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Photo: Bob Dylan in concert in Toronto, Piedmontstyle at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, cropped and resized / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Culture · 07:38
Pope Leo XIV welcomed Bob Dylan to his official residence, the Apostolic Palace, on Wednesday, during the Rome stop of the singer-songwriter's Italian tour. The brief meeting between the two Americans saw the pope give Dylan a rosary and Dylan present a copy of his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One.
Source: BBC News / Vatican News
Photo: dashcam via @Breaking911 on X (the Learjet moments before impact, Palm Beach County, 1 November 2026)
NEW World · 23:34
A Learjet 60 business jet flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas nose-dived into a neighborhood in Palm Beach County, Florida, around 12:50 p.m. local time on Sunday, 1 November, and exploded in a huge fireball. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said all nine people on board were killed. Air traffic control audio published online captures the crew's last calls: a mayday, a report of a rapid descent and the words "we're out of time".
Source: NTSB media briefing (Tom Chapman, Timothy Monville); Federal Aviation Administration; US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Palm Beach County Fire Rescue; AP; NBC News; WPBF; WPTV; Palm Beach Post; USA Today; Air Data News / Flightradar24; FAA aircraft registry; BNO News; BocaNewsNow; CBS12; BBC; video: @Breaking911, @thenewarea51, @TheJadeWarwick and @nicksortor on X
File photo: NATO headquarters flag-raising, U.S. Department of State, public domain, cropped / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:11
NATO launched a counter-drone marketplace on 5 November, allowing allies to buy selected systems directly from its catalogue without a further tender process.
Source: NATO
File photo: Afyonkarahisar, Nabbegat, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; not the attack scene / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:11
Eight people were killed and one seriously injured in shootings in western Turkey’s Afyonkarahisar province on 5 November, the BBC reported, citing local authorities.
Source: BBC; Afyonkarahisar and Eskişehir governorates via BBC
File image: Ebola virus, CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith, public domain, cropped / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:11
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working in DR Congo has returned to the UK for specialist treatment, the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed on 5 November.
Source: UK Department of Health and Social Care; UKHSA
File photo: Oleshky at sunset, Gross Raymond, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:11
Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House on 5 November and urged them to build a lasting peace after a local humanitarian ceasefire around Oleshky.
Source: White House
File photo: PM Luca Niculescu press conference, gov.ro / Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:49
Prime Minister Luca Niculescu said on 5 November that Romania will keep regulated gas tariffs for households until 31 March and that pensions will be increased in 2027, Digi24 reported from his Antena 3 CNN interview.
Source: Digi24; News.ro via Digi24
File photo: Office of the Lieutenant Governor of California, public domain, cropped / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:11
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on 5 November that he plans to replace all 548 death sentences in the state with life imprisonment without parole.
Source: Governor of California; AP; CalMatters; Capitol Weekly
File photo: Nithya Raman, 2022, public domain / Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:49
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman defeated incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the 2026 mayoral race, becoming the next mayor of the US second-largest city, AP, BBC and the Los Angeles Times reported after Bass conceded on 5 November.
Source: AP; BBC; Los Angeles Times
File photo: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Jan 2025, U.S. Department of State, public domain
NEW Politics · 06:49
The White House has denied reports that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio might leave their posts after Republican midterm losses, BBC and other outlets reported on 5–6 November.
Source: BBC; New York Times via AFP/France24; White House
File photo: Henri Coandă (Otopeni) airport, Alex Guerrero, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:49
A second wave of hoax bomb threats disrupted passenger flights across Europe on 5 November, including aircraft landing at Bucharest Otopeni, as the EU activated its aviation-security information-sharing mechanism, officials said.
Source: AP; SRI via AGERPRES; CNBC; EU Commission via Digi24/Ziare.com
File photo: Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Feb 2025, ODNI, public domain
NEW World · 06:49
US President Donald Trump said on 5 November that a Russia-Ukraine settlement is 'very close' after meeting Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House, telling reporters a 'big agreement' could involve more than Ukraine and 'all of Europe'.
Source: Al Jazeera; AP; Washington Post
Photo: Tamanoeconomico, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, 2018, not linked to the crash) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 20:38
A Robinson R44 II helicopter carrying three people crashed into Biscayne Bay near Key Biscayne in Miami, Florida, late on Wednesday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard said one person died and the other two were taken to hospital. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating; the cause has not been released.
Source: U.S. Coast Guard Southeast (@USCGSoutheast); NTSB; FAA; Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office; Miami-Dade Fire Rescue; NBC 6 South Florida; WSVN 7News; Miami Herald; ABC News; AP
Photo: Chillin662, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Greenville welcome sign on US Highway 82, 2018, not linked to the incident) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 20:36
An explosion and fire at the Loveland Products chemical plant, formerly Platte Chemical, in Greenville, Mississippi, sent a thick column of black smoke over the city on Wednesday morning. Officials ordered nearby residents to shelter in place, then lifted the order once the fire was contained. No injuries have been reported and the cause is under investigation.
Source: City of Greenville and Washington County Emergency Operations Center statements, via WLBT and WMC Action News 5; Associated Press; tip: @heatedreports on X
Photo: Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: downtown Tampa, 2015, not linked to the incident) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 20:32
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies and SWAT officers responded on Wednesday to what the agency called an "active threat" at Citibank Center, Citi's large campus in the Sabal Park business area of Brandon, near Tampa, Florida, after reports of an active shooter. Sheriff Chad Chronister said the incident appeared to be targeted and later said the suspect involved is dead. Officials have not said whether anyone else was hurt.
Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (@HCSOSheriff); Sheriff Chad Chronister (@ChadChronister); FOX 13 Tampa Bay; Spectrum Bay News 9; WFLA; Tampa Bay Business Journal
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 (James Talarico at Open Congress 2023, The Texas Tribune Festival, Austin; cropped and resized) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 06:12
Democrat James Talarico, a 37-year-old Texas state representative, won the U.S. Senate race in Texas on Tuesday night over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, CBS News and NBC News project. It is the first time Texas has elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988 and the third Republican-held seat Democrats flipped tonight. Republican Sen. John Cornyn, whom Paxton beat in the primary, congratulated Talarico on X.
Source: CBS News (projection); NBC News (projection and Decision Desk data from the Associated Press); Decision Desk HQ (projection, via The Hill)
Photo: La Moncloa / Gobierno de España (file image, 2023), cropped and resized / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:35
Spain's transport minister announced his resignation at the end of a four-hour hearing in Congress, saying he could not stay in office after two deadly rail accidents in less than a year. He also withdrew from the Socialist list for the 29 November general election.
Source: El País; elDiario.es; ABC; BBC News; France 24
Photo: Number 10 (Open Government Licence v3.0), cropped and resized (King Charles III with Prime Minister Andy Burnham at the Leaders Investment Summit ahead of the Commonwealth summit) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:35
At the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, King Charles said the transatlantic slave trade fills his heart with horror, but he stopped short of a formal apology or any mention of reparations. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said Britain is open to apologising but will not pay reparations.
Source: Royal.uk (text of the King's speech); BBC News; AP; The Guardian
Photo: Dan Scavino / The White House, public domain, cropped and resized (file image of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, 2025, not linked to this announcement) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:35
In a Fox News interview on Election Day, President Donald Trump said the United States will stop paying Israel about $4 billion a year by the end of 2026 under a deal he reached with Benjamin Netanyahu. He gave no details, the current accord runs to 2028, and Congress controls the funding.
Source: Fox & Friends interview with President Trump (3 Nov 2026), as reported by Reuters, BBC News, The Washington Post and DW; PolitiFact
Photo: Melanie Perkins, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped and resized (file image of Canva co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:35
Australian design platform Canva announced a reorganisation affecting 1,271 people, 22% of its workforce, through job cuts, role changes or relocation to hubs such as Sydney. CEO Melanie Perkins called it the company's hardest moment and said growth has slowed for the first time in a decade.
Source: Canva newsroom (note from CEO Melanie Perkins to staff); BBC News
Photo: Executive Office of the President of the United States, public domain (official portrait of Keisha Lance Bottoms, cropped and resized) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 05:22
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, was elected governor of Georgia on Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected, defeating Republican businessman Rick Jackson, who had President Trump's endorsement. The AP says she is the first Black woman elected governor in the United States and that hers is the first governorship to change parties in this year's midterms. In Florida the same night, the AP called the governor's race for Republican Byron Donalds, who becomes the state's first Black governor.
Source: Associated Press (race call); NPR; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; The Guardian; CBS News; CNBC
Photo: Marianne Casamance, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: the EFS site in Avignon, February 2015, not linked to the incident) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 02:43
Hackers broke into Coolworld, a company that maintains cold storage containers for France's national blood service, the Établissement français du sang (EFS), on the night of 1 to 2 November, French weekly Le Canard enchaîné reported. Cold rooms that keep donor blood samples at -30°C were programmed to reach 110°C, according to the paper. An on-duty technician spotted the temperature rise, and the Health Ministry says there were no operational consequences. The EFS later acknowledged that frozen plasma meant for transfusion was also targeted.
Source: Le Canard enchaîné (3 Nov 2026), quoting the Établissement français du sang (EFS) and the French Health Ministry; Anadolu Agency; tip: @etnshow on X
Photo: Voice of America, public domain, cropped and resized (file image: the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Washington) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 18:25
The US Justice Department is deploying about 1,000 election monitors and observers on Election Day, 3 November, and for the first time in all 50 states, which it calls the largest monitoring effort in its history. The night before, federal judge Reggie Walton refused an NAACP request to block the programme but ordered that the monitors must not be sworn law enforcement officers, must not be armed or in uniform, cannot make arrests and must not speak to voters inside polling places.
Source: US Department of Justice (press release, 3 Nov 2026); US District Court for the District of Columbia, order in NAACP v. Blanch (2 Nov 2026); Fox News; Reuters; Axios; Democracy Docket
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain (Library of Congress), cropped and resized (file image: the US Supreme Court building, Washington) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 18:25
The US Supreme Court on Monday, 2 November, rejected the Trump administration's last-minute request to force California to set aside the mail ballots of about 20,000 people the federal government claims are likely noncitizens. The one-line, unsigned order gave no reasons and showed no dissents. Two lower courts had already refused, and California officials say the federal list is full of errors and could disenfranchise eligible US citizens.
Source: Supreme Court of the United States (order of 2 Nov 2026, via CBS News and BBC); CBS News; BBC; AP; SCOTUSblog; AFP
Photo: George Armstrong/FEMA, public domain, cropped and resized (file image: a flooded street in DeBary, Florida, 2009, not from this storm) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 18:25
Severe weather is disrupting Election Day in several US states. Florida moved 21 polling places covering 30 precincts in eight counties after flash floods made sites unsafe or roads impassable. In Utah and Colorado, voters cut off by historic flooding can return their ballots electronically, and in Oklahoma a tornado damaged a community center used as a polling place.
Source: Florida Department of State, Division of Elections (polling place relocations under Executive Order 26-227); Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office (release, 2 Nov 2026); Colorado Secretary of State (release, 2 Nov 2026); National Weather Service damage survey and Cimarron County officials via NBC News; Maricopa County Elections via Cronkite News and KJZZ; WLRN; 9News
Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, CC BY 2.0, cropped and resized (file image: a polling place in New York City, November 2016, not in Westchester) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Politics · 16:20
Voting machines at polling places across Westchester County, New York, stopped accepting ballots on Tuesday, 3 November, as the US midterm elections got under way. The county Board of Elections blamed an issue with the paper ballots. Voting continues: filled-in ballots are being placed in sealed orange emergency bags and will be counted later, officials said.
Source: Westchester County Board of Elections (statement via Westchester County Government on X); New York State Board of Elections via CBS New York; ABC7 New York; News 12 Hudson Valley; Westfair; tip: @Polymarket on X
Photo: Bene Riobó, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Warsaw-Modlin Airport terminal, April 2016) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 13:51
Two passenger planes bound for Warsaw were hit by bomb threats on Tuesday morning, 3 November. A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 737 MAX from London Heathrow with 181 people on board was diverted to Warsaw-Modlin airport, which closed for almost two hours, while SAS flight SK751 from Copenhagen landed at Warsaw Chopin airport. Passengers on both planes were evacuated and the aircraft were searched by bomb disposal teams. No explosives had been reported found.
Source: Warsaw-Modlin Airport statements; Warsaw Chopin Airport and LOT via Reuters; SAS via VG and Expressen; Polish Border Guard via Onet; BBC; Rzeczpospolita; tip: @visegrad24 on X
Photo: Estevoaei, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Jesús de Miguel, left, playing for CD Castellón in A Coruña, May 2024) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Sport · 12:59
CD Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel has died at the age of 30, the Spanish second-division club announced on Tuesday, 3 November. He suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest after colliding with FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono in stoppage time of Monday's match at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium and had been in intensive care since. The club said he died at 8:00 on Tuesday.
Source: CD Tenerife official statement; RFEF; AP; The Guardian; EFE; Europa Press; NBC News; Al Jazeera; tip: @SkySportsNews on X
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: a helicopter near Tengboche in the Everest region, October 2009, not one of the aircraft in Tuesday's collision) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 13:00
Two helicopters collided as they were landing at the same helipad in Pheriche, on the main trekking route to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, on Tuesday morning, 3 November. A 47-year-old Indian tourist from Chennai was killed, Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority said. A New Zealander travelling with him and the pilots of both helicopters were injured. The cause is not yet known and an investigation has begun.
Source: Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal via The Kathmandu Post and Kathmandu Pati; Reuters via ABC News; Hindustan Times; AeroTime; video tip: @TheInsiderPaper on X
Photo: Svtk44, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl at dusk, May 2021, not Tuesday's attack) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 08:08
One of Russia's largest oil refineries, Slavneft-YANOS in the city of Yaroslavl, was damaged and set on fire in a large Ukrainian drone attack overnight into Tuesday, 3 November, the regional governor said. Mikhail Evrayev said air defences repelled 124 drones aimed at the plant. Two refinery employees were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, and falling debris broke windows in homes and damaged cars.
Source: Yaroslavl Governor Mikhail Evrayev via Reuters, RIA Novosti and Lenta; ASTRA; The Kyiv Independent; UNIAN; Interfax-Ukraine; The Moscow Times; tip: @HormuzLetter on X
Photo: NASA, public domain (file image: satellite view of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:37
The United States carried out limited "defensive" strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, late on Monday 2 November, several US officials told American media. Iranian state media reported a series of explosions on the island. Washington has not issued a public statement, and the officials stressed that the operation does not mark a return to major combat.
Source: AP; The Wall Street Journal; ABC News; BBC News; Al Jazeera; IRNA
Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL v3.0 (file image: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:37
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told MPs that the right to settle permanently in the UK will no longer be granted almost automatically after five years but will be "earned" through contribution and character. Most migrants will face a new ten-year default, while the highest earners can settle within three years. After a Labour backlash, care workers who arrived before May 2025 keep their five-year route.
Source: GOV.UK (Home Office, Home Secretary statement to the House of Commons); BBC News
Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:37
Anthropic filed an amended IPO prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, adding third-quarter results: about $17 billion of revenue, $33.24 billion over nine months, and a net loss of $104 billion driven mostly by accounting changes. The updated risk factors also say that using AI to speed up AI research could outpace safety work, and that the company may soon meet its own internal threshold for "dramatically accelerated progress".
Source: Anthropic, Form S-1/A filed with the US SEC; CNBC; TechCrunch
Photo: Nils Huenerfuerst, CC0 (file image: Apple Park, Cupertino) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:37
Apple reported record revenue of $114.5 billion for the quarter ended 26 September, up 12%, with iPhone sales of $57.58 billion, up 17%. Fiscal 2026 revenue reached an all-time high of about $479 billion. The foldable iPhone Duo, which went on sale in October and is not yet in the figures, remains supply-constrained, and executives said they cannot predict when supply and demand will balance.
Source: Apple Newsroom (fiscal Q4 2026 results and earnings call); The Verge; TechCrunch; 9to5Mac
Photo: CDC / Cynthia S. Goldsmith, public domain (file image: electron micrograph of a measles virus particle) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:37
New York State health officials announced on Monday evening that a child in Lewis County has died in connection with the state's ongoing measles outbreak. It is the first known measles-associated death in New York in more than 30 years. Officials gave no details about the child and urged residents to make sure they are up to date with the MMR vaccine.
Source: New York State Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health (joint statement); Governor Kathy Hochul; WRVO Public Media
Photo: AG20044018, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: commercial refrigerators in a supermarket) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:37
Refrigeration equipment in six Romanian stores belonging to the same retail chain heated up sharply around 01:30 on Monday 2 November, in what the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC) is treating as a possible cyberattack on the controllers that run the fridges. The incident follows similar attacks on supermarkets in several European countries, which the European Commission has called "extremely worrying".
Source: Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), director Dan Cîmpean, to Libertatea; Digi24; News.ro; BBC News
Photo: www.davidmolloyphotography.com, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Glenn Maxwell batting in a T20 international, 2018) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Sport · 06:37
Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, 38, has retired from international cricket, ending a career that included 130 T20 internationals, 149 one-day internationals and seven Tests. He also retires from first-class and List A cricket but remains available to Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League. His last game for Australia was against Oman at the T20 World Cup in February.
Source: Cricket.com.au; ABC News (Australia); ESPNcricinfo
Photo: National Police of Ukraine, CC BY 4.0, cropped (file image: a residential building in Zaporizhzhia region after an earlier Russian attack, January 2025, not Monday's strike) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 22:21
At least 24 people were killed on Monday, 2 November, when Russian aerial bombs struck a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution point in the village of Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region. Ukraine's emergency service says the dead include two rescuers and four police officers. Five people were injured and people are still believed to be under the rubble. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack "utterly horrific".
Source: BBC News; Al Jazeera; State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS); Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration; Office of the President of Ukraine
Image: video still, @TheInsiderPaper / X
NEW World · 21:03
A large fire broke out on Monday night, 2 November, at the Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in Visakhapatnam, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Residents reported hearing an explosion and videos showed tall flames and thick black smoke, but police have not confirmed a blast. According to police and HPCL officials, the fire started in a pitch tank at the refinery's Residue Upgradation Facility. The refinery's own fire crews brought it under control within about an hour, and no deaths or injuries were reported. The cause is still under investigation.
Source: Visakhapatnam City Police; HPCL officials (via The New Indian Express and The Times of India); Hindustan Times; NDTV; India Today; Mint; video: @TheInsiderPaper on X
Photo: Johan Wessman / News Øresund, CC BY 2.0 (file image: an ICA Kvantum supermarket in Svedala, Sweden, not one of the affected stores) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 12:30
Refrigeration systems at dozens of supermarkets in Sweden and Belgium were disrupted overnight into Monday, 2 November. Several ICA stores in Sweden say their fridges and freezers were hacked and set to about 50°C, and Coop reports problems at six stores. In Belgium, Delhaize confirms an "IT incident" at about 40 stores, Carrefour at 15 and Spar at about five. Stores had to throw food away. Nobody has claimed responsibility, and no official link to last month's attack on French supermarket fridges has been confirmed.
Source: ICA Gruppen; Coop Sverige; Ahold Delhaize; Carrefour Belgium; SVT; TV4; Aftonbladet; Expressen; VRT NWS; RTBF/Belga; HLN; Reuters
Photo: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0 (file image: the Los Guinchos power station, La Palma) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 12:26
The Spanish island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, suffered a complete blackout early on Monday, 2 November, after a general failure of its electrical system during heavy rain and thunderstorms. Endesa said 50,508 customers lost power from 06:38 local time (08:38 in Romania), and the Canary Islands government declared an alert under its PLATECA emergency plan. The cause has not been confirmed. By late morning about 40% of customers had their electricity back, while 32,781 were still waiting.
Source: Government of the Canary Islands (Emergencies, PLATECA declaration); Endesa; Red Eléctrica (REE); EFE; Europa Press; RTVE
Photo: RBK-Ukraine, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Kyiv residents sheltering in the metro during a Russian missile attack, December 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:55
Ukraine's official air raid alert app was apparently hacked on Sunday night and briefly told users that Kyiv faced a radiation threat, followed by fake warnings of a chemical attack and street fighting in the capital. A few hours later, Russia's emergencies ministry said its own app had been hit by "a massive cyberattack" that sent false information to the public. The attacks came minutes before a local ceasefire in the Kherson region expired.
Source: Ukrainian Air Force; Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine; Russian Emergencies Ministry; BBC; Reuters
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, public domain (file image: Haley Stevens' official portrait) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:55
Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens has endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's closely watched US Senate race, turning against her own party's nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, two days before Tuesday's midterm elections. Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary to El-Sayed in August, said he had told her she was no longer welcome in his campaign. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the move "a despicable betrayal", while Donald Trump praised it.
Source: CBS News; NBC News; Al Jazeera
Photo: Kuyper, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Kimi Antonelli at the 2025 US Grand Prix in Austin) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Sport · 06:55
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli has become the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history, sealing the title with third place at the Mexico City Grand Prix at 20 years and 68 days old. Max Verstappen won the race for Red Bull ahead of Lewis Hamilton, whose Ferrari started from pole, on a day of open tension between Hamilton and team-mate Charles Leclerc.
Source: BBC Sport; Sky Sports; Formula 1
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Bulevardul Ion C. Brătianu, Bucharest) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:55
A cyclone that formed over the Mediterranean and brought heavy rain and flood risk to Bulgaria, Greece and southern Italy is moving over Romania. The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) has issued yellow warnings for strong wind across most of Muntenia and Dobrogea and for heavy rain in Călărași, Ialomița and Constanța, while snow is settling in the mountains above 1,700 metres. Rainy, windy weather is forecast until Wednesday evening.
Source: Administrația Națională de Meteorologie (ANM); Digi24
Photo: Dr Patty McAlpin, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: the Humber Bridge seen from the south bank) / Source: Wikimedia Commons (Geograph)
NEW Travel · 06:55
British adventurer Karl Bushby crossed the Humber Bridge through thick mist on Sunday, on the final stage of a 31,000-mile (49,890 km) walk from the southern tip of South America to his home town of Hull that has taken 28 years. The former paratrooper is due to finish on Monday, when his mother, his son and his granddaughter will be waiting for him.
Source: BBC News; BBC Radio Humberside
Photo: Angie Linder, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: Juan Atkins performing) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Culture · 06:55
Juan Atkins, one of the founders of Detroit techno and a major influence on dance music around the world, has died aged 64. His agency, Greensmith Artists, told Resident Advisor that he was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Mexico City before a performance and was pronounced dead in hospital.
Source: The Guardian; Resident Advisor; NBC News
Photo: Bretwa, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Binance-branded T-shirt and bag, 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:46
Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, says a security incident on 29 October affected about $6.3bn of assets, making it the largest crypto hack on record. The FBI says North Korea's TraderTraitor group carried out the attack, confirming earlier findings by TRM Labs and Chainalysis. Binance says it will cover all losses and has already covered about 95% with company funds. On 1 November it reopened withdrawals for bitcoin, ether, BNB, XRP and some stablecoins, with more assets to follow in phases.
Source: BBC News; The Guardian; Binance; CNBC; Reuters; Chainalysis; FBI; AP; CoinDesk
Photo: Bulgarian Presidency (President.bg), CC BY 2.5 BG (file image: official portrait of President Iliana Iotova) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 09:08
Iliana Iotova and her running mate Kiril Valchev have won Bulgaria's presidential runoff, held on Sunday, 1 November. With 100% of polling station protocols processed, the Central Election Commission (CIK) gives them 57.57% of the vote, against 39.48% for Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev. Iotova becomes Bulgaria's seventh president and the first woman elected to the office. Gyurov conceded. Her new five-year term begins on 22 January 2027.
Source: Central Election Commission of Bulgaria (CIK); BNR Radio Bulgaria; BNT; AP; DW; Novinite; Reuters; Anadolu Agency
Photo: still from social-media video shared by @TabascoHOY on X (flooded street in Las Vegas, October 2026)
NEW World · 19:40
Thunderstorms fed by moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Vance brought torrential rain, hail and flash flooding to the Las Vegas Valley on Friday, 30 October, and again on Halloween night. In Henderson, a person pulled from a flooded wash by firefighters went into cardiac arrest and died in hospital, city officials said. A Flash Flood Watch stays in force for parts of southern Nevada and north-west Arizona through Sunday night.
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal; KSNV News 3; KTNV; FOX5 Las Vegas; City of Henderson; National Weather Service Las Vegas; US National Hurricane Center; tip and video: @TabascoHOY on X
Photo: Raph_PH, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, cropped and resized (file image: Michael Mann in conversation at BFI Southbank, London, December 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Entertainment · 16:17
Michael Mann, the director of Heat, Collateral and Miami Vice, was taken to hospital by ambulance after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Los Angeles gun range on Saturday afternoon, according to TMZ. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the incident to the outlet, describing it as a training accident.
Source: TMZ (LAPD confirmation to TMZ); also reported by Consequence, The Sun, The Mirror US
Photo: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Mageean after the women's 1500m final at the 2022 European Championships in Munich) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Sport · 14:04
Irish middle-distance runner Ciara Mageean, the 2024 European 1500m champion and a two-time Olympian, has died at the age of 34. A statement on her social media said she died at 6.30am on Sunday, 1 November, "surrounded by her loved ones", after a battle with cancer. Mageean, from Portaferry in County Down, Northern Ireland, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in May 2025.
Source: BBC Sport; The Irish Times; ITV News/UTV; The Irish News; RTÉ; family statement; Athletics Ireland
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NEW World · 11:47
Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region came under a "massive" drone attack overnight and on the morning of Sunday, 1 November, Governor Gleb Nikitin said, with more than 100 drones destroyed and "significant damage" to an industrial enterprise in the Kstovo district. He did not name the plant, but residents' footage and monitoring channels showed a large fire at Lukoil's Kstovo refinery (Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, or NORSI), one of Russia's largest. Ukraine's military had not officially claimed the strike at the time of publication.
Source: Governor Gleb Nikitin (Telegram) via AP/Euronews, AFP, Interfax, RIA Novosti; Russian Defence Ministry via Vedomosti; Kyiv Independent; LIGA.net; Meduza; The Insider; Reuters; tip and video: @Gerashchenko_en on X
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NEW Romania · 20:57
Two drones entered Romania's airspace without authorisation from the direction of the Republic of Moldova on Saturday evening, 31 October, the Defence Ministry (MApN) said. Four F-16 fighters and an IAR-330 helicopter were scrambled, and RO-Alert warnings were sent to people in Iași, Neamț, Vaslui, Botoșani, Bacău and Suceava counties. One drone left Romanian airspace and the second was last seen between Vaslui and Bacău. No crash was reported, and the alerts ended at 19:19.
Source: MApN; IGSU; Romanian Foreign Ministry (@MAERomania); Moldovan Ministry of Defence; Agerpres; Mediafax; Antena 3 CNN; Digi24
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NEW World · 20:19
The US Embassy in Moscow warned on Saturday, 31 October, of a "credible threat of a mass casualty event" that same day at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve in the south of the city and told Americans to stay away. Russia's FSB security service said it had received information from the US about preparations for a terrorist attack in Moscow and was acting on it. The museum park was closed and visitors were evacuated; no incident or casualties had been reported by Saturday evening.
Source: U.S. Embassy Moscow; FSB via RIA Novosti; TASS; Reuters; Meduza; NEWS.ru
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NEW Business · 15:48
Bitcoin was trading at about $77,400 on Halloween afternoon, 31 October 2026, roughly 400,000 times its price on the same day in 2010, when it changed hands for about 19 cents on the Mt.Gox exchange. But it is about 29% below last Halloween's close of $109,556, the highest 31 October price on record.
Source: CoinMarketCap (daily close, UTC); Mt.Gox trade history; Bitstamp; CoinGecko; Coinbase; via @WatcherGuru
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NEW World · 06:37
A wave of youth-led protests over the cost of living, underfunded schools and public spending cuts swept across Europe on Saturday, 31 October. About 320,000 people marched in France, according to the Interior Ministry, and thousands more in Germany. Most rallies were peaceful during the day, but clashes with police broke out after dark in several cities, and rioters looted shops in central Frankfurt.
Source: French Interior Ministry; BBC; DW; AFP; Reuters; NBC News
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NEW Politics · 06:37
A federal judge in Miami has dismissed with prejudice Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its report on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, meaning the case cannot be filed again. The judge ruled that the president had not shown the paper acted with actual malice. Trump's lawyers said they would keep fighting, and an appeal is expected.
Source: US District Court (Miami); CBS News; Reuters; Al Jazeera
Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3 (file image, July 2024) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:37
Former UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said Britain's future should be inside the European Union, arguing that Brexit has left the country "poorer, weaker and less secure". It is her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury and comes as Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the UK needs an honest discussion about its future relationship with Europe.
Source: The Sunday Times; BBC
Photo: U.S. Department of State, public domain (file image: Rubio and Lavrov in Kuala Lumpur, July 2025) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:37
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he briefly discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the possibility of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin talking at the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, on 18-19 November. Speaking at the G20 meeting in Atlanta, Rubio also said international interest is growing in a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea to protect grain and energy shipments, but he remains sceptical about a negotiated peace.
Source: US State Department; AFP; Reuters; Agerpres; Digi24; G4Media