Saturday, October 24, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 24 articles, newest first. Past days never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Iran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the…
WorldA crane fell onto São Paulo's monorail — and the next train ran straight into it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, a crane toppled onto the elevated Line 15-Prata near Camilo Haddad station in São Paulo, and a passing monorail train struck the…
WorldAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace. Then, as the crowd dispersed at…
WorldIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an…
SportBurnley sack Nicky Hayen after 14 games following the 4-1 thrashing at Lincoln
The Championship club acted within hours of Saturday's collapse at Lincoln City, leaving the Clarets 22nd with one league win from 12 — and a successor still…
WorldFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public…
WorldNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using…
WorldUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to…
SportCan Mbappé's record-breaking season win the Ballon d'Or without a trophy?
The 70th Ballon d'Or is presented in London on Monday. Kylian Mbappé arrives with the World Cup Golden Boot, the all-time World Cup scoring record and…
EconomyMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by…
WorldIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October…
WorldOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and…
SportRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were…
WorldIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says…
World‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran…
WorldAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics…
WorldIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied…
WorldHelen Haines now 'serious but stable' as Australia confronts its political-violence question
Five days after a driver allegedly rammed her outside her Wangaratta electorate office, the independent MP's condition has improved from critical — the first…
EuropeFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and…
EconomyMorocco's 2027 budget: a social-spending surge wrapped in fiscal discipline
On Friday, Economy and Finance Minister Fouzi Lekjaa presented the 2027 Finance Bill to a joint session of Parliament: 62 billion dirhams for purchasing power…
WorldSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark…
WorldThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the…
WorldIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack…
WorldFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the…