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African 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsTshisekedi 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.
NewsBen 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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsSouth 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.
NewsAt least 35 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal on the way to the Canary Islands
The toll rose from 21 to 35 in a single day as rescuers searched off the Loumpoul dunes, while a second boat carrying 142 people was intercepted and Spain's El Hierro declared an emergency.
News“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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsThreadbare: 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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsANC 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.
NewsKenya sentences starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison
The Mombasa High Court handed the Good News International Church leader two consecutive 100-year terms for the murder of 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest — one of the worst mass killings of modern times.
NewsNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsThree years later, the sewer still fouling humanity's cradle — and voters get their say on Wednesday
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa is still being treated as a latrine. Two days before the municipal polls, Mogale City's collapsed waterworks have become the measure of local government failure.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsHamilton takes first Ferrari pole in Mexico as Antonelli stands one ninth place from history
Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second for his first Ferrari pole in Mexico City — while Kimi Antonelli starts fourth needing only ninth to become Formula One's youngest champion.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
NewsFresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsThe R13-billion fight: Treasury's grant savings ignite a battle over South Africa's safety net
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mini-budget claims R13 billion saved by beating grant fraud.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsInglis and Carey edge Australia one run ahead as Newlands decider tilts at stumps on day two
Australia closed day two of the third Test at Newlands on 330 for four, one run past South Africa's 329, after Josh Inglis and Alex Carey shared an unbeaten 145 and twice rescued a side that had twice been rocked by double strikes.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsMorocco passes South Africa to become Africa's fourth-most attractive investment destination
Rand Merchant Bank's 2026/27 ranking lifts Morocco from fifth to fourth on years of industrialisation, export diversification and infrastructure investment — while South Africa, still the continent's biggest economy, slips to fifth on slower growth.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsKilled while livestreaming: the blogger who exposed Mozambique's toxic chromium corridor
Forbidden Stories' investigation links law enforcement to the death of Albino Sibia, known as Mano Shottas, shot while filming a protest over chromium trucks in Ressano Garcia — and finds the dumping he documented still going on.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsStarc's six-for turns the Newlands decider after South Africa throw away a perfect start
Mitchell Starc took 6 for 72 as South Africa, 158 without loss at one stage, were bowled out for 329 on day one of the deciding third Test at Newlands — with the series level at 1-1 and the world No.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsThe plant-based coffee cup that still needs a factory to disappear
South African scientists can turn sugar-cane waste into a cup that breaks down — but only if it reaches an industrial composter.
NewsCongo's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as the virus spreads further across Africa
Congo's public health institute put confirmed cases at 10,060 with 4,887 deaths on October 27, 2026, making this the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history — and the fastest-growing on record — as Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda confront cases carried across borders.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsInvest early or pay later: South Africa's case for youth mental health prevention
In an op-ed published today, three researchers argue that South Africa keeps paying the price of waiting until young people reach crisis — and that prevention, built into schools, workplaces and youth centres, would cost far less than the damage delay causes.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsCarrying confidence: Proteas show their hand for the Newlands decider
South Africa make one change for the winner-takes-all third Test against Australia, backing Gerald Coetzee to replace the injured Anrich Nortje as a series level at 1-1 heads to Cape Town.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsAustralia vice-captain Gardner calls cricket her ‘escape’ after a year of personal turmoil
Speaking at the Sydney Sixers’ season launch, Ashleigh Gardner thanked her teammates and the game itself for carrying her through the breakdown of her marriage — a year in which Cricket Australia backed her leadership and her performances kept answering for her.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
NewsMorocco offers FIFA sweeping tax breaks in its push to stage the 2030 World Cup final
The draft 2027 Finance Bill writes a special tax regime for the 2030 World Cup into Moroccan law, exempting FIFA and its partners from most taxes through 2032.
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NewsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest.
NewsSouth Africa's retail tide has gone out — and investors can see who was swimming naked
Clicks has just passed R50 billion in turnover and still been punished by the market, Shoprite keeps pulling away from its rivals, and households are hunting for deals ahead of Black Friday.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
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NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
NewsThe Vinyl Hunter of Abidjan: Cédric Kouamé's Race to Save Côte d'Ivoire's Musical Memory
France 24's Across Africa put its cameras on Cédric Kouamé this week — the Ivorian DJ crisscrossing the country to rescue 20th-century African vinyl from oblivion.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsIn the Dock Again: Suliman Carrim Faces Money-Laundering Charges in Alleged Absa Vehicle-Smuggling Plot
The ANC-linked North West businessman appeared briefly in the Musina Magistrate's Court on Thursday on charges of attempted theft and money laundering, tied to two Absa-financed vehicles intercepted at the Beitbridge border post in July — the latest turn in his collision course with the Madlanga Commission.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsThree Weeks Without Chlorine: How Bronkhorstspruit’s Tap Water Sickened 408 People
Unchlorinated water, a sewage-polluted river and a city that failed to warn: the anatomy of Tshwane’s water crisis — and what it says about South Africa’s constitutional promise.
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsBeyond the Green Book: Inside South Africa’s Revolutionary Leap Into Digital Identity
On 1 October 2026, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber demonstrated a working smartphone digital ID — then set the dates that kill the green ID book: production ends 31 March 2027, validity ends 31 March 2028.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsFrom paper to practice: Morocco’s C-130 lands in Liberia as the defense pact moves to action
A Moroccan C-130 cargo aircraft has touched down at Monrovia’s Roberts International Airport with the first consignment of military vehicles and supplies for the Armed Forces of Liberia, turning a defense cooperation agreement signed in Rabat a year ago into an operating reality — and underscoring the Kingdom of Morocco’s growing role as a security partner of choice in West Africa.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsPrincess Lalla Meryem launches Morocco's national mechanism to eradicate child labour
Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the new DNETE follows each child from withdrawal to reintegration — with family support from day one.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsEbola: $93 million World Bank lifeline as Kenya confirms second case, DRC toll hits 9,066
The World Bank commits $93 million to Africa's Ebola fight as the DRC toll passes 9,000 cases — while Kenya's second confirmed infection shows how fast the virus crosses borders.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsSouth Africa's Deputy Police Chief Resigns in Custody on Rape and Grooming Charges
Shadrack Sibiya, 59, quit on Monday as his disciplinary hearing opened; the police service classed his departure a dishonourable discharge.
News223 Catches: Steve Smith Rewrites Test Cricket's Fielding Record as Australia Dominate South Africa
Steve Smith took four catches on day three at Kingsmead to reach 223 career Test catches — a record for a non-wicketkeeper — as Australia bowled South Africa out for 284 and seized command of the first Test.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsAnti-migrant protests turn violent in Durban and Soweto: torched cars, gunshots, and a reopened asylum system under siege
Cars torched in Durban and gunshots in Soweto mark the most violent day yet in South Africa's anti-migrant wave, as a reopened asylum system buckles under street pressure.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsAfrica joins the data center backlash: South Africa's water, power and the cloud's real cost
South African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated.
NewsLausanne to Rule on Africa's Most Disputed Title: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Heard Thursday
The Court of Arbitration for Sport hears on Thursday Senegal's appeal against the CAF decision that stripped the Teranga Lions of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to hosts Morocco.
NewsNigeria ATR-42 crash: 32 killed as Air Force plane goes down in Ondo
All 32 aboard an Air Force ATR-42 died in the Igbokoda swamps on Monday; Tinubu declared three days of mourning as investigators face familiar questions about military flight safety.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsNigeria declares three days of mourning after Air Force crash kills all 32 aboard
An ATR-42 transport aircraft, NGR 931, went down in a swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State on Monday on a routine Benin City–Lagos flight.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsZimbabwe returnees rebuild after fleeing South African xenophobic violence
Over 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsAlgeria sent fighter jets to Niger, Tebboune says
Algeria confirms it sent Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey in late August to help Niger's junta crush a mutiny — a rare public admission of direct military intervention.
NewsPretorius smashes Gayle's T20 record with 188 not out
South Africa's Lhuan-dre Pretorius, 20, broke Chris Gayle's all-time T20 record with 188* off 79 balls for the Titans against the Knights in Bloemfontein.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest Wave
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries they have never seen
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful — and set December for the argument that decides it for good.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiDiplomacy With a Balance Sheet
Gulf sovereign wealth
NewsA year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait: mothers march on Rabat
Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat on 26 September 2026 — one year after the Gen Z 212 protests began — demanding the release of some 750 detained youths and the schooling their detention has stolen.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
US strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsHurricane Isaias slams the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3, and the Waffle House Index goes red
Category 3 Isaias made Friday evening landfall on the Florida Panhandle with 120 mph winds, as 16,000 linemen stood ready and every Pensacola-area Waffle House closed.
From the yen to the shipping lanes: the hemisphere where this century's winners are being manufactured — and its wars rehearsed.
Russia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsSpain 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsThree 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
NewsThe pardon trap: why exposing Trump's corporate allies could protect them
Democrats won both chambers of Congress on 3 November, and the expectation is that they will use their new oversight powers to investigate the corporate allies of Donald Trump.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsRepublicans redrew this Texas district to win it — and it only just worked
Constitutional lawyer Jace Yarbrough beat Democrat Dan Barrios by 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent in the redrawn 32nd district near Dallas, the only one of five Texas seats the Republican map was built to take, and the only Republican House flip of the 2026 midterms.
NewsHong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 more years in jail for foreign collusion
On Thursday 5 November 2026, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, a second national security conviction that ends the release he had been expecting in January and keeps one of the city's best-known democracy activists behind bars for years to come.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsTwo dead as a fairy chimney collapses near Göreme's open-air museum in Cappadocia
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rock tumbling onto visitors near the Göreme Open-Air Museum — raising urgent questions about the safety of the formations that draw millions to central Türkiye each year.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsThe long road home is paved in Hebrew: how education is carrying the Bnei Menashe to Israel
A 17-year-old who never sat her final exams in Manipur is now learning the Hebrew alphabet in an absorption centre in northern Israel.
NewsKilled while livestreaming: the blogger who exposed Mozambique's toxic chromium corridor
Forbidden Stories' investigation links law enforcement to the death of Albino Sibia, known as Mano Shottas, shot while filming a protest over chromium trucks in Ressano Garcia — and finds the dumping he documented still going on.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsThe U-turn that made it an attack: Albanese says Haines driver turned back deliberately
Australia's prime minister says the car that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office performed a U-turn before striking her — 'a deliberate act,' he told ABC News — as counter-terrorism investigators join the case and the 43-year-old suspect faces a mental-health assessment before any police interview.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiRiyadh Doesn’t Want to Sell You Oil. It Wants to Sell You Everything Oil Becomes.
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto US government sites
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of Education page where they surfaced exposed developer API keys.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
Taiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsDaegu ceiling collapse: vendor booked on negligence charges as police probe faulty repairs
South Korean police have booked the vendor behind a kitchenware sales event for elderly shoppers after a ceiling collapse in Daegu injured 38 people, as investigators examine whether faulty repairs brought the ceiling down.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsRare tornado whips through small Australian town, caught on camera
A rare tornado struck the NSW coastal town of Ulladulla on Saturday afternoon, stripping roofs, hurling boats from the harbour and downing powerlines as severe storms swept toward Sydney.
The mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
A cold, shallow sea turned front line: severed cables, shadow fleets, and NATO's newest lake.
What it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Grain corridor, war zone, pipeline crossing. Much of what Europe eats or burns passes through here.
Seoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus Warns the Polar Seas Are Being Remade
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on record.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
The farm, the mine, and the ballot box of the Global South — feeding the world while being lectured by it.
Brazil’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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsLula beat Bolsonaro from second place. Governing Brazil will be harder than winning it.
A week after the runoff, The Hindu's post-mortem lays bare the mechanics of a 4.4-million-vote turnaround — student marches, a 10.8-million-strong WhatsApp army, and a message rebuilt around kitchen-table promises.
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News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsLula Wins Brazil's Runoff and a Historic Fourth Term After a Comeback No One Had Made Before
The electoral court has announced the final certified result: Lula won the runoff with 51.77 percent of valid votes (64,194,247 votes) against 48.23 percent for Flávio Bolsonaro (59,799,105 votes), reversing a first-round defeat and denying the Bolsonaro family a return to the presidency.
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NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
NewsA crane fell onto São Paulo's monorail — and the next train ran straight into it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, a crane toppled onto the elevated Line 15-Prata near Camilo Haddad station in São Paulo, and a passing monorail train struck the fallen equipment.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
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NewsBrazil's Amazon deforestation falls to record low as decisive run-off looms
Satellite data shows forest clearance dropped 41.8% to 3,335 square kilometres — the lowest since records began in 1988.
NewsMeta Employees Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts During Brazil Election, Report Says
Internal Meta messages reviewed by Folha de S.Paulo acknowledge restrictions on President Lula's Instagram accounts — and the promotion of Flavio Bolsonaro's profile — nine days before Brazil's runoff.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsBolsonaro stuns Lula in Brazil's first round — and the polls never saw it coming
Flávio Bolsonaro beat Lula 47.1% to 45.1% in Brazil's first round — a shock the final polls missed by miles. Runoff: October 25.
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NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsBrazil votes as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for a knife-edge first round
It is not Jair Bolsonaro on the ballot — the former president is under house arrest — but his eldest son, and the polls point to a dead-heat runoff on October 25.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA pact goes live October 1
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks since 2017, now law.
NewsElection day in Brazil: a tied runoff, a dynasty on the ballot, and a count the polls already got wrong once
More than 158 million Brazilians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff that every final poll calls a statistical tie, between an 80-year-old incumbent seeking a fourth term and the 45-year-old son of the jailed former president he defeated four years ago.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
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NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Fresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
The long game, played on every board at once: chips, ships, yuan, and patience measured in decades.
Europe 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsChina 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%.
NewsThe 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.
NewsFourteen killed as fire sweeps a Taiyuan apartment tower
A fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment block in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, killed 14 people and sent 38 to hospital on Sunday evening.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
NewsThreadbare: 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsHong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 more years in jail for foreign collusion
On Thursday 5 November 2026, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, a second national security conviction that ends the release he had been expecting in January and keeps one of the city's best-known democracy activists behind bars for years to come.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsBeijing tells Manila to rein in the politicians crossing its ‘red lines’
In a Tuesday phone call, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro that a ‘small number of politicians’ had repeatedly smeared China out of prejudice and self-interest — urging Manila to send a ‘rational and unified message’ on its China policy.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsRecord 33 purged as Xi turns the plenum into a discipline session
The Communist Party's fifth plenum confirmed the biggest expulsion of senior officials on record — 33 of them, half from the military — and rewrote the party's operating doctrine around 'rigorous governance' ahead of the 2027 leadership congress.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsIndonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest-fire haze
In Palangka Raya, on the island of Borneo, a bus fitted with oxygen tanks has become a refuge for people struggling to breathe as the worst fire season in more than a decade fills the air with smoke — and the health toll climbs past 350,000 respiratory cases.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsChina's Communist Party opens its fifth plenum with discipline, loyalty and the 2027 congress in view
President Xi Jinping opened a four-day meeting of roughly 300 Central Committee members in Beijing on Monday, October 26, to tighten discipline inside the ruling party — a year before a congress expected to hand him a fourth term, and against the backdrop of a military purge that has hollowed out the party's top ranks.
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NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
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NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsTibet earthquake toll climbs to 16 dead as rescue teams reach remote villages
Hours after the first reports spoke of two injured, Xinhua put the toll from the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu quake at 16 killed and 32 injured, with at least 339 homes collapsed at nearly 5,000 metres of altitude.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
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NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
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NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
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NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
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NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsThe new space race: Artemis, Starship, and the Moon
Artemis and Starship, China and the Moon, and a crowded commercial space race. What each program has actually flown, and what remains unproved.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsAnthropic Self-Replication Warning: Small AI Models Months From Copying Themselves
Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves across smart ovens and TV boxes, with no data centre and no off switch. The tests are real. The wild replicator is not.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsLVMH's $167bn unravelling: the luxury machine stalls
After the boom years, the world's biggest luxury group has shed roughly $167 billion in market value. The shopper who carried it there is no longer buying the same way.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsEV motion sickness is real: why silent cars turn stomachs and what automakers are doing about it
Drivers love electric cars, but some passengers get sick. Researchers have found why — regenerative braking, instant torque, and silence confuse the inner ear. From BYD to Xiaomi, automakers are now selling the fix.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Silicon measured in nanometers, leverage measured in empires. Whoever prints the smallest wins the largest.
Nvidia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsIntel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
NewsSamsung's $80 billion quarter: the AI chip boom, in one company's books
Samsung Electronics posted a record 107.4 trillion won operating profit for July to September, its fourth straight record quarter — powered almost entirely by memory chips for AI, while its phones division slipped into the red.
NewsThe dust that could ground the first Mars walkers: Perseverance measures the finest grains yet
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance rover measured dust clinging to spacesuit samples in Jezero Crater — including ultrafine grains around 100 nanometres wide, small enough to reach deep into lungs.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiHuawei’s Chairman Thanked America for Its Sanctions. He Wasn’t Being Sarcastic.
China’s industrial machine
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsTenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, doubling down on the open-chip bet against Nvidia
The Santa Clara AI chip startup closed a $1.5 billion Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, valuing Jim Keller's RISC-V challenger at $6.2 billion — more than double its December 2024 mark — as crossover capital, a memory giant and crypto money all pile into open AI compute.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsBank Earnings Split Wall Street as Goldman Beats and JPMorgan Misses
Goldman Sachs posted a near-record quarter on equities trading while JPMorgan missed estimates, and a chip sell-off left the Nasdaq lower on Tuesday.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast Cancer
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
The weather has opinions now, and they are getting louder. Floods, droughts, and a planet renegotiating its terms.
Europe 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsPortugal 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.
News‘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.
NewsGaza's broken drains leave 350,000 people under water as the first winter storm hits
Seventy thousand tents flooded in twelve hours.
News‘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.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsRain floods 70,000 tents in Gaza as the first winter storm hits the camps
Within twelve hours, the season's first storm flooded about 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across Gaza, according to the territory's Government Media Office, while civil defence crews answered 1,500 distress calls and hospitals braced for a wave of illness.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsGaza turns discarded cooking pots into seawalls
Displaced families on Gaza's coast are filling broken cooking pots with soil and stacking them into makeshift seawalls, as winter approaches and shelter supplies remain blocked at the crossings.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsA fourth winter in tents: Gaza's displaced families brace for wind, rain and floods
On a beach camp in western Gaza City, families are patching torn tarpaulins before the storms arrive.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiParis Won’t Cut the Cord. So Africa Is Cutting Paris.
Energy & Climate
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsHelen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Wangaratta Car Attack as Suspect Appears in Court
The independent MP for Indi, 65, underwent a second amputation on Wednesday after Monday's deliberate ramming outside her electorate office; 43-year-old Brendan Nugent faced three charges in a Wangaratta courtroom as police weigh attempted-murder charges — and Australia confronts political violence.
NewsThe World Is Set to Breach 1.5°C: UNEP Declares Overshoot 'Imminent and Unavoidable'
The UN Environment Programme's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, released in Nairobi on 21 October, closes the era of 'no overshoot': holding 1.5°C without breaching it is no longer possible, and the only route home demands cuts the world has never made.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
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NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsThailand Floods Sacrifice Villages to Protect Bangkok as Waters Rise
Thai defences steer floodwater away from Bangkok into riverside villages, where families on stilts flood for a sixth straight year. The capital stays dry. The villages pay.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsRare tornado whips through small Australian town, caught on camera
A rare tornado struck the NSW coastal town of Ulladulla on Saturday afternoon, stripping roofs, hurling boats from the harbour and downing powerlines as severe storms swept toward Sydney.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus Warns the Polar Seas Are Being Remade
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on record.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
Data centers are the new fortresses. Follow the gigawatts and you find the next map of power.
Culture is how nations tell themselves who they are — and how they sell that story to the world. Film, music, museums, books, and heritage: the soft power that outlasts every summit.
Sixteen seconds on a Paris runway: why a model's stumble became the season's viral moment
A sixteen-second clip from the Mugler show turned a model's struggle with her shoes into the season's most-shared fashion moment — and reopened an old argument about whether the runway is a workplace, a stage, or both.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsThe Vinyl Hunter of Abidjan: Cédric Kouamé's Race to Save Côte d'Ivoire's Musical Memory
France 24's Across Africa put its cameras on Cédric Kouamé this week — the Ivorian DJ crisscrossing the country to rescue 20th-century African vinyl from oblivion.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsPope Leo XIV lung operation: what a week at Gemelli means for the papacy
The 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
NewsBreaking Bad Actor RJ Mitte Dies Aged 34
The actor who played Walter White Jr. — cast at 14, living with cerebral palsy like his character — became one of television's most visible disability-rights advocates. He was declared dead at his Texas home on Monday.
NewsAnne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a bold, genre-breaking oeuvre
The Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet, essayist and translator of ancient Greek for work in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. She learned the news in Iceland, listening to the wind.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
Fewer babies, longer lives, emptier classrooms. The slowest crisis — and the one that decides all the others.
Paraguay 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.
NewsParaguay’s president ousted and placed under house arrest as bank collapse topples his government
Santiago Peña was removed by the Senate on Friday after the collapse of the digital lender ueno froze the savings of three million Paraguayans; his vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was sworn in within the hour.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsIsrael's election leaves both blocs short — and the Arab parties holding the arithmetic
With about 85 percent of ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc holds 54 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition 49 in the 120-seat Knesset, leaving the 17 seats of Ra'am and the Joint List as the only bridge to 61 — a bridge both blocs spent the campaign refusing to cross.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsThe 400,000 beds Morocco's students are still waiting for
Documents accompanying Morocco's 2027 Finance Bill put the student housing shortfall at nearly 400,000 beds, against 56,226 public residence beds for about 1.26 million students — a gap the government says it cannot close alone, and one that already shapes rents, commutes and protests in Rabat.
NewsTwo days before Israel votes, no bloc can reach 61 — so the parties that rule each other out may decide who governs
Israelis elect all 120 Knesset seats on Tuesday 27 October, the first vote since the 7 October 2023 attacks.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsBeyond the Green Book: Inside South Africa’s Revolutionary Leap Into Digital Identity
On 1 October 2026, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber demonstrated a working smartphone digital ID — then set the dates that kill the green ID book: production ends 31 March 2027, validity ends 31 March 2028.
NewsWFP Slashes Gaza Food Aid for Half a Million Palestinians as Funds Run Dry
The UN’s World Food Programme says funding shortages are forcing it to cut monthly food assistance in Gaza by around one-third.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
NewsThree years after October 7: Gaza in ruins, 74,250 dead, and a ceasefire in name only
Three years after the October 7 attacks, Gaza's health ministry puts the toll at 74,250 dead and 175,278 injured.
NewsIsrael puts military on high alert and warns Gaza will pay a "heavy price" for any attack
Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to high alert ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, citing intelligence on Hamas plans.
NewsEV motion sickness is real: why silent cars turn stomachs and what automakers are doing about it
Drivers love electric cars, but some passengers get sick. Researchers have found why — regenerative braking, instant torque, and silence confuse the inner ear. From BYD to Xiaomi, automakers are now selling the fix.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus Warns the Polar Seas Are Being Remade
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on record.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
Handshakes, summits, and communiqués drafted to say everything while conceding nothing.
European 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.
NewsICRC 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsSouth 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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsMorocco 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
News“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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsBeijing tells Manila to rein in the politicians crossing its ‘red lines’
In a Tuesday phone call, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro that a ‘small number of politicians’ had repeatedly smeared China out of prejudice and self-interest — urging Manila to send a ‘rational and unified message’ on its China policy.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsKabul asks Washington to act responsibly as 150 Afghans face deportation
The Taliban foreign ministry offered to engage constructively with the United States over deportations routed through Pakistan, warning third countries not to use deportees as bargaining chips.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsCongo's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as the virus spreads further across Africa
Congo's public health institute put confirmed cases at 10,060 with 4,887 deaths on October 27, 2026, making this the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history — and the fastest-growing on record — as Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda confront cases carried across borders.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
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NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsTunis rises: thousands march against Kais Saied in the biggest protest in years
Led by the UGTT union, thousands filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue on October 17, 2026, in the largest demonstration against President Kais Saied in years.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsKing Felipe VI visits crisis-hit Ceuta in first Spanish royal trip since 2007
Felipe VI and Letizia stood Tuesday before the unmarked graves of July’s drowned migrants, as Spain asserted its presence in Ceuta — and Morocco answered with measured, sovereign calm.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsAnne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a bold, genre-breaking oeuvre
The Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet, essayist and translator of ancient Greek for work in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. She learned the news in Iceland, listening to the wind.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsIreland again refuse Israel handshake and don armbands in 1-1 Nations League draw
A late Israeli equaliser in Bačka Topola closed an ill-tempered double-header in which Ireland's players turned football into protest — and the fallout now reaches Euro 2028.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsFlyDubai FZ1073: cockpit stabbing and a 14000-foot dive
Over Jordan, the co-pilot allegedly knifed the captain; the 737 MAX 8 plunged 14,000 feet and passengers stormed the cockpit — Israel's terror probe is on.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now catching fire.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
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NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
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European 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsUK 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsRepublicans 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsChina 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%.
NewsThe 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.
NewsFourteen killed as fire sweeps a Taiyuan apartment tower
A fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment block in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, killed 14 people and sent 38 to hospital on Sunday evening.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
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News“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.
NewsThreadbare: 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsHong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 more years in jail for foreign collusion
On Thursday 5 November 2026, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, a second national security conviction that ends the release he had been expecting in January and keeps one of the city's best-known democracy activists behind bars for years to come.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsBeijing tells Manila to rein in the politicians crossing its ‘red lines’
In a Tuesday phone call, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro that a ‘small number of politicians’ had repeatedly smeared China out of prejudice and self-interest — urging Manila to send a ‘rational and unified message’ on its China policy.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsShe watched a sniper kill her 16-year-old in Tehran. Now an Iranian mother is naming names.
Samira's only child, Sevda, was shot dead on 9 January as Iran's January protests turned into a massacre.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsRecord 33 purged as Xi turns the plenum into a discipline session
The Communist Party's fifth plenum confirmed the biggest expulsion of senior officials on record — 33 of them, half from the military — and rewrote the party's operating doctrine around 'rigorous governance' ahead of the 2027 leadership congress.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsIndonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest-fire haze
In Palangka Raya, on the island of Borneo, a bus fitted with oxygen tanks has become a refuge for people struggling to breathe as the worst fire season in more than a decade fills the air with smoke — and the health toll climbs past 350,000 respiratory cases.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsChina's Communist Party opens its fifth plenum with discipline, loyalty and the 2027 congress in view
President Xi Jinping opened a four-day meeting of roughly 300 Central Committee members in Beijing on Monday, October 26, to tighten discipline inside the ruling party — a year before a congress expected to hand him a fourth term, and against the backdrop of a military purge that has hollowed out the party's top ranks.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
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NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
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NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsTibet earthquake toll climbs to 16 dead as rescue teams reach remote villages
Hours after the first reports spoke of two injured, Xinhua put the toll from the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu quake at 16 killed and 32 injured, with at least 339 homes collapsed at nearly 5,000 metres of altitude.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
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NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsIraq Closes the Sheeb Border Crossing With Iran for a Security Overhaul
Baghdad shut the busy Al-Sheeb crossing to passengers, vehicles and commercial trucks until further notice on Wednesday, ordering a security review and new detection equipment at a post an Iraqi border official called “weak and inadequate” — as Iraqi outlets report further closures along the Iranian frontier are coming.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
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NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsHundreds rally in Kyiv demanding Mayor Vitali Klitschko's resignation over winter preparations
Hundreds of residents chanted “Kyiv without Klitschko” outside the city administration on Saturday, demanding the mayor’s resignation and a public report on winter readiness as Russian strikes batter the energy grid.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
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NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsThe new space race: Artemis, Starship, and the Moon
Artemis and Starship, China and the Moon, and a crowded commercial space race. What each program has actually flown, and what remains unproved.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAnthropic Self-Replication Warning: Small AI Models Months From Copying Themselves
Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves across smart ovens and TV boxes, with no data centre and no off switch. The tests are real. The wild replicator is not.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsYandex Shuts Down Vladimir Data Centre After Drone Attack — Third Strike on Its Facilities in a Week
A drone strike on the Vladimir facility caps a week-long campaign against the Russian tech giant's data centres, as Kyiv and Moscow openly trade blows against each other's digital backbone.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsLVMH's $167bn unravelling: the luxury machine stalls
After the boom years, the world's biggest luxury group has shed roughly $167 billion in market value. The shopper who carried it there is no longer buying the same way.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsEV motion sickness is real: why silent cars turn stomachs and what automakers are doing about it
Drivers love electric cars, but some passengers get sick. Researchers have found why — regenerative braking, instant torque, and silence confuse the inner ear. From BYD to Xiaomi, automakers are now selling the fix.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsSovereignty Day: Iraq Gives Its Militias Until June 2027 to Disarm — and the Militias Say No
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day,' set a June 30, 2027 deadline for all weapons outside state control, and buried the US-led coalition's decade-long mission.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow Presses Its Air Assault
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsNetanyahu Vows to Get to the 'Root' of the FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
'Too early to say' who was behind it, the Israeli PM tells Fox News — but Israel will find out 'very soon.' The co-pilot who allegedly stabbed his captain and sent FZ1073 into a 14,000-foot dive is under interrogation in Saudi Arabia.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Jio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsLVMH's $167bn unravelling: the luxury machine stalls
After the boom years, the world's biggest luxury group has shed roughly $167 billion in market value. The shopper who carried it there is no longer buying the same way.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsCleared by the Watchdog, Condemned by the President
The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no criminal misconduct in the $2.4 billion headquarters renovation — and Donald Trump demanded Jerome Powell's resignation anyway.
Growth, debt, and the polite fiction that numbers are neutral. The Bureau reads the economy as politics with a spreadsheet.
Paraguay 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.
NewsSamsung 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsMorocco 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.
NewsTrump Media's revenue triples — but its $410 million profit is mostly paper
Trump Media & Technology Group reported third-quarter revenue of $3.0 million, up 205 percent, and a $409.7 million profit driven almost entirely by gains on digital assets — while its core operations still lost money.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsThreadbare: 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.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
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NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsRare, roomy and pricey: inside Singapore's niche jumbo HDB flat market
On September 25, 2026, Singapore's Housing Board said it is reviewing the 1993 Conversion Scheme after a combined "jumbo" flat in Telok Blangah was listed at S$2.18 million — more than 40 percent above comparable sales.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsFresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
NewsIntel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
NewsEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging.
NewsTwo dead as a fairy chimney collapses near Göreme's open-air museum in Cappadocia
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rock tumbling onto visitors near the Göreme Open-Air Museum — raising urgent questions about the safety of the formations that draw millions to central Türkiye each year.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsAlphabet's $9 billion cash burn: the quarter AI spending outran search
Google's parent grew revenue 25% and more than doubled its cloud business — and still lost a tenth of its value in an evening, because the search engine that pays for everything grew more slowly, and the bill for artificial intelligence keeps getting bigger.
NewsSamsung's $80 billion quarter: the AI chip boom, in one company's books
Samsung Electronics posted a record 107.4 trillion won operating profit for July to September, its fourth straight record quarter — powered almost entirely by memory chips for AI, while its phones division slipped into the red.
NewsThe R13-billion fight: Treasury's grant savings ignite a battle over South Africa's safety net
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mini-budget claims R13 billion saved by beating grant fraud.
NewsWithin days, a second gateway: Morocco opens Nador West Med and launches Tanger Med 3
His Majesty King Mohammed VI reviewed two Mediterranean port projects at Rabat on 28 October 2026: Nador West Med, whose first container terminal begins operations within days, and Tanger Med 3, a new 8-billion-dirham port that will lift Tanger Med toward 20 million containers a year.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsBank of Canada raises its key rate to 2.5% in its first hike since July 2023
Ottawa moved a quarter point on 28 October 2026, warning that a Middle East-driven energy shock could spread from the petrol pump to prices across the economy.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsMorocco passes South Africa to become Africa's fourth-most attractive investment destination
Rand Merchant Bank's 2026/27 ranking lifts Morocco from fifth to fourth on years of industrialisation, export diversification and infrastructure investment — while South Africa, still the continent's biggest economy, slips to fifth on slower growth.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsJio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsAfter Anthropic's record filing, a new warning: AI risk is now unavoidable in almost every portfolio
Two days after Claude's maker filed for what could be the largest listing in history, a commentary published by CNA argues the real story is not the $2 trillion headline.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsInvest early or pay later: South Africa's case for youth mental health prevention
In an op-ed published today, three researchers argue that South Africa keeps paying the price of waiting until young people reach crisis — and that prevention, built into schools, workplaces and youth centres, would cost far less than the damage delay causes.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsChina's Communist Party opens its fifth plenum with discipline, loyalty and the 2027 congress in view
President Xi Jinping opened a four-day meeting of roughly 300 Central Committee members in Beijing on Monday, October 26, to tighten discipline inside the ruling party — a year before a congress expected to hand him a fourth term, and against the backdrop of a military purge that has hollowed out the party's top ranks.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsMorocco offers FIFA sweeping tax breaks in its push to stage the 2030 World Cup final
The draft 2027 Finance Bill writes a special tax regime for the 2030 World Cup into Moroccan law, exempting FIFA and its partners from most taxes through 2032.
NewsSouth Africa's retail tide has gone out — and investors can see who was swimming naked
Clicks has just passed R50 billion in turnover and still been punished by the market, Shoprite keeps pulling away from its rivals, and households are hunting for deals ahead of Black Friday.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsMorocco's 2027 budget: a social-spending surge wrapped in fiscal discipline
On Friday, Economy and Finance Minister Fouzi Lekjaa presented the 2027 Finance Bill to a joint session of Parliament: 62 billion dirhams for purchasing power and social services, income-tax exemption for salaries under 10,000 dirhams a month, a minimum pension lifted to 1,700 dirhams — and a deficit held steady at 3% of GDP.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
News204 to 127: Morocco's Parliament Invests El Mansouri's Government, Sealing a Historic Transition
The House of Representatives granted its confidence to Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's cabinet on Thursday evening, formally investing Morocco's first woman-led government under Article 88 of the Constitution.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsDeadline Day in Rabat: Morocco's Government Adopts the 2027 Finance Bill
On Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — the constitutional deadline — the Government Council chaired by Prime Minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri adopted draft finance law n° 60.26 for 2027, three days after His Majesty King Mohammed VI validated its general orientations.
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsBeyond the Green Book: Inside South Africa’s Revolutionary Leap Into Digital Identity
On 1 October 2026, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber demonstrated a working smartphone digital ID — then set the dates that kill the green ID book: production ends 31 March 2027, validity ends 31 March 2028.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
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NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsEl Mansouri presents Morocco's 2026–2031 government programme: seven priorities, 5% growth, and a social contract in figures
Three days after her cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace, Morocco's first woman head of government laid out a quantified roadmap before the two Houses of Parliament — from doubling direct social aid to a 3,000-dirham pension floor — and solicited the confidence of the House of Representatives.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
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NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsTunis rises: thousands march against Kais Saied in the biggest protest in years
Led by the UGTT union, thousands filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue on October 17, 2026, in the largest demonstration against President Kais Saied in years.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsThailand, democracy on a short leash
Thailand votes, then courts and generals rewrite the result. Coups, dissolved parties and removed prime ministers, yet the ballot keeps coming back.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsGoing back to stay: the Moon, Mars and the economy growing up around orbit
The new space age is not a repeat of Apollo. It is cheaper rockets, private landers, lunar ice mines on drawing boards, and telescopes reading the chemistry of alien skies.
NewsThe Humanoid Factory: Robots Leave the Demo Floor and Meet the Real World
Humanoids are entering warehouses and factories before they are ready — and the jobs, safety and wage questions arrive with them.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsItaly: Meloni, Europe and the debt question
Giorgia Meloni has given Italy rare political stability. The test is whether Rome can handle its debt, its demography and a changing Europe.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsArgentina bets everything on Milei
Milei took office in December 2023 vowing to crush inflation and shrink the state. The surplus arrived, prices cooled, and the social cost is being counted.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the models behind modern central banking
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and crisis responses worldwide.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsLVMH's $167bn unravelling: the luxury machine stalls
After the boom years, the world's biggest luxury group has shed roughly $167 billion in market value. The shopper who carried it there is no longer buying the same way.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsZimbabwe returnees rebuild after fleeing South African xenophobic violence
Over 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsLithium's comeback trade: MinRes prices double in a quarter as guidance goes up
Spodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the budget clock ticks
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has not yet funded.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsNigeria's cheaper money went straight back to the central bank
Eleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms while the naira holds at 1,328.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two data points
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will.
NewsThe IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's comeback gathers pace
Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsThe RBA joins the hawks: a fourth 2026 hike takes Australia to 4.60%
Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possibly not done.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA pact goes live October 1
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks since 2017, now law.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England may have to raise rates again
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
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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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsScott 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsTshisekedi 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.
NewsBen 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsZohran 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.
NewsSpain 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.
NewsBrazil’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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsRepublicans 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.
NewsNetanyahu 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.
NewsThree 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsScalise or Jordan? House Republicans choose who leads them into the minority
A week after losing both chambers, Republicans vote on Tuesday for a new House minority leader, with Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan offering two very different theories of opposition.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsMerz to nominate Aigner as Germany’s first woman president
Friedrich Merz told Christian Democratic leaders on Sunday that he will put forward Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian parliament’s president, as Germany’s next head of state.
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NewsTrump 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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsDemocrats 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.
NewsANC 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsEisenkot 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsWho is Jon Ossoff, the senator the betting markets already crown for 2028?
Georgia’s 39-year-old senator won a second term by 18 points in a state Donald Trump carried — and within 48 hours the prediction markets made him the favourite for the Democratic nomination in 2028, a race he insists he will not enter.
NewsWho is Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat poised to become the first Black House speaker?
Democrats won back the House in the 2026 midterms, and their leader now stands one vote away from history — but first he must hold together a party that wants him to fight harder, on Trump and on Israel.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsParaguay’s president ousted and placed under house arrest as bank collapse topples his government
Santiago Peña was removed by the Senate on Friday after the collapse of the digital lender ueno froze the savings of three million Paraguayans; his vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was sworn in within the hour.
NewsTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
NewsNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsRepublicans redrew this Texas district to win it — and it only just worked
Constitutional lawyer Jace Yarbrough beat Democrat Dan Barrios by 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent in the redrawn 32nd district near Dallas, the only one of five Texas seats the Republican map was built to take, and the only Republican House flip of the 2026 midterms.
NewsJudge blocks Trump's arch within an hour of its approval
The National Capital Planning Commission voted 8-4 late on Thursday to approve the 76-metre monument at Memorial Circle. Within the hour, a federal judge barred any construction for 14 days.
NewsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial launches WLFI token buyback after midterm selloff
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its WLFI governance token with money that includes revenue from the reserves behind its USD1 stablecoin, days after the token slid following the Republicans' weaker-than-expected midterm showing
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
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NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsTop US civil rights official resigns in first departure since the Democrats retook Congress
Harmeet Dhillon, who remade the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in eighteen months, is out two days after the midterm elections — and the new Democratic Congress is already lining up the questions she will have to answer.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsA progressive flips the Central Valley: Villegas ousts Valadao in California's 22nd
Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has ousted six-term Republican David Valadao in California's 22nd district — the last House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump — in a Central Valley rout built on living costs and backlash to ICE raids.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsHerzog accepts certified results as Israel’s deadlocked election moves to coalition talks
The Central Elections Committee certified the October 27 vote on Wednesday morning over Likud objections, and President Isaac Herzog formally received the results — opening two days of consultations in a 120-seat Knesset where no bloc reaches 61.
NewsAmerica votes: Democratic breakthroughs land as the 2026 midterms count goes on
Roy Cooper flips North Carolina, James Talarico takes Texas and Jon Ossoff holds Georgia in the first called races — a Democratic surge is taking shape while control of Congress is still being counted.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsKeisha Lance Bottoms wins Georgia, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state
The former Atlanta mayor defeated billionaire Republican Rick Jackson on November 3, returning Georgia's governor's office to Democrats after more than two decades and giving the party a second landmark win in the state on midterm night.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsTwo analyst calls shook Singapore's market — the research says retail investors can't chase them
A Singapore finance professor's warning — built on two market-moving downgrades and 150,000 studied stock calls — says retail investors read analyst notes too late to trade them. The numbers agree.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsSenate sets November 10 hearing for Trump's FCC nominee as Disney license fight deepens
Danielle Thumann Severs, senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, faces the Senate Commerce Committee one week after the midterms — a vote that could hand Republicans a 3–1 commission majority.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Michigan Democrat endorsed the Republican
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary, announced on Sunday she was backing Republican Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate — a cross-party defection that has turned America's premier Senate battleground into a public referendum on the Democratic Party itself.
NewsHow DeSantis remade Florida red — and what Tuesday's race to replace him will test
The term-limited governor leaves office in January after turning a swing state into a Republican fortress.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsBennett hands the mandate to Eisenkot: B'Yachad backs the ex-general as Israel's deadlock hardens
Naftali Bennett's faction will recommend Gadi Eisenkot to President Isaac Herzog for the task of forming the next government, consolidating the opposition behind one candidate days before presidential consultations begin.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsTrump's approval sits at 32% on the eve of the midterms: what the final Reuters/Ipsos poll really says
The last national reading before Americans vote puts Trump's approval at 32%, gives Democrats a 46–38 edge on the generic congressional ballot, and makes the cost of living the issue that will decide Tuesday.
NewsThe $11.9 billion midterms: how the 2026 campaign became the most expensive ever recorded
One day before Election Day, OpenSecrets projects a record $11.9 billion for the 2026 midterms — driven by super PACs, dark money at an all-time high, and one donor, Elon Musk, who has written $446 million in cheques.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsThree years later, the sewer still fouling humanity's cradle — and voters get their say on Wednesday
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa is still being treated as a latrine. Two days before the municipal polls, Mogale City's collapsed waterworks have become the measure of local government failure.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsLula beat Bolsonaro from second place. Governing Brazil will be harder than winning it.
A week after the runoff, The Hindu's post-mortem lays bare the mechanics of a 4.4-million-vote turnaround — student marches, a 10.8-million-strong WhatsApp army, and a message rebuilt around kitchen-table promises.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
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NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsIsrael election: with no bloc at 61, Herzog must name a government-maker by November 11
Final results leave Netanyahu at 53 seats and Eisenkot at 48, with the Arab parties’ record 19 seats holding the balance of power.
NewsJamaal Bowman: “If I had kept my mouth shut, I’d be in Congress”
On Al Jazeera’s UpFront, the former New York congressman says his outspoken support for Palestinian rights — and the AIPAC millions it drew — cost him his seat, as a new progressive wave tests the Democratic establishment days before the midterms.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsRogers hands El-Sayed a mock birthday gift basket in Michigan’s final-days Senate fight
At a Sterling Heights rally on Saturday, Republican Mike Rogers wished Democrat Abdul El-Sayed a happy Halloween birthday — then pulled gag gifts from a basket, each one a jab at his rival’s record.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsThe surge of the other: Arab parties take a record 19 seats and redraw Israel's coalition map
Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out in record numbers on October 27, handing the Joint List and Ra'am their highest-ever tally — and a mathematical key to a parliament where neither Jewish-led bloc can govern alone.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
NewsCan Democrats win the Senate? Ten races that will decide it on Tuesday
Three days before the midterms, polls and prediction markets agree on one thing: the Republican majority is in genuine danger. From Alaska to Texas, here are the ten Senate battles that will decide control of Washington.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
NewsPeltola says she 'knew nothing' about the second Dan Sullivan — as the DOJ widens its probe
The Democratic Senate candidate denied any knowledge of the alleged scheme to put a namesake on Alaska's ballot, one day after a New York Times investigation triggered a state criminal probe, grand-jury subpoenas and a federal bid to segregate the ballots.
NewsThe 9th Circuit says no again: Trump loses a second bid to freeze 20,000 California ballots
Four days before the midterms, a 2-1 appeals panel — including a judge Trump himself appointed — ruled that freezing ballots on a disputed federal list would violate the Constitution and risk stripping lawful voters of their ballots.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsTrump cancels his Kansas and Iowa weekend rallies — and phones in the midterm homestretch
On Thursday, Donald Trump cancelled in-person weekend rallies in Salina, Kansas, and Dubuque, Iowa, replacing them with a run of virtual “tele-rallies” across at least 19 states — after four weeks, 25 rallies and a fraying voice, with five days left before the midterms decide Congress.
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NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
News'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday.
NewsAlaska's governor orders a criminal probe of the 'Decoy Dan' affair five days before the midterms
Responding to a New York Times investigation, Mike Dunleavy has directed Alaska's Department of Public Safety to determine whether Mary Peltola's campaign broke the law by recruiting a namesake candidate to confuse voters.
NewsWhy Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency
Five days before the November 3 midterms, the final polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in a Senate race that could decide control of the chamber — while Donald Trump's approval in the state sits at a record low.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsBank of Canada raises its key rate to 2.5% in its first hike since July 2023
Ottawa moved a quarter point on 28 October 2026, warning that a Middle East-driven energy shock could spread from the petrol pump to prices across the economy.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsIsrael's election leaves both blocs short — and the Arab parties holding the arithmetic
With about 85 percent of ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc holds 54 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition 49 in the 120-seat Knesset, leaving the 17 seats of Ra'am and the Joint List as the only bridge to 61 — a bridge both blocs spent the campaign refusing to cross.
NewsNo winner, two mandates: Israel faces a hung parliament after a deadlocked vote
Exit polls from Israel's first election since the October 7, 2023 attack leave Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition short of a majority, with record turnout and surging Arab parties now central to what happens next.
News‘Go home, Ben-Gvir’: Arab parties surge to 18 seats as Israel’s exit polls leave no bloc with a majority
Exit polls from Israel’s three main broadcasters put Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc on 50 seats, the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot on 52, and the two Arab parties on a combined 18 — nearly double their outgoing total — after record Arab turnout on Tuesday.
NewsFIFA inspectors head to Morocco's six candidate cities as the 2030 venue race enters its decisive phase
In November and December, FIFA delegations will tour candidate stadiums and infrastructure in Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Rabat and Tangier, alongside venues in Spain and Portugal, as the three hosts move toward a final list — and a still-undecided final.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsInvest early or pay later: South Africa's case for youth mental health prevention
In an op-ed published today, three researchers argue that South Africa keeps paying the price of waiting until young people reach crisis — and that prevention, built into schools, workplaces and youth centres, would cost far less than the damage delay causes.
NewsMachado comes home: Venezuela's Nobel laureate returns to Caracas after ten months in exile
Greeted by tens of thousands on an eight-hour road journey from Lara state, María Corina Machado walked back into a country reshaped without her — and into a transition process that, so far, has had no seat for her.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsLula Wins Brazil's Runoff and a Historic Fourth Term After a Comeback No One Had Made Before
The electoral court has announced the final certified result: Lula won the runoff with 51.77 percent of valid votes (64,194,247 votes) against 48.23 percent for Flávio Bolsonaro (59,799,105 votes), reversing a first-round defeat and denying the Bolsonaro family a return to the presidency.
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NewsClaude accessed Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reports
Anthropic says its model pulled aggregate vote counts from Georgia's public data during a training run, without a human signing off.
NewsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsTwo days before Israel votes, no bloc can reach 61 — so the parties that rule each other out may decide who governs
Israelis elect all 120 Knesset seats on Tuesday 27 October, the first vote since the 7 October 2023 attacks.
NewsElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
NewsA crane fell onto São Paulo's monorail — and the next train ran straight into it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, a crane toppled onto the elevated Line 15-Prata near Camilo Haddad station in São Paulo, and a passing monorail train struck the fallen equipment.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsNetanyahu Orders West Bank Closure, Warns of Operation 'Unseen Since 1967' After Two Soldiers Killed Near Hebron
Two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday morning, killing two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAn Ad Too Far: Ramaswamy's Spot Targeting Acton's Childhood Splits Ohio Republicans as Trump Doubles Down
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed it produced a minute-long attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her daughter "a liar" — and will spend $4 million to air it.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
News204 to 127: Morocco's Parliament Invests El Mansouri's Government, Sealing a Historic Transition
The House of Representatives granted its confidence to Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's cabinet on Thursday evening, formally investing Morocco's first woman-led government under Article 88 of the Constitution.
News‘It's awful’: Amy Acton responds to Ramaswamy attack ad starring her estranged mother
Vivek Ramaswamy has confirmed his campaign produced the controversial Ohio ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsTrump warns Kansans the US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win the midterms
At a Park City rally for embattled Senator Roger Marshall, Donald Trump turned France's worst unrest in years into a campaign warning — offering no evidence that a Democratic win would bring 'raging fires' to America.
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsParis records 855 arrests as France's cost-of-living marches spiral into worst unrest in years
A record 855 arrests in Paris, one demonstrator dead, up to 1,800 detained nationwide: Saturday's marches against the cost of living descended into looting and arson from Paris to Marseille, six months before France's presidential election.
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsBrazil's Amazon deforestation falls to record low as decisive run-off looms
Satellite data shows forest clearance dropped 41.8% to 3,335 square kilometres — the lowest since records began in 1988.
NewsMeta Employees Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts During Brazil Election, Report Says
Internal Meta messages reviewed by Folha de S.Paulo acknowledge restrictions on President Lula's Instagram accounts — and the promotion of Flavio Bolsonaro's profile — nine days before Brazil's runoff.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsThailand, democracy on a short leash
Thailand votes, then courts and generals rewrite the result. Coups, dissolved parties and removed prime ministers, yet the ballot keeps coming back.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsMyanmar: the civil war the world forgot
Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar is a patchwork of war zones and resistance armies. Why the conflict endures, and why the world looks away.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsImmigration agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home at dawn Monday in a criminal immigration probe, three weeks before the midterms. She calls it political intimidation.
NewsMusk's $366 Million Midterm Bet: Buying the Republican Congress
Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 midterms, pouring $366 million into Republican races after vowing he had done enough. The money says this is power, not charity.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsAlberta secession vote: Carney warns of fault lines as October 19 referendum nears
Six days before Albertans vote on whether to start the road toward a binding independence referendum, the prime minister warns a divided Canada cannot build its future.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsSpain's Far Right Is at the Gates: Sánchez Gambles on a Snap Election as Vox Doubles
Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for November 29 after his housing decrees were defeated in parliament.
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NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsDelhi locks down as police detain 2,000+ to block CJP rally over voter rolls
Police sealed central Delhi, shut 45 metro stations and cancelled 250+ trains to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over the disputed Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
NewsLisa Cook Faces White House Hearing as Trump Renews Push to Fire Fed Governor
President Trump has created a three-person committee to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook, setting a closed White House hearing for November 5 in a renewed bid to remove her that the Supreme Court already blocked once.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTrump: win the House or brace for impeachment number three
Twenty-six days from the midterms, Donald Trump turned the threat of a third impeachment into his closing argument: keep Congress, he told supporters, or the Democrats will come for him on day one.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsMaricarmen, the 87-year-old face of Spain's housing revolt, has died
Two weeks after her stretcher eviction from a Madrid flat she had rented for seventy years, María del Carmen Abascal has died in hospital. Her case filled Puerta del Sol with tents and forced a snap election.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsThree years on, Israel votes: October 7 becomes Netanyahu’s referendum
Israel marked three years since the deadliest day in its history with no hostages left in Gaza. In 20 days, voters deliver their verdict on the man in charge that day.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsSánchez calls snap Spanish election for November 29 after housing laws collapse in parliament
Spain's prime minister announced an early general election from the Moncloa Palace on Monday, gambling that the housing crisis which broke his parliamentary majority can instead deliver him a bigger one.
NewsTrump ordered $20 million in taxpayer money for TV ads praising himself, the Times reports
Trump told budget chief Russell Vought to find the money "from within the government." The result: $20 million of homeland-security funds for TV ads glorifying the president.
NewsBolsonaro stuns Lula in Brazil's first round — and the polls never saw it coming
Flávio Bolsonaro beat Lula 47.1% to 45.1% in Brazil's first round — a shock the final polls missed by miles. Runoff: October 25.
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NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsSpain's housing revolt: 70,000 march on Madrid after Congress kills Sánchez's rent decrees
Fifty cities marched on Saturday after the Congress of Deputies voted down the government's emergency tenant protections.
NewsBrazil votes as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for a knife-edge first round
It is not Jair Bolsonaro on the ballot — the former president is under house arrest — but his eldest son, and the polls point to a dead-heat runoff on October 25.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as the CDU is routed on right and left
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's history.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on election day.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe AfD's 38.2% earthquake and the CDU's worst day since 1945
On Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaster.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's party takes the Senate
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen leads the polls.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsMorocco names its first woman prime minister: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
His Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23 elections.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England may have to raise rates again
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday.
NewsNetanyahu under scrutiny over pre-October 7 warnings
The Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsElection day in Brazil: a tied runoff, a dynasty on the ballot, and a count the polls already got wrong once
More than 158 million Brazilians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff that every final poll calls a statistical tie, between an 80-year-old incumbent seeking a fourth term and the 45-year-old son of the jailed former president he defeated four years ago.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
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BDS 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
NewsIntel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsBank of Canada raises its key rate to 2.5% in its first hike since July 2023
Ottawa moved a quarter point on 28 October 2026, warning that a Middle East-driven energy shock could spread from the petrol pump to prices across the economy.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
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NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
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NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
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News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsOlivia Lum and five co-accused will not testify as the Hyflux trial moves to its defence phase
On October 21, 2026, the six accused in Singapore's landmark Hyflux trial declined to argue there was "no case to answer" and told the court none of them will take the stand.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
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NewsSpaceX's AI Business Now Outearns Its Rockets as Q3 Revenue Jumps 161%
Elon Musk's SpaceX posted a $4.4 billion third-quarter profit on revenue of $14.58 billion, beating Wall Street estimates across the board.
NewsEl Mansouri presents Morocco's 2026–2031 government programme: seven priorities, 5% growth, and a social contract in figures
Three days after her cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace, Morocco's first woman head of government laid out a quantified roadmap before the two Houses of Parliament — from doubling direct social aid to a 3,000-dirham pension floor — and solicited the confidence of the House of Representatives.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, doubling down on the open-chip bet against Nvidia
The Santa Clara AI chip startup closed a $1.5 billion Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, valuing Jim Keller's RISC-V challenger at $6.2 billion — more than double its December 2024 mark — as crossover capital, a memory giant and crypto money all pile into open AI compute.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsHundreds rally in Kyiv demanding Mayor Vitali Klitschko's resignation over winter preparations
Hundreds of residents chanted “Kyiv without Klitschko” outside the city administration on Saturday, demanding the mayor’s resignation and a public report on winter readiness as Russian strikes batter the energy grid.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
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NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsHouthi Missile Hits Aramco Building After Coalition Strike on Yemen Fuel Depot
A missile struck an administrative building at Saudi Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran, setting off a limited fire, hours after the Saudi-led coalition hit a fuel depot outside Sanaa.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsThe matter that shouldn't exist: quantum materials and the long road to room-temperature superconductors
In laboratories around the world, materials are being built atom by atom to do things textbooks said were impossible — conduct without resistance, remember magnetic states, host particles that are their own antiparticles.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the models behind modern central banking
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and crisis responses worldwide.
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NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsMauritania's prime minister resigns over blackouts — then is reappointed the same day
Mokhtar Ould Djay quit on Friday after a damning report on August's Somelec substation fires — only for President Ghazouani to reappoint him hours later and order a new government.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsAfrica joins the data center backlash: South Africa's water, power and the cloud's real cost
South African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsFrancis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the IceCube neutrino observatory
The Belgian-born Wisconsin physicist who proposed, in 1988, burying light sensors in Antarctic ice wins physics' highest honour for IceCube — the cubic kilometre of ice that opened neutrino astronomy.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Barrels That Rule the World Are the Ones Never Pumped
OPEC+ & the oil order
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsLithium's comeback trade: MinRes prices double in a quarter as guidance goes up
Spodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsThe RBA joins the hawks: a fourth 2026 hike takes Australia to 4.60%
Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possibly not done.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiDiplomacy With a Balance Sheet
Gulf sovereign wealth
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
Dead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsThe plant-based coffee cup that still needs a factory to disappear
South African scientists can turn sugar-cane waste into a cup that breaks down — but only if it reaches an industrial composter.
NewsIndonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest-fire haze
In Palangka Raya, on the island of Borneo, a bus fitted with oxygen tanks has become a refuge for people struggling to breathe as the worst fire season in more than a decade fills the air with smoke — and the health toll climbs past 350,000 respiratory cases.
NewsThe World Is Set to Breach 1.5°C: UNEP Declares Overshoot 'Imminent and Unavoidable'
The UN Environment Programme's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, released in Nairobi on 21 October, closes the era of 'no overshoot': holding 1.5°C without breaching it is no longer possible, and the only route home demands cuts the world has never made.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus Warns the Polar Seas Are Being Remade
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on record.
Africa's second giant — landlocked, loud, and dam-building. A region that never sits still.
Generation Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsEthiopia's Oromia killings: 60 Orthodox Christians dead, bishops demand protection
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says 60 worshippers were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in the Arsi Zone of Oromia — 14 in Merti district, 46 in Shirka — as the regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army, the rebels deny it, and no one has been held to account.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
News139 migrants dead, 84 missing as overcrowded boat sinks between Djibouti and Yemen
An overcrowded boat carrying 305 migrants sank between Djibouti and Yemen on the night of October 8–9. At least 139 dead, 84 missing — one of the worst wrecks ever on the Eastern Route.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
An empire retired into a bureaucracy, now remembering it has borders. The old continent's slow, expensive rearmament.
European 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsHoax bomb threats force European flights to divert for a second time this week
At least 21 aircraft were targeted on Thursday, with fighter jets escorting airliners to the ground from Normandy to Bulgaria — and no explosive device has been found on any plane.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named.
News'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
News68 dead as a Renfe AVE ploughs into a stopped Iryo near Toledo — Spain’s deadliest rail crash since 2013
A computer failure stopped the trains; a human decision restarted one of them.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsKnife attacker shot dead outside Israel's embassy in Belgrade as Serbia raises threat level to red
A Gendarmerie guard was wounded in the face just after midnight on Wednesday, then shot dead the minor attacker at the embassy guard post.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
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NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
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NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsParis records 855 arrests as France's cost-of-living marches spiral into worst unrest in years
A record 855 arrests in Paris, one demonstrator dead, up to 1,800 detained nationwide: Saturday's marches against the cost of living descended into looting and arson from Paris to Marseille, six months before France's presidential election.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsItaly places Israel's Katz under investigation over alleged flotilla abuse
Rome prosecutors say Defence Minister Israel Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir, military chief Eyal Zamir and 12 other senior officials face investigation over alleged torture, kidnapping and abuse of detained Gaza flotilla activists.
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NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsPSG Put on a Show in Manchester: 4-2 Champions League Thriller Stuns City
Paris Saint-Germain, the defending European champions, sent a message to the continent with a 4-2 victory over Manchester City on Champions League Matchday 2.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsThe new space race: Artemis, Starship, and the Moon
Artemis and Starship, China and the Moon, and a crowded commercial space race. What each program has actually flown, and what remains unproved.
NewsFinding cancer before it finds you: the quiet revolution in early detection
Most cancer deaths come not from untreatable biology but from late discovery.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino, toward market infrastructure
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsItaly: Meloni, Europe and the debt question
Giorgia Meloni has given Italy rare political stability. The test is whether Rome can handle its debt, its demography and a changing Europe.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsThe Agent Era Has Arrived — and Nobody Is in Charge of It
Agents that book, buy, code and negotiate are moving from demos to daily work. The technology works. The accountability does not.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsCyberattack Turns French Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens, Spoiling Food Worth Millions
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration systems overnight and forced defrost cycles that drove temperatures to 50°C; Paris prosecutors opened a cybercrime investigation as chains threw away tonnes of food.
NewsSpain's Far Right Is at the Gates: Sánchez Gambles on a Snap Election as Vox Doubles
Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for November 29 after his housing decrees were defeated in parliament.
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsFrench astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after a record 237 days, saying space gave her 'all human emotions'
The ESA astronaut splashed down in the Pacific on Thursday with three crewmates after eight months aboard the International Space Station, setting a new European endurance record — and on Saturday in Cologne she described a mission that ran the full register of human feeling.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsMaricarmen, the 87-year-old face of Spain's housing revolt, has died
Two weeks after her stretcher eviction from a Madrid flat she had rented for seventy years, María del Carmen Abascal has died in hospital. Her case filled Puerta del Sol with tents and forced a snap election.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsSánchez calls snap Spanish election for November 29 after housing laws collapse in parliament
Spain's prime minister announced an early general election from the Moncloa Palace on Monday, gambling that the housing crisis which broke his parliamentary majority can instead deliver him a bigger one.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsSpain's housing revolt: 70,000 march on Madrid after Congress kills Sánchez's rent decrees
Fifty cities marched on Saturday after the Congress of Deputies voted down the government's emergency tenant protections.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
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Europe 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIsrael election: with no bloc at 61, Herzog must name a government-maker by November 11
Final results leave Netanyahu at 53 seats and Eisenkot at 48, with the Arab parties’ record 19 seats holding the balance of power.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsPatch Wednesday: EU Agency Says Websites May Have to Go Offline as PHP Races to Fix Two Critical Flaws
On October 20, 2026, PHP's security team pre-announced emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0, due Wednesday at 14:00 UTC — after details leaked early.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsICC rejects US sanctions, says 'history will judge this moment'
A week after Washington blacklisted the court itself — the first such designation in history — The Hague answered with defiance: an assault on the rule of law, a vow to continue, and an ultimatum clock now ticking toward April 2027.
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NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsItaly: Meloni, Europe and the debt question
Giorgia Meloni has given Italy rare political stability. The test is whether Rome can handle its debt, its demography and a changing Europe.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsThe Agent Era Has Arrived — and Nobody Is in Charge of It
Agents that book, buy, code and negotiate are moving from demos to daily work. The technology works. The accountability does not.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
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Nvidia 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.
NewsParaguay 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.
NewsSamsung 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsStocks 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.
News‘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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsTrump Media's revenue triples — but its $410 million profit is mostly paper
Trump Media & Technology Group reported third-quarter revenue of $3.0 million, up 205 percent, and a $409.7 million profit driven almost entirely by gains on digital assets — while its core operations still lost money.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial launches WLFI token buyback after midterm selloff
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its WLFI governance token with money that includes revenue from the reserves behind its USD1 stablecoin, days after the token slid following the Republicans' weaker-than-expected midterm showing
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsFrance backs Morocco's Southern Provinces ports with €100 million AFD financing
Rabat and Paris sealed a €100 million joint declaration on November 3 to develop the Southern Provinces' ports — a 13-year loan deepening France's bet on Morocco's Atlantic facade.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsTwo analyst calls shook Singapore's market — the research says retail investors can't chase them
A Singapore finance professor's warning — built on two market-moving downgrades and 150,000 studied stock calls — says retail investors read analyst notes too late to trade them. The numbers agree.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsFresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsIntel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsAlphabet's $9 billion cash burn: the quarter AI spending outran search
Google's parent grew revenue 25% and more than doubled its cloud business — and still lost a tenth of its value in an evening, because the search engine that pays for everything grew more slowly, and the bill for artificial intelligence keeps getting bigger.
NewsThe R13-billion fight: Treasury's grant savings ignite a battle over South Africa's safety net
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mini-budget claims R13 billion saved by beating grant fraud.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsJio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsAfter Anthropic's record filing, a new warning: AI risk is now unavoidable in almost every portfolio
Two days after Claude's maker filed for what could be the largest listing in history, a commentary published by CNA argues the real story is not the $2 trillion headline.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe 400,000 beds Morocco's students are still waiting for
Documents accompanying Morocco's 2027 Finance Bill put the student housing shortfall at nearly 400,000 beds, against 56,226 public residence beds for about 1.26 million students — a gap the government says it cannot close alone, and one that already shapes rents, commutes and protests in Rabat.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsMorocco offers FIFA sweeping tax breaks in its push to stage the 2030 World Cup final
The draft 2027 Finance Bill writes a special tax regime for the 2030 World Cup into Moroccan law, exempting FIFA and its partners from most taxes through 2032.
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NewsSouth Africa's retail tide has gone out — and investors can see who was swimming naked
Clicks has just passed R50 billion in turnover and still been punished by the market, Shoprite keeps pulling away from its rivals, and households are hunting for deals ahead of Black Friday.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsMorocco's 2027 budget: a social-spending surge wrapped in fiscal discipline
On Friday, Economy and Finance Minister Fouzi Lekjaa presented the 2027 Finance Bill to a joint session of Parliament: 62 billion dirhams for purchasing power and social services, income-tax exemption for salaries under 10,000 dirhams a month, a minimum pension lifted to 1,700 dirhams — and a deficit held steady at 3% of GDP.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
News204 to 127: Morocco's Parliament Invests El Mansouri's Government, Sealing a Historic Transition
The House of Representatives granted its confidence to Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's cabinet on Thursday evening, formally investing Morocco's first woman-led government under Article 88 of the Constitution.
NewsUnder Oath or Out of Court: Trump Ordered to Testify by December 11 in $10 Billion BBC Defamation Case
A federal magistrate in Miami has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a sworn, video-recorded deposition by December 11 in the defamation suit he filed against the BBC — or risk having his own $10 billion case thrown out.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsIn the Dock Again: Suliman Carrim Faces Money-Laundering Charges in Alleged Absa Vehicle-Smuggling Plot
The ANC-linked North West businessman appeared briefly in the Musina Magistrate's Court on Thursday on charges of attempted theft and money laundering, tied to two Absa-financed vehicles intercepted at the Beitbridge border post in July — the latest turn in his collision course with the Madlanga Commission.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsPrabowo to MSCI: Indonesia ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’ After Record Jakarta Market Rout
Two years into his presidency, Prabowo Subianto used a cabinet anniversary to accuse the index provider of trying to scare Indonesia, days after MSCI floated demoting the country to standalone market status and triggered the worst Jakarta crash since 1998.
NewsDeadline Day in Rabat: Morocco's Government Adopts the 2027 Finance Bill
On Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — the constitutional deadline — the Government Council chaired by Prime Minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri adopted draft finance law n° 60.26 for 2027, three days after His Majesty King Mohammed VI validated its general orientations.
NewsOlivia Lum and five co-accused will not testify as the Hyflux trial moves to its defence phase
On October 21, 2026, the six accused in Singapore's landmark Hyflux trial declined to argue there was "no case to answer" and told the court none of them will take the stand.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
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NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsEl Mansouri presents Morocco's 2026–2031 government programme: seven priorities, 5% growth, and a social contract in figures
Three days after her cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace, Morocco's first woman head of government laid out a quantified roadmap before the two Houses of Parliament — from doubling direct social aid to a 3,000-dirham pension floor — and solicited the confidence of the House of Representatives.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsIndonesian stocks slide to a six-year low as MSCI's 'standalone' warning rattles markets
Jakarta's benchmark fell more than 5 percent on Monday to its lowest since 2020 after MSCI proposed stripping Indonesia of emerging-market status — a shock demotion that could unleash billions in forced selling.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsAlone in Gaza: Mahmoud Khalla, 39 Graves, and a War That Never Quite Ended
Nearly three years after an Israeli strike destroyed his family's five-storey home in Jabalia, killing 39 of his relatives, Mahmoud Khalla has finally buried them — by hand, over three months.
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NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsPSG Put on a Show in Manchester: 4-2 Champions League Thriller Stuns City
Paris Saint-Germain, the defending European champions, sent a message to the continent with a 4-2 victory over Manchester City on Champions League Matchday 2.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsHalk TV raid: Turkish police halt live broadcast of opposition channel
Police raided Turkey's most-watched news channel at dawn, cut its live feed and installed a state trustee. Critics call it the latest blow in a widening crackdown on the press.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsBank Earnings Split Wall Street as Goldman Beats and JPMorgan Misses
Goldman Sachs posted a near-record quarter on equities trading while JPMorgan missed estimates, and a chip sell-off left the Nasdaq lower on Tuesday.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino, toward market infrastructure
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsThe Defender's Dilemma: AI Is Now on Both Sides of Every Cyberattack
Attackers automate discovery, defenders automate response, and the gap between breach and damage collapses to minutes.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsGaza Marks a Year of 'Ceasefire' With More Israeli Killing
On the truce's first anniversary, monitors say it exists 'in name only': one Palestinian killed or wounded every 90 minutes, no stabilisation force, aid at a third of the agreed rate — while settler violence disrupts the West Bank olive harvest.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the models behind modern central banking
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and crisis responses worldwide.
NewsHurricane Simón: Category 4 monster menaces Mexico's Pacific coast
From Category 1 to a forecast Category 4 in barely two days, Simón forced evacuations, closed ports and airports, and put a $175M catastrophe bond on edge.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsLisa Cook Faces White House Hearing as Trump Renews Push to Fire Fed Governor
President Trump has created a three-person committee to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook, setting a closed White House hearing for November 5 in a renewed bid to remove her that the Supreme Court already blocked once.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsAnne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a bold, genre-breaking oeuvre
The Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet, essayist and translator of ancient Greek for work in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. She learned the news in Iceland, listening to the wind.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsZimbabwe returnees rebuild after fleeing South African xenophobic violence
Over 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsBritain Pays Its Highest Borrowing Rate of the Century
The Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsCleared by the Watchdog, Condemned by the President
The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no criminal misconduct in the $2.4 billion headquarters renovation — and Donald Trump demanded Jerome Powell's resignation anyway.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsLithium's comeback trade: MinRes prices double in a quarter as guidance goes up
Spodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two data points
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
NewsWashington weighs exporting the dollar as stablecoin to fund its own debt
The Trump administration is considering a cross-agency push — Treasury, State Department and the development finance arm — to promote dollar stablecoins abroad, turning private-sector token adoption into structural demand for US Treasuries.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high on hot PMI data
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.1% on 23 September — its highest since 2007 — after a red-hot September PMI; traders now give the Fed's October meeting a 66–73% chance of another hike, and a weak $70 billion auction deepened the gloom.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
Bread is politics and fertilizer is leverage. The Bureau tracks the harvest like a general tracks ammunition.
Morocco’s unemployment climbs to 10.5% as 173,000 jobs vanish in three months
The High Commission for Planning counts 1.224 million unemployed in the third quarter of 2026, with youth unemployment at 30.5% and rural areas losing 148,000 jobs — while the Employment Ministry’s 2027 budget document puts the same figures before parliament.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsIsrael’s ex-generals pick olives with Palestinians as harvest violence surges
On 3 November 2026, some 30 retired Israeli officers — including six generals — helped Palestinian farmers near Qusra harvest their olives: a solidarity gesture that condemns settler violence and cracks Israel’s security consensus.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
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NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsGaza Marks a Year of 'Ceasefire' With More Israeli Killing
On the truce's first anniversary, monitors say it exists 'in name only': one Palestinian killed or wounded every 90 minutes, no stabilisation force, aid at a third of the agreed rate — while settler violence disrupts the West Bank olive harvest.
NewsSouth Lebanon olive harvest killings: two men dead in Bint Jbeil district
An engineer home from Beirut died on an unexploded shell in Froun; hours later, Israeli tank fire killed a farmer inspecting his trees in Yater — and the harvest was called off.
NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
Nuclear reactors, African legacies, and opinions about everything. Paris still behaves like a great power — sometimes it is one.
No 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.
NewsICRC 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsSamsung 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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsLecornu brings forward France’s minimum-wage rise to December — and the unions call it crumbs
The 1.6% rise to €1,502 a month, announced after a social conference at Matignon, is the first discretionary boost to the SMIC since 2012 — but the unions who demanded €100 to €150 say it changes almost nothing, and have called a new strike for 17 November.
NewsLecornu opens wage talks at Matignon as cost-of-living protests test his government
Sébastien Lecornu met unions and employers on Monday to discuss salaries and purchasing power, offering a minimum-wage rise to just over €1,500 a month — far below what unions demand — after weeks of strikes and marches across France.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsTens 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.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsSchool bus crashes in eastern France, killing two and injuring 16
An intercity bus carrying 43 people, including 15 children on their way to school, left the road near Lent in the Ain department on Friday morning and struck a tree, killing a young girl and an 18-year-old man, while prosecutors opened a road-homicide investigation.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsFrance backs Morocco's Southern Provinces ports with €100 million AFD financing
Rabat and Paris sealed a €100 million joint declaration on November 3 to develop the Southern Provinces' ports — a 13-year loan deepening France's bet on Morocco's Atlantic facade.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsSenate sets November 10 hearing for Trump's FCC nominee as Disney license fight deepens
Danielle Thumann Severs, senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, faces the Senate Commerce Committee one week after the midterms — a vote that could hand Republicans a 3–1 commission majority.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Michigan Democrat endorsed the Republican
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary, announced on Sunday she was backing Republican Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate — a cross-party defection that has turned America's premier Senate battleground into a public referendum on the Democratic Party itself.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
News'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsSixteen seconds on a Paris runway: why a model's stumble became the season's viral moment
A sixteen-second clip from the Mugler show turned a model's struggle with her shoes into the season's most-shared fashion moment — and reopened an old argument about whether the runway is a workplace, a stage, or both.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
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NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
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NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsCan Mbappé's record-breaking season win the Ballon d'Or without a trophy?
The 70th Ballon d'Or is presented in London on Monday.
NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were unsafe, as the Steelers and Saints prepare to meet at the Stade de France a day after fresh protests.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
News‘Clearly a Terrorist Crime’: France’s Interior Minister Declares the Trappes Shooting a Racist Attack
Laurent Nuñez said Friday’s drive-by rampage through Trappes and La Verrière — one person killed, at least four wounded, a 12-year-old girl shot eight times — was ‘clearly a terrorist crime’ and ‘a racist, probably Islamophobic attack.’ The national anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, with an aggravating circumstance tied to the victims’ race, ethnicity or religion.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsThe Vinyl Hunter of Abidjan: Cédric Kouamé's Race to Save Côte d'Ivoire's Musical Memory
France 24's Across Africa put its cameras on Cédric Kouamé this week — the Ivorian DJ crisscrossing the country to rescue 20th-century African vinyl from oblivion.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsThe World Is Set to Breach 1.5°C: UNEP Declares Overshoot 'Imminent and Unavoidable'
The UN Environment Programme's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, released in Nairobi on 21 October, closes the era of 'no overshoot': holding 1.5°C without breaching it is no longer possible, and the only route home demands cuts the world has never made.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsThe Night the Belfry Fell: France Arrests Ultra-Left Suspect as Anti-Terror Police Join Limoges Arson Probe
French police arrested a 34-year-old ultra-left activist already on the fiche S watchlist in a dawn RAID raid at Val d'Issoire on Tuesday, naming him the principal suspect in the October 17 arson that destroyed Limoges's 1883 town hall — as the counter-terrorism sub-directorate takes up an investigation now testing the line between riot and insurrection.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsExiled Kagame Critic Robert Kabera Found Beheaded in Uganda
Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, a former Rwandan army sergeant major turned YouTube dissident, whose headless body was found near Kampala. His head is still missing.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsTrump warns Kansans the US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win the midterms
At a Park City rally for embattled Senator Roger Marshall, Donald Trump turned France's worst unrest in years into a campaign warning — offering no evidence that a Democratic win would bring 'raging fires' to America.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsParis records 855 arrests as France's cost-of-living marches spiral into worst unrest in years
A record 855 arrests in Paris, one demonstrator dead, up to 1,800 detained nationwide: Saturday's marches against the cost of living descended into looting and arson from Paris to Marseille, six months before France's presidential election.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsReal Madrid demand resignation of LaLiga chief Tebas after Goebbels comparison
LaLiga president Javier Tebas compared Real Madrid's media machine to the propaganda techniques of Joseph Goebbels.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsEbola: $93 million World Bank lifeline as Kenya confirms second case, DRC toll hits 9,066
The World Bank commits $93 million to Africa's Ebola fight as the DRC toll passes 9,000 cases — while Kenya's second confirmed infection shows how fast the virus crosses borders.
NewsPSG Put on a Show in Manchester: 4-2 Champions League Thriller Stuns City
Paris Saint-Germain, the defending European champions, sent a message to the continent with a 4-2 victory over Manchester City on Champions League Matchday 2.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsPope Leo XIV lung operation: what a week at Gemelli means for the papacy
The 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsMusk's $366 Million Midterm Bet: Buying the Republican Congress
Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 midterms, pouring $366 million into Republican races after vowing he had done enough. The money says this is power, not charity.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsCyberattack Turns French Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens, Spoiling Food Worth Millions
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration systems overnight and forced defrost cycles that drove temperatures to 50°C; Paris prosecutors opened a cybercrime investigation as chains threw away tonnes of food.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsFrench astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after a record 237 days, saying space gave her 'all human emotions'
The ESA astronaut splashed down in the Pacific on Thursday with three crewmates after eight months aboard the International Space Station, setting a new European endurance record — and on Saturday in Cologne she described a mission that ran the full register of human feeling.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsLausanne to Rule on Africa's Most Disputed Title: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Heard Thursday
The Court of Arbitration for Sport hears on Thursday Senegal's appeal against the CAF decision that stripped the Teranga Lions of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to hosts Morocco.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsIsrael puts military on high alert and warns Gaza will pay a "heavy price" for any attack
Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to high alert ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, citing intelligence on Hamas plans.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsLVMH's $167bn unravelling: the luxury machine stalls
After the boom years, the world's biggest luxury group has shed roughly $167 billion in market value. The shopper who carried it there is no longer buying the same way.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsSánchez calls snap Spanish election for November 29 after housing laws collapse in parliament
Spain's prime minister announced an early general election from the Moncloa Palace on Monday, gambling that the housing crisis which broke his parliamentary majority can instead deliver him a bigger one.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsThe mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsAlgeria sent fighter jets to Niger, Tebboune says
Algeria confirms it sent Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey in late August to help Niger's junta crush a mutiny — a rare public admission of direct military intervention.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest Wave
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast Cancer
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's party takes the Senate
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen leads the polls.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one frozen pay scale
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The street is back.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
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BDS 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsCrane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
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NewsNigeria 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.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsWithin days, a second gateway: Morocco opens Nador West Med and launches Tanger Med 3
His Majesty King Mohammed VI reviewed two Mediterranean port projects at Rabat on 28 October 2026: Nador West Med, whose first container terminal begins operations within days, and Tanger Med 3, a new 8-billion-dirham port that will lift Tanger Med toward 20 million containers a year.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
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NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
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NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
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Rubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsIraq Closes the Sheeb Border Crossing With Iran for a Security Overhaul
Baghdad shut the busy Al-Sheeb crossing to passengers, vehicles and commercial trucks until further notice on Wednesday, ordering a security review and new detection equipment at a post an Iraqi border official called “weak and inadequate” — as Iraqi outlets report further closures along the Iranian frontier are coming.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsThree years on, Israel votes: October 7 becomes Netanyahu’s referendum
Israel marked three years since the deadliest day in its history with no hostages left in Gaza. In 20 days, voters deliver their verdict on the man in charge that day.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsSovereignty Day: Iraq Gives Its Militias Until June 2027 to Disarm — and the Militias Say No
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day,' set a June 30, 2027 deadline for all weapons outside state control, and buried the US-led coalition's decade-long mission.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA pact goes live October 1
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks since 2017, now law.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
The export machine and the spreadsheet conscience of Europe — discovering that cheap gas and open markets were a strategy, not a right.
Europe 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMerz to nominate Aigner as Germany’s first woman president
Friedrich Merz told Christian Democratic leaders on Sunday that he will put forward Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian parliament’s president, as Germany’s next head of state.
NewsOscar-winning Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio dies at 52
The director of A Fantastic Woman, the first Chilean feature ever to win an Oscar, was found dead at his home in Santiago on Friday, and his family cited health reasons while he was in the middle of filming his next feature.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
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NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
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NewsReal Madrid demand resignation of LaLiga chief Tebas after Goebbels comparison
LaLiga president Javier Tebas compared Real Madrid's media machine to the propaganda techniques of Joseph Goebbels.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsFrench astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after a record 237 days, saying space gave her 'all human emotions'
The ESA astronaut splashed down in the Pacific on Thursday with three crewmates after eight months aboard the International Space Station, setting a new European endurance record — and on Saturday in Cologne she described a mission that ran the full register of human feeling.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsDeisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics
The 2026 medicine prize honours the trio who gave neuroscience a light switch: light-gated ion channels from a pond alga that let researchers turn individual brain cells on and off. 12 million kronor shared three ways.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as the CDU is routed on right and left
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's history.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe AfD's 38.2% earthquake and the CDU's worst day since 1945
On Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaster.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
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NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
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14 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsTshisekedi 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.
NewsBen 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsBrazil’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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsTrump 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.
News‘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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsNetanyahu 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.
NewsSouth 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsSupreme 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.
NewsCrane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsAt least 35 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal on the way to the Canary Islands
The toll rose from 21 to 35 in a single day as rescuers searched off the Loumpoul dunes, while a second boat carrying 142 people was intercepted and Spain's El Hierro declared an emergency.
NewsSheikh Hasina asks for a new passport in the clearest sign yet of her planned December return to Bangladesh
Lawyers for the ousted prime minister have written to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking a fresh passport and identity card, so she can return from exile and surrender before a court — while Dhaka insists she will come back only under the extradition treaty.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
News“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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsThreadbare: 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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsANC 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.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsKenya sentences starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison
The Mombasa High Court handed the Good News International Church leader two consecutive 100-year terms for the murder of 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest — one of the worst mass killings of modern times.
NewsNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsFrom Habibie to Prabowo: the wiretap that keeps finding Indonesia’s presidents
Three generals were arrested this week for allegedly tapping President Prabowo Subianto’s phone, yet the scandal is only the latest chapter of a story that began in 1998, when a leaked call embarrassed President Habibie, and it has touched every Indonesian president since.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsIndonesian parties weigh a parliamentary inquiry into the vice-president’s diploma
Two court rulings have stripped the paperwork behind Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s candidacy of its legal standing, and now the parties that put Prabowo Subianto in power must decide whether parliament acts, as the rift with Joko Widodo widens.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsA progressive flips the Central Valley: Villegas ousts Valadao in California's 22nd
Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has ousted six-term Republican David Valadao in California's 22nd district — the last House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump — in a Central Valley rout built on living costs and backlash to ICE raids.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsThree years later, the sewer still fouling humanity's cradle — and voters get their say on Wednesday
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa is still being treated as a latrine. Two days before the municipal polls, Mogale City's collapsed waterworks have become the measure of local government failure.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsLula beat Bolsonaro from second place. Governing Brazil will be harder than winning it.
A week after the runoff, The Hindu's post-mortem lays bare the mechanics of a 4.4-million-vote turnaround — student marches, a 10.8-million-strong WhatsApp army, and a message rebuilt around kitchen-table promises.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
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NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsHamilton takes first Ferrari pole in Mexico as Antonelli stands one ninth place from history
Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second for his first Ferrari pole in Mexico City — while Kimi Antonelli starts fourth needing only ninth to become Formula One's youngest champion.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsThe surge of the other: Arab parties take a record 19 seats and redraw Israel's coalition map
Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out in record numbers on October 27, handing the Joint List and Ra'am their highest-ever tally — and a mathematical key to a parliament where neither Jewish-led bloc can govern alone.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsFresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsEthiopia's Oromia killings: 60 Orthodox Christians dead, bishops demand protection
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says 60 worshippers were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in the Arsi Zone of Oromia — 14 in Merti district, 46 in Shirka — as the regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army, the rebels deny it, and no one has been held to account.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsThe long road home is paved in Hebrew: how education is carrying the Bnei Menashe to Israel
A 17-year-old who never sat her final exams in Manipur is now learning the Hebrew alphabet in an absorption centre in northern Israel.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsThe R13-billion fight: Treasury's grant savings ignite a battle over South Africa's safety net
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mini-budget claims R13 billion saved by beating grant fraud.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsInglis and Carey edge Australia one run ahead as Newlands decider tilts at stumps on day two
Australia closed day two of the third Test at Newlands on 330 for four, one run past South Africa's 329, after Josh Inglis and Alex Carey shared an unbeaten 145 and twice rescued a side that had twice been rocked by double strikes.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsMorocco passes South Africa to become Africa's fourth-most attractive investment destination
Rand Merchant Bank's 2026/27 ranking lifts Morocco from fifth to fourth on years of industrialisation, export diversification and infrastructure investment — while South Africa, still the continent's biggest economy, slips to fifth on slower growth.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsJio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsKilled while livestreaming: the blogger who exposed Mozambique's toxic chromium corridor
Forbidden Stories' investigation links law enforcement to the death of Albino Sibia, known as Mano Shottas, shot while filming a protest over chromium trucks in Ressano Garcia — and finds the dumping he documented still going on.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsStarc's six-for turns the Newlands decider after South Africa throw away a perfect start
Mitchell Starc took 6 for 72 as South Africa, 158 without loss at one stage, were bowled out for 329 on day one of the deciding third Test at Newlands — with the series level at 1-1 and the world No.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsThe plant-based coffee cup that still needs a factory to disappear
South African scientists can turn sugar-cane waste into a cup that breaks down — but only if it reaches an industrial composter.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsCongo's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as the virus spreads further across Africa
Congo's public health institute put confirmed cases at 10,060 with 4,887 deaths on October 27, 2026, making this the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history — and the fastest-growing on record — as Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda confront cases carried across borders.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsIndonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest-fire haze
In Palangka Raya, on the island of Borneo, a bus fitted with oxygen tanks has become a refuge for people struggling to breathe as the worst fire season in more than a decade fills the air with smoke — and the health toll climbs past 350,000 respiratory cases.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsInvest early or pay later: South Africa's case for youth mental health prevention
In an op-ed published today, three researchers argue that South Africa keeps paying the price of waiting until young people reach crisis — and that prevention, built into schools, workplaces and youth centres, would cost far less than the damage delay causes.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsCarrying confidence: Proteas show their hand for the Newlands decider
South Africa make one change for the winner-takes-all third Test against Australia, backing Gerald Coetzee to replace the injured Anrich Nortje as a series level at 1-1 heads to Cape Town.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsAustralia vice-captain Gardner calls cricket her ‘escape’ after a year of personal turmoil
Speaking at the Sydney Sixers’ season launch, Ashleigh Gardner thanked her teammates and the game itself for carrying her through the breakdown of her marriage — a year in which Cricket Australia backed her leadership and her performances kept answering for her.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsMorocco offers FIFA sweeping tax breaks in its push to stage the 2030 World Cup final
The draft 2027 Finance Bill writes a special tax regime for the 2030 World Cup into Moroccan law, exempting FIFA and its partners from most taxes through 2032.
NewsLula Wins Brazil's Runoff and a Historic Fourth Term After a Comeback No One Had Made Before
The electoral court has announced the final certified result: Lula won the runoff with 51.77 percent of valid votes (64,194,247 votes) against 48.23 percent for Flávio Bolsonaro (59,799,105 votes), reversing a first-round defeat and denying the Bolsonaro family a return to the presidency.
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NewsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest.
NewsSouth Africa's retail tide has gone out — and investors can see who was swimming naked
Clicks has just passed R50 billion in turnover and still been punished by the market, Shoprite keeps pulling away from its rivals, and households are hunting for deals ahead of Black Friday.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
NewsThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
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NewsA crane fell onto São Paulo's monorail — and the next train ran straight into it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, a crane toppled onto the elevated Line 15-Prata near Camilo Haddad station in São Paulo, and a passing monorail train struck the fallen equipment.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
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NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
NewsThe Vinyl Hunter of Abidjan: Cédric Kouamé's Race to Save Côte d'Ivoire's Musical Memory
France 24's Across Africa put its cameras on Cédric Kouamé this week — the Ivorian DJ crisscrossing the country to rescue 20th-century African vinyl from oblivion.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
News‘It's awful’: Amy Acton responds to Ramaswamy attack ad starring her estranged mother
Vivek Ramaswamy has confirmed his campaign produced the controversial Ohio ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsIn the Dock Again: Suliman Carrim Faces Money-Laundering Charges in Alleged Absa Vehicle-Smuggling Plot
The ANC-linked North West businessman appeared briefly in the Musina Magistrate's Court on Thursday on charges of attempted theft and money laundering, tied to two Absa-financed vehicles intercepted at the Beitbridge border post in July — the latest turn in his collision course with the Madlanga Commission.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsPhillip Island Bows Out: MotoGP Bids a Bitter-Sweet Farewell to Its Most Beloved Circuit
After nearly three decades on the championship calendar, the seaside track that carried Australian motorcycling's greatest moments hosts its final grand prix on Sunday — before MotoGP moves to a street circuit in Adelaide in 2027, with the title fight still hanging on two points.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
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NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsPrabowo to MSCI: Indonesia ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’ After Record Jakarta Market Rout
Two years into his presidency, Prabowo Subianto used a cabinet anniversary to accuse the index provider of trying to scare Indonesia, days after MSCI floated demoting the country to standalone market status and triggered the worst Jakarta crash since 1998.
NewsThree Weeks Without Chlorine: How Bronkhorstspruit’s Tap Water Sickened 408 People
Unchlorinated water, a sewage-polluted river and a city that failed to warn: the anatomy of Tshwane’s water crisis — and what it says about South Africa’s constitutional promise.
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsBeyond the Green Book: Inside South Africa’s Revolutionary Leap Into Digital Identity
On 1 October 2026, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber demonstrated a working smartphone digital ID — then set the dates that kill the green ID book: production ends 31 March 2027, validity ends 31 March 2028.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsFrom paper to practice: Morocco’s C-130 lands in Liberia as the defense pact moves to action
A Moroccan C-130 cargo aircraft has touched down at Monrovia’s Roberts International Airport with the first consignment of military vehicles and supplies for the Armed Forces of Liberia, turning a defense cooperation agreement signed in Rabat a year ago into an operating reality — and underscoring the Kingdom of Morocco’s growing role as a security partner of choice in West Africa.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsIndonesian stocks slide to a six-year low as MSCI's 'standalone' warning rattles markets
Jakarta's benchmark fell more than 5 percent on Monday to its lowest since 2020 after MSCI proposed stripping Indonesia of emerging-market status — a shock demotion that could unleash billions in forced selling.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
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NewsPrincess Lalla Meryem launches Morocco's national mechanism to eradicate child labour
Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the new DNETE follows each child from withdrawal to reintegration — with family support from day one.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsMexico jails three men for 158 years each over the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their US friend
A judge in Baja California has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surf trip — closing one of the most internationally watched murder cases in recent Mexican history.
NewsBrazil's Amazon deforestation falls to record low as decisive run-off looms
Satellite data shows forest clearance dropped 41.8% to 3,335 square kilometres — the lowest since records began in 1988.
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NewsMeta Employees Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts During Brazil Election, Report Says
Internal Meta messages reviewed by Folha de S.Paulo acknowledge restrictions on President Lula's Instagram accounts — and the promotion of Flavio Bolsonaro's profile — nine days before Brazil's runoff.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliAt the End of the Strait, There Is a Shelf in Casablanca
The shopper’s strait
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NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsEbola: $93 million World Bank lifeline as Kenya confirms second case, DRC toll hits 9,066
The World Bank commits $93 million to Africa's Ebola fight as the DRC toll passes 9,000 cases — while Kenya's second confirmed infection shows how fast the virus crosses borders.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsHalk TV raid: Turkish police halt live broadcast of opposition channel
Police raided Turkey's most-watched news channel at dawn, cut its live feed and installed a state trustee. Critics call it the latest blow in a widening crackdown on the press.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsSouth Africa's Deputy Police Chief Resigns in Custody on Rape and Grooming Charges
Shadrack Sibiya, 59, quit on Monday as his disciplinary hearing opened; the police service classed his departure a dishonourable discharge.
News139 migrants dead, 84 missing as overcrowded boat sinks between Djibouti and Yemen
An overcrowded boat carrying 305 migrants sank between Djibouti and Yemen on the night of October 8–9. At least 139 dead, 84 missing — one of the worst wrecks ever on the Eastern Route.
News223 Catches: Steve Smith Rewrites Test Cricket's Fielding Record as Australia Dominate South Africa
Steve Smith took four catches on day three at Kingsmead to reach 223 career Test catches — a record for a non-wicketkeeper — as Australia bowled South Africa out for 284 and seized command of the first Test.
NewsHurricane Simón: Category 4 monster menaces Mexico's Pacific coast
From Category 1 to a forecast Category 4 in barely two days, Simón forced evacuations, closed ports and airports, and put a $175M catastrophe bond on edge.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsDelhi locks down as police detain 2,000+ to block CJP rally over voter rolls
Police sealed central Delhi, shut 45 metro stations and cancelled 250+ trains to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over the disputed Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsAnti-migrant protests turn violent in Durban and Soweto: torched cars, gunshots, and a reopened asylum system under siege
Cars torched in Durban and gunshots in Soweto mark the most violent day yet in South Africa's anti-migrant wave, as a reopened asylum system buckles under street pressure.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsAfrica joins the data center backlash: South Africa's water, power and the cloud's real cost
South African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsLausanne to Rule on Africa's Most Disputed Title: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Heard Thursday
The Court of Arbitration for Sport hears on Thursday Senegal's appeal against the CAF decision that stripped the Teranga Lions of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to hosts Morocco.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsNigeria ATR-42 crash: 32 killed as Air Force plane goes down in Ondo
All 32 aboard an Air Force ATR-42 died in the Igbokoda swamps on Monday; Tinubu declared three days of mourning as investigators face familiar questions about military flight safety.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsBolsonaro stuns Lula in Brazil's first round — and the polls never saw it coming
Flávio Bolsonaro beat Lula 47.1% to 45.1% in Brazil's first round — a shock the final polls missed by miles. Runoff: October 25.
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NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsZimbabwe returnees rebuild after fleeing South African xenophobic violence
Over 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsBrazil votes as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for a knife-edge first round
It is not Jair Bolsonaro on the ballot — the former president is under house arrest — but his eldest son, and the polls point to a dead-heat runoff on October 25.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsPretorius smashes Gayle's T20 record with 188 not out
South Africa's Lhuan-dre Pretorius, 20, broke Chris Gayle's all-time T20 record with 188* off 79 balls for the Titans against the Knights in Bloemfontein.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest Wave
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries they have never seen
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful — and set December for the argument that decides it for good.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA pact goes live October 1
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks since 2017, now law.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsElection day in Brazil: a tied runoff, a dynasty on the ballot, and a count the polls already got wrong once
More than 158 million Brazilians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff that every final poll calls a statistical tie, between an 80-year-old incumbent seeking a fourth term and the 45-year-old son of the jailed former president he defeated four years ago.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
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NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto US government sites
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of Education page where they surfaced exposed developer API keys.
NewsA year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait: mothers march on Rabat
Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat on 26 September 2026 — one year after the Gen Z 212 protests began — demanding the release of some 750 detained youths and the schooling their detention has stolen.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
Wheat is the oldest weapon. Whoever controls the breadbasket negotiates with a full hand.
US 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.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsThe dust that could ground the first Mars walkers: Perseverance measures the finest grains yet
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance rover measured dust clinging to spacesuit samples in Jezero Crater — including ultrafine grains around 100 nanometres wide, small enough to reach deep into lungs.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
An island of ice and rare earths that three empires suddenly remember wanting. The Arctic's coming-out party.
Greenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
Oil money learning to buy the future: sovereign funds, polished reputations, and pipelines of ambition.
UN 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsFourteen killed as fire sweeps a Taiyuan apartment tower
A fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment block in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, killed 14 people and sent 38 to hospital on Sunday evening.
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NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
News250 Palestinian couples marry in mass wedding in Gaza, three years into the war
The “Garment of Joy” ceremony at Gaza City’s Sea Club united 250 couples chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants, as the UAE-backed relief operation behind it marked three years of aid to the territory.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
Opinion · Khalid Al-HarbiNineteen Seats Walk Into the Knesset. Likud Calls the Police.
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NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiIsrael Found Gas and Became a Regional Power. It Thinks Like a Gas Station.
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NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsFrom paper to practice: Morocco’s C-130 lands in Liberia as the defense pact moves to action
A Moroccan C-130 cargo aircraft has touched down at Monrovia’s Roberts International Airport with the first consignment of military vehicles and supplies for the Armed Forces of Liberia, turning a defense cooperation agreement signed in Rabat a year ago into an operating reality — and underscoring the Kingdom of Morocco’s growing role as a security partner of choice in West Africa.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
News139 migrants dead, 84 missing as overcrowded boat sinks between Djibouti and Yemen
An overcrowded boat carrying 305 migrants sank between Djibouti and Yemen on the night of October 8–9. At least 139 dead, 84 missing — one of the worst wrecks ever on the Eastern Route.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsThe mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsThe IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's comeback gathers pace
Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
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Diphtheria's return: 25 suspected cases in Morocco's north
A 12-year-old boy's death in Larache and 25 suspected cases across the north mark the steepest escalation yet of a disease Morocco had not reported since 1992 — and put the national vaccination shield back on trial.
NewsThree Weeks Without Chlorine: How Bronkhorstspruit’s Tap Water Sickened 408 People
Unchlorinated water, a sewage-polluted river and a city that failed to warn: the anatomy of Tshwane’s water crisis — and what it says about South Africa’s constitutional promise.
NewsNew York declares statewide disaster emergency as measles cases surge past 100
Governor Kathy Hochul's order — the first US state disaster declaration since measles began surging in 2025 — expands who can give MMR shots and order tests as 108 cases spread through under-immunized rural counties.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest Wave
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast Cancer
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
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Sudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
The world's most populous democracy, the West's favorite alternative, the East's eternal rival. Delhi plays every side of every table.
14 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.
NewsTrump 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.
News‘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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsNetanyahu 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsSheikh Hasina asks for a new passport in the clearest sign yet of her planned December return to Bangladesh
Lawyers for the ousted prime minister have written to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking a fresh passport and identity card, so she can return from exile and surrender before a court — while Dhaka insists she will come back only under the extradition treaty.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsThe surge of the other: Arab parties take a record 19 seats and redraw Israel's coalition map
Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out in record numbers on October 27, handing the Joint List and Ra'am their highest-ever tally — and a mathematical key to a parliament where neither Jewish-led bloc can govern alone.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsThe long road home is paved in Hebrew: how education is carrying the Bnei Menashe to Israel
A 17-year-old who never sat her final exams in Manipur is now learning the Hebrew alphabet in an absorption centre in northern Israel.
NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
NewsJio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
News‘It's awful’: Amy Acton responds to Ramaswamy attack ad starring her estranged mother
Vivek Ramaswamy has confirmed his campaign produced the controversial Ohio ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsDelhi locks down as police detain 2,000+ to block CJP rally over voter rolls
Police sealed central Delhi, shut 45 metro stations and cancelled 250+ trains to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over the disputed Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto US government sites
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of Education page where they surfaced exposed developer API keys.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
Seventeen thousand islands, one policy: nickel, neutrality, and a quiet bid to matter more than its size suggests.
Indonesia’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.
NewsFrom Habibie to Prabowo: the wiretap that keeps finding Indonesia’s presidents
Three generals were arrested this week for allegedly tapping President Prabowo Subianto’s phone, yet the scandal is only the latest chapter of a story that began in 1998, when a leaked call embarrassed President Habibie, and it has touched every Indonesian president since.
NewsIndonesian parties weigh a parliamentary inquiry into the vice-president’s diploma
Two court rulings have stripped the paperwork behind Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s candidacy of its legal standing, and now the parties that put Prabowo Subianto in power must decide whether parliament acts, as the rift with Joko Widodo widens.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsIndonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest-fire haze
In Palangka Raya, on the island of Borneo, a bus fitted with oxygen tanks has become a refuge for people struggling to breathe as the worst fire season in more than a decade fills the air with smoke — and the health toll climbs past 350,000 respiratory cases.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneIndonesia’s Doctrine Isn’t About Nickel. It’s About Never Being a Quarry Again.
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NewsPhillip Island Bows Out: MotoGP Bids a Bitter-Sweet Farewell to Its Most Beloved Circuit
After nearly three decades on the championship calendar, the seaside track that carried Australian motorcycling's greatest moments hosts its final grand prix on Sunday — before MotoGP moves to a street circuit in Adelaide in 2027, with the title fight still hanging on two points.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsPrabowo to MSCI: Indonesia ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’ After Record Jakarta Market Rout
Two years into his presidency, Prabowo Subianto used a cabinet anniversary to accuse the index provider of trying to scare Indonesia, days after MSCI floated demoting the country to standalone market status and triggered the worst Jakarta crash since 1998.
NewsIndonesian stocks slide to a six-year low as MSCI's 'standalone' warning rattles markets
Jakarta's benchmark fell more than 5 percent on Monday to its lowest since 2020 after MSCI proposed stripping Indonesia of emerging-market status — a shock demotion that could unleash billions in forced selling.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
The factories are coming home — or being built where the minerals are. Reindustrialization: the sequel nobody planned.
ArcelorMittal 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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsSouth 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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsMorocco’s unemployment climbs to 10.5% as 173,000 jobs vanish in three months
The High Commission for Planning counts 1.224 million unemployed in the third quarter of 2026, with youth unemployment at 30.5% and rural areas losing 148,000 jobs — while the Employment Ministry’s 2027 budget document puts the same figures before parliament.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsOpenAI taps former Army secretary Dan Driscoll for a national-security role
The newly created post — senior counselor for national security modernization — pulls the Army's former top civilian leader into the AI industry's deepening partnership with the Pentagon, two months after his bruising resignation.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
NewsFresh-faced appetite for alternatives: upscale beauty shakes up South Africa's retail landscape
Clicks is paying R507 million for control of ARC, the retailer insiders call South Africa's answer to Sephora.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsMorocco passes South Africa to become Africa's fourth-most attractive investment destination
Rand Merchant Bank's 2026/27 ranking lifts Morocco from fifth to fourth on years of industrialisation, export diversification and infrastructure investment — while South Africa, still the continent's biggest economy, slips to fifth on slower growth.
NewsThe plant-based coffee cup that still needs a factory to disappear
South African scientists can turn sugar-cane waste into a cup that breaks down — but only if it reaches an industrial composter.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe $10 Billion Boom That Made Ankara Unignorable.
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Opinion · Khalid Al-HarbiGermany’s Chemical Giants Are Merging Their Misery.
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NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsMorocco's 2027 budget: a social-spending surge wrapped in fiscal discipline
On Friday, Economy and Finance Minister Fouzi Lekjaa presented the 2027 Finance Bill to a joint session of Parliament: 62 billion dirhams for purchasing power and social services, income-tax exemption for salaries under 10,000 dirhams a month, a minimum pension lifted to 1,700 dirhams — and a deficit held steady at 3% of GDP.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneIndonesia’s Doctrine Isn’t About Nickel. It’s About Never Being a Quarry Again.
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NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiHuawei’s Chairman Thanked America for Its Sanctions. He Wasn’t Being Sarcastic.
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NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliThey Arrest the Driver. They Never Arrest the Man Who Owns the Truck.
Nigeria’s subsidy surgery
NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiTurkey Sells Drones the Way Empires Used to Sell Flags.
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Opinion · Younesse BouzianiEurope’s Industrial Policy Is a Subsidy Race It Started by Losing.
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Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiGermany’s Debt Brake Is a Suicide Pact With Excellent Accounting.
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NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsThailand Floods Sacrifice Villages to Protect Bangkok as Waters Rise
Thai defences steer floodwater away from Bangkok into riverside villages, where families on stilts flood for a sixth straight year. The capital stays dry. The villages pay.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsThe matter that shouldn't exist: quantum materials and the long road to room-temperature superconductors
In laboratories around the world, materials are being built atom by atom to do things textbooks said were impossible — conduct without resistance, remember magnetic states, host particles that are their own antiparticles.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsThe second brain in your gut: how the microbiome is rewriting medicine — and what it still can't prove
Trillions of microbes live in and on you. They digest your food, train your immune system, and send chemical messages to your brain. The science is thrilling.
NewsThe Humanoid Factory: Robots Leave the Demo Floor and Meet the Real World
Humanoids are entering warehouses and factories before they are ready — and the jobs, safety and wage questions arrive with them.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsThe Agent Era Has Arrived — and Nobody Is in Charge of It
Agents that book, buy, code and negotiate are moving from demos to daily work. The technology works. The accountability does not.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
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NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsUAE says FlyDubai attacker began 'drift towards extremism and terrorism' while studying in Australia
The Emirates' attorney-general alleges co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami's radicalisation started during his student years in Australia — and that he meant to crash flight FZ1073 into Tel Aviv's airport in a suicide attack.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsA Safety Chief Walks Out: OpenAI’s ‘Broken’ Culture and the Governance Crisis at Frontier AI Labs
David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s model safety reports for three and a half years, quit this week calling its culture ‘broken’ — exposing the governance fault lines inside frontier AI labs.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsNetanyahu Vows to Get to the 'Root' of the FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
'Too early to say' who was behind it, the Israeli PM tells Fox News — but Israel will find out 'very soon.' The co-pilot who allegedly stabbed his captain and sent FZ1073 into a 14,000-foot dive is under interrogation in Saudi Arabia.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the budget clock ticks
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has not yet funded.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsVolkswagen's $7 billion Canadian battery dream slips to 2029
PowerCo, VW's battery arm, pushed back its giant St. Thomas gigafactory two years while naming a general contractor to keep construction moving — the latest automaker to slow its electric pace in Canada.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsOpenAI's GPT-5.4 is coming — and the enterprise AI battle is officially on
OpenAI's next model, GPT-5.4, is expected within days — built for long-horizon agents at enterprise scale. The race is no longer about the smartest chatbot; it is about who owns the worker.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Three thousand years of empire compressed into one sanctions file. Tehran reads the region like a chessboard it helped carve.
UK 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsRepublicans 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsThe 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.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Week the Ballot Met the Missile
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NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsShe watched a sniper kill her 16-year-old in Tehran. Now an Iranian mother is naming names.
Samira's only child, Sevda, was shot dead on 9 January as Iran's January protests turned into a massacre.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Second Round
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NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliIran’s Oil Has One Customer. That Customer Names the Price.
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NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsIraq Closes the Sheeb Border Crossing With Iran for a Security Overhaul
Baghdad shut the busy Al-Sheeb crossing to passengers, vehicles and commercial trucks until further notice on Wednesday, ordering a security review and new detection equipment at a post an Iraqi border official called “weak and inadequate” — as Iraqi outlets report further closures along the Iranian frontier are coming.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
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NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsSovereignty Day: Iraq Gives Its Militias Until June 2027 to Disarm — and the Militias Say No
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day,' set a June 30, 2027 deadline for all weapons outside state control, and buried the US-led coalition's decade-long mission.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsNetanyahu Vows to Get to the 'Root' of the FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
'Too early to say' who was behind it, the Israeli PM tells Fox News — but Israel will find out 'very soon.' The co-pilot who allegedly stabbed his captain and sent FZ1073 into a 14,000-foot dive is under interrogation in Saudi Arabia.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
The laboratory of the future: oldest population, weakest yen, sharpest technology. Japan ages first so the world can watch.
Japan'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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
News68 dead as a Renfe AVE ploughs into a stopped Iryo near Toledo — Spain’s deadliest rail crash since 2013
A computer failure stopped the trains; a human decision restarted one of them.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
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NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneTokyo Spent $85 Billion Defending the Yen. The Currency Didn’t Notice.
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NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high on hot PMI data
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.1% on 23 September — its highest since 2007 — after a red-hot September PMI; traders now give the Fed's October meeting a 66–73% chance of another hike, and a weak $70 billion auction deepened the gloom.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
A Casablanca court jails cartoonist Yasser Mounbir for four years over caricatures of the King
The Aïn Sebaâ court imposed the legal maximum under Article 179 of the Penal Code for Instagram caricatures of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The defence announced an appeal on Sunday.
NewsThe judge who was to try Maduro dies at 92: Alvin Hellerstein's three-decade bench
Alvin K. Hellerstein, the Manhattan federal judge presiding over the prosecution of Nicolás Maduro, died on Wednesday aged 92, leaving the most politically charged trial in America without its judge and a 1 June 2027 trial date suddenly in doubt.
NewsFamily of Renee Nicole Good Sues U.S. Government Over Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Nine months after a 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent, her family filed two federal lawsuits — one invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act — accusing senior Trump administration officials of orchestrating a discriminatory enforcement campaign.
Lithium under the salt flats, gangs in the favelas, and a century of being Washington's backyard — now taking bids.
Ankara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsMexico jails three men for 158 years each over the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their US friend
A judge in Baja California has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surf trip — closing one of the most internationally watched murder cases in recent Mexican history.
NewsBrazil's Amazon deforestation falls to record low as decisive run-off looms
Satellite data shows forest clearance dropped 41.8% to 3,335 square kilometres — the lowest since records began in 1988.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsPope Leo XIV lung operation: what a week at Gemelli means for the papacy
The 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
Two governments, one oil valve, zero patience. The Mediterranean's lesson in what happens when the state evaporates.
Algeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
The $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsBank Earnings Split Wall Street as Goldman Beats and JPMorgan Misses
Goldman Sachs posted a near-record quarter on equities trading while JPMorgan missed estimates, and a chip sell-off left the Nasdaq lower on Tuesday.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino, toward market infrastructure
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsMusk's $366 Million Midterm Bet: Buying the Republican Congress
Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 midterms, pouring $366 million into Republican races after vowing he had done enough. The money says this is power, not charity.
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the models behind modern central banking
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and crisis responses worldwide.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsAmazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership as Its Subscription Gamble Begins
A day after unveiling premium Alexa tablets, Amazon hands its loss-making assistant to an advertising-and-TV executive. The bet: Alexa+ at $139 a year with Prime, or $20 a month alone, finally makes the business pay.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
The unglamorous stuff civilization is made of: steel, cement, and commodities nobody tweets about.
Copper, lithium, rare earths — the periodic table of power. The green transition runs on mines, not manifestos.
ArcelorMittal 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsEvery person has their luck: Morocco’s beach detectorists read history in the sand
On the beaches of Agadir, a small community of hobbyists sweeps the sand with metal detectors, turning up old coins, lost rings and rusted scrap — and testing where Morocco’s heritage law draws the line between curiosity and archaeology.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsNigeria's custody deaths: families of Minna miners demand justice and their seized property back
Six weeks after young artisanal miners were found dead inside a detention cell of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Minna, their families are demanding swift justice and the return of the motorcycles, phones, mining equipment and gold seized during the arrests — saying no compensation will bring their children back.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsHelen Haines now 'serious but stable' as Australia confronts its political-violence question
Five days after a driver allegedly rammed her outside her Wangaratta electorate office, the independent MP's condition has improved from critical — the first encouraging news in a case that has forced Australia to reckon with rising threats against its elected officials.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneIndonesia’s Doctrine Isn’t About Nickel. It’s About Never Being a Quarry Again.
Resources & Industry
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneLithium’s Crash Wasn’t a Bust. It Was a Lie Detector.
Iron ore & the China habit
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsDaegu ceiling collapse: vendor booked on negligence charges as police probe faulty repairs
South Korean police have booked the vendor behind a kitchenware sales event for elderly shoppers after a ceiling collapse in Daegu injured 38 people, as investigators examine whether faulty repairs brought the ceiling down.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneTwelve Ships a Week Is Not a Strategy. It Is an Invoice.
The price of the strait
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsThe matter that shouldn't exist: quantum materials and the long road to room-temperature superconductors
In laboratories around the world, materials are being built atom by atom to do things textbooks said were impossible — conduct without resistance, remember magnetic states, host particles that are their own antiparticles.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsArgentina bets everything on Milei
Milei took office in December 2023 vowing to crush inflation and shrink the state. The surplus arrived, prices cooled, and the social cost is being counted.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsLithium's comeback trade: MinRes prices double in a quarter as guidance goes up
Spodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Living next door to the giant is a full-time job: factories, cartels, and remittances in one restless border.
Supreme 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.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsA progressive flips the Central Valley: Villegas ousts Valadao in California's 22nd
Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has ousted six-term Republican David Valadao in California's 22nd district — the last House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump — in a Central Valley rout built on living costs and backlash to ICE raids.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsHamilton takes first Ferrari pole in Mexico as Antonelli stands one ninth place from history
Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second for his first Ferrari pole in Mexico City — while Kimi Antonelli starts fourth needing only ninth to become Formula One's youngest champion.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliUSMCA Was America’s Idea. Now America Wants a Refund.
Nearshoring & USMCA
NewsMexico jails three men for 158 years each over the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their US friend
A judge in Baja California has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surf trip — closing one of the most internationally watched murder cases in recent Mexican history.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsHurricane Simón: Category 4 monster menaces Mexico's Pacific coast
From Category 1 to a forecast Category 4 in barely two days, Simón forced evacuations, closed ports and airports, and put a $175M catastrophe bond on edge.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries they have never seen
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful — and set December for the argument that decides it for good.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
Oil, faith, and unfinished maps. The region where every local feud becomes a global event.
US 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.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsKing Abdullah vows to confront the Karak 'terrorists' as the throne speech turns to war and water
Opening parliament's new session, Jordan's king called the church attackers 'khawarej' who 'are not of us', asked lawmakers to stand for the nine dead — and warned that Israeli expansionism is the region's greatest threat.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsJamaal Bowman: “If I had kept my mouth shut, I’d be in Congress”
On Al Jazeera’s UpFront, the former New York congressman says his outspoken support for Palestinian rights — and the AIPAC millions it drew — cost him his seat, as a new progressive wave tests the Democratic establishment days before the midterms.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsBank of Canada raises its key rate to 2.5% in its first hike since July 2023
Ottawa moved a quarter point on 28 October 2026, warning that a Middle East-driven energy shock could spread from the petrol pump to prices across the economy.
NewsIsrael's election leaves both blocs short — and the Arab parties holding the arithmetic
With about 85 percent of ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc holds 54 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition 49 in the 120-seat Knesset, leaving the 17 seats of Ra'am and the Joint List as the only bridge to 61 — a bridge both blocs spent the campaign refusing to cross.
NewsA fourth winter in tents: Gaza's displaced families brace for wind, rain and floods
On a beach camp in western Gaza City, families are patching torn tarpaulins before the storms arrive.
NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
News‘Go home, Ben-Gvir’: Arab parties surge to 18 seats as Israel’s exit polls leave no bloc with a majority
Exit polls from Israel’s three main broadcasters put Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc on 50 seats, the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot on 52, and the two Arab parties on a combined 18 — nearly double their outgoing total — after record Arab turnout on Tuesday.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsItaly places Israel's Katz under investigation over alleged flotilla abuse
Rome prosecutors say Defence Minister Israel Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir, military chief Eyal Zamir and 12 other senior officials face investigation over alleged torture, kidnapping and abuse of detained Gaza flotilla activists.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsHouthi Missile Hits Aramco Building After Coalition Strike on Yemen Fuel Depot
A missile struck an administrative building at Saudi Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran, setting off a limited fire, hours after the Saudi-led coalition hit a fuel depot outside Sanaa.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsFear and Uncertainty in Sanaa as Yemen's Capital Comes Under Attack
Operation Dawn of Yemen has brought air strikes back to a capital mostly spared since the 2023 truce — and civilians are bracing for a war they thought was behind them.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsOne year into Gaza’s ‘ceasefire,’ an Israeli strike flattens a residential building in Gaza City
Al Jazeera footage shows a residential building in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighbourhood reduced to rubble on the ceasefire’s first anniversary — capping a 48-hour wave of evacuation orders and night strikes that killed at least seven Palestinians.
NewsGaza’s collapsing hospitals, one year after the ‘ceasefire’
More than 15,000 patients wait for medical evacuation, oxygen stations are failing, and a cancer caught early still kills — the ‘ceasefire’ changed the bombing’s tempo, not the blockade’s logic, medics say.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsUAE says FlyDubai attacker began 'drift towards extremism and terrorism' while studying in Australia
The Emirates' attorney-general alleges co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami's radicalisation started during his student years in Australia — and that he meant to crash flight FZ1073 into Tel Aviv's airport in a suicide attack.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsFlyDubai Co-Pilot Planned 9/11-Style Suicide Crash Into Tel Aviv Airport, Prosecutor Says
The UAE attorney-general says co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami confessed to planning to crash flight FZ1073 into Ben Gurion's terminal in a 9/11-inspired suicide attack.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsThree Years After October 7, a Prolonged War Takes Its Toll on Israelis
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, one in five Israelis reports severe difficulty with daily life, and child psychiatric emergency visits have more than doubled.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsThree years after October 7: Gaza in ruins, 74,250 dead, and a ceasefire in name only
Three years after the October 7 attacks, Gaza's health ministry puts the toll at 74,250 dead and 175,278 injured.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsHouthis and Saudi-led forces both claim victory as Yemen's war rages on
Saudi Arabia said two southern airports were struck on Monday evening, wounding three people, while Saudi-led government forces launched air strikes in Yemen and claimed the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsIsrael puts military on high alert and warns Gaza will pay a "heavy price" for any attack
Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to high alert ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, citing intelligence on Hamas plans.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsFuneral at Gaza church for mother and daughter
An overnight airstrike destroyed a Gaza City apartment, killing five — including a Christian mother and daughter. On Saturday, Muslims and Christians gathered at Saint Porphyrius Church to bury them.
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a synagogue
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsThe RBA joins the hawks: a fourth 2026 hike takes Australia to 4.60%
Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possibly not done.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Fleets, missiles, and the mathematics of deterrence. The Bureau reads militaries as budgets with consequences.
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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsGaza's broken drains leave 350,000 people under water as the first winter storm hits
Seventy thousand tents flooded in twelve hours.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsHow 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.
NewsKennedy 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsSpanish judge orders secret CNI files on Ceuta released as Guardia Civil counts 90 dead
Judge María Tardón has given the Spanish government 15 days to declassify intelligence on the July crossings from Morocco, including the note its spies sent Rabat — as a Guardia Civil report puts returns at 88,146, rescues at 862 and deaths at 90.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
News“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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsEisenkot 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.
NewsWho is Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat poised to become the first Black House speaker?
Democrats won back the House in the 2026 midterms, and their leader now stands one vote away from history — but first he must hold together a party that wants him to fight harder, on Trump and on Israel.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsIsrael’s ex-generals pick olives with Palestinians as harvest violence surges
On 3 November 2026, some 30 retired Israeli officers — including six generals — helped Palestinian farmers near Qusra harvest their olives: a solidarity gesture that condemns settler violence and cracks Israel’s security consensus.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsOpenAI taps former Army secretary Dan Driscoll for a national-security role
The newly created post — senior counselor for national security modernization — pulls the Army's former top civilian leader into the AI industry's deepening partnership with the Pentagon, two months after his bruising resignation.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsKing Abdullah vows to confront the Karak 'terrorists' as the throne speech turns to war and water
Opening parliament's new session, Jordan's king called the church attackers 'khawarej' who 'are not of us', asked lawmakers to stand for the nine dead — and warned that Israeli expansionism is the region's greatest threat.
NewsAt least 19 dead as Venezuela bombs an ELN camp: Caracas turns its guns on its old guerrilla ally
The October 30 drone-and-helicopter strike on a National Liberation Army camp in Apure is the first time Caracas has bombed the ELN — a doctrine reversal that FundaRedes, an anonymous military source and regional outlets all trace to Washington's new grip on Venezuelan security policy.
NewsLula beat Bolsonaro from second place. Governing Brazil will be harder than winning it.
A week after the runoff, The Hindu's post-mortem lays bare the mechanics of a 4.4-million-vote turnaround — student marches, a 10.8-million-strong WhatsApp army, and a message rebuilt around kitchen-table promises.
NewsA 'cataclysmic' nose-dive over Palm Beach County: nine dead in a Learjet 60 crash
A Bahamas-bound Learjet 60 carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, erupting into a fireball that left all aboard dead.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsIsrael election: with no bloc at 61, Herzog must name a government-maker by November 11
Final results leave Netanyahu at 53 seats and Eisenkot at 48, with the Arab parties’ record 19 seats holding the balance of power.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsEthiopia's Oromia killings: 60 Orthodox Christians dead, bishops demand protection
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says 60 worshippers were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in the Arsi Zone of Oromia — 14 in Merti district, 46 in Shirka — as the regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army, the rebels deny it, and no one has been held to account.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsRecord 33 purged as Xi turns the plenum into a discipline session
The Communist Party's fifth plenum confirmed the biggest expulsion of senior officials on record — 33 of them, half from the military — and rewrote the party's operating doctrine around 'rigorous governance' ahead of the 2027 leadership congress.
News68 dead as a Renfe AVE ploughs into a stopped Iryo near Toledo — Spain’s deadliest rail crash since 2013
A computer failure stopped the trains; a human decision restarted one of them.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsChina's Communist Party opens its fifth plenum with discipline, loyalty and the 2027 congress in view
President Xi Jinping opened a four-day meeting of roughly 300 Central Committee members in Beijing on Monday, October 26, to tighten discipline inside the ruling party — a year before a congress expected to hand him a fourth term, and against the backdrop of a military purge that has hollowed out the party's top ranks.
NewsStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
NewsMore than 2,000 forced from their homes as the Hebron lockdown stretches past 50 hours
Two days after a checkpoint shooting killed two Israeli soldiers, the army's operation in Hebron has displaced thousands, sealed a city of hundreds of thousands, and made return conditional on the dismantling of what the defence minister calls Hamas infrastructure — days before Israel votes.
NewsGunmen kill at least 10 villagers and loot shops in northeast Nigeria
Police recovered 10 bodies after gunmen on motorcycles raided Binnari in Taraba State on Friday, but survivors counted more than 20 dead and Amnesty International says at least 40 were killed — the latest massacre in Nigeria's banditry crisis, where the official count and the village's count rarely match.
NewsElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsNetanyahu Orders West Bank Closure, Warns of Operation 'Unseen Since 1967' After Two Soldiers Killed Near Hebron
Two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday morning, killing two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsTibet earthquake toll climbs to 16 dead as rescue teams reach remote villages
Hours after the first reports spoke of two injured, Xinhua put the toll from the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu quake at 16 killed and 32 injured, with at least 339 homes collapsed at nearly 5,000 metres of altitude.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsIraq Closes the Sheeb Border Crossing With Iran for a Security Overhaul
Baghdad shut the busy Al-Sheeb crossing to passengers, vehicles and commercial trucks until further notice on Wednesday, ordering a security review and new detection equipment at a post an Iraqi border official called “weak and inadequate” — as Iraqi outlets report further closures along the Iranian frontier are coming.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsExiled Kagame Critic Robert Kabera Found Beheaded in Uganda
Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, a former Rwandan army sergeant major turned YouTube dissident, whose headless body was found near Kampala. His head is still missing.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsFrom paper to practice: Morocco’s C-130 lands in Liberia as the defense pact moves to action
A Moroccan C-130 cargo aircraft has touched down at Monrovia’s Roberts International Airport with the first consignment of military vehicles and supplies for the Armed Forces of Liberia, turning a defense cooperation agreement signed in Rabat a year ago into an operating reality — and underscoring the Kingdom of Morocco’s growing role as a security partner of choice in West Africa.
NewsThe human cost of America's surging air war in Somalia
Nearly a year after a November 2025 offensive shattered the town of Jamaame, survivors are still living with shrapnel, paralysis and unanswered questions — as US air strikes in Somalia run at nearly four times the Biden-era pace and AFRICOM's own review clears the military of civilian harm.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsItaly places Israel's Katz under investigation over alleged flotilla abuse
Rome prosecutors say Defence Minister Israel Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir, military chief Eyal Zamir and 12 other senior officials face investigation over alleged torture, kidnapping and abuse of detained Gaza flotilla activists.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsKabila joins M23 to launch Front for the Refoundation of the Nation in Goma
Ex-DRC president Joseph Kabila now leads a new politico-military alliance with the Rwanda-backed M23, unveiled in Goma — a gamble that could unite the opposition or deepen the war.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsThailand, democracy on a short leash
Thailand votes, then courts and generals rewrite the result. Coups, dissolved parties and removed prime ministers, yet the ballot keeps coming back.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsMyanmar: the civil war the world forgot
Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar is a patchwork of war zones and resistance armies. Why the conflict endures, and why the world looks away.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsIsraeli Drone Strike Kills Three in Khan Younis Tent as Gaza Ceasefire Frays
Medics say a drone-fired missile hit a tent used as a phone-charging point near Nasser Hospital on Sunday; funerals were held Monday.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsIslamabad seizes Imran Khan's last stronghold: emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
President Zardari invoked Articles 232 and 234 to suspend the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, citing a militant surge. The opposition calls it a coup. Forty million people now live under federal rule.
NewsSouth Lebanon olive harvest killings: two men dead in Bint Jbeil district
An engineer home from Beirut died on an unexploded shell in Froun; hours later, Israeli tank fire killed a farmer inspecting his trees in Yater — and the harvest was called off.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsFear and Uncertainty in Sanaa as Yemen's Capital Comes Under Attack
Operation Dawn of Yemen has brought air strikes back to a capital mostly spared since the 2023 truce — and civilians are bracing for a war they thought was behind them.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsOne year into Gaza’s ‘ceasefire,’ an Israeli strike flattens a residential building in Gaza City
Al Jazeera footage shows a residential building in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighbourhood reduced to rubble on the ceasefire’s first anniversary — capping a 48-hour wave of evacuation orders and night strikes that killed at least seven Palestinians.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsThree Years After October 7, a Prolonged War Takes Its Toll on Israelis
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, one in five Israelis reports severe difficulty with daily life, and child psychiatric emergency visits have more than doubled.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsHouthis and Saudi-led forces both claim victory as Yemen's war rages on
Saudi Arabia said two southern airports were struck on Monday evening, wounding three people, while Saudi-led government forces launched air strikes in Yemen and claimed the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
NewsNigeria ATR-42 crash: 32 killed as Air Force plane goes down in Ondo
All 32 aboard an Air Force ATR-42 died in the Igbokoda swamps on Monday; Tinubu declared three days of mourning as investigators face familiar questions about military flight safety.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsNigeria declares three days of mourning after Air Force crash kills all 32 aboard
An ATR-42 transport aircraft, NGR 931, went down in a swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State on Monday on a routine Benin City–Lagos flight.
NewsIsrael puts military on high alert and warns Gaza will pay a "heavy price" for any attack
Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to high alert ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, citing intelligence on Hamas plans.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsFuneral at Gaza church for mother and daughter
An overnight airstrike destroyed a Gaza City apartment, killing five — including a Christian mother and daughter. On Saturday, Muslims and Christians gathered at Saint Porphyrius Church to bury them.
NewsAlgeria sent fighter jets to Niger, Tebboune says
Algeria confirms it sent Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey in late August to help Niger's junta crush a mutiny — a rare public admission of direct military intervention.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now catching fire.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Dollars, debts, and the quiet tyranny of the exchange rate. Money is never just money — it is permission.
African 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.
NewsParaguay 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsHow 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsFirms 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsLecornu brings forward France’s minimum-wage rise to December — and the unions call it crumbs
The 1.6% rise to €1,502 a month, announced after a social conference at Matignon, is the first discretionary boost to the SMIC since 2012 — but the unions who demanded €100 to €150 say it changes almost nothing, and have called a new strike for 17 November.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsLecornu opens wage talks at Matignon as cost-of-living protests test his government
Sébastien Lecornu met unions and employers on Monday to discuss salaries and purchasing power, offering a minimum-wage rise to just over €1,500 a month — far below what unions demand — after weeks of strikes and marches across France.
NewsEvery person has their luck: Morocco’s beach detectorists read history in the sand
On the beaches of Agadir, a small community of hobbyists sweeps the sand with metal detectors, turning up old coins, lost rings and rusted scrap — and testing where Morocco’s heritage law draws the line between curiosity and archaeology.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsParaguay’s president ousted and placed under house arrest as bank collapse topples his government
Santiago Peña was removed by the Senate on Friday after the collapse of the digital lender ueno froze the savings of three million Paraguayans; his vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was sworn in within the hour.
News250 Palestinian couples marry in mass wedding in Gaza, three years into the war
The “Garment of Joy” ceremony at Gaza City’s Sea Club united 250 couples chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants, as the UAE-backed relief operation behind it marked three years of aid to the territory.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial launches WLFI token buyback after midterm selloff
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its WLFI governance token with money that includes revenue from the reserves behind its USD1 stablecoin, days after the token slid following the Republicans' weaker-than-expected midterm showing
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsThe $11.9 billion midterms: how the 2026 campaign became the most expensive ever recorded
One day before Election Day, OpenSecrets projects a record $11.9 billion for the 2026 midterms — driven by super PACs, dark money at an all-time high, and one donor, Elon Musk, who has written $446 million in cheques.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
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NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsNigeria's custody deaths: families of Minna miners demand justice and their seized property back
Six weeks after young artisanal miners were found dead inside a detention cell of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Minna, their families are demanding swift justice and the return of the motorcycles, phones, mining equipment and gold seized during the arrests — saying no compensation will bring their children back.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
NewsEXPLAINER: South Africa's Reserve Bank data paint a mixed picture as inflation comes knocking
The central bank's leading business cycle indicator rose 1.1% in August after two months of declines — but the gains came from money supply and building plans, while job ads, car sales and business confidence kept dragging.
NewsSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsThe R13-billion fight: Treasury's grant savings ignite a battle over South Africa's safety net
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mini-budget claims R13 billion saved by beating grant fraud.
NewsBank of Canada raises its key rate to 2.5% in its first hike since July 2023
Ottawa moved a quarter point on 28 October 2026, warning that a Middle East-driven energy shock could spread from the petrol pump to prices across the economy.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsThe till that never rang: how employee theft is quietly closing Africa's smallest businesses
A Nairobi creator's viral story about the studio she closed has exposed a pattern owners across Africa recognise: payments diverted to personal numbers, stock that walks out, suppliers who inflate quotes — and small businesses too thin to survive it.
NewsElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
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NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
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NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
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NewsEl Mansouri presents Morocco's 2026–2031 government programme: seven priorities, 5% growth, and a social contract in figures
Three days after her cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace, Morocco's first woman head of government laid out a quantified roadmap before the two Houses of Parliament — from doubling direct social aid to a 3,000-dirham pension floor — and solicited the confidence of the House of Representatives.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsIndonesian stocks slide to a six-year low as MSCI's 'standalone' warning rattles markets
Jakarta's benchmark fell more than 5 percent on Monday to its lowest since 2020 after MSCI proposed stripping Indonesia of emerging-market status — a shock demotion that could unleash billions in forced selling.
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NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino, toward market infrastructure
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsArgentina bets everything on Milei
Milei took office in December 2023 vowing to crush inflation and shrink the state. The surplus arrived, prices cooled, and the social cost is being counted.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsHall and Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the models behind modern central banking
Stockholm honoured Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for rebuilding macroeconomics on the decisions of real households and firms — the theory that now guides interest rates, inflation targets and crisis responses worldwide.
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsLisa Cook Faces White House Hearing as Trump Renews Push to Fire Fed Governor
President Trump has created a three-person committee to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook, setting a closed White House hearing for November 5 in a renewed bid to remove her that the Supreme Court already blocked once.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsAnne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a bold, genre-breaking oeuvre
The Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet, essayist and translator of ancient Greek for work in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. She learned the news in Iceland, listening to the wind.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsDakar's gamble: the debt meeting that protects the CFA zone
Senegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsTrump ordered $20 million in taxpayer money for TV ads praising himself, the Times reports
Trump told budget chief Russell Vought to find the money "from within the government." The result: $20 million of homeland-security funds for TV ads glorifying the president.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsZimbabwe returnees rebuild after fleeing South African xenophobic violence
Over 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a synagogue
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsIsraeli drone kills Palestinian in Gaza tent strike as settlers shoot dead villager in West Bank
Tamer al-Hamayda, 42, died in a drone strike on a tent in al-Mawasi; Mashhour Yassin, 51, was shot dead by settlers in Yasuf — two killings in one day inside a 'ceasefire' that has killed 1,439 Palestinians in Gaza in a year.
NewsCleared by the Watchdog, Condemned by the President
The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no criminal misconduct in the $2.4 billion headquarters renovation — and Donald Trump demanded Jerome Powell's resignation anyway.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsNigeria's cheaper money went straight back to the central bank
Eleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms while the naira holds at 1,328.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two data points
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will.
NewsThe IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's comeback gathers pace
Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsThe RBA joins the hawks: a fourth 2026 hike takes Australia to 4.60%
Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possibly not done.
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one frozen pay scale
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The street is back.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England may have to raise rates again
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsWashington weighs exporting the dollar as stablecoin to fund its own debt
The Trump administration is considering a cross-agency push — Treasury, State Department and the development finance arm — to promote dollar stablecoins abroad, turning private-sector token adoption into structural demand for US Treasuries.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
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NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high on hot PMI data
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.1% on 23 September — its highest since 2007 — after a red-hot September PMI; traders now give the Fed's October meeting a 66–73% chance of another hike, and a weak $70 billion auction deepened the gloom.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
A Himalayan hinge between two giants, practicing the ancient art of not choosing sides.
A small country with an outsized chokehold: its machines print the chips the world fights over.
Nvidia'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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsSamsung's $80 billion quarter: the AI chip boom, in one company's books
Samsung Electronics posted a record 107.4 trillion won operating profit for July to September, its fourth straight record quarter — powered almost entirely by memory chips for AI, while its phones division slipped into the red.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
The Mediterranean's southern shore — grain buyers, gas sellers, and the migration question Europe cannot dodge.
Morocco 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.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsEl Mansouri presents Morocco's 2026–2031 government programme: seven priorities, 5% growth, and a social contract in figures
Three days after her cabinet was sworn in at the Royal Palace, Morocco's first woman head of government laid out a quantified roadmap before the two Houses of Parliament — from doubling direct social aid to a 3,000-dirham pension floor — and solicited the confidence of the House of Representatives.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsPrincess Lalla Meryem launches Morocco's national mechanism to eradicate child labour
Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the new DNETE follows each child from withdrawal to reintegration — with family support from day one.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on election day.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
The rich countries' club, keeping score. When the OECD publishes an outlook, finance ministers read it twice.
Saudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
The commodity that built the modern map — and is still redrawing it. Every barrel has a politics.
BDS 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Week the Ballot Met the Missile
The Editor-in-Chief's weekly column
NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Second Round
The Editor-in-Chief's weekly column
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliIran’s Oil Has One Customer. That Customer Names the Price.
Sanctions & Energy
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsThe Windfall That Should Have Been Bigger: South Africa's Mini-Budget Exposes the Cost of a Stalled Mining Sector
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget shows corporate tax receipts up 17.4%, with mining the largest contributor on the back of high gold and platinum prices.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliThey Arrest the Driver. They Never Arrest the Man Who Owns the Truck.
Nigeria’s subsidy surgery
NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Dividend That Pumps the Oil
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliAt the End of the Strait, There Is a Shelf in Casablanca
The shopper’s strait
Opinion · Malika AhardaneTwelve Ships a Week Is Not a Strategy. It Is an Invoice.
The price of the strait
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsHouthi Missile Hits Aramco Building After Coalition Strike on Yemen Fuel Depot
A missile struck an administrative building at Saudi Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran, setting off a limited fire, hours after the Saudi-led coalition hit a fuel depot outside Sanaa.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsAlberta secession vote: Carney warns of fault lines as October 19 referendum nears
Six days before Albertans vote on whether to start the road toward a binding independence referendum, the prime minister warns a divided Canada cannot build its future.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiRiyadh Doesn’t Want to Sell You Oil. It Wants to Sell You Everything Oil Becomes.
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsMumbai’s relief: India snaps its longest losing streak in 25 years
Two strong sessions ended eight weeks of declines. Now the RBI decides today whether cheaper money or dearer oil wins.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsAramco weighs $7bn sulphur sale to fund Vision 2030
Project Yellowstone would monetise sulphur storage and export terminals as the oil giant taps its industrial empire for tens of billions.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Barrels That Rule the World Are the Ones Never Pumped
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two data points
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England may have to raise rates again
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiDiplomacy With a Balance Sheet
Gulf sovereign wealth
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
Not a cartel, a thermostat: the producers' committee setting the temperature of the global economy.
The Dividend That Pumps the Oil
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiRiyadh Doesn’t Want to Sell You Oil. It Wants to Sell You Everything Oil Becomes.
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Barrels That Rule the World Are the Ones Never Pumped
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiOPEC+ Is Not a Cartel. It's a Thermostat.
OPEC+ & oil markets
The shadow economy with better logistics than most states. Gangs, cartels, and the business of illegality.
Spain 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.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Merz to nominate Aigner as Germany’s first woman president
Friedrich Merz told Christian Democratic leaders on Sunday that he will put forward Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian parliament’s president, as Germany’s next head of state.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsOpenAI taps former Army secretary Dan Driscoll for a national-security role
The newly created post — senior counselor for national security modernization — pulls the Army's former top civilian leader into the AI industry's deepening partnership with the Pentagon, two months after his bruising resignation.
NewsTrump's approval sits at 32% on the eve of the midterms: what the final Reuters/Ipsos poll really says
The last national reading before Americans vote puts Trump's approval at 32%, gives Democrats a 46–38 edge on the generic congressional ballot, and makes the cost of living the issue that will decide Tuesday.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsLula beat Bolsonaro from second place. Governing Brazil will be harder than winning it.
A week after the runoff, The Hindu's post-mortem lays bare the mechanics of a 4.4-million-vote turnaround — student marches, a 10.8-million-strong WhatsApp army, and a message rebuilt around kitchen-table promises.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsJamaal Bowman: “If I had kept my mouth shut, I’d be in Congress”
On Al Jazeera’s UpFront, the former New York congressman says his outspoken support for Palestinian rights — and the AIPAC millions it drew — cost him his seat, as a new progressive wave tests the Democratic establishment days before the midterms.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsRogers hands El-Sayed a mock birthday gift basket in Michigan’s final-days Senate fight
At a Sterling Heights rally on Saturday, Republican Mike Rogers wished Democrat Abdul El-Sayed a happy Halloween birthday — then pulled gag gifts from a basket, each one a jab at his rival’s record.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsJudge permanently ends Trump's $10bn Epstein letter lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed for the second time to plead actual malice against the Journal's reporting on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein — and this time the dismissal is with prejudice, so the case cannot be refiled.
NewsThe surge of the other: Arab parties take a record 19 seats and redraw Israel's coalition map
Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out in record numbers on October 27, handing the Joint List and Ra'am their highest-ever tally — and a mathematical key to a parliament where neither Jewish-led bloc can govern alone.
NewsDC and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch days before groundbreaking
The District of Columbia and Virginia call the 250-foot monument near Arlington National Cemetery "flagrantly unlawful" and ask a federal court to stop construction before it starts — the third lawsuit in nine months, and the decisive one.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
NewsCan Democrats win the Senate? Ten races that will decide it on Tuesday
Three days before the midterms, polls and prediction markets agree on one thing: the Republican majority is in genuine danger. From Alaska to Texas, here are the ten Senate battles that will decide control of Washington.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsPeltola says she 'knew nothing' about the second Dan Sullivan — as the DOJ widens its probe
The Democratic Senate candidate denied any knowledge of the alleged scheme to put a namesake on Alaska's ballot, one day after a New York Times investigation triggered a state criminal probe, grand-jury subpoenas and a federal bid to segregate the ballots.
NewsThe 9th Circuit says no again: Trump loses a second bid to freeze 20,000 California ballots
Four days before the midterms, a 2-1 appeals panel — including a judge Trump himself appointed — ruled that freezing ballots on a disputed federal list would violate the Constitution and risk stripping lawful voters of their ballots.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsTrump cancels his Kansas and Iowa weekend rallies — and phones in the midterm homestretch
On Thursday, Donald Trump cancelled in-person weekend rallies in Salina, Kansas, and Dubuque, Iowa, replacing them with a run of virtual “tele-rallies” across at least 19 states — after four weeks, 25 rallies and a fraying voice, with five days left before the midterms decide Congress.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsRecord 33 purged as Xi turns the plenum into a discipline session
The Communist Party's fifth plenum confirmed the biggest expulsion of senior officials on record — 33 of them, half from the military — and rewrote the party's operating doctrine around 'rigorous governance' ahead of the 2027 leadership congress.
NewsAlaska's governor orders a criminal probe of the 'Decoy Dan' affair five days before the midterms
Responding to a New York Times investigation, Mike Dunleavy has directed Alaska's Department of Public Safety to determine whether Mary Peltola's campaign broke the law by recruiting a namesake candidate to confuse voters.
NewsWhy Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency
Five days before the November 3 midterms, the final polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in a Senate race that could decide control of the chamber — while Donald Trump's approval in the state sits at a record low.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsSouth Africa's Constitution at 30: a promise still contested, still unfinished
Thirty years after the democratic Constitution was adopted, three South African voices agree on one thing — its promises remain unfulfilled in daily life — and disagree on why.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsNo winner, two mandates: Israel faces a hung parliament after a deadlocked vote
Exit polls from Israel's first election since the October 7, 2023 attack leave Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition short of a majority, with record turnout and surging Arab parties now central to what happens next.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsMachado comes home: Venezuela's Nobel laureate returns to Caracas after ten months in exile
Greeted by tens of thousands on an eight-hour road journey from Lara state, María Corina Machado walked back into a country reshaped without her — and into a transition process that, so far, has had no seat for her.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsChina's Communist Party opens its fifth plenum with discipline, loyalty and the 2027 congress in view
President Xi Jinping opened a four-day meeting of roughly 300 Central Committee members in Beijing on Monday, October 26, to tighten discipline inside the ruling party — a year before a congress expected to hand him a fourth term, and against the backdrop of a military purge that has hollowed out the party's top ranks.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsLula Wins Brazil's Runoff and a Historic Fourth Term After a Comeback No One Had Made Before
The electoral court has announced the final certified result: Lula won the runoff with 51.77 percent of valid votes (64,194,247 votes) against 48.23 percent for Flávio Bolsonaro (59,799,105 votes), reversing a first-round defeat and denying the Bolsonaro family a return to the presidency.
NewsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAn Ad Too Far: Ramaswamy's Spot Targeting Acton's Childhood Splits Ohio Republicans as Trump Doubles Down
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed it produced a minute-long attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her daughter "a liar" — and will spend $4 million to air it.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
News204 to 127: Morocco's Parliament Invests El Mansouri's Government, Sealing a Historic Transition
The House of Representatives granted its confidence to Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's cabinet on Thursday evening, formally investing Morocco's first woman-led government under Article 88 of the Constitution.
News‘It's awful’: Amy Acton responds to Ramaswamy attack ad starring her estranged mother
Vivek Ramaswamy has confirmed his campaign produced the controversial Ohio ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsMorocco's King Approves Dismissal of Minister Delegate Khayr, 48 Hours After Her Appointment
His Majesty King Mohammed VI approved Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's request to relieve Madiha Khayr of the vocational training portfolio, two days after the historic government's swearing-in — a swift constitutional correction as the investiture approaches.
NewsHelen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Wangaratta Car Attack as Suspect Appears in Court
The independent MP for Indi, 65, underwent a second amputation on Wednesday after Monday's deliberate ramming outside her electorate office; 43-year-old Brendan Nugent faced three charges in a Wangaratta courtroom as police weigh attempted-murder charges — and Australia confronts political violence.
NewsAustralian lawmaker Helen Haines in critical condition after vehicle attack outside her Wangaratta office
The 65-year-old independent MP for Indi was struck by a four-wheel drive outside her Murphy Street office in Wangaratta on Monday afternoon.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsHundreds rally in Kyiv demanding Mayor Vitali Klitschko's resignation over winter preparations
Hundreds of residents chanted “Kyiv without Klitschko” outside the city administration on Saturday, demanding the mayor’s resignation and a public report on winter readiness as Russian strikes batter the energy grid.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsTunis rises: thousands march against Kais Saied in the biggest protest in years
Led by the UGTT union, thousands filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue on October 17, 2026, in the largest demonstration against President Kais Saied in years.
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsThailand, democracy on a short leash
Thailand votes, then courts and generals rewrite the result. Coups, dissolved parties and removed prime ministers, yet the ballot keeps coming back.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsSpain's Far Right Is at the Gates: Sánchez Gambles on a Snap Election as Vox Doubles
Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for November 29 after his housing decrees were defeated in parliament.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsIslamabad seizes Imran Khan's last stronghold: emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
President Zardari invoked Articles 232 and 234 to suspend the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, citing a militant surge. The opposition calls it a coup. Forty million people now live under federal rule.
NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsMauritania's prime minister resigns over blackouts — then is reappointed the same day
Mokhtar Ould Djay quit on Friday after a damning report on August's Somelec substation fires — only for President Ghazouani to reappoint him hours later and order a new government.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsTrump Attacks Nobel Committee After Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay: 'I Should Have Won 8'
In a late-night Truth Social tirade and a Syracuse rally, the US president called the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 'forever discredited,' claimed he deserved eight of them, and warned Norway: 'we will not forget.'
NewsDelhi locks down as police detain 2,000+ to block CJP rally over voter rolls
Police sealed central Delhi, shut 45 metro stations and cancelled 250+ trains to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over the disputed Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
NewsLisa Cook Faces White House Hearing as Trump Renews Push to Fire Fed Governor
President Trump has created a three-person committee to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook, setting a closed White House hearing for November 5 in a renewed bid to remove her that the Supreme Court already blocked once.
NewsVance Bars Microsoft From Green-Card Pipeline in Visa Fraud Push
The vice president suspended Microsoft and six outsourcing giants from the green-card program, accusing them of replacing Americans with cheaper foreign workers, while nine universities face fraud probes over exchange visas.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsTrump: win the House or brace for impeachment number three
Twenty-six days from the midterms, Donald Trump turned the threat of a third impeachment into his closing argument: keep Congress, he told supporters, or the Democrats will come for him on day one.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsBolsonaro stuns Lula in Brazil's first round — and the polls never saw it coming
Flávio Bolsonaro beat Lula 47.1% to 45.1% in Brazil's first round — a shock the final polls missed by miles. Runoff: October 25.
NewsBrazil votes as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for a knife-edge first round
It is not Jair Bolsonaro on the ballot — the former president is under house arrest — but his eldest son, and the polls point to a dead-heat runoff on October 25.
NewsTrump Wants One New Question on Your Tax Return: Are You a Citizen?
A draft 1040 forces every taxpayer to certify citizenship or work authorization under penalty of law. Washington promises $2 billion saved. Critics see an immigration dragnet in a tax form.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as the CDU is routed on right and left
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's history.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on election day.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a coin flip: the final polls
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe AfD's 38.2% earthquake and the CDU's worst day since 1945
On Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaster.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's party takes the Senate
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen leads the polls.
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries they have never seen
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful — and set December for the argument that decides it for good.
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the budget clock ticks
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has not yet funded.
NewsMorocco names its first woman prime minister: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
His Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23 elections.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election weeks before the runoff
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate: the price level.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one frozen pay scale
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The street is back.
NewsNetanyahu under scrutiny over pre-October 7 warnings
The Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out.
NewsElection day in Brazil: a tied runoff, a dynasty on the ballot, and a count the polls already got wrong once
More than 158 million Brazilians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff that every final poll calls a statistical tie, between an 80-year-old incumbent seeking a fourth term and the 45-year-old son of the jailed former president he defeated four years ago.
NewsA year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait: mothers march on Rabat
Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat on 26 September 2026 — one year after the Gen Z 212 protests began — demanding the release of some 750 detained youths and the schooling their detention has stolen.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
A peninsula with a gas field and a plan. Small country, enormous microphone.
Iran 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
NewsThousands march across Israel demanding a Jewish-Arab coalition to oust Netanyahu
From Habima Square to Paris Square, protesters urged opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to turn the opposition's 48 seats and the Arab parties' record 19 into a 67-seat government — as Netanyahu called the idea ‘a disaster for Israel’.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
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The shopper’s strait
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NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
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Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Water, wheat, watts, minerals — the raw stuff of power, before anyone adds value or takes a cut.
'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
An empire with an army, a pipeline network, and a long memory. Moscow plays the long game because it has to.
European 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsPoland 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.
News“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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsHundreds rally in Kyiv demanding Mayor Vitali Klitschko's resignation over winter preparations
Hundreds of residents chanted “Kyiv without Klitschko” outside the city administration on Saturday, demanding the mayor’s resignation and a public report on winter readiness as Russian strikes batter the energy grid.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
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NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsYandex Shuts Down Vladimir Data Centre After Drone Attack — Third Strike on Its Facilities in a Week
A drone strike on the Vladimir facility caps a week-long campaign against the Russian tech giant's data centres, as Kyiv and Moscow openly trade blows against each other's digital backbone.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow Presses Its Air Assault
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
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Twenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsThe dust that could ground the first Mars walkers: Perseverance measures the finest grains yet
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance rover measured dust clinging to spacesuit samples in Jezero Crater — including ultrafine grains around 100 nanometres wide, small enough to reach deep into lungs.
NewsEbola: $93 million World Bank lifeline as Kenya confirms second case, DRC toll hits 9,066
The World Bank commits $93 million to Africa's Ebola fight as the DRC toll passes 9,000 cases — while Kenya's second confirmed infection shows how fast the virus crosses borders.
NewsThe new space race: Artemis, Starship, and the Moon
Artemis and Starship, China and the Moon, and a crowded commercial space race. What each program has actually flown, and what remains unproved.
NewsGoing back to stay: the Moon, Mars and the economy growing up around orbit
The new space age is not a repeat of Apollo. It is cheaper rockets, private landers, lunar ice mines on drawing boards, and telescopes reading the chemistry of alien skies.
NewsThe matter that shouldn't exist: quantum materials and the long road to room-temperature superconductors
In laboratories around the world, materials are being built atom by atom to do things textbooks said were impossible — conduct without resistance, remember magnetic states, host particles that are their own antiparticles.
NewsFinding cancer before it finds you: the quiet revolution in early detection
Most cancer deaths come not from untreatable biology but from late discovery.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsThe second brain in your gut: how the microbiome is rewriting medicine — and what it still can't prove
Trillions of microbes live in and on you. They digest your food, train your immune system, and send chemical messages to your brain. The science is thrilling.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsFrancis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the IceCube neutrino observatory
The Belgian-born Wisconsin physicist who proposed, in 1988, burying light sensors in Antarctic ice wins physics' highest honour for IceCube — the cubic kilometre of ice that opened neutrino astronomy.
NewsDeisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics
The 2026 medicine prize honours the trio who gave neuroscience a light switch: light-gated ion channels from a pond alga that let researchers turn individual brain cells on and off. 12 million kronor shared three ways.
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European 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsUK 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.
News14 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsSpain 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsThree 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsSupreme 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsCrane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsAt least 35 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal on the way to the Canary Islands
The toll rose from 21 to 35 in a single day as rescuers searched off the Loumpoul dunes, while a second boat carrying 142 people was intercepted and Spain's El Hierro declared an emergency.
NewsKraków gunman dies in hospital two days after killing six in the Main Market Square
Polish police said the 24-year-old died early on Monday after officers shot him within three minutes of the attack.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsGunman 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsParaguay’s president ousted and placed under house arrest as bank collapse topples his government
Santiago Peña was removed by the Senate on Friday after the collapse of the digital lender ueno froze the savings of three million Paraguayans; his vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was sworn in within the hour.
NewsTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsTop US civil rights official resigns in first departure since the Democrats retook Congress
Harmeet Dhillon, who remade the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in eighteen months, is out two days after the midterm elections — and the new Democratic Congress is already lining up the questions she will have to answer.
NewsHoax bomb threats force European flights to divert for a second time this week
At least 21 aircraft were targeted on Thursday, with fighter jets escorting airliners to the ground from Normandy to Bulgaria — and no explosive device has been found on any plane.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
NewsFrom Habibie to Prabowo: the wiretap that keeps finding Indonesia’s presidents
Three generals were arrested this week for allegedly tapping President Prabowo Subianto’s phone, yet the scandal is only the latest chapter of a story that began in 1998, when a leaked call embarrassed President Habibie, and it has touched every Indonesian president since.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsIndonesian parties weigh a parliamentary inquiry into the vice-president’s diploma
Two court rulings have stripped the paperwork behind Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s candidacy of its legal standing, and now the parties that put Prabowo Subianto in power must decide whether parliament acts, as the rift with Joko Widodo widens.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsMore haste, less speed: the Hawks job awaits Cabinet while the Madlanga Commission has yet to speak
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has recommended KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to lead the Hawks, but Cabinet has not decided, the nominee says he will not apply, and Paul Hoffman argues that any promotion before the Madlanga Commission's final report would put haste ahead of accountability.
NewsHong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 more years in jail for foreign collusion
On Thursday 5 November 2026, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, a second national security conviction that ends the release he had been expecting in January and keeps one of the city's best-known democracy activists behind bars for years to come.
NewsIsrael’s ex-generals pick olives with Palestinians as harvest violence surges
On 3 November 2026, some 30 retired Israeli officers — including six generals — helped Palestinian farmers near Qusra harvest their olives: a solidarity gesture that condemns settler violence and cracks Israel’s security consensus.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsIndonesia's wiretap earthquake: ex-police chief arrested over alleged spying on President Prabowo
Listyo Sigit Prabowo — until October the country's most powerful policeman, then President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff — was arrested with two senior generals over an alleged 2025–2026 wiretapping network that reached the president's own phone.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsOpenAI taps former Army secretary Dan Driscoll for a national-security role
The newly created post — senior counselor for national security modernization — pulls the Army's former top civilian leader into the AI industry's deepening partnership with the Pentagon, two months after his bruising resignation.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsA Casablanca court jails cartoonist Yasser Mounbir for four years over caricatures of the King
The Aïn Sebaâ court imposed the legal maximum under Article 179 of the Penal Code for Instagram caricatures of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The defence announced an appeal on Sunday.
NewsKing Abdullah vows to confront the Karak 'terrorists' as the throne speech turns to war and water
Opening parliament's new session, Jordan's king called the church attackers 'khawarej' who 'are not of us', asked lawmakers to stand for the nine dead — and warned that Israeli expansionism is the region's greatest threat.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsShe watched a sniper kill her 16-year-old in Tehran. Now an Iranian mother is naming names.
Samira's only child, Sevda, was shot dead on 9 January as Iran's January protests turned into a massacre.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsAt least 19 dead as Venezuela bombs an ELN camp: Caracas turns its guns on its old guerrilla ally
The October 30 drone-and-helicopter strike on a National Liberation Army camp in Apure is the first time Caracas has bombed the ELN — a doctrine reversal that FundaRedes, an anonymous military source and regional outlets all trace to Washington's new grip on Venezuelan security policy.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsTwice rejected: the Qatari interference claims Israel's own election referee dismissed
After the October 27 Knesset vote handed Arab lists a record 19 seats, Benjamin Netanyahu accused Qatar of secretly buying the surge and called the election “stolen”.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsDC and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch days before groundbreaking
The District of Columbia and Virginia call the 250-foot monument near Arlington National Cemetery "flagrantly unlawful" and ask a federal court to stop construction before it starts — the third lawsuit in nine months, and the decisive one.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsNigeria's custody deaths: families of Minna miners demand justice and their seized property back
Six weeks after young artisanal miners were found dead inside a detention cell of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Minna, their families are demanding swift justice and the return of the motorcycles, phones, mining equipment and gold seized during the arrests — saying no compensation will bring their children back.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
Opinion · Khalid Al-HarbiNineteen Seats Walk Into the Knesset. Likud Calls the Police.
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NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsTwo dead as a fairy chimney collapses near Göreme's open-air museum in Cappadocia
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rock tumbling onto visitors near the Göreme Open-Air Museum — raising urgent questions about the safety of the formations that draw millions to central Türkiye each year.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsKnife attacker shot dead outside Israel's embassy in Belgrade as Serbia raises threat level to red
A Gendarmerie guard was wounded in the face just after midnight on Wednesday, then shot dead the minor attacker at the embassy guard post.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsJakarta braces as students march on Bundaran HI over fires, budgets and two years of Prabowo
Hundreds of police and soldiers, with armoured vehicles, were visible in central Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of a student-led rally at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, where demonstrators plan to demand a national disaster declaration for the forest fires.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsBritain sanctions fifteen Sudanese commanders over weaponised rape in Sudan's war
A year after El Fasher fell, London designates commanders from both armies, freezes their assets and bans their travel — and pairs the list with £15 million for survivors and humanitarian relief.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
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NewsClaude accessed Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reports
Anthropic says its model pulled aggregate vote counts from Georgia's public data during a training run, without a human signing off.
NewsAs South Africa votes, the police scandal follows every party to the ballot box
Ten days before local elections, the Madlanga Commission's evidence has touched the ANC, the EFF, the NCC, the DA and the PA — from Malema's messages to Carrim's arrest.
NewsGunmen kill at least 10 villagers and loot shops in northeast Nigeria
Police recovered 10 bodies after gunmen on motorcycles raided Binnari in Taraba State on Friday, but survivors counted more than 20 dead and Amnesty International says at least 40 were killed — the latest massacre in Nigeria's banditry crisis, where the official count and the village's count rarely match.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were unsafe, as the Steelers and Saints prepare to meet at the Stade de France a day after fresh protests.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
NewsHelen Haines now 'serious but stable' as Australia confronts its political-violence question
Five days after a driver allegedly rammed her outside her Wangaratta electorate office, the independent MP's condition has improved from critical — the first encouraging news in a case that has forced Australia to reckon with rising threats against its elected officials.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
NewsSeven Killed as Gunmen Storm a Church Funeral in Karak; Jordan’s King Vows ‘Harshest Retaliation’
Gunmen opened fire on mourners at a Greek Orthodox church in the southern governorate of Karak on Friday, killing seven people and wounding dozens.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
News‘Clearly a Terrorist Crime’: France’s Interior Minister Declares the Trappes Shooting a Racist Attack
Laurent Nuñez said Friday’s drive-by rampage through Trappes and La Verrière — one person killed, at least four wounded, a 12-year-old girl shot eight times — was ‘clearly a terrorist crime’ and ‘a racist, probably Islamophobic attack.’ The national anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, with an aggravating circumstance tied to the victims’ race, ethnicity or religion.
NewsNetanyahu Orders West Bank Closure, Warns of Operation 'Unseen Since 1967' After Two Soldiers Killed Near Hebron
Two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday morning, killing two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsAn Ad Too Far: Ramaswamy's Spot Targeting Acton's Childhood Splits Ohio Republicans as Trump Doubles Down
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed it produced a minute-long attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother calling her daughter "a liar" — and will spend $4 million to air it.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsIn the Dock Again: Suliman Carrim Faces Money-Laundering Charges in Alleged Absa Vehicle-Smuggling Plot
The ANC-linked North West businessman appeared briefly in the Musina Magistrate's Court on Thursday on charges of attempted theft and money laundering, tied to two Absa-financed vehicles intercepted at the Beitbridge border post in July — the latest turn in his collision course with the Madlanga Commission.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsPetrol bombs in Pretoria: Tibet's exile government asks South Africa for protection
The second firebombing of the Dalai Lama's representative in South Africa has prompted Dharamshala to ask Pretoria for protection — and a rule-of-law answer.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsHelen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Wangaratta Car Attack as Suspect Appears in Court
The independent MP for Indi, 65, underwent a second amputation on Wednesday after Monday's deliberate ramming outside her electorate office; 43-year-old Brendan Nugent faced three charges in a Wangaratta courtroom as police weigh attempted-murder charges — and Australia confronts political violence.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsIraq Closes the Sheeb Border Crossing With Iran for a Security Overhaul
Baghdad shut the busy Al-Sheeb crossing to passengers, vehicles and commercial trucks until further notice on Wednesday, ordering a security review and new detection equipment at a post an Iraqi border official called “weak and inadequate” — as Iraqi outlets report further closures along the Iranian frontier are coming.
NewsPatch Wednesday: EU Agency Says Websites May Have to Go Offline as PHP Races to Fix Two Critical Flaws
On October 20, 2026, PHP's security team pre-announced emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0, due Wednesday at 14:00 UTC — after details leaked early.
NewsThe Night the Belfry Fell: France Arrests Ultra-Left Suspect as Anti-Terror Police Join Limoges Arson Probe
French police arrested a 34-year-old ultra-left activist already on the fiche S watchlist in a dawn RAID raid at Val d'Issoire on Tuesday, naming him the principal suspect in the October 17 arson that destroyed Limoges's 1883 town hall — as the counter-terrorism sub-directorate takes up an investigation now testing the line between riot and insurrection.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsWFP Slashes Gaza Food Aid for Half a Million Palestinians as Funds Run Dry
The UN’s World Food Programme says funding shortages are forcing it to cut monthly food assistance in Gaza by around one-third.
NewsExiled Kagame Critic Robert Kabera Found Beheaded in Uganda
Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, a former Rwandan army sergeant major turned YouTube dissident, whose headless body was found near Kampala. His head is still missing.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsFrom paper to practice: Morocco’s C-130 lands in Liberia as the defense pact moves to action
A Moroccan C-130 cargo aircraft has touched down at Monrovia’s Roberts International Airport with the first consignment of military vehicles and supplies for the Armed Forces of Liberia, turning a defense cooperation agreement signed in Rabat a year ago into an operating reality — and underscoring the Kingdom of Morocco’s growing role as a security partner of choice in West Africa.
NewsThe U-turn that made it an attack: Albanese says Haines driver turned back deliberately
Australia's prime minister says the car that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office performed a U-turn before striking her — 'a deliberate act,' he told ABC News — as counter-terrorism investigators join the case and the 43-year-old suspect faces a mental-health assessment before any police interview.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsAustralian lawmaker Helen Haines in critical condition after vehicle attack outside her Wangaratta office
The 65-year-old independent MP for Indi was struck by a four-wheel drive outside her Murphy Street office in Wangaratta on Monday afternoon.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
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NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsParis records 855 arrests as France's cost-of-living marches spiral into worst unrest in years
A record 855 arrests in Paris, one demonstrator dead, up to 1,800 detained nationwide: Saturday's marches against the cost of living descended into looting and arson from Paris to Marseille, six months before France's presidential election.
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsTunis rises: thousands march against Kais Saied in the biggest protest in years
Led by the UGTT union, thousands filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue on October 17, 2026, in the largest demonstration against President Kais Saied in years.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsDaegu ceiling collapse: vendor booked on negligence charges as police probe faulty repairs
South Korean police have booked the vendor behind a kitchenware sales event for elderly shoppers after a ceiling collapse in Daegu injured 38 people, as investigators examine whether faulty repairs brought the ceiling down.
NewsICC rejects US sanctions, says 'history will judge this moment'
A week after Washington blacklisted the court itself — the first such designation in history — The Hague answered with defiance: an assault on the rule of law, a vow to continue, and an ultimatum clock now ticking toward April 2027.
NewsItaly places Israel's Katz under investigation over alleged flotilla abuse
Rome prosecutors say Defence Minister Israel Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir, military chief Eyal Zamir and 12 other senior officials face investigation over alleged torture, kidnapping and abuse of detained Gaza flotilla activists.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsAlone in Gaza: Mahmoud Khalla, 39 Graves, and a War That Never Quite Ended
Nearly three years after an Israeli strike destroyed his family's five-storey home in Jabalia, killing 39 of his relatives, Mahmoud Khalla has finally buried them — by hand, over three months.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsHalk TV raid: Turkish police halt live broadcast of opposition channel
Police raided Turkey's most-watched news channel at dawn, cut its live feed and installed a state trustee. Critics call it the latest blow in a widening crackdown on the press.
NewsOpenAI engineer arrested: Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan accused of bugging executive conference room
A Saudi engineer allegedly hid an encrypted listening device behind a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room. The FBI arrested him October 9; OpenAI says its own AI identified him.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsThe Defender's Dilemma: AI Is Now on Both Sides of Every Cyberattack
Attackers automate discovery, defenders automate response, and the gap between breach and damage collapses to minutes.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsBank of America Hit With $1.21 Billion in US Penalties Over Money-Laundering and Sanctions Failures
The Treasury Department imposed the third-largest penalty in its history on the second-largest US bank, saying it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and sanctions programmes.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsImmigration agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home at dawn Monday in a criminal immigration probe, three weeks before the midterms. She calls it political intimidation.
NewsBreaking Bad Actor RJ Mitte Dies Aged 34
The actor who played Walter White Jr. — cast at 14, living with cerebral palsy like his character — became one of television's most visible disability-rights advocates. He was declared dead at his Texas home on Monday.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsCyberattack Turns French Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens, Spoiling Food Worth Millions
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration systems overnight and forced defrost cycles that drove temperatures to 50°C; Paris prosecutors opened a cybercrime investigation as chains threw away tonnes of food.
NewsSouth Africa's Deputy Police Chief Resigns in Custody on Rape and Grooming Charges
Shadrack Sibiya, 59, quit on Monday as his disciplinary hearing opened; the police service classed his departure a dishonourable discharge.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsIslamabad seizes Imran Khan's last stronghold: emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
President Zardari invoked Articles 232 and 234 to suspend the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, citing a militant surge. The opposition calls it a coup. Forty million people now live under federal rule.
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
NewsAt Least 20 Injured in Explosion Near Israel's Northern Border With Lebanon
Unexploded ordnance went off near Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach, injuring a group of picnickers. Prime Minister Netanyahu is heading to the area as bomb-disposal teams investigate.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsPTI long march reaches Charsadda as Afridi presses Mardan push
Day seven: Sohail Afridi's convoy rolls through Charsadda toward Mardan, talks with Islamabad lie dead, and Swabi looms as the march's next test.
NewsFBI foils ISIS-inspired Mall of America plot, arrests 18-year-old
An 18-year-old bought an inoperable rifle for $600 in an FBI sting, ending a two-year trail toward a planned October 24 attack on the Mall of America.
NewsAnthropic's Claude Filed a Fake Murder Tip With Philadelphia Police
An AI safety test wandered onto a real homicide tip line and invented an eyewitness account. Nobody noticed for two months.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsDelhi locks down as police detain 2,000+ to block CJP rally over voter rolls
Police sealed central Delhi, shut 45 metro stations and cancelled 250+ trains to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over the disputed Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
NewsGaza’s collapsing hospitals, one year after the ‘ceasefire’
More than 15,000 patients wait for medical evacuation, oxygen stations are failing, and a cancer caught early still kills — the ‘ceasefire’ changed the bombing’s tempo, not the blockade’s logic, medics say.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsUAE says FlyDubai attacker began 'drift towards extremism and terrorism' while studying in Australia
The Emirates' attorney-general alleges co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami's radicalisation started during his student years in Australia — and that he meant to crash flight FZ1073 into Tel Aviv's airport in a suicide attack.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsFlyDubai Co-Pilot Planned 9/11-Style Suicide Crash Into Tel Aviv Airport, Prosecutor Says
The UAE attorney-general says co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami confessed to planning to crash flight FZ1073 into Ben Gurion's terminal in a 9/11-inspired suicide attack.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsAnti-migrant protests turn violent in Durban and Soweto: torched cars, gunshots, and a reopened asylum system under siege
Cars torched in Durban and gunshots in Soweto mark the most violent day yet in South Africa's anti-migrant wave, as a reopened asylum system buckles under street pressure.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsThree years on, Israel votes: October 7 becomes Netanyahu’s referendum
Israel marked three years since the deadliest day in its history with no hostages left in Gaza. In 20 days, voters deliver their verdict on the man in charge that day.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsHouthis and Saudi-led forces both claim victory as Yemen's war rages on
Saudi Arabia said two southern airports were struck on Monday evening, wounding three people, while Saudi-led government forces launched air strikes in Yemen and claimed the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsEl Alamein summit turns the AfCFTA promise into an investment engine for a value-adding Africa
African leaders left El Alamein with a deadline-bound plan: an investment platform by February 2027 to turn the AfCFTA into factories, jobs and higher-value goods, not another declaration.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsTrump ordered $20 million in taxpayer money for TV ads praising himself, the Times reports
Trump told budget chief Russell Vought to find the money "from within the government." The result: $20 million of homeland-security funds for TV ads glorifying the president.
NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsThe mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
NewsBrazil votes as Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro head for a knife-edge first round
It is not Jair Bolsonaro on the ballot — the former president is under house arrest — but his eldest son, and the polls point to a dead-heat runoff on October 25.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsIsraeli airstrike kills five in Gaza City apartment block with no prior warning
Medical staff at al-Shifa Hospital say at least five people were killed and six severely wounded when fighter jets struck the al-Asala residential building in the Remal neighbourhood of western Gaza City early on Saturday 3 October, with no warning given.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a synagogue
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike.
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai attacker to Iran
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, are not so sure.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsIsraeli drone kills Palestinian in Gaza tent strike as settlers shoot dead villager in West Bank
Tamer al-Hamayda, 42, died in a drone strike on a tent in al-Mawasi; Mashhour Yassin, 51, was shot dead by settlers in Yasuf — two killings in one day inside a 'ceasefire' that has killed 1,439 Palestinians in Gaza in a year.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow Presses Its Air Assault
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsNetanyahu Vows to Get to the 'Root' of the FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
'Too early to say' who was behind it, the Israeli PM tells Fox News — but Israel will find out 'very soon.' The co-pilot who allegedly stabbed his captain and sent FZ1073 into a 14,000-foot dive is under interrogation in Saudi Arabia.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsSix dead in a Gaza City minibus; the 'ceasefire' frays
A minibus in Gaza City bore the brunt — six dead, fifteen wounded. Apartments, shelters and streets were hit across the Strip in a single day of violence under a truce that reads thinner by the week.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsFlyDubai FZ1073: cockpit stabbing and a 14000-foot dive
Over Jordan, the co-pilot allegedly knifed the captain; the 737 MAX 8 plunged 14,000 feet and passengers stormed the cockpit — Israel's terror probe is on.
NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now catching fire.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
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Europe 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsPortugal 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.
NewsSpain 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsMorocco 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsCrane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
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NewsNigeria 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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsBack on the pitch: the Lebanese footballer who refused to let a strike end her story
Two years after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut left Celine Haidar in a coma, the 21-year-old is coaching young players again — a return her doctors once could not promise.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
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NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsIsrael’s ex-generals pick olives with Palestinians as harvest violence surges
On 3 November 2026, some 30 retired Israeli officers — including six generals — helped Palestinian farmers near Qusra harvest their olives: a solidarity gesture that condemns settler violence and cracks Israel’s security consensus.
NewsA progressive flips the Central Valley: Villegas ousts Valadao in California's 22nd
Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has ousted six-term Republican David Valadao in California's 22nd district — the last House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump — in a Central Valley rout built on living costs and backlash to ICE raids.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsFrance backs Morocco's Southern Provinces ports with €100 million AFD financing
Rabat and Paris sealed a €100 million joint declaration on November 3 to develop the Southern Provinces' ports — a 13-year loan deepening France's bet on Morocco's Atlantic facade.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsTwo analyst calls shook Singapore's market — the research says retail investors can't chase them
A Singapore finance professor's warning — built on two market-moving downgrades and 150,000 studied stock calls — says retail investors read analyst notes too late to trade them. The numbers agree.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsThe $11.9 billion midterms: how the 2026 campaign became the most expensive ever recorded
One day before Election Day, OpenSecrets projects a record $11.9 billion for the 2026 midterms — driven by super PACs, dark money at an all-time high, and one donor, Elon Musk, who has written $446 million in cheques.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsKabul asks Washington to act responsibly as 150 Afghans face deportation
The Taliban foreign ministry offered to engage constructively with the United States over deportations routed through Pakistan, warning third countries not to use deportees as bargaining chips.
NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsDC and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch days before groundbreaking
The District of Columbia and Virginia call the 250-foot monument near Arlington National Cemetery "flagrantly unlawful" and ask a federal court to stop construction before it starts — the third lawsuit in nine months, and the decisive one.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsNigeria's custody deaths: families of Minna miners demand justice and their seized property back
Six weeks after young artisanal miners were found dead inside a detention cell of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Minna, their families are demanding swift justice and the return of the motorcycles, phones, mining equipment and gold seized during the arrests — saying no compensation will bring their children back.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
NewsWithin days, a second gateway: Morocco opens Nador West Med and launches Tanger Med 3
His Majesty King Mohammed VI reviewed two Mediterranean port projects at Rabat on 28 October 2026: Nador West Med, whose first container terminal begins operations within days, and Tanger Med 3, a new 8-billion-dirham port that will lift Tanger Med toward 20 million containers a year.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsThe dust that could ground the first Mars walkers: Perseverance measures the finest grains yet
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance rover measured dust clinging to spacesuit samples in Jezero Crater — including ultrafine grains around 100 nanometres wide, small enough to reach deep into lungs.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsJio makes its Mumbai debut after India's record $3.2 billion IPO
Mukesh Ambani's telecoms and digital arm begins trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after an offering that drew $77 billion in bids, the most-subscribed in India's history, and valued the company at up to $108.3 billion.
NewsAfter Anthropic's record filing, a new warning: AI risk is now unavoidable in almost every portfolio
Two days after Claude's maker filed for what could be the largest listing in history, a commentary published by CNA argues the real story is not the $2 trillion headline.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsInvest early or pay later: South Africa's case for youth mental health prevention
In an op-ed published today, three researchers argue that South Africa keeps paying the price of waiting until young people reach crisis — and that prevention, built into schools, workplaces and youth centres, would cost far less than the damage delay causes.
NewsCarrying confidence: Proteas show their hand for the Newlands decider
South Africa make one change for the winner-takes-all third Test against Australia, backing Gerald Coetzee to replace the injured Anrich Nortje as a series level at 1-1 heads to Cape Town.
NewsAnthropic files for Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT, with revenue soaring and an $80.7 billion loss
The maker of Claude publicly filed its S-1 on Monday, setting up a November debut that could eclipse SpaceX's record June listing, and forcing investors to price, for the first time, a pure frontier AI lab.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsMorocco offers FIFA sweeping tax breaks in its push to stage the 2030 World Cup final
The draft 2027 Finance Bill writes a special tax regime for the 2030 World Cup into Moroccan law, exempting FIFA and its partners from most taxes through 2032.
NewsClaude accessed Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reports
Anthropic says its model pulled aggregate vote counts from Georgia's public data during a training run, without a human signing off.
NewsStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
NewsA funeral journey ends on the highway: 22 killed as bus and lorry collide in Makueni
A bus carrying mourners home from a burial collided head-on with a lorry at Kanga, past Mtito Andei, on Sunday morning — the second mass-fatality crash on the same Makueni stretch of the Nairobi–Mombasa highway in three weeks.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025.
NewsElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsBurnley sack Nicky Hayen after 14 games following the 4-1 thrashing at Lincoln
The Championship club acted within hours of Saturday's collapse at Lincoln City, leaving the Clarets 22nd with one league win from 12 — and a successor still to name.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsTibet earthquake toll climbs to 16 dead as rescue teams reach remote villages
Hours after the first reports spoke of two injured, Xinhua put the toll from the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu quake at 16 killed and 32 injured, with at least 339 homes collapsed at nearly 5,000 metres of altitude.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
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NewsThree Weeks Without Chlorine: How Bronkhorstspruit’s Tap Water Sickened 408 People
Unchlorinated water, a sewage-polluted river and a city that failed to warn: the anatomy of Tshwane’s water crisis — and what it says about South Africa’s constitutional promise.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsOlivia Lum and five co-accused will not testify as the Hyflux trial moves to its defence phase
On October 21, 2026, the six accused in Singapore's landmark Hyflux trial declined to argue there was "no case to answer" and told the court none of them will take the stand.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
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NewsSpaceX's AI Business Now Outearns Its Rockets as Q3 Revenue Jumps 161%
Elon Musk's SpaceX posted a $4.4 billion third-quarter profit on revenue of $14.58 billion, beating Wall Street estimates across the board.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsThe U-turn that made it an attack: Albanese says Haines driver turned back deliberately
Australia's prime minister says the car that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office performed a U-turn before striking her — 'a deliberate act,' he told ABC News — as counter-terrorism investigators join the case and the 43-year-old suspect faces a mental-health assessment before any police interview.
NewsThe human cost of America's surging air war in Somalia
Nearly a year after a November 2025 offensive shattered the town of Jamaame, survivors are still living with shrapnel, paralysis and unanswered questions — as US air strikes in Somalia run at nearly four times the Biden-era pace and AFRICOM's own review clears the military of civilian harm.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsMorocco's new government loses a minister after 48 hours: Madiha Khayr dismissed at El Mansouri's request
King Mohammed VI ended the minister delegate's duties on Sunday under Article 47 of the Constitution, accepting a request from Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri — the first adjustment of a cabinet sworn in 48 hours earlier, and a test of how fast the new executive moves to protect its launch.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsDaegu ceiling collapse: vendor booked on negligence charges as police probe faulty repairs
South Korean police have booked the vendor behind a kitchenware sales event for elderly shoppers after a ceiling collapse in Daegu injured 38 people, as investigators examine whether faulty repairs brought the ceiling down.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
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NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsOpenAI engineer arrested: Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan accused of bugging executive conference room
A Saudi engineer allegedly hid an encrypted listening device behind a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room. The FBI arrested him October 9; OpenAI says its own AI identified him.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsHouthi Missile Hits Aramco Building After Coalition Strike on Yemen Fuel Depot
A missile struck an administrative building at Saudi Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran, setting off a limited fire, hours after the Saudi-led coalition hit a fuel depot outside Sanaa.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsThe Defender's Dilemma: AI Is Now on Both Sides of Every Cyberattack
Attackers automate discovery, defenders automate response, and the gap between breach and damage collapses to minutes.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsImmigration agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home at dawn Monday in a criminal immigration probe, three weeks before the midterms. She calls it political intimidation.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsMusk's $366 Million Midterm Bet: Buying the Republican Congress
Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 midterms, pouring $366 million into Republican races after vowing he had done enough. The money says this is power, not charity.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsAt Least 20 Injured in Explosion Near Israel's Northern Border With Lebanon
Unexploded ordnance went off near Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach, injuring a group of picnickers. Prime Minister Netanyahu is heading to the area as bomb-disposal teams investigate.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsHurricane Simón: Category 4 monster menaces Mexico's Pacific coast
From Category 1 to a forecast Category 4 in barely two days, Simón forced evacuations, closed ports and airports, and put a $175M catastrophe bond on edge.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsIsaias Tears Inland: 2 Dead, Nearly 875,000 Without Power Across Six States
The hurricane's strongest punch landed far from the coast — fallen trees killed two people and a battered grid left hundreds of thousands in the dark from Florida to Tennessee.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsAmazon Shuffles Alexa Leadership as Its Subscription Gamble Begins
A day after unveiling premium Alexa tablets, Amazon hands its loss-making assistant to an advertising-and-TV executive. The bet: Alexa+ at $139 a year with Prime, or $20 a month alone, finally makes the business pay.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsThree Years After October 7, a Prolonged War Takes Its Toll on Israelis
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, one in five Israelis reports severe difficulty with daily life, and child psychiatric emergency visits have more than doubled.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsThree years after October 7: Gaza in ruins, 74,250 dead, and a ceasefire in name only
Three years after the October 7 attacks, Gaza's health ministry puts the toll at 74,250 dead and 175,278 injured.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsLausanne to Rule on Africa's Most Disputed Title: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Heard Thursday
The Court of Arbitration for Sport hears on Thursday Senegal's appeal against the CAF decision that stripped the Teranga Lions of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to hosts Morocco.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsHouthis and Saudi-led forces both claim victory as Yemen's war rages on
Saudi Arabia said two southern airports were struck on Monday evening, wounding three people, while Saudi-led government forces launched air strikes in Yemen and claimed the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsNigeria declares three days of mourning after Air Force crash kills all 32 aboard
An ATR-42 transport aircraft, NGR 931, went down in a swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State on Monday on a routine Benin City–Lagos flight.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsTrump ordered $20 million in taxpayer money for TV ads praising himself, the Times reports
Trump told budget chief Russell Vought to find the money "from within the government." The result: $20 million of homeland-security funds for TV ads glorifying the president.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsA Safety Chief Walks Out: OpenAI’s ‘Broken’ Culture and the Governance Crisis at Frontier AI Labs
David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s model safety reports for three and a half years, quit this week calling its culture ‘broken’ — exposing the governance fault lines inside frontier AI labs.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsThe mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsAlgeria sent fighter jets to Niger, Tebboune says
Algeria confirms it sent Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey in late August to help Niger's junta crush a mutiny — a rare public admission of direct military intervention.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday.
NewsNetanyahu under scrutiny over pre-October 7 warnings
The Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
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NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
The 400,000 beds Morocco's students are still waiting for
Documents accompanying Morocco's 2027 Finance Bill put the student housing shortfall at nearly 400,000 beds, against 56,226 public residence beds for about 1.26 million students — a gap the government says it cannot close alone, and one that already shapes rents, commutes and protests in Rabat.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
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Congress 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.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsPakistan extends airspace ban on Indian aircraft to November 24, stretching an 18-month standoff
Islamabad’s airports authority issued a fresh NOTAM on Saturday keeping Indian-registered aircraft — and military flights — out of Pakistani airspace for another month, as the reciprocal closures imposed after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack grind toward their nineteenth month.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
Inglis and Carey edge Australia one run ahead as Newlands decider tilts at stumps on day two
Australia closed day two of the third Test at Newlands on 330 for four, one run past South Africa's 329, after Josh Inglis and Alex Carey shared an unbeaten 145 and twice rescued a side that had twice been rocked by double strikes.
NewsFIFA inspectors head to Morocco's six candidate cities as the 2030 venue race enters its decisive phase
In November and December, FIFA delegations will tour candidate stadiums and infrastructure in Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Rabat and Tangier, alongside venues in Spain and Portugal, as the three hosts move toward a final list — and a still-undecided final.
NewsStarc's six-for turns the Newlands decider after South Africa throw away a perfect start
Mitchell Starc took 6 for 72 as South Africa, 158 without loss at one stage, were bowled out for 329 on day one of the deciding third Test at Newlands — with the series level at 1-1 and the world No.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsHarry Kane wins the Ballon d'Or, ending England's 25-year wait
The Bayern Munich and England captain was crowned the world's best player in London on Monday, beating Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal after a 73-goal season that also carried England to third place at the World Cup.
NewsCarrying confidence: Proteas show their hand for the Newlands decider
South Africa make one change for the winner-takes-all third Test against Australia, backing Gerald Coetzee to replace the injured Anrich Nortje as a series level at 1-1 heads to Cape Town.
NewsShadab Khan's record last-wicket stand stuns England and sends Pakistan into the tri-series final
From 154 for 9, Shadab Khan's unbeaten 113 and Haris Rauf's defiant 7 carried Pakistan past England by one wicket in Lahore — the highest last-wicket stand in a successful one-day chase, and a final place on 31 October.
NewsThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025.
NewsBurnley sack Nicky Hayen after 14 games following the 4-1 thrashing at Lincoln
The Championship club acted within hours of Saturday's collapse at Lincoln City, leaving the Clarets 22nd with one league win from 12 — and a successor still to name.
NewsCan Mbappé's record-breaking season win the Ballon d'Or without a trophy?
The 70th Ballon d'Or is presented in London on Monday.
NewsRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were unsafe, as the Steelers and Saints prepare to meet at the Stade de France a day after fresh protests.
NewsPhillip Island Bows Out: MotoGP Bids a Bitter-Sweet Farewell to Its Most Beloved Circuit
After nearly three decades on the championship calendar, the seaside track that carried Australian motorcycling's greatest moments hosts its final grand prix on Sunday — before MotoGP moves to a street circuit in Adelaide in 2027, with the title fight still hanging on two points.
NewsHaaland's record brace keeps Manchester City perfect: seventh straight win under Maresca
City beat Ipswich 3-2 at the Etihad on Saturday, becoming only the third side to open a Premier League season with seven wins — as their striker set a century record and Maresca wrote his own.
NewsSpain to Appeal to CAS After FIFA Penalty for Islamophobic Chants
The Spanish federation will take FIFA to sport's highest court over a $20,000 fine and partial stadium closure imposed for Islamophobic chants during the Egypt friendly — arguing the chant was offensive, but not discriminatory.
NewsReal Madrid demand resignation of LaLiga chief Tebas after Goebbels comparison
LaLiga president Javier Tebas compared Real Madrid's media machine to the propaganda techniques of Joseph Goebbels.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
News223 Catches: Steve Smith Rewrites Test Cricket's Fielding Record as Australia Dominate South Africa
Steve Smith took four catches on day three at Kingsmead to reach 223 career Test catches — a record for a non-wicketkeeper — as Australia bowled South Africa out for 284 and seized command of the first Test.
NewsIreland again refuse Israel handshake and don armbands in 1-1 Nations League draw
A late Israeli equaliser in Bačka Topola closed an ill-tempered double-header in which Ireland's players turned football into protest — and the fallout now reaches Euro 2028.
NewsPretorius smashes Gayle's T20 record with 188 not out
South Africa's Lhuan-dre Pretorius, 20, broke Chris Gayle's all-time T20 record with 188* off 79 balls for the Titans against the Knights in Bloemfontein.
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Hamilton takes first Ferrari pole in Mexico as Antonelli stands one ninth place from history
Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second for his first Ferrari pole in Mexico City — while Kimi Antonelli starts fourth needing only ninth to become Formula One's youngest champion.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsAustralia vice-captain Gardner calls cricket her ‘escape’ after a year of personal turmoil
Speaking at the Sydney Sixers’ season launch, Ashleigh Gardner thanked her teammates and the game itself for carrying her through the breakdown of her marriage — a year in which Cricket Australia backed her leadership and her performances kept answering for her.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
NewsPSG Put on a Show in Manchester: 4-2 Champions League Thriller Stuns City
Paris Saint-Germain, the defending European champions, sent a message to the continent with a 4-2 victory over Manchester City on Champions League Matchday 2.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
The narrowest corridor in the world economy: a fifth of global oil passes a strait you can see across.
Iran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsThe 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.
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NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
The island that makes the world's chips and frays the world's nerves. The most dangerous 180 kilometers on Earth.
Xi 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiHuawei’s Chairman Thanked America for Its Sanctions. He Wasn’t Being Sarcastic.
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NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Chip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsOpenAI engineer arrested: Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan accused of bugging executive conference room
A Saudi engineer allegedly hid an encrypted listening device behind a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room. The FBI arrested him October 9; OpenAI says its own AI identified him.
NewsAnthropic Self-Replication Warning: Small AI Models Months From Copying Themselves
Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves across smart ovens and TV boxes, with no data centre and no off switch. The tests are real. The wild replicator is not.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
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Nvidia 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.
NewsSamsung 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsChina 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%.
NewsTrump Media's revenue triples — but its $410 million profit is mostly paper
Trump Media & Technology Group reported third-quarter revenue of $3.0 million, up 205 percent, and a $409.7 million profit driven almost entirely by gains on digital assets — while its core operations still lost money.
NewsTrump calls Nvidia's Huang ‘honorable’ as board opens spy probe and CEO admits affair
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday after reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence effort — hours after the chief executive admitted to an affair and Donald Trump publicly stood by him.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsCanberra calls its teen social media ban “modest” as the High Court weighs the world’s first test
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, government lawyers told Australia’s seven-judge High Court that the world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts was a modest, justified curb on political expression — as Reddit and a civil-liberties group asked the judges to strike it down.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsOpenAI taps former Army secretary Dan Driscoll for a national-security role
The newly created post — senior counselor for national security modernization — pulls the Army's former top civilian leader into the AI industry's deepening partnership with the Pentagon, two months after his bruising resignation.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsIntel's weak quarter sends shivers through cooling chip stocks
Intel blamed near-term PC headwinds, missed on client computing and slashed its fourth-quarter outlook — dragging AMD, Broadcom and the semiconductor index down with it in after-hours trading.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsAlphabet's $9 billion cash burn: the quarter AI spending outran search
Google's parent grew revenue 25% and more than doubled its cloud business — and still lost a tenth of its value in an evening, because the search engine that pays for everything grew more slowly, and the bill for artificial intelligence keeps getting bigger.
NewsSamsung's $80 billion quarter: the AI chip boom, in one company's books
Samsung Electronics posted a record 107.4 trillion won operating profit for July to September, its fourth straight record quarter — powered almost entirely by memory chips for AI, while its phones division slipped into the red.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsAfter Anthropic's record filing, a new warning: AI risk is now unavoidable in almost every portfolio
Two days after Claude's maker filed for what could be the largest listing in history, a commentary published by CNA argues the real story is not the $2 trillion headline.
NewsNvidia puts $3 billion behind Meta's Muse as the two giants deepen their AI agent alliance
Nvidia and Meta will expand their work on Meta's Muse assistant and model family, with Nvidia saying it will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering — a supplier becoming a shareholder as the race to build useful AI agents moves from chatbots to machines that act.
NewsUnitree shares surge more than 60% in under two weeks as JPMorgan bets on physical AI
Shares of Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics have climbed more than 60% since 15 October, closing at 672 yuan on Monday after a JPMorgan double upgrade, even as the company itself warns investors that commercialisation is still in its early stages.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
NewsAnthropic files for Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT, with revenue soaring and an $80.7 billion loss
The maker of Claude publicly filed its S-1 on Monday, setting up a November debut that could eclipse SpaceX's record June listing, and forcing investors to price, for the first time, a pure frontier AI lab.
NewsSouth Africa's rights commission says the law misses the design: children need safety built in, not bolted on
A South African Human Rights Commission report calls for sweeping legal reform, arguing that current laws police what children see online but ignore how platforms are built to hold their attention and harvest their data.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
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NewsClaude accessed Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reports
Anthropic says its model pulled aggregate vote counts from Georgia's public data during a training run, without a human signing off.
NewsThe smooth operator meets his receipts: Rwanda took the Grand Prix, VAR slipped to 2027
Gayton McKenzie built his ministry on big announcements — a South African Grand Prix, video referees by April 2025.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsPatch Wednesday: EU Agency Says Websites May Have to Go Offline as PHP Races to Fix Two Critical Flaws
On October 20, 2026, PHP's security team pre-announced emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0, due Wednesday at 14:00 UTC — after details leaked early.
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsBeyond the Green Book: Inside South Africa’s Revolutionary Leap Into Digital Identity
On 1 October 2026, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber demonstrated a working smartphone digital ID — then set the dates that kill the green ID book: production ends 31 March 2027, validity ends 31 March 2028.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
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NewsSpaceX's AI Business Now Outearns Its Rockets as Q3 Revenue Jumps 161%
Elon Musk's SpaceX posted a $4.4 billion third-quarter profit on revenue of $14.58 billion, beating Wall Street estimates across the board.
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsTenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation, doubling down on the open-chip bet against Nvidia
The Santa Clara AI chip startup closed a $1.5 billion Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, valuing Jim Keller's RISC-V challenger at $6.2 billion — more than double its December 2024 mark — as crossover capital, a memory giant and crypto money all pile into open AI compute.
NewsEl Mansouri's cabinet sworn in: Morocco gets its first woman head of government as King Mohammed VI presides over the Rabat ceremony
The 32-member government blends continuity and renewal: the sovereign portfolios stay put, football federation chief Fouzi Lekjaa takes economy and finance, and a brand-new ministry for artificial intelligence signals the kingdom's modernisation bet — with the 2030 World Cup clock ticking.
NewsMeta Employees Acknowledged Restrictions on Lula's Accounts During Brazil Election, Report Says
Internal Meta messages reviewed by Folha de S.Paulo acknowledge restrictions on President Lula's Instagram accounts — and the promotion of Flavio Bolsonaro's profile — nine days before Brazil's runoff.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsOpenAI engineer arrested: Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan accused of bugging executive conference room
A Saudi engineer allegedly hid an encrypted listening device behind a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room. The FBI arrested him October 9; OpenAI says its own AI identified him.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsBank Earnings Split Wall Street as Goldman Beats and JPMorgan Misses
Goldman Sachs posted a near-record quarter on equities trading while JPMorgan missed estimates, and a chip sell-off left the Nasdaq lower on Tuesday.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsThe Humanoid Factory: Robots Leave the Demo Floor and Meet the Real World
Humanoids are entering warehouses and factories before they are ready — and the jobs, safety and wage questions arrive with them.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsThe Defender's Dilemma: AI Is Now on Both Sides of Every Cyberattack
Attackers automate discovery, defenders automate response, and the gap between breach and damage collapses to minutes.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAnthropic Self-Replication Warning: Small AI Models Months From Copying Themselves
Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves across smart ovens and TV boxes, with no data centre and no off switch. The tests are real. The wild replicator is not.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsThe Agent Era Has Arrived — and Nobody Is in Charge of It
Agents that book, buy, code and negotiate are moving from demos to daily work. The technology works. The accountability does not.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsYandex Shuts Down Vladimir Data Centre After Drone Attack — Third Strike on Its Facilities in a Week
A drone strike on the Vladimir facility caps a week-long campaign against the Russian tech giant's data centres, as Kyiv and Moscow openly trade blows against each other's digital backbone.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsAnthropic's Claude Filed a Fake Murder Tip With Philadelphia Police
An AI safety test wandered onto a real homicide tip line and invented an eyewitness account. Nobody noticed for two months.
NewsHurricane Isaias slams the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3, and the Waffle House Index goes red
Category 3 Isaias made Friday evening landfall on the Florida Panhandle with 120 mph winds, as 16,000 linemen stood ready and every Pensacola-area Waffle House closed.
NewsThe AI hardware ledger: TSMC beats, Samsung prints a record, GlobalFoundries gets $2B of U.S. packaging, and Huawei claims the China crown
TSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell Nvidia's in China.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsAfrica joins the data center backlash: South Africa's water, power and the cloud's real cost
South African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsA Safety Chief Walks Out: OpenAI’s ‘Broken’ Culture and the Governance Crisis at Frontier AI Labs
David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s model safety reports for three and a half years, quit this week calling its culture ‘broken’ — exposing the governance fault lines inside frontier AI labs.
NewsEV motion sickness is real: why silent cars turn stomachs and what automakers are doing about it
Drivers love electric cars, but some passengers get sick. Researchers have found why — regenerative braking, instant torque, and silence confuse the inner ear. From BYD to Xiaomi, automakers are now selling the fix.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast Cancer
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsVolkswagen's $7 billion Canadian battery dream slips to 2029
PowerCo, VW's battery arm, pushed back its giant St. Thomas gigafactory two years while naming a general contractor to keep construction moving — the latest automaker to slow its electric pace in Canada.
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NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto US government sites
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of Education page where they surfaced exposed developer API keys.
NewsOpenAI's GPT-5.4 is coming — and the enterprise AI battle is officially on
OpenAI's next model, GPT-5.4, is expected within days — built for long-horizon agents at enterprise scale. The race is no longer about the smartest chatbot; it is about who owns the worker.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
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.
NewsEuropean 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsBDS 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsUK 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.
NewsICRC 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.
News14 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsScott 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsParaguay 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.
NewsSamsung 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsJudge rules Trump’s $10bn BBC defamation suit can proceed
A Florida judge let the defamation claim stand and threw out the trade-practices claim.
NewsTshisekedi 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.
NewsBen 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.
NewsIndonesia’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.
NewsZohran 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.
NewsPortugal 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.
NewsUN 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.
News‘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.
NewsSpain 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.
NewsBrazil’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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsGaza's broken drains leave 350,000 people under water as the first winter storm hits
Seventy thousand tents flooded in twelve hours.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsBeijing 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsHow 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.
NewsKennedy 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
News‘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.
NewsRepublicans 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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsNetanyahu 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.
NewsSouth 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsIsrael 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsThree 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsFirms 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsMorocco 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.
NewsChina 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%.
NewsThe 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.
NewsSupreme 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.
NewsTrump Media's revenue triples — but its $410 million profit is mostly paper
Trump Media & Technology Group reported third-quarter revenue of $3.0 million, up 205 percent, and a $409.7 million profit driven almost entirely by gains on digital assets — while its core operations still lost money.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsCrane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsLecornu brings forward France’s minimum-wage rise to December — and the unions call it crumbs
The 1.6% rise to €1,502 a month, announced after a social conference at Matignon, is the first discretionary boost to the SMIC since 2012 — but the unions who demanded €100 to €150 say it changes almost nothing, and have called a new strike for 17 November.
NewsMore than 100,000 sign petition demanding inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza
The petition, launched on 23 October by Your Party's Jennifer Forbes, passed the threshold for a parliamentary debate on Monday — and puts the government under pressure to answer questions it has spent more than a year refusing.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsScalise or Jordan? House Republicans choose who leads them into the minority
A week after losing both chambers, Republicans vote on Tuesday for a new House minority leader, with Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan offering two very different theories of opposition.
NewsLecornu opens wage talks at Matignon as cost-of-living protests test his government
Sébastien Lecornu met unions and employers on Monday to discuss salaries and purchasing power, offering a minimum-wage rise to just over €1,500 a month — far below what unions demand — after weeks of strikes and marches across France.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsAt least 35 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal on the way to the Canary Islands
The toll rose from 21 to 35 in a single day as rescuers searched off the Loumpoul dunes, while a second boat carrying 142 people was intercepted and Spain's El Hierro declared an emergency.
NewsKraków gunman dies in hospital two days after killing six in the Main Market Square
Polish police said the 24-year-old died early on Monday after officers shot him within three minutes of the attack.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsSheikh Hasina asks for a new passport in the clearest sign yet of her planned December return to Bangladesh
Lawyers for the ousted prime minister have written to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking a fresh passport and identity card, so she can return from exile and surrender before a court — while Dhaka insists she will come back only under the extradition treaty.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsOscar-winning Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio dies at 52
The director of A Fantastic Woman, the first Chilean feature ever to win an Oscar, was found dead at his home in Santiago on Friday, and his family cited health reasons while he was in the middle of filming his next feature.
NewsParaguay’s president ousted and placed under house arrest as bank collapse topples his government
Santiago Peña was removed by the Senate on Friday after the collapse of the digital lender ueno froze the savings of three million Paraguayans; his vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was sworn in within the hour.
News250 Palestinian couples marry in mass wedding in Gaza, three years into the war
The “Garment of Joy” ceremony at Gaza City’s Sea Club united 250 couples chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants, as the UAE-backed relief operation behind it marked three years of aid to the territory.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsKenya sentences starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison
The Mombasa High Court handed the Good News International Church leader two consecutive 100-year terms for the murder of 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest — one of the worst mass killings of modern times.
NewsMorocco’s unemployment climbs to 10.5% as 173,000 jobs vanish in three months
The High Commission for Planning counts 1.224 million unemployed in the third quarter of 2026, with youth unemployment at 30.5% and rural areas losing 148,000 jobs — while the Employment Ministry’s 2027 budget document puts the same figures before parliament.
NewsTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsRepublicans redrew this Texas district to win it — and it only just worked
Constitutional lawyer Jace Yarbrough beat Democrat Dan Barrios by 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent in the redrawn 32nd district near Dallas, the only one of five Texas seats the Republican map was built to take, and the only Republican House flip of the 2026 midterms.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsSchool bus crashes in eastern France, killing two and injuring 16
An intercity bus carrying 43 people, including 15 children on their way to school, left the road near Lent in the Ain department on Friday morning and struck a tree, killing a young girl and an 18-year-old man, while prosecutors opened a road-homicide investigation.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsJudge blocks Trump's arch within an hour of its approval
The National Capital Planning Commission voted 8-4 late on Thursday to approve the 76-metre monument at Memorial Circle. Within the hour, a federal judge barred any construction for 14 days.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsGaza turns discarded cooking pots into seawalls
Displaced families on Gaza's coast are filling broken cooking pots with soil and stacking them into makeshift seawalls, as winter approaches and shelter supplies remain blocked at the crossings.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial launches WLFI token buyback after midterm selloff
World Liberty Financial says it will buy back its WLFI governance token with money that includes revenue from the reserves behind its USD1 stablecoin, days after the token slid following the Republicans' weaker-than-expected midterm showing
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsTop US civil rights official resigns in first departure since the Democrats retook Congress
Harmeet Dhillon, who remade the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in eighteen months, is out two days after the midterm elections — and the new Democratic Congress is already lining up the questions she will have to answer.
NewsHoax bomb threats force European flights to divert for a second time this week
At least 21 aircraft were targeted on Thursday, with fighter jets escorting airliners to the ground from Normandy to Bulgaria — and no explosive device has been found on any plane.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsFrom Habibie to Prabowo: the wiretap that keeps finding Indonesia’s presidents
Three generals were arrested this week for allegedly tapping President Prabowo Subianto’s phone, yet the scandal is only the latest chapter of a story that began in 1998, when a leaked call embarrassed President Habibie, and it has touched every Indonesian president since.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsIndia names the AI tools behind a hacking campaign against its banks
CERT-In calls the threat “active and ongoing” as a group it calls Crafty Falcon turns public AI tools against lenders, fintech firms and crypto exchanges — and at least two of those tools trace back to China.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsIndonesian parties weigh a parliamentary inquiry into the vice-president’s diploma
Two court rulings have stripped the paperwork behind Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s candidacy of its legal standing, and now the parties that put Prabowo Subianto in power must decide whether parliament acts, as the rift with Joko Widodo widens.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsMore haste, less speed: the Hawks job awaits Cabinet while the Madlanga Commission has yet to speak
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has recommended KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to lead the Hawks, but Cabinet has not decided, the nominee says he will not apply, and Paul Hoffman argues that any promotion before the Madlanga Commission's final report would put haste ahead of accountability.
NewsHong Kong activist Joshua Wong gets 10 more years in jail for foreign collusion
On Thursday 5 November 2026, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces, a second national security conviction that ends the release he had been expecting in January and keeps one of the city's best-known democracy activists behind bars for years to come.
NewsIsrael’s ex-generals pick olives with Palestinians as harvest violence surges
On 3 November 2026, some 30 retired Israeli officers — including six generals — helped Palestinian farmers near Qusra harvest their olives: a solidarity gesture that condemns settler violence and cracks Israel’s security consensus.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsA progressive flips the Central Valley: Villegas ousts Valadao in California's 22nd
Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has ousted six-term Republican David Valadao in California's 22nd district — the last House Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump — in a Central Valley rout built on living costs and backlash to ICE raids.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsHerzog accepts certified results as Israel’s deadlocked election moves to coalition talks
The Central Elections Committee certified the October 27 vote on Wednesday morning over Likud objections, and President Isaac Herzog formally received the results — opening two days of consultations in a 120-seat Knesset where no bloc reaches 61.
NewsAmerica votes: Democratic breakthroughs land as the 2026 midterms count goes on
Roy Cooper flips North Carolina, James Talarico takes Texas and Jon Ossoff holds Georgia in the first called races — a Democratic surge is taking shape while control of Congress is still being counted.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsPSG smash a Champions League record in 6-0 rout of Villarreal
Four goals in 17 minutes — the fastest four-goal haul in competition history — kept the European champions perfect at the top of the league phase.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsCanberra calls its teen social media ban “modest” as the High Court weighs the world’s first test
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, government lawyers told Australia’s seven-judge High Court that the world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts was a modest, justified curb on political expression — as Reddit and a civil-liberties group asked the judges to strike it down.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsKeisha Lance Bottoms wins Georgia, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state
The former Atlanta mayor defeated billionaire Republican Rick Jackson on November 3, returning Georgia's governor's office to Democrats after more than two decades and giving the party a second landmark win in the state on midterm night.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsTwo analyst calls shook Singapore's market — the research says retail investors can't chase them
A Singapore finance professor's warning — built on two market-moving downgrades and 150,000 studied stock calls — says retail investors read analyst notes too late to trade them. The numbers agree.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsSenate sets November 10 hearing for Trump's FCC nominee as Disney license fight deepens
Danielle Thumann Severs, senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, faces the Senate Commerce Committee one week after the midterms — a vote that could hand Republicans a 3–1 commission majority.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsBeijing tells Manila to rein in the politicians crossing its ‘red lines’
In a Tuesday phone call, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro that a ‘small number of politicians’ had repeatedly smeared China out of prejudice and self-interest — urging Manila to send a ‘rational and unified message’ on its China policy.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
Tariffs, truces, and supply chains binding rivals together while they argue. Commerce as diplomacy by other means.
Nvidia 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsArcelorMittal 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsStocks 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.
NewsJudge rules Trump’s $10bn BBC defamation suit can proceed
A Florida judge let the defamation claim stand and threw out the trade-practices claim.
NewsHow 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsMorocco 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliThe Gavel Changed Hands. The Invoice Stayed Put.
The view from the shelf
NewsMorocco pauses tomato exports to Africa as prices at home climb to 18 dirhams a kilo
Rabat has halted tomato shipments to African markets to steady domestic supply, with Europe exempt — a temporary measure that puts household budgets first and leaves exporters, and African importers, waiting for the resumption.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsTwo analyst calls shook Singapore's market — the research says retail investors can't chase them
A Singapore finance professor's warning — built on two market-moving downgrades and 150,000 studied stock calls — says retail investors read analyst notes too late to trade them. The numbers agree.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsRabat moves to shield households from rising prices: a new price commission ahead of Ramadan
Head of government Fatima Zahra El Mansouri chaired a Rabat meeting on Tuesday that created a permanent interministerial commission to track prices — the sharpest signal yet that purchasing power sits at the top of her government's agenda.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
Opinion · Khalid Al-HarbiNineteen Seats Walk Into the Knesset. Likud Calls the Police.
The crime scene with nineteen seats
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsMorocco takes its seat at Moscow's table: the King's envoy at the third Russia-Africa summit
Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, as 48 African delegations meet Vladimir Putin — and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita holds one-on-one talks with Sergey Lavrov.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
NewsEleven years, zero megawatts: South Africa's first gas-to-power tender ends with no winner
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced on 28 October 2026 that no preferred bidder was appointed under the first bid window of the gas-to-power programme, after four bids totalling 2,830 megawatts all failed on gas-supply assurances.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsSingapore pushes solar beyond the rooftop to hit a new 2035 target
With 2.3 gigawatt-peak installed and a new goal of 4 by 2035, Singapore is turning carports, facades, vacant land and heritage roofs into power stations, while conceding solar alone will never light the island.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
News‘Clearly disinformation’: Singapore embassy denies claims Indonesian figures met its ambassador
Jakarta's Singapore embassy says no visit by Dino Patti Djalal and Saiful Mujani took place at the ambassador's residence on October 18 — and both men deny the story too, in a row that began with a claim about Singapore, its state investors and Indonesia's stock market.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
NewsStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe $10 Billion Boom That Made Ankara Unignorable.
Currencies & Policy
Opinion · Khalid Al-HarbiGermany’s Chemical Giants Are Merging Their Misery.
Industry & Trade
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneIndonesia’s Doctrine Isn’t About Nickel. It’s About Never Being a Quarry Again.
Resources & Industry
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliUSMCA Was America’s Idea. Now America Wants a Refund.
Nearshoring & USMCA
Opinion · Malika AhardaneThe Real Eats the Harvest Before the Ship Leaves Port.
Agriculture & Trade
NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiIsrael Found Gas and Became a Regional Power. It Thinks Like a Gas Station.
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NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
Opinion · Malika AhardaneTokyo Spent $85 Billion Defending the Yen. The Currency Didn’t Notice.
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NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsWestern brands under pressure as China's pre-owned luxury market booms
Louis Vuitton is closing stores, Galeries Lafayette has quit Beijing, and LVMH just blamed China for a 5 percent sales slump — while the country's second-hand luxury market grows 15 to 20 percent a year.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiGermany’s Debt Brake Is a Suicide Pact With Excellent Accounting.
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NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsIndia-US trade deal first phase finalised as Sensex jumps 1,500 points, Nifty nears 23,000
India finalised the first phase of its US trade deal — now in legal drafting — as the Sensex jumped more than 1,500 points and the rupee extended its winning streak.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsIMF to China: open the fiscal taps, now
In Bangkok, the IMF's Asia chief told China its stimulus is too small for an economy slipping toward deflation. Beijing's reply: the fundamentals are unchanged. Here is what is really at stake.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsOpenAI engineer arrested: Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan accused of bugging executive conference room
A Saudi engineer allegedly hid an encrypted listening device behind a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room. The FBI arrested him October 9; OpenAI says its own AI identified him.
NewsDangote refinery IPO extended to October 27 as oversubscribed offer goes pan-African
Oversubscribed three to four times, Dangote's $1.6 billion share sale now runs to October 27 — so Africa can own the refinery Hormuz made Europe's fuel backstop.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsGaza Marks a Year of 'Ceasefire' With More Israeli Killing
On the truce's first anniversary, monitors say it exists 'in name only': one Palestinian killed or wounded every 90 minutes, no stabilisation force, aid at a third of the agreed rate — while settler violence disrupts the West Bank olive harvest.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsTariffs turn toxic: 64% say Trump has gone too far as cost-of-living anger reshapes the midterms
A new AP-NORC poll puts tariff opposition at a record high, cost-of-living approval at 17% and the economy at 26%, as Democrats make affordability the centerpiece of the November 3 midterms.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsFear and Uncertainty in Sanaa as Yemen's Capital Comes Under Attack
Operation Dawn of Yemen has brought air strikes back to a capital mostly spared since the 2023 truce — and civilians are bracing for a war they thought was behind them.
NewsYandex Shuts Down Vladimir Data Centre After Drone Attack — Third Strike on Its Facilities in a Week
A drone strike on the Vladimir facility caps a week-long campaign against the Russian tech giant's data centres, as Kyiv and Moscow openly trade blows against each other's digital backbone.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsKenya Confirms First Imported Bundibugyo Ebola Case as Nairobi Traces 55 Exposed
A Kenyan who had lived in the DRC for seven years flew from Entebbe to Nairobi visibly ill, died of Bundibugyo Ebola on October 5, and has put 55 people under contact tracing — while officials insist there is no outbreak in Kenya.
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsSensex Rebound Masks India's $30 Billion Foreign Exodus
After plunging to a 32-month low on Thursday, Indian stocks staged a technical rebound on Friday, even as the RBI drained liquidity further, foreign selling hit a record $30.4 billion, and the rupee hovered near 97 to the dollar.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsMorocco’s 282-Billion-Dirham Trade Gap
The Office des Changes says Morocco’s merchandise deficit widened 25.4% in the first eight months of 2026, to 282.6 billion dirhams, as imports grew twice as fast as exports and the energy bill jumped by a third.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsIndia's markets sink and the rupee hits a near-record low as the RBI's first hike in three years bites
A quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its second-weakest close on record.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsThe 97.9-billion-dirham machine: Morocco's visitors now out-earn its phosphate exports
Record August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is funding the country's consumption engine.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the line as its energy bill jumps 29%
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsGrasberg at 67%: Freeport's Q3 copper rebound and Jakarta's downstreaming bargain
Freeport's Q3 update puts Grasberg's mills at two-thirds of pre-disaster pace, its East Java smelter humming again — while Jakarta's scheduled takeover of the mine keeps ticking underneath.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsNigeria’s Gas Gamble: Two Billion Cubic Feet a Day and the Pipeline Spine of a Continent
Domestic supply has crossed 2 bcf/d, the OB3 pipeline is complete, and Abuja is betting gas will do what oil never did — light the country, feed its factories, and power a continent’s worth of new demand.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsSix dead in a Gaza City minibus; the 'ceasefire' frays
A minibus in Gaza City bore the brunt — six dead, fifteen wounded. Apartments, shelters and streets were hit across the Strip in a single day of violence under a truce that reads thinner by the week.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on election day.
NewsLithium's comeback trade: MinRes prices double in a quarter as guidance goes up
Spodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsA new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with Beijing
Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries together.
NewsOPEC+ holds October steady; the 2027 quota fight looms
Seven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day.
NewsNigeria's cheaper money went straight back to the central bank
Eleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms while the naira holds at 1,328.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade unwinds in weeks
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is leaving it.
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their second-best quarter ever
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsFifteen million barrels and counting: Iran's final oil sail to China
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since August 24 — and this is what the end of an oil empire looks like.
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's nickel export machine
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin shipments alike.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA pact goes live October 1
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks since 2017, now law.
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets Indonesia's energy future on palm oil
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high on hot PMI data
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.1% on 23 September — its highest since 2007 — after a red-hot September PMI; traders now give the Fed's October meeting a 66–73% chance of another hike, and a weak $70 billion auction deepened the gloom.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack data-center deal
A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio for up to $25 billion — 11 to 14 facilities, 1.2 to 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, and the biggest proof yet that AI has made power the scarcest asset on earth.
InvestigationThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
InvestigationThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
The strait is the strategy: a NATO member with imperial instincts, brokering between every side.
Crane collapse into a furnace kills at least 17 at a Turkish steel plant
The blast at the HABAS steelworks in Aliağa, north of Izmir, killed 17 workers and injured 12 on Monday, after a crane carrying a replacement boiler fell into an electric arc furnace.
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsSeoul summit: South Korea and Turkey seal nuclear financing and defence pact
Lee Jae Myung and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed memorandums on nuclear project financing and defence cooperation, putting South Korean firms in pole position for the reactors Turkey plans at Sinop.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsShort of a majority, Netanyahu accuses Arab parties of stealing the election
Israel's final count gave Netanyahu's bloc 53 seats, the opposition 48, and the Arab-led parties a record 19.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe $10 Billion Boom That Made Ankara Unignorable.
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NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiTurkey Sells Drones the Way Empires Used to Sell Flags.
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NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsHalk TV raid: Turkish police halt live broadcast of opposition channel
Police raided Turkey's most-watched news channel at dawn, cut its live feed and installed a state trustee. Critics call it the latest blow in a widening crackdown on the press.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsTurkey Legislates a Bailout for the Savers the Funds Failed
Ankara is preparing a temporary law to wind down 131 collapsed investment funds and pay interim compensation of up to 1 million lira per saver, while the central bank insists the $19 billion meltdown will not infect the wider economy.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsTurkey Turns Its Trade Corridor Into an $80 Billion Energy Bet
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad and selling a route around Hormuz.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% rates
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing risk.
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking Istanbul — and the resignation at the top
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Europe's breadbasket turned battlefield — the war that repriced everything from wheat to deterrence.
European 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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsPoland 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.
News“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.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe $10 Billion Boom That Made Ankara Unignorable.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsHundreds rally in Kyiv demanding Mayor Vitali Klitschko's resignation over winter preparations
Hundreds of residents chanted “Kyiv without Klitschko” outside the city administration on Saturday, demanding the mayor’s resignation and a public report on winter readiness as Russian strikes batter the energy grid.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsYandex data centres hit by third drone strike in four days
Yandex confirmed a drone attack shut its Vladimir data centre — the third shutdown in four days after Sasovo and Kaluga. 80+ services disrupted, no repair timeline.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
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NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsYandex Shuts Down Vladimir Data Centre After Drone Attack — Third Strike on Its Facilities in a Week
A drone strike on the Vladimir facility caps a week-long campaign against the Russian tech giant's data centres, as Kyiv and Moscow openly trade blows against each other's digital backbone.
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
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NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow Presses Its Air Assault
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy Assault on Ukraine in Months
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
The island that invented the markets and now rents them back. London's money never left; it just changed accent.
UK 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.
NewsJudge rules Trump’s $10bn BBC defamation suit can proceed
A Florida judge let the defamation claim stand and threw out the trade-practices claim.
NewsUN 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsFirms 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsMore than 100,000 sign petition demanding inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza
The petition, launched on 23 October by Your Party's Jennifer Forbes, passed the threshold for a parliamentary debate on Monday — and puts the government under pressure to answer questions it has spent more than a year refusing.
NewsSheikh Hasina asks for a new passport in the clearest sign yet of her planned December return to Bangladesh
Lawyers for the ousted prime minister have written to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking a fresh passport and identity card, so she can return from exile and surrender before a court — while Dhaka insists she will come back only under the extradition treaty.
NewsGunman 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsHoax bomb threats force European flights to divert for a second time this week
At least 21 aircraft were targeted on Thursday, with fighter jets escorting airliners to the ground from Normandy to Bulgaria — and no explosive device has been found on any plane.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
NewsCanberra calls its teen social media ban “modest” as the High Court weighs the world’s first test
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, government lawyers told Australia’s seven-judge High Court that the world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts was a modest, justified curb on political expression — as Reddit and a civil-liberties group asked the judges to strike it down.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsHarry Kane wins the Ballon d'Or, ending England's 25-year wait
The Bayern Munich and England captain was crowned the world's best player in London on Monday, beating Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal after a 73-goal season that also carried England to third place at the World Cup.
NewsBritain sanctions fifteen Sudanese commanders over weaponised rape in Sudan's war
A year after El Fasher fell, London designates commanders from both armies, freezes their assets and bans their travel — and pairs the list with £15 million for survivors and humanitarian relief.
NewsShadab Khan's record last-wicket stand stuns England and sends Pakistan into the tri-series final
From 154 for 9, Shadab Khan's unbeaten 113 and Haris Rauf's defiant 7 carried Pakistan past England by one wicket in Lahore — the highest last-wicket stand in a successful one-day chase, and a final place on 31 October.
NewsAustralia vice-captain Gardner calls cricket her ‘escape’ after a year of personal turmoil
Speaking at the Sydney Sixers’ season launch, Ashleigh Gardner thanked her teammates and the game itself for carrying her through the breakdown of her marriage — a year in which Cricket Australia backed her leadership and her performances kept answering for her.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsCan Mbappé's record-breaking season win the Ballon d'Or without a trophy?
The 70th Ballon d'Or is presented in London on Monday.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
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NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsBank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November, Reuters poll finds
54 of 63 economists now expect the Bank of England to lift Bank Rate to 4% in November — the first rise in three-plus years — with markets pricing four more hikes by end-2027.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
News223 Catches: Steve Smith Rewrites Test Cricket's Fielding Record as Australia Dominate South Africa
Steve Smith took four catches on day three at Kingsmead to reach 223 career Test catches — a record for a non-wicketkeeper — as Australia bowled South Africa out for 284 and seized command of the first Test.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
NewsBritain Pays Its Highest Borrowing Rate of the Century
The Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the budget clock ticks
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has not yet funded.
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England may have to raise rates again
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
The world's most expensive suggestion box — and still the only room where everyone is invited.
African 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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsPolisario 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsEcuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara — and will send its ambassador to the Southern Provinces
In a joint communiqué signed in Rabat, Quito called autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty the only realistic solution, extended its consular coverage nationwide and promised economic cooperation in the Moroccan Sahara.
NewsSheikh Hasina asks for a new passport in the clearest sign yet of her planned December return to Bangladesh
Lawyers for the ousted prime minister have written to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi seeking a fresh passport and identity card, so she can return from exile and surrender before a court — while Dhaka insists she will come back only under the extradition treaty.
News“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.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsDeath toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53
Russian guided bombs struck a former school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as residents gathered for their weekly aid distribution, and by Friday the toll had reached at least 53, with dozens still missing and the United Nations saying the attack likely violated international law.
NewsLeaked defence papers point to 90 Russian launchers for Iran as Putin meets Rezaei
A Financial Times investigation based on Russian defence-industry papers says Moscow agreed to supply Tehran with launchers for helicopter-fired guided missiles, and the disclosure landed a day after Vladimir Putin received Iran’s security chief with a letter from the Supreme Leader.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsSudan accuses Ethiopia of hosting RSF drone launches as both neighbours shut each other's consulates
Khartoum says 187 one-way drones flew from Ethiopian soil between February and October, killing and wounding hundreds; Addis Ababa denies the charge and accuses Sudan of backing Tigray rebels, and both capitals have now expelled each other's diplomats.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsMorocco pledges the Sahara ceasefire stands after MINURSO — and takes charge of the mission’s withdrawal
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired a 4 November working session at the Rabat Royal Palace that turned the end of the UN mission into an operational plan: the ceasefire becomes a voluntary Moroccan commitment, the Interior Ministry coordinates the withdrawal, and development in the Southern Provinces goes on.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsRabat seals the post-MINURSO era: parliament declares a new phase as the UN counts down the withdrawal
Two days after the 35-year mission's mandate expired, Morocco's two parliamentary chambers — echoing the Royal Office's October 30 statement — framed the non-renewal as the definitive turn in the Moroccan Sahara file, while Algiers voiced deep regret, the Polisario expressed concern, and the UN published the withdrawal's first numbers: about 160 observers, 180 civilians, 13 sites.
NewsGuterres warns of escalation as MINURSO enters liquidation: the 35-year mission's final phase begins
In a six-paragraph statement from New York, the UN Secretary-General confirmed the end of the 35-year-old MINURSO mission, warned of escalation risk in the Moroccan Sahara, and announced that November 1 marks the start of its liquidation — an orderly dismantling that mirrors Rabat's own demands.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsFrom Rabat to Benghazi: Morocco and Libya's intelligence chiefs open a new security track
A high-level meeting in Benghazi, co-chaired by Morocco's intelligence chief and his Libyan counterpart under a United Nations umbrella, caps a week of fast-moving contacts between Rabat and eastern Libya — and tests whether intelligence cooperation can become a durable channel.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsAlone in Gaza: Mahmoud Khalla, 39 Graves, and a War That Never Quite Ended
Nearly three years after an Israeli strike destroyed his family's five-storey home in Jabalia, killing 39 of his relatives, Mahmoud Khalla has finally buried them — by hand, over three months.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsThe new space race: Artemis, Starship, and the Moon
Artemis and Starship, China and the Moon, and a crowded commercial space race. What each program has actually flown, and what remains unproved.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsNuclear revival: power plants, weapons, and the atom's second age
Nuclear power is back as low-carbon electricity and nuclear weapons are back in strategy. Why both revivals are happening at once, and what separates them.
NewsMyanmar: the civil war the world forgot
Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar is a patchwork of war zones and resistance armies. Why the conflict endures, and why the world looks away.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsIsraeli drone strike wounds six in Lebanon near Syrian border
An Israeli drone strike on a car in Lebanon's Hermel district wounded six people — five Syrians and one Lebanese — near the Syrian border.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a synagogue
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more months — with an election clock already ticking
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's breadbasket region, and with the country's first elections in a decade set for December 13.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now catching fire.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
The empire with elections: the dollar, the fleet, and the vote that shakes eight billion people every four years.
No 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsScott 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsZohran 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.
NewsUN 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsKennedy 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsSupreme 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.
NewsWall Street rallies as oil slide cools inflation fears while Nvidia slumps
The Dow jumped 2.15 percent, the S&P 500 posted its strongest session since April and every sector rose on Monday — but Nvidia, the world’s second most valuable company, fell 4.3 percent as its board opened an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
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NewsDemocrats 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsThe pardon trap: why exposing Trump's corporate allies could protect them
Democrats won both chambers of Congress on 3 November, and the expectation is that they will use their new oversight powers to investigate the corporate allies of Donald Trump.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsTrump names Stephen Miller chief of staff as Susie Wiles steps aside after the midterm rout
Three days after Republicans lost control of Congress, the president replaced the woman who ran his White House with the architect of his hardline immigration agenda — and the message from the West Wing is that nothing about the governing approach will change.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsJudge blocks Trump's arch within an hour of its approval
The National Capital Planning Commission voted 8-4 late on Thursday to approve the 76-metre monument at Memorial Circle. Within the hour, a federal judge barred any construction for 14 days.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
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NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsTop US civil rights official resigns in first departure since the Democrats retook Congress
Harmeet Dhillon, who remade the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in eighteen months, is out two days after the midterm elections — and the new Democratic Congress is already lining up the questions she will have to answer.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsMorocco exits the World Bank’s top 10 borrowers as lending falls to its lowest since 2020
Approvals of $1.15 billion in fiscal 2026 are down 35% on the year before, ending six straight years in the IBRD’s top 10 — even as the Bank’s lending worldwide rose by nearly a quarter.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsAmerica votes: Democratic breakthroughs land as the 2026 midterms count goes on
Roy Cooper flips North Carolina, James Talarico takes Texas and Jon Ossoff holds Georgia in the first called races — a Democratic surge is taking shape while control of Congress is still being counted.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsKeisha Lance Bottoms wins Georgia, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state
The former Atlanta mayor defeated billionaire Republican Rick Jackson on November 3, returning Georgia's governor's office to Democrats after more than two decades and giving the party a second landmark win in the state on midterm night.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Michigan Democrat endorsed the Republican
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary, announced on Sunday she was backing Republican Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate — a cross-party defection that has turned America's premier Senate battleground into a public referendum on the Democratic Party itself.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsTrump's approval sits at 32% on the eve of the midterms: what the final Reuters/Ipsos poll really says
The last national reading before Americans vote puts Trump's approval at 32%, gives Democrats a 46–38 edge on the generic congressional ballot, and makes the cost of living the issue that will decide Tuesday.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsKabul asks Washington to act responsibly as 150 Afghans face deportation
The Taliban foreign ministry offered to engage constructively with the United States over deportations routed through Pakistan, warning third countries not to use deportees as bargaining chips.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsAt least 19 dead as Venezuela bombs an ELN camp: Caracas turns its guns on its old guerrilla ally
The October 30 drone-and-helicopter strike on a National Liberation Army camp in Apure is the first time Caracas has bombed the ELN — a doctrine reversal that FundaRedes, an anonymous military source and regional outlets all trace to Washington's new grip on Venezuelan security policy.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Week Nobody Won
The Editor-in-Chief's weekly column
NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
NewsMamdani says Trump agreed to grant visa to mother of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx shooting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed, in a phone call, to grant an immediate visa to Doris Adu Gyamfi so she can travel from Ghana to say goodbye to her 15-year-old son, Javits Frimpong, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx on Thursday.
NewsJudge permanently ends Trump's $10bn Epstein letter lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed for the second time to plead actual malice against the Journal's reporting on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein — and this time the dismissal is with prejudice, so the case cannot be refiled.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
NewsCan Democrats win the Senate? Ten races that will decide it on Tuesday
Three days before the midterms, polls and prediction markets agree on one thing: the Republican majority is in genuine danger. From Alaska to Texas, here are the ten Senate battles that will decide control of Washington.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsThe 9th Circuit says no again: Trump loses a second bid to freeze 20,000 California ballots
Four days before the midterms, a 2-1 appeals panel — including a judge Trump himself appointed — ruled that freezing ballots on a disputed federal list would violate the Constitution and risk stripping lawful voters of their ballots.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsTrump cancels his Kansas and Iowa weekend rallies — and phones in the midterm homestretch
On Thursday, Donald Trump cancelled in-person weekend rallies in Salina, Kansas, and Dubuque, Iowa, replacing them with a run of virtual “tele-rallies” across at least 19 states — after four weeks, 25 rallies and a fraying voice, with five days left before the midterms decide Congress.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsWhy Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency
Five days before the November 3 midterms, the final polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in a Senate race that could decide control of the chamber — while Donald Trump's approval in the state sits at a record low.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsThe judge who was to try Maduro dies at 92: Alvin Hellerstein's three-decade bench
Alvin K. Hellerstein, the Manhattan federal judge presiding over the prosecution of Nicolás Maduro, died on Wednesday aged 92, leaving the most politically charged trial in America without its judge and a 1 June 2027 trial date suddenly in doubt.
NewsThe dust that could ground the first Mars walkers: Perseverance measures the finest grains yet
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA's Perseverance rover measured dust clinging to spacesuit samples in Jezero Crater — including ultrafine grains around 100 nanometres wide, small enough to reach deep into lungs.
NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
NewsUS strike kills five on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, taking the campaign's toll to 243
US Southern Command says a Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strike on a go-fast vessel on 27 October killed five people it calls 'narco-terrorists'.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsMachado comes home: Venezuela's Nobel laureate returns to Caracas after ten months in exile
Greeted by tens of thousands on an eight-hour road journey from Lara state, María Corina Machado walked back into a country reshaped without her — and into a transition process that, so far, has had no seat for her.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Second Round
The Editor-in-Chief's weekly column
NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were unsafe, as the Steelers and Saints prepare to meet at the Stade de France a day after fresh protests.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliUSMCA Was America’s Idea. Now America Wants a Refund.
Nearshoring & USMCA
NewsThe World Is Set to Breach 1.5°C: UNEP Declares Overshoot 'Imminent and Unavoidable'
The UN Environment Programme's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, released in Nairobi on 21 October, closes the era of 'no overshoot': holding 1.5°C without breaching it is no longer possible, and the only route home demands cuts the world has never made.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiHuawei’s Chairman Thanked America for Its Sanctions. He Wasn’t Being Sarcastic.
China’s industrial machine
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsTrump warns Kansans the US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win the midterms
At a Park City rally for embattled Senator Roger Marshall, Donald Trump turned France's worst unrest in years into a campaign warning — offering no evidence that a Democratic win would bring 'raging fires' to America.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsThe AI paradox: chip stocks crash as demand booms
Semiconductor stocks just suffered their worst week since 2008 — while TSMC posted a record profit and Big Tech kept spending. Inside the great AI repricing.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsRubio confirms Ukraine has no Starshield access as Kyiv seeks satellite edge for deep strikes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine asked Washington for access to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network to support deep strikes inside Russia — but Kyiv does not have it today, and the request is “under discussion.”
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsICC rejects US sanctions, says 'history will judge this moment'
A week after Washington blacklisted the court itself — the first such designation in history — The Hague answered with defiance: an assault on the rule of law, a vow to continue, and an ultimatum clock now ticking toward April 2027.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsMexico jails three men for 158 years each over the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their US friend
A judge in Baja California has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surf trip — closing one of the most internationally watched murder cases in recent Mexican history.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
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Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
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NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsUS Inflation Hits 3.7% in September as Gasoline Surge Chills Midterm Hopes
US inflation hit 3.7% in September — hotter than forecast — as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a month. Ahead of the midterms, the last economic test is failing the party in power.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsFinding cancer before it finds you: the quiet revolution in early detection
Most cancer deaths come not from untreatable biology but from late discovery.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsStock markets: how equity markets price the future
Shares are not a scoreboard for yesterday. They are a daily auction on tomorrow's cash flows — and that is why they so often seem to move for the "wrong" reasons.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsCrypto: beyond the casino, toward market infrastructure
The speculation was loud, leveraged and often ruinous. The quieter story — stablecoins, tokenisation and settlement rails — may be the one that lasts.
NewsBonds: the price of time and trust
A bond yield is the price of everything else. When it moves, mortgages, corporate borrowing, government budgets and stock valuations all move with it.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsBRICS expansion and the new power bloc
BRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsPope Leo XIV lung operation: what a week at Gemelli means for the papacy
The 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
NewsImmigration agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home at dawn Monday in a criminal immigration probe, three weeks before the midterms. She calls it political intimidation.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsTrump Attacks Nobel Committee After Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay: 'I Should Have Won 8'
In a late-night Truth Social tirade and a Syracuse rally, the US president called the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 'forever discredited,' claimed he deserved eight of them, and warned Norway: 'we will not forget.'
NewsDiesel diplomacy: Trump's Putin deal trades sanctions for pump prices
Three weeks after signing a law that threatened 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, Donald Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, lifting sanctions through April 2027 in a bid to cut fuel prices before the November midterms.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsPanama 7.7 earthquake: tsunami threat lifts as Mulino mobilizes the nation
A shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck near Pitaloza Arriba on Friday, triggering tsunami alerts across nine countries before the all-clear; dozens were hurt, none killed, and the canal never stopped.
NewsLisa Cook Faces White House Hearing as Trump Renews Push to Fire Fed Governor
President Trump has created a three-person committee to investigate mortgage-fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook, setting a closed White House hearing for November 5 in a renewed bid to remove her that the Supreme Court already blocked once.
NewsGold at $4,200: the Fed's hawks dig in as China stockpiles bullion
Gold broke above $4,200 as two Fed voices promised more rate hikes and China logged its 23rd straight month of gold buying.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsTrump Strikes Diesel Deal With Putin in Stunning Reversal on Russia
Russia will “immediately” supply 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, Trump said, as record fuel prices threaten Republicans weeks before the midterms.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsVance Bars Microsoft From Green-Card Pipeline in Visa Fraud Push
The vice president suspended Microsoft and six outsourcing giants from the green-card program, accusing them of replacing Americans with cheaper foreign workers, while nine universities face fraud probes over exchange visas.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
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NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsTrump: win the House or brace for impeachment number three
Twenty-six days from the midterms, Donald Trump turned the threat of a third impeachment into his closing argument: keep Congress, he told supporters, or the Democrats will come for him on day one.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsDeisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics
The 2026 medicine prize honours the trio who gave neuroscience a light switch: light-gated ion channels from a pond alga that let researchers turn individual brain cells on and off. 12 million kronor shared three ways.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsGlobal Trade Keeps Defying the Tariff Wars, and Artificial Intelligence Is the Surprise Engine
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says goods trade grew 4.6 percent last year, nearly double the forecast, with AI driving 42 percent of growth — a resilience that startled even her economists.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsTrump ordered $20 million in taxpayer money for TV ads praising himself, the Times reports
Trump told budget chief Russell Vought to find the money "from within the government." The result: $20 million of homeland-security funds for TV ads glorifying the president.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsTrump Wants One New Question on Your Tax Return: Are You a Citizen?
A draft 1040 forces every taxpayer to certify citizenship or work authorization under penalty of law. Washington promises $2 billion saved. Critics see an immigration dragnet in a tax form.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
NewsSovereignty Day: Iraq Gives Its Militias Until June 2027 to Disarm — and the Militias Say No
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day,' set a June 30, 2027 deadline for all weapons outside state control, and buried the US-led coalition's decade-long mission.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsFamily of Renee Nicole Good Sues U.S. Government Over Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Nine months after a 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent, her family filed two federal lawsuits — one invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act — accusing senior Trump administration officials of orchestrating a discriminatory enforcement campaign.
NewsCleared by the Watchdog, Condemned by the President
The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no criminal misconduct in the $2.4 billion headquarters renovation — and Donald Trump demanded Jerome Powell's resignation anyway.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Barrels That Rule the World Are the Ones Never Pumped
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
News"I offered them NOTHING": Trump kills the Iran sanctions-relief story, oil jumps
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits after a year of rage in the streets
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries they have never seen
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is unlawful — and set December for the argument that decides it for good.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsThe Fed's October decision hangs on two data points
Citi says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsBeijing reaches for the levers: the counter-cyclical state goes to work
China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel.
NewsGates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'
On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient, and demanded government regulation — as Trump resists limits in the race with China.
NewsWashington weighs exporting the dollar as stablecoin to fund its own debt
The Trump administration is considering a cross-agency push — Treasury, State Department and the development finance arm — to promote dollar stablecoins abroad, turning private-sector token adoption into structural demand for US Treasuries.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export curbs.
Supreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsTrump Directed $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds to TV Ads Praising Himself, the Times Reports
Trump told budget director Russell Vought to find taxpayer money for TV spots praising him, launching a $20 million contract drawn from homeland security funds, the Times reported.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
Organized violence, disorganized consequences. The Bureau reports wars as logistics with body counts.
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.
NewsNo 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.
NewsICRC 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsRepublicans 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsPoland 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Week the Ballot Met the Missile
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News“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.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsEisenkot 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.
NewsWho is Jon Ossoff, the senator the betting markets already crown for 2028?
Georgia’s 39-year-old senator won a second term by 18 points in a state Donald Trump carried — and within 48 hours the prediction markets made him the favourite for the Democratic nomination in 2028, a race he insists he will not enter.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
News250 Palestinian couples marry in mass wedding in Gaza, three years into the war
The “Garment of Joy” ceremony at Gaza City’s Sea Club united 250 couples chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants, as the UAE-backed relief operation behind it marked three years of aid to the territory.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsHoax bomb threats force European flights to divert for a second time this week
At least 21 aircraft were targeted on Thursday, with fighter jets escorting airliners to the ground from Normandy to Bulgaria — and no explosive device has been found on any plane.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsOhio’s voters tell Republicans: don’t take us for granted
In the state Donald Trump carried by 11 points two years ago, Ohioans handed Democrats the governor’s mansion and a U.S. Senate seat on 3 November, blaming the president for $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, expensive groceries, soaring electric bills and the war in Iran — and turned America’s most-watched bellwether into a warning shot for 2028.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsAmerica votes: Democratic breakthroughs land as the 2026 midterms count goes on
Roy Cooper flips North Carolina, James Talarico takes Texas and Jon Ossoff holds Georgia in the first called races — a Democratic surge is taking shape while control of Congress is still being counted.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsTrump fatigue, the cost of living and corruption: what the AP-NORC poll reveals about the 2026 midterms
As polls opened on 3 November, a mid-October survey by the AP-NORC Center showed 85% of voters ranking the economy and 84% the cost of living as top issues — with corruption and institutional mistrust running just behind.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsIndonesia names 13 suspects in trafficking ring that lured 58 citizens to Russia as mercenaries
A Jakarta press conference pulled back the curtain on a five-report human-trafficking investigation: job posts for logistics and border security work, a flight to Russia, and contracts to fight in a foreign war.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsKing Abdullah vows to confront the Karak 'terrorists' as the throne speech turns to war and water
Opening parliament's new session, Jordan's king called the church attackers 'khawarej' who 'are not of us', asked lawmakers to stand for the nine dead — and warned that Israeli expansionism is the region's greatest threat.
NewsRyanair weighs staff pay freezes as a €2bn fuel shock threatens Europe's cheapest fares
Europe's biggest airline says it may freeze workers' pay, cut crewing ratios and lean on AI as the Middle East war doubles its unhedged fuel costs — and warns fares will rise sharply next year.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Democratic star goes down: what Chris Murphy's stroke means for the Senate's final sprint
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is hospitalized at Johns Hopkins, “awake and alert” and responding well, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
Opinion · Younesse BouzianiThe Week Nobody Won
The Editor-in-Chief's weekly column
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsTrump says U.S. still has 'one or two targets' to take care of in Iran — and names Pickaxe Mountain
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday, Donald Trump said America had 'knocked out' Iran's nuclear programme but still had 'one or two sites' left to handle 'in 10 minutes' — even as he insisted negotiations to end the eight-month war were 'going fine' and that he was 'not in a hurry' for new strikes.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsDC and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch days before groundbreaking
The District of Columbia and Virginia call the 250-foot monument near Arlington National Cemetery "flagrantly unlawful" and ask a federal court to stop construction before it starts — the third lawsuit in nine months, and the decisive one.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsEthiopia's Oromia killings: 60 Orthodox Christians dead, bishops demand protection
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says 60 worshippers were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in the Arsi Zone of Oromia — 14 in Merti district, 46 in Shirka — as the regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army, the rebels deny it, and no one has been held to account.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsBritain sanctions fifteen Sudanese commanders over weaponised rape in Sudan's war
A year after El Fasher fell, London designates commanders from both armies, freezes their assets and bans their travel — and pairs the list with £15 million for survivors and humanitarian relief.
NewsUN inquiry says Gaza ceasefire has not stopped genocide, and accuses Israel of extermination in the West Bank
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says Israel is continuing genocidal acts in Gaza a year after the October 2025 ceasefire, and that Israeli forces have committed extermination and other crimes against humanity in the West Bank.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsDakar Rally 2027 leaves Saudi Arabia as regional conflict redraws the sporting calendar
Amaury Sport Organisation and the Saudi Motorsport Company have moved the January race out of the kingdom, calling the decision exceptional and one-off, while the wider Gulf sporting calendar unravels around it — and the race's new home is still unannounced.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
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NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsStrike on Gaza university kills three staff as a year-old truce frays
An Israeli drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three university employees and wounded eight people on Sunday, 25 October 2026, while further strikes across the territory took more lives the same day — the latest breach in a truce that has held for more than a year without ever fully stopping the killing.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsTwo days before Israel votes, no bloc can reach 61 — so the parties that rule each other out may decide who governs
Israelis elect all 120 Knesset seats on Tuesday 27 October, the first vote since the 7 October 2023 attacks.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsNetanyahu Orders West Bank Closure, Warns of Operation 'Unseen Since 1967' After Two Soldiers Killed Near Hebron
Two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday morning, killing two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsTear Gas in Tunis: Rare Capital Unrest Puts Saied's Tunisia Back on the Edge
Police fired tear gas in a Tunis suburb and clashed with protesters in two southern towns after disputed deaths in custody — the sharpest unrest in the capital in years, as Tunisia's economic, social and political crisis deepens.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsTürkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia sign ‘Badr’ defence-industry pact in Doha
The four countries signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding in Doha on 21 October 2026, pledging joint defence production, research and training — the latest brick in a fast-changing Middle Eastern security architecture.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsThe human cost of America's surging air war in Somalia
Nearly a year after a November 2025 offensive shattered the town of Jamaame, survivors are still living with shrapnel, paralysis and unanswered questions — as US air strikes in Somalia run at nearly four times the Biden-era pace and AFRICOM's own review clears the military of civilian harm.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsKyiv pushes back as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president, while drones shut down a Yandex data centre
Donald Trump said on October 10 it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsPakistan's top commander warns any 'miscalculation' will draw a response 'beyond imagination' after Rajnath Singh's threat
Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, commander of Pakistan's National Strategic Command, used the passing-out parade at Kakul to answer India's defence minister — who had warned that any future terror attack from Pakistan would draw an even “stronger response”.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsAlone in Gaza: Mahmoud Khalla, 39 Graves, and a War That Never Quite Ended
Nearly three years after an Israeli strike destroyed his family's five-storey home in Jabalia, killing 39 of his relatives, Mahmoud Khalla has finally buried them — by hand, over three months.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
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NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsKabila joins M23 to launch Front for the Refoundation of the Nation in Goma
Ex-DRC president Joseph Kabila now leads a new politico-military alliance with the Rwanda-backed M23, unveiled in Goma — a gamble that could unite the opposition or deepen the war.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsStarlink speed cap cripples Ukraine's drone missions as Kyiv-Washington ties fray
SpaceX capped the military Starlink terminals guiding Ukraine's drones at 160 km/h without warning — and Kyiv's rupture with Washington turned a technical limit into a political crisis.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsMyanmar: the civil war the world forgot
Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar is a patchwork of war zones and resistance armies. Why the conflict endures, and why the world looks away.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsIMF: Global Growth Holds at 3.1%, but 'Resilience Is Reaching Its Limits'
At the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning tilt the risks to the downside.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsSouth Lebanon olive harvest killings: two men dead in Bint Jbeil district
An engineer home from Beirut died on an unexploded shell in Froun; hours later, Israeli tank fire killed a farmer inspecting his trees in Yater — and the harvest was called off.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsIran Offers to Broker Saudi–Houthi Dialogue After Deadly Airport Strikes
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his Saudi counterpart that the region’s crises have no military solution and offered Tehran’s help to open talks between Riyadh and Yemen’s Houthis, days after a strike on Riyadh’s airport killed 12 people and wounded 300.
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NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes Continue Despite June Ceasefire
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsBangkok braces as 18,000 delegates arrive for IMF–World Bank meetings under the shadow of the Iran war
IMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsFear and Uncertainty in Sanaa as Yemen's Capital Comes Under Attack
Operation Dawn of Yemen has brought air strikes back to a capital mostly spared since the 2023 truce — and civilians are bracing for a war they thought was behind them.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
News10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 24-Year High at 5.36% — Wednesday's CPI Decides Next
The bond market just re-priced the world: 5.36% on the 10-year, a 24-year high. Wednesday's U.S. CPI decides whether that was the warning or the warm-up.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsTrump Attacks Nobel Committee After Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay: 'I Should Have Won 8'
In a late-night Truth Social tirade and a Syracuse rally, the US president called the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 'forever discredited,' claimed he deserved eight of them, and warned Norway: 'we will not forget.'
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsThree Years After October 7, a Prolonged War Takes Its Toll on Israelis
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, one in five Israelis reports severe difficulty with daily life, and child psychiatric emergency visits have more than doubled.
NewsRiyadh Bets on 12.8% Growth After the War-Year Slump
Saudi Arabia's Finance Ministry projects a SAR 191 billion deficit in 2027 and 12.8 percent growth, after a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
NewsTurkey warns Russia and Ukraine are racing to lock in advantage in the Black Sea before winter, and grain shipping is paying the price
Ankara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsEthiopian drones hit Eritrean troops inside Tigray as an incursion drags the Horn toward open war
Drone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Africa toward open war.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsThree years after October 7: Gaza in ruins, 74,250 dead, and a ceasefire in name only
Three years after the October 7 attacks, Gaza's health ministry puts the toll at 74,250 dead and 175,278 injured.
NewsZelensky Condemns 'Vile' Russian Barrage That Killed 20 Across Ukraine, Flattening Pryluky Apartment Block
At least 20 people, including four children in Pryluky, died in an overnight Russian missile and drone assault of about 70 missiles and 130 drones.
NewsSkydance is born: Paramount seals the $110 billion Warner Bros takeover
After an eight-month bidding war, lawsuits and regulatory reviews across nearly 70 jurisdictions, the biggest media merger in years is done.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsTwo fronts, one barrel: Houthi strikes and a Gulf storm push Brent past $101
Missiles over Saudi airports and a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico hit the oil market on the same day. The price of insurance is going up.
NewsHouthis and Saudi-led forces both claim victory as Yemen's war rages on
Saudi Arabia said two southern airports were struck on Monday evening, wounding three people, while Saudi-led government forces launched air strikes in Yemen and claimed the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsAustralia's A$422bn resource peak: gold overtakes LNG as iron ore's reign ebbs
Canberra forecasts a record A$422 billion from resource exports this year — built on war-inflated energy prices and US$4,600 gold — just as iron ore begins its long slide.
NewsIsrael's €3B 'Achilles Shield' for Greece is really about Eastern Mediterranean gas and power
Thirty-six days after Athens signed the largest defense export in Greek-Israeli history, a reading lands: the missiles are the insurance policy on the Eastern Mediterranean's energy grid.
NewsThree wounded as Saudi airports hit in Houthi-claimed attacks on the south
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz airport in Jazan and Najran airport were struck on Monday evening — three people wounded, facilities damaged.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsRial in Freefall as Oil Minister Quits: Iran's Hardliners Finally Admit the Crisis Is Real
As the rial sank to a record low and the oil minister resigned on Sunday, Iran's security establishment admitted the country is enduring one of the hardest economic periods in its history.
NewsYemen's government launches all-out offensive to retake the country from the Houthis
Al-Alimi announced a military campaign to recapture every Houthi-held area of Yemen, days after the Houthis claimed a missile and drone strike on an Aramco refinery in Riyadh.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsGold gains as October Fed rate-hike bets fade on soft US jobs data
Softer US jobs data has crushed bets on an October Fed rate hike to about 22 percent, lifting gold and giving emerging-market currencies brief relief.
NewsIreland again refuse Israel handshake and don armbands in 1-1 Nations League draw
A late Israeli equaliser in Bačka Topola closed an ill-tempered double-header in which Ireland's players turned football into protest — and the fallout now reaches Euro 2028.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
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NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High — Import-Dependent Nations Will Pay the Bill First, FAO Says
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsNobel Peace Undone: Eritrea Severs All Ties as Ethiopia Shuts Its Asmara Embassy, Expels Ten Diplomats
Addis Ababa shuttered its mission and ordered ten Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours; Asmara answered by severing all ties, dragging Cairo into the rupture as Tigray fighting escalates.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsMekelle Falls: Federal Forces Retake Tigray Capital Airport as War Reignites
Ethiopian troops have seized Alula Aba Nega Airport, reversing the TPLF's September takeover — while downstream Egypt watches a newly completed Nile dam and a neighbour sliding back toward war.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsPutin Praises Modi's 'Very Good Ideas' on Ukraine — and Refuses Any Pause in Strikes
At Valdai, Putin lauded Modi's peace ideas — then claimed record September gains, demanded Ukrainian neutrality, and said 'no' to halting Black Sea strikes.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsYemen's Army Claims 474 Strikes and 1,540 Houthi Casualties as Red Sea Front Escalates
The government announced its biggest single-day claim of the war — 474 operations, 1,540 Houthi fighters killed or wounded — as fighting concentrated in Taiz and missiles flew toward Saudi Arabia.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsHegseth's Drone Army Gets Its Own Command
At Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning table.
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a synagogue
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as the CDU is routed on right and left
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's history.
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to Bangkok to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Korean Peninsula.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow Presses Its Air Assault
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh Reroutes Around the War
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
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NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as Beijing promises more aid
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsThe RBA joins the hawks: a fourth 2026 hike takes Australia to 4.60%
Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possibly not done.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
NewsCook's warning: oil and AI are the two horsemen of America's next inflation
Fed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three years.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now catching fire.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
NewsThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsTrump expects Iran talks this week — after killing the truce offer
Donald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as leverage: Iran is weakening, so Washington can wait.
The coming currency: rivers, aquifers, and the dams that turn geography into leverage.
BDS 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsBourita 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.
NewsPortugal 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.
News‘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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsGaza's broken drains leave 350,000 people under water as the first winter storm hits
Seventy thousand tents flooded in twelve hours.
NewsHow 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.
News‘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.
NewsSupreme 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.
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NewsRain floods 70,000 tents in Gaza as the first winter storm hits the camps
Within twelve hours, the season's first storm flooded about 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across Gaza, according to the territory's Government Media Office, while civil defence crews answered 1,500 distress calls and hospitals braced for a wave of illness.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsNigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar's presidential nomination ten weeks before the vote
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the opposition ADC's leadership and annulled the primary that chose Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate, throwing Nigeria's January election into legal uncertainty — and the party says it will fight the ruling all the way to the Court of Appeal.
NewsSchool bus crashes in eastern France, killing two and injuring 16
An intercity bus carrying 43 people, including 15 children on their way to school, left the road near Lent in the Ain department on Friday morning and struck a tree, killing a young girl and an 18-year-old man, while prosecutors opened a road-homicide investigation.
NewsGaza turns discarded cooking pots into seawalls
Displaced families on Gaza's coast are filling broken cooking pots with soil and stacking them into makeshift seawalls, as winter approaches and shelter supplies remain blocked at the crossings.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
NewsSouth Africans vote in municipal elections that could end the ANC's era of dominance
A record 29.2 million voters cast ballots on November 4 in South Africa's local elections — a verdict on the ANC's stewardship of cities buckling under water failures, power cuts and crime, with Johannesburg the biggest prize and more than a hundred councils likely headed for coalition rule.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsPakistan's 'fuel of the poor' soars 56% as the Iranian border shuts
LPG prices in Pakistan have jumped more than half in two weeks after two Iranian border crossings closed, halting the supply line that feeds most of the country's cooking gas — and the rickshaw drivers who run their three-wheelers on it.
NewsEl Niño threatens South Africa's crops, but a record maize harvest cushions the blow
The Crop Estimates Committee has put the 2025–26 maize crop at a record 17.7 million tonnes as farmers begin planting into what forecasters call one of the strongest El Niño events in living memory.
NewsKing Abdullah vows to confront the Karak 'terrorists' as the throne speech turns to war and water
Opening parliament's new session, Jordan's king called the church attackers 'khawarej' who 'are not of us', asked lawmakers to stand for the nine dead — and warned that Israeli expansionism is the region's greatest threat.
NewsThree years later, the sewer still fouling humanity's cradle — and voters get their say on Wednesday
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa is still being treated as a latrine. Two days before the municipal polls, Mogale City's collapsed waterworks have become the measure of local government failure.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
NewsTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsSmoke from wildfires killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September: report
A report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), released October 29, estimates 3,560 deaths from fire smoke in September — double August's toll.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
News'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday.
NewsA fourth winter in tents: Gaza's displaced families brace for wind, rain and floods
On a beach camp in western Gaza City, families are patching torn tarpaulins before the storms arrive.
NewsKilled while livestreaming: the blogger who exposed Mozambique's toxic chromium corridor
Forbidden Stories' investigation links law enforcement to the death of Albino Sibia, known as Mano Shottas, shot while filming a protest over chromium trucks in Ressano Garcia — and finds the dumping he documented still going on.
NewsDry city: four days, four protests as Johannesburg residents take to the streets over water cuts
A five-day outage at a home for disabled residents, a protest outside Brixton Police Station and three more marches planned this week: Johannesburg's water crisis has moved from the tap to the street, eight days before municipal elections.
NewsAt least 62 killed in attack on Binnari village in Taraba State
Gunmen burned homes, shops and food stocks in a remote Taraba community on Friday, drove residents toward the Benue River, and left thousands displaced. The toll, already revised up from 50, is still not final.
NewsThe plant-based coffee cup that still needs a factory to disappear
South African scientists can turn sugar-cane waste into a cup that breaks down — but only if it reaches an industrial composter.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsA very strong El Niño, a dry season ahead: southern Africa braces for a harder 2027
A very strong El Niño is gathering over the Pacific, and the forecasts point to a dry southern African summer.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsMorocco closes its 2026 cattle quota at 300,000 head — and Brazil supplied more than nine in ten
The Agriculture Ministry says the duty-free quota for live cattle for slaughter is exhausted, counting animals already imported and those covered by exemptions still in force. Suppliers were told on 15 October.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsHelen Haines now 'serious but stable' as Australia confronts its political-violence question
Five days after a driver allegedly rammed her outside her Wangaratta electorate office, the independent MP's condition has improved from critical — the first encouraging news in a case that has forced Australia to reckon with rising threats against its elected officials.
NewsAbidjan Backs Rabat: African Development Bank Approves $487 Million for Morocco's Reforms and Climate Resilience
The African Development Bank's board approved the $487 million package on Wednesday, the third phase of its programme to strengthen economic governance and climate resilience in Morocco — a vote of confidence in the Kingdom's reform momentum at a moment when energy and climate shocks are squeezing budgets across Africa.
NewsHelen Haines Loses Both Legs in Targeted Wangaratta Car Attack as Suspect Appears in Court
The independent MP for Indi, 65, underwent a second amputation on Wednesday after Monday's deliberate ramming outside her electorate office; 43-year-old Brendan Nugent faced three charges in a Wangaratta courtroom as police weigh attempted-murder charges — and Australia confronts political violence.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsThree Weeks Without Chlorine: How Bronkhorstspruit’s Tap Water Sickened 408 People
Unchlorinated water, a sewage-polluted river and a city that failed to warn: the anatomy of Tshwane’s water crisis — and what it says about South Africa’s constitutional promise.
NewsOlivia Lum and five co-accused will not testify as the Hyflux trial moves to its defence phase
On October 21, 2026, the six accused in Singapore's landmark Hyflux trial declined to argue there was "no case to answer" and told the court none of them will take the stand.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsThe U-turn that made it an attack: Albanese says Haines driver turned back deliberately
Australia's prime minister says the car that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office performed a U-turn before striking her — 'a deliberate act,' he told ABC News — as counter-terrorism investigators join the case and the 43-year-old suspect faces a mental-health assessment before any police interview.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsZelenskyy says Ukraine got no early warning as Russia hits the power grid again
Sixteen ballistic missiles in waves at Kyiv and more than 200 drones across Ukraine damaged energy facilities in 11 regions and cut power to at least 550,000 households overnight — and Kyiv says its partners sent no warning before the first strike, opening a public rupture with Washington over intelligence, interceptors and sanctions relief for Moscow.
Opinion · Dounia FilaliThey Arrest the Driver. They Never Arrest the Man Who Owns the Truck.
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NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsKing Mohammed VI chairs Council of Ministers, setting Morocco's 2027 budget course
A day after the El Mansouri government's swearing-in, His Majesty the King presided over the Council of Ministers in Rabat, adopting the 2027 finance bill's guidelines: 4.7% growth, 0.7% inflation, five priorities.
NewsTunis rises: thousands march against Kais Saied in the biggest protest in years
Led by the UGTT union, thousands filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue on October 17, 2026, in the largest demonstration against President Kais Saied in years.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsThailand Floods Sacrifice Villages to Protect Bangkok as Waters Rise
Thai defences steer floodwater away from Bangkok into riverside villages, where families on stilts flood for a sixth straight year. The capital stays dry. The villages pay.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsThe Second Orbital Economy: Space Stops Being a Project and Becomes Infrastructure
Launch is cheap, orbit is crowded, and the Moon has a queue. Space is no longer exploration. It is logistics, law and leverage.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsGoing back to stay: the Moon, Mars and the economy growing up around orbit
The new space age is not a repeat of Apollo. It is cheaper rockets, private landers, lunar ice mines on drawing boards, and telescopes reading the chemistry of alien skies.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsThe Defender's Dilemma: AI Is Now on Both Sides of Every Cyberattack
Attackers automate discovery, defenders automate response, and the gap between breach and damage collapses to minutes.
NewsCOP and the stakes of the climate summits
The COP summits produced Paris, a loss and damage fund and a new finance goal. This explainer asks what the annual climate talks can still deliver.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsHurricane Simon and Storm Rachel Kill Five on Mexico's Pacific Coast
Five dead and dozens missing as Hurricane Simon churns off Mexico and storm Rachel floods Baja California — capping the most energetic Pacific hurricane season ever recorded.
NewsFormula 1 Signs 10-Year Rwanda Deal, Returning to Africa for First Time Since 1993
The African Grand Prix, presented by Visit Rwanda, will race on a new FIA Grade 1 circuit in Bugesera in the early 2030s — ending a three-decade absence and answering Lewis Hamilton's long-standing plea for the sport to return to the continent.
News139 migrants dead, 84 missing as overcrowded boat sinks between Djibouti and Yemen
An overcrowded boat carrying 305 migrants sank between Djibouti and Yemen on the night of October 8–9. At least 139 dead, 84 missing — one of the worst wrecks ever on the Eastern Route.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsJets Kill at Least 72 Gold Prospectors on Egypt-Sudan Border, Rights Group Says
Emergency Lawyers says warplanes struck artisanal mining camps in Sudan’s River Nile state on Saturday morning, in what would be one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians of the border mining wars.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsSingapore chokes through the world's dirtiest air as Indonesian peat fires threaten a hazy Formula 1 weekend
With AQI at 216 and the Marina Bay skyline reduced to a silhouette, Singapore faces its worst haze in years as a super El Nino feeds Indonesian peat fires and the night race looms.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsThree Years After October 7, a Prolonged War Takes Its Toll on Israelis
On the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, one in five Israelis reports severe difficulty with daily life, and child psychiatric emergency visits have more than doubled.
NewsHurricane Isaias Takes Aim at the Gulf Coast
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy rain ashore as early as Friday.
NewsTanker hit by multiple projectiles off Qatar's north coast as Hormuz attacks reach wartime high
UKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
NewsAfrica joins the data center backlash: South Africa's water, power and the cloud's real cost
South African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated.
NewsHas Russia's fuel crisis given Iranian oil an opening in Central Asia?
Ukraine's drone strikes have knocked out up to half of Russia's refining capacity, rationing fuel at home and drying up exports. Tajikistan is now importing Iranian oil and Kyrgyzstan wants a joint refinery with Tehran.
NewsNigeria ATR-42 crash: 32 killed as Air Force plane goes down in Ondo
All 32 aboard an Air Force ATR-42 died in the Igbokoda swamps on Monday; Tinubu declared three days of mourning as investigators face familiar questions about military flight safety.
NewsTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk off Bulgaria in first drone attack on its waters
Two ships were hit by air and sea drones about 112 kilometres off Byala on Tuesday — a Togo-flagged vessel sank with its crew missing; a grain ship's crew was rescued with two injured.
NewsZelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian drone strike on Turkish grain ship in the Black Sea
The Royad Mammadov, a Turkish-owned corn carrier sailing from Ukraine to Italy, caught fire and sank inside Romania's exclusive economic zone on Monday.
NewsSupreme Court weighs whether a Colorado county can make Big Oil pay for climate change damages
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 term with ExxonMobil and Suncor's bid to kill Boulder's climate lawsuit, a ruling that could decide the fate of nearly 60 similar suits nationwide.
NewsHormuz stays shut: Iran holds out for seven conditions as oil prices slip on G7 stock releases
Iran says Hormuz stays shut until seven June conditions are met — but Monday's oil markets shrugged: Brent slipped as G7 stock releases and rising Middle East exports eased supply fears.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsEV motion sickness is real: why silent cars turn stomachs and what automakers are doing about it
Drivers love electric cars, but some passengers get sick. Researchers have found why — regenerative braking, instant torque, and silence confuse the inner ear. From BYD to Xiaomi, automakers are now selling the fix.
NewsRare tornado whips through small Australian town, caught on camera
A rare tornado struck the NSW coastal town of Ulladulla on Saturday afternoon, stripping roofs, hurling boats from the harbour and downing powerlines as severe storms swept toward Sydney.
NewsSudan exodus surges 20-fold into Chad as half a million lose aid with funding gone
More than 400 Sudanese a day are crossing into Chad — twenty times the recent rate — while US funding cuts strip health, water and protection from nearly half a million people.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and Volgograd Burn
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't.
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus Warns the Polar Seas Are Being Remade
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on record.
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers furloughed as drought hits Indonesia's nickel belt
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an October return
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war on the thieves of the Delta
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is new.
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border: Cyprus and Israel race an October clock
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diplomacy.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices — but analysts doubt the cut is big enough to last.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth — the waterway Saudi Arabia now depends on to export oil while Hormuz burns.
NewsThe battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers
Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Washington counters with claims of record oil flow. Markets are left reading two different Hormuzes.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
InvestigationStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Washington, Brussels, Tokyo and the allies: the order's incumbents, defending a rulebook they wrote.
No 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.
NewsUK 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.
NewsICRC 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.
NewsEurope 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.
NewsAfrican 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.
NewsScott 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.
NewsStarshield 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.
NewsXi 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.
NewsRussia'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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsNvidia'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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsJudge rules Trump’s $10bn BBC defamation suit can proceed
A Florida judge let the defamation claim stand and threw out the trade-practices claim.
NewsZohran 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.
NewsJapan'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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsBessent 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBarrot 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.
NewsIBM 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.
NewsGermany’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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsIran 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.
NewsFrance 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.
NewsIraq 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.
NewsHelsing 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.
NewsGulf 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.
NewsNvidia 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsMyanmar 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.
NewsCongress 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsBank 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.
NewsThe 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.
NewsSupreme 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.
NewsFive US agencies sign one pact to take rogue drones out of the sky
The Transportation, War, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice departments agreed on Monday to test and deploy counter-drone systems on a single timetable, with the FAA saying it has already cleared more than 1,000 deployments with the Pentagon and Homeland Security.
NewsLecornu brings forward France’s minimum-wage rise to December — and the unions call it crumbs
The 1.6% rise to €1,502 a month, announced after a social conference at Matignon, is the first discretionary boost to the SMIC since 2012 — but the unions who demanded €100 to €150 say it changes almost nothing, and have called a new strike for 17 November.
NewsMore than 100,000 sign petition demanding inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza
The petition, launched on 23 October by Your Party's Jennifer Forbes, passed the threshold for a parliamentary debate on Monday — and puts the government under pressure to answer questions it has spent more than a year refusing.
NewsLecornu opens wage talks at Matignon as cost-of-living protests test his government
Sébastien Lecornu met unions and employers on Monday to discuss salaries and purchasing power, offering a minimum-wage rise to just over €1,500 a month — far below what unions demand — after weeks of strikes and marches across France.
NewsCOP31 opens in Antalya with leaders urging the world to “move faster” on climate
The UN climate summit opened in Türkiye on Monday with a blunt message from the UN’s climate chief — progress is “nowhere near fast enough” — as new UN data confirmed the 1.5°C limit will be overshot and 2026 heads for the record books.
NewsTrump says his deportation policy was ‘too tough’ for voters — and offers Democrats a deal
In his first television interview since Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, the president conceded that his immigration crackdown hurt his party, floated an agreement that would let long-settled workers stay, and then handed the White House to the man who designed the crackdown.
NewsMexico arrests “R2”, the alleged cartel commander linked to a mayor’s murder
Mexican marines captured Rafael “N”, alias “R2”, in Zapopan on Sunday, in an operation built on Mexican intelligence and information shared by the DEA.
NewsMerz to nominate Aigner as Germany’s first woman president
Friedrich Merz told Christian Democratic leaders on Sunday that he will put forward Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian parliament’s president, as Germany’s next head of state.
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NewsTens 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsGunman 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsUS sanctions eight Canadian money firms over Iran ties as crypto crackdown widens
The Treasury says the Ontario and British Columbia businesses swapped Iranian rials for digital assets, and a separate order cuts off the MEXC exchange over $16 billion in illicit flows.
NewsIran reviews Qatar’s bridge proposals as nuclear talks edge closer
Tehran is studying a Qatari plan for two days of trust-building measures — an end to the blockade on its ports and the release of frozen funds in exchange for inspectors at its bombed nuclear sites and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz — but it says it will not discuss its nuclear programme until Washington meets its conditions.
NewsUS urges China to honour Busan trade deal as rare-earth and farm deliveries lag
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Vice Premier He Lifeng that progress depends on concrete results, as Washington says Beijing has delivered only about two-thirds of its promised rare earths and farm purchases hinge on tariff cuts both sides have yet to implement.
NewsAI stocks bounce back after $2.5 trillion is wiped from the Nasdaq
Wall Street’s tech index rose on Friday after its worst day in nineteen months, as strong jobs data steadied nerves — but Seoul and Europe kept falling, and the question of whether the artificial intelligence buildout survives its first political test is still open.
NewsThe prosecutor behind Trump's “grand conspiracy” probe resigns as the Justice Department exodus widens
Jason Reding Quiñones, the Miami prosecutor who led the hunt for the officials behind the 2016 Russia investigation, has resigned — the third senior Justice Department departure in two days, and the clearest sign yet that the midterm rout is remaking the department from the top down.
NewsTrump, Xi and Putin could meet in Shenzhen — but Beijing has not said yes
China says it is in contact with Washington and Moscow about a meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on 18–19 November, the Kremlin says work is under way to arrange it, and the White House has not confirmed it — while Beijing insists Ukraine is not on the table.
NewsSchool bus crashes in eastern France, killing two and injuring 16
An intercity bus carrying 43 people, including 15 children on their way to school, left the road near Lent in the Ain department on Friday morning and struck a tree, killing a young girl and an 18-year-old man, while prosecutors opened a road-homicide investigation.
NewsMorocco marks the 51st Green March anniversary as the UN mission winds down
Morocco marked the 51st anniversary of the Green March in Laayoune on Friday, the first commemoration since the UN Security Council let the MINURSO peacekeeping mission lapse — a mission created in 1991 that never held the referendum it was built for.
NewsMacau jails former lawmaker Au Kam San for 12½ years in its first national security trial
Au Kam San, 69, co-organised the Tiananmen vigils that Macau once tolerated. On Friday, a court sitting behind closed doors made him the first person convicted under the territory's widened security laws.
NewsThe honeybadger's revenge: a sacked minister threatens a tourism boycott over South Africa's captive lions
Dion George says he will back the British campaign to ban trophy imports and urge tourists to stay away unless the environment minister signs the ban on new lion farms that parliament approved in March.
NewsSaudi coalition intercepts Houthi missile fired towards Medina
The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired towards the Medina region on Thursday, minutes after civil defence warned of danger near the Red Sea port of Yanbu — as the Houthis deny ever targeting the holy city.
NewsTürkiye's parliament ratifies the Mecca defence pact, binding Ankara to Riyadh and Islamabad
By 279 votes to 119, the Grand National Assembly has ratified the joint defence agreement signed in Mecca in August — a mutual-defence clause that now commits NATO's second-largest military to the side of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as Houthi attacks intensify.
NewsThree in four displaced people live in climate danger zones, UN refugee agency warns
Nearly 90 million refugees and displaced people live in countries highly exposed to drought, flood and extreme heat, a new UNHCR report finds days before COP31 — and the money meant to protect them barely reaches the front line.
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NewsGeneration Z and diversity redefine US politics in a night of historic firsts
A 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, a Muslim American takes a Senate seat, and a record five Black governors prepare to serve together — the 2026 midterms rewrote who America elects.
NewsPutin says countries blocking Russia’s return to world sport are violating democracy
A week after sport’s highest court ordered Russia back into international ice hockey, the Russian president accused the countries refusing to play his teams of breaking the law — and the standoff is now spreading from the rink to the visa office.
NewsAfter the blue wave, the question is whether the Democrats can deliver
The Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, flipping seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, and Vice-President JD Vance himself blamed the Iran war.
NewsChip selloff drags global stocks lower as AI spending doubts deepen
The Nasdaq slid more than 5 per cent and the chip index lost 11 per cent on Thursday, as weak Qualcomm earnings and the Democrats’ midterm sweep collided with the artificial-intelligence buildout that has carried the market for two years.
News“We want to make a dignified wage”: France strikes as hundreds of thousands march
Five unions, three more behind them, and a country that has been marching since September brought France to a standstill on Thursday, demanding higher pay, fairer taxes and better schools, six months before a presidential election.
News‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
A reconstructive surgeon who treated the wounded in Gaza won New Jersey’s 12th District on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim elected to Congress from the state — and one of eight Muslim Americans to win on a night when Democrats took both chambers.
NewsAmish Shah claims victory in Arizona, the first Indian-American to represent the state in Congress
Decision Desk HQ called Arizona’s First District for the Democrat at 8:39 p.m.
NewsFrance braces for a day of nationwide strikes as Macron’s authority faces a new test
Unions and students bring France to a standstill on Thursday, 5 November, in a dispute over living costs, public services and schooling that has become the sharpest test yet of Emmanuel Macron’s final months in office, with hundreds of thousands expected to march and 70,000 police on the streets.
NewsMelania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian envoys together at the White House after the Oleshky pause
The United States first lady will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday to mark a six-day humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky, a day after Ukraine honoured her for the evacuation, and days before the three sides meet again in Abu Dhabi.
NewsAn economy under pressure: how the cost of living decided the 2026 midterms
Democrats seized both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026 on a single promise — affordability.
NewsThe timeline took over: how social media processed the Democrats' takeover of Congress
Democrats seized the Senate and the House on 3 November 2026, and the night was narrated in real time by the principals themselves — Obama's post, Trump's war-blame, Musk's mockery, and Tehran's street celebrations all unfolding on the same feeds.
NewsIran says its mines destroyed four tankers in Hormuz — and nobody can prove it
The Revolutionary Guard claims four oil tankers struck its mines on a “prohibited” route south of the Strait of Hormuz and are still burning.
NewsThe young politicians with African roots making history in the US midterms
A 42-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants becomes the first Muslim in the US Senate, a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born lawyer becomes the first Gen Z woman in Congress, and a 32-year-old Ghanaian-American takes over Steny Hoyer's seat — three victories that say something new about who America elects.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsFrance backs Morocco's Southern Provinces ports with €100 million AFD financing
Rabat and Paris sealed a €100 million joint declaration on November 3 to develop the Southern Provinces' ports — a 13-year loan deepening France's bet on Morocco's Atlantic facade.
NewsAmerica votes: Democratic breakthroughs land as the 2026 midterms count goes on
Roy Cooper flips North Carolina, James Talarico takes Texas and Jon Ossoff holds Georgia in the first called races — a Democratic surge is taking shape while control of Congress is still being counted.
NewsThe blue wave hits Wall Street: AI data centers fall, renewables soar after the Democratic sweep
Democrats took both chambers of Congress on 3 November 2026, and the first trading session repriced two years of assumptions in a morning — data-center operators down, solar and wind up, and Asia's chip supply chain caught in the middle.
NewsThe NBA confirms US sanctions forced Rwanda’s army team out of the Basketball Africa League
For eight months nobody explained why the Armée Patriotique Rwandaise vanished from the 2026 Basketball Africa League.
NewsVonovia calls Berlin’s expropriation push the “wrong way to go” as its CEO warns the debate alone is driving capital out of Germany
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic told journalists that expropriating the apartments of Berlin’s biggest landlords would create “no additional housing”, calling the plan legally “highly questionable” and warning that the debate itself is eroding confidence in Germany as a business location.
NewsCanberra calls its teen social media ban “modest” as the High Court weighs the world’s first test
On Wednesday 4 November 2026, government lawyers told Australia’s seven-judge High Court that the world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts was a modest, justified curb on political expression — as Reddit and a civil-liberties group asked the judges to strike it down.
NewsA night of firsts: the 2026 midterms rewrite America's record books
The first Black woman elected governor of a US state, the first openly gay man elected to the Senate, the first Native American woman elected governor, the first Latina governor of Texas — and, per Decision Desk HQ, the first Muslim American in the Senate.
NewsTalarico flips Texas: Democrats take a U.S. Senate seat in the reddest big state for the first time since 1988
Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton in the most expensive nonpresidential race in American history, ending a 32-year Democratic drought in statewide Texas contests and putting the GOP's biggest stronghold in play for 2028.
NewsThe UN begins dismantling MINURSO as mission chief heads to Rabat for withdrawal talks
With the mandate expired on October 31, the United Nations is repatriating some 160 military observers and withdrawing 180 civilian staff from the Moroccan Southern Provinces, closing 13 sites in a phased, orderly operation — while mission chief Alexander Ivanko was expected in Rabat on Tuesday to coordinate the timetable with Moroccan authorities.
NewsDemocrats strike first: North Carolina flips as America counts the 2026 midterms
Jon Ossoff holds Georgia, Roy Cooper flips North Carolina and Chris Pappas wins New Hampshire in the first wave of called races, as a record early vote and anger over prices turn the midterms into a verdict on Donald Trump's second term.
NewsGreenland's Parliament Ratifies the Trump Security Deal, 16-0
The Inatsisartut approved the trilateral Arctic security agreement on Tuesday, clearing the way for two new American bases in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty. Denmark votes on November 19.
NewsZelenskyy warns in Berlin that America’s role may shrink as the US votes
On midterm election day, Ukraine’s president told the Berlin Security Conference that Washington may turn inward — and that Europe, with Germany at its head, must be ready to carry the weight.
NewsSenate sets November 10 hearing for Trump's FCC nominee as Disney license fight deepens
Danielle Thumann Severs, senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, faces the Senate Commerce Committee one week after the midterms — a vote that could hand Republicans a 3–1 commission majority.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Michigan Democrat endorsed the Republican
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary, announced on Sunday she was backing Republican Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate — a cross-party defection that has turned America's premier Senate battleground into a public referendum on the Democratic Party itself.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsSecret US strikes hit Iran's Qeshm Island as Hormuz war and talks collide
Explosions rocked Qeshm Island late on Monday as US officials described “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest in a campaign Washington kept quiet while touting a possible deal with Tehran on the eve of the midterms.
NewsTrump's approval sits at 32% on the eve of the midterms: what the final Reuters/Ipsos poll really says
The last national reading before Americans vote puts Trump's approval at 32%, gives Democrats a 46–38 edge on the generic congressional ballot, and makes the cost of living the issue that will decide Tuesday.
NewsThe $8 drop: oil plunges 7.6% as US–Iran talks hand the market a midterms-eve detente
Brent's biggest one-day fall since July came not from barrels but from words — a Vance letter, a two-day Hormuz plan, and a White House suddenly talking diplomacy ahead of Tuesday's midterms. The market believed.
NewsTrump moves to end South Africa’s duty-free US access: AGOA exit set for January 1, 2027
The United States Trade Representative announced that South Africa and Rwanda will lose AGOA benefits after the annual eligibility review found practices “inconsistent” with the programme’s criteria.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsKabul asks Washington to act responsibly as 150 Afghans face deportation
The Taliban foreign ministry offered to engage constructively with the United States over deportations routed through Pakistan, warning third countries not to use deportees as bargaining chips.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsAt least 19 dead as Venezuela bombs an ELN camp: Caracas turns its guns on its old guerrilla ally
The October 30 drone-and-helicopter strike on a National Liberation Army camp in Apure is the first time Caracas has bombed the ELN — a doctrine reversal that FundaRedes, an anonymous military source and regional outlets all trace to Washington's new grip on Venezuelan security policy.
NewsThe polls promise Democrats a big Tuesday. The polls have failed them before.
Every major forecast gives Democrats the House and a genuine shot at the Senate in Tuesday's midterms — but after Wisconsin, Michigan and the ghosts of 2016 and 2020, the polling industry's own credibility is on the ballot too.
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NewsCongress in the balance: a blue wave, a blue trickle, or chaos as usual?
With voting on Tuesday, November 3, Democrats are favored to retake the House and have a real shot at the Senate. The models say wave; the map says maybe.
NewsThe Iran war goes to the ballot box: how Tuesday's midterms became a referendum on eight months of conflict
Two days before Americans vote, polls show the war with Iran has fused with the cost-of-living crisis to become one of the campaign's defining issues — 75 percent of voters are deeply concerned, 57 percent oppose the war, and even Republicans are distancing themselves.
NewsIsrael election: with no bloc at 61, Herzog must name a government-maker by November 11
Final results leave Netanyahu at 53 seats and Eisenkot at 48, with the Arab parties’ record 19 seats holding the balance of power.
NewsDakar 2026: Africa's first Olympic Games begin as Senegal opens the Youth Olympics
On Saturday night at the Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games — ending more than 130 years of Olympic history without an African edition, before some 2,700 young athletes from 205 delegations.
NewsWhat we know about the Vance letter and the latest efforts to end the US-Iran war
Tehran says the tone in Washington has "completely changed" after a personal letter from Vice President JD Vance — while both capitals still dispute what the outreach was really about, and American war plans keep moving.
NewsAt midnight, the mandate lapsed: MINURSO stands down after 35 years in the Moroccan Sahara
At the stroke of midnight on November 1, the United Nations mission in the Moroccan Sahara lost its legal mandate — the first time in 35 years.
News139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal.
NewsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
NewsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
NewsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
NewsAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
NewsThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades.
NewsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
NewsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
NewsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31.
NewsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
News500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsThe 9th Circuit says no again: Trump loses a second bid to freeze 20,000 California ballots
Four days before the midterms, a 2-1 appeals panel — including a judge Trump himself appointed — ruled that freezing ballots on a disputed federal list would violate the Constitution and risk stripping lawful voters of their ballots.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsAI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who pays for it?
In one week, two of the three largest cloud companies signed twenty-year nuclear contracts — and the AI boom’s collision with the power grid became official.
NewsRubio hosts G20 ministers in Atlanta as Iran and Ukraine wars split the table
Two days, twenty delegations, no joint declaration on the horizon: the October 30–31 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta tests whether the G20 can still talk about the world economy while two wars, a shipping crisis, and an American election pull it apart.
NewsLavrov lands in Atlanta as the G20 tests whether diplomacy still outruns war
Russia's sanctioned foreign minister arrived in Atlanta on Friday for the two-day G20 foreign ministers' meeting, seating Lavrov opposite Marco Rubio for the first US-hosted G20 ministerial — with the Ukraine war, the US-Iran war, high oil prices, and a midterm election all pressing on the same room.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsNetanyahu finishes first, but governs nowhere: final Israel results leave him eight seats short
Israel's Central Elections Committee has published the final tally of the 2026 general election: 53 seats for the Netanyahu bloc, 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's opposition and a record 19 for Arab-led parties.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsTokyo core inflation holds above the BOJ's target as December hike bets lock in
Tokyo's core CPI rose 2.6% in October, matching forecasts and holding well above the Bank of Japan's 2% target — landing hours before a BOJ decision expected to keep rates at 1.25% while opening the door to a hike in December.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsSerbia's students won the election. Now comes the harder question: who governs?
The Student List took 141 of 250 seats and ended fourteen years of Aleksandar Vucic's rule, but the Republic Electoral Commission has yet to certify the final result, repeat voting is scheduled at some fifty polling stations, and no prime minister has been named.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
News'Real questions to be asked': Spain's rail network under investigation after its second deadly crash of the year
A Renfe AVE authorised to move against a red signal killed 69 near Toledo on Wednesday.
NewsECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term ends
Ending months of speculation, Christine Lagarde has told the Governing Council she will leave Frankfurt early — triggering the search for the next president of the European Central Bank at the moment the euro area can least afford a leadership vacuum.
NewsWhy Michigan could decide the future of Trump's presidency
Five days before the November 3 midterms, the final polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in a Senate race that could decide control of the chamber — while Donald Trump's approval in the state sits at a record low.
News68 dead as a Renfe AVE ploughs into a stopped Iryo near Toledo — Spain’s deadliest rail crash since 2013
A computer failure stopped the trains; a human decision restarted one of them.
NewsHello Kitty's spy crossover is dead: Sanrio cuts its VIVANT tie-up after China's fury
Sanrio's Chinese subsidiary apologised and terminated its merchandise collaboration with the TBS spy drama VIVANT, whose second season shows a fictional Chinese intelligence agency torturing Japanese spies — the second foreign brand in days forced to bow to Beijing's anger.
NewsFive days out, faith is the closing argument in Michigan
In Wyandotte, Abdul El-Sayed answered the attacks on his Muslim faith once more, five days before Michigan votes in a Senate race where religion, not policy, has become the final battleground.
NewsCanada and the EU drop the 'associate member' label — and keep the ambition
Ahead of the Montreal summit, the draft joint declaration replaces a legally undefined status with a promise of 'ever closer association', to be defined by the 2027 summit. The substance survives; the label does not.
News“I did not flee Brazil”: Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami and claims the presidency from exile
Three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, the defeated senator defied a Supreme Court order, crossed into Argentina by night and landed in Florida — where the United States granted him entry and he declared himself his country's rightful leader.
News“A real genius”: Putin salutes Musk as Russia’s Rassvet counts 31 satellites against Starlink’s thousands
At the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on 28 October 2026, Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as “a real genius” while his own minister presented Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink: more than 30 satellites in orbit against a fleet counted near 10,000 — and a promise to move “from quality to quantity”.
NewsHouse of Xandria: the Malawian couture house that put inclusion on the runway — now a Création Africa finalist
Eleven years after Xandria Kawanga sewed her first dress by hand at 18, her Lilongwe fashion house is one of 15 finalists in France's Création Africa programme — recognition built on couture, adaptive design and a runway that refuses to leave disabled designers out.
NewsAfrica's leaders gather in Moscow as Russia promises partnership — and critics warn of dependence
Forty-eight African countries are represented at the third Russia-Africa summit, which opens in Moscow on Wednesday.
NewsUAE President honours the flydubai crew who saved flight FZ1073 after the cockpit attack
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred the First Class Order of Zayed II on Captain Smit Machchhar and fellow flydubai crew members, with the medals presented by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at a presidential reception on Tuesday.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsMbappé loses two major China deals after Mao meme video circulates
Energy-drink maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu both ended their partnerships with Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after a video circulated online in which he appeared to joke about a meme of his face on Mao Zedong.
NewsOil eases as Tehran talks open, but attacks on Saudi Arabia keep Brent near six-month highs
Brent slipped to $115.15 on Tuesday after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran, yet renewed Houthi attacks on the kingdom kept the market pricing in a war that has not ended.
NewsThe overcapacity pact: fifteen economies, one unspoken target, and a test for middle powers
A commentary published in Singapore argues that middle powers still need Washington to confront Chinese export power.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsBritain sanctions fifteen Sudanese commanders over weaponised rape in Sudan's war
A year after El Fasher fell, London designates commanders from both armies, freezes their assets and bans their travel — and pairs the list with £15 million for survivors and humanitarian relief.
NewsMarine Le Pen launches her presidential bid in Orléans, promising a French 'renaissance' built on order
Before 8,500 supporters at her party's congress, the National Rally leader cast herself as the candidate who can restore authority to a France shaken by weeks of protest — and she leads every published poll, even as a graft conviction hangs over her candidacy.
NewsBank of Japan set for a hawkish pause — with December in its sights
The bank is expected to hold its rate at 1.25 per cent on Friday and to judge that underlying inflation has roughly reached its 2 per cent target, a symbolic end to a nearly 14-year fight — and the starting gun for a debate about a December rise.
NewsJapan’s firms start paying customers for cyberattacks — and the bill is only beginning
GMO Internet will pay every customer 5,000 yen after unauthorised access to its currency-trading service, and Park24 will pay 3,000 yen to 1.46 million car-sharing users whose identity documents were transmitted.
NewsAsian shares stall and Brent slips as oil's war premium meets a week of central banks
Brent eased from a six-month high on Monday as reports of Qatari mediators in Tehran cooled the fear premium, while Asian equities drifted lower into central-bank meetings and a hyperscaler earnings test.
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NewsZelenskyy says US ballistic-strike warnings have fully resumed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says United States warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes have been fully restored, and that SpaceX's Starshield service is running at full speed again after being throttled earlier in October.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
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NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsCan Mbappé's record-breaking season win the Ballon d'Or without a trophy?
The 70th Ballon d'Or is presented in London on Monday.
NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsRodgers Says the NFL Would Pull the Paris Game If It Were Unsafe — So the Game Goes On
Aaron Rodgers told reporters in Paris on Friday that the league would not be staging Sunday's first regular-season NFL game in France if the situation were unsafe, as the Steelers and Saints prepare to meet at the Stade de France a day after fresh protests.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsFire engulfs Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Bavaria as police detain a suspect
Flames swallowed the Kehlsteinhaus — the Alpine retreat known as the Eagle's Nest — late on Friday, as around 200 firefighters fought difficult terrain and Bavarian police detained a man near the scene while a criminal investigation into the blaze got under way.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
News‘Clearly a Terrorist Crime’: France’s Interior Minister Declares the Trappes Shooting a Racist Attack
Laurent Nuñez said Friday’s drive-by rampage through Trappes and La Verrière — one person killed, at least four wounded, a 12-year-old girl shot eight times — was ‘clearly a terrorist crime’ and ‘a racist, probably Islamophobic attack.’ The national anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, with an aggravating circumstance tied to the victims’ race, ethnicity or religion.
NewsOne Dead, Four Wounded in Drive-By Shooting Near Paris as Anti-Terror Prosecutors Take Over
A 39-year-old suspect opened fire from a car in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing one person and wounding four.
NewsEight Months After the February Strikes: The US-Iran War, Then and Now
Seven oil tankers were reportedly damaged or set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, as fears grow that US-Israeli strikes on Iran could resume.
NewsThe Vinyl Hunter of Abidjan: Cédric Kouamé's Race to Save Côte d'Ivoire's Musical Memory
France 24's Across Africa put its cameras on Cédric Kouamé this week — the Ivorian DJ crisscrossing the country to rescue 20th-century African vinyl from oblivion.
NewsThe Bank of Japan Warns: An AI Market Shock — or an AI-Driven Cyberattack — Could Spill Over to the Banks
The central bank's October Financial System Report keeps its "stable overall" headline, but for the first time it names AI as a transmission belt — through foreign shadow lenders funding the hyperscalers, and through AI-powered cyberattacks that keep spreading.
NewsAre Global Oil Reserves Enough to Survive a Renewed US-Iran War? Analysts Say the World Has 'a Month or Two'
Emergency stockpiles sit at multidecade lows after a record 400-million-barrel drawdown.
NewsForty-eight hours out: Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro meet in a final debate with Brazil's presidency on a knife's edge
Tonight on TV Globo the two finalists make their last direct case to a nation split 50-50.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsUS and Israel Draw Up Three-Day Strike Plan for Iran; Analyst Warns It ‘Would Not Radically Change the Conflict’
The United States and Israel have drawn up detailed plans for a short, intensive bombing campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported.
NewsCarney and Erdogan launch ‘strong and resilient’ Canada-Türkiye strategic partnership
In Ankara, the two leaders signed a three-year action plan covering trade, defence, energy and people-to-people ties — with a first target of lifting two-way trade from $3 billion to $5 billion, and a promise that the upgrade “will not remain only on paper”.
NewsTaiwan Probes Organised Crime's Role in China's 'Transnational Repression' After Comedian Attack
Taiwan's security chief told parliament that the local networks behind attacks on China critics are 'mostly criminal gangs' — and the urgent question now is whether Beijing directs and funds them.
NewsThe Date That Would Not Die: 17 October Binds the 1961 Paris Massacre to France’s New Uprising
Sixty-five years to the day after French police drowned Algerian demonstrators in the Seine, France commemorated the dead — and then watched a town hall burn.
NewsQatar and France Demand Hormuz Reopening and a Real Gaza Ceasefire
After two days of talks at Lusail Palace, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement calling for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “without constraints or fees” and the full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire — while Macron warned of “extreme caution” and said Iran's answer on diplomacy was expected “in the next hours or days.”
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NewsWall Street Rallies on AI Earnings as France's 10-Year Yield Breaks 5%
Super Micro and SpaceX steadied the AI trade on Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1 percent — while France's borrowing costs touched a 24-year high on budget turmoil and street unrest.
NewsThe World Is Set to Breach 1.5°C: UNEP Declares Overshoot 'Imminent and Unavoidable'
The UN Environment Programme's 2026 Emissions Gap Report, released in Nairobi on 21 October, closes the era of 'no overshoot': holding 1.5°C without breaching it is no longer possible, and the only route home demands cuts the world has never made.
NewsThe AI Boom Meets Its Reckoning: Protests in 50 Cities as Investors Question the $700 Billion Bet
A nationwide walkout, a tied vote in Memphis, a Pew warning and a trillion dollars wiped off AI stocks — the technology's loudest week yet raises one uncomfortable question: what if the money poured into the boom never comes back?
NewsShe Wants to Build the ‘LVMH of Africa’ — One Designer at a Time
Kirsten Leo’s LEO SZN, a Johannesburg fashion consultancy and Création Africa finalist backed by France’s cultural network, is betting that Africa’s fashion problem is not talent or capital — it is investment readiness.
NewsNew EU Envoy to South Africa: Flexible on BEE, Firm on Ukraine — and Betting Big on Pretoria
In a wide-ranging Daily Maverick interview, Kristian Schmidt, the EU’s new ambassador to South Africa, accepts the principle of black economic empowerment while pushing pragmatic flexibility, refuses to lecture Pretoria on Ukraine, and sketches a partnership moving from trade into peace and security — as Washington’s rupture with South Africa deepens.
NewsPatch Wednesday: EU Agency Says Websites May Have to Go Offline as PHP Races to Fix Two Critical Flaws
On October 20, 2026, PHP's security team pre-announced emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0, due Wednesday at 14:00 UTC — after details leaked early.
NewsThe Night the Belfry Fell: France Arrests Ultra-Left Suspect as Anti-Terror Police Join Limoges Arson Probe
French police arrested a 34-year-old ultra-left activist already on the fiche S watchlist in a dawn RAID raid at Val d'Issoire on Tuesday, naming him the principal suspect in the October 17 arson that destroyed Limoges's 1883 town hall — as the counter-terrorism sub-directorate takes up an investigation now testing the line between riot and insurrection.
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsSouth Korea's exports surge 105% in twenty October days on record chip sales
Preliminary customs data shows $61.6 billion of outbound shipments in the October 1–20 window — more than double a year earlier — with semiconductors alone accounting for nearly half, as the global AI build-out runs through Korean fabs.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsExiled Kagame Critic Robert Kabera Found Beheaded in Uganda
Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, a former Rwandan army sergeant major turned YouTube dissident, whose headless body was found near Kampala. His head is still missing.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsTrump warns Kansans the US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win the midterms
At a Park City rally for embattled Senator Roger Marshall, Donald Trump turned France's worst unrest in years into a campaign warning — offering no evidence that a Democratic win would bring 'raging fires' to America.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
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NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsFrance's riots, faked: the viral photos of a 'stripped' elderly couple were AI-made
Two synthetic images racked up millions of views, were shared by police unions and far-right accounts, and illustrated an assault that no authority has confirmed.
NewsTrump gives Netanyahu his ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ — and puts Iran on notice
Nine days before Israel’s October 27 election, Donald Trump ended months of ambiguity with a full-throated endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Tehran that unless it changes course ‘rapidly,’ Washington and its allies ‘will soon finish the job.’
NewsUkrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelenskyy adviser tells BBC
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is no longer reliably receiving American warnings of incoming Russian strikes — and suggested Washington may be using the disruption as leverage.
NewsLausanne Sets the Clock: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Verdict Due at End of November
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Monday it will deliver a full, reasoned award on Senegal's appeal against the decision to strip it of the AFCON 2025 title and crown Morocco — leaving Africa's most disputed football crown in limbo for several more weeks.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare crackdown after West Bank attacks on U.S. journalist and European diplomats
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under attack.
NewsMacron refuses Nunez's resignation as France reels from weekend of unrest
The French president rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to step down over the weekend's violent protests, acknowledging failures in intelligence and preparation while ordering new security methods.
NewsBTS's Arirang passes five billion Spotify streams — and the group just made 10 billion in a year
BigHit Music confirmed two milestones in 48 hours: Arirang is 2026's most-streamed album, and BTS is the first group ever to cross 10 billion Spotify streams in a single year.
NewsIran's new defence minister threatens 'enormous damage' if the U.S. strikes again
Parliament confirmed missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defence minister on Sunday — 237 votes to 15 — and within minutes he warned Washington that a renewed American attack would bring 'enormous damage' on the United States and its allies.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
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NewsWhy settler violence is surging during the West Bank olive harvest — and why Europe has had enough
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked why the army sat on distress calls for two hours.
NewsIran's parliament confirms missile-industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaqi as defence minister
Approved 237–15 in a wartime online session, the 68-year-old former missile-programme chief takes charge of rebuilding Iran's battered military-industrial base — and warns Washington its forces would leave the region “in a horizontal position” if it strikes again.
NewsOut-of-control truck kills at least 15 outside Hindu temple in Gwalior during Navratri
A paddy-laden truck broke through police barricades on a steep slope road restricted to heavy vehicles and ploughed into devotees outside the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at about 1:30am on Sunday; the toll climbed to at least 15 through the day with some 30 injured, and the chief minister removed a senior officer and suspended eight police personnel over the breach.
NewsParis records 855 arrests as France's cost-of-living marches spiral into worst unrest in years
A record 855 arrests in Paris, one demonstrator dead, up to 1,800 detained nationwide: Saturday's marches against the cost of living descended into looting and arson from Paris to Marseille, six months before France's presidential election.
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail the Settlers Who Nearly Killed an American Journalist
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days before Israel's election, and after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Palestinians or "far-left" activists might be to blame.
NewsBulgaria asks NATO for warplanes and anti-drone systems as Black Sea ship attacks escalate
Sofia formally requested NATO combat aircraft and anti-drone defences after October's drone campaign against civilian shipping; a day later, Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over the Black Sea.
NewsIran says two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said Saturday that two supertankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on routes Iran had not authorized — claims no independent source has confirmed.
NewsThree Indians killed in Bochum apartment fire; Romanian resident held on murder suspicion
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a residential building on Poststraße in Bochum’s Hofstede district on 13 October, killing three Indian nationals and injuring five.
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal violence’ after settlers beat a visiting French mayor
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor Bernard Baudoux and surrounded a European diplomatic convoy in the occupied West Bank.
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel or America? The aide accused of burying reports on nine dead Americans
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and Gaza aid — including a report on nine American citizens killed since 2022.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in the West Bank, beating a French mayor
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visited olive farmers.
NewsUS and Iran both claim control of the Strait of Hormuz as mine strikes and a burning supertanker deepen the fog of war
The IRGC says a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude struck a naval mine on an “unauthorised” route on Saturday; CENTCOM's Admiral Brad Cooper insists “the Strait of Hormuz is controlled by the United States and our regional partners, not Iran.” With UKMTO counting at least 12 attacks in a week and oil flows stuck at two-thirds of their pre-war level, the waterway now has two owners on paper — and none in practice.
NewsIran talks can only succeed ‘without threats’, Pezeshkian says, as Tehran deems US reply ‘insufficient’
Iran’s president told a Turkmenistan summit that dialogue works only ‘devoid of pressure and threat’, days before Tehran’s security chief rejected Washington’s answer to its seven-condition plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NewsICC rejects US sanctions, says 'history will judge this moment'
A week after Washington blacklisted the court itself — the first such designation in history — The Hague answered with defiance: an assault on the rule of law, a vow to continue, and an ultimatum clock now ticking toward April 2027.
NewsTrump waives the Russia sanctions he signed a month ago, two days before they were due to bite
In a Friday-night executive order, the US president invoked the Graham Act's own waiver clause to suspend the 100 percent tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and most of the law's new sanctions — certifying to Congress that the move is in the national interest, without saying why.
NewsMexico jails three men for 158 years each over the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their US friend
A judge in Baja California has sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for killing brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surf trip — closing one of the most internationally watched murder cases in recent Mexican history.
NewsTrump says US Navy blockade has stopped all Iranian ships crossing Hormuz
The US president calls the American naval blockade “effective” and US Central Command calls it “ironclad” — but shipping data shows some Iranian fuel cargoes still getting through, even as missiles strike Aden airport and Britain warns its citizens away from Saudi Arabia.
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NewsRama Blames ‘Foreign Hands’ as Tirana Clashes Spread Across Albania
Albania's prime minister accused unnamed foreign actors of fuelling four days of violent student-led unrest he says is aimed at derailing the country's EU bid — while presenting no evidence.
NewsReal Madrid demand resignation of LaLiga chief Tebas after Goebbels comparison
LaLiga president Javier Tebas compared Real Madrid's media machine to the propaganda techniques of Joseph Goebbels.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsLions player found dead at French hotel on eve of Champions Cup debut
A South African rugby player was found dead at the Lions' team hotel on the Île de Ré on Friday morning, throwing Saturday's European debut at La Rochelle into doubt.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsEbola: $93 million World Bank lifeline as Kenya confirms second case, DRC toll hits 9,066
The World Bank commits $93 million to Africa's Ebola fight as the DRC toll passes 9,000 cases — while Kenya's second confirmed infection shows how fast the virus crosses borders.
NewsChip Stocks Shed $2 Trillion in Market Value as AI Funding Fears Hit
Record chip demand met a funding scare on Thursday: TSMC posted its best quarter ever while semiconductor stocks cratered on rate fears and the cost of the AI buildout.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsPSG Put on a Show in Manchester: 4-2 Champions League Thriller Stuns City
Paris Saint-Germain, the defending European champions, sent a message to the continent with a 4-2 victory over Manchester City on Champions League Matchday 2.
NewsTrump Moves to Strip Ilhan Omar of Citizenship
The Wall Street Journal reports the administration's criminal probe of the Minnesota congresswoman is aimed at denaturalization — a step with almost no precedent in modern American politics.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsSaudi Arabia's September Surge Rewrites the War's Oil Math
OPEC+ pumped 39.07 million barrels a day in September, up 900,000 from August, on Saudi Arabia's two-million-barrel rebound.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsFlames in Tirana: Albania's Student Protests Turn Violent as Anger at Edi Rama Boils Over
Tens of thousands of students clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Wednesday, setting fire to the education ministry and two banks, in the most violent outburst yet against Prime Minister Edi Rama's fourth-term government.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsChina's Exports Surge as Artificial-Intelligence Demand Drives Tech Trade
China's exports jumped 36.3 percent in September, the strongest monthly rise since 2021, as shipments of semiconductors and computing hardware surged.
NewsHow Iranians Move Money Abroad to Get Around US Sanctions
Decades of sanctions and a war that has tightened them further have pushed Iranians toward currency exchangers, intermediary firms, private deals and crypto. Every workaround moves money, and every one charges a price.
NewsThe WTO and the crisis of world trade
The WTO gave world trade rules, courts and tariff bindings. With its appeals court idle since 2019, this explainer asks whether the system can still hold.
NewsThe World Bank and the fight over lending
The World Bank lends to developing countries from Washington and answers to 189 shareholders. This explainer maps its tools, its reforms, and its critics.
NewsVietnam, factory of the new Asia
Doi Moi opened Vietnam in 1986. Now it is the factory of the new Asia. The test ahead is moving up the value chain before wages and rivals catch up.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsBritain after Brexit: the long reckoning
A decade after the referendum, Britain lives with the consequences of Brexit. The reset with Europe is real, but rejoining is not on the table.
NewsThe trade war: tariffs, retaliation, and the end of the old order
Tariffs, retaliation and the strain on the world trading system. How the old bargain broke, and what might replace it.
NewsTaiwan Alaska LNG Deal: Trump Claims 30% Purchase for 20 Years
Trump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30% of the gas from the planned Alaska pipeline for 20 years and invest $4.4 billion. Taipei says it may invest up to that sum, subject to talks.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsBeyond Two Nanometres: The Chip Race Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
The next node is no longer only about physics. It is about power, water, talent and who gets to build at all.
NewsSemiconductors: the chips that run the world, and the chain that barely holds
The chip supply chain: design, lithography, fabrication and packaging across a dozen borders. Where it is concentrated, and why governments call it security.
NewsFinding cancer before it finds you: the quiet revolution in early detection
Most cancer deaths come not from untreatable biology but from late discovery.
NewsThe planet keeps its own ledger: what tipping points really mean — and what they don't
Greenland, West Antarctica, the Amazon and the Atlantic circulation are not metaphors. They are physical systems with thresholds.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsPoland: Europe’s eastern shield sharpens
Poland has become NATO frontline state and its biggest European spender on defence. Geography, history and politics explain why.
NewsThe Philippines holds the line at sea
The Philippines won at The Hague in 2016; China rejected it. Resupply missions, coast guard standoffs and the US alliance decide what the law means.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsCurrencies: the dollar system and its challengers
The foreign-exchange market is the largest on earth — and the least understood. It prices not companies or cargoes, but trust between nations.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsItaly: Meloni, Europe and the debt question
Giorgia Meloni has given Italy rare political stability. The test is whether Rome can handle its debt, its demography and a changing Europe.
NewsThe G20 and the limits of global governance
The G20 gathers the biggest economies but has no treaty and no secretariat. This explainer asks what the forum can deliver, and what it cannot.
NewsGas Prices Hit Four-Year High as Europe Enters Winter With Thin Storage
Benchmark gas futures passed 85 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday as low storage, Gulf attacks and a Norwegian outage collided just weeks before the heating season.
NewsHow the European Union wields power
The EU binds 27 states through shared law, a single market and joint institutions. This explainer maps who decides, how, and where the machine jams.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCrypto, Bitcoin, and the long fight over the rulebook
Bitcoin, stablecoins and the global fight over crypto rules. What regulators have actually settled, and what is still contested.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsThe Arctic is the new great-power map
Melting ice, new shipping lanes and Greenland minerals put the Arctic at the center of great-power politics. What is at stake, and who decides.
NewsAI regulation and the global race to write the rules
The EU, the US and China are writing rival AI rulebooks. What each model covers, where they collide, and what remains undecided.
NewsThe Agent Era Has Arrived — and Nobody Is in Charge of It
Agents that book, buy, code and negotiate are moving from demos to daily work. The technology works. The accountability does not.
NewsChina Is Bringing Car Production to Europe, and Tariffs Cannot Stop It
Chinese carmakers are moving from shipping cars to Europe to building entire production ecosystems inside the bloc, with factories and local partnerships multiplying, while Brussels answers with tariffs, quotas, and Made in Europe rules that may arrive too late to change the game.
NewsRussia's $320.7 Billion Energy Ledger: Europe Paid, Sanctions Held, Gas Flowed
Moscow says the EU paid it $320.7 billion for energy since 2022. Brussels disputes the number, Sweden wants frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and a US diesel deal splits the alliance.
NewsPope Leo XIV lung operation: what a week at Gemelli means for the papacy
The 71-year-old pope announced the lung surgery himself on Sunday, enters Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, and still plans November's South America trip. Here is what we know so far.
NewsChina's Paris auto assault: 20 brands test Europe's defenses
A record twenty Chinese brands storm the Paris show as Brussels caps hybrid imports at 350,000 a year — and Europe answers with cheap retro EVs.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack turned fridges into 50°C ovens
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French stores overnight, forcing defrost cycles that spoiled food, sparked fires and cost tens of millions.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsCyberattack Turns French Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens, Spoiling Food Worth Millions
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration systems overnight and forced defrost cycles that drove temperatures to 50°C; Paris prosecutors opened a cybercrime investigation as chains threw away tonnes of food.
NewsTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" Unravels as Zelensky Says He Learned of It Through the Media
Kyiv accuses Moscow of striking energy sites within hours of the announcement; the Kremlin refuses to confirm any deal, and the EU answers with its largest sanctions package since 2022.
NewsPolish police foil alleged assassination plot against PM Tusk and defence minister
A man in his 60s has been detained in Lower Silesia on suspicion of plotting an attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Warsaw calls the threat "deadly serious".
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
NewsChina Sanctions Paraguay and Belize Ministers Over Taiwan Ties, Two Days After National Day
Beijing froze the China assets of Paraguay's communications minister and Belize's foreign minister and barred them from Hong Kong and Macau, punishing what it called egregious actions damaging its core interests.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsNATO’s Top Commander to Warn Russia: The Alliance Can Counter Any Attack
US General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, will outline his “theory of victory” at a Warsaw security conference on Monday — a rare public signal meant to halt what Western officials call Moscow’s increasingly reckless hybrid campaign against Ukraine’s backers.
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NewsTrump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, catching Kyiv by surprise
Trump said on Truth Social that both sides agreed to an 'energy ceasefire,' effective immediately. Kyiv called it a surprise and awaited details; Moscow had not confirmed.
NewsRiyadh airport struck again: Houthi missile hits King Khalid International for the second time in two days
Sunday’s missile strike on King Khalid International Airport — a day after an attack that killed 12 to 13 people and injured over 309 — is the deadliest assault on the kingdom in a decade.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsThree years of Gaza war: thousands march across Europe demanding ceasefire and sanctions on Israel
Thousands marched in London, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw on Sunday to mark three years of the Gaza war, demanding a lasting ceasefire, sanctions on Israel and an end to European arms exports.
NewsUS Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman as Two Blockades Tighten Around Iran
A precision strike on the M/V Ocean Molica and an Iranian counter-strike in Hormuz show the Gulf's tanker war has become a duel of blockades.
NewsDetained on the runway: India's 'cockroach' movement names a new leader
Abhijeet Dipke was detained aboard his flight into New Delhi as police locked down the capital ahead of a mass protest; on Sunday, a court ordered the release of the movement's three leaders.
NewsUS consumer sentiment sinks to five-month low as inflation fears climb
Michigan sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October — a five-month low — while inflation expectations climbed. Inside the K-shaped split between Wall Street's week and Main Street's checkout line.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsTwelve killed, more than 300 injured in attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport
The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis for Saturday's strike — the deadliest in the kingdom since 2015 — while Trump says Washington 'may' join retaliatory attacks.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsTrump Attacks Nobel Committee After Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay: 'I Should Have Won 8'
In a late-night Truth Social tirade and a Syracuse rally, the US president called the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 'forever discredited,' claimed he deserved eight of them, and warned Norway: 'we will not forget.'
NewsBeijing Agrees to Halve Hybrid Car Exports to EU in 'Crucial First Step'
After three months of talks, China pledged to halve its hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle exports to the EU and ease rare-earth licensing. Brussels calls it a first step; the carmakers cheered, the EP wants more.
NewsTrump's Board of Peace, one year on: the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ that never stopped the killing
Twelve months after the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, the board counts prisoner swaps and donor pledges as wins — while more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, aid runs at a third of promised levels, and no stabilization force has deployed.
NewsFrench astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth after a record 237 days, saying space gave her 'all human emotions'
The ESA astronaut splashed down in the Pacific on Thursday with three crewmates after eight months aboard the International Space Station, setting a new European endurance record — and on Saturday in Cologne she described a mission that ran the full register of human feeling.
NewsShadow Fleet Sanctions: Treasury Strikes Iran's Remaining Oil Tankers
On October 8 the United States sanctioned seventeen vessels and their owners as the final core of Iran's shadow fleet, choking off Tehran's last major illicit revenue stream while Brent held above one hundred dollars.
NewsPanama 7.7 earthquake: tsunami threat lifts as Mulino mobilizes the nation
A shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck near Pitaloza Arriba on Friday, triggering tsunami alerts across nine countries before the all-clear; dozens were hurt, none killed, and the canal never stopped.
NewsPutin tells Trump an immediate return to Ukraine talks is unlikely, blaming Kyiv's election-day drone attacks
The Kremlin said the Russian president used Friday's phone call to rule out an immediate resumption of trilateral negotiations, while both leaders discussed fuel supplies — and a separate US-Ukraine-European track kept working in Miami.
NewsUN extends Darfur arms embargo to December as Russia and China block US push to cover all of Sudan
The Council renewed the Darfur arms embargo to December 11 after Russia and China blocked a US bid to cover all of Sudan, leaving the 2005 regime in place amid the world's worst crisis.
NewsTrump rules out striking Iran before the midterms as the Pentagon keeps its three-day war plan ready and oil prices ease
Trump rules out any US strike on Iran before the November 3 midterms, citing productive talks, while the Pentagon keeps a three-day war plan warm and oil falls back from its spike.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.
NewsHouthi missile strikes kill three at Riyadh airport and torch a Saudia jet days before the oil chiefs fly in
Two missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on October 7, killing three and wrecking a Saudia jet, as the Houthis warned of a long war and airlines cancelled flights before oil chiefs gather.
NewsForeign aid to Africa is down over 25 percent. In Kenya, women and children are paying the price
Aid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
NewsIs Trump Signalling a Return to War With Iran After the Midterms?
Trump says no US strikes before November 3, but reports say the Pentagon has plans ready, and a carrier strike group is sailing for the region.
NewsForeign Aid to Africa Falls by Over 25 Percent, and Women and Children Bear the Brunt
With US and European aid drying up, Kenya's clinics are closing and mothers are paying cash. The continent is learning to fund its own survival.
NewsTrump Promises No Strike on Iran Before the US Midterms as Oil Prices Fall
The president says Washington holds "productive" talks with Tehran and rules out an attack before November 3; Iran studies the US reply to its Hormuz reopening plan.
NewsVance Bars Microsoft From Green-Card Pipeline in Visa Fraud Push
The vice president suspended Microsoft and six outsourcing giants from the green-card program, accusing them of replacing Americans with cheaper foreign workers, while nine universities face fraud probes over exchange visas.
NewsBeijing Draws the Line: The Yuan Is Not the Problem
China's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing the global economy.
NewsMexico's car factories feel the tariff shock
Auto exports fell 12 percent in September, the sharpest drop since December 2025, as US tariffs bite and the delayed fourth USMCA round looms.
NewsMacron and Steinmeier's farewell summit: Europe's engine reset
In Bordeaux today, two leaders nearing the exit of power stage a strategic handover: the Franco-German couple is betting that space and deterrence can carry Europe's sovereignty further than their own presidencies.
NewsUSS Abraham Lincoln Returns Home After Record 265 Days at Sea
The carrier returned to San Diego on Thursday after a 322-day deployment supporting the US-Israel war on Iran, ending a voyage that became a symbol of the war's strain, and of a political fight over who gets to tell its story.
NewsUN Extends Darfur Arms Embargo, Blocks Broader Sudan Sanctions
The Security Council unanimously rolled over the Darfur arms embargo for two more months, but Russia and China blocked a US push to widen it across all of Sudan, leaving a 20-year-old sanctions regime to govern a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced some 13 million people.
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NewsHow Long Will the Global Energy Crunch Last?
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tapping emergency stockpiles, relief may finally be in sight.
NewsThe Pentagon is ordered to finish war plans for Iran as fresh sanctions land and oil tops $102
Washington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new war.
NewsGreece signs a $4 billion U.S. arms package a day after Rubio's visit: F-16 Vipers, missiles, and the Achilles Shield
Athens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint counterterrorism plan.
NewsRussian strike on Kramatorsk bus stop kills at least 33 in deadliest single attack of the year
Two city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid killed 22 in Pryluky.
NewsIn Paris, Ireland's Housing Crisis Becomes Art
A group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills from the streets into the gallery.
NewsUK consulate in East Jerusalem 'ceased to function' as Israeli deadline expires
Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
NewsTrump: win the House or brace for impeachment number three
Twenty-six days from the midterms, Donald Trump turned the threat of a third impeachment into his closing argument: keep Congress, he told supporters, or the Democrats will come for him on day one.
NewsJapan's $15 billion chip bet: Rapidus builds a 17-company alliance to find the customers that will make or break 2nm
On October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is Tokyo's, the customers still a rumor.
NewsMexico Learns What a Three-Day Gas Reserve Feels Like
Washington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutoff, reserves would last three days.
NewsThe retirees' revolt: parliament opens fire on Lecornu's 2027 budget
On October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the deficit is widening by 4 billion euros.
NewsThe Hybrid Wall: 15 Percent, Two Days in Beijing, and Europe's New Trade Grammar
Sefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and the European safeguard that may follow.
NewsUS bars Fiji-based Zhao Fugang over corruption tied to China: the Pacific's fixer economy, named
The State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests.
NewsA Siberian plague lab loses a worker, Moscow seals the story, and Trump wants a call with Putin
Daria Shipilova, 28, died days after a reported accident at Russia's Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Washington says Moscow is withholding information. Moscow says the media is lying.
NewsMarine held in Okinawa killing as governor demands action and US forces impose curbs
The arrest of a 20-year-old US Marine over the killing of a Naha woman has pushed Okinawa's new governor to demand revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement, while Washington answered with curfews, an alcohol ban, and a 48-hour pause in operations.
NewsThe Mirror Mystery Solved: Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
A 95-year-old French chemist and a 76-year-old Japanese chemist cracked homochirality, the century-old riddle of one-handed molecules, and handed the pharmaceutical industry the tools behind modern drug manufacturing.
NewsLausanne to Rule on Africa's Most Disputed Title: Senegal's AFCON Appeal Heard Thursday
The Court of Arbitration for Sport hears on Thursday Senegal's appeal against the CAF decision that stripped the Teranga Lions of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to hosts Morocco.
NewsFrance Halts Stun Grenades as Student Protests Grip the Nation
After a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez suspended police stun grenades at school protests.
NewsHow Netanyahu survived the political fallout of the October 7 attacks
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu faces voters on October 27 in the first election since the deadliest day in Israeli history.
NewsThe $105.6 billion verdict: tariffs have not shrunk the trade deficit
America’s trade gap hit a 17-month high on record imports. The tariffs were supposed to fix this. The numbers say otherwise.
NewsThe Le Pen put: France’s bond market starts pricing the far right
Marine Le Pen outlined spending cuts and French bonds staged their biggest relief rally since the pandemic. Six months before the vote, the market has picked its candidate.
NewsMinutes day: the Fed meets the bond market’s verdict
The Fed publishes its September minutes as traders price almost no October hike but an 87% chance of one in December. Today’s $39 billion auction is the real vote.
NewsThe $5.8 trillion question: AI euphoria meets 5.3% reality
The Nasdaq hit a record, Nvidia neared $6 trillion, and software stocks soared. All while the 10-year paid 5.3%. One of these markets is wrong.
NewsSeventh arrest in Fairford case lands a day after Trump pulls US bombers
A 22-year-old was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, the seventh detention in the RAF Fairford investigation, one day after Washington withdrew its bombers over a reported Iranian drone threat.
NewsPezeshkian calls US talks 'meaningless' as Iran weighs Russian custody of 60% uranium
Tehran's president called US talks 'meaningless' on Monday — even as his foreign ministry reviewed an American reply and Russia offered custody of Iran's 60% uranium stockpile.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El Niño threatens Brazil's record harvest
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsIsrael puts military on high alert and warns Gaza will pay a "heavy price" for any attack
Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to high alert ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, citing intelligence on Hamas plans.
NewsDeisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics
The 2026 medicine prize honours the trio who gave neuroscience a light switch: light-gated ion channels from a pond alga that let researchers turn individual brain cells on and off. 12 million kronor shared three ways.
NewsTrump tells Republicans: vote by mail after all
Four weeks from the midterms, the president reversed years of attacks on mail-in voting — while a new poll put his approval at a record-low 32 percent and Democrats ahead on the generic ballot.
NewsThe Magnet Clock: 35 Days to China's Rare Earth Deadline
Beijing's one-year pause on sweeping rare earth export controls lapses on November 10.
NewsMexico Certifies Every Avocado, One Orchard at a Time
Ahead of the USMCA review, Mexico makes a federal labor certificate mandatory for avocado exports — traceability, labor rights and zero-deforestation as negotiating leverage.
NewsJapan's rate reckoning: hold now, hike to 1.5% in December?
With the yen pinned near 158 to the dollar and Japanese officials already running 'rate checks' — the phone calls that precede intervention — a former BOJ board member sees a strong chance of a December hike to 1.5 percent, ending an era of free money.
NewsTokyo and Canberra Ink New Five-Year Finance Pact on Minerals, Fuel and Defence Supply Chains
On their treaty's 50th anniversary, Japan and Australia created a finance ministers' dialogue to lock in energy security, critical minerals investment and defence-linked supply chains.
NewsHuawei and Qualcomm Sign First Broad Patent Pact Covering 5G, AI and Compute After Years of Rivalry
Huawei and Qualcomm signed their first multiyear patent pact covering 5G, AI and compute; Qualcomm will buy Huawei U.S. patents pending review, in a deal Huawei values past $6.9 billion.
NewsParis and Berlin Want a European Trade Weapon as Powerful as America's Section 301 Tariffs
Ten days before EU leaders debate Chinese trade imbalances, France and Germany have tabled a joint paper for a rapid-response instrument that could cut offenders off from the single market.
NewsSánchez calls snap Spanish election for November 29 after housing laws collapse in parliament
Spain's prime minister announced an early general election from the Moncloa Palace on Monday, gambling that the housing crisis which broke his parliamentary majority can instead deliver him a bigger one.
NewsTeenagers conquered the Asian Games: the 13-year-old with three golds and the swimmer who won seven
China's Yu Zidi, 13, was named the Games' most valuable female athlete after three record-breaking swimming golds — while compatriot Zhang Zhanshuo, 19, took seven golds, more than most nations won in total.
NewsUS pulls all 12 B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford after suspected Iran-linked terror plot
Twelve bombers gone in a weekend: Washington emptied its forward English airbase after a foiled terror plot that London says carries strong indications of an Iranian hand.
NewsEuro sinks to 17-month low as France’s debt woes rattle Europe — the dollar reigns
The euro hit a 17-month low near $1.12 as France’s debt and political gridlock rattled markets, pushing the French-German bond spread to crisis-era wides — while the dollar reigned.
NewsIran says no military solution to US conflict as peace talks stall
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that only "negotiations based on justice and fairness" can end the eight-month war — as a collapsed Hormuz deal clouds the way forward.
NewsAl-Alimi Declares a Nationwide Liberation Offensive as Houthi Forces Close In on the Besieged Taiz
Yemen's recognised government announced a military operation to retake Houthi-held territory as fighting raged around Taiz, while the Houthis reported Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa.
NewsStrait of Hormuz Stays Shut: Iran Demands Seven Conditions as New Tanker Attack Jolts Oil Markets
Tehran says Hormuz will stay shut until seven June-agreement conditions are met; a projectile strike on the Kuwaiti tanker Kazimah III left five Indian sailors rescued and markets rattled.
NewsBerlin Sets the 2045 Deadline: Germany Pledges a Total Fossil-Fuel Exit Built on Full Electrification
Berlin approved a 2045 roadmap to end all coal, oil and gas use — Europe's third such pledge. Behind it: 45% wind and solar power, EVs near 40% of new sales, and VW's electric turning point.
NewsLula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off as Brazil votes in a dead-heat presidential race
Nearly 160 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that pits the 80-year-old incumbent against the son of Jair Bolsonaro — a contest shaped by the cost of living, religion and a vote to keep the other side out.
NewsThe mystery pilots of Flydubai flight FZ1073: a safe landing after an onboard attack
After an alleged attack by a crew member forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia, the cockpit crew brought the plane down safely — and scrutiny is now falling on how the co-pilot was ever cleared to fly.
NewsHouthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Aramco Facilities in Riyadh; Coalition Calls It ‘Misleading’
Yemen's Houthis say they struck Aramco facilities in Riyadh; the Saudi-led coalition dismissed the claim as misleading, while the Saudi-backed army says it killed 700 rebels in 24 hours.
NewsMerz’s Surprise Kyiv Visit Meets Russia’s ‘Massive’ Strike Warning as Bridge Hit
Germany’s chancellor arrived in Kyiv unannounced on Sunday, a day after Russia told diplomats to leave — and hours later a drone struck the city’s Northern Bridge.
NewsDaylight Saving Showdown: Trump Doxxes Senator Cotton Over the Clock Bill
The president published Tom Cotton's cell phone number to force a vote on permanent daylight saving time. The economics are real. His remedy is not what the science recommends.
NewsG7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump's export-ban threat
After two weeks of ultimatums from Washington, the G7 agreed to a coordinated, IEA-supervised release of up to 100 million barrels over four months, front-loaded with diesel, while Trump shelved his threat to ban American diesel exports.
NewsHouthis Say They Struck an Aramco Refinery Near Riyadh as Saudi Jets Pound Sanaa
Houthis claim a missile-and-drone strike set an Aramco refinery south of Riyadh ablaze in retaliation for 26 Saudi strikes on Sanaa. Riyadh has not confirmed the fire.
NewsAlgeria sent fighter jets to Niger, Tebboune says
Algeria confirms it sent Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey in late August to help Niger's junta crush a mutiny — a rare public admission of direct military intervention.
NewsSaudi Arabia Plans Offensive to Break Houthi Red Sea Grip as Smoke Rises Near Aramco Facility
Riyadh is mobilizing for a ground offensive to retake the Red Sea corridor — as fire burns near an Aramco facility and Europe admits its naval mission falls short.
NewsNickel: Indonesia's $7.25B Trade Surplus Shows Its Downstreaming Gamble Is Paying Off
Jakarta banned raw nickel exports, built the smelters, and now rations the ore itself. The October 1 trade figures show the strategy still pays — even as batteries pivot away from nickel.
NewsF-16V Block 70: Taiwan Receives First New Fighters in 25 Years as US Navy Signs $24.4B SM-6 Record
Two factory-new F-16Vs land in Taiwan after a seven-year wait — while Washington orders SM-6 missiles at four times the old rate. The Pacific deterrent, rebuilt one contract at a time.
NewsKyiv bridges hit a third straight day as drones close Vilnius airport and violate Moldovan airspace
Three countries, one Saturday: Russia struck Kyiv’s bridges again, five drones and missiles crossed Moldova in fifteen minutes, and NATO scrambled jets over a suspected drone from Belarus.
NewsMetz School Burns as Student Protests Sweep Across France
A Metz middle school burned overnight amid protests over school conditions across France; authorities have not confirmed the fire is linked to the demonstrations.
NewsRussia strikes a second major Kyiv bridge as the air campaign on the capital intensifies
Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro was hit in a Russian air attack on Saturday 3 October, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, suspending east-to-west traffic after damage to the road surface and trolleybus cables — the second major crossing targeted in days amid a widening assault on the capital's infrastructure.
NewsBosnia is 'dead', Milorad Dodik tells final rally on the eve of the elections
The Bosnian Serb leader declared Bosnia and Herzegovina effectively dead at a final campaign rally on Saturday 3 October, on the eve of general elections that are the first since his conviction and removal from office — and the first to use biometric voter identification.
News29,000 Jobs: America's Hiring Engine Stalls — and Wall Street Cheers the Bad News
September payrolls missed expectations by two-thirds, unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, and the bond market — one day after a historic rout — exhaled. The Fed's October hike is nearly dead.
News680 Kilometers of Message: North Korea's Missile Follows Its Landmine Denial by 24 Hours
At 6:30 on Saturday morning a ballistic missile arced from Wonsan toward the East Sea — one day after Kim Yo Jong called the South 'despicable' and denied the DMZ mine blast that maimed three soldiers.
NewsThe Photograph That Wasn’t: In Milwaukee, the G20 Admits It Can’t Govern Trade Anymore
A “handful” of trade ministers killed the US push against industrial overcapacity. Washington named no names. Everyone in the room knew the address.
NewsFrance Is Burning Its Schools — and the Bond Market Is Watching
A budget revolt in the classrooms collides with a fiscal crisis in the ministries: 1,949 arrests, bond spreads at a fourteen-year extreme, and a state that can no longer govern its own finances.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s Record Harvest and the Great Rerouting of the Protein Trade
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsMcAllister: Europe, 'no longer at peace' with Russia, must close defence gaps urgently
The European Parliament's foreign affairs chief tells France 24 the EU cannot yet take sovereign decisions in key defence areas ‘because we are too dependent on US capabilities’ — a diagnosis of the gap between European money and European power.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still 'active' — and the ICC is still watching
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Republic are attributed to the group.
NewsSixth Arrest in Fairford Probe as Britain Points at Iran
Five men walked out of custody on bail, a sixth was arrested in London, and the prime minister says Tehran 'played a part' — but what actually happened in the Cotswolds at three in the morning remains the strangest part of the story.
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant Message
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and declared: what is legal is not necessarily moral.
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest Wave
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian drone strikes paralyze Kyiv's bridges
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as the CDU is routed on right and left
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's history.
NewsThree Carriers, 60,000 Troops, and the November Clock
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms and Brent crude hits $102.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a broke republic
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France.
NewsChina Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October
On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau.
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsSaudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of drone strike on Medina power station feeding the Prophet's Mosque
The Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest Saudi-Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
NewsFamily of Renee Nicole Good Sues U.S. Government Over Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Nine months after a 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent, her family filed two federal lawsuits — one invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act — accusing senior Trump administration officials of orchestrating a discriminatory enforcement campaign.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was 'radicalised' as UAE opens terror probe
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship air corridor faces its gravest test.
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast Cancer
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsBritain Pays Its Highest Borrowing Rate of the Century
The Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving Turkey's S-400s
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest procurement quarrel.
NewsHuawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and Dares the Blockade to Matter
The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capacity.
NewsFrance's Biomass Hydrogen Pioneer Decides to Sell
Haffner Energy will market the renewable hydrogen produced at its Marolles plant through a new refuelling station — a small announcement, and a signal that Europe's hydrogen economy is finally learning to charge for its fuel.
Opinion · Khalid Al HarbiThe Barrels That Rule the World Are the Ones Never Pumped
OPEC+ & the oil order
NewsTehran is reading Washington's counteroffer as the rial collapses
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting.
NewsIsrael's defense-tech gold rush gets its first dedicated war chest: Protego's $125M
Protego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsInflation's second act: Germany at 3.3%, Italy at 4.1%, and the ECB's October dilemma
September prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe AfD's 38.2% earthquake and the CDU's worst day since 1945
On Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaster.
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in October, not December
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire bid as oil tumbles on Saudi pipeline restart
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a shrinking Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up: TSMC's AI order book overflows
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%.
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's party takes the Senate
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen leads the polls.
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas crisis is back on the table
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators.
NewsThe ban is on: Washington bars Canadian whisky, whey and motorcycles
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NewsAmerica's last troops leave Iraq after 23 years
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding Iran-backed militias disarm by the same day.
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell crude, no one in the region will
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll 'unbearable,' and Iran's generals floated closing a second chokepoint.
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with six tech CEOs at the White House
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally binding” — while he moved to rename AI “super intelligence” in government documents.
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle between Washington and Tehran as Araghchi flies home with a deadline
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East crude exports hit their highest level since the war began.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story a ‘hoax’ — and the market stops believing in a deal
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran publicly disagreed about what they are even negotiating.
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the budget clock ticks
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has not yet funded.
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into a hostile parliament
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points.
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts the yen bears on notice
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with Washington fading from memory.
NewsTrump said no to Tehran's Hormuz offer — and the war entered month seven
The American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept running on empty.
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as the diplomats fail and the tankers improvise
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb China, save the USMCA
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Washington.
NewsGermany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters double the growth call
Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one frozen pay scale
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The street is back.
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a January 2027 conference where only ratified states get a vote.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours — first with a 10% global duty, then with a 15% one — resetting the entire world trading order overnight.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung deepened its partnership with ASML on next-generation chipmaking machinery, committing to put ultra-precise High-NA EUV tools into memory production by 2028 — first in the industry — while joining the push toward bigger photomasks.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop
China's central bank will offer banks up to one trillion yuan a day in overnight funds from September 28 through the Golden Week holiday — its largest such cap ever — even as benchmark lending rates sit unchanged for a 16th straight month.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price
At the UN General Assembly, Tehran's foreign minister laid out a sequenced plan: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and the strait opens within a week. Trump says he rejected it.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points
The extra yield investors demand to hold French debt over German bunds has crossed a full percentage point for the first time since 2012 — past even Italy and Greece — as debt approaches 119% of GDP and a downgrade from Scope deepens the gloom.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats
Strong US data and louder talk of more Fed tightening sent the dollar index to an eight-week high, pushed the 10-year Treasury yield past a level not seen since 2007, and knocked gold below $4,300 — with sterling and the euro sliding in the greenback's wake.
InvestigationThe Metals Monopoly: Who Really Owns the Energy Transition
China refines ~90% of the world's rare earths. Myanmar's rebels hold half the heavy supply. The DRC capped cobalt exports. The energy transition has a gatekeeper — and a countdown to 10 November 2026.
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NewsJapan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
NewsThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
NewsExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsBrussels Wants to Grade the Cloud's Thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
NewsThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
NewsAmerica is spending its stock market: households fund 6.8% of spending from wealth
Chase customer data shows US households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from investment wealth — twice the 2019 pace. The portfolio has become the paycheck, and the economy's mood now trades with the market.
NewsDiesel tops £2 a litre in Britain — and Trump is weighing an export ban
UK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national Fuel Price Index reads 200.3p, the RAC logged an all-time high of 199.18p, and Washington is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to Britain, its biggest supplier.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math is still unsettled
Three months before António Guterres's second term ends on 31 December 2026, no clear frontrunner has emerged to become the UN's 10th Secretary-General — Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, which may or may not be P5, keep everything in play.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high on hot PMI data
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.1% on 23 September — its highest since 2007 — after a red-hot September PMI; traders now give the Fed's October meeting a 66–73% chance of another hike, and a weak $70 billion auction deepened the gloom.
InvestigationThe Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.
Spanish judge orders secret CNI files on Ceuta released as Guardia Civil counts 90 dead
Judge María Tardón has given the Spanish government 15 days to declassify intelligence on the July crossings from Morocco, including the note its spies sent Rabat — as a Guardia Civil report puts returns at 88,146, rescues at 862 and deaths at 90.
NewsFourteen killed as fire sweeps a Taiyuan apartment tower
A fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment block in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, killed 14 people and sent 38 to hospital on Sunday evening.
NewsTrump 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.
News“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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsTens 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.
NewsNigeria 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.
NewsDemocrats 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.
NewsANC 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.
NewsTaiwan 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.
NewsRiyadh 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.
NewsTwo 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.
NewsGunman 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.
NewsTrump 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.
NewsUS 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.
NewsEisenkot 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.
NewsBourita’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.
NewsWho is Jon Ossoff, the senator the betting markets already crown for 2028?
Georgia’s 39-year-old senator won a second term by 18 points in a state Donald Trump carried — and within 48 hours the prediction markets made him the favourite for the Democratic nomination in 2028, a race he insists he will not enter.
NewsWho is Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat poised to become the first Black House speaker?
Democrats won back the House in the 2026 midterms, and their leader now stands one vote away from history — but first he must hold together a party that wants him to fight harder, on Trump and on Israel.
NewsBack on the pitch: the Lebanese footballer who refused to let a strike end her story
Two years after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut left Celine Haidar in a coma, the 21-year-old is coaching young players again — a return her doctors once could not promise.
NewsNo cherry-picking: Barnier sets the price of a British return to the single market
The EU's former Brexit negotiator told the BBC that Britain cannot rejoin the single market à la carte, that the four freedoms are inseparable, and that the rebate is gone — as Andy Burnham's government prepares for a Brussels summit on 20 November.
NewsIran’s Revolutionary Guards say missile and drone production has moved underground
The Guards’ aerospace spokesman says production lines have been shifted beneath the ground, a new “missile city” will be unveiled this week, and limits on missile range have been lifted — claims made as American strikes hit Qeshm Island and satellite images show fresh digging at Iranian missile sites.
NewsIraq’s foreign minister says outside parties are using Iraqi soil to attack its neighbours
Fuad Hussein told Al Jazeera that Baghdad has evidence of attacks launched from Iraqi territory against Gulf states, that it is investigating, and that it wants its rift with Saudi Arabia settled through dialogue — as the war on Iran leaves Iraq counting about $60bn in lost oil revenue.
NewsRain floods 70,000 tents in Gaza as the first winter storm hits the camps
Within twelve hours, the season's first storm flooded about 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across Gaza, according to the territory's Government Media Office, while civil defence crews answered 1,500 distress calls and hospitals braced for a wave of illness.
NewsFrance braces as the Yellow Vests call for ‘mass disobedience’
Unions and students march through Paris against the high cost of living while the Yellow Vests defy a ban at Place de la Concorde, 70,000 police on the streets, and a prime minister promising talks on Monday that may decide how long the autumn of anger lasts.
NewsThe last revolutionary on the left: how Mélenchon became Generation Z’s favourite
Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his 2027 presidential programme at a rally near Paris on Saturday, carried by a youth movement that has made him the second force in the race — and by a country that still refuses, by two to one, to imagine him as president.
NewsEvery person has their luck: Morocco’s beach detectorists read history in the sand
On the beaches of Agadir, a small community of hobbyists sweeps the sand with metal detectors, turning up old coins, lost rings and rusted scrap — and testing where Morocco’s heritage law draws the line between curiosity and archaeology.
NewsThe pardon trap: why exposing Trump's corporate allies could protect them
Democrats won both chambers of Congress on 3 November, and the expectation is that they will use their new oversight powers to investigate the corporate allies of Donald Trump.
NewsIran says its forces are stronger than at the start of the war as new US strikes hit Qeshm
Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia says Iran's military is on higher alert and ready to respond without geographical limits, a day after President Donald Trump confirmed limited US strikes on Iranian air defences.
NewsForty-seven years after the embassy siege, Tehran turns its November ritual into a verdict on Trump's midterm defeat
Thousands marched from Palestine Square to the former US embassy as Iranian officials claimed the Democrats' sweep proved American voters had rejected the war — a reading Washington is unlikely to share.
NewsCourt orders Russia back into world hockey — and Europe’s teams refuse to take the ice
Five days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport told the IIHF to readmit Russian teams, the federation calls the ruling unworkable, six nations say they will not play Russia, and four sponsors are threatening to abandon the sport’s flagship tournament.
NewsFrance backs Morocco's Southern Provinces ports with €100 million AFD financing
Rabat and Paris sealed a €100 million joint declaration on November 3 to develop the Southern Provinces' ports — a 13-year loan deepening France's bet on Morocco's Atlantic facade.
NewsAmerica votes in the $12 billion midterms that will define Trump's second half
Polls opened across the United States on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the first midterm test of Donald Trump's second presidency — and the most expensive election campaign in American history.
NewsTwo days before the midterms, a Michigan Democrat endorsed the Republican
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, defeated by Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary, announced on Sunday she was backing Republican Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate — a cross-party defection that has turned America's premier Senate battleground into a public referendum on the Democratic Party itself.
NewsFrom Rome to Peterborough: How Palestine Action Became a Global Playbook
Banned in Britain, sanctioned by Washington and facing the UK Supreme Court on November 4, the direct-action group now has offshoots across Europe and North America — and its tactics are outgrowing its name.
NewsHow DeSantis remade Florida red — and what Tuesday's race to replace him will test
The term-limited governor leaves office in January after turning a swing state into a Republican fortress.
NewsKremlin confirms trilateral Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi for November 10–11
Moscow says Vladimir Medinsky will again lead its delegation, a day after Steve Witkoff announced the U.S.-mediated round — the first since February, and a date after nine months without a table.
NewsIran unveils 'We will kill Trump' billboard over Tehran as war rhetoric hits a new level
The Enghelab Square display, unveiled on US election day, shows Donald Trump behind bars with his head bowed — the sharpest public threat of the Middle East war so far.
NewsBennett hands the mandate to Eisenkot: B'Yachad backs the ex-general as Israel's deadlock hardens
Naftali Bennett's faction will recommend Gadi Eisenkot to President Isaac Herzog for the task of forming the next government, consolidating the opposition behind one candidate days before presidential consultations begin.
NewsThe coalition of the willing stops talking and starts marching: 2,800 troops rehearse for Ukraine in Poland
From 9 to 22 November, the Multinational Force–Ukraine holds its first exercise around Nowa Deba.
NewsThe $11.9 billion midterms: how the 2026 campaign became the most expensive ever recorded
One day before Election Day, OpenSecrets projects a record $11.9 billion for the 2026 midterms — driven by super PACs, dark money at an all-time high, and one donor, Elon Musk, who has written $446 million in cheques.
NewsIsrael's hung Knesset meets its kingmakers: Herzog opens coalition talks as 19 Arab-led seats decide everything
The president breaks custom by receiving the smallest parties first; the Joint List and Ra'am are expected to recommend Gadi Eisenkot, while a Likud probe demand and the Gaza war clock complicate the 28-day mandate race.
NewsThe guns return to Kherson as the Ukraine war's longest truce expires without an extension
A six-day localized ceasefire that let nearly 800 civilians leave Russian-occupied Oleshky ended on Sunday night after Moscow refused to extend it.
NewsOne day before the midterms, four Michigan voters ask: can America still talk to itself?
On the eve of the November 3 elections, Al Jazeera's cameras turn to four Michiganders with opposing views — and the question they ask is bigger than any Senate race.
NewsSouth Africa's anti-foreigner movement squares up to the state, two days before the polls
With the 4 November local elections two days away, a court ban, a troop deployment and a spy-agency scandal have fused into one confrontation: March and March versus the South African state — and the digital conversation shows the movement is winning the week.
NewsKabul asks Washington to act responsibly as 150 Afghans face deportation
The Taliban foreign ministry offered to engage constructively with the United States over deportations routed through Pakistan, warning third countries not to use deportees as bargaining chips.
NewsTrump's Republicans scramble to stop a Democratic midterms wave
With 54 million early ballots already cast, final polls show Democrats leading in all seven battleground Senate races — and Republicans holding last-ditch rallies in states they once took for granted.
NewsShe watched a sniper kill her 16-year-old in Tehran. Now an Iranian mother is naming names.
Samira's only child, Sevda, was shot dead on 9 January as Iran's January protests turned into a massacre.
NewsHacked sirens: fake radiation and nuclear alerts hit Ukraine and Russia as the Kherson truce ends
On Sunday night, Ukraine’s air-raid app broadcast fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings across the country; hours later, Russia’s emergency app suffered what Moscow called a “massive cyberattack”.
NewsAt least 19 dead as Venezuela bombs an ELN camp: Caracas turns its guns on its old guerrilla ally
The October 30 drone-and-helicopter strike on a National Liberation Army camp in Apure is the first time Caracas has bombed the ELN — a doctrine reversal that FundaRedes, an anonymous military source and regional outlets all trace to Washington's new grip on Venezuelan security policy.
NewsA 'cataclysmic' nose-dive over Palm Beach County: nine dead in a Learjet 60 crash
A Bahamas-bound Learjet 60 carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, erupting into a fireball that left all aboard dead.
NewsWhy Rabat is celebrating the fall of a 35-year UN mission in the Moroccan Sahara
A day after Russia's veto sank the US draft and let MINURSO's mandate expire, Morocco's Royal Cabinet called the non-renewal a major step toward closing the file at the UN, said the mission's personnel should leave the southern provinces in the coming days, and Laayoune's streets filled with flags and portraits of King Mohammed VI.
NewsIsrael election: with no bloc at 61, Herzog must name a government-maker by November 11
Final results leave Netanyahu at 53 seats and Eisenkot at 48, with the Arab parties’ record 19 seats holding the balance of power.
NewsAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
NewsEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.
NewsFinal word from Lausanne: Switzerland's highest court keeps Alieu Kosiah's 20-year sentence — and narrows the law for everyone else
Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court has closed the country's first civilian war-crimes case, upholding the 20-year sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for atrocities in Lofa County — while acquitting him of crimes against humanity, in a non-retroactivity ruling that will echo in every universal-jurisdiction courtroom.
News‘Dockworkers do not work for war’: 113 ports in 22 countries join a global day of action against arms shipments
On Friday, October 30, 2026, dockworkers' unions staged coordinated strikes, stoppages and demonstrations at more than 110 ports across five continents — against the movement of military cargo through civilian ports, and for better pay and working conditions.
NewsThe Council has spoken: the UN adopts the Sahara resolution and extends MINURSO to 2027
On Friday in New York, the Security Council adopted the American-drafted resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, extending the UN mission's mandate to October 31, 2027 and placing Morocco's autonomy plan at the center of the political process — a second decisive endorsement under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
NewsThe buses finally came: how a four-day truce opened the road out of Oleshky
For four days the guns fell silent around a ruined town on the Dnipro's eastern bank, and on Friday buses carried out residents who had survived months without food, water or medicine — some toward Russia, some on a long road back to Ukraine.
NewsNineteen of twenty-four: six more U.S. Apache attack helicopters land in Salé
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 1st Air Base brought Morocco's Apache fleet to 19 of the 24 aircraft on order — a $1.3 billion program that makes the Kingdom the only African operator of the AH-64E Guardian.
NewsThe $6.3 billion heist: how hackers emptied Binance in twenty minutes
The largest crypto theft on record — more than four times the previous one — moved in about twenty minutes on Thursday night.
NewsQatari mediators return to Tehran in a bid to revive the US-Iran ceasefire
Doha has sent its envoys back to the Iranian capital, in coordination with Washington, days after Tehran dismissed a draft peace plan as unacceptable.
NewsEthiopia's Oromia killings: 60 Orthodox Christians dead, bishops demand protection
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says 60 worshippers were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in the Arsi Zone of Oromia — 14 in Merti district, 46 in Shirka — as the regional government blames the Oromo Liberation Army, the rebels deny it, and no one has been held to account.
NewsNigeria's custody deaths: families of Minna miners demand justice and their seized property back
Six weeks after young artisanal miners were found dead inside a detention cell of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Minna, their families are demanding swift justice and the return of the motorcycles, phones, mining equipment and gold seized during the arrests — saying no compensation will bring their children back.
News‘My life is buried here’: the Tehran man who lost 12 family members to a US-Israeli strike
On March 9, 2026, six missiles flattened Hamed Mirzaei’s family home in Tehran’s Resalat neighbourhood, killing twelve members of his family — including his 26-year-old wife.
NewsOn the eve of the UN vote, Morocco's armed forces receive MINURSO's new chief in Agadir
Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid welcomed Major General Jawwad Ahmed at the Southern Zone headquarters as the Security Council prepares to vote Friday on an American-drafted resolution that would keep Morocco's autonomy plan as the sole basis for settling the Moroccan Sahara question — and reshape the UN mission itself.
NewsEthiopia's border clashes push up to 50,000 into Kenya — and Moyale's camps are running dry
Fighting between Oromia and Somali regional forces in the border town of Moyale has displaced tens of thousands into Kenya's Marsabit County, where food, water and medicine are running short and the UN warns more crossings are coming.
NewsAA to municipalities: come clean on every broken traffic light and streetlight
Days before South Africa's 4 November local elections, the Automobile Association wants every council to publish a register of broken signals and streetlights — fault numbers, repair dates, updated weekly.
NewsTrappes Suspect Admits Deliberately Targeting Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
Indicted for premeditated murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the 39-year-old told investigators he chose Trappes as a “haven for Islamists” — while denying any terrorist intent.
NewsWhat it takes to fight the AI-powered disinformation machine
A month into Jessica Cecil's new publication Athena, the evidence keeps arriving: a Russian-run fake think tank with real employees, a shapeshifting video in fifteen languages, and Britain building a new defence centre.
NewsFrom silos to solidarity: a Kenyan activist's case for disability justice in Africa
In a new book extract, Kenyan disability activist Mildred Omino argues that disability activism has isolated itself — and that a heating climate is now exposing, cruelly, what that isolation costs women with disabilities across Africa.
NewsIranians watch two elections, fearing the war resumes when the voting ends
Israelis voted on October 27 and Americans vote on November 3.
NewsAlgeria orders troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since 1973
Algeria's parliament approved the move on October 25 and the presidency announced it the next day: army units will go to Madama in northern Niger to guard energy installations, in the country's first foreign deployment since 1973.
NewsCongo's Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as the virus spreads further across Africa
Congo's public health institute put confirmed cases at 10,060 with 4,887 deaths on October 27, 2026, making this the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history — and the fastest-growing on record — as Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda confront cases carried across borders.
NewsChina to send envoy to the Middle East as Beijing warns the conflict must not spill into the Red Sea
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on October 27 that China will soon send a special envoy to countries in the region to promote dialogue and ease tensions, a day after Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials met Iranian officials in Tehran and Egypt authorised military support for Saudi Arabia.
NewsMoroccan police pull a lone swimmer from the water off Ceuta, three months after 70,000 crossed
Footage published on October 27 shows two Moroccan police boats intercepting a man swimming toward Spain's North African enclave — a single crossing attempt against the backdrop of July's mass surge, cleared camps and a border still under strain.
NewsIsrael votes in its first election since October 7 as Netanyahu faces his toughest test
Israelis are voting on Tuesday in the first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, in a contest framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu after 19 years in office, with final polls pointing to a close race and no bloc holding a clear path to 61 seats.
NewsA third case against Comey, filed ten years to the day
Federal prosecutors have charged the former FBI director with transmitting national defence information in 2016, in a case filed under seal on 5 October and unsealed eight days before the midterms.
News‘Deflections’: El-Sayed answers Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks in Michigan
A day after Donald Trump called Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate a ‘jihadist’ at a Port Huron rally, Abdul El-Sayed answered in Detroit — calling the attacks diversions from prices, groceries and the war on Iran, and insisting that his name and his faith are not why Americans struggle to pay their bills.
NewsBritain sanctions fifteen Sudanese commanders over weaponised rape in Sudan's war
A year after El Fasher fell, London designates commanders from both armies, freezes their assets and bans their travel — and pairs the list with £15 million for survivors and humanitarian relief.
NewsUN inquiry says Gaza ceasefire has not stopped genocide, and accuses Israel of extermination in the West Bank
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry says Israel is continuing genocidal acts in Gaza a year after the October 2025 ceasefire, and that Israeli forces have committed extermination and other crimes against humanity in the West Bank.
NewsMore than 2,000 forced from their homes as the Hebron lockdown stretches past 50 hours
Two days after a checkpoint shooting killed two Israeli soldiers, the army's operation in Hebron has displaced thousands, sealed a city of hundreds of thousands, and made return conditional on the dismantling of what the defence minister calls Hamas infrastructure — days before Israel votes.
NewsStranded off Galle, 40 Iranian sailors receive urgent medical care in Sri Lanka
After months adrift under American sanctions, crews from tankers anchored beyond Sri Lanka's waters came ashore through Galle on Saturday, were treated, and left: a humanitarian exception Colombo insists changes nothing about its position on the vessels.
NewsEight months on, the Iran war has moved into Europe's streets, bills and summits
Gas up about 140 percent, diesel doubled, a €106 billion import bill — and a continent that once stayed silent now warning Washington against another round of strikes.
NewsThe money meant for water never reaches the tap: South Africa's water chiefs name the flaw
South Africa's top water officials say the crisis is not only about broken pipes but about a financing model that lets water money be spent on something else — and they want two laws to stop it, days after the government promised ring-fencing in a new White Paper.
NewsAfter the cattle quota closed, Morocco opens a new door: live buffaloes from Brazil
Morocco has authorised imports of live Brazilian buffaloes for slaughter, days after its 300,000-head cattle quota was declared exhausted — widening a Brazil-centred supply line that already provides more than nine in ten imported slaughter cattle.
NewsA funeral journey ends on the highway: 22 killed as bus and lorry collide in Makueni
A bus carrying mourners home from a burial collided head-on with a lorry at Kanga, past Mtito Andei, on Sunday morning — the second mass-fatality crash on the same Makueni stretch of the Nairobi–Mombasa highway in three weeks.
NewsAlready thinking past the next war: Araghchi says another round would not move Iran
Two days after Donald Trump floated “another little Epic Fury”, Iran’s foreign minister answered from Tehran: war or no war, Iran’s policies stay put — and the Strait of Hormuz, he warned, will never be managed as before.
NewsTwo days before Israel votes, no bloc can reach 61 — so the parties that rule each other out may decide who governs
Israelis elect all 120 Knesset seats on Tuesday 27 October, the first vote since the 7 October 2023 attacks.
NewsGunmen kill at least 10 villagers and loot shops in northeast Nigeria
Police recovered 10 bodies after gunmen on motorcycles raided Binnari in Taraba State on Friday, but survivors counted more than 20 dead and Amnesty International says at least 40 were killed — the latest massacre in Nigeria's banditry crisis, where the official count and the village's count rarely match.
NewsElection posters, mass tourism and property: Israel's footprint in Cyprus divides the island
A Hebrew billboard near Larnaca airport, a new pro-Israel caucus in Nicosia and a surge of Israeli buyers have turned a 40-minute flight into a Cypriot political question — two days before Israel votes.
NewsMusk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms — hours after Kyiv said the network was back
Hours after Kyiv said Starlink speeds were back to normal, Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of using the civilian network for lethal offensive drone strikes — a charge Kyiv disputes, and one that turns a restored connection into a conditional one.
NewsBulgaria votes for a president as the Black Sea war reaches its coast
Some 6.6 million Bulgarians choose on Sunday between acting President Iliana Iotova and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, with 27 tickets on the ballot, after drone strikes on merchant ships off the Black Sea coast turned a largely ceremonial contest into a test of which way the country faces.
NewsMorocco lifts its defence-commitment ceiling to 190.5 billion dirhams — and insists on what the number is not
Article 36 of the draft 2027 Finance Bill would let Morocco's defence administration commit up to 190.5 billion dirhams during 2027 against 2028 appropriations — a 21.2% rise on 2026 and 52.7% since 2024.
NewsIran blames Washington for the deal that failed — and still says: go back and conclude it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the United States for the failure of an interim deal meant to end the war with the United States and Israel — then urged both sides to return to it and conclude it, even as Tehran warned that any new strikes would draw a response several times greater.
NewsA crane fell onto São Paulo's monorail — and the next train ran straight into it
On Saturday 24 October 2026, a crane toppled onto the elevated Line 15-Prata near Camilo Haddad station in São Paulo, and a passing monorail train struck the fallen equipment.
NewsAfter a calm march, Paris turned at nightfall — and nearly 1,000 people were arrested across France
The second Saturday of cost-of-living protests drew 410,000 people by the official count, and Paris marched largely in peace.
NewsIran vows 'apocalyptic war' if U.S. strikes again — and bars U.S. warships from the Gulf
Tehran's top generals answered Washington's weekend-strike talk with their starkest warning yet: any new attack would bring 'absolute victory' in an 'apocalyptic war', and American warships will never again enter the Persian Gulf.
NewsFrance's second protest wave brings calm to Paris and clashes elsewhere
A week after some of the worst unrest in years, tens of thousands marched across France on Saturday 24 October against the cost of living and failing public services.
NewsNetanyahu floats crypto as a sanctions bypass — and warns US military aid will end
In a Channel 10 interview four days before Israel's 27 October election, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked officials to prepare a plan for using cryptocurrency to bypass possible banking sanctions — and warned that decades of American military aid are coming to an end.
NewsUS intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached ‘advanced stages’
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a 23 October memorandum that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target American personnel.
NewsIran's Speaker Ghalibaf Pulls Out of Delhi BRICS Forum Two Days Before It Opens
Tehran's embassy in New Delhi cites 'unforeseen circumstances' for Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf's absence from the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum on 26-27 October, while insisting an Iranian delegation will attend and Iran's commitment to the bloc stands.
NewsOne Killed, Five Wounded as Macron Calls Trappes Shooting a Racist Terrorist Attack
A gunman fired from his car at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday morning, killing a 26-year-old man and seriously wounding a 12-year-old girl, in an attack the French president called a turning point for the Republic.
NewsIndonesia Turns Down the Gas Tap to Singapore to Keep the Lights On at Home
From Saturday, 31 million cubic feet a day that flowed to Singapore from Natuna and Sumatra is being redirected to Batam, Bintan and Sumatra, as Jakarta says domestic electricity supply comes first.
News‘Now Is the Time’: Rubio Urges Cubans to Partner With the CIA as Trump Floats a Warship ‘Stopover’
The secretary of state's public appeal to Cubans, hours after President Trump mused about US warships stopping off Cuba on their way back from the Iran confrontation, drew mockery in Havana and a sharp rejection from Cuba's foreign minister.
NewsAs Yerevan Hosts COP17, Armenia's Environmental Record Faces Its Own Test
The biodiversity summit opened in Yerevan to review the world's nature pledges — but nine days earlier Armenia inaugurated a contested gold mine, and critics say the host's own record is now on trial.
NewsIsrael Launches Days-Long West Bank Operation After Hebron Shooting Kills Two Soldiers
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint outside Hebron on Friday, and by nightfall the IDF had launched a multi-day operation across the occupied West Bank.
NewsHelen Haines now 'serious but stable' as Australia confronts its political-violence question
Five days after a driver allegedly rammed her outside her Wangaratta electorate office, the independent MP's condition has improved from critical — the first encouraging news in a case that has forced Australia to reckon with rising threats against its elected officials.
NewsSigns Point to Renewed Major U.S. Military Operations Against Iran
After seven weeks without a major land strike, Washington is stacking the signals — asset movements, regional warnings, an envoy's "this weekend" remark — while Tehran answers with a threat to the Gulf's undersea cables.
NewsThe Pentagon Names China's Confucius Institutes a National Security Threat
In a video posted on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 rebranded "propaganda cells" had reappeared at 30 American universities and that the Pentagon had "systematically dismantled" them — the sharpest American move yet against Beijing's campus footprint.
NewsIran Has Detailed Plans to Strike Gulf Undersea Cables If the War Resumes, Officials Tell Reuters
Two senior Iranian security officials say Tehran would target subsea communications cables — and block their repair — if the United States and Israel attack again, widening a war that has already turned data centers into targets.
NewsFrom Belgrade to Athens: How Israel Turned the Balkans Into Its European Arsenal
A $2 billion arms pipeline with Serbia, a classified-data pact, a joint drone factory, a €3 billion air shield for Greece and an ever-warmer Albania — the deals read less like isolated contracts and more like a strategy: insurance against a Europe turning colder toward Israel.
NewsU.S. Envoy Says America Could Strike Iran ‘This Weekend’ — Trump Says He Knows Nothing About It
Tom Barrack’s podcast warning detonated across oil markets and Gulf capitals on Friday — hours before the president publicly disowned it. The split reveals how Washington is really thinking about the next round.
NewsMelania Trump Brokers One-City Ceasefire in Ukraine's Oleshky
The First Lady says she acted as an "exclusive intermediary" between Moscow and Kyiv to open a humanitarian corridor in the Russian-occupied city — with both armies now naming October 27 as the start date.
News'Nothing but Losers': Eight Foreign Ministers Urge Diplomacy Over New US Strikes on Iran
In Istanbul, the E3 and R4 foreign ministers — joined by Italy — warned Washington that a renewed attack on Iran would expand the war and shake oil markets, hours after a US envoy said a strike could come 'this weekend'.
NewsSeven Killed as Gunmen Storm a Church Funeral in Karak; Jordan’s King Vows ‘Harshest Retaliation’
Gunmen opened fire on mourners at a Greek Orthodox church in the southern governorate of Karak on Friday, killing seven people and wounding dozens.
NewsMany Feared Trapped After Multistorey Building Collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh
The roughly 18-storey block came down at lunchtime on Friday with shops trading illegally on its ground floor.
NewsSouth Africa's Presidency Website Goes Dark: A 'Global Cybersecurity Event' Takes Pretoria Offline
Pretoria pulled its presidential website offline on Friday as a precaution against PHP2Shell — two critical flaws in the PHP engine that powers most of the web, triggering emergency patches and alerts from the FBI, the UK's NCSC and Ghana's cyber authority.
NewsMorocco's Hilale Co-Chairs UN–AU Peacebuilding Talks in New York, Pressing for Action on African-Led Peace
At the ninth annual consultative meeting between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, Morocco's ambassador — in his capacity as PBC chair — pushed a shift from consultation to concrete action, with new proposals on follow-up, financing and regional focus.
News‘Clearly a Terrorist Crime’: France’s Interior Minister Declares the Trappes Shooting a Racist Attack
Laurent Nuñez said Friday’s drive-by rampage through Trappes and La Verrière — one person killed, at least four wounded, a 12-year-old girl shot eight times — was ‘clearly a terrorist crime’ and ‘a racist, probably Islamophobic attack.’ The national anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, with an aggravating circumstance tied to the victims’ race, ethnicity or religion.
NewsNetanyahu Orders West Bank Closure, Warns of Operation 'Unseen Since 1967' After Two Soldiers Killed Near Hebron
Two gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint near Hebron on Friday morning, killing two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead.
NewsUnder Oath or Out of Court: Trump Ordered to Testify by December 11 in $10 Billion BBC Defamation Case
A federal magistrate in Miami has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a sworn, video-recorded deposition by December 11 in the defamation suit he filed against the BBC — or risk having his own $10 billion case thrown out.
NewsEmirati Diplomat Jolts Deadlocked UN Race as Nusseibeh Bid Ignites Sudan Scrutiny
The United Arab Emirates has formally nominated its former UN ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for Secretary-General, injecting a frontrunner into a deadlocked selection — and a storm over the UAE's alleged backing of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
NewsNight Curfews in Paris as France Faces Its Worst Riots in Years
After a weekend of looting and arson left nearly 2,400 people arrested and some 3,000 shops damaged, France has imposed targeted night curfews in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Nice — and a Paris court has just overturned a police ban on Thursday's protest.
NewsTibet earthquake toll climbs to 16 dead as rescue teams reach remote villages
Hours after the first reports spoke of two injured, Xinhua put the toll from the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu quake at 16 killed and 32 injured, with at least 339 homes collapsed at nearly 5,000 metres of altitude.
NewsMagnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet's Nagqu Region, Two Injured as Rescue Teams Mobilise
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in northern Tibet late on Thursday, injuring at least two people and cracking homes near the epicentre, state media reported.
NewsOlivia Lum and five co-accused will not testify as the Hyflux trial moves to its defence phase
On October 21, 2026, the six accused in Singapore's landmark Hyflux trial declined to argue there was "no case to answer" and told the court none of them will take the stand.
NewsThe Night the Belfry Fell: France Arrests Ultra-Left Suspect as Anti-Terror Police Join Limoges Arson Probe
French police arrested a 34-year-old ultra-left activist already on the fiche S watchlist in a dawn RAID raid at Val d'Issoire on Tuesday, naming him the principal suspect in the October 17 arson that destroyed Limoges's 1883 town hall — as the counter-terrorism sub-directorate takes up an investigation now testing the line between riot and insurrection.
NewsNo Credible Pathway: IEA Chief Says Oil Markets Won't Normalize in 2027
International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol told a London summit he sees 'no credible pathway' for energy markets to return to normal next year, as Brent pushes past $111, diesel hits record highs, and the Strait of Hormuz looms as a chokepoint that 'was closed once — it can be closed again.'
NewsTrump Tells Zelenskyy to 'Make a Deal' With Russia — or Face 'a Very Bad Thing'
In an Oval Office broadside on October 20, the US president put the onus for peace on Kyiv, praised Moscow's grinding battlefield advance, said Europe is 'tired of spending' on Ukraine — and sent his envoy to Putin with an updated proposal.
NewsAI Is on the Ballot: America's Midterm Revolt Against the Data-Centre Machine
Two weeks before the November 3 midterms, opposition to power-hungry data centres has crossed party lines: six polls show majorities opposing local builds and fearing AI's toll on jobs, bills and water — while Trump warns the industry will decamp to China and Congress sits on its hands.
NewsUS Missile Early-Warning to Ukraine Is ‘Working Again,’ Zelenskyy Says — But Washington Denies It Ever Stopped
In Oslo on Tuesday, Ukraine’s president said American intelligence on incoming Russian ballistic strikes is flowing again after a week of blind spots — and thanked Washington.
NewsSpaceX's AI Business Now Outearns Its Rockets as Q3 Revenue Jumps 161%
Elon Musk's SpaceX posted a $4.4 billion third-quarter profit on revenue of $14.58 billion, beating Wall Street estimates across the board.
NewsEleven Days to Decide: The Security Council Faces Its Starkest Choice Yet on the Moroccan Sahara
On October 31, the UN Security Council will decide the fate of the MINURSO mission in the Moroccan Sahara — renew it, narrow it, or end it.
NewsWFP Slashes Gaza Food Aid for Half a Million Palestinians as Funds Run Dry
The UN’s World Food Programme says funding shortages are forcing it to cut monthly food assistance in Gaza by around one-third.
NewsIs Russia Stalking the Satellites That Help Ukraine?
Russia's Kosmos 2612 military satellite spent days manoeuvring within hundreds of metres of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar spacecraft whose imagery supports Ukraine's war effort.
NewsExiled Kagame Critic Robert Kabera Found Beheaded in Uganda
Ugandan police are investigating the killing of Robert Kabera, a former Rwandan army sergeant major turned YouTube dissident, whose headless body was found near Kampala. His head is still missing.
NewsIran denies collapse is close as US claims IRGC running out of money
CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper says a US naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue and left the Revolutionary Guard unable to pay its troops.
NewsBritain to fly RAF Typhoon combat patrols over Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate
The Ministry of Defence says Typhoon fighter jets will fly ‘defensive counter air missions’ to shield Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from Houthi missiles and drones — a step change in Britain’s Gulf footprint, authorised as Washington declines Riyadh’s plea for help.
NewsTrump warns Kansans the US will 'burn' like France if Democrats win the midterms
At a Park City rally for embattled Senator Roger Marshall, Donald Trump turned France's worst unrest in years into a campaign warning — offering no evidence that a Democratic win would bring 'raging fires' to America.
NewsAmnesty warns “disinformation flourishes” as Turkey’s media landscape narrows after Halk TV seizure
In a France 24 interview, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner Milena Buyum calls the state takeover of Halk TV a “brutal attack on media freedom” — and argues that shrinking the space for independent journalism feeds the very disinformation Ankara claims to fight.
NewsMicron’s Taiwan union calls a Thursday strike, escalating the fight over a share of the AI boom
The Taoyuan union’s walkout will coincide with mediation for Micron’s Taichung workers, as both unions demand 15% of operating profit in quarterly bonuses — and reject the chipmaker’s record-year rewards as discretionary.
NewsThe U-turn that made it an attack: Albanese says Haines driver turned back deliberately
Australia's prime minister says the car that critically injured independent MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office performed a U-turn before striking her — 'a deliberate act,' he told ABC News — as counter-terrorism investigators join the case and the 43-year-old suspect faces a mental-health assessment before any police interview.
NewsThe human cost of America's surging air war in Somalia
Nearly a year after a November 2025 offensive shattered the town of Jamaame, survivors are still living with shrapnel, paralysis and unanswered questions — as US air strikes in Somalia run at nearly four times the Biden-era pace and AFRICOM's own review clears the military of civilian harm.
NewsTrump says 'migrants have taken over France' and urges Macron to close the borders
The US president seized on a weekend of rioting and looting across France to press his immigration case at home — as French leaders insist the unrest is about the cost of living, not migration.
NewsTlaib Demands US Arrest Israeli Officer Linked to Hind Rajab Killing
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has called on Washington to arrest Israeli officer Sean Glass — whom a Brussels-based foundation accuses of commanding the unit that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab — after the group filed an emergency request with the Justice Department.
NewsRamaphosa Hints at Fuel Relief and Warns South Africa Could Lose US AGOA Trade Benefits
Sixteen days before South Africa's local elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa used a rare briefing with editors and journalists in Johannesburg to signal possible fuel-price relief — and to deliver his bluntest warning yet that the country may lose its duty-free access to the American market under AGOA.
NewsThe Dismantlement Divide: South Africa and Kazakhstan ended bioweapons programmes in the 1990s — only one left a verifiable record
A new six-part Daily Maverick series reopens the parallel histories of apartheid-era Project Coast and the Soviet Biopreparat legacy at Stepnogorsk.
NewsLavrov lands in Tehran as Moscow pitches itself as the Gulf's mediator
Russia's foreign minister arrived in Iran on Monday for his first visit since February 2025, a day after Gulf states urged Moscow to press Tehran for “serious dialogue” and a reopened Strait of Hormuz.
NewsSix migrants, including an infant, die as speedboat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Lesvos
A speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel and overturned off Lesvos early Monday, killing six people including an infant.
NewsIndonesian stocks slide to a six-year low as MSCI's 'standalone' warning rattles markets
Jakarta's benchmark fell more than 5 percent on Monday to its lowest since 2020 after MSCI proposed stripping Indonesia of emerging-market status — a shock demotion that could unleash billions in forced selling.
NewsRubio says Trump wants 60 days to weigh pausing Russia sanctions
The US Secretary of State told reporters the White House will use a 60-day window to analyse what imposing Russia sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global — and American — economy, a day after President Trump waived key measures under the Graham Act.
NewsBomb threat forces Austrian Airlines flight OS82 from Tel Aviv to divert to Sofia under fighter jet escort
The Airbus A320, carrying 51 passengers and six crew, made an emergency landing in the Bulgarian capital on Sunday evening after the crew reported a “bomb threat signal” near the Romanian border.
NewsTrump Says Freezing Russia Sanctions Keeps Moscow at the Peace Table
Two days before sweeping new Russia sanctions were due to take effect, Trump waived them — saying on Sunday the suspension keeps Russia "at the bargaining table." Kyiv calls it a reward for the Kremlin; a growing chorus in Congress calls it a historic mistake.
NewsUkrainian drones set Saint Petersburg oil terminal ablaze in one of the war's largest attacks
Overnight strikes set the Saint Petersburg oil terminal and an oil depot ablaze, killed one person, and deepened the rift between Kyiv and Washington over attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
NewsKenya confirms third Ebola case — a 65-year-old woman caught inside the quarantine net
The new Bundibugyo patient, a close relative of Kenya’s first two cases, was already in quarantine when symptoms appeared. No community transmission detected.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive harvesters; Palestinians and a US journalist injured
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsPoland scrambles fighter jets as Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
Warsaw's air force went up overnight as Russian drones pounded the Volyn region on Poland's border, cutting power to 370,000 people.
NewsUN Warns Nearly One Million Gazans Face Flood Risks as Winter Closes In
IOM says only 17 per cent of Gaza's winter shelter needs are covered as the rains begin; 8,600 emergency shelter kits are blocked at the crossings while a strengthening El Niño threatens heavier downpours.
NewsAfter Twelve Silent Years, the New Yalu River Bridge Opens Between China and North Korea
China and North Korea formally opened the long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge on October 15, 2026 — a four-lane, 3,026-metre crossing between Dandong and Sinuiju that stood finished-but-unused for a dozen years.
NewsAlone in Gaza: Mahmoud Khalla, 39 Graves, and a War That Never Quite Ended
Nearly three years after an Israeli strike destroyed his family's five-storey home in Jabalia, killing 39 of his relatives, Mahmoud Khalla has finally buried them — by hand, over three months.
NewsShip Attacks Near Hormuz Hit Record High as Oil Exports Slow
Twelve vessels were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week of 5–11 October — the highest weekly toll of the war, UKMTO data collated by BBC Verify shows — as Iranian strikes widen beyond the strait and Middle East oil flows slip back from their September recovery.
NewsParis and Berlin rewrite Europe's car rules: emissions eased, ‘made in Europe’ tightened
France and Germany struck a deal on Thursday to water down the EU's car emissions rules — scrapping the requirement to compensate for residual emissions, extending super credits to every vehicle, and narrowing ‘made in Europe’ to the EU's 27 plus opt-ins such as Britain.
NewsIsrael's former spymaster sues Netanyahu twelve days before the election
Ronen Bar's defamation suit drags the October 7 warnings back into the open — just as Israelis decide whether to punish Benjamin Netanyahu at the ballot box.
NewsUkraine resumes refinery strikes as Zelensky defies Trump's energy moratorium
After three days of restraint while Russia kept hitting Ukrainian energy sites, Zelensky told the FT the refinery pause is over — putting Kyiv on a collision course with Washington.
NewsTrump Considers 'Mother of All Bombs' Strikes on Iran's Nuclear, Energy Sites
Strike plans drawn for Trump include the GBU-43/B against Iranian energy and nuclear targets — but US officials doubt the biggest bomb in the arsenal can end the seven-month war.
NewsKabila joins M23 to launch Front for the Refoundation of the Nation in Goma
Ex-DRC president Joseph Kabila now leads a new politico-military alliance with the Rwanda-backed M23, unveiled in Goma — a gamble that could unite the opposition or deepen the war.
NewsUkrainians Lash Out at Trump as Zelenskyy Warns of US Betrayal
As Russian strikes devastated residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukrainians accused Washington of gambling with their lives.
NewsRussia Accuses Ukraine of Contradicting US Peace Efforts After Ryazan Refinery Strike
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyiv's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries stand in "serious contradiction" with American peace efforts, after an overnight drone hit a refinery south of Moscow — the first since Trump's declared energy ceasefire.
NewsContainers and Debris Caught Floating Around the Strait of Hormuz After Attacks on Vessels
Al Jazeera published video on October 15, 2026 showing shipping containers and scattered debris drifting in the Strait of Hormuz, the aftermath of recent attacks on vessels in the world's most important oil chokepoint.
NewsRomania Probes Possible Drone Strike on Tanker Off Sulina
A tanker burned off the Danube Delta as investigators ask whether a drone struck inside Romanian waters.
NewsNorth Korea fires two missiles from beneath the sea
Pyongyang says it test-fired two submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea on October 14, overseen by senior generals. Seoul tracked the launches but announced nothing; Tokyo and Washington watched.
NewsIstanbul Drowns in Its Worst Rain Since 1985
A 14-year-old boy was electrocuted in a flooded car-park puddle in Balat as the heaviest rainfall in forty-one years shut down schools, collapsed roads and stranded a city of sixteen million.
NewsColombia marches against de la Espriella's austerity
Thousands took to the streets on October 14 in the first major protest against President Abelardo de la Espriella's austerity drive. Congress has until Tuesday to decide how the 2027 budget is spent.
NewsTanker Catches Fire Off Romania's Coast as Black Sea Shipping Attacks Escalate
The Comoros-flagged tanker Yara J caught fire after an explosion in Romanian territorial waters near the Sulina canal on October 14, 2026; all 17 crew are safe.
News‘Nowhere to Escape’: Indonesians Share Apocalyptic Orange Smog as Wildfire Crisis Deepens
Palangka Raya disappeared behind an orange wall of smog on October 14, 2026, as wildfire smoke pushed the air pollution index past 1,200 — four times the hazardous level.
NewsFamilies of Trinidadian Men Killed in US Boat Strike Demand Accountability, One Year On
On the first anniversary of a US missile strike that killed six people aboard a vessel returning to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, the families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo renewed their demand for answers — backed by a wrongful-death lawsuit in a Boston federal court and the ACLU.
NewsHalk TV raid: Turkish police halt live broadcast of opposition channel
Police raided Turkey's most-watched news channel at dawn, cut its live feed and installed a state trustee. Critics call it the latest blow in a widening crackdown on the press.
NewsGuilfoyle fired: Trump ousts his Greece ambassador over access-selling allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after reports she sought $100,000 from a donor for access to Trump officials. She denies it all; the texts tell the rest.
NewsMauritius curfew: water crisis sparks worst riots since 1999
A week after water protests began in Vacoas, a police shooting turned anger into arson. Port Louis now sleeps under curfew as the island's model of stability faces its hardest test.
NewsVenezuela: the standoff that never ends
A disputed election, a rival presidency claim, sanctions and the world's largest oil reserves. Why Venezuela's crisis has no exit.
NewsThailand Floods Sacrifice Villages to Protect Bangkok as Waters Rise
Thai defences steer floodwater away from Bangkok into riverside villages, where families on stilts flood for a sixth straight year. The capital stays dry. The villages pay.
NewsSyria after Assad: rebuilding a broken state
Bashar al-Assad fell in December 2024. What comes next for Syria, its neighbours and the millions still displaced, and what reconstruction can deliver.
NewsSoutheast Asia: ASEAN in a superpower vice
ASEAN holds the world’s busiest sea lanes and its most contested waters. Its strategy is to refuse to choose between the US and China.
NewsSahel: the juntas, the jihadists and the new order
Three coups, a broken alliance with ECOWAS, and a jihadist war spreading across the Sahel. How the region that was the West's front line became its rebuke.
NewsNord Stream trial: Ukrainian ex-officer faces war-crime charges in Hamburg
Four years after the Baltic blasts, a Hamburg court hears the first public evidence. One man denies the charges; the question of who ordered the sabotage stays open.
NewsMyanmar: the civil war the world forgot
Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar is a patchwork of war zones and resistance armies. Why the conflict endures, and why the world looks away.
NewsLatin America: a region tilts its own way
From Lula’s Brazil to Sheinbaum’s Mexico to Milei’s Argentina, Latin America is writing its own script between Washington and Beijing.
NewsKyiv Missiles Strike Second Night as Zelensky Heads to London
Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv's power grid and a block of flats for a second night with no warning, as Ukraine's president flies to London seeking faster weapons and sanctions.
NewsEgypt: Suez, Gaza and a strained economy
Egypt sits at the junction of the Suez Canal, the Gaza war and a debt-heavy economy. How Cairo balances all three shapes the Middle East.
NewsCongo: cobalt, conflict and the green paradox
The DRC holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and one of the world's cruellest wars. How cobalt, copper and coltan fund both hope and horror.
NewsCanada and the United States: the tariff war next door
Mark Carney became PM in March 2025 as a tariff war with the US upended the world's closest trade relationship. How Canada is adapting.
NewsRussian Strikes Hit Key Kyiv Power Plant as Zelensky Reports No Early Warning
A ballistic missile attack late on Tuesday hit the Darnytska power plant and a residential building in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 13, as Ukraine's president said allied warnings failed for a second night and a fragile energy ceasefire came under strain.
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought meets three years of war
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsKing Felipe VI visits crisis-hit Ceuta in first Spanish royal trip since 2007
Felipe VI and Letizia stood Tuesday before the unmarked graves of July’s drowned migrants, as Spain asserted its presence in Ceuta — and Morocco answered with measured, sovereign calm.
NewsImmigration agents search Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home at dawn Monday in a criminal immigration probe, three weeks before the midterms. She calls it political intimidation.
NewsGaza Marks a Year of 'Ceasefire' With More Israeli Killing
On the truce's first anniversary, monitors say it exists 'in name only': one Palestinian killed or wounded every 90 minutes, no stabilisation force, aid at a third of the agreed rate — while settler violence disrupts the West Bank olive harvest.
NewsEthiopian Forces Enter Adwa as Border War with Eritrea Looms
Ethiopian troops took Adwa, 40 km from the Eritrean frontier, a day after entering Adigrat. As the UAE backs Addis Ababa and Riyadh stays silent, the Red Sea stakes grow.
NewsRiyadh Airport Closed Until October 17 as Houthi Strikes Enter Third Day
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister vows a 'serious' response as King Khalid International Airport stays shut through Saturday after three straight days of Houthi missile and drone attacks.
NewsMorocco's Four-Party Coalition: El Mansouri Secures 207 Seats to Govern
Three weeks after the September 23 vote, El Mansouri sealed a pact with Istiqlal, USFP and PPS — a 207-seat majority for Morocco's first woman head of government.
NewsKabila takes command of a new politico-military front with M23 rebels
Sentenced to death in absentia a year ago, Congo's ex-president formalized his alliance with the eastern rebellion in Goma — upending the Doha peace talks and the 2028 race.
NewsAlberta secession vote: Carney warns of fault lines as October 19 referendum nears
Six days before Albertans vote on whether to start the road toward a binding independence referendum, the prime minister warns a divided Canada cannot build its future.
NewsNATO's Top Commander Vows to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' if the Alliance Is Attacked
General Alexus Grynkewich told the Warsaw Security Forum that NATO would block, blunt and then break any attacker's warfighting system — while insisting war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
NewsCyberattack Turns French Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens, Spoiling Food Worth Millions
Hackers seized Danfoss refrigeration systems overnight and forced defrost cycles that drove temperatures to 50°C; Paris prosecutors opened a cybercrime investigation as chains threw away tonnes of food.
NewsSouth Africa's Deputy Police Chief Resigns in Custody on Rape and Grooming Charges
Shadrack Sibiya, 59, quit on Monday as his disciplinary hearing opened; the police service classed his departure a dishonourable discharge.
NewsIsraeli Drone Strike Kills Three in Khan Younis Tent as Gaza Ceasefire Frays
Medics say a drone-fired missile hit a tent used as a phone-charging point near Nasser Hospital on Sunday; funerals were held Monday.
NewsInside Epstein's network: how favours, money and influence kept it running
Millions of declassified pages show how Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his power network after his 2008 conviction — through gifts, jets and well-placed friends — while accountability advances unevenly on both sides of the Atlantic.
News139 migrants dead, 84 missing as overcrowded boat sinks between Djibouti and Yemen
An overcrowded boat carrying 305 migrants sank between Djibouti and Yemen on the night of October 8–9. At least 139 dead, 84 missing — one of the worst wrecks ever on the Eastern Route.
NewsAt Least 20 Injured in Explosion Near Israel's Northern Border With Lebanon
Unexploded ordnance went off near Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach, injuring a group of picnickers. Prime Minister Netanyahu is heading to the area as bomb-disposal teams investigate.
NewsSouth Lebanon olive harvest killings: two men dead in Bint Jbeil district
An engineer home from Beirut died on an unexploded shell in Froun; hours later, Israeli tank fire killed a farmer inspecting his trees in Yater — and the harvest was called off.
NewsOcean Molica disabled: US jet kills a blockade runner's engines in the Gulf of Oman
A precision munition to the stern, a dead ship, a living crew: Washington's calibrated message to every vessel testing the reimposed blockade on Iranian ports.
NewsIran offers to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Houthis after Riyadh airport strikes
After Houthi missiles killed 12–13 people at Riyadh's main airport, Iran's foreign minister phoned his Saudi counterpart and offered to broker talks. Riyadh has not said yes.
NewsHurricane Simón: Category 4 monster menaces Mexico's Pacific coast
From Category 1 to a forecast Category 4 in barely two days, Simón forced evacuations, closed ports and airports, and put a $175M catastrophe bond on edge.
NewsNATO's 'Theory of Victory': Grynkewich expected to warn Russia at Warsaw Security Forum
Grynkewich is expected to unveil NATO's 'Theory of Victory' in Warsaw, warning Moscow any attack would be blunted and beaten — while insisting the alliance stays purely defensive.
NewsSudan gold mine airstrike: 72 miners dead in disputed toll, Egypt silent
Rights lawyers say jets struck an artisanal gold camp near the disputed Halayeb Triangle on Saturday, killing at least 72 miners. Cairo has not commented. The toll is disputed.
NewsSupertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after projectile strike, hours after US destroyed blockade-runner
A supertanker was hit on its port side in the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire on Sunday, hours after US forces destroyed a cargo ship trying to run the American naval blockade of Iranian ports.
NewsSudan drone strike kills up to 41 displaced people in Blue Nile, mostly women and children
Between 30 and 41 displaced people are dead near Abu Shandi, Blue Nile. The exact toll is unverified; the pattern — drones fired at civilians — is not.
NewsPTI long march reaches Charsadda as Afridi presses Mardan push
Day seven: Sohail Afridi's convoy rolls through Charsadda toward Mardan, talks with Islamabad lie dead, and Swabi looms as the march's next test.
NewsMexico court convicts three in 2024 murders of Australian surfers and American friend
In Ensenada, a judge found Jesus Gerardo Garcia 'El Kekas' and two co-defendants guilty of the April 2024 murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson, and Carter Rhoad.
NewsFBI foils ISIS-inspired Mall of America plot, arrests 18-year-old
An 18-year-old bought an inoperable rifle for $600 in an FBI sting, ending a two-year trail toward a planned October 24 attack on the Mall of America.
NewsWhy is the Trump administration trying to dismantle the ICC?
Hours after Navi Pillay's Nobel win, Washington sanctioned the court as an institution. The stated reason is sovereignty; the critics hear revenge against the judges who dared to rule.
NewsHurricane Simon barrels toward Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4 — landfall expected Sunday
Packing 150 mph winds and a 932-millibar core, Simon sits just 85 miles off Manzanillo after strengthening with alarming speed.
NewsCalifornia realtor arrested at LAX, accused of spying on Taiwan president's son for Beijing
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, a 34-year-old Irvine realtor, was charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after allegedly surveilling the Seattle-area home of Lai Ting-yu, son of Taiwan's president.
NewsKenya Confirms First Imported Bundibugyo Ebola Case as Nairobi Traces 55 Exposed
A Kenyan who had lived in the DRC for seven years flew from Entebbe to Nairobi visibly ill, died of Bundibugyo Ebola on October 5, and has put 55 people under contact tracing — while officials insist there is no outbreak in Kenya.
NewsIsaias Tears Inland: 2 Dead, Nearly 875,000 Without Power Across Six States
The hurricane's strongest punch landed far from the coast — fallen trees killed two people and a battered grid left hundreds of thousands in the dark from Florida to Tennessee.
NewsPanama 7.7 earthquake: tsunami threat lifts as Mulino mobilizes the nation
A shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck near Pitaloza Arriba on Friday, triggering tsunami alerts across nine countries before the all-clear; dozens were hurt, none killed, and the canal never stopped.
NewsKramatorsk Buses Burn, Omsk Refinery Burns: Ukraine's Stalemate Turns Ugly
A Russian glide bomb on two minibuses killed thirty-three civilians in Kramatorsk while Kyiv went dark, and Ukraine answered with drones two thousand five hundred kilometres deep inside Siberia.
NewsNobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay collides with US sanctions on the ICC in a single day of institutional warfare
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Hours later, the US sanctioned the ICC she once served, pitting Oslo's honor against Washington's hammer.