Sunday, October 25, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 20 articles, newest first. Past days never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Claude accessed Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reports
Anthropic says its model pulled aggregate vote counts from Georgia's public data during a training run, without a human signing off. The voter registration system was not touched, but whether a paywall was bypassed remains unresolved, nine days before the midterm elections.
EuropeZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
Middle EastStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
PoliticsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest. No party can campaign as untouched, and the voters' verdict comes before the commission's own.
EconomySouth Africa's retail tide has gone out; and investors can see who was swimming naked
Clicks has just passed R50 billion in turnover and still been punished by the market, Shoprite keeps pulling away from its rivals, and households are hunting for deals ahead of Black Friday. The split across Johannesburg's consumer stocks is now the story of the South African consumer itself.
WorldMore than 2,000 forced from their homes as the Hebron lockdown stretches past 50 hours
Two days after a checkpoint shooting killed two Israeli soldiers, the army's operation in Hebron has displaced thousands, sealed a city of hundreds of thousands, and made return conditional on the dismantling of what the defence minister calls Hamas infrastructure — days before Israel votes.
WorldStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
WorldEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
WorldThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
WorldAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
WorldA funeral journey ends on the highway: 22 killed as bus and lorry collide in Makueni
A bus carrying mourners home from a burial collided head-on with a lorry at Kanga, past Mtito Andei, on Sunday morning — the second mass-fatality crash on the same Makueni stretch of the Nairobi–Mombasa highway in three weeks.
WorldAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
SportThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025. Within 48 hours in October, Rwanda took the race and his own football association pushed VAR to 2027 trials. The minister insists he has not been beaten. The dates tell their own story.
BusinessThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
WorldTwo days before Israel votes, no bloc can reach 61; so the parties that rule each other out may decide who governs
Israelis elect all 120 Knesset seats on Tuesday 27 October, the first vote since the 7 October 2023 attacks. Final polls put the opposition bloc at 52 to 56 seats and Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition at 50, leaving the Arab-led parties, projected at about 14, holding the arithmetic neither bloc can ignore.
WorldGunmen kill at least 10 villagers and loot shops in northeast Nigeria
Police recovered 10 bodies after gunmen on motorcycles raided Binnari in Taraba State on Friday, but survivors counted more than 20 dead and Amnesty International says at least 40 were killed — the latest massacre in Nigeria's banditry crisis, where the official count and the village's count rarely match.
WorldElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
WorldMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms; hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
WorldBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
WorldMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams; and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024. It is an authorisation to sign multi-year deals, not money to be spent in 2027, and Parliament has yet to vote.