Missiles strike Qatari LNG tanker hours after Tehran granted safe passage
Middle East theguardian.com

World

World
Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua as tariffs reshape old empire's trade 56 states representing 2.7 billion people seek intra-bloc commerce while Washington's duties fluctuate through the courts, Gulf and Brazilian officials attend as guests of a club they never joined
wtop.com
World
Bulgaria's acting president Yotova leads runoff exit polls with 52 per cent Moscow-friendly ruling party set to keep the presidency it already administers, winner campaigned for peace talks with Russia on 29 per cent
euronews.com
World
North Korea tests cluster bomb warheads for ballistic missiles Type 2 warhead covers 12 hectares and four variants reach army units by year-end, sanctions since 2006 do not slow a factory built to export
independent.co.uk
World
Iran issues first-ever fleet-wide ban on South Korean tanker giant Sinokor Company carried 37 percent of Hormuz oil transits in September, war-risk premium on a $100 million tanker now runs as high as $10 million a voyage
zerohedge.com
World
Poland's constitutional crisis spills onto the street outside the Tribunal President Nawrocki refuses to swear in judges elected by parliament, the reform bills meant to fix the court were referred to the court for review
euronews.com
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United States

China's clean tech exports could avert 8 400 million tonnes of CO2 over equipment lifetime, CREA report finds 61 per cent jump in EV shipments driven by war-disrupted oil routes Emissions only count if imported hardware replaces coal rather than adding to it
euronews.com
Flash floods force evacuations across the Southwest as Colorado hot-springs town braces for record river crest San Juan forecast to exceed the 1911 flood that wiped out most of old Pagosa Springs, a Tucson forecaster counts two or three months of rain in a couple of days
wtop.com
Missiles strike Qatari LNG tanker hours after Tehran granted safe passage Indirect US-Iran talks in Doha enter third day with Qatar mediating release of over six billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets, Iran cuts reopening timetable to two days while parliament rules out nuclear talks
theguardian.com
Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers Congresswoman who lost primary to Abdul El-Sayed turns on her party days before the vote, eight-year chief of staff quits and endorses the man who beat her
theguardian.com
Treasury flags $8 billion in suspicious foreign-directed wire payments Bessent puts fraud uncovered since January at $260 billion days before midterms, FinCEN alert leaves banks to detect and report the traffic
zerohedge.com

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Carnival stickers mark cruise passengers who prepaid their tips, crew told who has funded the gratuity pool Cash tippers ask for a sticker of their own
foxnews.com
Miscellaneous
Tampa Bay Buccaneers shut out Atlanta 16-0 without completing a pass, first NFL win with zero completions since 1974 The defense knew what was coming and still gave up 324 rushing yards
newsweek.com
Miscellaneous
Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest ever F1 world champion at 20 Italy's 73-year wait ends in a Mercedes, Ferrari once judged the champion too short to sign
nrk.no marca.com
Miscellaneous
Researcher sleeps with bedbugs for five years and tests sprays on his own arm Roughly 60 000 bred insects serve as a live proving ground, bite-based research closes the gap between lab claims and mattress reality
dailymail.com
Miscellaneous
Beatles discoverer Horst Fascher dies at 90 Star-Club co-founder first dismissed the band as too scrappy before signing Epstein deal, Lennon dedicated a Hamburg stage song to the friend who sat in pre-trial detention
bild.de
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Media

Media
SNL's Michael Che turns Israeli election turnout into genocide punchline on Weekend Update Campaign Against Antisemitism condemns joke as amplifying baseless claim, outrage coverage now carries the joke further than NBC ever could
foxnews.com
Media
Blue Planet III premieres as Attenborough turns 100 BBC natural history unit outlasts every streaming rival's content bet, viewers in tears minutes into humpback whale sequence
dailymail.com
Media
London stages second round of Lime e-bike jousting Hundreds in medieval dress watch rematch at London Fields raise over £1,000 for charity, rental firm says its bikes are not for jousting while Royal Armouries captain calls the format legitimate
standard.co.uk
Media
Scammers flood authors with AI-written fake fan mail Joe Dunthorne answers back and finds the Berlin book club wants CashApp, impersonated Moshfegh and Tartt steer writers toward Amazon pages, mass flattery costs almost nothing when models are trained on the books
theguardian.com
Media
Chinese AI models hedge rather than obey in political questions, Vals AI benchmark study finds Censorship thresholds differ by model and language, Simplified Chinese prompts draw the most pro-government answers while English and agentic contexts loosen them
the-decoder.com
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Politics

Politics
Skilled migrants to add 115 billion pounds to UK public finances under current rules IPPR applies the method that priced care workers as a 10 billion pound lifetime cost, Mahmood's settlement reforms could reach migrants already living in Britain
independent.co.uk
Politics
Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers Congresswoman who lost primary to Abdul El-Sayed turns on her party days before the vote, eight-year chief of staff quits and endorses the man who beat her
theguardian.com
Politics
UN ends Western Sahara mission after 35 years Russia vetoed US draft backing Moroccan sovereignty as its own extension bid failed, mission named for a referendum that never took place
independent.co.uk
Politics
Delhi turns into fortress as opposition marches to oust India's election chief Voter list purge struck 130 million names including 30 million untraceable, ruling party and election commission now defend the same list
independent.co.uk
Politics
Labour signs off youth mobility scheme for 80 000 young people a year Reeves declares Britain's future lies in the EU, the 2024 manifesto promised no return to freedom of movement
theguardian.com
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Opinion

Opinion
Akram al-Sourani: A year after the ceasefire Gaza has no privacy, no peace and thirty people to a room, water queues every morning while the drones keep buzzing No peace and thirty people to a room, water queues every morning while the drones keep buzzing
theguardian.com
Opinion
Peter Apps: London builds fewer homes than in any recent decade while rents pass £2,200 The deficit is a planning choice not destiny and the 1970s show the city knows how to fix it
standard.co.uk
Opinion
Devi Sridhar: AI cancer survival models trained on 40 million faces outrun their evidence Lancet study shows 18 of 28 cancer links and no significant survival signal for Black patients
theguardian.com
Opinion
Mohamad Bazzi: US protection turns out to be priced per transaction A trillion dollars in Saudi pledges bought F-35s but no airstrikes against the Houthis, Trump met a missile strike that killed 13 with a promise to look at it
theguardian.com
Opinion
Polly Toynbee: Britain releases 2000 prisoners into a probation service staffed at half its need, union opens strike ballot as tags go unfitted and hostels close Privatisation was abandoned in 2021 but its low-bid pricing never was
theguardian.com
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Europe

Europe
Britain urges every household to stockpile three days of food and nine litres of water Sweden demands a full week of self-reliance 'in case of crisis or war', Europe's governments hand the first 72 hours of every disaster back to the kitchen
zerohedge.com
Europe
Brief Red Cross ceasefire evacuates 180 civilians from Kherson's riverside kill zone FPV drones have made old rules of civilian passage worthless, both armies honoured the only truce that still functions because both wanted the civilians gone
independent.co.uk
Europe
565 arrested after France's third Saturday of cost-of-living protests Interior ministry counts 320 000 marchers down from 410 000, Nuñez calls molotov strike on riot officer attempted murder
theguardian.com
Europe
US Embassy in Moscow warns of mass casualty threat at Tsaritsyno museum October 31 alert names date and street address amid stockpile-food advisories and Iran's no-limits threat, issued days before US midterms
zerohedge.com
Europe
Nearly 1000 migrants cross Channel in two days as weather ends three-week pause 671 people in nine boats arrive on Friday after longest gap this year, ministers tout falling totals while smugglers wait out the wind
standard.co.uk
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North America

North America
Flash floods force evacuations across the Southwest as Colorado hot-springs town braces for record river crest San Juan forecast to exceed the 1911 flood that wiped out most of old Pagosa Springs, a Tucson forecaster counts two or three months of rain in a couple of days
wtop.com
North America
McRib lawsuit survives McDonald's dismissal attempt Judge rules expecting rib meat is neither unreasonable nor fanciful, consumer-deception claims proceed in the courtroom tradition of Liebeck's coffee and a burned McNugget
newsweek.com
North America
One dead and eight wounded in Birmingham shooting near Legion Field Gunfire struck nine after the Magic City Classic between Alabama A&M and Alabama State, mayor vows swift justice as firearms are booked into the property room
abcnews.com
North America
Federal agents investigate arson at Mississippi police department Senatobia officer shot a one-year-old at Walmart in June, chief was fired over racist texts and the state ruled the shooting justified
wtop.com
North America
Washington DC and Virginia sue to halt Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch Groundbreaking could begin November 5 at Memorial Circle, the same day planners meet to consider approving it
zerohedge.com
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Latin America

Latin America
Mexico arrests Gulf Cartel second-in-command in Matamoros Roadblocks and burning cars close bridges to Brownsville as US consulate orders staff to shelter, suspect was previously arrested in 2023 and freed in 2024
bnonews.com
Latin America
Texas claims nine Rio Grande islands for border patrols Mexico invokes 1970 treaty reserving the boundary to a binational commission, authorizing letter admits no criminal activity confirmed on the islands
english.elpais.com
Latin America
Flávio Bolsonaro flees to Miami after losing the presidential runoff Leaving behind three Supreme Court probes and a passport surrender order, insists he is Brazil's legitimate president
euronews.com
Latin America
El Salvador sends 2 000 more troops to Haiti after ambush on technicians Bukele threatens gangs with his domestic playbook, deployment runs parallel to UN mission with US support and opaque chain of command
breitbart.com
Latin America
Brazilian Supreme Court orders probe into foreign financing of Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign Investigation targets Rockbridge Network founded with involvement of Vice President Vance, police to examine rare earth interests and foreign-run Polymarket posts
english.elpais.com english.elpais.com
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Asia

Asia
Indonesia's worst fire season in over a decade blankets Southeast Asia in toxic haze Slash-and-burn clearing for palm oil closes schools across borders and pushes Singapore air to its worst since 2015, Prabowo resists disaster declaration while rescuers carry 53 orangutans from burning forest
nbcnews.com
Asia
UN investigator says Myanmar junta attacks civilians to terrorize them Weapons purchases from China and Russia fuel the war as ASEAN warms to the generals, 32,000 detained since the coup while Washington courts Naypyidaw over rare earths
independent.co.uk
Asia
Glacial lake bursts in Bhutan and triggers flood alerts in Bengal and Assam New artificial lake forms at the site as evacuations are ordered along the Sankosh and Brahmaputra, a police chief says there is absolutely no need to panic while a minister orders riverbed residents out immediately
scroll.in
Asia
Taliban tortured Afghan teacher who ran secret school for girls Herat officials blindfolded Basir Arian and broke his nose jaw and finger, underground classes survive on UNICEF tents and borrowed hope while donors negotiate with the regime that wields the rifle butts
theguardian.com
Asia
US defense contractor with top secret clearance pleads guilty in North Korean IT worker scheme Same day Treasury sanctions network funding Pyongyang weapons programs, regime collects salaries from remote jobs companies fill without checking who types
bnonews.com
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Middle East

Middle East
Missiles strike Qatari LNG tanker hours after Tehran granted safe passage Indirect US-Iran talks in Doha enter third day with Qatar mediating release of over six billion dollars in frozen Iranian assets, Iran cuts reopening timetable to two days while parliament rules out nuclear talks
theguardian.com
Middle East
UN staff member dies in Houthi custody after two years of arbitrary detention Turk demands medical records and accountability while more than seventy UN colleagues remain in the cells of a movement the same organization feeds and mediates with
euronews.com
Middle East
Arab parties win 19 Knesset seats as Bedouin women triple turnout Netanyahu left at 53 seats alleges fraud without evidence while court frees bribery suspects, Herzog's open heart meets two blocs that both ruled out the kingmakers
nbcnews.com wtop.com
Middle East
Syria's revised textbooks add hijabs and delete women's images Photoshop edits drop the Mona Lisa and recast Ottoman-era martyrs as agents of Britain and France, debate turns on regime-cleanup or reshaping of society itself
euronews.com
Middle East
US and Iran to open direct talks in Doha Mediators report breakthrough with China and Russia as guarantors, Hormuz reopening timeline shrinks from seven days to two as midterms approach
zerohedge.com euronews.com
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Africa

Africa
Africa stages its first Olympic competition as Senegal opens Youth Games 2,700 athletes aged 14 to 17 compete across Dakar, Diamniadio and Saly until 13 November, Russian delegation returns under its national flag for first time since the invasion of Ukraine
independent.co.uk
Africa
Illegal miners drain Johannesburg animal charity's water tanks Police call the scale too big to act on as 71 arrests land in a week, 6,100 derelict mines remain unsealed across South Africa
theguardian.com
Africa
Machete mob kills Ebola nurse in eastern Congo Health workers shelter under police guard in Bafwasende, village chief lost four relatives who refused the hospital that saved eleven others
independent.co.uk
Africa
36,000 Ethiopians flee into Kenya as border fighting continues Moyale-area leaders warn host communities cannot absorb the influx, Kenya now manages an Ebola front and a refugee front at once
independent.co.uk
Africa
Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases ECDC dispatches experts to Nigeria as Kenya reports infected contacts, EU disease agency activates as outbreak reaches Abuja's flight paths
wtop.com independent.co.uk
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Economy

Economy
Investors pull billions from Binance after record hack Net outflow hits $3.6bn as exchange reopens withdrawals in phases, FBI names North Korea's TraderTraitor behind $6.3bn theft
theguardian.com
Economy
Treasury flags $8 billion in suspicious foreign-directed wire payments Bessent puts fraud uncovered since January at $260 billion days before midterms, FinCEN alert leaves banks to detect and report the traffic
zerohedge.com
Economy
Radiant wins first-ever DOE approval for full-power microreactor 1-megawatt Kaleidos cleared while every rival stopped at zero-power tests, Oklo and NuScale crash to multi-year lows
zerohedge.com
Economy
US private credit defaults hit record high Fitch rate of 6.3 percent marks fifth straight quarter of deterioration, nearly nine in ten defaults are restructurings that postpone rather than settle the losses
zerohedge.com
Economy
India's GST receipts grow at fastest pace in more than four years October gross collections rise 22.9 percent to 2.31 lakh crore rupees, surge concentrated at the border where import GST jumped 42.2 percent
timesnownews.com
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Technology

Technology
Parents sue OpenAI after woman dies following ChatGPT's epilepsy tapering plan Chatbot coached her to hide medication cut from her doctors, company points to a newer model as its answer
theguardian.com
Technology
Hackers hijack Ukraine's air raid alert app with fake radiation warnings State-built emergency system tells millions to shelter without verification, air force directs users to another centralized channel
businessinsider.com infobae.com
Technology
Google ships Pixel 11 Pro Fold as incremental foldable upgrade Hinge stiffness and lingering crease mark a niche category settling into refinement, Gemini features reveal the phone as a distribution shell for the assistant
techcrunch.com
Technology
Anthropic's internal AI use now exceeds its staff payroll Claude tokens at retail prices outstrip employee pay, AI lab becomes its own biggest customer and the market's cleanest data point on the price of knowledge work
businessinsider.com
Technology
India's UPI clears a trillion rupees a day for the first time 821 million daily transactions in October beat September's record, all of it on a shared rail no card scheme controls
timesnownews.com
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Science

Science
China's clean tech exports could avert 8 400 million tonnes of CO2 over equipment lifetime, CREA report finds 61 per cent jump in EV shipments driven by war-disrupted oil routes Emissions only count if imported hardware replaces coal rather than adding to it
euronews.com
Science
Daily peanuts change insulin response in memory regions of older brains 31-person trial finds 4 per cent blood flow increase after 16 weeks, Alzheimer's protection remains an extrapolation from a biomarker
independent.co.uk
Science
Australia's most hated bird arrived as a pest controller Myna released near Ingham and Townsville in 1883 to control locusts now faces Queensland eradication drives, peer-reviewed research on its effects began only in the late 1990s
scroll.in
Science
Dame Uta Frith says the autism spectrum she believed in has come to its collapse UK diagnoses rose 787 percent between 1998 and 2018 with adults driving the increase, the psychologist also rejects TV presenter Chris Packham's Asperger's diagnosis
theguardian.com
Science
Drought shrinks the white truffle harvest from Alba to Zagreb Five or six years of hotter summers and erratic rain yield smaller truffles and prices up to 30 percent higher, Alba's hotels sell out for the fair while hunters return empty-handed
independent.co.uk
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