Saturday, November 14, 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.
From experiment to stage: why China chose Shenzhen for APEC
Next week, the leaders of 21 economies gather in the city that turned a fishing coast into a technology capital — and Beijing intends the setting to carry the message.
WorldOne router, 20,000 disrupted flights: L3Harris maintenance blamed for the FAA's five-hour ground stop
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Saturday that a router installed by contractor L3Harris during a copper-to-fibre upgrade may have flooded the air traffic system and forced the nationwide halt. The cause is not yet confirmed — and no cyberattack is suspected.
WorldA New York judge opens a Delhi route to serve India's security chiefs in the Pannun case
Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled on 9 November that summonses for Ajit Doval and Samant Goel may travel through Indian courts under the Hague Service Convention. New Delhi calls the lawsuit frivolous. Nothing in the order touches the merits.
WorldFrance reaffirms Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara and calls autonomy the only basis for a settlement
After talks in Essaouira, Paris restates its ‘unwavering’ position two weeks after the UN Security Council failed to renew the MINURSO mission — and puts a bilateral treaty and a royal visit to Paris on the horizon.
WorldDuffy wants $50 billion to fix US aviation
Hours after a telecom failure halted every US departure, the transport secretary raised his demand from $30.1bn to $50bn. Congress decides next.
WorldQuad leaders to meet in Manila on Tuesday as sources confirm first summit in two years
Modi, Trump, Takaichi and Albanese are expected to gather on 17 November, on the sidelines of the ASEAN summits — the first Quad leaders’ meeting since 2024, and the first ever held in a country outside the group.
WorldUkraine and Russia race to build military satellite networks as Starlink falters
Kyiv's first test satellite is in orbit and Moscow's rival constellation is losing spacecraft. Both sides are years from independence — and the war is being fought on a network one man can throttle.
WorldAfter Trump pulls Vance off Iran, Tehran reads the end of the deal — and braces for war
The vice-president was Washington's chief negotiator and the man Tehran saw as its most pragmatic counterpart. His removal, announced in a social media post, tells Iran that a deal is no longer the priority — while the blockade tightens and the Strait of Hormuz runs at a third of its normal traffic.
WorldInside Ethiopia's war, a hospital in Amhara treats the wounded as fighting returns
France 24 was granted rare access to a civilian hospital in Amhara, where surgeons are working through an influx of wounded patients while humanitarian organisations report a rising civilian toll. The World Health Organization warns that the region's health system is near collapse.
WorldUS floated Ukraine giving up Donbas for NATO membership, Zelensky says
American negotiators asked for the first time whether Kyiv would withdraw from the Donbas in exchange for joining NATO, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday — and he made clear that any such deal would have to go to the Ukrainian people.
WorldNetanyahu may fall, but the far-right machinery built under him will not
The 27 October election stripped Netanyahu of his majority and handed Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to form a government. But the Settlement Administration, the E1 plan and the police and prison changes built by Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are already written into the machinery of the state.
WorldSingapore's new aid network aims to fix Gaza's last mile — and measure success by what arrives, not what is sent
SG for Humanity, launched on 5 November, ties four Singapore charities to partners in Egypt and Gaza; its minister says about 200 trucks a day are crossing into Gaza against a 600-truck capacity.
WorldSouth Korea should neither fear nor underestimate China’s rise, its foreign minister says
Cho Hyun spoke a day after talks and dinner with Wang Yi in Beijing, as Seoul prepares for a Lee–Xi meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November.
WorldMorocco’s phosphate could soon fuel French reactors as OCP talks uranium with EDF and Orano
Le Monde reports OCP is in talks with EDF and Orano on supplying uranium concentrate recovered from Moroccan phosphate, with a memorandum possible during King Mohammed VI’s state visit to Paris in January 2027 — a deal that would redraw France’s nuclear supply map after the loss of Niger.
WorldGoyal takes 140 chief executives to Cairo as India bets on Egypt and the Suez Canal
India’s commerce minister opens a two-day visit to Egypt on Sunday, co-chairing the seventh Joint Trade Committee with a delegation of more than 140 business leaders — and with the Suez Canal Economic Zone at the centre of the agenda.
WorldGermany hands its spies powers to hack, sabotage and disrupt — and rewrites the post-war rulebook
The Bundestag voted on Friday to let the BND and the BfV move from watching threats to striking at them — hacking servers, sabotaging weapons production and entering homes in secret. The government calls it a reform of the century; its critics hear the echo of the Stasi.
WorldA Tehran shopkeeper who looks like Netanyahu went viral — and no one can prove who he is
A nine-second clip of a dried-fruit seller resembling Israel’s prime minister travelled from Persian-language social media to newsrooms in a dozen countries. His identity, his shop’s location and the footage’s authenticity are all still unconfirmed — and the boycott claims are disputed.
WorldAfghanistan's road to China ends at a closed border
Six weeks after the Taliban opened a 121-kilometre gravel road through the Wakhan Corridor, Beijing has sent no representative, built no customs post and given no date — the pass stays shut.
WorldQatar and Türkiye sign a mutual defence pact in Istanbul as Gulf tensions sharpen
Erdoğan and Emir Tamim commit to a unified stance against any external armed attack, the third Turkish-linked defence arrangement since August — but the pact's terms have not been published, and no one has said what a military response would actually involve.
WorldTrump, Xi and Putin plan first-ever joint meeting at APEC in Shenzhen
The White House confirmed on Friday that the three leaders will sit down together on Thursday 19 November, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen — the first trilateral meeting of the heads of the world's three largest nuclear powers, with nuclear arms and the war with Iran on the table and Ukraine left off it.
WorldFAA orders a nationwide ground stop as a communications failure hits US air traffic control
Every departing flight in the United States was held on Friday after a telecommunications outage struck all 22 air route traffic control centres — the first nationwide stop since January 2023, and only the second since 9/11.
WorldEurope names its five-nation team for the Ukraine peace talks
EU leaders agreed in Dublin that the EU institutions and five countries will speak for Europe at the next round of Ukraine talks — if Moscow lets them in.