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The latest iPhones have seen “a tremendous response” across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the tech giant released its latest financial results on Thursday.

In September the firm unveiled its thinnest iPhone, the Air, along with upgraded iPhone 17 models, proving a bumper crop.

It said it expects the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s period to be a blockbuster, forecasting overall revenue to be up to 12% higher than the same period last year.

Amazon, which also reported quarterly results this week, projected sales to land between $206bn (£156bn) and $213bn (£161bn) for the current quarter through December, largely in line with analysts' expectations.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

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At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon has said, as search and rescue efforts continue and authorities try to get aid to hard-hit areas.

Electricity remains out to most of the island and as people try to salvage damaged homes and belongings from floodwaters and mud, many thousands are growing increasingly desperate for aid.

Aid agencies and the military are bringing in the urgently needed supplies from Kingston via road, many of which remain unpassable in places.

The hurricane, one of the most powerful to strike the Caribbean, has also killed at least 30 people in Haiti, officials said.

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Using disused army barracks is one of the alternatives to asylum hotels being considered by the UK government.

Labour has pledged to close all asylum hotels by the end of the decade, with the hotel scheme, introduced by the Conservative government and Boris Johnson in 2019, expected to total £15bn by 2029.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, Conservative Assistant Whip and MP Harriet Cross, GB News presenter Matt Goodwin and economist Faiza Shaheen joined Question Time's Fiona Bruce in Bradford to discuss Labour's plans to use army barracks and abandoned buildings as future housing alternatives for asylum seekers.

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Buckingham Palace has announced it has stripped Andrew of his title of “Prince”.

He will be now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - effective immediately. He will also have to leave his official residence, the Royal Lodge.

Adam is joined by Victoria Derbyshire, Newsnight Presenter and BBC Royal Correspondent Daniela Relph.

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Today, Rachel Reeves rental arrangements came into question, after it emerged her rental property didn’t have the correct licence required by the local council.

Adam is joined by Newsnight’s Nick Watt to discuss how the story about the Chancellor’s rental property has unfolded throughout the day. Later on Thursday, Rachel Reeves's letting agent released a statement apologising for not getting the necessary licence for her property - but does the Chancellor still have questions to answer? Adam and Nick pick through the statements and emails that have emerged.

Plus, Adam is joined by BBC China Correspondent Laura Bicker, and Economics Editor Faisal Islam to discuss Thursday morning’s bilateral trade meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping in Korea. What’s the relationship between the superpowers now, what was secured, for how long, and what will the economic impact be?

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Andrew will lose his title and move out of Royal Lodge, a statement from Buckingham Palace has said.

Buckingham Palace says the King "has today initiated a formal process", and his brother will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

As well as the title, the Palace says "formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease" on Royal Lodge, and Andrew will move to the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk

"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the Palace said.

Andrew gave up his other royal titles earlier this month after more questions about his private life. In a posthumous memoir, Virginia Giuffre repeated allegations that, as a teenager, she had sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions. Andrew has always denied the claims.

Also this month, emails from 2011 re-emerged, showing Andrew in contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein months after he claimed their friendship ended.

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Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office.

Israeli forces will now transfer the bodies to the National Centre of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification.

Hamas's armed wing announced earlier that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch.

On Tuesday, the Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the Gaza ceasefire deal after the group handed over a coffin containing human remains that did not belong to one of the 13 deceased Israeli and foreign hostages still in Gaza.

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New satellite images of Jamaica show the scale of devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.

Large areas of towns and cities have been destroyed by high winds and flooding, and at least five people are confirmed to have been killed.

BBC Verify show side-by-side comparisons from before and after Melissa struck highlighting the impact where the Black River flows into the Caribbean.

It's clear most of the buildings in the town have been heavily damaged and there's debris lining every street.

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In one of his first interviews since the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue attack, in Manchester, England, Rabbi Daniel Walker says the Jewish community “can’t give up”.

Speaking to Radio 4 Today’s Emma Barnett, Rabbi Walker said he has no “mental space” to think about why the attacker did it.

He also said that a visit from King Charles earlier this month showed him that “society cares” about the Jewish community.

Two congregants - Adrian Daulby and Melvin Kravitz – were killed and three others seriously injured when Jihad Al-Shamie rammed a car into and stabbed worshippers.

He was later shot dead by police. The inquest into the victims’ deaths begins on 29 October.

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Emerging evidence of systematic killings in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher have prompted human rights and aid activists to describe the civil war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the military as a "continuation of the Darfur genocide".

The fall of el-Fasher, in the Darfur region, after an 18-month RSF siege brings together the different layers of the country's conflict - with echoes of its dark past and the brutality of its present-day war.

RSF emerged from the Janjaweed, Arab militias who massacred hundreds of thousands of Darfuris from non-Arab populations, in the early 2000s.

The paramilitary force has been accused of ethnic killings since its power struggle with the army erupted into violence in April 2023, but the RSF leadership has consistently denied the accusations - although on Wednesday its leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo admitted to "violations" in el-Fasher.

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