Senegal opened the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Saturday, bringing an Olympic event to African soil for the first time, with around 2,665 young athletes competing across 25 sports until 13 November.
Russia has agreed to help Ghana develop a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant, Accra said on Saturday, in a deal that deepens Moscow’s energy and defence ties with West Africa.
The US Embassy in Moscow has warned of a credible threat of a mass casualty event at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve on Saturday, and Russia’s FSB says it received US information about preparations for a terrorist attack in Moscow.
The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the theft of more than $6 billion from Binance, saying the stolen assets are being converted into Ethereum and laundered further through decentralised finance services.
S&P Global Ratings has cut its outlook on Meta Platforms to negative, warning that the social media group’s huge artificial intelligence spending could leave it burning cash for years. The agency kept Meta’s AA- rating, but said leverage could rise above the threshold for that rating as early as 2027.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has demanded an independent investigation after Mohammad el Shami, detained since June 2024, died in Houthi custody, with his family told only more than a month later.
Governments at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan have adopted a plan to speed up efforts to halt nature loss by 2030, after overnight talks — but campaigners warn the finance to deliver it is still missing.
OPEC+ producers have agreed in principle to keep their December oil output targets unchanged, sources told Reuters on Saturday, holding policy steady while the group turns its attention to setting quotas for 2027.
Police fired tear gas and stun grenades in Paris on Saturday evening as the third weekend of cost-of-living protests turned violent, after a largely peaceful day that drew an estimated 320,000 people across France.
Iranian negotiators met Qatari mediators in Doha on Saturday in a bid to head off a new outbreak of fighting in the Gulf, as regional diplomats brace for the possibility that the United States resumes strikes on Iran once Tuesday’s midterm elections are over.
