Saudi Arabia pumped 10.563 million barrels a day in October, OPEC said, as the U.S. average gas price fell to $3.94, its first time under $4 in months.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, its health ministry said Nov. 11, as Kenya began a 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status.
Spain held its first general strike in 14 years on Nov. 11 over housing costs. Masked groups clashed with police in Barcelona as 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Cost of living by country for mid-2026: the most expensive and cheapest nations, the biggest changes over the year and official inflation, with charts.
Russia hit six major power substations overnight, Kyiv said, a second night of strikes that left outages in eight regions and darkened city streetlights.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large prisoner exchange as Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday with no breakthrough. Envoys go to Moscow and Dublin Thursday.
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Live: Poland's tribunal chief is suspended, police guard the court and PiS backers protest in Warsaw as President Nawrocki rushes home from a Senegal trip.
The PBOC overnight reverse repo will run every working day from Nov. 2 at 1.25%, a step toward a new policy anchor as China's GDP growth holds at 4.5%.
Geopolitics and business report, Oct. 30, 2026: Hormuz tanker attacks double and freight soars, BP cuts debt, Ukraine's energy war and markets eye the midterms.
Arctic sea routes are open longer each year: the Northern Sea Route hit a record 103 transits in 2025 as Russia, China, the U.S. and NATO build up forces.
China's reusable experimental spacecraft is 265 days into its fourth mission as a new DIA report publishes a photo of it. Here's how it compares with the X-37B.
An Amadeus data breach exposed booking records for about 92,000 JAL customers, 37,800 at ANA and 53,000 Cathay bookings over more than three years. What was taken.
Samsung's Q3 2026 operating profit hit a record 107.4 trillion won, nearly nine times a year earlier, as HBM4 sales tripled and 2027 AI memory supply sold out.
UK Budget 2026 funds the £15bn Defence Investment Plan and a path to NATO's 3.5% target as OBR data show debt interest climbing and headroom shrinking.
Live updates from the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 30-31, as Rubio hosts talks on shipping, energy and food security amid rifts over Russia.
A drone strike killed at least 16 at an Ethiopian displacement camp, Congo asked Russia to back a UN demand on Rwanda, and Sudan's Blue Nile toll grew.
North Korea showed off rockets, cruise missiles and attack drones for Kim Jong Un as China drilled near Philippine-claimed shoals and allies conferred.
Reuters says an Iran military import network of 5,000+ MOD agencies brought in $2B in explosives and trucks past the US blockade, with links to IRGC commanders.
South Korea Germany partnership: Lee and Merz agreed Oct. 29 in Seoul on closer defense ties, a military intel-sharing pact and chip and battery cooperation.
The Vance letter to Rezaei seeks direct U.S.-Iran talks with the nuclear program on the table as Qatar mediates and a possible post-midterm strike looms.
Commissary freezer cyberattack: the Pentagon treats failures that spoiled food at 6+ U.S. base stores as a suspected hack tied to a French supermarket attack.
Houthi missiles: Saudi defenses shot down two ballistic missiles aimed at the capital Oct. 29. One person was hurt in the fourth attack in four days.
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