Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro taken into custody after tampering with ankle tag 'out of curiosity' (LINK) 22 November 2025

— Bolsonaro, under house arrest, was held after 6am on Saturday by federal police after a supreme court judge issued a preventive arrest warrant because he was allegedly poised to flee to a foreign embassy. The 70-year-old politician he lost the election in 2022 and tried to launch a military coup.


WHO declares end of Indonesia's polio outbreak following years-long vaccination campaign (LINK) 21 November 2025

— AP: Indonesia has remained largely polio-free as the highly contagious disease was declared eliminated in the country in 2014. But eight years later, an outbreak emerged in the country’s conservative Aceh province, prompted by a dangerous combination of consistently low routine immunization and unhealthy environmental conditions. In 2021, only 50.9% of infants born in Aceh received polio vaccination. Over the next two years, cases appeared in the provinces of Banten, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Maluku, Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua, prompting the mass immunization and information drive.


France to investigate Musk's Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims (LINK) 22 November 2025

— France24: Grok wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for "disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus" rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial. In later posts on its X account, the chatbot acknowledged that its earlier reply to an X user was wrong, said it had been deleted and pointed to historical evidence that Auschwitz’s gas chambers using Zyklon B were used to murder more than 1 million people. The follow-ups were not accompanied by any clarification from X. Earlier this year, Musk's company took down posts from the chatbot that appeared to praise Adolf Hitler after complaints about antisemitic content.


Britain unravels money-laundering network feeding Russia's war in Ukraine (LINK) 21 November 2025

— Billion-dollar money-laundering network in Britain bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to help Russia evade Western sanctions and funnel funds to its war in Ukraine, UK police said. The group used hundreds of couriers across 28 towns to move cash from drugs and firearms trafficking.


Switzerland a key source of electronics found in Russian weapons (LINK) 21 November 2025