2025 October 25 BBC One minute World News

This is BBC News, the headlines. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has accused the U.S. of fabricating a war after it sent the world's largest warship towards the Caribbean in a major escalation. That comes after the U.S. carried out 10 airstrikes in the Caribbean on boats it says belong to traffickers. The Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Doug Ford, says he'll pause the advertising campaign that prompted President Trump to end trade talks with Canada. The ads, which will be pulled from broadcast in America on Monday, featured the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan criticising the use of tariffs. Police in the UK are continuing to search for an asylum seeker who is mistakenly released from prison while serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Hadouche Kovatou was jailed last month for a year for crimes which sparked protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping in the summer.