International News Bulletin — November 1, 2026

Politics

• Iran discusses a two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said talks with Qatari mediators were under way on a plan to reopen the strait within two days if Washington cooperates, and called the US offer of dialogue “a positive step”, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday. President Donald Trump told reporters in Florida that the talks were “going fine” but that the US still had “one or two sites” to deal with, naming the suspected underground complex at Pickaxe Mountain, which Tehran says hosts no nuclear work, according to AFP. On Saturday Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered commanders to prepare an “immediate and effective response, without geographical restrictions” to any renewed attack, Anadolu reported, citing state broadcaster IRIB.
• Poland’s president calls crisis talks over the Constitutional Tribunal – President Karol Nawrocki held emergency consultations with party leaders on Saturday after an order posted on Friday suspended tribunal president Bogdan Swieczkowski and his deputy and put Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska in charge, Anadolu reported. Nawrocki called the move a “forcible takeover of a constitutional state body” and told the judges now seeking to run the court “You are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal”, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a televised address that the removal was necessary to restore the rule of law. Tusk’s Civic Coalition stayed away from the talks, which produced no breakthrough by Saturday afternoon, and the European Commission urged Nawrocki to accept the new judges’ nominations, Al Jazeera reported.
• Eisenkot vows a broad government as Tel Aviv rallies for Arab partners – Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot said on Saturday he would work to form a broad government to avoid another election, saying “the door to the government we establish will be open to any elected official who accepts these principles”, Anadolu reported. Final results give Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc 53 of the Knesset’s 120 seats and Eisenkot’s bloc 48, short of a majority for either. Thousands rallied on Habima Square the same evening to call for a government including Arab-led parties, which Eisenkot had previously ruled out, Al Jazeera reported.
• Erdogan and Zelensky agree to work on a Black Sea grain corridor – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after talks in Istanbul on Saturday that he had “reached an agreement with President Erdogan to work on the Black Sea grain corridor”. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Russia and Ukraine to stop attacking civilian ships, saying “We cannot accept these attacks under any circumstances, regardless of who carries them out”, Al Jazeera and Anadolu reported. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, hosting G20 foreign ministers in Atlanta, said Washington was reviewing proposals from Türkiye and India on grain shipments.
• North Korea tests a cluster warhead for a tactical ballistic missile – The state agency KCNA reported on Sunday that the Missile Administration tested a “Type-2 standard cluster warhead” on Saturday, saying it could devastate an area of about 12 to 13 hectares, Anadolu reported. The administration called the test routine research and said all four categories of its cluster warheads would be supplied to military units by the end of 2026. The test followed a drone and cruise missile demonstration overseen by Kim Jong Un earlier in the week, according to France 24.

Economy

• Intel’s plunge drags the Nasdaq down 2.9 percent on Friday – The S&P 500 fell 1.8 percent on Friday to 7,580.07 and the Nasdaq composite lost 2.9 percent to 25,437.00, both closing the week lower, AP’s closing tally showed. Intel shares fell more than 28 percent after a weak fourth-quarter revenue forecast and a warning on PC chip sales, a drop Yahoo Finance described as the company’s worst ever, and other chipmakers lost between 2 and 10 percent, Reuters reported via RTÉ. Amazon closed 4.3 percent lower at $243.79 after reporting third-quarter capital spending of $77.3 billion.
• Euro zone growth slows to 0.4 percent in the third quarter – Gross domestic product in the euro area rose 0.4 percent from the previous quarter and 1.3 percent year on year, Eurostat’s preliminary flash estimate showed on Friday, after 0.6 percent quarterly growth in the second quarter. The figure beat the 0.2 percent forecast in a Reuters poll, though an experimental 5.5 percent quarterly reading for Ireland lifted the total, while France contracted 0.1 percent and Italy stagnated. Bank of Italy governor Fabio Panetta said “further increases in policy rates could be needed”, RTÉ reported.
• Exxon and Chevron profits jump as oil heads for monthly gain – ExxonMobil reported third-quarter profit of $15.4 billion, about double the $7.5 billion of a year earlier, and Chevron $9.9 billion against $3.5 billion, as the Iran war lifted crude prices and refining margins, Reuters reported via RTÉ. Exxon said roughly 10 percent of global refining capacity remained offline in Russia and the Middle East. Brent for December delivery traded at $117.14 a barrel on Friday afternoon, on course for a 13 percent monthly rise.
• FBI blames North Korean hackers for the $6.3 billion Binance theft – The FBI said on Saturday that TraderTraitor, a group it ties to North Korea and to last year’s $1.5 billion Bybit theft, stole the funds from Binance and was laundering them mainly by converting them into Ethereum, Al Jazeera and AFP reported. Binance said it had replaced 90 percent of the stolen amount by buying tokens with company money and that withdrawals were on track to resume on Sunday. Bitcoin fell nearly 5 percent on Friday and Binance’s BNB token nearly 10 percent, according to AFP.

World News

• Evacuees from occupied Oleshky cross back into Ukraine – Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky crossed into Ukraine’s Chernihiv region after travelling by bus through Crimea to Anapa and flying to Belarus, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. The six-day local ceasefire that allowed the operation, mediated by US First Lady Melania Trump with help from Pope Leo XIV, is due to end on Sunday evening, Al Jazeera reported. Officials have not said how many people left a town estimated to have about 1,700 residents before the evacuation, and an evacuee told Reuters that people had eaten grass to survive.
• Gen Z protests turn violent in several German cities – Tens of thousands of young people marched in 34 cities on Saturday against compulsory military service and for more spending on education and health, Reuters reported via RTÉ, with turnout below the 182,000 organisers had expected. In Frankfurt at least two stores were looted and Molotov cocktails were thrown at emergency services, police said, and barricades were set alight in Hamburg. Police reported officers injured in Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and several dozen arrests in Frankfurt, Anadolu said.
• Bolivia declares a national emergency over El Niño – President Rodrigo Paz signed a decree on Saturday declaring a nationwide state of emergency to speed up the response to drought and flooding, warning of “very severe impacts”, Al Jazeera and AFP reported. A government report this week said drought affects 78,000 families in six of the country’s nine departments and has killed more than 75,000 cattle. The World Meteorological Organization puts the likelihood of El Niño lasting through February 2027 at nearly 100 percent.
• Dakar opens Africa’s first Olympic event with the Youth Games – Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye opened the Youth Olympic Games at Diamniadio Olympic Stadium near Dakar on Saturday, the first Olympic event held in Africa, France 24 and AP reported. About 2,700 athletes aged 14 to 17 will contest 153 medal events in 25 sports until November 13. Russia’s 13 athletes compete under their national flag for the first time at an Olympic event since the suspension that followed the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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