Friday 7th November 2025. Mexico President groping. Brazil COP30. France Shein. Ukraine Pokrovsk. Philippines typhoon. Germany swastikas...

Good morning. This is Send 7 World News in 7 Minutes. I'm Stephen Devin Chenzie. Today is Friday, the 7th of November, 2025. Starting in the Americas today, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum has filed an official complaint against a man who groped her and tried to kiss her earlier this week. Scheinbaum was talking to people in the street near Mexico's National Palace when a man who appears to be drunk came behind her, touched parts of her body and tried to kiss her before being confronted by Scheinbaum's security team. Yesterday, Scheinbaum said, "If this can happen to the president, what can happen to other women?" In Brazil, COP 30 will take place over the next two weeks, with many world leaders arriving yesterday. The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place in Belém, which is a city of over a million people on Brazil's north coast. Various leaders gave speeches yesterday, including Finland's President Alexander Stubb, who said that the world needs to put science in the driver's seat and said that climate scientists agree on what to do. We have the best scientists at our disposal, and they are unanimous that delaying climate action would have consequences that are devastating for all and irreversible for some. There are no excuses. At the same time, we need to recognise the growing amount of disinformation around climate science as an attempt to rattle the multilateral system and slow down a clear, clean transition. Bolivia's former interim president, Giannina Agnes, has been released from prison after nearly five years after the Supreme Court overturned a conviction of using a coup d'etat to seize power. In the United States, a teacher who was shot by her six-year-old student has been awarded $10 million in court. In 2023, Abigail Sverner was shot by the six-year-old boy who had taken the gun from his home and carried it to school in his backpack before taking it out and shooting one bullet which hit Sverner in her hand and chest. Lawyers for Sverner say that the vice principal ignored three other students telling her that the boy had a gun. In France, the Chinese fast-fashion company Cheyenne has opened its first ever permanent physical shop. There have been protests outside the shop in Paris against the general fast-fashion business model of Cheyenne and also because of a recent case in which the Cheyenne website was found to be selling sex dolls which, protesters say, resembled children and also some banned weapons. France's finance ministry has warned that it could suspend Cheyenne completely in France if illegal products continue to be found on its website. In the United Kingdom, two prisoners have been accidentally released. Just two weeks after the Ethiopian prisoner Hadouche Kebatou was also accidentally released. Despite being well-known for sparking protests earlier this year, Kebatou crossed from France to England on a small boat in June and just eight days later he was arrested and accused of three sexual assaults, including against a 14-year-old girl. Kebatou was sentenced to prison and deportation. However, he was accidentally released two weeks ago before being caught again and deported a few days later. In Ukraine, Russian forces are continuing to encircle the small city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region with intense fighting around and within the city. Ukrainian soldiers have continued to report Russian soldiers dressing as civilians, which is a war crime according to the Geneva Conventions. There are many reports of hundreds of Russian soldiers being killed every day in order to move forwards into Pokrovsk, which is largely destroyed and Russia has been trying to conquer for 15 months. If Russia captures Pokrovsk, it would be the biggest city that Russia has captured for two and a half years since capturing Bakhmut, which is also mostly destroyed. In Germany, a Romanian man has been arrested and accused of painting swastikas on cars and buildings with his own blood. The swastika symbol is illegal in Germany. In the Philippines, authorities have said that the death toll from Typhoon Kalmagi has risen to at least 114 and many more are still missing. Most of the deaths were in the central region of Cebu. Yesterday, Kalmagi reached Vietnam, where 260,000 soldiers have been prepared to help rescue efforts and six airports have been closed. In South Korea, part of a power plant collapsed yesterday, injuring workers and leaving five workers still trapped according to the fire department. In Malaysia, the rapper Namawe has been arrested over the alleged murder of the Taiwanese influencer Sier Hushin, who died in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur two weeks ago. Africa In Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has said that it had agreed to a three-month ceasefire proposed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Sudan has been in a civil war since April 2023 when the RSF started to fight the Sudanese army. Today, the RSF controls most of southwest Sudan and the Sudanese army control most of north and east Sudan. And Egypt has been welcoming the first guests of the new Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened this week. The museum has been in planning for over 30 years and construction started in 2005. The museum holds over 100,000 artefacts from the first human settlements of Egypt over 5,000 years ago until Roman Egypt, which ended in the 7th century. One of the major attractions is a recreation of the Tomb of King Tutankhamun, which displays over 5,000 items that are together for the first time since their discovery in 1922. Listeners, tomorrow we will release the second part of my interview with the self-described former Russian propagandist Andrew Rivkin. If you didn't listen to part one, you should definitely go back in this feed and find the episode that was released last Saturday. A big thank you to Gianluigi in Italy and Veronica in Spain for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to help to support us and have access to all of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets, and world news quizzes, then you can become a supporter at Sen7.org. Have a great weekend and see you tomorrow for part two of the interview with Andrew Rivkin.