Thursday, October 29, 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.
Intel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
WorldAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly. It is an election-week demand for honesty about an infrastructure crisis years in the making.
WorldTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
PoliticsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19. Likud's response: the election was stolen — and the 19 seats holding the balance of power are now a crime scene.
EconomyEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging. With inflation at 4.5% and rates at 7.25%, the number tells two stories at once.
HealthDiphtheria's return: 25 suspected cases in Morocco's north
A 12-year-old boy's death in Larache and 25 suspected cases across the north mark the steepest escalation yet of a disease Morocco had not reported since 1992 — and put the national vaccination shield back on trial.
EuropeSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named. The question has moved from who won to who governs, and who decides.
WorldWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre. The information war has gone industrial — the fightback is racing to catch up.
Europe'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday. As cranes lift the wreckage, the questions are no longer technical alone — they are political, nine months after the Adamuz crash, with a snap election a month away.
AsiaTwo dead as a fairy chimney collapses near Göreme's open-air museum in Cappadocia
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rock tumbling onto visitors near the Göreme Open-Air Museum — raising urgent questions about the safety of the formations that draw millions to central Türkiye each year.
PoliticsRecord 33 purged as Xi turns the plenum into a discipline session
The Communist Party's fifth plenum confirmed the biggest expulsion of senior officials on record — 33 of them, half from the military — and rewrote the party's operating doctrine around 'rigorous governance' ahead of the 2027 leadership congress.
PoliticsAlaska's governor orders a criminal probe of the 'Decoy Dan' affair five days before the midterms
Responding to a New York Times investigation, Mike Dunleavy has directed Alaska's Department of Public Safety to determine whether Mary Peltola's campaign broke the law by recruiting a namesake candidate to confuse voters.
EconomyECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
PoliticsWhy Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency
Five days before the November 3 midterms, the final polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in a Senate race that could decide control of the chamber — while Donald Trump's approval in the state sits at a record low.
Europe68 dead as a Renfe AVE ploughs into a stopped Iryo near Toledo — Spain’s deadliest rail crash since 2013
A computer failure stopped the trains; a human decision restarted one of them. On the morning of 28 October 2026, Spain’s showcase high-speed network suffered its second catastrophe in nine months — and the questions now reach all the way to Moncloa.
AsiaHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
AsiaThe long road home is paved in Hebrew: how education is carrying the Bnei Menashe to Israel
A 17-year-old who never sat her final exams in Manipur is now learning the Hebrew alphabet in an absorption centre in northern Israel. She is among the first of nearly 5,800 Bnei Menashe the Israeli cabinet voted to bring home by 2030 — and her classroom is where a 2,700-year-old story meets the machinery of a modern state.
AfricaMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
PoliticsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
CultureSixteen seconds on a Paris runway: why a model's stumble became the season's viral moment
A sixteen-second clip from the Mugler show turned a model's struggle with her shoes into the season's most-shared fashion moment — and reopened an old argument about whether the runway is a workplace, a stage, or both.
TechnologyAlphabet's $9 billion cash burn: the quarter AI spending outran search
Google's parent grew revenue 25% and more than doubled its cloud business — and still lost a tenth of its value in an evening, because the search engine that pays for everything grew more slowly, and the bill for artificial intelligence keeps getting bigger.
TechnologySamsung's $80 billion quarter: the AI chip boom, in one company's books
Samsung Electronics posted a record 107.4 trillion won operating profit for July to September, its fourth straight record quarter — powered almost entirely by memory chips for AI, while its phones division slipped into the red.
PoliticsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
Politics“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.