Krakow shooting suspect dies in hospital; investigation continues
Polish police said on Monday that the 24-year-old gunman suspected of killing six people in Krakow's Main Market Square has died in hospital. The suspect, who officials said was apparently inspired by 'far-right ideologies', was shot by officers after opening fire on Saturday and had undergone multiple operations before dying early on Monday morning. Prosecutors are continuing their terrorism investigation to establish whether he acted alone or was inspired by any group; the nine victims — six in the square and three family members found at his home — have all been identified.
The most important world events of the past 24 hours
Trump admits deportation crackdown was "too tough", open to deal with Democrats
🐱 Scout US anchor · Trump admits deportation crackdown too tough
In a CBS "60 Minutes" interview recorded on November 6 and aired on November 8, President Donald Trump admitted his deportation policy "might be too tough", saying that removing people with steady jobs who broke the law only by entering illegally had hurt Republicans electorally. He said he was willing to strike a deal with Democrats, who are about to take control of both chambers of Congress, giving long-term undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for 10 to 15 years a path to legal residence, but offered no specific plan. A CBS exit poll found 58% of voters believed the administration's immigration enforcement had gone too far.
Background: The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC on the same day that immigration enforcement "will not back down or slow down"; Trump has just appointed Stephen Miller, the architect of the policy, as White House chief of staff, and Miller took office on Monday, with no change to enforcement rules so far.
Two passenger trains collided on Sunday afternoon in Al-Ayyat, Giza province, south of Cairo, when a train travelling from Giza to Fayoum (No. 134) rear-ended a Cairo–Aswan train (No. 2010) stopped on the same track, derailing and overturning several carriages. Egypt's health ministry confirmed at least seven people dead and 112 injured, while the prosecutor general's office put the number of injured at more than 125. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has ordered a full investigation and accountability for those at fault.
Background: Egypt's ageing railway system has suffered a series of fatal accidents in recent years; the cause of this collision is still under investigation, with prosecutors involved.
G7 foreign ministers meet in Paris as allies size up Trump after midterm defeat
🐱 Scout diplomat · G7 foreign ministers meet in Paris
Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven opened a two-day meeting in Paris on Monday, with Ukraine at the top of the agenda alongside Iran, the Middle East, Lebanon and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attending, his first trip to meet allies since Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress in the November 3 midterm elections. European allies are expected to press Washington to ensure any post-war security arrangement for Ukraine is fair to Kyiv and to avoid a fresh escalation with Iran; France has said the meeting may end without a joint communiqué.
Background: The meeting was moved from Marseille to Paris at short notice because of days of cost-of-living protests in France; Italy has proposed adding recent suspected pro-Russian cyberattacks to the agenda.
Krakow shooting suspect dies in hospital; investigation continues
🐱 Scout anchor · Krakow shooting suspect dies in hospital
Polish police confirmed on Monday that the 24-year-old gunman died in hospital at 4:30 a.m. after being critically wounded in a shoot-out with officers; he had undergone several operations and remained in critical condition. The gunman opened fire in Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday, killing six people, and his parents and sister were later found dead at the family home; all nine victims have been identified. Prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation, and the justice minister said the inquiry will continue to establish whether the gunman acted alone or was inspired by any group; post-mortem examinations of the nine victims began on Monday morning and are expected to take two days.
Background: The suspect's death means the case cannot go to trial, so the motive inquiry must rely on physical evidence, the origin of the firearms and his online activity; Poland is observing two days of national mourning on November 8 and 9, and Krakow's mayor has announced a vigil in the main square at 8 p.m. on Monday.
Political developments and international relations
Hasina seeks new passport in clearest sign of Bangladesh return
Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina wrote on Monday through her London lawyers to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, asking for her revoked passport and national identity card to be reissued so she can return in December and surrender to a court; it is her first formal letter since she fled in August 2024, and is aimed at carrying out her plan to return in December. The Bangladesh government rejected the request the same day, with state minister for foreign affairs Humayun Kabir saying it would not issue a passport "to a terrorist" and demanding her handover under the Bangladesh–India extradition treaty. (single source, unverified)
Background: Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia by a Bangladesh war crimes tribunal last November, and her Awami League party is currently banned in Bangladesh; no exact date for her return has been announced.
US, Ukraine and Russia to hold trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday
US-brokered trilateral talks between the United States, Ukraine and Russia are scheduled for November 10 and 11 in Abu Dhabi, the first such three-way meeting since February. The Russian delegation is led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky and includes deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin, military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov and senior General Staff officers; Ukraine is represented by National Security and Defence Council secretary Rustem Umerov, and the US by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The agenda covers post-war security guarantees, de-escalation, humanitarian measures and steps to end the war.
Background: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on November 8 that security guarantees for Ukraine would be the core issue, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the same day that France and other European countries would take part in the Abu Dhabi discussions; Russian forces have intensified strikes on Ukraine's energy grid ahead of the talks.
Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 2.33% higher at 58,775.50 on Monday, after rising more than 3% intraday to 59,411; the broader Topix gained 2.97% to 3,818.16. The rebound was driven by a recovery in US technology shares on Friday and bargain hunting after the rout, but it only recouped part of Friday's losses.
Background: The Nikkei plunged 5.96% to 57,434.77 on Friday, its fifth straight daily fall and a weekly drop of 9.25%, losing the 60,000-point level; this week's focus is the US October consumer price index (CPI, due Tuesday) and earnings from SoftBank and Honda.
Oil falls further as Trump plays down new Iran strikes
Oil prices fell further on Monday, with Brent crude down as much as 1.5% to $96.91 a barrel before recovering to around $97.60, and US West Texas Intermediate down about 1% to $89.85 before steadying near $90.50. President Trump said on Sunday that he was "extremely unlikely" to order new strikes on Iran as long as talks to end the conflict made progress; Brent fell 16% last week, its biggest weekly drop since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Background: Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted by attacks, and Qatar's mediation of US–Iran talks continues, with no comprehensive deal announced.
US stock futures steady after rough week, but Nvidia probe unsettles investors
US stock futures edged higher early on Monday, with Dow futures up 0.73%, S&P 500 futures up 0.40% and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.21%, as investors bought the dip after last week's sell-off; but Nvidia fell about 4.5% in premarket trading, dragging Intel, Marvell and Qualcomm down 0.5% to 1.2%. (single source, unverified)
Background: US stocks rebounded on Friday, but the Nasdaq still fell 3.37% and the S&P 500 2.68% for the week, the worst weekly drop since April 2025, with the Nasdaq now down more than 10% from its high a month ago and in correction territory; Friday's stronger-than-expected October jobs report lifted market expectations of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike in December to about 80%.
Tech companies, research breakthroughs and digital policy
Nvidia board launches independent probe into CEO Huang; shares fall premarket
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation on Sunday into whether chief executive Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation, to be overseen by independent directors with outside counsel; Huang apologised to staff in a memo the same day, admitting infidelity to his wife and saying he would cooperate with the inquiry and remain as CEO. Nvidia shares fell about 4.5% in premarket trading on Monday; the chairs of three US House committees have asked Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18 and to reply by November 11 on whether he accepts.
Background: The New York Times and the Financial Times previously reported that US officials had concluded that Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed with whom Huang had a relationship, was a Chinese intelligence asset who passed information to Beijing; the board said there was "no reason to believe" US national security or Nvidia secrets had been compromised, but the investigation has not yet begun and has no timetable.
Military developments, security situations and conflicts
Saudi Arabia says danger passed in Riyadh after Houthi attack; Aramco tower damage worse than claimed
Saudi civil defence said on Monday that the danger in Riyadh had passed, shortly after raising a brief alert; a day earlier, Houthi forces launched multiple waves of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, and Saudi air defences intercepted several ballistic and cruise missiles, but debris from an interception hit an Aramco tower in Riyadh's financial district. The Saudi energy ministry said the building suffered only minor damage and no casualties, but footage verified by BBC Verify shows at least one floor badly damaged and windows blown out across several floors, worse than the official account; the Saudi-led coalition said it had destroyed missile launchers in Saada and Sanaa and continues airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Background: The Houthis said the attacks were retaliation for Saudi airstrikes; the death toll from a Saudi strike east of Sanaa has risen to at least 40, mostly women and children, according to Houthi authorities, a figure not independently verified; hostilities have escalated since the 2022 ceasefire collapsed in July.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant regains power after outage; Russian strikes on grid intensify
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost its last external power line at 2:36 a.m. on November 8 and ran on emergency diesel generators for cooling; the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed later that evening that power had been restored at 5:41 p.m. It was the 27th total blackout since the conflict began, and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said the nuclear safety situation remains unstable. Meanwhile, Russian forces intensified strikes on Ukraine's energy grid ahead of the Abu Dhabi talks, leaving more than 600,000 customers without power in Dnipropetrovsk region and killing two people; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired 115 missiles, nearly 1,900 guided bombs and more than 3,000 drones in a week, and urged the European Union to adopt a 22nd sanctions package.
Background: The cause and location of the power loss are unknown; Ukraine's energy company said about 850,000 people were without power nationwide, including nearly 250,000 customers in Kharkiv region, and 140 apartment buildings in Zhytomyr region lost heating.
Drone attack on Colombian army base kills 3 soldiers
Explosive-laden drones attacked an army base in Santa Rosa del Sur, Bolívar department, in northern Colombia around noon on November 7, striking a dining hall where soldiers had gathered for lunch, killing three soldiers and injuring at least 16; the army later said 47 service members were injured or affected in total. No group has claimed responsibility and the attackers remain unidentified; the president said on social media that those responsible "will have nowhere to hide". (single source, unverified)
Background: The area is rich in gold mines and has long been contested by the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
New Delhi chokes on Diwali smog, PM2.5 nearly 59 times WHO limit
After Diwali fireworks, PM2.5 concentrations in New Delhi's Mandir Marg area reached 879 micrograms per cubic metre on Monday morning, nearly 59 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily level of 15, with readings above 900 in several areas; the city's air quality index stood at about 370, rated "very poor", affecting more than 30 million residents. Forty-four of the city's 59 official monitoring stations showed no particulate readings during the fireworks peak, so the true pollution may have been underestimated. (single source, unverified)
Background: New Delhi's air quality worsens sharply every year after Diwali, as fireworks, crop burning and winter temperature inversions combine.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake (5.5 according to the US Geological Survey) struck western Shizuoka prefecture at 1:04 a.m. local time on November 8, at a depth of about 40 kilometres, with shaking of upper 5 on Japan's intensity scale in Chita, Aichi prefecture; the quake shattered shop windows, scattered goods and briefly halted the Tokaido Shinkansen for safety checks. At least 22 people were injured, mostly from falls while fleeing or from broken glass, with no deaths reported; the weather agency warned of possible strong aftershocks over the coming week, especially in the next two to three days.
Background: Japan sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the weather agency routinely issues aftershock warnings after strong quakes.
Migrant boat capsizes off Senegal, death toll rises to at least 35
A wooden migrant boat capsized on November 6 off Kébémer in Senegal's northwestern Louga region, while its passengers were attempting the Atlantic route to Europe; by Sunday evening the death toll had risen to at least 35, with only one survivor, and search operations continue, with the total number of people on board and their nationalities still unconfirmed. (single source, unverified)
Background: Senegal's interior ministry had earlier reported 21 bodies recovered, with the toll rising as the search progressed; the Atlantic route from West Africa to Europe is one of the deadliest migrant crossings in the world.
Greece recovers 12 dead migrants from boat off Crete
The Greek coast guard found 12 bodies on a migrant boat about 15 nautical miles south of Crete early on Monday, while a passing Moroccan-flagged cargo ship rescued 18 people from the same vessel; the identities and cause of death of the victims are not yet known. Two other boats carrying about 47 and 40 people were found south of Crete the same night, bringing the total across the three operations to about 117 people found and 105 rescued.
Background: The incident comes amid a surge in arrivals from Libya to Crete, with about 1,700 people arriving in the first three days of November.
China-related news (international media coverage only)
China's export growth expected to have stayed strong in October
A Reuters poll expects China's goods exports to have surged by about a third in October, with growth of 33.5% year on year, slightly below September's 36.3% jump; the October trade surplus is forecast at $125.8 billion, down from $133.53 billion in September, but still enough to take the surplus for the first ten months of 2026 above $1 trillion. The trade data will be released on Tuesday. (single source, unverified)
Background: Reuters notes that a year-to-date surplus of more than $1 trillion risks further antagonising trading partners, even as strong exports help offset weak domestic demand.
China extends suspension of port fees on US-linked ships
China said on Monday it had extended its suspension of special port fees on US-linked vessels until January 10, 2027, the transport ministry said in a statement; China is also continuing to suspend a probe into shipping and shipbuilding supply chain security. (single source, unverified)
Background: The transport ministry said the suspension of the probe into shipping and shipbuilding supply chain security would continue alongside the fee suspension.
