China’s official manufacturing PMI fell to 49.3 in October from 50.1 in September, slipping back into contraction as soft demand, including for exports, weighed on factories, official data showed on Saturday.
Overseas firms winning major UK defence contracts worth more than £50 million will have to deliver benefits at home worth up to the full contract value, under a new offsets policy starting in April 2027.
Ireland will establish a government body to research and prepare for the possibility of Irish unity for the first time, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said, in a significant shift in Dublin’s approach to the island’s constitutional future.
France will deploy 70,000 police and gendarmes for protests on Saturday, 31 October, after ministers warned of a very high risk of disorder as anger over the cost of living and public services spreads.
The US Justice Department has charged five people in the first cases of Operation Ghostbusters, a nationwide probe into “ghost student” aid fraud, and says it has flagged 830,840 potentially fraudulent student aid accounts tied to nearly $130 million.
Canada will invest up to C$1.6 billion for an equity stake in Toronto AI company Cohere, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced, tying the money to Canadian jobs, computing infrastructure and a headquarters that stays in Canada.
Health workers in Ituri danced as the last patients left the MSF treatment centre in Mongbwalu — empty of confirmed Ebola cases for the first time since May — even as Congo’s outbreak, the deadliest in its history, passed 10,000 confirmed cases.
A jet-powered Russian drone struck a crowded platform at Dnipro’s main railway station on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, even as a rare local ceasefire held for a third day around occupied Oleshky.
An Italian Army Chinook serving with the EU’s EUFOR Althea mission crashed on a training flight near Brčko in northern Bosnia, killing four Italian personnel and injuring 11 others.
Israel’s final election results have left no bloc with a parliamentary majority, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp on 53 seats and record Arab-party gains of 19 seats now holding the balance of power.
