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Russell Brand, the television personality, was found guilty of one charge of rape and three of sexual assault, and was jailed for ten years and six months. David Walliams, the comedian, failed in court to keep allegations secret by several women that he preyed on them sexually when they were teenagers. Married at First Sight UK will not return, Channel 4 said, after two women on the cast alleged rape. Maya Jama announced she was to stop presenting the reality TV show Love Island after three years. Vickrum Digwa, who was serving a minimum of 21 years for the murder of Henry Nowak, had the term increased to 25 years by the Court of Appeal.

The United States withdrew a dozen aircraft from RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk for fear of an attack by Iran. US federal prosecutors charged three Iranian-backed operatives with terrorism in Europe, including the foiled attack on RAF Fairford in September. A soldier in the US Army was arrested near Gloucester on suspicion of spying for Russia. Michel Barnier, the former Brexit negotiator, said that to benefit from the EU single market, Britain must offer free movement of goods, services, capital and people. In the seven days to 9 November, 924 migrants arrived in boats. A boat found drifting off the Dutch coast a week earlier with 38 on board was found to have been launched from the Netherlands.

The Bank of England raised interest rates from 3.75 per cent to 4 per cent. The government is to change its statutory guidance to schools to stop children having access to their phones during the day. Amazon’s drone delivery service in Darlington was given permission to expand from 600 households to 8,000. More than 30 vehicles were involved in a crash in fog on the M20 in Kent. Marshall Leese, a heavy user of monkey dust (a synthetic cathinone), who stole an ambulance with a patient in it, was jailed at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for 21 months. Kashim Chowdhury, a civil servant who secretly held five full-time jobs at once, was convicted of fraud. M. John Harrison, 81, won the Booker Prize for his novel The End of Everything.

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Shares in AI and tech companies fell in response to the likelihood that Democrats in Congress would restrict the development of data centres. Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, found that at its listing on the stock market expected this month, it would probably be valued at well below the $2 trillion previously cited. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the American multinational technology company Nvidia, admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, now suspected of being a Chinese spy. France accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind cyber attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges last month. President Donald Trump elevated Stephen Miller, the driving force behind his administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies, to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. A federal judge allowed Mr Trump’s defamation case against the BBC to go ahead. Thomas Markle, 82, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, appeared in court in Florida in a wheelchair, charged over possession of child sex abuse material; while under house arrest he allegedly removed an ankle monitor and was again detained.

An analysis of 11 million Russian death certificates leaked from the state statistics agency, Rosstat, found that 412,576 deaths were explicitly linked to the war against Ukraine. Trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States took place in Abu Dhabi. A third wave of bomb threats in a week hit European airlines. Four women and two men were killed in a shooting in Krakow’s main market square; three more bodies were found at the home of the suspect, who died of firearm wounds in hospital. At least 66 soldiers were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for cowardice, mutiny and refusing to obey orders. In Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, the leader of a cult, was sentenced to 200 years in prison for murdering 190 children and an adult.

Joshua Wong, 30, a democracy campaigner who had already spent six years in jail and was due to be freed in January, was sentenced to another ten years in jail under Hong Kong’s national security law. President Isaac Herzog of Israel asked Gadi Eisenkot to try to form a coalition government in 28 days. Heavy rain flooded tens of thousands of tents sheltering displaced people in Gaza. The Pope visited Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. CSH