Democrats seize Senate majority in midterm landslide
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World

World
Canada bars Russian and Belarusian players from world junior hockey championship Carney acts hours after CAS lifted the IIHF ban and Finland called for revolt, federations from Sweden Denmark Norway Latvia and Czech Republic refuse to share the ice
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World
Taliban attends UN climate summit for second time Kabul delegation travels to COP31 in Antalya as observers while no member state recognizes the government, the same UN that bars the movement from the General Assembly seats it at the climate table
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World
Bomb threats hit four European flights within hours Heathrow jet lands at Warsaw Modlin seven minutes after alarm as airport closes, a threat costs nothing to issue while the response runs at full price every time
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World
Russian bombs kill at least 26 at Ukrainian aid centre Double strike on Zaporizhzhia shelter breaks war's longest ceasefire, rescue crews targeted by drones as Abu Dhabi talks resume next week
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World
Netanyahu presses Trump to strike Iran right after midterms, Axios cites tough Saturday call between allies Tehran's two-day Hormuz plan awaits a US answer while Trump keeps a mountain nuclear site on standby
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United States

Democrats seize Senate majority in midterm landslide Wins in South Carolina Ohio Texas Iowa and Kansas end decades-long Republican holds, party that claimed to protect elections loses Congress after inflation and Iran war drove approval down
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Trump declares end to US military aid to Israel on election day Annual four-billion-dollar grants become arms purchases on Netanyahu's request, Israeli officials learn of it from the Fox interview
theguardian.com
Canva cuts or reassigns 22 percent of staff in major reorganization Nearly 1300 employees affected as AI assistants absorb the design work the tool once sold, CEO memo frames the layoffs as a restructure rather than a retreat
businessinsider.com
Ballot scanners reject paper ballots across Westchester County on midterm election day Programming fault hits 44 of 45 municipalities in one of the country's most closely watched House races, officials first blamed paper thickness then withdrew the explanation
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Reddit starts testing ads in search results US daily users fall as Google's AI answers keep the traffic, espresso-station searches now carry espresso-machine ads
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Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Rapper Sido closes Berlin cult Späti kiosk as rent rises 50 percent Svenni's Nachtshop near Ostkreuz cannot cover 6,000 euros a month selling cigarettes and drinks, no reopening planned while album and 2027 arena tour go ahead
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Miscellaneous
Swede missing since August found at Naples airport with no memory of how he got there 25-year-old who calls himself Daniel lost money and papers in a Rome robbery and could not say where home was, parents found him through media reports while airport staff had fed him for weeks
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Miscellaneous
Family blames rhabdomyolysis after 24-year-old runner dies at New York Marathon Rare muscle condition can strike the well-trained who push past warning signs
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Miscellaneous
Jury retires to decide Russell Brand rape verdicts Comedian denies attacks on six women between 1999 and 2009, anti-institution broadcaster now rests on twelve strangers agreeing unanimously
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Miscellaneous
Falls top accidental deaths across US national parks Eight-year tally shows wildlife under one percent, visitors buy bear spray against the least likely killer of all
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Media

Media
Sarah J Maas sets UK record for fastest-selling adult fantasy novel, 188,914 copies in five days as bookshops open at midnight Romantasy built on TikTok helped push UK fiction past £1bn in 2024
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Media
Reddit starts testing ads in search results US daily users fall as Google's AI answers keep the traffic, espresso-station searches now carry espresso-machine ads
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Media
Match Group tests cheaper Hinge tier as users tire of paying for dating apps App designed to be deleted prices rejection at twice Tinder's rate, every pricing experiment depends on customers failing to find what they came for
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Media
Dazn takes exclusive option on 2029 Club World Cup streaming rights Saudi-backed streamer that lost $940 million extends Fifa partnership no one else bid for, clubs still await $250 million in unpaid solidarity money
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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
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Politics

Politics
Democrats seize Senate majority in midterm landslide Wins in South Carolina Ohio Texas Iowa and Kansas end decades-long Republican holds, party that claimed to protect elections loses Congress after inflation and Iran war drove approval down
theguardian.com
Politics
Ballot scanners reject paper ballots across Westchester County on midterm election day Programming fault hits 44 of 45 municipalities in one of the country's most closely watched House races, officials first blamed paper thickness then withdrew the explanation
zerohedge.com
Politics
Serbia detains Vucic's criminal police chief and party-linked banker after student election win Prosecutors who left scores of investigations incomplete receive new complaints, toppled leader says he signed nothing so nothing will be found
independent.co.uk
Politics
Supreme Court rejects Trump demand to set aside California ballots Ruling lands on eve of midterms after DOJ gave officials 48 hours to act on 20,000 unverified names, department has charged 28 green card holders with illegal voting
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Politics
US petrol to hit record price on midterm eve Gallon averages $4.29 after Iran shut the strait that carried a fifth of world oil, Trump lifts Russia sanctions to raise global diesel supply
independent.co.uk
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Europe

Europe
Czech public media go on strike against Babiš plan to fund broadcasting from state budget Bill would scrap the licence fee and cut funding by around 15 percent, viewers get reruns while staff march through Prague in paper hats copied from a Czech TV cartoon
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Europe
UK keeps Italy travel warning citing violent riots and looting Armoured vehicles guarded the Colosseum as 20 000 protested in Rome, Meloni answers cost-of-living anger with five-year sentences and €20 000 fines
independent.co.uk
Europe
Nearly 200 Met officers barred from serving in record year 757 removed across England and Wales as dishonesty and discriminatory behaviour top the list, most officers resigned or retired under investigation before they could be sacked
standard.co.uk
Europe
US mediates Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11 Witkoff announces working-level negotiations on post-war security after Brussels meetings with European allies, Europe gets consulted in a war on its own border while the venue and the agenda are set in Washington and the Gulf
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Europe
British troops join Exercise Koalicja as 11 nations rehearse Ukraine peacekeeping force 2 800 personnel drill in Poland from November 9 under UK and French command, Europe trains for a ceasefire whose terms Washington is negotiating in Abu Dhabi
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North America

North America
Convicted killer wins return of Bitcoin held a decade by police Judge finds Crown never proved link to 2015 murder, wallet appreciated from thousands to potentially over 200 000 dollars in official custody
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North America
California votes on first US state wealth tax on billionaires Proposition 40 levies one-time 5 percent on net worth above one billion dollars, Zuckerberg secures private payment deal while Brin and Page cut California ties
independent.co.uk
North America
Prediction markets face biggest test as US midterms open Polymarket and Kalshi volume hit record $21 billion in October, Brazil runoff gave Lula a one-in-five price the night he won by three points
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North America
NTSB finds evidence Florida Learjet broke apart before impact Nine dead include tech entrepreneur's toddlers and 20-year-old co-pilot, same jet had similar incident weeks earlier
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North America
Nine dead as Learjet nosedives into Florida neighbourhood Pilot called icing manageable minutes before a 30,000-feet-per-minute dive that exceeded the jet's design limits, crash landed feet from homes and inches from passing cars
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Latin America

Latin America
Milei courts AI data centres with no regulation and tax breaks Patagonia pitch runs on Vaca Muerta gas while incentives require no local compute or energy disclosure, planned $3 billion hall has no customer yet
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Latin America
Chinese firms run Bolivian Amazon gold boom in Mayaya 20 open-pit mines and 12 dredge boats employ 2,000 Bolivians and 200 Chinese, mining laws that forbid the arrangement remain on paper
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Latin America
Gang leader with $1 million US bounty petitions UN chief for dialogue 400 Mawozo chief raised white flag in August as Bukele's 2,000 troops and Erik Prince's Vectus Global fight in Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, World Food Programme projects record hunger in Haiti
independent.co.uk
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
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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
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Asia

Asia
Indian tourist killed as two helicopters collide at Everest base camp trail stop Rotor blades struck during landing at Pheriche helipad operated by Fishtail Air and Dynasty Air
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Asia
Asian Cup postponed to December 2027 in Saudi Arabia AFC cites exceptional regional circumstances as Houthi attacks ground matches and rallies, organisers insisted until last month that tournament was on schedule
euronews.com
Asia
Swiss foreign minister makes first Pyongyang visit since 2003 Bern reopens diplomatic office and offers to mediate, talks held in a friendly atmosphere the same week the FBI tied a record crypto theft to the regime's hackers
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Asia
Volunteers build Buddhist stupas in Bhutan's planned Mindfulness City King's Gelephu project promises economic growth with Buddhist values over decades, shrines rise on free labour while the city waits on capital
independent.co.uk
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
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Middle East

Middle East
Ten European states pool evidence on alleged torture of Gaza flotilla activists in Israeli custody Eurojust-coordinated prosecutors build universal-jurisdiction cases against Netanyahu cabinet members, complaints filed in five more countries
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Middle East
Trump declares end to US military aid to Israel on election day Annual four-billion-dollar grants become arms purchases on Netanyahu's request, Israeli officials learn of it from the Fox interview
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Middle East
US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island on midterm eve, first publicly known attack in weeks hits air defences while Trump insists no war is raging Undisclosed small-scale strikes have continued throughout the Doha talks
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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
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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
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Africa

Africa
Investors assume the man beside her owns the company Four African businesswomen describe prejudice at the bank, World Bank data shows female entrepreneurs denied loans at triple the rate of men, recycling founder Runsewe built a 62-person tyre factory nobody expected her to fund
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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
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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
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Economy

Economy
Canva cuts or reassigns 22 percent of staff in major reorganization Nearly 1300 employees affected as AI assistants absorb the design work the tool once sold, CEO memo frames the layoffs as a restructure rather than a retreat
businessinsider.com
Economy
UK house price recovery pushed back to 2028 Savills blames Middle East conflict for mortgage rates stuck above relief, first-time buyers wait two more years while owners who already absorbed the costs hold on
standard.co.uk
Economy
UK raises estimate of gains from EU trade deal Treasury lifts value of Brussels package to 0.4 percent of GDP from 0.3, prime minister says post-Brexit settlement exceeded the free movement it replaced
standard.co.uk
Economy
US job openings unexpectedly surge as quits hit near-record levels September vacancies jump 333 000 to 7.52 million against 7.16 million expected, nobody resigns from a job they fear they cannot replace
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Economy
Indian cargo vessel hit off Oman kills one crew member Thirteen rescued by Omani coast guard amid Hormuz closure, war-risk underwriters begin pricing Gulf transit as permanent condition while oil majors bank record quarters
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Technology

Technology
Real photo of 14 000 satellite trails over Mount Taranaki dismissed as AI New Zealand photographer Brendan Larsen stacked 578 exposures and spent 40 hours erasing stars, he filmed his own process in advance because he expected the accusations
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Technology
Hackers raise UK meat suppliers' freezer temperatures as cold-chain attacks spread from Europe Dummy fridge controls carry fingerprints of Russia-linked operations, one firm's units climbed to 100C while sitting empty
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Technology
Google dismantles botnet secretly running on more than a million Android TV boxes Certified devices from Shenzhen's Videostrong passed Google's screening before phoning home, the malware remains installed as system apps that owners cannot remove
arstechnica.com
Technology
Dutch weather institute KNMI switches to hyper-local storm warnings Meteorologists can now draw alert zones along actual weather fronts instead of provincial borders, precision replaces blanket codes the public learns to ignore
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Technology
Virgin Media O2 cuts thousands of jobs in £800 million savings drive AI takes over customer service and network planning while fibre upgrade halts at 50 percent, debt of £22 billion stays on the books
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Science

Science
Mother found dead and daughter missing after suspected grizzly attack near Bella Coola Second bear attack in the same British Columbia community within a year, the bear that injured eleven people last November was never found
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Science
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton says humans might have been better off without AI The 78-year-old quit Google to speak freely and now predicts an AI-enabled Chornobyl this year or next, says Altman Musk and Zuckerberg understand the risks and prefer the money
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Science
Child dies in New York state's first measles-linked death in over three decades US outbreak counts 4,666 cases and a fourth fatality this year, at one to three deaths per thousand infections the 178 confirmed cases understate the spread
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Science
Three standard tests of a core therapy skill do not measure the same thing Nature study of 40 fMRI datasets finds questionnaires and amygdala scans share almost no variance, CBT's key method rests on a construct nobody can currently measure
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Science
Bird flu kills Yakima County resident exposed to dairy cattle Third human case in Washington dairy country also traces to infected herds, testing a herd still costs its owner more than silence does
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