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kyivpost.com | 26 min. ago NEW

ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 28, 2026

War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on October 28, 2026.

scmp.com | 55 min. ago NEW

Hong Kong poised for capital inflow amid unrest in France, Middle East war: AllianzGI

Recent unrest in Europe and the Middle East war could prompt investors to seek greater diversification, potentially driving capital inflows to Asian markets including mainland China and Hong Kong in coming months, according to a senior executive of Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), one of Europe’s largest fund houses.

Julie Koo, head of distribution in Asia-Pacific for the company, said the recent protests in France, Italy and Spain would lead investors to review and adjust their exposure to...

scmp.com | 55 min. ago NEW

Brussels wants industry to ditch Chinese suppliers. Businesses are pushing back

European industry has bristled at EU plans to force businesses to diversify their supply chains away from China, as the bloc gears up for a new package of de-risking measures later this year. In December, the European Commission will present a trio of new instruments, none of which will name China, but the overall aim is to wind down dependencies on Beijing and allow the EU to punch back in a trade war scenario.

One tool – DiversifyEU – could compel businesses in key sectors to expand their...

theguardian.com | 1 hrs. 27 min. ago

‘It’s a theatre and we’re pawns’: taking the stand as an expert witness

As one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists, Dame Sue Black has acted as an expert witness in a myriad of high-profile criminal cases. Her work has taken her from the lab to active war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters to identify victims’ bodies.

Speaking to Ian Sample, the professor explains why standing up in front of a judge and jury has been one of the more terrifying parts of her career, the reputational risk of presenting evidence in court and what the future of forensic science could look likeOrder An Expert Witness from the Guardian bookshopSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

koreatimes.co.kr | 1 hrs. 37 min. ago

Ukraine, Russia, US peace negotiators to meet between Nov. 6 and 10, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that he hoped that a trilateral meeting between peace negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States would take place in Abu Dhabi between November 6 and November 10. Zelenskyy said that Kyiv wanted Europe to be involved in the talks on how to end the war, adding that unity and stronger pressure on Russia were needed.

mirror.co.uk | 3 hrs. 6 min. ago

Tourists left stranded in Cambodia after being kicked off 'dream cruise' by '6.30am eviction' notice

The cruise ship company, Villa Vie Residences, issued a statement explaining that it had to suspend operations because of the high cost of fuel in the wake of the Iran War

smh.com.au | 3 hrs. 32 min. ago

Military top brass to be spared from further Afghanistan war crimes action

It comes after the partial release of a long-suppressed report that found commanders ignored warning signs and tolerated serious misconduct.

dailymail.com | 4 hrs. 12 min. ago

ANDREW NEIL: Labour believes in deficit reduction on the never-never. The more Healey talked of prudence, the more we noticed his profligacy...

Chancellor John Healey kicked off his first Budget by getting his excuses in first. The wars in the Gulf and Ukraine, he began, were creating global storms which could knock the UK economy for six.

scmp.com | 4 hrs. 39 min. ago

China’s microdrama war heats up as Tencent, ByteDance fight for eyeballs

Shen Jiaoqi, a banker living in southern China’s Guangdong province, cannot stop watching microdramas. The shows are so addictive that she sometimes spends entire days gazing at her phone. One time, she even kept watching while she showered. “Honestly, I was watching for the eye candy rather than the plots,” she said.

“The AI has really made the characters look stunning.” Shen is far from alone. Microdramas have exploded in popularity in China over the past few years, offering viewers a quick...

kyivindependent.com | 5 hrs. 47 min. ago

Ukraine's military reveals what Russia's war has cost Moscow — in dollars, arms, and lives

With the money spent on the war, Russia could have built 1,000 new schools and 200 hospitals, and granted 1 million rubles to every child born since the start of the full-scale invasion.

theguardian.com | 6 hrs. 4 min. ago

I’ve mailed off my vote in the US midterms. It will be a nail-biting watch, but easier from outside Trump’s America

Eleanor Limprecht | I’m hopeful these elections will be a win for democracy rather than dictatorship, for peace rather than war, and humanity rather than hubrisRecently I made my own envelope out of a sheet of paper and sticky tape, signed it and affixed a sticker.

Then I took it to my nearest Australia Post shop in Sydney and mailed it.In other words, I voted from abroad in the US midterm elections. Because my last place of residence in the US was the state of Virginia, I can register to vote and request a ballot online, but the ballot still needs to be printed, signed, sealed in an envelope made of folded paper, signed again, placed inside another (store-bought) envelope and mailed in.

There was no sausage sizzle or cake stall to reward me for my civic duty, and no spectre of a fine if I didn’t complete it. Continue reading...

theatlantic.com | 6 hrs. 5 min. ago

Hegseth Fires a Top General

The U.S. military may be planning a return to war, but the director of planning is out.

nypost.com | 7 hrs. 9 min. ago

The Islamic Republic only survives on war — don’t give Tehran what it craves

The Islamic Republic is built to fight, not to govern — and another round of US attacks would hand the regime the one thing that keeps it alive: a war.

nbcnews.com | 7 hrs. 11 min. ago

Cruise ship on global voyage leaves passengers stranded after cutting trip short

A cruise ship which promised a multi-year round-the-world journey has left passengers stranded in Cambodia after it ceased operations, blaming the Iran war and rising fuel costs. Florida-based Villa Vie Residences said in a news release that it was working to identify “temporary living arrangements” for people aboard The Odyssey, a 642-foot cruise ship that launched from Belfast, Northern Ireland, three years ago

euronews.com | 10 hrs. 8 min. ago

Nord Stream pipeline won't reopen after the war, Brussels tells the US and Russia

Brussels insists Nord Stream will remain shut after the war in Ukraine ends, countering a joint push by the US and Russia to restart the pipeline.

warontherocks.com | 10 hrs. 46 min. ago

Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining

In 2018, Barak Mendelsohn wrote, “Bound to Fail: Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem,” where he argued that transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State would continue failing to turn local victories into a lasting caliphate, allowing counterterrorism forces to contain them without costly U.S.-led interventions.

Eight years later, we asked Barak to revisit his arguments.Image: Adam Jones/FlickrYour article opened with al-Baghdadi’s 2018 call for lone-wolf attacks in the West, and you argued that Islamic State-inspired attacks at that time consistently failed to generate the self-sustaining momentum al-Suri envisioned. In the years since, has individual jihad achieved anything substantial for The post Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining appeared first on War on the Rocks.

dailymail.com | 11 hrs. 18 min. ago

Chancellor John Healey condemned for refusing to use his Iran war VAT windfall from sky-high pump prices to cut Fuel Duty in the Budget

The Chancellor claimed he was doing drivers a favour by freezing the levy until July next year in today's Budget.

warontherocks.com | 11 hrs. 53 min. ago

The Atlantic Brief: After the U.S. Midterms, Trans-Atlantic Defense Cooperation

Date: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ESTThe third joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel.Overview:For this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal United Services Institute and War on the Rocks present a dialogue on the future of trans-Atlantic defense cooperation following the U.S. midterm elections.

Participating experts from the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and the United States bring decades of first-hand experience in the armed forces, diplomacy, and foreign policy.The panel will explore what the midterms mean for U.S. force The post The Atlantic Brief: After the U.S. Midterms, Trans-Atlantic Defense Cooperation appeared first on War on the Rocks.

nytimes.com | 11 hrs. 55 min. ago

The Special Ops Podcasts Changing the Narrative of the War on Terror

Veterans’ complaints about the rules of engagement have reached Pete Hegseth and a generation of new recruits.

dw.com | 12 hrs. 30 min. ago

Is Iran headed to war or peace after Mecca alliance meeting?

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have taken their latest peace push directly to Tehran. Officially, it was to avert a new military escalation, but their diplomatic outreach can also be seen as a warning to Iran.

thehindu.com | 12 hrs. 47 min. ago

Afghan-Pakistan border clash kills one, injures five

The countries went to war earlier this year and, with no permanent resolution reached on security issues, there have been sporadic attacks since a March truce

thehindu.com | 12 hrs. 48 min. ago

Iran warns of 'devastating' economic fallout from any new Israeli attack

Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed to topple Iran's government, the two countries have directly fought a war for the first time in their history after decades of enmity

csmonitor.com | 13 hrs. 35 min. ago

After three years of civil war, Sudan faces the threat of inflation

Since May, the Sudanese pound has lost more than half of its value, pushing up food prices and putting more pressure on overstretched aid groups.

dailymail.com | 14 hrs. 36 min. ago

Trump says a meeting between Putin and Zelensky to end Ukraine war will happen 'very soon'

Donald Trump's announcement came amid intensified diplomatic efforts by Trump's administration to end the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fifth year.

dailymail.com | 15 hrs. 13 min. ago

More than half of Britons oppose senior doctors strikes, poll finds, as figures show health unions amassing huge war chests to fund crippling walkouts

Nearly four in ten (58 per cent) of the public told pollster YouGov they either 'strongly' or 'somewhat' oppose next month's walkout by consultants.

al-monitor.com | 15 hrs. 14 min. ago

Mona Lisa scrubbed from Syrian textbooks as critics slam conservative drift

In one book, an illustration was redrawn to show the girls gathered around a computer wearing hijabs. In another, an image of the Mona Lisa was taken out entirely. Changes to Syria's official school books are sparking criticism of the country's new Islamist authorities as the nation tries to move on after 13 years of civil war and decades of authoritarian rule.

kyivindependent.com | 15 hrs. 21 min. ago

Tsikhanouskaya on how Russia’s closest ally is playing the US

The Kyiv Independent’s Tim Zadorozhnyy speaks with Tsikhanouskaya about Lukashenko’s support for Russia’s war, the risks of U.S. engagement with his regime, and how political prisoners have become bargaining chips in negotiations over sanctions.

scmp.com | 15 hrs. 48 min. ago

Cruise ship suspends global voyage in Cambodia over fuel prices, hundreds disembark

Hundreds of people permanently living aboard a touring cruise ship were forced to disembark in Cambodia this week after the vessel’s operator said fuel price increases from the Iran war had made operations prohibitively expensive. The Villa Vie Odyssey had been cruising the world for at least ‌755 days as one of only a handful of ships that offered passengers the opportunity to rent or buy long-term or even permanent residences on board.

On Tuesday, the ship’s owner, Villa Vie Residences,...

defence-blog.com | 16 hrs. 12 min. ago

Hegseth and Koizumi agree on new Japanese missile production line

Japan will host a final assembly plant for the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile after Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth agreed on Oct. 28 to build the facility as part of joint U.S.-Japanese missile production, Nikkei reported. The two met for about 30 minutes in Cebu, the Philippines, on the […]

thehindu.com | 16 hrs. 25 min. ago

Star Wars Galactic Racer’s roguelike racing mechanics is not for all

Any racing game with a high-risk nitro booster called RamJet, is a game you need to play right now, and Star Wars Galactic Racer has plenty of it

cbsnews.com | 16 hrs. 43 min. ago

Qatari mediators hand Iran new proposal to end the war

Iran rejects "unacceptable" ideas after Qatari mediators presented Tehran with a new draft deal to end the war, the Reuters news agency reports.

nypost.com | 16 hrs. 48 min. ago

Netanyahu barely hanging on after Israeli election — what that means for Iran war

“The Iranian regime did not expect that Netanyahu would be the biggest party. They are afraid of him because he talks against Iran about attacking Iran again," Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, told the Post.

nypost.com | 16 hrs. 49 min. ago

US and UK prepare for nightmare war scenarios

The United States Military is preparing for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids, disrupt supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure on American soil. Meanwhile, British families are suddenly being told to stock up on emergency supplies – and to prepare for devastating attacks.

theguardian.com | 17 hrs. 11 min. ago

Australia must recruit hundreds more to crew Aukus submarines, retired admiral warns

As USS Colorado showcases the program in Perth, Peter Briggs says personnel is just one of the ‘huge issues’ it facesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia faces an uphill battle to recruit and train enough naval personnel to serve on submarines planned for the future fleet of nuclear-powered vessels under the controversial $368bn Aukus deal, a retired admiral has warned.As the Virginia-class submarine USS Colorado arrived at HMAS Stirling south of Perth on Tuesday for a month of routine maintenance and to help build Australian expertise, retired admiral Peter Briggs said more people needed to be enrolled in the navy’s submarine program.

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theguardian.com | 17 hrs. 12 min. ago

Girls review – a story of friendship amidst extreme misogynist violence

Young Vic, LondonRecalling Boko Haram’s abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, Theresa Ikoko’s fierce and tender play reveals how three teenagers find hope and laughter under the most horrific circumstancesThree girls huddle together, playing childish games to allay their fears from whatever terror stalks them.

There are flashes of light and sounds, followed by sudden blackouts. At first, Theresa Ikoko’s play appears post-apocalyptic. Television screens line the back wall with radio frequencies tuning in and out. A strange structure looms overhead. Information about who they are, where they are hiding, who from, is parcelled out gradually.You learn that they are three Nigerian friends and schoolgirls living in a forest in 2015. Their captors are never named but you can infer they are part of the insurgent Islamist group, Boko Haram, from the breadcrumbs of backstory.

Director Ewa Dina makes this explicit in her programme note when she refers to the Chibok Girls, involving Boko Haram’s mass abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014. Continue reading...

koreatimes.co.kr | 17 hrs. 24 min. ago

Call of Duty game under fire for using real Itaewon crowd crush footage

The latest installment in the global Call of Duty game franchise drew condemnation from bereaved families and civic groups in South Korea after players discovered that it contained real footage from the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush. The game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, depicts a full-scale North Korean invasion of South Korea, and initially drew attention in South Korea for its realistic portrayal of the country.

However, the reception turned hostile after viewers identified what appeared to be real footage of bystanders performing CPR during the Itaewon tragedy during a sequence showing civilian casualties from the fictional war. The crowd crush killed more than 150 people on Oct. 29, 2022, and Thursday marks its fourth anniversary.

The council representing bereaved families and a coalition of civic groups supporting them issued a joint statement Wednesday, condemning the use of the footage and demanding its removal. “We cannot help but be appalled that the chaotic and desperate scenes of citizens performing CPR to save one another, with victims lying on the cold streets, were used un

euronews.com | 17 hrs. 28 min. ago

EU defence chief warns of fuel crunch if Europe goes to war

EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius has warned that Europe must be prepared to "surge" energy production to fuel its armies in conflict.

kyivindependent.com | 18 hrs. 20 min. ago

Ukraine’s parliament approves 2027 state budget in first reading

With security and defense allocations accounting for around two-thirds of planned expenditure and a projected deficit of nearly Hr 1.7 trillion ($37 billion), the budget highlights the challenge of funding the war while maintaining economic stability and meeting social commitments.

ft.com | 18 hrs. 54 min. ago

[$] Iranians face energy squeeze from war as natural gas runs short

Tehran tells citizens to curb consumption and urges civil servants to work from home to avert crisis

scmp.com | 19 hrs. 28 min. ago

Meet Tovah Feldshuh – Bina in Nobody Wants This – who slammed co-star Adam Brody over his Gaza remarks

Adam Brody, who plays rabbi Noah Roklov in Netflix’s hit romcom Nobody Wants This, condemned the ongoing Israel-Gaza war during an interview with GQ magazine in September this year. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody told the magazine. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”

The 46-year-old Jewish actor’s comments have drawn backlash from fans as well as some members of the Jewish community, including his Nobody Wants This co-star Tovah Feldshuh. In an interview with the New...