Congress returned Monday for a lame-duck session with funding running out December 11, leadership races under way and a crowded year-end agenda.
Leaked death records from Russia’s own statistics agency suggest 394,000 to 450,000 war deaths since 2022 — far above any figure Moscow has ever admitted.
A drone strike halted production at Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field on November 8, 2026, knocking about 2.8 gigawatts of power offline across Kurdistan.
Mitsui Chemicals will pay ¥1.84 trillion for photoresist maker JSR, creating Japan’s largest chip materials supplier in the biggest chemicals deal ever.
At least 20 migrants died in boat disasters off Crete as Greece’s coast guard rescued more than 100 people amid a surge in arrivals from Libya.
Nigeria won both 100m titles at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics as Rosemary Nwankwo and Gift Bright struck gold on a historic Sunday in Senegal.
G7 foreign ministers opened two days of talks in Paris on Monday, pressing Washington on a fair Ukraine settlement and urging restraint on Iran.
Fourteen people died and 38 were taken to hospital after a fire swept through a high-rise in Taiyuan, northern China, on Sunday evening, officials said.
Godzilla Minus Zero opened to $31.6 million in North America, a record for a live-action foreign-language film, topping charts in Japan and the US.
Trump says his deportation policy ‘might have been too tough’ after Republicans lost Congress, and signals a possible immigration deal with Democrats.
Lando Norris won a rain-hit São Paulo Grand Prix from pole as Mercedes sealed their ninth constructors’ title with three races to spare in 2026.
Google will invest $15 billion in Malaysian data centres in 2027–28, adding campuses, clean energy and AI training in its biggest Southeast Asia bet yet.
