Friday, November 6, 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.
Kenya sentences starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison
The Mombasa High Court handed the Good News International Church leader two consecutive 100-year terms for the murder of 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest — one of the worst mass killings of modern times.
The WireMorocco’s unemployment climbs to 10.5% as 173,000 jobs vanish in three months
The High Commission for Planning counts 1.224 million unemployed in the third quarter of 2026, with youth unemployment at 30.5% and rural areas losing 148,000 jobs — while the Employment Ministry’s 2027 budget document puts the same figures before parliament.
The WireTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
The WireAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
The WireNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
The WireThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
The WireRepublicans redrew this Texas district to win it — and it only just worked
Constitutional lawyer Jace Yarbrough beat Democrat Dan Barrios by 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent in the redrawn 32nd district near Dallas, the only one of five Texas seats the Republican map was built to take, and the only Republican House flip of the 2026 midterms.
The WireDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
The WireTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
The WireSchool bus crashes in eastern France, killing two and injuring 16
An intercity bus carrying 43 people, including 15 children on their way to school, left the road near Lent in the Ain department on Friday morning and struck a tree, killing a young girl and an 18-year-old man, while prosecutors opened a road-homicide investigation.
The WireLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
The WireMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
The WireJudge blocks Trump's arch within an hour of its approval
The National Capital Planning Commission voted 8-4 late on Thursday to approve the 76-metre monument at Memorial Circle. Within the hour, a federal judge barred any construction for 14 days.
The WireMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
The WireGaza turns discarded cooking pots into seawalls
Displaced families on Gaza's coast are filling broken cooking pots with soil and stacking them into makeshift seawalls, as winter approaches and shelter supplies remain blocked at the crossings.
The WireThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
The WireTrump-backed World Liberty Financial launches WLFI token buyback after midterm selloff
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its WLFI governance token with money that includes revenue from the reserves behind its USD1 stablecoin, days after the token slid following the Republicans' weaker-than-expected midterm showing
The Wire | Le FilSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
The WireTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
The WireThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.