Democrats flip House and Senate: US strikes Iran Qeshm Island

Democrats flip House and Senate: US strikes Iran Qeshm Island

Analysis: Global — 04 November 2026 Democrats flip US House and Senate in midterm landslide Decision desks on Tuesday projected Democratic majorities in both chambers after Senate pickups in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and Maine. Democrats did not lose any Senate seats they already held, and several races were called by … Read more

Kushner and Witkoff discuss Nord Stream gas resumption with Putin’s adviser Dmitriev

Kushner and Witkoff discuss Nord Stream gas resumption with Putin's adviser Dmitriev

Analysis: Europe — 04 November 2026 US envoys float restoring Russian gas to Europe as Ukraine peace lever The Wall Street Journal reports that US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed a resumption of Nord Stream gas sales with Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to Vladimir Putin. The reported scheme would route Russian gas … Read more

ESA Hera spacecraft images Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids

ESA Hera spacecraft images Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids

Analysis: Science & Technology — 04 November 2026 ESA Hera spacecraft resolves Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids Europe’s Hera probe has imaged Didymos and Dimorphos as two distinct objects for the first time. On 18 October its Asteroid Framing Camera recorded the pair from about 1,280 kilometers; they lie some 197 million kilometers from … Read more

Trump may authorize nuclear strike on Iran Pickaxe Mountain tunnels

Trump may authorize nuclear strike on Iran Pickaxe Mountain tunnels

Analysis: Global — 03 November 2026 US midterms test Trump as Iran war and prices squeeze GOP seats Americans vote Tuesday in midterm elections that have become a test of President Donald Trump’s Iran war and the energy and food-price shock that followed it. Responsible Statecraft reports that South Carolina’s Senate race, long treated as … Read more

Tusk-aligned judges suspend Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as Nawrocki forces entry

Tusk-aligned judges suspend Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as Nawrocki forces entry

Analysis: Europe — 03 November 2026 Tusk-aligned judges suspend Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as Nawrocki forces entry On the evening of 30 October, a judge close to Donald Tusk’s government, acting on instructions from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek, suspended Constitutional Tribunal president Bogdan Święczkowski and vice-president Bartłomiej Sochański and claimed control of the court. Riot … Read more

LHC ALICE ATLAS CMS LHCb find quark-gluon plasma in oxygen neon collisions

LHC ALICE ATLAS CMS LHCb find quark-gluon plasma in oxygen neon collisions

Analysis: Science & Technology — 03 November 2026 LHC finds quark-gluon plasma in oxygen and neon collisions All four major Large Hadron Collider experiments—ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb—have now reported signs that quark-gluon plasma can form when oxygen and neon nuclei collide. The results, released a year after the LHC’s first oxygen runs, include jet … Read more

Binance $6 billion outflows after reopening withdrawals from $6.3 billion hack

Binance $6 billion outflows after reopening withdrawals from $6.3 billion hack

Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 02 November 2026 Binance records $6 billion outflows after reopening withdrawals from $6.3 billion hack Binance restored withdrawals at 06:00 UTC on Sunday, 1 November, after a roughly 45-hour freeze that followed the 29 October theft of about $6.3 billion. In the first nine and a half hours it processed … Read more

Pedro Sánchez snap election after Toledo train crash kills 69

Pedro Sánchez snap election after Toledo train crash kills 69

Analysis: Europe — 02 November 2026 Spain’s Sánchez calls 29 November snap election after Toledo train crash Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, nine months early. The campaign was first built around a housing-affordability crisis, including the televised eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from her Madrid … Read more