US and China reach ‘final deal’ on TikTok sale, treasury secretary says

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Scott Bessent said plan was part of framework for trade deal but did not share details on transferring app’s ownership

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent claimed on Sunday that the US and China have finalized the details of a deal transferring TikTok’s US version to new owners.

“We reached a final deal on TikTok,” Bessent said on Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. Alluding to Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Bessent continued: “We reached [a deal] in Madrid, and I believe that as of today, all the details are ironed out, and that will be for the two leaders to consummate that transaction” during a meeting scheduled for Thursday in Korea.

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Transcript: Sen. Lindsey Graham on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Oct. 26, 2025 – CBS News

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  1. Transcript: Sen. Lindsey Graham on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 26, 2025  CBS News
  2. Graham predicts Trump's war on "narco-terrorists" will expand to land strikes  Axios
  3. Lindsey Graham: Venezuelan land strikes a real possibility  Politico
  4. Sen. Lindsey Graham says land strikes in Venezuela are a "real possibility"  Yahoo
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Trump told Pence ‘you’ll go down as a wimp’ in January 6 phone call, book says

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Book cites Pence’s notes from call with Trump, who called vice-president a ‘wimp’ if he certified Biden’s 2020 victory

On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol because his 2020 re-election run ended in defeat, Donald Trump called his vice-president at the time, Mike Pence, and told him he would go down in history as a “wimp” if he certified the election result, a new book says.

Those details were revealed on Sunday when ABC News published a preview excerpt of an upcoming book by its political correspondent Jonathan Karl. The book, titled Retribution, cites Pence’s notes from the 6 January 2021 phone call with Trump, who was purportedly trying to shame his vice-president into refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory weeks earlier in the White House.

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Epping sex offender back in custody after release from prison in error

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Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, whose case triggered summer protests in Essex, detained again and faces deportation

A former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error is back in custody and faces deportation.

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and was made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order.

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Trump finalizes trade deals with 2 Southeast Asian countries – Politico

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  1. Trump finalizes trade deals with 2 Southeast Asian countries  Politico
  2. Trump Leans Into Showmanship on Day 1 of His Asia Trip  The New York Times
  3. Trump Reaches Trade Pacts With Southeast Asian Nations  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Trump dances with Malaysian performers as he kicks off Asia tour in lively fashion  Fox News
  5. Trump oversees truce signing and trade deal flurry on first Asian stop  CNBC
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US, China reach rare earths, tariff pause for Trump and Xi to consider – Reuters

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  1. US, China reach rare earths, tariff pause for Trump and Xi to consider  Reuters
  2. US and China ease trade tensions on first day of Trump’s Asia diplomacy tour  CNN
  3. Chinese and U.S. officials tentatively agree to avert 100 percent tariffs  The Washington Post
  4. Farm owner Bessent on soybean crisis: "I have felt this pain too"  Axios
  5. Trump Live Updates: News on China Trade Deal Framework, Asia Tour and Canada Tariffs  The New York Times
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French police arrest two men over €88m Louvre jewel heist

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One man arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport and another just outside Paris, officials confirm

French police have arrested two suspects believed to have helped steal crown jewels worth an estimated €88m (£76m) from the Louvre museum in Paris, officials have said, a week after one of the country’s most spectacular heists in decades.

The Paris public prosecutor confirmed media reports on Sunday that one man had been detained at about 10pm (8pm UK time) on Saturday at the capital’s Charles de Gaulle airport by officers from the armed robberies and serious burglaries squad.

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Keir Starmer shares post-punk passion and revisits musical past

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Prime minister praises Scottish band Orange Juice and shares details about his family life in Radio 3 interview

Keir Starmer has said he is a fan of the Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice and northern soul, in a deep dive of his musical tastes and personal life.

On BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, Starmer chose a selection of his favourite music including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Elgar, and reflected on his own musical journey, which included learning to play violin alongside Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, at school.

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Ireland’s president elect is a left-wing, anti-establishment figure who is outspoken on Gaza – AP News

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  1. Ireland’s president elect is a left-wing, anti-establishment figure who is outspoken on Gaza  AP News
  2. Catherine Connolly: How the anti-establishment candidate won the Irish presidency  BBC
  3. Catherine Connolly’s election as president has added a new dynamic to Irish politics  The Guardian
  4. Ireland elects a leftist who campaigned on economic justice, Gaza  The Washington Post
  5. Connolly wins Ireland’s presidential election in landslide  Al Jazeera
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‘Islamophobia is endemic,’ Mamdani says of Republicans’ push to deport him

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Two House Republicans push justice department to investigate Zohran Mamdani’s path to US citizenship

Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win the 4 November election for New York City mayor.

Congressman Randy Fine of Florida and Andy Ogles of Tennessee – both staunch proponents of Donald Trump’s presidential administration – have been leading the push, which has been condemned by Democratic officials and Muslim civil rights groups as “racist and anti-Muslim”.

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Hurricane Melissa strengthens into category 4 as it approaches Jamaica – The Guardian

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  1. Hurricane Melissa strengthens into category 4 as it approaches Jamaica  The Guardian
  2. Why Melissa’s intensification en route to Jamaica is so extraordinary  The Washington Post
  3. How Hurricane Melissa Rapidly Intensified  The New York Times
  4. Hurricane Melissa Maps Tracker: Forecast Track, Rainfall, Winds And More  The Weather Channel
  5. Hurricane Melissa closes in on Jamaica as a Category 4 storm, forecast to bring catastrophic flooding  NBC News
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Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts were ‘racist’, says Wes Streeting

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Health secretary hardens Labour line after Sarah Pochin said advertising ‘doesn’t reflect our society’

Wes Streeting has accused the Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin of making racist remarks after she said seeing adverts full of black and Asian people “drives her mad”.

The health secretary said Pochin was “only sorry she’s been caught and called out”, adding she had “said the quiet bit loud”, as he warned of a return to “1970s, 1980s-style racism”.

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The not-so-little Murray cod that could: fish tracked swimming 900km along Australia’s biggest river system

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Fish named after Olympic swimming champion Ariarne Titmus was most recently tracked at a section of the mid-Murray, near Belsar Island

A young Murray cod has swum one of the longest ever recorded journeys for the species, travelling about 900km through the Murray River, its streams and backchannels.

Murray cod, Australia’s largest freshwater fish, grow up to 1.5 metres and can live for half a century. Research by Victoria’s Arthur Rylah Institute has shown the species, listed as vulnerable under federal environment laws, is capable of covering extreme distances.

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