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Rare footage obtained by Al Jazeera offers a look at the life of former Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif.
Rare footage obtained by Al Jazeera offers a look at the life of former Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif.
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Two vessels carrying Indian crew members have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two days as Iran steps up attacks on shipping. DW has more.
<p>Consultation follows growing calls from campaigners, vets and National Farmers’ Union for tighter regulation</p><p>As the nights draw in, the season of sparklers begins, with Diwali, Bonfire Night and New Year’s Eve among the occasions typically celebrated with fireworks. But if campaigners get their way, this could be the last blast for bangers in the back yard.</p><p>In January concerns about the noise and availability of fireworks were <a href="https://ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/fireworks/index.html?utm_source=petitioners&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%5Bfireworks%5D">aired in a parliamentary debate</a>, with two petitions clocking up more than 180,000 signatures each, while earlier this month the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade closed a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk#next-steps">consultation</a> on proposals including making louder fireworks only available to professional users.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/31/fireworks-uk-consultation-campaigners-noise-animal-welfare">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Activists see meeting as opportunity to demand UK confront role in transatlantic enslavement</p><p>“The royal family enslaved us! Apologise now! Reparatory justice now!”</p><p>King Charles and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, will be greeted with messages as they travel through Antigua’s capital, St John’s, to attend meetings at the Commonwealth leaders’ summit next week. On billboards, placards and T-shirts, in letters and at a candlelight vigil for the thousands of Africans trafficked to Antigua and Barbuda during the transatlantic slave trade, the message from the Caribbean will be pervasive: slavery reparations is not an issue they “are going to be able to dodge”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/31/protests-expected-king-charles-reparations-slave-trade-commonwealth-summit-antigua">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Sellers in areas such as Belgravia and Mayfair face hundreds of thousands of pounds in losses as property prices fall</p><p>Eight out of 10 properties in London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods – such as Mayfair, Belgravia and Knightsbridge – now sell below asking price, according to research by Coutts, which provides private banking services to wealthy clients.</p><p>Property prices in “prime central London”, which covers the city’s most expensive postcodes, have dropped 5% in the third quarter of 2026, as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/30/uk-house-prices-grow-at-slowest-pace-in-two-years-as-mortgage-rates-rise">slowdown in the UK’s property market</a> hits its wealthiest residents.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/31/homes-london-poshest-neighbourhoods-sell-below-asking-price-coutts">Continue reading...</a>