Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated against flu over half-term as the NHS warned of rising cases of the disease.
There is an early flu season, health officials say, and the latest data for England showed cases and hospitalisations were increasing.
NHS England said many school children will have already received the vaccine at school but there are still options for those who have not, including pop-up clinics.
GP surgeries can give flu vaccines to school-aged children and those with certain health conditions, as well as two to three year olds, while preschoolers can also be taken to pharmacies for the vaccine.
Most children are offered the vaccine in a nasal spray rather than an injection.
NHS England's weekly flu and Covid surveillance report said there was increased flu activity "particularly among children".
Duncan Burton, chief nursing officer for England, said it was concerning that the flu had hit early this year and the increase among children was "worrying".
"Flu can spread like wildfire across schools and can make children really unwell," he said.
"The virus changes each year, so vaccination remains the best way to shield your child from getting seriously ill."
He urged parents to make sure they had opted their child in for an in-school vaccine or find their nearest clinic.
Pop-up clinics were being held in places like bowling alleys and fire stations, Mr Burton told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that the vaccine was "quick, easy and safe".
Dr Fari Ahmad told BBC Breakfast that while she was seeing cases, "I don't think we've quite hit the peak yet".
"With flu, this is a war we have every year. Flu is unpredictable, it still kills people and every year we try to get enough people vaccinated so that when the big surge comes we are not decimated," she said.
Dr Ahmad said that getting enough school-age children vaccinated meant that it made that surge better, "because they are spreaders".
"It will be great for the kids individually but it will also be better for all of us," she said.
NHS England said more than 10 million vaccines have already been delivered in the latest campaign, including to almost 1.5 million school-aged children and more than 300,000 eligible two and three year olds.
Free vaccines are available to those older than 65, with certain long-term health conditions, are pregnant, live in a care home, the main carer for an older or disabled person or live with someone who has a weakened immune system.
Millions of us are taking magnesium for a whole range of reasons. Can it help us sleep better? Sort our digestion problems? Give our busy brains a moment of peace?
In the fast-moving world of supplements, it's magnesium's time to shine.
And the industry is booming. The global magnesium market is worth nearly £3bn and that's set to nearly double over the next decade.
In a small factory, nestled in the Yorkshire Dales, huge plastic barrels of white powder are stacked up next to giant whirring machines.
Workers in hazmat suits carefully weigh out magnesium citrate - a compound made by mixing the mineral with citric acid - into shiny, steel containers.
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Millions of magnesium tablets are produced in this factory every day
"We are sending our supplies all over the world," Andrew Goring, manager director of Lonsdale Health, explains. "Around the UK, obviously, but also to Australia, parts of Asia, Kuwait, Iraq.
"It's one of our biggest sellers and the market just keeps growing."
He is shouting over the hum of the pill presser, a machine that resembles a Dalek, which pops out dozens of small white magnesium tablets a second.
"Do we actually need it?" I bellow back. "And why now, why has it become so popular?"
"Influencers, social media - that's what's pushing it," Mr Goring explains. "We've known about magnesium and its benefits for years and now, finally, it's mainstream."
I can almost hear the eye roll when I contact Kirsten Jackson, a dietitian who specialises in gut health.
"Clever marketing schemes," Ms Jackson says, "magnesium is involved in areas people are willing to invest in: their sleep, digestion, mental health."
But, she is keen to stress, this does not automatically mean we need supplements to improve those things.
Magnesium is one of several minerals in our bodies. The recommended daily amount for women is 270mg and for men, it's 300mg. We store about 25g.
It might make up less than 1% of us but "it is involved in over 300 different processes", Ms Jackson explains.
It is "especially important for our brain and mood," she says, because it helps nerves send messages properly and supports the building blocks of brain cell membranes.
It also helps balance blood sugar levels, regulate blood pressure, and is an essential player in moving calcium and potassium in and out of our cells, which maintains the rhythm of our heartbeat.
So, surely popping a pill full of the stuff should keep our bodies running smoothly?
It's more complex than that, says Ms Jackson. For a magnesium supplement to work, we need to be lacking the mineral in the first place - and it's difficult to test for any deficiency because the vast majority of our magnesium is stored in our bones and tissues.
But on an individual level, many say the supplement has made a difference.
Katie Curran
Katie says magnesium supplements have helped improve her sleep and calmed her racing thoughts
For Katie Curran, a communications specialist who has worked with some of the biggest fashion brands, sleeping well was something she could only dream about.
"A year ago, I was struggling," she confides. "It would take so long to get to sleep, my brain was racing, and then I would get off only to wake a couple of hours later."
Katie decided to try magnesium glycinate - a combination of magnesium and glycine, an amino acid with limited evidence linking it to better sleep.
After two weeks of taking 270mg a day, she says the noise in her head started to quieten. The racing thoughts slowed down, and she began to feel like she could function again.
"My sleep definitely improved, I had more energy. I became more active. Other things changed in my life, so I can't put it down to just one thing, but I think the magnesium supplements were an important part of the puzzle."
While being deficient in magnesium can definitely affect sleep patterns, there isn't the evidence to say taking supplements will definitely improve your sleep.
Social media is awash with eager supplement-takers, many with posts stamped with "commission paid" in the corner - meaning they could earn money from their story or reel.
According to these influencers, it feels as though there is little magnesium can't help with, as they recommend a variety of different products.
Magnesium is often mixed with other compounds with the aim of helping support various parts of our bodies. For example, magnesium mixed with either L-threonate or glycinate is supposed to target brain health, which helps with sleep and stress relief.
If magnesium is combined with chloride, it is recommended for muscle tension and pre-menstrual cramps, while citrate and oxide blends are aimed at digestion and help with constipation.
The majority of us can probably relate to having at least one of those issues. But as nutritionist Kristen Stavridis stresses, the problem is there is not enough strong evidence to show the majority of these different magnesium supplements have a positive effect on the healthy population.
And even if they did - we would need to be deficient in magnesium in the first place to see a benefit.
"We have supplement companies shouting out at us: 'We are all going to die'," Ms Stavridis says, "'Quick! Take my pill and - hey presto - there's your solution'.
"Many of us are not getting enough magnesium," she continues, "around 10% of men and 20% of women are not getting the recommended daily intake.
"But just taking a supplement is not the answer."
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Seeds, nuts, whole-grain breads, greens and fruit are all rich in magnesium
Take sleep health, for example. Ms Stavridis says there are many conflicting studies on whether magnesium supplements really make a difference. Some trials say it can have some benefits, while some randomised controlled trials - the gold standard - are more sceptical.
There is also the added complication of supplements potentially working against each other because of the way they interact in the body.
Basically, Ms Stavridis says, it's a minefield, and not just a simple case of "take this" and you'll be fixed.
She recommends looking at diet first. But if you are thinking about taking magnesium supplements, Ms Stavridis advises taking half the amount recommended on the packet on a daily basis and seeing how you feel.
If healthy people take too much, their kidneys can get rid of it in "expensive urine", but there are still risks, like diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea.
For those with kidney disease, taking magnesium supplements can be dangerous and can cause hypermagnesemia - a potentially life-threatening condition that can leave someone with paralysis or in a coma.
Dietitian Kirsten Jackson also says most people should "100% look at diet first".
Foods like seeds, nuts, whole-grain breads, greens and fruit are good sources of magnesium, she says.
She warns that if you don't regularly consume these types of foods, you're probably also short of other essential nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, fibre and prebiotics too.
"One magnesium supplement is not going to sort all that."
Watch: 'Angela is known for her shoes, and she leaves some big ones to fill'
When Angela Rayner resigned Sir Keir Starmer used the moment to embark on a pretty widespread reshuffle of his ministerial team.
The most high profile casualty? Powell.
A month and a bit later she is back.
Not back in government, but back in a directly elected senior role within the party.
But while this is not the result of this contest Sir Keir would have preferred, it is worth briefly dwelling on the numbers in this election.
While Powell was the favourite once this race was down to two candidates and she was the clear victor, it was not a landslide.
It was not a wholesale, overwhelming rejection of Bridget Phillipson, who was seen as the candidate closer to the prime minister as a serving cabinet minister.
After the result, us reporters were still loitering in the street and we were kept waiting ages for the winner, the loser and the prime minister to leave.
Word then came as to at least one of the reasons why - the prime minister and the new deputy leader of the Labour Party were meeting.
Hedgehog diplomacy perhaps? A little spiky?
At least awkward, up to a point, surely.
Watch: Moment Labour deputy leader winner announced
That said, the expectation from some that Powell will be shooting her mouth off or frequently public disloyal is overdone.
After all, she was in government until just last month - and told me her observations and critiques will mainly be articulated privately.
Let's see.
Taking a step back from all this today, Labour is a party that knows it is currently losing - losing elections, losing attention, often losing the argument.
Powell's election is an expression of that fret.
Just think of the rows and bungles of the last seven weeks.
Rayner, Lord Mandelson. Asylum seekers. The China spy case row. The Caerphilly by-election, just for starters.
I asked Powell if things are rescuable – for the country, the government, her party.
Yes, she insisted.
Whether she is right will be the determining factor in the fate of this government.
President Trump is embarking on a six-day diplomatic tour of Asia, testing his role as a statesman and negotiator as he pursues a trade deal with Beijing.
As of Oct. 24, the White House’s East Wing is all but a pile of debris. The New York Times Opinion’s editor Kathleen Kingsbury unpacks the public outrage and reveals why you should be concerned about this move by President Trump.
Kamala Harris says she still sees herself as having a political future and may run for the White House in 2028
Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.
In her first UK interview, Harris said she would "possibly" be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.
Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats' pick for the next election.
Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris also turned her fire on her former rival, branding Trump a "tyrant", and said warnings she made about him on the campaign trail had been proved right.
As the Democratic party searches for answers about Republican Donald Trump's decisive victory one year ago, much of the blame has been directed at former President Joe Biden for not standing down sooner.
But there have also been questions raised about whether Harris could have run a better campaign and set out a clearer message on the number one issue, the economy.
In the BBC interview Harris entertained the prospect of another run at the White House, saying her grandnieces would, "in their lifetime, for sure", see a female president.
Asked if it would be her, she said, "possibly", confirming she is considering another run at the top job.
Harris said she had not yet made a decision, but underlined that she still sees herself as having a future in politics.
"I am not done," the former vice-president said. "I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it's in my bones."
Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket - even behind Hollywood actor Dwayne the Rock Johnson - she said she never listened to polls.
"If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office - and I certainly wouldn't be sitting here."
Harris also said she believed predictions she made about Donald Trump behaving as a fascist and running an authoritarian government had come true.
"He said he would weaponise the Department of Justice - and he has done exactly that."
She pointed to the suspension of late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel by ABC after he made a joke about Republican reaction to the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
His removal from the airwaves, celebrated by Trump, came after the Trump-appointed regulator threatened Kimmel's broadcasters.
"You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponised, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists… His skin is so thin he couldn't endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organisation in the process."
Harris also slammed business leaders and institutions in America who have, in her view, too easily bowed to the president's demands.
"There are many… that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation."
The White House was dismissive when asked for a response to Harris's comments about the president.
"When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should've taken the hint - the American people don't care about her absurd lies," said spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
"Or maybe she did take the hint and that's why she's continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications."
Harris has just published her account of her rollercoaster campaign, 107 Days, the time that was left to her to run for the presidency after Biden withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his mental acuity.
In our full interview with the former vice-president, to be broadcast in the UK on Sunday at 09:00 GMT (05:00 EST), I pressed Harris several times on whether she ought to have urged Biden to make way for her sooner.
How much did she really know about his health? And a question that may haunt her - whether she would be president now, not Donald Trump, if Biden had withdrawn earlier?
The answer is plainly, unknowable - the great "if" that could have changed the fate of America.
Among the Democratic soul-searching, Harris' candidacy is often disparaged, her weaknesses as a leader pinpointed as the reasons for her defeat, not just the last-minute nature of Biden's decision.
When questioned about what went wrong, rather than plunge into deep analysis, her contention is because she started so late, it was almost impossible to win.
But having sat down with the Californian former prosecutor in the gilded surroundings of a luxury London hotel - rather than the increasingly golden surroundings of the Oval Office as Donald Trump glitzes up the decor - the possibility of power is something she is not willing to leave behind.
Previous hints of her future presidential ambition seemed coy, non-committal - "maybe, maybe not", or "I'm not focusing on that right now".
Her candour in our conversation was more striking. She was quick, eager even, to put herself in the frame for another tilt at power. But she stopped short of making any concrete commitment.
That may be surprising given the thoroughly bruising nature of a defeat she has described as traumatising. She and her team were devastated by the defeat, which came as a surprise to them.
"My god, my god, what will happen to our country?" Harris says she repeated when the result came through.
Her attempt to explain it focuses on how narrow the gap in actual votes was between her and Trump.
The popular vote was, indeed, very tight, with less than 2% in it. However, Harris was trounced by Trump in the all-important electoral college, where each state has a certain number of votes that tally up.
Harris was willing to drop heavy hints about her own future. But there's less willingness from her, or frankly any other senior Democrats, grappling with their party's long-term dilemmas.
How does a centre-left party with mainstream leaders take on a right-wing populist leader? Is the answer to focus on Trump? Or is it to argue more forcefully for Main Street?
When I challenged the former vice-president on why her campaign did not better connect with working people, she said she needed more time to do that, and pointed to a longstanding drift away from her party among that group.
She regrets she didn't have long enough in 2024 to make her own pitch on bread- and-butter issues like housing, or childcare.
But if she had longer next time round, it's far from guaranteed her arguments would be more compelling, or more gladly received.
Kamala Harris still travels with the trappings of an entourage. Aides anxiously watch the clock as her every minute is planned with military precision. Non-stop travel, choreographed events in different capitals, a tiny number of carefully planned TV interviews.
This time, Harris is on the move for a book tour, not a presidential race. But maybe, if she has her way, this is the start of another campaign after all.
Trump and Xi last met in person in 2019, during Trump's first term as president
Donald Trump has said he would like China's help to deal with Russia as he seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
"I'd like China to help us out with Russia," the US president said on board Air Force One, as he flew to Asia for a whirlwind tour, where he will meet China's Xi Jinping in South Korea.
It could be wishful thinking, however. China is Russia's biggest ally, and a vital support to Moscow since Western sanctions were imposed over its war in Ukraine.
Ending the Russia-Ukraine war has become a focal point for Trump in recent months, with a ceasefire deal so far eluding him, despite his campaign promises to solve the situation quickly. A summit with Putin in August failed to yield any tangible results, and Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Moscow.
"Every time I speak to Vladimir, I have good conversations and then they don't go anywhere," Trump said earlier this week.
On Wednesday, he announced new sanctions against Russia's two biggest oil companies - the first direct interventions the Trump administration has imposed on Russia over the war. What effect the blacklisting will have in the long-term is yet to be seen, but the Kremlin said it was "immune" to the sanctions.
While Trump's meeting with Xi on Thursday is still expected to focus on the hostile trade relations between the US and China, Trump said that he would talk to Xi about "everything", including the war in Ukraine.
"I'd like to see China help us out [with Russia]. I have a very good relationship... with President Xi. Very good," he said, adding that Xi wants to see the war end.
Earlier this week, Trump said that the Chinese president "can have a big influence on Putin".
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Putin, Xi and Kim showed their solidarity when the three met in Beijing last month
Beijing has never criticised Russia's war in Ukraine, and has been accused by the US and its allies of aiding Russia's war effort - which Beijing denies - through its purchases of Russian oil and monthly supply of dual-use materials (those with both commercial and military applications).
Putin and Xi have previously touted their countries' relationship as a "friendship with no limits", and Russia hopes gas exports to China and other countries will replace the revenue lost after Western sanctions were imposed.
The warm relations between Russia and China were on full display last month, when Putin, Xi and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met in Beijing for an extraordinary show of solidarity and military might.
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Russian strikes on Kyiv left killed several people and caused huge damage on Saturday
As Trump made his comments on Air Force One, emergency crews in Ukraine were at the scene of more Russian strikes, including some in Kyiv where several people were killed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"No country should be left alone in the face of such evil," he wrote on Telegram, reiterating the need for Ukraine's allies to step-up support.
Meanwhile, in Russia's Belgorod region, residents living near a dam were told to evacuate after a Ukrainian strike on the local reservoir caused damage that could lead to flooding.
Timothy Mellon during a property tour in 1981. A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was not a prominent Republican donor until President Trump was elected.
Was it the heist of the century or a master class in incompetence by the museum? Some prominent former jewelry thieves have plenty to say about the audacious break-in at the Louvre.
Kamala Harris says she still sees herself as having a political future and may run for the White House in 2028
Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.
In her first UK interview, Harris said she would "possibly" be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.
Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats' pick for the next election.
Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris also turned her fire on her former rival, branding Trump a "tyrant", and said warnings she made about him on the campaign trail had been proved right.
As the Democratic party searches for answers about Republican Donald Trump's decisive victory one year ago, much of the blame has been directed at former President Joe Biden for not standing down sooner.
But there have also been questions raised about whether Harris could have run a better campaign and set out a clearer message on the number one issue, the economy.
In the BBC interview Harris entertained the prospect of another run at the White House, saying her grandnieces would, "in their lifetime, for sure", see a female president.
Asked if it would be her, she said, "possibly", confirming she is considering another run at the top job.
Harris said she had not yet made a decision, but underlined that she still sees herself as having a future in politics.
"I am not done," the former vice-president said. "I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it's in my bones."
Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket - even behind Hollywood actor Dwayne the Rock Johnson - she said she never listened to polls.
"If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office - and I certainly wouldn't be sitting here."
Harris also said she believed predictions she made about Donald Trump behaving as a fascist and running an authoritarian government had come true.
"He said he would weaponise the Department of Justice - and he has done exactly that."
She pointed to the suspension of late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel by ABC after he made a joke about Republican reaction to the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
His removal from the airwaves, celebrated by Trump, came after the Trump-appointed regulator threatened Kimmel's broadcasters.
"You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponised, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists… His skin is so thin he couldn't endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organisation in the process."
Harris also slammed business leaders and institutions in America who have, in her view, too easily bowed to the president's demands.
"There are many… that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation."
The White House was dismissive when asked for a response to Harris's comments about the president.
"When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should've taken the hint - the American people don't care about her absurd lies," said spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
"Or maybe she did take the hint and that's why she's continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications."
Harris has just published her account of her rollercoaster campaign, 107 Days, the time that was left to her to run for the presidency after Biden withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his mental acuity.
In our full interview with the former vice-president, to be broadcast in the UK on Sunday at 09:00 GMT (05:00 EST), I pressed Harris several times on whether she ought to have urged Biden to make way for her sooner.
How much did she really know about his health? And a question that may haunt her - whether she would be president now, not Donald Trump, if Biden had withdrawn earlier?
The answer is plainly, unknowable - the great "if" that could have changed the fate of America.
Among the Democratic soul-searching, Harris' candidacy is often disparaged, her weaknesses as a leader pinpointed as the reasons for her defeat, not just the last-minute nature of Biden's decision.
When questioned about what went wrong, rather than plunge into deep analysis, her contention is because she started so late, it was almost impossible to win.
But having sat down with the Californian former prosecutor in the gilded surroundings of a luxury London hotel - rather than the increasingly golden surroundings of the Oval Office as Donald Trump glitzes up the decor - the possibility of power is something she is not willing to leave behind.
Previous hints of her future presidential ambition seemed coy, non-committal - "maybe, maybe not", or "I'm not focusing on that right now".
Her candour in our conversation was more striking. She was quick, eager even, to put herself in the frame for another tilt at power. But she stopped short of making any concrete commitment.
That may be surprising given the thoroughly bruising nature of a defeat she has described as traumatising. She and her team were devastated by the defeat, which came as a surprise to them.
"My god, my god, what will happen to our country?" Harris says she repeated when the result came through.
Her attempt to explain it focuses on how narrow the gap in actual votes was between her and Trump.
The popular vote was, indeed, very tight, with less than 2% in it. However, Harris was trounced by Trump in the all-important electoral college, where each state has a certain number of votes that tally up.
Harris was willing to drop heavy hints about her own future. But there's less willingness from her, or frankly any other senior Democrats, grappling with their party's long-term dilemmas.
How does a centre-left party with mainstream leaders take on a right-wing populist leader? Is the answer to focus on Trump? Or is it to argue more forcefully for Main Street?
When I challenged the former vice-president on why her campaign did not better connect with working people, she said she needed more time to do that, and pointed to a longstanding drift away from her party among that group.
She regrets she didn't have long enough in 2024 to make her own pitch on bread- and-butter issues like housing, or childcare.
But if she had longer next time round, it's far from guaranteed her arguments would be more compelling, or more gladly received.
Kamala Harris still travels with the trappings of an entourage. Aides anxiously watch the clock as her every minute is planned with military precision. Non-stop travel, choreographed events in different capitals, a tiny number of carefully planned TV interviews.
This time, Harris is on the move for a book tour, not a presidential race. But maybe, if she has her way, this is the start of another campaign after all.
Lucy Powell has been elected as Labour's new deputy leader after a race triggered by Angela Rayner's resignation last month.
The Manchester Central MP defeated Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson by promising to give grassroots members a louder voice and push for a "course correction" in government.
She was sacked from the cabinet in September and drew support from members who are dissatisfied with the direction of the government under Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.
Powell took 87,407 votes, comfortably beating Phillipson on 73,536, with a turnout of 16.6%.
The race began with six candidates but the field was quickly reduced to two, with Phillipson widely seen as the leadership's choice.
It was triggered by Rayner's dramatic resignation after admitting to underpaying tax on a house purchase.
While relations between Sir Keir and Rayner had been tense at times, she was a key figure in the government.
She held the title deputy prime minister and was seen as a political bridge between the leadership and the party's traditional working class and union base.
But last month's reshuffle left the deputy leadership as a purely party role after Sir Keir appointed David Lammy as deputy prime minister and placed key allies in other cabinet roles.
Unlike the cabinet, the deputy leader of the Labour Party is elected by members, not appointed by the prime minister.
Powell will sit on Labour's powerful National Executive Committee and act as the party's "campaigner-in-chief."
Andry Rajoelina has been in hiding since being removed from office last week
Former Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by the new regime.
The order, signed by new Prime Minister Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, cited local laws stipulating that people who acquired foreign citizenship should lose their Malagasy nationality.
Rajoelina, 51, obtained French citizenship a decade ago, prompting calls for his disqualification from the 2023 presidential election. But he defied those calls and went on to win.
He fled the African island nation after weeks of protests over persistent power and water shortages, culminating in a military takeover led by Col Michael Randrianirina.
Rajoelina has said he has gone into hiding for his own safety, and his whereabouts remain unclear.
When he disclosed his French nationality months before Madagascar's last presidential election, he argued he had only secretly acquired it to make things easier for his children studying in France.
In recent weeks, he had faced demonstrations initially organised by youth movement Gen Z Mada and inspired by similar anti-government protests in Nepal, which were only exacerbated when his government responded with violence.
Rajoelina sacked his energy minister and then his government - but this did little to quell the calls for him to step down.
Protesters had hoped that Rajoelina would resign to pave the way for a smooth, democratic transition.
Instead, he clung to power, eventually leading to Madagascar's elite military unit, of which Randrianirina was chief, to seize power.
He has now been sworn in and has formed a new government, pledging to hold elections within two years.
A 69-year-old Japanese tourist has died after falling off the perimeter wall of the Pantheon in Rome, local media reports.
Morimasa Hibino is said to have fallen from a height of about seven metres (22.9 ft) at around 21:50 local time (19:50 GMT). A priest who was passing by alerted the police when he saw the man lying in the ditch, according to local newspaper la Repubblica.
Emergency services and firefighters reportedly had to force open a gate outside the ancient Roman temple, before finding the man dead in a ditch.
An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the death.
The man was sitting on the edge of the wall, lost his balance and fell, la Repubblica reported, citing police.
Investigators have obtained surveillance images and videos overlooking the spot where the man was sitting, local media reports.
The Pantheon is one of Italy's most visited attractions, with millions of tourists estimated to see it every year.
Video appears to show mistakenly released hotel asylum seeker in Chelmsford
Police are continuing a manhunt for an asylum seeker who was mistakenly released from prison on Friday, weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in Essex.
Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre from HMP Chelmsford ahead of a planned deportation on Friday but Justice Secretary David Lammy said the 41-year-old is now "at large" in London.
Lammy said officers from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and Essex Police were working together to trace Kebatu, who was jailed for 12 months in September.
Sir Keir Starmer described the release as "totally unacceptable".
The prime minister said Kebatu "must be caught and deported for his crimes", adding that police are "working urgently to track him down".
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the release was a "level of incompetence that beggars belief".
"Conservatives voted against Labour's prisoner release program because it was putting predators back on our streets," she said on X.
Essex Police
Hadush Kebatu posed a "significant risk of reoffending", the judge said during sentencing
The Prison Service has removed an officer from discharging duties while an investigation takes place.
Essex Police said Kebatu boarded a London-bound train at Chelmsford station at 12:41 on Friday.
The force said it was informed by the prison services about "an error" at 12:57 on Friday.
A statement continued: "We understand the concern the public would have regarding this situation and can assure you we have officers working to urgently locate and detain him."
Lammy said he was "appalled" and "livid on behalf of the public".
He continued: "Let's be clear Kebatu committed a nasty sexual assault involving a young child and a woman. And for those reasons this of course is very serious."
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "We are urgently working with police to return an offender to custody following a release in error at HMP Chelmsford.
"Public protection is our top priority, and we have launched an investigation into this incident."
Kebatu's arrest in July sparked protests outside The Bell Hotel in Epping, where he had been living after arriving in the UK on a small boat.
In September, Chelmsford Magistrates' Court heard Kebatu tried to kiss a teenage girl on a bench and made numerous sexually explicit comments.
The following day, he encountered the same girl and tried to kiss her before sexually assaulting her. He also sexually assaulted a woman who had offered to help him draft a CV to find work.
During the trial, Kebatu gave his date of birth as December 1986, making him 38, but court records suggested he was 41.
He was found guilty of five offences and sentenced to 12 moths. He was also given a five-year sexual harm prevention order, which banned him from approaching or contacting any female, and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
The court heard it was his "firm wish" to be deported.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: "He is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken."
A report from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service said 262 prisoners in England and Wales were released in error between April 2024 and March 2025, up from 115 in the previous 12 months.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader last met in 2019
Donald Trump has said he would like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his upcoming trip to Asia.
"I would. If you want to put out the word, I'm open to it," the US president told reporters onboard Air Force One as he departed for the region, adding that he "had a great relationship" with Kim.
Trump made history during his first term, becoming the first sitting US president to set foot into North Korea when they last shook hands in 2019.
His trip to Malaysia and Japan will see him meet a number of world leaders including China's Xi Jinping, amid trade negotiations sparked by Trump's imposition of sweeping tariffs earlier this year.
Trump has taken an atypical approach to North Korea - a secretive communist totalitarian state largely isolated on the world stage - and its attempts at creating nuclear weapons, initially taunting Kim as a "little rocket man".
The pair met face-to-face three times during Trump's previous tenure in the White House but failed to agree a denuclearisation programme. North Korea has since conducted multiple tests of intercontinental missiles, its neighbours say.
Asked if he would recognise North Korea as a nuclear state, Trump told reporters late on Thursday: "I think they are sort of a nuclear power... They got a lot of nuclear weapons, I'll say that."
Kim has said he was open to meeting Trump again, provided the US stopped pursuing its "absurd" demand for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
"I still have a good memory of President Trump," Kim said in a speech last month, according to state media.
South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, who handles relations between the North and South, said there was a "considerable" chance the two leaders might meet while Trump is in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum, according to news agency AFP.
A senior US official told reporters that a meeting was not in Trump's schedule, according to the Anadolu Agency - though their last meeting in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas came off the back of an invitation by Trump on social media.
Trump's first stop will be in Malaysia, where he will attend Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit.
He is expected to land in the South Korean city Busan on Wednesday ahead of the Apec summit.
He will meet South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung, who discussed peace on the Korean peninsula and the possibility of a Trump-Kim meeting while visiting the White House in August.
Trump's meeting with China's President Xi comes on the backdrop of a trade war between the two nations.
The two have agreed to hold off triple-digit tariffs threatened against one another while seeking a trade agreement - but that detente is in jeopardy after Trump said he would level a 100% trade levy on Chinese goods over Beijing's curbs on rare earth exports.
The minerals are essential for many electronics and China is currently responsible for around 90% of exports of their refined form.
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