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The operator of Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine reported Thursday that exports of copper concentrate to China have fallen by about 70% over the past two weeks because of restrictions at a border crossing, raising concerns over potential revenue losses and disruptions to the country’s mineral sector.
Fox News has shifted its rating of the South Carolina Senate race between Republican incumbent Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews to a toss-up, the Washington Examiner reported on Tuesday, days before voters cast their ballots. The outlet had previously rated the contest as leaning Republican, and the change moves the race in Andrews's favour.
China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and equipment, and once installed or deployed, these 2026 exports will likely avert emissions of about 450 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, roughly equal to Brazil’s annual emissions, according to a report released Thursday by the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). The analysis estimates that if current export trends continue for the rest of the year, about 8,400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide will be averted over the lifetime of all the clean tech China exported this year, equivalent to about 24% of annual global emissions, more than the United States’ and India’s emissions combined.
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland's national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, sparked controversy on Wednesday by suggesting that Poland could open negotiations to leave the European Union as a last resort to force reform. Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other senior government figures immediately condemned the remarks, accusing Kaczyński of effectively calling for 'Polexit' a year ahead of the country's general election.
Ukrainian forces struck a Russian military facility used to launch long-range attack drones near Navlya in Bryansk Oblast overnight on Oct. 29, Ukraine's General Staff reported, damaging a storage facility for Geran-type drones, fuel and lubricant storage facilities and the 'drone port' itself.
The bodies of two Colorado Mountain College students who went missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains last weekend have been found, authorities said Wednesday. Kaden Matsuda, 19, and Jackson Donlon, 20, were discovered in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles southeast of Aspen. The sheriff’s office said foul play was not suspected; the causes of their deaths were under investigation, and authorities said they would not offer theories until autopsies are completed.
The Victorian Court of Appeal has dismissed Erin Patterson's appeal against her convictions for the mushroom poisonings and granted the prosecution's appeal against her sentence, removing her non-parole period and ensuring she will die in prison.
The Trump administration said it is blocking shipments by Chinese biotech company BGI Group and its affiliates BGI Genomics and MGI Tech, citing allegations of forced labour in Xinjiang. The Department of Homeland Security said the companies were sourcing materials from Xinjiang or working with the regional government to recruit, transport, transfer, harbor or receive forced labour of members of persecuted ethnic groups, including Uyghurs.
Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google over the clearing of forest for a planned AI data centre in northern Finland, examining whether the company's local subsidiary breached the country's Water Act.
A week after police in Guinea-Bissau dismantled a suspected human trafficking ring, many of the victims remain in the country without enough money to travel home. The October 21 operation followed complaints of abductions and fraud, and police said more than five suspects were arrested.
Nigel Farage has been accused by the Lib Dem deputy leader, who said she did not witness the incident, of shoving a female MP on the day of the state opening of parliament in May, after he said he missed this week's budget speech because his seat reservation had been moved.
Jordan and Syria are giving conflicting accounts of Monday evening's air strikes on southern Syria, which killed a grandmother, her three grandchildren and other civilians. Jordan said the raids, retaliation for a deadly church attack in the kingdom, were carried out in coordination with Damascus; Syria's foreign ministry said they came without prior coordination or notification and called them “treacherous”.
A lawsuit filed this week by advocacy group Student Defense alleges the Department of Education has illegally denied debt relief to thousands of student-loan borrowers whose schools shut down. The class-action complaint, brought on behalf of borrower Kendrick Gaussoin, says the department has failed to process closed school discharges despite expanding eligibility under a January 2025 decision.
A federal judge in Florida has ruled for Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit brought by former Dominion Voting Systems director of product strategy and security Eric Coomer over the 2020 election documentary The Deep Rig. Judge Tom Barber of the Middle District of Florida granted summary judgment to Byrne, ruling that Coomer failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Byrne acted with actual malice.
Lithuania plans to introduce universal military conscription in 2032, President Gitanas Nausėda said on Thursday after the State Defence Council agreed on the timeline.
US officials concluded that Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed who had developed a close relationship with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, was a Chinese intelligence asset funnelling information to Beijing, The New York Times reported on Thursday. President Donald Trump was briefed on the findings about a year ago and chose not to act. The report said he has been wary of disrupting Nvidia's chip sales and further complicating trade with China. Nvidia says the dealings were routine contact between a CEO and a customer.
South Korean prosecutors are again seeking the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk-yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial rule in December 2024, arguing at an appeal hearing in Seoul on Thursday that his actions threatened the country’s democracy.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a historic leader of Mexico's left, died on Wednesday at age 92. Without him, it would be impossible to understand the left's rise to power in Mexico, as both President Claudia Sheinbaum and former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador walked arm in arm with Cárdenas during the democratic struggles of the 1980s. He broke the long hegemony of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), giving rise to a democratic transition.
More people were recalled to jails in England and Wales in the first half of 2026 than were released, despite government efforts to reduce the prison population, according to Ministry of Justice figures released on Thursday. Between April and June, 12,338 people were returned to custody while 12,278 were released, continuing a trend set in the first quarter.
A new nonpartisan analysis from Resources for the Future (RFF) finds that the Senate permitting bill would reduce carbon emissions from power plants in the near term and deliver estimated savings of over $350 billion in present-value terms through 2050, while also helping to keep electricity prices down. The study comes as the bill faces a test vote on Nov. 9.
A Polish Catholic bishop has been found guilty of failing to promptly report allegations of child sex abuse by priests under his authority, in the first ruling of its kind in the country. The court ordered Andrzej Jeż, the bishop of Tarnów, to donate 25 per cent of his salary for two years to a charity supporting victims of child sexual abuse and pay 20,000 zloty to a victims’ assistance fund. The diocese has said it disagrees with the ruling and that an appeal will be filed after the court’s written justification is reviewed.
A pedestrian has been struck by a lorry on Academy Street in Inverness city centre. Emergency services were called to the city centre at about 09:50, and Police Scotland said the serious crash had closed the street.
The most pervasive form of discrimination against Jewish Australians comes from progressives motivated by social justice who give antisemitism a 'respectable veneer', argues a new report from Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA).
Newly released emails obtained by environmental justice groups show that officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, monitored activists advocating for the closure of a waste incinerator, including by sending an employee to attend an open Zoom meeting and compiling a dossier that was sent to county superiors. Information gathered by county employees was also shared with industry and used to help defeat legislation, the groups allege. The county says the allegations mischaracterize its community engagement work and staff responsibilities, and that the actions were ordinary government functions.
A fish processing company has been fined £245,000 after a worker was pulled into a machine and suffered a fractured jaw, arm and chest injuries at its factory in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that a safety guard had been removed during maintenance two weeks before the incident and had not been replaced.
A Scottish backpacker arrested in Thailand over an alleged mobile phone theft faces a six-week wait to learn whether he will be allowed to return home. Rory McColl, 37, from Edinburgh, remains on bail in Thailand after appearing before four judges in Bangkok.
Russian President Vladimir Putin courted nearly 50 African nations at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, calling Africa a ‘natural ally’ in building a multipolar world order, but only about 20 heads of state attended, a sign of the damage to Moscow’s reputation from its war in Ukraine and failed security partnerships in the Sahel.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has ordered a state investigation into whether Mary Peltola’s campaign violated state law by allegedly recruiting a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to run as a spoiler, as the U.S. Department of Justice pursued a lawsuit seeking to block certification of a result potentially affected by voter confusion and a House committee sought voluntary interviews with a former campaign manager and an intermediary.
The first million barrels of oil from this year's US-Venezuela oil deal arrived in Texas this week, but upcoming elections in both countries could put the agreement's future at risk.
Three men have been jailed for their roles in a gang that smuggled people from the UK into France by hiding them in lorries bound for Dover, part of a network sentenced to a combined total of 84 years. Shuhal Ahmed, 44, Robiul Islam, 50, and Qasim Jan, 55, were the latest members sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday.
John Healey is facing pressure to clarify whether he permitted a market-sensitive budget leak that moved bank share prices ahead of his budget statement. Meg Hillier, chair of the Commons Treasury select committee, has written to the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to investigate whether a Bloomberg story published more than an hour before the budget might be considered an improper release of inside information about changes to the bank corporation tax surcharge.
Gerry Kelly, the Sinn Féin MLA for North Belfast, has announced he will seek re-election to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2027, reversing an earlier decision not to stand. Kelly said he reconsidered after being approached by his party and will put his name forward for selection as one of Sinn Féin's candidates in Belfast North.
Israel's police and election authorities have dismissed Likud's claims that Arab parties stole this week's election, as the head of the opposition bloc, Gadi Eisenkot, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a campaign to delegitimise the result. The Central Elections Committee chairman, Justice Noam Sohlberg, has nevertheless ordered the Shin Bet security agency to investigate allegations of foreign interference in the Arab vote.
The Parades Commission has banned the Belfast Walker Club, a local branch of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, from marching along the mainly nationalist Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast on Saturday 7 November.
Cornell University's Faculty Senate is set to begin voting on a symbolic censure resolution condemning the administration's handling of a former student's complaint alleging that fraternity members raped her in October 2024, with the electronic vote running through November 6.
The suspect in the shooting that killed a man in Trappes and La Verrière, near Paris, has been formally charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist act, and prosecutors have asked for him to be held in pre-trial detention.
David Durman, a humanist and research administrator at the University of Kentucky, has become the first Humanist to secure a religious accommodation exempting him from using artificial intelligence at work after arguing the technology conflicts with his deeply held beliefs.
Belgium's deputy prime minister has called on the European Union to ready its Anti-Coercion Instrument, the so-called 'trade bazooka,' for use against Washington over its push to raise EU drug prices, in a position paper published Thursday. Frank Vandenbroucke, who also serves as Belgium's health minister, co-authored the paper for the Egmont Institute think tank with deputy head of cabinet Gloria Ghéquière.
The Australian Defence Force has admitted that up to a quarter of its personnel are not medically fit for deployment, a revelation that emerged during Senate Estimates hearings on Thursday after independent Senator David Pocock pressed officials on the issue.
Owners of expensive homes in the UK face annual “mansion tax” bills of up to £15,000 if their properties remain empty for 12 months or more, under plans set out by the Treasury. The 100% premium on the high-value council tax surcharge will apply to long-term empty properties above the £2 million value threshold from April 2028.
A yearlong investigation by Bloomberg Law has found that mandatory arrest laws in about half of U.S. states, intended to prevent violence from escalating, have failed dozens of victims, including people wrongly arrested after calling 911; charges were dropped in at least 85% of cases examined. The investigation reported that arrests can erode survivors’ trust in law enforcement; some said false arrests cost them jobs or custody of their children, and more than a dozen said they were injured by responding officers during their arrests.
Enforcement of the UK's upcoming ban on social media for under-16s will probably require older teenagers to show photo ID, according to the UK's online safety regulator Ofcom, which said the risk of circumvention cannot be entirely eliminated.
The European Commission has responded to a joint request from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for €500 million in new funding to develop anti-drone defences, saying it could not offer the additional funding sought. European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said one possibility was to make use of additional funding under the SAFE instrument.
Two men living in Germany have been arrested at Bulgaria's request on suspicion of attempting to set fire to Starlink equipment in Vilnius earlier this month, Lithuanian law enforcement officials said on Thursday. The suspects face suspicions of forming and participating in a terrorist group.
Quebec's separatist premier, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has announced he will boycott the EU-Canada summit opening Thursday in Montreal, warning European leaders in an open letter that deals struck at the summit without his government's consent may not be applied in Canada's second-largest province.
Russian forces struck the Dnipro railway station for a second consecutive day on 30 October, a day after a jet-powered drone attack killed at least 15 people at the station's platform. The follow-up strike came as evacuation convoys began moving residents out of the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky under a fragile local ceasefire brokered by the United States.
Fraser McReight has been awarded the John Eales Medal as Australian rugby’s player of the year, capping a standout season that saw him named Defender of the Year and become the first Queensland Reds player to claim the honour in two decades.
A New Mexico megachurch has openly endorsed two Republican candidates for the midterm elections, violating a federal law that bars tax-exempt nonprofits from engaging in political endorsements. Pastor Steve Smothermon of Legacy Church urged his congregation to support Greg Cunningham, who is challenging Democratic Representative Gabriel Vasquez in a competitive House race, and later endorsed Gregg Hull for governor. The endorsements come as the Trump administration pursues a legal challenge to the 1954 Johnson amendment.