International News Bulletin — November 6, 2026

Politics

• Trump says a Russia-Ukraine deal is close after meeting Putin’s envoy – Donald Trump met Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, at the White House on Thursday and told reporters: “There’s going to be an agreement. It’s going to be a big agreement, and it’s going to involve more than Ukraine,” Al Jazeera and the Kyiv Independent reported. He declined to say what the two discussed. Separately, Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials to build on the October 27 to November 1 truce in Oleshky, which Al Jazeera said allowed nearly 800 civilians to be evacuated.
• Paraguay’s Congress blocks Peña’s resignation and moves to impeach him – President Santiago Peña announced his resignation on Thursday over the collapse of the digital lender Ueno Bank, but the joint session called to accept it lost its quorum when ruling Colorado Party lawmakers walked out, Reuters and ABC Color reported. The lower house voted 78-0 to impeach him, according to Reuters, and the 45-member Senate was sworn in as a tribunal that night; removal requires 30 votes. Congress president Basilio Núñez told ABC Color a final vote could come on Friday.
• Somalia’s Supreme Court rules that the president’s mandate has expired – The court’s Constitutional Division ruled on Thursday that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s term ended on May 15 and parliament’s on April 14, because the March constitutional amendments did not say they applied to sitting institutions, Garowe Online and AFP reported. Garowe Online said the court ordered elections within 90 days. The ruling came a day after Mohamud dismissed Chief Justice Bashe Yusuf Ahmed, according to AFP.
• Nigerian court voids Atiku Abubakar’s opposition presidential nomination – Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday annulled the African Democratic Congress leadership under David Mark and every candidate it submitted for the 2027 elections, including Abubakar, Premium Times reported. The suit was brought by Nafiu Bala Gombe, a former deputy national chairman of the party. The ADC said it would appeal, according to AFP, which reported that the presidential vote is set for January 16.
• Turkish parliament ratifies a mutual defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan – Lawmakers approved the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on Thursday by 279 votes to 119, Al Jazeera reported, citing AFP and Reuters. Its second article requires members to assist a party under armed attack, and members are committed for 10 years. Defence Minister Yasar Guler said Turkey did not foresee “entering into any conflict with the Houthis”.

Economy

• Wall Street suffers its worst day since April 2025 – The S&P 500 fell 4.4% to 7,353.73 on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1,833.06 points, or 3.4%, to 51,523.06 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.5% to 24,315, according to AP’s closing table. AP and Al Jazeera tied the sell-off to fears that the Democratic victory in the midterms will bring moratoriums on data centres, after voters backed restrictions in 39 of 45 local ballot measures, Al Jazeera reported. Nvidia was down 8.2% at midday, according to Al Jazeera.
• Taiwan’s Taiex posts a record points drop as Seoul halts trading – The Taiex plunged 3,737.67 points to an intraday low of 37,837.05 shortly after Friday’s open, the largest intraday points decline in its history, with TSMC hitting its daily limit down at NT$2,020, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported. Nikkei Asia put the morning fall at around 9%. In Seoul the exchange suspended Kospi trading for 20 minutes from 9:03 after an 8% drop, and the index was down 4.47% at 5,143.39 by 11:20, Yonhap reported.
• China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4bn purchase of ABB’s robotics division – ABB said on Thursday that SoftBank had informed it Chinese regulators had “prohibited the acquisition of the ABB Robotics business in China”, Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times reported. The FT, via Swissinfo, named the National Development and Reform Commission as the blocking authority and said the deal had cleared China’s competition review in February before a foreign investment security review. SoftBank, which agreed the purchase in October 2025, declined to comment.

World News

• Newsom moves to commute all 548 death sentences in California – Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that he will commute the sentences of everyone on California’s death row to life without parole, Al Jazeera and the Los Angeles Times reported. Many of the commutations require approval from the California Supreme Court, and the state has not carried out an execution since 2006, according to the Los Angeles Times. Newsom wrote that “state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values”, Al Jazeera reported.
• Russell Brand convicted of rape and sexual assault in London – A jury at Southwark Crown Court found the 51-year-old comedian guilty on Thursday of one count of rape and three of sexual assault against four women between 2004 and 2009, and acquitted him on three other charges, Al Jazeera, citing Reuters, and The Guardian reported. Judge Joel Bennathan remanded Brand in custody and said he would be sentenced on Monday.
• Egypt’s army says it detained 691 gold miners near Sudan – Army spokesman Ahmed Etman said on Thursday that a military operation had detained 151 Egyptians and 540 foreigners, and that more than 6,000 people had surrendered before it began, Africanews reported, citing AFP. Etman said drone strikes in the area had targeted weapons and ammunition depots and that “no civilians were targeted”. A rights group has blamed Egypt’s air force for October strikes on a border mine that killed at least 72 miners, according to AFP.

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