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At least 12 ships were attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz in the week to 16 October 2026, and one of them, the container ship GFS Pride, sank. The United States and Iran both claim control of the waterway, which carries a large share of the world's oil.
US consumer prices rose 3.7% in the year to September 2026, up from 3.4% in August, as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a single month. Economists say the hotter-than-expected report raises the chance of another Federal Reserve rate rise at the end of October.
Meta has published the weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model for coding and multi-step agent tasks that it calls the most capable US open-weight model yet. It can run locally on a pair of Apple's top-end Mac Studio computers.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported record third-quarter profit of NT$763 billion, up nearly 69% from a year earlier and ahead of forecasts, on strong demand for AI chips. The world's largest contract chipmaker now expects its 2026 revenue to grow about 44%.
Goldman Sachs earned $5.29 billion in the third quarter of 2026, up 29% from a year earlier, as revenue from its equities business rose 72%. JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank, grew profit 6% but missed analysts' earnings forecasts.
Ahold Delhaize, owner of Stop & Shop, Food Lion and Albert Heijn, took systems offline after a cyberattack that began on 11 October 2026, disrupting online orders and deliveries in the US, the Netherlands and Belgium. Stores stayed open, and the company says it has seen no evidence that customer data was stolen.
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The United Nations Secretary-General appealed on Friday for governments, businesses and communities to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity for future generations and all life on Earth.
Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world restore trust in climate action when the consequences of a warming planet are alr...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is strengthening Ebola preparedness amid conflict and displacement affecting millions of lives in a region that spans parts of Africa, Asia and Europe.
A little over one year since a ceasefire agreement was announced between Hamas fighters and Israel, more than 340 children have been reported killed and hundreds more injured, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
As drone strikes kill civilians from El Obeid to Blue Nile and famine risk spreads across Darfur and Kordofan, the Security Council meets on Sudan – the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis. Ambassadors are expected to press yet again for a ceasefire, safe aid access an...
Civilian casualties in Ukraine remain at record levels, with intensified Russian attacks in September continuing a pattern of harm in 2026 far exceeding previous years, UN human rights monitors in Ukraine said on Friday.
The tech allows students to generate personalized stories on China’s “holistic approach to national security” – a framework advocated by President Xi Jinping covering areas from politics and economy to ecology and technology.
