Wednesday, November 11, 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.
Judge rules Trump’s $10bn BBC defamation suit can proceed
A Florida judge let the defamation claim stand and threw out the trade-practices claim. The BBC says it is surprised but confident; Mr Trump calls it a huge victory — and must still prove his case, and testify under oath by 11 December.
The WireTshisekedi signs the referendum law that could open the way to a third term
Law No. 26/045 lets Congolese voters be asked about a new constitution. The two-term limit still stands, the opposition calls the move a power grab, and no referendum has been called.
The WireBen Dekker dies at 86: the forester, actor and philosopher who stood for Parliament from a fruit barrow
The Wild Coast free spirit who challenged apartheid’s certainties in the lecture hall, on the stage and from a fruit vendor’s barrow has died at 86, in the hospital near the hut he called home.
The WireIndonesia’s vice-president resigns as the alliance that put Prabowo in power frays
Gibran Rakabuming Raka handed his resignation to President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday, a day after saying he would fight the court rulings against him — and the departure of Joko Widodo’s eldest son leaves the coalition that won the 2024 election in open question.
The WireZohran Mamdani’s influence grows as Democrats eye 2028 strategies
A week after Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, the most sought-after figure in the party is the mayor of New York City — and a report that he has spent weeks in private meetings with progressive labour leaders about the 2028 presidential race has turned a local triumph into a national question.
The WirePortugal cancels 200-plus flights, shuts schools as Storm Charles hits
Storm Charles made landfall in Portugal on Wednesday, closing all of the country’s roughly 8,000 schools, cancelling hundreds of flights and shutting non-essential public services, after a government criticised for its slow response to the winter’s earlier storms decided to close the country before the worst arrived — and the worst, in the end, never quite came.
The WireUN General Assembly hears broad support for Morocco’s autonomy plan after Russia’s veto
Thirty-four delegations took the floor in New York on Tuesday as the General Assembly debated Russia’s veto of the US-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara. Washington, Paris, London and a broad African and Gulf bloc rallied behind autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, while Moscow, Algiers and others warned against a predetermined outcome — and the session adjourned with the debate unfinished.
The Wire‘Our neighbours are gone’: Gaza’s first winter storm kills five and floods 70,000 tents
A sandbank collapse in Deir al-Balah buried families alive as Gaza’s first winter storm flooded tens of thousands of tents. Survivors dug with their bare hands while the UN counted more than 106,000 people directly affected — and warned that 150,000 tents are still waiting outside the territory.
The WireSpain grinds to a halt in its first general strike in 14 years, with housing on the ballot
Workers across Spain stopped work on Wednesday in the country’s first general strike in 14 years, turning the housing crisis into a national shutdown 18 days before a snap election.
The WireBrazil’s top electoral court fines Meta $1.34 million over the Lula–Bolsonaro runoff
The Superior Electoral Court ruled unanimously that Facebook failed to comply fully with orders to treat the two presidential campaigns equally, but said there was no evidence so far that the company deliberately tilted the election.
The WireAfrican rights body appeals to Niger over treatment of Mahamid Arabs in Diffa
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has asked President Abdourahamane Tchiani to act on reports that the Arab Mahamid community in south-eastern Niger is being cut off from water, schooling, healthcare and identity papers — and, since the weekend, told it has two months to leave.
The WirePolisario declares general mobilisation ten days after the UN mission’s mandate ended
The movement’s National Secretariat, meeting in emergency session under Brahim Ghali, accused Morocco of massing troops along the sand wall — a claim no independent source has confirmed — and called on Sahrawis to stand ready, on the same day the General Assembly debated the veto that ended 35 years of UN peacekeeping.
The WireGaza's broken drains leave 350,000 people under water as the first winter storm hits
Seventy thousand tents flooded in twelve hours. Six of Gaza City's eight sewage pumps are destroyed, Civil Defence answered one call in ten, and the equipment that could drain the next storm is still waiting at the border.
The WireJapan's advisers: hitting the 2% inflation goal is not the victory — sustaining growth is
Four private-sector members of Japan's top economic council told Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday that the 2 per cent target is a milestone, not a settlement — and that weak consumption and flat real incomes still stand between Japan and a lasting escape from deflation.
The WireBeijing confirms Premier Li Qiang will attend the ASEAN summit in Manila
After a week in which Manila said it expected him but had no formal word, China has confirmed its premier for Sunday and Monday — and the South China Sea code of conduct will be waiting for him at the table.
The WireTrump says the US will end its $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of 2026
The announcement, made on the morning of the midterm elections, lands as Democrats sweep Congress and Israel's deadlocked parliament searches for a government — and neither capital has yet shown a plan for what replaces the grants.
The WireIran designates Argentina’s navy and air force as ‘terrorist organisations’
Tehran has branded Argentina’s navy and air force ‘terrorist organisations’ in retaliation for Buenos Aires blacklisting the Revolutionary Guard, invoking a 2019 reciprocity law — the latest entry in a tit-for-tat that now spans the European Union and Britain.
The WireBessent moves to a military base as Iranian threats reach an advanced stage
The Treasury secretary, architect of the economic pressure campaign against Tehran, has left his Washington home for protected housing after US officials concluded Iranian plotting had reached an advanced stage.
The WireHow hacking became a key weapon for sanctions-hit North Korea
The FBI blames Pyongyang for the $6.3 billion Binance theft, the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Behind the attribution lies a decade of patient state-building: a cyber force of about 8,400, a regime that treats stolen crypto as a revenue line, and a sanctions system struggling to keep up.
The WireKennedy family joins lawsuits to block Trump's arch at Arlington
Nine children and grandchildren of Robert and Edward Kennedy have asked a federal court to let them join the fight against the 250-foot triumphal arch, arguing it would desecrate the ground where their family is buried beside John F. Kennedy's Eternal Flame.
The WireUS charges three men over alleged Iran-backed plot to strike RAF Fairford
Federal prosecutors say the three men, one of them already jailed in New York, helped direct nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States, including a September plot to drive fuel-laden vans at a British air base housing American bombers.
The WireBarrot heads to Morocco as France and Morocco close in on a treaty two years in the making
France's foreign minister travels to Morocco this week for talks and a women's peace forum in Essaouira, as Paris and Rabat prepare the ground for King Mohammed VI's state visit to France in January and the signing of a friendship treaty unlike any France has signed outside Europe.
The Wire‘It can kill us’: Kenyans brace for an El Niño the forecasters call historic
The short rains are gathering over Nairobi, and the forecast points to one of the strongest El Niño events on record. For the families living closest to the city’s rivers, the warning is not abstract — the water has already killed.
The WireRepublicans derail the bid to impeach Hegseth — but the fight returns in January
The House voted 211 to 204 on Tuesday to send the impeachment resolution against Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, handing Donald Trump a reprieve days after the Republicans' midterm rout — and setting up a second attempt when Democrats take Congress in January.