Krakow prosecutors walk back motive claim as thousands march in silence
Polish prosecutors said on Monday they do not yet know what motivated the Krakow gunman, and a search of his bedroom found no signs of political extremism, walking back the government's suggestion of far-right inspiration. Prosecutors identified the gunman as 24-year-old Michal Oksinski and said a Gadsden flag was found in his room; thousands joined a silent march on Monday evening to mourn the nine victims, and the terrorism investigation continues.
The most important world events of the past 24 hours
Trump walks back immigration opening within a day: "no amnesty"
🐱 Scout US anchor · Trump walks back immigration opening
President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Monday that his deportation policy remains "very strong" and that "there will be no amnesty," with enforcement focused on "the worst of the worst" — a day after his CBS "60 Minutes" interview aired, in which he admitted the crackdown may have been "too tough" and signaled openness to a deal with Democrats. The White House insisted Trump never said the word "amnesty," while Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Monday he is open to bipartisan reform, including a path to permanent legal status for DACA recipients, but stressed enforcement policy is unchanged.
Background: Democrats swept both chambers of Congress in the November 3 midterms; House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Monday his party will not give "a dime" to fund deportation efforts.
Sources: USA Today, Fox News, Daily Caller (3 outlets)
US, Ukraine and Russia open Abu Dhabi talks with security guarantees at the center
🐱 Scout diplomat · Abu Dhabi talks open
US-mediated trilateral talks between the United States, Ukraine and Russia open in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, the first such round since February. US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will represent Washington, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky leads the Russian delegation, and Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, leads Kyiv's team. The agenda covers post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian measures and steps to end the war; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes the talks can pave the way for a three-way leaders' meeting with Vladimir Putin, while the Kremlin insists the format is trilateral only, with no European participation.
Background: Trump told CBS "60 Minutes" he believes a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war is "very close"; Russian forces intensified strikes on Ukraine's energy grid in the run-up to the talks.
Trump meets Qatar's PM for 45 minutes with no deal; Iran says it is ready to negotiate
🐱 Scout field reporter · Trump meets Qatar's PM over Iran war
President Donald Trump met Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, behind closed doors at the White House for 45 minutes on Monday, but no deal to end the Iran war emerged and the White House issued no readout. Qatar, which visited Tehran last week, is mediating a two-day proposal under which Washington would lift its naval blockade and release some frozen Iranian funds while Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz and resumes nuclear inspections. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran is prepared to negotiate an end to a prolonged state of "neither war nor peace," but Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks are nowhere near a breakthrough and called Iran's terms detached from reality.
Background: The war is more than eight months old; Trump has said new US strikes are "highly unlikely" as long as talks progress, while attacks on tankers in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz continue at their highest rate since the war began.
Sources: Fox News, Reuters, Washington Examiner (3 outlets)
Krakow prosecutors walk back far-right motive claim as thousands march in silence
🐱 Scout anchor · Krakow prosecutors walk back motive claim
Polish prosecutors said on Monday they do not yet know what motivated the Krakow gunman, and a search of his bedroom found no signs of political extremism, in an apparent walk-back of the government's suggestion that he may have been inspired by far-right ideology. Prosecutors identified the gunman as 24-year-old Michal Oksinski and said a Gadsden flag bearing the words "Don't tread on me" was found in his room; thousands of people joined a silent march on Monday evening to mourn the nine victims.
Background: The gunman killed six people in Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday before his parents and sister were found dead at the family home; he died in hospital early on Monday, and prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation that will continue.
Political developments and international relations
France brings forward minimum-wage rise to €1,502; unions call it crumbs and plan November 17 strike
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Monday the government will bring forward a planned 1.6% rise in the minimum wage to December 1, from January 1, taking net monthly pay to €1,502 (about $1,676), an increase of €24, in a bid to defuse weeks of cost-of-living protests. The CFDT, France's largest union, is demanding a €100 monthly rise and the CGT wants 10%, about €150; both rejected the offer as far too small, and the CGT has called a new day of strikes and demonstrations for November 17.
Background: Protests began in high schools in September over underfunded schools and grew into a broader cost-of-living movement, with riots in major cities on October 17 and a nationwide strike on November 5.
COP31 climate summit opens in Antalya; US sends no official delegation
The 31st UN climate conference, COP31, opened on Monday in Antalya, Türkiye, running until November 20 with about 60,000 participants and a leaders' summit on November 11-12; Türkiye and Australia are co-hosting, with the talks billed as an "implementation COP" focused on electrification and climate finance. The United States, which formally withdrew from the Paris Agreement at the start of this year, is sending no official delegation, and no landmark decision is expected from the transitional summit.
Background: It is the first COP since the Iran war triggered an energy crisis; Türkiye and Australia are pushing for electricity to supply 35% of global final energy by 2035, though neither has set a date to stop burning coal.
Sources: Le Monde, Council on Foreign Relations (2 outlets)
US stocks rebound sharply as oil slides; S&P 500 up 2.35%, Nasdaq up 2.74%
US stocks rallied on Monday, recovering part of last week's rout: the S&P 500 rose 2.35% to 7,549.94, the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.74% to 25,253.14, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 2.15% to 52,389.75. Falling oil prices and a report that Anthropic plans to start its Nasdaq IPO roadshow on Tuesday lifted sentiment. Gold rose 1.74% to $4,138.25 an ounce, while the 10-year Treasury yield edged up to 4.88%.
Background: Last week the Nasdaq fell 3.37% and the S&P 500 2.68%, the worst week since April 2025, with the Nasdaq more than 10% below its high a month ago; investors now await Tuesday's US October CPI data.
Tech companies, research breakthroughs and digital policy
Nvidia falls 4.27% as lone chip decliner after board probe; AMD jumps 13%
Nvidia shares fell 4.27% to $178.67 on Monday, at one point down more than 8% to $170.24, making it the only decliner in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index after its board opened an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese intelligence operation. Chip stocks otherwise rallied broadly, with AMD up 13.26% on an Oppenheimer upgrade and a Google Cloud chip selection, Broadcom up about 7.7%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 7.49%.
Background: Huang told staff in a memo that he had been unfaithful to his wife and will cooperate with the probe while remaining CEO; three House committee chairs have asked him to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18, and Nvidia reports earnings on November 17.
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 ahead of planned IPO
Anthropic on Monday unveiled two new AI models, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, priced at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, below the pricing of previous Fable and Mythos releases; access to Mythos 5.2 is restricted to organizations approved through verification programs for cybersecurity and life-sciences research. The launch follows October's Claude Haiku 5.5 and comes as the OpenAI rival strengthens its lineup ahead of a planned IPO.
Background: Anthropic publicly filed its IPO prospectus on October 26, applying to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT; its roadshow can begin as early as today, with a debut targeted for the week of November 16.
Military developments, security situations and conflicts
Russia hits Ukraine's grid again, leaving 850,000 without power; rescuers struck in "double-tap" at Komyshuvakha
Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure left more than 850,000 people without electricity, with over 600,000 in the Dnipropetrovsk region and nearly 250,000 in Kharkiv, days before the US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost external power early on November 8 and relied on diesel generators for more than ten hours before supply was restored, its 27th complete blackout of the war. A Russian FPV drone on Sunday also struck the rescue site at Komyshuvakha, where an attack a week earlier killed 55 people, damaging equipment and injuring two emergency responders as crews still clear rubble.
Background: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired 115 missiles, nearly 1,900 guided bombs and more than 3,000 drones over the past week; Kyiv is seeking an energy ceasefire and security guarantees at the Abu Dhabi talks.
US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island overnight and stands up "Task Force Iron Gate" as tanker attacks continue
The United States struck Iran's Qeshm Island overnight into Monday, with Iranian officials saying no vital infrastructure was hit, while US Central Command stood up Task Force Iron Gate, a roughly 20-person team in Tampa tasked with disrupting Iran's movement of advanced weapons and sanctioned materials across its land borders and through the Caspian Sea. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps rejected the new operation, and attacks on tankers in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz continued at their highest rate since the war began in February.
Background: Houthi forces struck Riyadh's financial district on Sunday, damaging the Saudi Aramco tower with shrapnel, and the US struck a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday.
Sources: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal (2 outlets)
Gaza floods kill at least six and displace over 100,000 as 70,000 tents are swamped
The first winter storm to hit Gaza flooded tens of thousands of tents and killed at least six people, including an infant who reportedly drowned and five people — among them three children — killed when a sand dune collapsed onto their tents at Al Berka Reservoir, west of Deir al-Balah. More than 100,000 people have been displaced by the flooding, about 70,000 tents were inundated within 12 hours, and over 26,000 households have appealed for aid. The UN says 65% of Gaza's population, about 1.4 million people, live in tents or makeshift shelters.
Background: Gaza faces a fourth winter with 1.7 million displaced people in tents, makeshift shelters or damaged buildings; no wastewater treatment plant is operational, and aid agencies say families still need about 121,000 tents.
Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault
British comedian Russell Brand was sentenced on Monday at Southwark Crown Court in London to 10 years and six months in prison after a jury last week found him guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009, at the height of his fame. Judge Joel Bennathan called Brand a "clever sexual predator" who believed fame allowed him to act as he liked; Brand must serve two-thirds of the sentence before release on licence and must register as a sex offender indefinitely.
Background: The four-week trial heard evidence from six women; the jury convicted Brand on four of seven counts and cleared him on three others. Brand denied all charges.
Pope Leo XIV draws about 2.5 million to Mass in Argentina and urges Milei to "safeguard democracy"
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in Buenos Aires on Monday that drew a crowd of roughly 2.5 million people, according to official estimates, the largest event of his papacy so far, on the first papal visit to Argentina in almost four decades. In his first address in the country, the pope called on President Javier Milei and Argentina's political leaders to "safeguard democracy," show a "careful use of words" and acknowledge the "limits" of power, saying authority is most authentic when exercised as service.
Background: Milei, a Trump ally, has imposed "chainsaw" austerity cuts that the Church says disproportionately hurt the poor; the pope's November 8-11 visit is the second leg of a 12-day South America tour, his first trip since lung cancer surgery in October, and he next travels to Peru.
China-related news (international media coverage only)
Trump says he expects three-way meeting with Xi and Putin at APEC in Shenzhen
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he thinks he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the APEC leaders' summit in Shenzhen on November 18-19 to discuss ending the war in Iran and denuclearization — a gathering that would be the first trilateral summit of the three leaders. Trump also told CBS "60 Minutes" he believes a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war is "very close" and would leave Ukraine in "a little bit different shape."
Background: Beijing confirmed on November 4 it is in contact with the relevant parties about a possible meeting of the three heads of state, but has not confirmed it will take place; the Kremlin says work is under way, with no final decision announced.
