Source: Reuters
“A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane crashed in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday, prompting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to offer condolences for ‘our martyrs’ as search and rescue crews headed for the scene. Turkey’s defence ministry announced the crash, near Georgia’s border with Azerbaijan, and said it was coordinating with Georgian authorities to reach the site.” (11/11/25)
Source: SFGate
“Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are converging on southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies like Canada over defense spending, trade and uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan in Gaza and efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in an interview with The Associated Press that ‘the relationship has to continue across a range of issues’ despite trade pressures as she prepared to host U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday. Anand also invited the foreign ministers of Australia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine. She said ’15 foreign ministers are coming from around the world to the Great White North and funnily enough on the week of our first large snowfall.'” (11/11/25)
Source: Independent [UK]
“British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi is to be released and returned to the UK after being [abducted] by ICE. The activist and outspoken critic of Israel’s military action in Gaza was [abducted] by US immigration agents at San Francisco International Airport on 26 October. Mr Hamdi had spoken at a gala for chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, in California and was heading to Florida for another event prior to his arrest.” (11/10/25)
Source: Reuters
“Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts and planning documents seen by Reuters. The approach is a tacit admission of the South American country’s shortage of personnel and equipment. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested the possibility of ground operations in Venezuela, saying ‘the land is going to be next’ following multiple strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and a large U.S. military build-up in the region. He later denied he was considering strikes inside Venezuela.” (11/11/25)
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Yemen’s Houthi rebels [sic] are signalling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In an undated letter to Hamas’ Qassam Brigades published online by the group, the Houthis offered their clearest signal that their attacks have halted. ‘We are closely monitoring developments and declare that if the enemy resumes its aggression against Gaza, we will return to our military operations deep inside the Zionist entity, and we will reinstate the ban on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas,’ reads the letter from Maj.-Gen. Yusuf Hassan al-Madani, the Houthi military’s chief of staff.” (11/11/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks-stop-red-sea-9.6974532
Source: SFGate
“Graham Platner was looking for a cover-up. Nearly 20 years ago, the Maine Democrat soldier drunkenly selected a skull and crossbones design while out on leave with his fellow Marines in Croatia. It wasn’t until several weeks into his campaign for a key U.S. Senate seat that Platner says he discovered that the design was recognized as a Nazi symbol. Rather than wait through multiple sessions of laser removal, Platner called a friend to help him get rid of it. ‘It was a phone call like: ‘Hey, I have a tattoo. I found out it’s something I don’t want, can you help me cover it up?’’ Mischa Ostberg, an artist based in Ellsworth, Maine, told The Associated Press in an interview. Ostberg, a self-proclaimed ‘baby tattooer’ who has been licensed to ink for just two years, was eager to help.” (11/11/25)
Source: United Press International
“The SpaceX launch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station broke an annual launch record for Florida’s spaceport. Monday’s liftoff was the 94th launch of an orbital class rocket in the state, breaking the previous record set at the end of last year. … Florida’s spaceport — which covers NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — has seen a significant increase in the number of launches over the last five years, especially with the frequency of flights by SpaceX. The only other rockets to launch from Florida this year were Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket and three ULA Atlas V rockets.” (11/11/25)
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2025/11/11/florida-spacex-starlink-launch-record/1881762833095/
Source: New York Post
“The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier moved into Latin American waters Tuesday as the US ramped up its military presence in the region while targeting drug traffickers operating out of Venezuela. The Navy’s 4th Fleet did not specify the Ford’s location Tuesday, but did confirm the vessel was inside the US Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility — which includes the waters off Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea. The Ford and its escort of three guided-missile destroyers join eight warships, a nuclear submarine and F-35 aircraft already in the SOUTHCOM region. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the vessels’ presence would ‘bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere.'” (11/11/25)
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A suicide bomber has set off a blast outside a court building in Islamabad that has killed at least 12 people, according to Pakistan’s interior minister. At least 27 others were injured in the explosion on Tuesday near the entrance of the district court in the Pakistani capital, which is typically crowded with large numbers of people. … As officials investigated the scene in the immediate aftermath, no group had claimed responsibility. However, similar blasts have been carried out by armed groups, including the Pakistan Taliban, also known by the acronym TTP.” (11/11/25)
Source: SFGate
“A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy that bars transgender officers from performing security screening pat-downs, according to a federal lawsuit. The Transportation Security Administration, which operates under DHS, enacted the policy in February to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring two unchangeable sexes: male and female. According to internal documents explaining the policy change that The Associated Press obtained from four independent sources, including one current and two former TSA workers, ‘transgender officers will no longer engage in pat-down duties, which are conducted based on both the traveler’s and officer’s biological sex. In addition, transgender officers will no longer serve as a TSA-required witness when a traveler elects to have a pat-down conducted in a private screening area.'” (11/11/25)