Thursday, November 12, 2026
Mercedes-Benz's management board has stopped all further investment at its German sites and says it will now examine plant closures in concrete terms, after cost-cutting talks with the works council and IG Metall stalled. Executives want longer working hours without extra pay and cuts to bonuses; no plants have been named.
Ryohin Keikaku, the company behind Muji, apologised on 12 November for keeping about 1.09 million full MUJI Card numbers it should have deleted years ago, which may have been accessed in an October cyberattack. It will pay reissue fees for about 345,000 cards that are still valid, while its Japanese online store remains offline after a separate wave of credential-stuffing logins.
Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka formally resigned on Thursday 12 November, handing his letter to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) after court rulings undermined the school documents behind his 2024 candidacy. President Prabowo Subianto must now nominate two candidates, and the assembly has up to 60 days to elect a successor.
A three-storey building with a shop and four flats collapsed into a neighbouring excavation pit in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on 11 November 2026. By 12 November officials said eight people had died, including two children and two construction workers, and 18 were injured; prosecutors are examining whether any criminal conduct contributed.
Google DeepMind says AI agents built on its AlphaProof Code framework have mathematically proved key security properties of the compiled code behind the Signal protocol, generating about 6.5 million lines of machine-checked proofs in four weeks. The result covers Signal's core one-to-one encryption library under stated assumptions, not the whole Signal app or every messaging service that uses the protocol.
Emailed bomb threats reached about 6,300 state schools in Italy and hundreds more in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, prompting precautionary evacuations. Police in every country involved said the threats were not credible, no explosives were found, and investigators are trying to trace the sender.
Millions of workers in Spain joined a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, the country's first since 2012, to protest against soaring rents and house prices. Unions and tenants' groups put participation at about 4 million, and the stoppage lands less than three weeks before a snap general election on 29 November in which housing is a central issue.
US consumer prices rose 0.4% in October 2026, more than the 0.3% economists expected, with core prices up 0.3% for a third straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on 10 November. The BLS published no annual inflation rate because last year's government shutdown left no October 2025 data, but economists estimate it at about 3.9% to 4%, and the report has strengthened expectations of a Federal Reserve rate rise in December.
Storm Charles reached mainland Portugal on Wednesday, 11 November, after battering Madeira overnight, prompting the first nationwide closure of Portugal's schools for a storm, hundreds of flight cancellations and the cancellation of Web Summit's second day. By mid-afternoon local time, authorities had logged hundreds of incidents, mostly flooding and fallen trees, but reported no deaths or serious injuries.