Bomb threats divert flights across Europe
Europe theguardian.com

World

World
Crimean champions Sevastopol force Uefa's hand Promotion to Russian third tier would breach the 2014 ruling on Crimean clubs, federation calls the league amateur while its clubs field professionals
theguardian.com
World
Melania Trump hosts Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House First lady awarded Order of Princess Olga for Oleshky truce, ceasefire diplomacy runs through an office that answers to no electorate
euronews.com
World
US sanctions Indian couple for selling fake flags to Iran's oil fleet, web of registries claimed to represent Guyana Eswatini and Laos Eswatini disowned the one that still flagged Iranian tankers
timesnownews.com
World
NASA's Swift telescope burns up after 22 years 30-million-dollar rescue tug tumbled out of control before reaching the gamma-ray hunter, agency now asks the same industry to bid on saving Hubble
independent.co.uk
World
Trump says he would start the Iran war again Vice president JD Vance blames the conflict for losing both chambers of Congress, White House posts NEVER SURRENDER the same afternoon
independent.co.uk
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United States

Melania Trump hosts Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House First lady awarded Order of Princess Olga for Oleshky truce, ceasefire diplomacy runs through an office that answers to no electorate
euronews.com
Iranian MPs threaten missile strikes on Europe if US uses its bases there Threats issued on the anniversary of the 1979 embassy seizure, hosting another country's war infrastructure acquires a stated price
euronews.com
South Korea sends destroyers toward Hormuz waters Cheonghae anti-piracy unit extended toward Duqm under strict non-combat limits, country drawing 70 percent of its crude from the Gulf now pays for its own guards
theguardian.com
Paraguay bank collapse strands nearly 3 million customers Impeachment bid cites president's stake in Ueno holding company and his central bank pick, judge accepts charges against 27 people
bnonews.com
Bank of England set to raise rates to 4 percent for first hike since 2023 MPC confronts inflation driven by war and energy caps, America's central bank moves the opposite direction
independent.co.uk

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Bob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV in hoodie and gloves, Swiss style expert calls the Vatican outfit disrespectful The Pope had already quoted the singer's 1963 anti-war lyric in his peace book
blick.ch
Miscellaneous
Burglars steal India's last Olympic hockey gold in Bengaluru 1980 Moscow medal taken from former captain M.M. Somaya's home with three more international medals, police report values entire haul at 3.53 lakh rupees
timesnownews.com
Miscellaneous
Referee shows 51 red cards in Brazilian youth match Uberlandia and Mamore brawl lasted 40 minutes before military police intervened, previous world record was 36 in Argentina
independent.co.uk
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
bild.de
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
bild.de
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Media

Media
MS NOW host Symone Sanders Townsend suggests Byron Donalds is no true kinfolk Remark came as Florida elected its first Black governor in a rare Republican win, critics reach back to Clarence Thomas and his high-tech lynching
foxnews.com
Media
Nintendo's biggest cartridge supplier quits ROM chips Macronix declares its game-chip output at an end while AI memory demand absorbs the capacity, some physical Switch games already cost more than the download
arstechnica.com
Media
UK broadcasters need YouTube creators more than creators need them After Party Studios chief says talent skips TV unless the offer is exceptional, Channel 4 cuts a third of its workforce while the BBC drops RuPaul's Drag Race and the BBC Three channel
theguardian.com
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
theguardian.com
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
techcrunch.com
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Politics

Politics
Bavarian deputy premier Hubert Aiwanger found dead in Berlin hotel room Freie Wähler leader was 55 and had cancelled speech citing illness, homicide squad investigates while party postpones congress
wp.de abendblatt.de
Politics
California voters reject billionaire wealth tax Prop 40 stood at 44 percent support when counting paused, Sergey Brin spent 102 million dollars defeating a measure the state's own analysts priced below its promises
newsweek.com
Politics
Burnham moves to ban new North Sea drilling by law Energy Independence Bill would strip regulator of licence power, existing Jackdaw and Rosebank fields keep pumping while imports fill the gap
independent.co.uk
Politics
Mike Johnson declines to lead House Republicans into minority, two-term speaker told staff the morning after Democrats took the chamber Senator Curtis blames war tariffs and ballooning debt ahead of Nov 10 leadership vote
nbcnews.com
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
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Opinion

Opinion
André Spicer: UK equality watchdog wants workers to see colleagues' exact pay Gender-gap reporting shrank the gap 19 percent by curbing men's raises, Danish transparency cut wages across the board
theguardian.com
Opinion
George Monbiot: Bird flu has circulated on a Utah mink farm since August Officials skipped testing the workers because farmers were annoyed, the virus has killed nearly half of the people known to have caught it
theguardian.com
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
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Europe

Europe
Bomb threats divert flights across Europe Aer Lingus Dublin–Rome jet lands at Normandy airbase under fighter escort, at least eight flights hit in third threat wave this week
theguardian.com
Europe
Activists in 15 countries stage two days of protests against datacentres, over 100 groups demand moratorium on large AI projects UK grid alone faces 73 gigawatts of queued datacentre demand against a 45-gigawatt national peak
theguardian.com
Europe
Hackers force temperatures up in French blood bank cold storage EFS says supplier's refrigeration systems were hijacked at three sites, no blood products lost as supermarket fridge attacks spread across Europe
zerohedge.com
Europe
France braces for nationwide strike against austerity budget Lawmakers rejected first part of 2027 bill ahead of Senate vote on 9 December, April election looms with Le Pen leading polls
euronews.com
Europe
Seventeen explosive devices found in Belfast linked to rightwing terrorism Largest far-right weapons haul in Northern Irish history comes from Shankill Road searches, PSNI says nothing further at this time
theguardian.com
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North America

North America
Space Force activates special operations command at MacDill Guardians to serve alongside Navy SEALs and Green Berets, commander would not say whether they will fight on the ground or manage the fight from behind the scenes
zerohedge.com
North America
New Jersey pre-K aide faces 61 charges for assaulting students Shaun Stebbins filmed the abuse in a school bathroom and during nap time, his own recordings supplied the evidence in a case that began outside the school
foxnews.com
North America
Leon Black sues congressman Robert Garcia for defamation Billionaire targets the Democrat set to chair the committee that held him in contempt, suit filed days after Democrats won the House
nbcnews.com
North America
Largest US Outback Steakhouse franchisee files for bankruptcy Out West Restaurant Group runs 61 restaurants across five states, parent Bloomin' Brands positioned to buy them back through court
newsweek.com
North America
Vancouver tax auction lists 1.7-million-dollar house at 72,000-dollar reserve Owners keep one year to redeem after Wednesday's sale, only three properties have changed hands through the auction in a decade
globalnews.ca
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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
euronews.com
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
theguardian.com
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
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
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Asia

Asia
Hong Kong court sentences Joshua Wong to ten years for foreign collusion Case rested on urging sanctions with exiled Nathan Law, only activist twice convicted under security law was due for release in January 2027
theguardian.com
Asia
Iran exempts India from Hormuz shipping restrictions along with China Iraq and Qatar Tehran collects transit fees from Indian and Chinese vessels while Qatari ships pass free, Indian seafarer killed off Oman coast the same week
timesnownews.com
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
scroll.in
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
businessinsider.com finance.yahoo.com
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Middle East

Middle East
Iranian MPs threaten missile strikes on Europe if US uses its bases there Threats issued on the anniversary of the 1979 embassy seizure, hosting another country's war infrastructure acquires a stated price
euronews.com
Middle East
Israeli election commission finds no fraud in vote Netanyahu disputed Final results strip his coalition of its majority, Herzog expected to hand coalition talks to Eisenkot
theguardian.com
Middle East
South Korea sends destroyers toward Hormuz waters Cheonghae anti-piracy unit extended toward Duqm under strict non-combat limits, country drawing 70 percent of its crude from the Gulf now pays for its own guards
theguardian.com
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
english.elpais.com
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
theguardian.com
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Africa

Africa
Kenya weighs foreign bids for rare earths beneath Mrima Hill Australian and Nasdaq-listed consortia chase a deposit with projected gross revenue of 62 billion dollars, Digo community vows to refuse digging on its ancestors' graves
independent.co.uk
Africa
Britain flies Ebola-infected healthcare worker home from Congo First British case in an outbreak that has killed five thousand of more than ten thousand infected, medevacs run to European isolation units while Congolese nurses face mobs
theguardian.com
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
theguardian.com
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
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Economy

Economy
Paraguay bank collapse strands nearly 3 million customers Impeachment bid cites president's stake in Ueno holding company and his central bank pick, judge accepts charges against 27 people
bnonews.com
Economy
Bank of England set to raise rates to 4 percent for first hike since 2023 MPC confronts inflation driven by war and energy caps, America's central bank moves the opposite direction
independent.co.uk
Economy
Crypto industry spent 176 million dollars on US midterms and watched Democrats take Congress Fairshake backed 32 incumbents including 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats, 63 million dollars against Sherrod Brown left him in the Senate
zerohedge.com
Economy
Waymo confirms January 2028 split with Uber in Austin and Atlanta Robotaxi operator takes bookings onto its own app months before contract expiry, co-CEO calls the Uber experience a crapshoot where passengers never knew if a robot or human would arrive
techcrunch.com
Economy
Africa launches its own energy bank in Abuja as Western lenders retreat from oil Chinese state banks have already lent 182 billion dollars across the continent since 2000, founders promise a just energy transition while the first projects are refineries and pipelines
zerohedge.com
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Technology

Technology
Delhi police register criminal case against Meta over child sexual abuse material FIR follows rights commission direction after BBC report on Instagram ads, platform liability in India arrives through criminal law rather than fines
timesnownews.com
Technology
SpaceX signs Qualcomm for nationwide 5G network Starlink towers to rival carriers' own fleets, the moat being drained was spectrum licenses and sunk tower capital all along
zerohedge.com
Technology
Google forces AI on US schools from 2027, districts that turn off Gemini lose Google Search too Los Angeles wanted search without AI overviews and will not be allowed it
the-decoder.com
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
theguardian.com
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
theguardian.com
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Science

Science
Iron Age king Verica was a woman Bournemouth archaeologist points to a feminine name ending and coins bearing a bare-breasted rider, her flight to Rome gave Claudius his pretext to invade Britain in AD 43
independent.co.uk
Science
Swapping dairy for plant-based alternatives risks iodine deficiency Lancet study of 289 UK products finds only 12 percent fortified with iodine, teenage girls' deficiency would rise from 54 to 65 percent on a partial swap
theguardian.com
Science
Fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic on record passes ten thousand cases in DR Congo 5,103 dead as Bundibugyo virus reaches Kenya and Nigeria, Britain has recorded four cases since 1976 and none died
independent.co.uk
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
theguardian.com
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
theguardian.com
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