Source: ABC News
“Several flights across Europe received alleged bomb threats Tuesday that ultimately turned out to be hoaxes but prompted searches, diversions and, in one case, an escort by the Italian Air Force until landing, officials said.” (11/03/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/flights-europe-hit-bomb-threats-turned-hoaxes-137808325
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A Chinese court has begun hearings in a defamation case filed by authorities and institutes in Beijing and Wuhan against the US state of Missouri over accusations tied to Covid-19.
In a notice on Monday, the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court said it held a hearing on Friday and legal proceedings were continuing. The case was jointly filed on April 30, 2025 by the Wuhan government in Hubei province, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its subordinate entity, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), against Missouri and two of its former attorneys general, Eric Schmitt and Andrew Bailey. … The plaintiffs said the defendants ‘orchestrated, promoted and executed malicious and abusive litigation in the US, fabricated and disseminated false information and issued stigmatising and discriminatory remarks’, according to the court statement on Monday.” (11/03/26)
Source: US News & World Report
“Spanish police removed remaining protesters and tents from Madrid’s main square early on Tuesday, officials said, after most of the people demonstrating against soaring rents, home shortages and evictions had already left voluntarily. The pre-dawn operation ended a five-week encampment in the Puerta del Sol square that had become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis and contributed to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to call a snap general election for November 29. The protests were sparked by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, who later died, with marches called by tenants’ unions held across Spain.” (11/03/26)
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Senegal’s National Assembly, which is dominated by the opposition, rejected a key budget bill Tuesday, a text that was seen as crucial to restoring public finances as the country finalises an IMF bailout. Senegal in September announced it had struck a $2.2-billion International Monetary Fund debt programme aimed at stabilising its public finances. But the IMF has yet to announce executive board approval and the bailout is subject to certain conditions. The country’s powerful Pastef party, which holds an overwhelming majority in parliament, has long made clear its rejection of the 2026 revised budget, which came before parliament Tuesday.” (11/03/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20261103-senegal-powerful-opposition-rejects-crucial-budget-bill
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US has urged Venezuela to release the remaining political prisoners being held in the South American country. More than 1,000 political prisoners have been freed since US forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a military raid on Caracas on 3 January and took him to New York, where he faces trial on drug-trafficking and torture charges. But Venezuelan prisoners’ rights group Foro Penal says 322 people remain in detention. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Venezuelan counterpart, Oliver Blanco, on Monday where he called for their release and discussed reforms aimed at laying the groundwork for free, fair, and credible elections, the US state department said.” (11/03/26)
Source: Engadget
“NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will re-enter our atmosphere around 3:30AM Eastern time tomorrow, November 4, according to the US Armed Forces’ predictions. The exact time could be different, as the prediction has an ‘uncertainty of 11 hours.’ But the 3,200-pound spacecraft is heading back to Earth for sure, 22 years after it launched and after the agency’s attempt to save it failed. … The agency ended Swift observatory’s operations in late October after it entered safe mode and prepared for re-entry.” (11/03/26)
Source: Newsweek
“Jacob Morley has been captured in Missouri after more than a week after he escaped the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, officials announced Tuesday. ‘Escaped inmate Jacob Allen Morley has been apprehended in Missouri by law enforcement,’ the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) said in a post on Facebook. ‘Thank you to our law enforcement partners and the public for their assistance in his capture,’ the post read. Officials did not immediately provide information on where exactly Morley was found or how he was located. Morley was last seen on surveillance footage stealing a white 2008 Ford F-350 from a lot near Tiptonville, around two miles from the prison. The vehicle was than spotted by Hornbeak Fire Department in western Tennessee Monday morning on surveillance footage. The fire department later reported that the truck had also been spotted in the nearby city of Troy.” (11/03/26)
https://www.newsweek.com/jacob-morley-missouri-captured-murderer-prison-escape-12657977
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Lebanon’s Ministry of Energy and Water has begun shutting down the supply of electricity to approximately 100 public institutions that have outstanding bill payments, according to local media. The decision, which began to take effect on Monday, marks a further escalation in Energy Minister Joe Saddi’s dispute with the government. Saddi recently began boycotting cabinet meetings over what he claims is the government’s failure to address his demands to increase power supply, reduce the burden of fuel costs and settle unpaid bills to the state-owned electricity company.” (11/03/26)
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The so-called ‘quiet quitting’ trend where workers do the basic requirements of a job but refuse to do anything more might be hitting the economy, analysis has found. Over the last decade, Britons have become less engaged with the jobs they do and are less willing to put in extra effort, according to a Resolution Foundation report. The thinktank said this could partly help explain the slump in productivity since the pandemic. ‘This is self-evidently bad for workers, but it also doesn’t bode well for productivity and labour supply, both of which are vital for lifting living standards in the years ahead,’ said Hannah Slaughter, principal economist at the Resolution Foundation. Quiet quitting was popularised on social media shortly after the pandemic. Frustrated by high demands, low pay, and a squeeze in living standards, many online posts said workers should only do what their bosses asked and nothing more.” (11/03/26)
Source: US News & World Report
“Sister June Carpenter, one of the last members of the only remaining community of the Shaker religious movement, died Tuesday. She was in her late 80s. Carpenter had been struggling with health problems and limited mobility, according to an announcement from the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine. The announcement said she was born in 1938 but did not give a date. Carpenter was one of two longtime members of the Sabbathday community of Shakers in New Gloucester, Maine, along with Brother Arnold Hadd. A third member joined the community last year. Sabbathday is the last active community in what was once a constellation of Shaker sites founded by the celibate religious movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. A trained librarian, Carpenter was credited with organizing and cataloging the village’s extensive collections of history, writings and other records, making them more accessible to researchers.” (11/03/26)