Tuesday, November 10, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told EU leaders that a collective commitment to fund Ukraine's 2027 shortfall is an 'essential prerequisite' for agreeing the bloc's 2028–2034 budget. Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary and Bulgaria have rejected the linkage, and Slovakia's Robert Fico called it blackmail.
At least 22 people died and two are missing after two migrant boats from Libya got into trouble south of Crete between 7 and 9 November. Survivors said they ran out of fuel, food and water after days at sea, and two Sudanese nationals have been arrested as suspected smugglers. The deaths come as arrivals on the Libya-to-Crete route keep rising.
The failure of Ueno Bank, a fast-growing digital lender with about 2.9 million customers, froze accounts for roughly half of Paraguay's adults, put hundreds of millions of dollars of pension money at risk and led to the impeachment and detention of President Santiago Peña, who denies wrongdoing. Here is how the crisis unfolded and what depositors can expect.
Qantas says about 850 corporate roles will be affected over the coming years under a new multi-year partnership with Accenture, with some finance, procurement, people and marketing work moving mostly to Accenture teams in India. The first changes are due by mid-2027, and the Australian Services Union says the move contradicts earlier assurances about offshoring.
Australia will legislate mandatory safety and security obligations for frontier AI companies, enforced by a new AI safety regulator, after a rapid review into an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal. The government accepted all 18 of the review's recommendations on 10 November 2026, including mandatory incident reporting and a possible 'failure to prevent' criminal offence.
France formally attributed the October 2026 cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration systems to Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, on Monday 9 November. The overnight attack hit more than 700 food sites, started fires and destroyed food worth tens of millions of euros, and Paris says it will push for new EU sanctions.
British author M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize 2026 on Monday 9 November for The End of Everything, a 198-page satirical post-apocalyptic novel. At 81 he is the oldest winner in the prize's history and, according to the Booker Prize Foundation, the first winner to have come from the science fiction world.
An explosion at the HABAŞ iron and steel plant in Aliağa, north of Izmir in western Turkey, killed 17 workers on Monday 9 November 2026 after an overhead crane collapsed into an electric arc furnace during maintenance, officials said. Prosecutors have detained six suspects, and labour groups say the blast followed other recent deaths at the same plant.
Russell Brand was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 9 November 2026 to 10 years and six months in prison for one rape and three sexual assaults against four women between 2004 and 2009. Mr Justice Bennathan said Brand will serve two-thirds of the term before release on licence and will be indefinitely subject to sex offender notification requirements.