News 22/11/25

Police in Swindon have arrested a thirteen year old girl on suspicion of murdering a woman in her fifties.

Officers were called to a house in Baydon Close in the Moredon area on Friday evening after reports of disorder inside the property. When they arrived they found the woman unresponsive and not breathing. She was declared dead at the scene. No one else was injured and police say enquiries are continuing as they work to establish the full circumstances of what happened.

Israel says it has launched strikes on what it calls Hamas targets in Gaza, accusing the group of a blatant breach of the ceasefire agreement.

Local health officials in Gaza confirm at least nine people have been killed in three separate attacks. Five died when a car was hit in the crowded Rimal district of Gaza City. Minutes later the Israeli air force struck two more locations in the central part of the strip. Medics say four people were killed when homes were hit in Deir Al Balah and the Nuseirat camp. Tensions have been rising despite the fragile ceasefire holding in recent days.

Boris Johnson has rejected findings that he oversaw a toxic and chaotic culture at the top of government during the pandemic.

The COVID nineteen Inquiry concluded that a failure to take the virus seriously early on cost around twenty three thousand lives in the first wave. But in a newspaper article the former prime minister said the report was totally muddled and had not focused on the big questions of the virus origins or whether lockdowns were worthwhile. He argued the inquiry should be filed vertically and insisted ministers and officials had been doing their level best in unprecedented circumstances.

US officials and lawmakers are raising concerns over a meeting in Miami between the Trump administration and a sanctioned Russian envoy.

Multiple sources say American special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Kirill Dmitriev last month to discuss a draft plan to end the war in Ukraine. Dmitriev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, heads the Russian Direct Investment Fund and is on the US sanctions list. One senior American official has told Reuters the administration issued a special waiver allowing him to enter the country for the talks. The meeting has prompted fresh questions in Washington about the nature of the negotiations and the involvement of a blacklisted Russian figure.

England have suffered a heavy defeat in the opening Ashes Test after an astonishing Australian comeback in Perth.

Travis Head delivered a blistering century, reaching a hundred off just sixty nine balls, the second-fastest in Ashes history. His total of one hundred and twenty three guided Australia to their target of two hundred and five in only twenty eight point two overs, giving the hosts an eight wicket win. It marked a dramatic reversal after England held a first innings lead of forty and were well placed at sixty five for one shortly after lunch. Australia now lead the five match series one nil.

The owner of the Daily Mail is in exclusive talks to buy the Daily Telegraph and its Sunday edition in a deal worth around five hundred million pounds.

DMGT confirmed the negotiations less than two weeks after a planned sale to a consortium led by RedBird Capital collapsed. The group says the exclusivity period will allow it to finalise terms and prepare regulatory submissions aimed at combining the two national newspaper operations. The move would bring an end to more than two years of uncertainty over the Telegraph titles.