by The Associated Press | Oct 5, 2026 | News, World, World News
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residences.
A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had filed a claim with the High Court in London and a hearing would take place Thursday.
The Daily Telegraph previously reported that Mountbatten-Windsor was claiming that the searches conducted by Thames Valley Police may have broken the law.
Mountbatten-Windsor has been granted permission to challenge whether the force acted lawfully over the searches relating to his arrest in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations that he shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein during his time as the U.K.’s trade envoy.
King Charles III stripped his disgraced brother of his titles and evicted him from his royal residence after pressure to act over his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The king’s rare move followed years of shameful scandals.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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by Zeeshan Aleem | Oct 4, 2026 | culture, Opinion, White House, World
When I learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called for passing a law aimed at revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors who made a new documentary about the war in Gaza, I figured that he was engaging in his typical flair for dramatics. But when I saw the film for myself, I immediately understood why he felt so threatened by it.
“NAZA,” which is set to release in theaters across the U.S. in the coming weeks, is a jaw-dropping indictment of Netanyahu’s military operation. Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor interview 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers — whose appearances and voices are digitally altered to provide them with anonymity — to reveal vivid, often horrifying details of the Israeli military’s incursion into Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 war crimes.
One might wonder what’s left to learn or condemn after Gazans have documented so much of Israel’s brutal treatment of civilians through videos that have, at times, made social media feeds almost unwatchably grim. Moreover, many human rights organizations and scholars of genocide have for years characterized Israel’s ongoing operation as genocidal.
Yet even if you follow the conflict fairly closely, “NAZA” will likely reveal new information to you about how the Israeli military dominates Gaza and internally rationalizes its brutalization. And if you’re unconvinced that Israel’s military operation is beyond the pale, this might just be the thing that changes your mind.
What might frighten Netanyahu more than anything is some of the interviewees’ ultimate assessment of what they participated in.
“NAZA,” which is a Hebrew military acronym that means “collateral damage,” shreds the myth that the Israeli military
by Clarissa-Jan Lim | Oct 3, 2026 | Business, culture, News, World
The FlyDubai pilot who allegedly attacked his captain on a flight to Israel earlier this week used a crash ax and tried to seize control of the aircraft in an attempted terrorist act, a United Arab Emirates official said.
The pilot, who has been identified as an Omani national, used a crash ax to attack the flight’s captain and then tried to take control of the plane, UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said in a statement reported by Emirates News Agency. A crash ax is a tool to break windows during an emergency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke by phone on Saturday with Captain Smit Machchhar, who described taking blows “one after the other” during the call.
The Israeli ambassador to the UAE, Yossi Shelley, previously told MS NOW that the pilot had been employed by FlyDubai for a year.
The plane was traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when the incident happened. As it closed in on the Israeli border, the aircraft plunged more than 14,000 feet in 30 seconds, according to FlightRadar data.
Most of the passengers on the flight were Israeli, according to Netanyahu. Four were Americans. Machchhar, an Indian national, despite having been bludgeoned, described fighting back and opened the cockpit door so that others could intervene and subdue the alleged attacker.
Netanyahu called him a “hero.”
An investigation into the incident is underway. FlyDubai, an Emirati government-owned airline that has operated commercial flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv since 2020, has since temporarily suspended service to the Israeli city.
Inzamam Rashid contributed reporting.
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by Ja'han Jones | Oct 3, 2026 | Opinion, White House, World
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is apparently in position to make a killing off Israel’s warmongering in the Middle East.
That’s the crux of a new report from CNN, which helps shine light on ways the president’s family is profiting from Israel’s war economy. Trump has assigned Kushner and Steve Witkoff to oversee peace efforts between the Israeli government and Palestinian leaders.
But Kushner is a businessman tasked with doing government business. In one example, his plan to use part of Gaza for a ritzy real estate development provided “a glossy sheen to ethnic cleansing,” as my colleague Anthony Fisher put it last year, dampening hopes that Kushner might at least appear to be a good-faith negotiator.
And news of his ties to Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer and other companies that provide weapons to Israel won’t help boost such hopes. As CNN reported:
At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found.
Kushner has skirted deeper scrutiny of this potential conflict of interest by acting as a volunteer envoy, rather than accepting a government job that would require him to disclose his finances.
The report centers on Affinity Partners and the hundreds of millions of dollars it has invested in an Israeli firm called Phoenix Financial, which holds large holdings in companies that make weapons and military equipment for Israel.
According to the report:
CNN used Israeli financial transparency laws to trace some of the military-linked investments of Phoenix Financial, a Tel Aviv-based
by Ja'han Jones | Oct 1, 2026 | Opinion, White House, World
Donald Trump’s imperialistic administration and its allies are locked in on Brazil’s election — and Democrats and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are sounding the alarm.
Lula is facing Flávio Bolsonaro in Sunday’s presidential election. Bolsonaro’s father — former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally — was convicted last year of launching a Jan. 6-style coup attempt. And ever since, Trump’s regime has targeted Lula and Brazil’s government over the prosecution, including threats of potential military action.
Trump, for instance, baselessly claimed the elder Bolsonaro was the victim of a “witch hunt” while justifying a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods. My colleague Steve Benen summed up a bunch of the Trump administration’s related attacks on Brazilian officials in this post for MS NOW.
The authoritarian-loving MAGA movement’s efforts to influence politics in Brazil — the second-largest democracy in the Western Hemisphere after the increasingly illiberal U.S. — have been laid bare over the past year. That’s why dozens of Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week demanding answers and a commitment that the administration will respect the upcoming election results. The signees included Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and a single senator, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
“Over the course of President Trump’s second term, we have seen U.S. officials engage in a sustained, multifaceted campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil,” they wrote, citing actions they said amount to an “extraordinary infringement on Brazil’s national sovereignty.”
The letter also cites the Trump administration’s appointment of Darren Beattie — who has openly stated that “[c]ompetent white men must be in charge if you want things to work” — as
by Associated Press | Oct 1, 2026 | News, World
LONDON (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran.
The 27-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched two properties in the U.K. capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement.
A 26-year-old British national was interviewed by police “under caution,” which means the interview was recorded and can be used in future prosecutions.
On Sunday, five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested on suspicion of explosives and terror offenses close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran. The suspects have since been released on bail.
Police say they found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counter terrorism policing, said the investigation “is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of inquiry.
“As we’ve made clear, we’re looking at all possible angles — including possible foreign state involvement,” she said.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the U.K. sees “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident. Iran denies involvement.
The base 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year’s war with Iran.
Top U.S. officials have criticized the decision to grant five suspects bail, with President Donald Trump saying “I wouldn’t have done that” and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
