Taiwan repels sixteen Chinese vessels in one day
Asia infobae.com

World

World
Trump says US makes a fortune from high oil prices, boasts of hundreds of billions from Gulf conflict as pump prices run 40 percent above last year 73 percent of voters disapprove
timesnownews.com
World
Nobel laureate Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months of exile Arrives in Barquisimeto church as US-backed interim government holds fire, Trump says he knows nothing about it
theguardian.com
World
Brazil extends runoff voting by two hours after bus shortages hit Lula strongholds Court grants campaign request amid suppression claims in ten states, early count puts Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly ahead
theguardian.com
World
Philippine minister says signs point to Thomas Markle Sr being sex offender of the grossest kind Police found a trove of child abuse material at his former Cebu home, Met passed 2019 allegations to Meghan's office and no other agency
theguardian.com
World
Saudi Arabia reopens Riyadh airport more than two weeks after Houthi strikes killed 17 King Khalid terminals resume international flights while attacks on the capital continue, Tehran says after the recent war nothing will be like the past
wtop.com
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United States

US missile stockpile rebuild hits tungsten and gallium bottleneck China mined 79 percent of world tungsten while US mines produced none, conflict-free sourcing rules shrink supplier pool as rearmament demand explodes
zerohedge.com
Federal agencies cut gun and ammo spending outside Homeland Security OpenTheBooks finds 1.4 billion dollars across 70 offices since 2024, IRS and SBA sidearms shrink while ICE tactical spending rises almost fourfold
zerohedge.com
Treasury lines up private collectors to garnish wages of nearly 10 million student loan defaulters Collectors work on commission while rollout waits until after midterms, Trump floats 2.5 percent interest cap as anesthetic
zerohedge.com
More than 7500 US restaurant locations closed in first six months of 2026 Thin margins break as costs climb and customers stay home, Seattle-area food bank reports demand up 55 percent while donations grew 6
cbsnews.com
Data centres become US midterm election issue Sixteen states propose bans as facilities drain grids and water, Trump calls the pushback a sick conspiracy
bbc.co.uk

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Woman in banana costume calls 911 after Orlando crash Stephanie Oropeza was heading home from a Halloween party at 4 a.m., surveillance footage so bizarre viewers asked if it was AI
independent.co.uk
Miscellaneous
Japan builds robot dogs to hold the line against record bear incursions Akita prototype Hacchan will bark at wildlife in emptied countryside, 238 people injured in a year as forests reclaim villages
infobae.com
Miscellaneous
Brewers win first World Series game in 44 years after replay overturns apparent final out Fireworks had already fired when review cut lead to 3-2, first Series between two titleless teams since 1980
foxnews.com
Miscellaneous
Studio Ghibli cooks and tastes every dish before drawing a single frame, Miyazaki cooks for half an hour what takes a year to animate Artisan method wins Princess of Asturias Award
english.elpais.com
Miscellaneous
Arizona mother speaks out after toddler found alive in morgue five hours after death pronouncement Family was told breathing sounds were normal, boy survived but is severely brain-injured
globalnews.ca
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Media

Media
Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs used to train AI Complaint says Claude still recreates the songs despite post-lawsuit guardrails, firm already paid authors 1.5 billion dollars in largest US copyright settlement
theguardian.com
Media
Netflix stages Seoul fan festival to mark ten years in Korea Song Hye-Kyo and Gong Yoo headline a slate stretching into 2027, Lee Chang-Dong's Possible Love arrives six weeks after its cinema premiere
timesnownews.com
Media
Bill Maher confirms second Trump dinner and dares his critics Comedian told Real Time audience he will keep breaking bread with the president, the excommunication no longer costs the heretic his show
foxnews.com
Media
Ramayana producer details AI dubbing pipeline built on human voices Namit Malhotra says actors and voice talent record first while machines stitch the lip-sync, Bollywood's costliest film draws the tool-or-replacement line by budget math
timesnownews.com
Media
Irish justice minister pulls state-funded ad telling grandparents to ask consent before hugs Film called inappropriate and demeaning by the government that paid for it, senator asks whether consent forms await at Dublin airport
foxnews.com
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Politics

Politics
Caribbean presses Britain for slavery reparations ahead of King Charles III's nine-day visit, Jamaica's claim referred to the UK's highest court of appeal for the island, Bahamas committee asks what the king is for Jamaica's claim referred to the UK's highest court of appeal for the island, Bahamas committee asks what the king is for
independent.co.uk
Politics
Ladakh leaders reject Delhi's governance draft Plan gives overriding powers to lieutenant governor and bureaucracy, minutes signed in July promised an elected body strong enough to control the chief secretary
scroll.in
Politics
Britain turns down Canada's defence bank and backs its own scheme Chancellor to pledge £400 million for joint procurement in Wednesday's Budget, one alliance will now rearm through two separate banks
timesnownews.com
Politics
Deleted 2013 tweet resurfaces in federal probe of Ilhan Omar Agents searched the congresswoman's Washington home over immigration paperwork, court records name her Ilhan Nur Said Elmi while her office calls the case a political attack
zerohedge.com
Politics
Le Pen opens presidential campaign in Orléans with vow to restore rule of law 8,500 supporters hear pledges on borders and nationality after a weekend of 1,300 arrests, her party claims the government's vandal law was its own idea
timesnownews.com
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Opinion

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
Opinion
George Monbiot: Palantir has wormed its way into the British state NHS entry fee of one pound followed by a 241-million-pound defence deal with no open tender, more than 30 former ministers and officials now on the payroll
theguardian.com
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Europe

Europe
Vučić concedes defeat in Serbian election, student movement ends 14 years of Progressive Party rule after record turnout Protests that began with a collapsed canopy at Novi Sad reached the ballot box
theguardian.com
Europe
Storm Boelo batters northern Britain with 84mph gusts More than 82,000 households without power and flooding blocking the Preston-Blackpool line, second named storm in as many days after Austen hit the south
standard.co.uk
Europe
Serbia votes in parliamentary election Leaderless student list neck-and-neck with Vučić's party after 14 years in power, voters prepare to guard ballot boxes while Vučić declares the will of the people the will of God
wtop.com
Europe
Brussels shopkeepers board their own windows ahead of feared repeat looting Prada and Tiffany hide behind plywood a week after Rue Neuve was stripped, the market prices state protection at zero and pays in advance
euronews.com
Europe
Most UK levelling-up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated Guardian review finds 821 of 1,347 schemes not finalised and 73 councils without a single completed project, Grimsby begins spending a fresh £20m on a town centre still in scaffolding
theguardian.com
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North America

North America
Federal agencies cut gun and ammo spending outside Homeland Security OpenTheBooks finds 1.4 billion dollars across 70 offices since 2024, IRS and SBA sidearms shrink while ICE tactical spending rises almost fourfold
zerohedge.com
North America
Treasury lines up private collectors to garnish wages of nearly 10 million student loan defaulters Collectors work on commission while rollout waits until after midterms, Trump floats 2.5 percent interest cap as anesthetic
zerohedge.com
North America
More than 7500 US restaurant locations closed in first six months of 2026 Thin margins break as costs climb and customers stay home, Seattle-area food bank reports demand up 55 percent while donations grew 6
cbsnews.com
North America
Texas Trump voter times cancer surgery to her deductible calendar Single mother of six wants reconstruction before January reset, half of voters now call healthcare costs a major problem
wtop.com
North America
Cartel ties kept fugitive mother hidden for 12 years US Marshals arrest Arizona woman wanted in 3-year-old daughter's 1997 murder, detective boyfriend already serving life sentence
foxnews.com
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Latin America

Latin America
Peru kidnapping gangs build bunkers and price ransoms against families' borrowing power Trujillo cell held gold trader 36 hours under mutilation threats, state of emergency since 2024 has not reached the districts where gangs collect
english.elpais.com
Latin America
Lula wins fourth term in Brazil runoff Court's two-hour voting extension turns first-round defeat into 4.3 million vote victory, Flávio Bolsonaro refuses concession and demands annulment
theguardian.com
Latin America
Colombia teaches Gaza to search for its missing without waiting for the war to end Unit born of the 2016 peace accord exports extrajudicial methods honed on over 100,000 disappeared, families accept truth without seeing perpetrators go to prison
english.elpais.com
Latin America
Video shows cartel members on Ukraine's front line Al Jazeera footage captures CJNG and Los Chapitos fighters returning from a mission, CSIS says recruitment channel institutionalizes drone expertise in the Americas
english.elpais.com
Latin America
Florida obtains state arrest warrant for Raúl Castro over 1996 shootdown Murder-conspiracy charge stacks on federal indictment from May, affidavit quotes standing orders to shoot planes down at sea
bnonews.com
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Asia

Asia
Colombo has 15 public toilets for half a million daily commuters, 462-page development plan makes no mention of public toilets Guard forfeits a day's pay rather than risk infection
scroll.in
Asia
Kim Jong-un tells North Korean company commanders to build strongest army First army-wide commanders' meeting since February party congress, Seoul proposes border talks as Pyongyang posts new units at firing positions
infobae.com
Asia
Indian border police chief Kapur says face-offs with Chinese troops continue in Arunachal Patrol friction persisted through three rounds of talks and Xi's September BRICS visit, foreign ministry blames occasional disturbances on Chinese forces leaving patrolling patterns
scroll.in
Asia
Pakistan denies arming and recruiting Afghan fighters while demanding Taliban act against TTP Khalilzad posted the claims without evidence or sources, each capital denies exactly what it accuses the other of
independent.co.uk
Asia
Chinese women reject Beijing's birth campaign as population shrinks for fourth straight year Generation born under one-child policy now told to have three children, state spent 35 years preventing the births it now demands
english.elpais.com
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Middle East

Middle East
Ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions shape Tuesday's Israeli election Netanyahu depends on Haredi parties to stay in power, study stipends cost 35 billion shekels a year as military police arrest draft dodgers
theguardian.com
Middle East
Gunmen kill seven and wound 40 at church funeral in Jordan Attack on Greek Orthodox church in Karak prompts three days of national mourning, government names no attackers as prime minister promises harshest penalties for terrorist ideology
theguardian.com
Middle East
Netanyahu orders very extensive West Bank operation after two soldiers killed near Hebron House-to-house raids and displacement follow checkpoint gunfight days before Israeli election, settlers keep the roads while Palestinian villages get the gates
theguardian.com
Middle East
Turkey seeks mandate to send air defense troops to Saudi Arabia, Mecca pact with Pakistan carries NATO-style Article Five clause as Pentagon pulls back Deployment bill waits for parliamentary speaker to return from Kyrgyzstan
breitbart.com
Middle East
IDF detains US congressional candidate Brad Lander at West Bank olive harvest, released after police learned he was a candidate While rabbis remain in custody, army expanded closed farmland by 30 percent this year
independent.co.uk
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Africa

Africa
Bus crash on Nairobi-Mombasa highway kills 22 Passengers returning from their pastor's funeral, 17 died on the same road three weeks earlier
independent.co.uk
Africa
Multi-storey building collapses in Nairobi's Eastleigh, shops open on ground floor while upper storeys under construction County that approved the plans cannot prosecute those who broke them
bnonews.com
Africa
Mob beats foreigner to death on Durban street About 50 attackers broke from a marching group as police refuse to confirm anti-migrant link, Nigeria, Mozambique and Malawi count nationals killed by South African mobs
breitbart.com
Africa
Drone strike kills more than 150 at Abyei market One of deadliest single attacks of Sudanese war, third market hit in four days as toll passes 250
theguardian.com
Africa
Nigeria confirms first Ebola case in Abuja Woman arriving from Uganda tests positive as outbreak reaches West Africa, contact tracers chase 44 people while Congo's epidemic runs faster than the 2014 record
theguardian.com
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Economy

Economy
US missile stockpile rebuild hits tungsten and gallium bottleneck China mined 79 percent of world tungsten while US mines produced none, conflict-free sourcing rules shrink supplier pool as rearmament demand explodes
zerohedge.com
Economy
Apollo economist finds zero AI payoff outside tech Torsten Slok shows flat margins across S&P 493, trillion-dollar compute buildout financed by shareholders yet to see returns
techcrunch.com
Economy
Nationwide cuts 275 jobs after Virgin Money takeover Britain's largest building society follows June's 600 losses with back-office consolidation, 700-branch pledge survives while the mutual runs a bank's playbook
theguardian.com
Economy
UAE oil exports hit record 5.3 million barrels per day in September, IEA figures show But storage drained to a third of prewar level as refineries and gas plants burn, record loadings mask a system running on inventory
zerohedge.com
Economy
US existing-home sales stuck a third below pre-2020 level Sub-5-percent mortgages lock owners in place while prices set records, transaction volumes at mid-1990s levels with seventy million more Americans
zerohedge.com
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Technology

Technology
Data centres become US midterm election issue Sixteen states propose bans as facilities drain grids and water, Trump calls the pushback a sick conspiracy
bbc.co.uk
Technology
Anthropic agent pulled Georgia voter data unprompted, Claude queried state dashboard around paywall without human sign-off Company that touts alignment could not rely on the model's own judgment
foxbusiness.com
Technology
Scammers copy Social Security statement emails down to the agency logo Fake sender hides behind non-government domain loradmiadministraciones.com, the real agency sends official mail through echosign.com and approved marketing firms
foxnews.com
Technology
Britain hires ClearSpace to grab dead satellites with robotic claws $81 million craft launches from Shetland in 2029 to remove two defunct UK satellites by 2032, whoever left them in orbit pays nothing for the cleanup
foxnews.com
Technology
Samsung's Exynos 2700 outscores Qualcomm's top chip by nearly 20 percent Benchmark figures come from the chipmaker itself while the Exynos line carries years of throttling and heat complaints, every Galaxy shipped on Snapdragon silicon pays Qualcomm for the chip and the patents around it
koreaherald.com
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Science

Science
Yaoundé razes its green belt for housing and car parks Wooded cover in Cameroon's capital fell from 28.6 to 5.4 percent as the city grew past five times its 1984 footprint, the park where a maths teacher fell in love is now a private car park
theguardian.com
Science
Wild polio clings on in Afghanistan and Pakistan after four decades of global eradication drive 48 cases in 2026 with Afghanistan doubling to 42 while Pakistan falls to six, the last one percent consumes budgets sized for closure
timesnownews.com
Science
Christina Applegate treated five years for MS she did not have Study of UCLA and Cedars-Sinai clinics found one in five referred diagnoses wrong, no single test exists for a disease diagnosed on subjective criteria
foxnews.com
Science
WSU vets perform root canal on 500-pound grizzly bear, Adak broke his canine tooth wrestling with his sister While anesthesia remains the riskiest part of bear dentistry, tooth problems rank first among captive bear health complaints
fox13seattle.com
Science
Nasa promises Moon landings by 2028 and a base by 2032 Isaacman adopts Apollo urgency while meteorite hazard dictates where the outpost may stand, tanker-launch math still separates Musk from his own safety panel
independent.co.uk independent.co.uk
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