Worst October borrowing in six years
The government is making slow progress on meeting the annual borrowing forecast as official figures revealed the worst October public sector finances for six years. BBC News – Business
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More Mexican migrants returning home
A new study finds that a longstanding flow of immigration has been reversed – more Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Russia ‘pounding IS’ in Syria
Russia intensifies its air raids on what it calls “terrorist” targets in Syria and raises to 69 the number of its aircraft there. BBC News – Middle East
Police apology over undercover ‘deceit’
The Metropolitan Police makes an “unreserved apology” to seven women who were tricked into relationships with undercover officers, one of which led to a child. BBC News – UK
Paris raid suicide bomber ‘not a woman’
French officials say the cousin of the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks did not blow herself up in a police raid as previously thought. BBC News – Europe
Mali hotel siege over, US says
A deadly attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako is over, US officials say. BBC News – Africa