All news for 2025-10-31

Nexperia, the EU-based automotive chipmaker at the center of a geopolitical dispute, has suspended supplies to its Chinese factory, intensifying a trade war that threatens to halt production at carmakers worldwide.

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

Army officers have been ordered to “disassociate” themselves from private members’ clubs that refuse to allow female soldiers to join.

A total of 75 migrants who crossed the English Channel by small boat have been returned to France so far under the Government’s “one in, one out” deal, and 51 people have arrived in the UK under the scheme.

Interpol has rejected a request from Kyrgyz authorities to issue an international warrant for the co-founder of one of the country’s leading independent media outlets, calling the request politically motivated.

In December 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine found Ihor Ratushnyak, who had headed the Tyvriv District Court of Vinnytsia Oblast for many years, guilty of a corruption offence.

A long-hoped-for footbridge across the River Lea could be built in 2027 – after nearly £10million was put up by two councils to fund it.

The family of Virginia Giuffre said she had “brought down a prince” after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s public life as a royal was effectively ended by the King.

The UK government will provide an additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding to support the Caribbean region’s recovery from Hurricane Melissa.

Elderly patients’ firsthand accounts from hospitals have likened corridor care to war films, describing incidents of people waiting days on end, a leading charity has found.

People with disabilities are "deeply concerned" that they might experience financial difficulties due to speculation that Chancellor Rachel Reeves might announce changes to the Motability car-lease scheme in the upcoming Budget next month.

Prince Andrew’s daughters will remain in the royal fold after the King began the formal process to strip him of his titles in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

An Australian family with millions of online fans is relocating to the UK to avoid their home country’s social media ban for under-16s, which starts in December.

Late Thursday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the remains were those of Sahar Baruch and Amiram Cooper, who were both captured during the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack that sparked the conflict.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis confirmed that the inaugural flight to Iraq’s capital would take place on 16 December.