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Keir Starmer: “Henry Nowak was kind, thoughtful and much-loved. His life was stolen from him, leaving his family and loved ones devastated.  “The bodycam footage is harrowing. It’s absolutely right that the IOPC is looking at this. There are serious questions for the police to answer.” Starmer stated. On 3 December 2025, Henry Nowak, a white 18‑year‑old British university student, was murdered by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British Sikh man, in Southampton, England. The 23-year-old stabbed Nowak five times with a Sikh dagger, including a fatal wound to the heart. When police officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary...

Zimbabwe’s justice minister on Tuesday introduced a constitutional amendment bill in Parliament that would extend the tenure of the country’s 83-year-old president and shift presidential elections from a direct popular vote to selection by lawmakers. The proposal would defer elections due in 2028 by two years and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term to 2030. It would also lengthen the terms of the president, MPs, councilors and mayors from five to seven years. The move has heightened political tensions in a country where critics of the government have often been detained or harassed. Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi last week said he...

The United Nations chief has proposed three options to help end the decades-old conflict between Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israel when the 8,100-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon ends on Dec. 31. All of the options presented to the U.N. Security Council by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would continue U.N. military monitoring of the boundary between Israel and Lebanon, support Lebanese forces in deploying throughout the country and strengthen political efforts to end the fighting, which has persisted despite a nominal ceasefire. U.N. peacekeepers have played a significant role in monitoring the security situation in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah...

Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as the Russian city hosted an annual international economic forum promoted by President Vladimir Putin. The drones flew more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to hit the terminal, Zelenskyy said on social media. Clouds of black smoke rose over the city’s port after the attack. Russian authorities said only that the Ukrainian drone strike targeted the city’s infrastructure, without providing further details. The airport of St. Petersburg briefly suspended flights overnight because of the attack. Authorities also cut off mobile...

Britain’s interior minister accused activists of hijacking a tragedy to stir up violence after police were attacked at a protest over the death of a teenager who was handcuffed as he lay dying while his killer stood nearby. Police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares late Tuesday by some of the hundreds who attended a protest in the English south coast city of Southampton, where Henry Nowak was killed in December. His death has triggered debates about policing and knife crime, and has spurred claims by far-right activists and politicians that there is bias against white people in...

A British couple jailed in Iran on spying allegations have lost an appeal against their convictions, their family and the U.K. government said Tuesday. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were detained in January 2025 while on an around-the-world motorcycle trip. In February they were handed 10-year prison sentences for espionage, which they both deny. Britain’s Foreign Office called the couple’s incarceration “unjustified and appalling.” “We are disappointed by the appeal decision and will continue working to ensure that Craig and Lindsay are returned safely to the U.K.,” it said in a statement. “Since their arrest last year, Britain’s ambassador to Tehran,...

The Solomon Islands will review its secretive security treaty with China, the South Pacific nation’s new Prime Minister Matthew Wale said Wednesday. The pact struck in 2022 with the Solomons’ then-Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare created fears in the United States and among allies including Australia that it would allow the Chinese navy to build a base in the South Pacific. Before Wale became prime minister in a parliamentary vote May 15, he had called for the detail of the treaty to be made public. Wale said Wednesday he had only been provided with a copy a few days ago and...

Kuwait said Wednesday it had suspended commercial flights after an Iranian drone attack heavily damaged the country’s airport and caused injuries, hours after Iran and the United States traded missile strikes in the region. The strikes came as semiofficial Iranian news agencies said the country had stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel. U.S. President Donald Trump disputed that claim and said talks were continuing. Exchanges of strikes in the Gulf region and Israel’s broadening war in Lebanon are adding strain to efforts to end the war with Iran. Iranian drone...