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John Cleese is refusing to back down after posts about Islam sparked a complaint to a UK counter-extremism watchdog. The referral does not mean he has been arrested, charged or formally accused of terrorism.
Prediction-market traders and supporters are circulating claims that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine's Person of the Year, after he built a global profile standing up to President Trump.
Witnesses report fire and smoke near Saudi Aramco's Riyadh facility as unconfirmed claims of a Houthi attack circulate. Next News Network examines the reaction from state-linked outlets and social media accounts.
Iran halted trading in six oil refiners and explosions were reported near Qeshm Island, according to Middle East outlets, prompting widespread social media reaction from regional monitoring accounts.
Accounts including Visegrad 24 circulated footage in which a woman screams 'I beg you' while students destroy the school piano. The underlying event has not been independently confirmed.
Nearly two hundred people have been placed under medical observation in Siberia's Irkutsk region after a laboratory worker reportedly died of plague, a claim drawing intense international attention that remains unverified by independent authorities.
President Trump's top national security advisers reportedly met secretly at Camp David to weigh military options on Iran and Yemen, a claim Axios first reported and that has since been picked up by outlets and accounts across the political spectrum. Next News Network could not independently verify the meeting occurred.
A senior UAE official publicly classified the attempted downing of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 as a terrorist act for the first time, as Israel investigates whether the Omani co-pilot who stabbed the captain mid-flight was acting on behalf of another party.
The Omani co-pilot accused of attacking a Flydubai captain mid-flight was previously barred from flying over extremist views and has told investigators he intended to crash the jet in Israel, according to reports.
Federal investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it approached the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials familiar with the matter. The claim, which has not been independently confirmed, has sparked widespread reaction across social media and news outlets.
Conspiracy theorists immediately blamed Israel and the Mossad for Wednesday's thwarted hijacking of Flydubai Flight FZ1073, with thousands of posts spreading antisemitic lies before the facts were even known.
The captain of a FlyDubai flight allegedly attacked by his co-pilot says his faith gave him the courage to fight back. The claim has not been independently verified by Next News Network.
