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China drops bid for future COP as climate science battle heats up

EU presses Beijing to back the speedy publication of crucial reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Iran targeted US radar system in Bahrain

Iran claimed it struck US radar systems in Bahrain, while the US said it had intercepted the attacks. Clashes continue i...

UAE remains ‘main destination’ for gold smuggled out of Sudan and other war zones

UAE remains ‘main destination’ for gold smuggled out of Sudan and other war zones Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Fri, 11/...

Gore blasts 'insane' Saudi veto power at climate talks

Former US vice president Al Gore said it was "literally insane" that oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia could bl...

Palestinian teen reunites with family after month in Israeli jail

Looking tiny in his adult-size grey prison jumpsuit, 15-year-old Palestinian Ezzedine al-Lahalia appeared stunned as his...

Gadi Eisenkot could be Israel’s next leader. His military experience will drive his approach.

Eisenkot has been tasked with forming a new government, but it won’t be easy.

EU rearmament, arms supplies to Kiev risk confrontation with Russia — Finnish politician

Armando Mema added that the EU had already provided 400 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine and continued its rearm...

False-flag provocation in Bucha organized by Ukraine, MI6 — Russia’s envoy to OSCE

That episode later became the starting point for attempts by the collective West to hold Russia responsible, Dmitry Poly...

Beijing faces its Russia dilemma amid talk of Xi-Trump-Putin summit

China is forced to tread carefully as it considers hosting a meeting between Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trum...

New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs

Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs...

Greta Thunberg at COP: Turkish energy shipments 'directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine'

Greta Thunberg at COP: Turkish energy shipments 'directly fuelling the genocide of Palestine' Submitted by Katherine Hea...

Senegal Picks Deloitte to Audit Debt as It Seeks IMF Loan Pact

Senegal selected Deloitte to audit its public debt, according to people familiar with the matter, taking a step toward m...

China's top diplomat calls for expanding cooperation in meeting with South Korean minister

BEIJING, Nov 13 - China is willing to expand cooperation with South Korea in traditional and emerging sectors including ...

US Treasury chief blames Commerce Dept for failure in Nvidia scandal

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist Megaspeed, the Sin...

Putin Tests Europe’s Unity With New Pressure to Talk Security

Russia’s fresh demands to discuss Europe’s security arrangements as part of peace talks with Ukraine are exposing divisi...

Azerbaijan intensifies its European engagement at the EPC Summit

Azerbaijan added additional thrust to its engagement with Europe announcing more energy to the EU, a strategic partnersh...

Washington is reshaping security in North Africa. Congress needs to ask how.

The next US Congress should demand clearer plans from the White House on its Western Sahara and Libya policies. The post...

Nonresidents’ share in Russian sovereign Eurobonds declined to 32% in Q3 — Central Bank

The share stood at 32.1% as of the end of the second quarter of 2026

COP31 talks face early friction over future of fossil fuels

ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 13 - Big fossil fuel producers and consumers at the COP31 climate talks are resisting any deal that...

Haitian forces recapture national stadium after two years of gang control

Haitian security forces regained control Thursday, November 12, of the country's main stadium that had been under gang c...

One Parts Bin, Three Wars: Beijing built a valve. We built a wall.

Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Invest...

Trump will never back Ukraine, O’Brien says

Was Donald Trump ever serious about securing peace for Ukraine? After nearly two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations bet...

TSMC confirms employee data breach tied to cloud service provider

An investigation into the breach found that no TSMC systems were compromised but the information was “verified to match ...

Oil returns to surplus as Gulf exports rebound through wartime disruptions

Oil supplies overtook consumption by almost 2 million barrels per day in October, according to data from the Internation...

Ukraine Hits Ninth Russian Oil Refinery Since Start of November

Ukraine continued its campaign of near daily strikes on Russian oil assets, hitting a major refinery in the Volga region...

Vance may put his presidential ambitions on hold — CNN

According to the TV channel, the ongoing war with Iran remains a major obstacle to Vance’s presidential ambitions

Will Democrats try to strip US-Israel initiative from Pentagon funding?

Midterm gains give party room to overhaul NDAA funding, including provision to integrate US-Israeli military industries.

How one AI agent exposed five critical enterprise security gaps

An AI agent built to automate invoice processing could be manipulated into changing vendor bank details through a malici...

Trump to press Southeast Asia nations to join Pax Silica at Asean summit in Manila

US President Donald Trump will press Southeast Asian economies to join Pax Silica, his campaign to China-proof AI and ch...

Trump falsely claims ‘nobody’s been killed’ in Iran war ‘in the last five months’

In July, three soldiers died in an enemy attack on an air base in Jordan, another died at an air base in Iraq and a Navy...

Russian Diesel Exports Drop as Ukraine Renews Refinery Attacks

Russian diesel exports slumped at the start of November as renewed Ukrainian attacks on refineries threatened to curb fu...

NATO foreign ministers to meet in Brussels on December 2

The alliance has not specified what topics the ministers will discuss

Palestinian rights group says Israel barred its director from travelling abroad

Palestinian rights group says Israel barred its director from travelling abroad Israel barred Shawan Jabarin, the genera...

South Korea’s Options in a Fragmented World

Seoul would be an attractive addition to several different international groupings – but joining one could mean locking ...

Ex-Hamas bodyguard found guilty of knife attack in UK; faces extradition to Germany

Mexico Rate Cut Fuels Speculation Officials Want a Weaker Peso

Traders are increasingly speculating Mexico’s central bank is pushing to weaken the currency whose strength threatened t...

Iran shoots down another US MQ-1 drone in country's south

The Iranian military warned that it would not hesitate for a moment to defend Iran's territorial integrity

France favours adding pressure on Yemen's Houthis, foreign ministry spokesperson says

PARIS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - It is necessary to raise pressure on Yemen's Houthis so that they end their attacks in the reg...

Roger Waters launches heartfelt plea for 'an end to the genocide in Gaza'

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has always mixed art with activism. A long-standing supporter of the Palestinian caus...

Bank of Russia purchases yuan worth $183 mln with settlements on November 12

The regulator purchased yuan on the domestic market with settlements on November 11 in the amount of 15.2 bln rubles