Missing Louisiana girl, 13, rescued from box in Pennsylvania basement

Police say Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, met girl through Snapchat, and charged him with human trafficking and sexual assault

A 13-year-old Louisiana girl who went missing after meeting a man online was found alive in a box at his home several states away in Pennsylvania – along with evidence that she had been sexually assaulted, according to authorities.

Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, faces charges of human trafficking, sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of a child after police in Pittsburgh said they arrested him on Thursday. He is one of at least three men who had been arrested as of Saturday amid an investigation involving law enforcement agencies in multiple states.

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Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana gets driving ban for speeding on hard shoulder

Footballer pleads guilty to one count of driving dangerously after his offence was caught on camera

A Chelsea footballer who was caught on camera speeding down the hard shoulder of a busy A road in his Lamborghini has been handed a lengthy driving ban.

Wesley Fofana, 24, pleaded guilty at North East Surrey magistrates court to one count of driving dangerously on 20 April along the A3 Esher bypass in Hook, Hampshire. The incident came to light after another motorist captured the footage on a dashcam and reported it to the police.

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Police charge 11 after cannabis worth nearly £14m seized at Birmingham airport

Officers confiscated more than half a tonne of class B drug in 22 suitcases from air passengers travelling from Thailand

Police have charged 11 people in connection with an attempt to smuggle 22 suitcases packed with cannabis from Thailand to Birmingham worth nearly £14m.

More than half a tonne of the class B drug, described by the National Crime Agency (NCA) as an “enormous amount”, was seized at Birmingham airport in August 2024. The 11 people charged, aged from 21 to 35, all travelled to the UK from Thailand via Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

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How al-Qaida-linked jihadist group JNIM is bringing Mali to its knees – The Guardian

  1. How al-Qaida-linked jihadist group JNIM is bringing Mali to its knees  The Guardian
  2. Al Qaeda Is on the Brink of Taking Over a Country  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Jihadis encircle Mali’s capital as they close in on power  Financial Times
  4. Bamako under siege: why Mali’s army is struggling to break the jihadist blockade of the capital  The Conversation
  5. Mali has not just plunged into crisis. It has been unraveling for years.  Atlantic Council
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How al-Qaida-linked jihadist group JNIM is bringing Mali to its knees

Political instability and fuel shortages caused by rebel group is driving Mali to brink of becoming Islamist republic

Armed groups of JNIM fighters have blocked key routes used by fuel tankers, disrupting supply lines to the capital Bamako and other regions across Mali.

The al-Qaida-linked jihadist group Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) is gradually converging on Mali’s capital, Bamako, with increasing attacks in recent weeks, including on army-backed convoys.

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Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priority – AP News

  1. Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priority  AP News
  2. Pope Leo XIV: Newman, Doctor of the Church - A light for the new generations  Vatican News
  3. Litany of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman  Catholic World Report
  4. Full text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily on All Saints Day  OSV News
  5. At education Jubilee, pope names St. John Henry Newman 'doctor of the church'  National Catholic Reporter
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Huge crowds gather on first anniversary of Serbian train station disaster

Student-led movement continues to demand political change as embattled president issues rare apology

Tens of thousands of Serbians have gathered to commemorate victims of a fatal railway station collapse a year ago, a tragedy that galvanised anti-government sentiment that still threatens the embattled president, Aleksandar Vučić.

A student-led movement organised the rallies in the country’s second largest city, Novi Sad, where on 1 November 2024, the canopy at the newly renovated railway station collapsed.

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9 dead, dozens injured in crowd surge at Hindu temple in southern India – AP News

  1. 9 dead, dozens injured in crowd surge at Hindu temple in southern India  AP News
  2. At least 12 dead, dozens injured at Hindu temple in India during crowd stampede  CBS News
  3. ‘Act of God, no one responsible’: Odisha man who built Venkateswara Swamy temple where 9 died in stampede  The Times of India
  4. At Least 9 Dead, 16 Injured After Crowd Surge and ‘Stampede’ at a Temple: ‘Extremely Heartbreaking’  People.com
  5. Andhra Pradesh Stampede: Tirumala Denial Leads to Temple Tragedy  Deccan Herald
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Pokrovsk: Fighting intensifies around key town in Ukraine amid fresh attacks on Russian energy – CNN

  1. Pokrovsk: Fighting intensifies around key town in Ukraine amid fresh attacks on Russian energy  CNN
  2. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025  Institute for the Study of War
  3. Ukraine sends special forces to eastern city Pokrovsk amid Russia offensive  Al Jazeera
  4. Russia deploys 170,000 troops for push in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Zelenskyy says  Euronews.com
  5. Key town faces 'multi-thousand' Russian force, top Ukraine commander admits  BBC
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‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire – The Guardian

  1. ‘We don’t feel safe’: after week of bombings, people in Gaza are losing faith in ceasefire  The Guardian
  2. Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill at Least 100, Local Health Officials Say  The New York Times
  3. From Trump, With Impunity  The Intercept
  4. What Israel’s deadly strikes in Gaza, and Trump’s response, reveal about the ceasefire  AP News
  5. Headlines for October 31, 2025  Democracy Now!
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Families shot down, held at ransom as they flee Darfur’s killing fields – The Washington Post

  1. Families shot down, held at ransom as they flee Darfur’s killing fields  The Washington Post
  2. Visible from space, bloody sands expose the slaughter of tens of thousands in Sudan  NBC News
  3. Satellite images reveal "mass killing is continuing" in Sudan, Yale researchers say  CBS News
  4. Twenty Years Later, Atrocities Haunt Darfur Again  The New York Times
  5. Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say  Reuters
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