NATIONAL NEWS

NATIONAL NEWS

• UK deploying specialist RAF team to defend Belgium from 'rogue' drones November 9, 2025
  The UK is deploying a specialist Royal Air Force team to help defend Belgium's skies following a series of sightings of "rogue" drones, the defence secretary and his military chief have revealed.
• Three dead and 15 injured in Tenerife tidal surge November 9, 2025
  Three people have died after they were swept into the sea off the coast of Tenerife during treacherous weather, officials said on Sunday.
• Two dead and a million evacuated as Super Typhoon Fung-wong hits Philippines November 9, 2025
  Two people have died and more than one million people evacuated after a storm bearing down on the Philippines intensified into a super typhoon and made landfall on Sunday.
• Third body pulled from rubble after boiler tower collapses in South Korea - four still trapped November 9, 2025
  A third body has been pulled from rubble after a boiler tower at a thermal power plant collapsed in South Korea.
• Ghislaine Maxwell's emails from minimum-security jail leaked - amid claims of 'VIP treatment' November 9, 2025
  Ghislaine Maxwell has said she is "much, much happier" since being moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas, leaked emails reveal.
• Explosives and weapons seized - with 71 arrests - as Syria launches clampdown on Islamic State cells November 8, 2025
  Syria has carried out pre-emptive operations targeting Islamic State cells - arresting 71 people during 61 raids.
• Ireland's FA passes vote seeking UEFA ban on Israel competing in European competitions November 8, 2025
  The governing body for football in the Republic of Ireland has approved a resolution to call on UEFA to suspend Israel and its club sides from European competitions.
• Latest hostage remains returned from Gaza identified November 8, 2025
  The latest hostage remains returned from Gaza have been identified as an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the October 7 attacks, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
• Trump exempts Hungary from US sanctions on Russian energy after meeting Orban November 8, 2025
  Hungary has been given a one-year exemption from US sanctions on using Russian energy, a White House official has said, after its Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Donald Trump in the White House.
• Putin's right-hand man made him look weak - it may have cost him his seat at Kremlin's top table November 7, 2025
  In Soviet times, Western observers would scrutinise video footage of state occasions, like military parades on Red Square, to try to learn more about Kremlin hierarchy.