled Reigning Queens, 1985, by Andy Warhol at museum Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, similar to a Warhol work stolen from a gallery in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, early Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
November 01

Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes

Lebanese health authorities say that Israel has launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages, killing at least 52 people and wounding 72 others
November 01
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are seen at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
November 01

Death toll from Israeli strikes on central Gaza on Thursday rises to 25, Palestinian hospital officials say

Death toll from Israeli strikes on central Gaza on Thursday rises to 25, Palestinian hospital officials say
November 01
November 01

A bus carrying students skids off a road in Sri Lanka, killing 2 and injuring 39 others

A bus carrying university students on a field trip has skidded off a road and tipped over in central Sri Lanka, killing two people and injuring 39 others
November 01
November 01

Not just for summer: 'Brat' is Collins Dictionary's word of the year

Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” its 2024 word of the year
November 01
Charli xcx attends the WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)