Thursday, November 12, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 22 articles, newest first. Past days never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital kills six, including a surgeon, in the deadliest attack since the election
Two missiles hit the surgery wing of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis shortly after midnight on Thursday, killing six people and wounding more than 20, as Israel said it had targeted a Hamas brigade commander whose fate remains unconfirmed.
The WireEuropean leaders meet in Dublin as hybrid attacks and the Ukraine envoy question dominate the summit
More than 40 European leaders gathered at the Convention Centre Dublin for the ninth European Political Community summit, weighing a wave of hybrid attacks and who should speak for Europe in the Ukraine peace talks.
The WireNvidia options traders bet on a longer-term recovery as Huang’s exit rattles the chipmaker
Options traders are betting Nvidia’s slump is a leadership shock, not the end of the AI trade, rolling bullish positions into 2027 after Jensen Huang resigned.
The WireBDS claims win as energy giants quit Israeli gas project off Gaza
Dana Petroleum is out of the Israeli-led consortium licensed to explore for gas in waters Palestinians claim, months after Italy’s Eni walked away — and the US driller Murphy Oil has already taken their place.
The WireNo compromise on Ukraine, Putin tells US envoys at the Kremlin
Vladimir Putin told Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that Russia will not soften its territorial demands, but offered a short ceasefire in a frontline Donetsk city after two days of talks in Abu Dhabi.
The WireUK court finds two Iranian men guilty of spying for Iran
A London jury convicted two Iranian men of spying for Tehran, in the first convictions of Iranian nationals under Britain's National Security Act.
The WireICRC counts 130 armed conflicts, the highest number since the Second World War
In a France 24 interview, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric warns that the rules of war are being trampled as states meet in Geneva to defend them, and counts more conflicts than at any time since 1945.
The Wire14 killed, 30 injured in Fujairah truck pile-up
A truck lost control on the road into Fujairah, ploughing into stationary traffic and catching fire in one of the UAE's deadliest road crashes.
The WireEurope views the US with ‘much less horror’ after Trump’s midterm defeat
European leaders welcomed the Democrats’ sweeping midterm victory, but analysts across three continents warn the transatlantic drift runs deeper than one election — and the hardest two years may still lie ahead.
The WireAfrican states close ranks behind Morocco's autonomy plan at the United Nations
Djibouti, Guinea, Togo and Liberia told the General Assembly on Wednesday that autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is the only realistic path to a settlement of the Moroccan Sahara file, as the debate over Russia's veto of the MINURSO renewal entered its second day.
The WireScott Colom wins Mississippi, becoming the state’s first Black senator in more than 150 years
The 43-year-old district attorney defeated Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by 4,585 votes after eight days of counting, giving Democrats at least 55 Senate seats and ending a wait that began when Reconstruction ended.
The WireStarshield speed cap returns over Ukraine, and Zelenskyy says it is helping Russia kill more Ukrainians
Kyiv says the military satellite network has been capped at 161 km/h for several days, leaving its interceptor drones too slow to catch Russia's jet-powered attackers — a month after the same limit was imposed and lifted.
The WireArcelorMittal takeover could make South Africa pay twice
The state lender's reported R10 billion rescue of South Africa's biggest steelmaker puts public money at risk — and critics warn steel users will pay the second bill.
The WireXi Jinping says Taiwan ‘reunification’ must happen, and history cannot be stopped
In a speech marking 160 years since the birth of Sun Yat-sen, China’s leader called reunification an unwavering mission of the Communist Party and pledged to pursue it peacefully — while saying nothing about force, a week before he meets Donald Trump at APEC.
The WireRussia's ‘hidden mobilisation’: the expendable lives fuelling Putin’s war on Ukraine
Four years into the full-scale invasion, Moscow has stopped announcing drafts and started quietly taking men instead — from poor regions, ethnic minorities, prisons, debtors and foreign jobseekers — as casualties mount and the volunteer pipeline thins.
The WireParaguay repays all eligible Ueno Bank depositors in part as $643m is returned
Paraguay's central bank says every saver covered by the state deposit guarantee has now received at least part of the money frozen when Ueno Bank collapsed last week — but only about $643 million of roughly $2.8 billion in deposits has come back, and the fate of the rest, including public pension money, is still unknown.
The WireSamsung Securities' AI K-pop group LUMINA passes 3 million views with debut single 'Override'
A South Korean brokerage that could not find presenters for its social media channels has built its own stars instead, and the audience came. LUMINA, a four-member girl group generated entirely by artificial intelligence, has passed 3 million YouTube views, and the experiment is now a test case for copyright, trust and the future of pop.
The WireIran warns of wider retaliation as Israel orders its military to prepare a new strike
Israel's security cabinet has told the army to step up preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and Tehran has answered by widening the map of its threatened retaliation to American bases as far away as Europe — while the Qatar-led talks to end the war hang in the balance.
The WireBourita represents the King as Morocco presses its climate case at COP31
In Antalya, Morocco's foreign minister carried the King's message to the COP31 leaders' summit: deep emissions cuts, a renewables surge, and a demand that climate finance finally reach Africa.
The WireNvidia's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang, reports say
The board of the world's most valuable company is reported to be preparing to remove its co-founder after two extramarital affairs — one with a woman American officials suspect of spying for China, the other with a senior executive who reports to him — and the shares fell about 8% after hours.
The WireJapan's top currency diplomat warns yen moves are 'excessively rapid' as the dollar nears 160
Atsushi Mimura invoked the memory of this summer's record intervention as the dollar touched 159.94 yen, its strongest in more than two months, on bets that hot American inflation will push the Federal Reserve to raise rates again.
The WireStocks climb on tech gains; Nvidia falls 8% after hours as its board reportedly prepares to oust Huang
Wall Street's main indexes rose more than 1% on Wednesday as CoreWeave's results revived the AI trade — then Nvidia slid after the bell when the Wall Street Journal reported its board was preparing to remove Jensen Huang, days after the chief executive admitted an affair and the board opened an inquiry into whether he was the target of a foreign intelligence operation.