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.
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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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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.
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.
China sent its Manila defense attaché to the ADMM-Plus in Cebu, its lowest-level delegation since 2010; Teodoro said Beijing's complaints are not ASEAN's position.
Taiwan's security chief posted a map of 53 Chinese vessels, 34 of them warships, from southern Japan to the Philippines. China calls it routine training.
Strait of Hormuz mines: Iran's IRGC claims three tankers hit mines on an unauthorized route; CENTCOM says the main lanes are clear. The claim is unverified.
North Korea ballistic missiles flew about 250 km from Wonsan on Oct. 29, Seoul said, its 17th launch this year, a week after the South offered border talks.
U.S.-Japan AMRAAM missile production: Koizumi and Hegseth agreed in Cebu to build an assembly plant in Japan for F-35 missiles. Site and timing not yet set.
A Dnipro railway station drone strike killed 14 on a platform by the Zaporizhzhia train, officials said, hours after Ukraine sent 613 drones toward Moscow.
The Putin call with Stubb and Støre lasted 90 minutes, with no breakthrough but a pledge to keep talking as U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks near in Abu Dhabi.
Houthis claim a missile hit Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery, which Riyadh has not confirmed, as Egypt's parliament clears military support for the kingdom.
Reza Pahlavi news: his latest quotes, his Nov. 6 Brussels speech and Nov. 7 Frankfurt prize speech, and what polls show about the crown prince of Iran.
Saudi Arabia's defense minister, Pakistan's army chief and Turkey's spy chief met Iranian leaders in Tehran in a push to de-escalate the Iran war.
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