Sunday, November 8, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 16 articles, newest first. Past days never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Trump vows a comeback as a bitter showdown with Congress looms
Four days after voters handed Congress to the Democrats, the president ordered the Justice Department to examine the opposition’s threats of impeachment — and called them extortion. The Sunday talk shows turned the order into a standoff.
World“We were fodder”: how a Botswana architect was lured into Russia’s war
A trained architect answered a pop-up ad for a driving job in Poland. Months later he was walking toward Ukrainian guns in a Russian uniform — one of thousands of Africans caught in a recruitment pipeline the United Nations now calls human trafficking.
WorldNigeria says South African couriers are fuelling cartel trafficking through its airports
Nigeria’s anti-drug agency says three South Africans were arrested moving heroin, cocaine and synthetic cannabis through the country — a reversal of the accusation Pretoria has long levelled at Nigerians.
EconomyThreadbare: rags and riches — how South Africa’s retail giants profit from sweatshops
Court papers and government raids have exposed the reality inside Newcastle’s clothing factories: wages as low as R70 a day, workers sleeping where they sew, and the labels of the country’s biggest retailers on the garments coming out.
WorldTens of thousands march in Amsterdam as the Red Line returns to press the Dutch government on Gaza
Amnesty International put the crowd above 200,000; organisers quoted a far smaller figure. Either way, the fourth Red Line march filled Museumplein and carried three demands to a prime minister who once marched alongside them.
WorldNigeria takes its $25bn Morocco gas pipeline to investors — and puts a second desert route on the 2027 agenda
At ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi, NNPC chief Bashir Bayo Ojulari said every country on the Atlantic route has signed up, named ADNOC among the investors being courted, and promised final-investment-decision talks next year on the rival Trans-Saharan line.
WorldDemocrats flip five attorney general offices in Republican states, opening a new legal front against Trump
Voters in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa and Kansas handed the Democrats the offices that have spent a decade suing Democratic administrations. The incoming attorneys general say they will review the immigration, abortion and environmental cases their predecessors built — and join the lawsuits against Washington instead.
WorldANC falls to 31% in South Africa's local elections, its worst result since 1994
With 99% of votes counted, the party that has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid has lost its outright majority in every one of the eight big metros, and two weeks of coalition bargaining will now decide who runs the country's cities.
WorldTaiwan detains Communist Party chief over alleged Chinese funding ahead of local elections
Lin Te-wang, founder of the small Taiwan People's Communist Party, was ordered detained on Sunday after prosecutors said he took instructions and money from Beijing to run for a ward chief's post — three weeks before Taiwan votes in local elections on 28 November.
WorldRiyadh financial district targeted in missile attack, Aramco tower damaged: witnesses
Saudi air defences intercepted two ballistic missiles aimed at the capital on Sunday, the coalition said, as witnesses reported damage to the Aramco tower in the King Abdullah Financial District — a day after air strikes near Sanaa that the Houthis say killed 33 people.
WorldTwo tankers catch fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting mines, Iran says
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say two oil tankers struck naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz late on Saturday and caught fire, hours after the United States disabled a cargo ship nearby. No independent confirmation has emerged.
WorldGunman kills six in Kraków’s Main Square as Poland declares national mourning
A 25-year-old gunman opened fire from a car in Kraków’s Main Market Square on Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 15. Three more bodies were found at his home. Poland begins two days of national mourning.
WorldTrump offers UFC chief Dana White the press secretary job — White declines, but will meet him on Monday
Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had offered the White House press secretary job to the UFC chief executive, and asked him to bring six fighters as assistants. A source tells CNN that White has declined the offer — but White himself says he will fly to Washington to meet the president on Monday.
WorldUS forces disable cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman as the Iran blockade tightens
US Central Command said an American military aircraft fired precision munitions at the stern of the St Kitts-flagged M/V Huda on Saturday 7 November, after its crew ignored repeated warnings and tried to break the naval blockade of Iran — as Tehran reported mines, explosions and a confrontation widening from sea to land.
WorldEisenkot chosen over Netanyahu to form Israel’s next government
President Isaac Herzog has given opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot 28 days to build a coalition of 61 seats, after an election that left no bloc with a majority and made Israel’s Arab parties kingmakers.
WorldBourita’s unannounced Nouakchott visit opens Morocco’s post-MINURSO diplomacy
Morocco’s foreign minister travelled to Mauritania on Friday, six days after the UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its mandate — a visit reported by Mauritanian and Moroccan press and confirmed by neither government.