Tuesday, November 10, 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.
IBM ends most US visa and green card sponsorship in its biggest division
IBM Consulting, the technology giant's largest business with more than 150,000 workers, will stop sponsoring US visas and green cards for most roles, the company confirmed on Tuesday — the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration's crackdown on skilled-worker immigration is changing how American technology firms hire.
The WireNetanyahu and Eisenkot both push for a new government as Israel’s deadlocked parliament is sworn in
President Isaac Herzog handed Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to form a government on Sunday after an election that left no bloc with a majority — and on Tuesday, as the new Knesset was sworn in, both the former general and the caretaker prime minister were calling for a national government, on very different terms.
The WireSouth Africa's youth unemployment hits 63.6% as a Cape Town summit bets on young problem-solvers
Statistics South Africa's latest survey puts youth unemployment at 63.6% and the number of young people outside work, study and training at 3.7 million — yet the 2,200 young leaders who gathered in Cape Town last week argue the fix will come from young founders, not from waiting on jobs.
The WireGermany’s military bans Chinese-made drones from its barracks, citing security risks
Der Spiegel reports the Bundeswehr has banned commercially available Chinese-made drones from its barracks and training grounds with immediate effect, after years in which local commanders bought them with little oversight and no central record of what was purchased.
The WireUS skips its UN human rights review for a second year as the Council postpones the reckoning to January
Washington left its seat empty in Geneva on Tuesday, becoming the first country to refuse the Universal Periodic Review outright, and the Human Rights Council moved the examination to January 2027 while recording its regret at the non-cooperation.
The WireIran holds to the nuclear treaty as hardliners raise the prospect of a bomb
Tehran says it has not suspended its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and inspectors have returned to the Bushehr plant — but the bombed sites stay closed, the hardliners are pressing for a new doctrine, and the treaty itself has become the bargaining chip.
The WireFrance names Iran's Shahid Kaveh unit behind the supermarket fridge hacks — and Tehran calls it baseless
Paris says the Revolutionary Guards' cyber unit raised temperatures at 700 sites in October, spoiling food worth tens of millions of euros; Iran denies everything, and the attribution opens a new front in a war France had tried to stay out of.
The WireIsrael to open permanent defense attaché office in Rabat as Baram visit deepens military ties
Israel’s defense chief Amir Baram met Morocco’s top military leadership in Rabat on Monday, and he is to inaugurate the permanent premises of Israel’s first defense attaché office in the kingdom — the latest step in a partnership that has moved from arms purchases to joint production.
The WireIraq bars plane carrying Iran's football team from landing in Basra over US sanctions
Baghdad turned the flight back to Abadan rather than risk breaching American sanctions on Iranian airlines, forcing the Iranian squad to reach the four-nation tournament in Basra by road — the latest sign of how far Washington's aviation crackdown now reaches.
The WireHelsing to unveil AI targeting software in Berlin as Europe shops for a Palantir alternative
The Munich defence firm will present its rival to Palantir's Maven system on Wednesday, pitching European governments on software built at home, as Berlin says it will not buy the American system and aims to field its own from 2027.
The WireGulf states agree a joint military command in Kuwait as the Iran war redraws their defence
Defence ministers approved an advanced headquarters for the GCC's Unified Military Command in Kuwait, with forces assigned to it — the Gulf's clearest move yet towards defending itself, after months of Iranian and Houthi attacks.
The WirePoland charges two Ukrainians with spying and sabotage for Russia
Arrested on 3 November and charged the next day, the two men are accused of scouting military sites and torching cars to turn Poles against Ukrainians — the latest case in a shadow war Warsaw says Moscow has waged since 2022.
The WireThree top Justice Department officials resign in two days after the midterm defeat
The civil rights chief, the national security chief and the prosecutor behind the “grand conspiracy” inquiry all left within 48 hours of the Democrats’ midterm sweep, and the department now faces a Congress controlled by its critics.
The WireNvidia spy scandal fuels debate over chip exports to China
A personal scandal at the top of the world's most valuable chipmaker has become Congress's sharpest argument for locking down advanced AI chip exports — and the White House now holds the deciding vote.
The WireUS evacuates aircraft from a second British base after an Iran threat
Tankers left RAF Mildenhall for Germany on Monday and the security level was raised at two American bases in England, weeks after bombers were pulled out of RAF Fairford over a suspected Iran-linked plot.
The WireMyanmar lobbies the US to invest in its rare earths, a sector China dominates
Naypyitaw's military government, through its Washington lobbyists, wants the United States to treat Myanmar as a critical-minerals priority — but the mines it is offering sit in territory its army does not control.
The WireCongress asked to make Diwali a federal holiday, with 19 lawmakers behind the bill
Grace Meng reintroduced the Diwali Day Act the day after the festival, framing a 12th federal holiday as an answer to rising anti-Hindu and anti-South Asian hate — the third attempt in five years.
The WireFirms tied to West Bank settlements win £10.7m in UK deals after sanctions pledge
Al Jazeera finds 18 new public contracts for companies named by the UN over settlement links, two months after the foreign secretary promised the “full force” of sanctions — and the biggest names were already on the books.
The WireTrump says more US strikes on Iran are ‘highly unlikely’ — but forces stay ‘locked and loaded’
The president says the war is “effectively over” and points to “positive momentum” in talks mediated by Qatar, eight months after American and Israeli strikes opened the conflict — yet the naval blockade stays in place, limited strikes continue, and Tehran warns of a devastating reply to any resumption.
The WireBank of Japan's faster ETF sales worth ¥1 trillion a year, finance minister says
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Tuesday that the Bank of Japan expects its accelerated sales of exchange-traded fund holdings to generate about ¥1 trillion ($6.33 billion) in additional annual proceeds, money Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to direct toward investment in areas vital to Japan's economic security — though the minister cautioned that the exact sum reaching state coffers will depend on year-end calculations.
The WireMorocco lifts the visa for Ecuadorians as Rabat turns a Sahara backing into a working partnership
Foreign ministers Nasser Bourita and Roberto Carlos Kury Pesantes signed the waiver in Rabat on Monday 9 November, alongside a 2026–2028 cooperation roadmap, fertiliser supplies and a new Moroccan embassy in Quito — the practical half of the talks that also restated Ecuador's backing for Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara.
The WireChina is sorting its universities into three lanes as AI upends the graduate jobs market
Beijing's September reform divides more than 3,000 institutions into research, applied and skills tracks, after a record 12.7 million graduates entered a market where youth unemployment hit 18.9%.
The WireThe superpower battle over energy — and what it means for your bills
Bills are set to jump by more than a quarter in January as war closes a strait, storage runs low and America and China pull Britain in opposite directions.
The WireSupreme Court clears the way for a border wall through Big Bend National Park
The Supreme Court has lifted the injunction that halted border barrier construction across the Big Bend Sector, clearing the way for building through Big Bend National Park while the lawsuit over the government's environmental waivers continues.