Global Express | November 10, 2026: G7 tells Rubio Europe must be at the table as Ukraine talks open

1. G7 ministers in Paris tell Rubio: Europe must have a seat at Ukraine talks

Source: Al Jazeera

G7 foreign ministers met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris on Monday, telling him that Europe must have a say in any deal to end Russia's war on Ukraine. It was Rubio's first face-to-face meeting with allies since last week's midterm elections, in which President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered heavy losses. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said afterwards: “Europe belongs at this table. There can be no solution without Europe – only with Europe.”

The two-day Paris meeting ends on Tuesday and overlaps with US-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi. Wadephul said those talks must show whether Russia is “genuinely prepared to negotiate”, urging Moscow to “give up maximalist demands” and warning against a “negotiation show”. With Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure continuing, he said, “we see no substantial contribution whatsoever” from Moscow toward serious negotiations.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha is due to join a session on Ukraine in Paris on Tuesday. “No one has the right to decide our fate behind our backs,” he said before departing. Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Korea and Brazil are also attending, with Iran expected to feature prominently on Tuesday. Al Jazeera's Rebecca Collard reported that after the first day, US policy direction after the midterms remained unclear.

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2. US moves 10 refuelling aircraft out of British base to Germany, Spain

Source: CBS News

The US military moved nine KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling planes from RAF Mildenhall in England to bases in Germany and Spain on Monday, with The Wall Street Journal quoting sources as saying they were repositioned because of a threat from Iran. It is unclear whether the threat was imminent or general. CBS News, checking public flight-tracking data, found that 10 KC-135s left the base.

Four landed at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, one at Ramstein Air Base, one at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, and four arrived at Morón Air Base in southern Spain on Monday. Three US Osprey tiltrotor transport planes also left Mildenhall and arrived at RAF Lakenheath in England on Tuesday. “We take proactive measures to ensure our aircraft, our people, and our installations remain safe and secure,” a US official told CBS News on Tuesday.

A US Air Force spokesperson said aircraft routinely “rotate between installations and operating locations for a variety of reasons including training and real world requirements”, declining further detail for operational security. The 100th Air Refuelling Wing based there is the only permanent US refuelling wing in Europe. The move comes just over a month after the Air Force pulled all long-range bombers from RAF Fairford, a base used to launch strikes on Iran, following a security incident in which five British men were arrested near the base on Sept. 27.

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3. Mexico arrests alleged senior Jalisco cartel leader known as 'R2'

Source: Al Jazeera

Mexico's navy announced the arrest of Rafael Alvarez, alias “R2”, suspected of heading the “Los Rs” cell of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in the city of Zapopan in the Guadalajara metropolitan area on Sunday. The operation drew on intelligence shared by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and 19 other people were also detained.

Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said the cell is mainly linked to extortion, drug trafficking, homicide, illegal deprivation of liberty, kidnapping and attacks on authorities, with extortion victims including business owners and avocado producers. Alvarez was wounded in a shootout during the arrest and is receiving medical care. He faces an outstanding Mexican warrant for aggravated homicide and another warrant for extradition to the US.

Authorities say Alvarez is linked to at least 19 killings, including last year's murder of Carlos Manzo, the crime-fighting mayor of Uruapan in Michoacan. The CJNG, which operates in Jalisco and Michoacan, was designated a “foreign terrorist organisation” by the US government in 2025, and several of its top leaders have been arrested since its founder died in a military operation. An estimated 134,000 people are missing across Mexico, with Jalisco recording the highest number.

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4. Iran executes three men over 'armed unrest' during January protests

Source: BBC

Iran has executed three men accused of carrying out armed unrest during January's anti-government protests, state news agency Tasnim reported: Hassan Dioband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh. They were accused of throwing Molotov cocktails and grenades, using bladed weapons and firearms, and setting fire to public facilities in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran.

Tasnim said the Supreme Court upheld their convictions, finding them guilty of “participating in operational activities on behalf of the Israeli Zionist regime, the United States and hostile groups”. The alleged damage included an electricity substation in Karaj that caused power outages. Dioband was arrested on 11 January and ten others were later detained; Reuters reported they received prison terms of five to 10 years.

The executions are the latest in a series linked to the protests, after others accused of ties to Israel and the United States were put to death. Executions in Iran have increased since US-Israeli strikes began in late February. UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in August that at least 56 people had been executed on national security-related charges since 19 March, including 27 in cases linked to January's protests. Amnesty International says Iran put at least 2,159 people to death last year, the highest figure since 1981.

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5. SoftBank posts $7 billion quarterly loss as AI data centre costs bite

Source: CNBC

SoftBank reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 1.12 trillion yen ($7 billion) on Tuesday, weighed down by losses tied to US AI data centre equipment procurement and a decline in Intel shares. The group also booked a 597.2 billion yen ($3.7 billion) loss in the six months to September 30 because of changes to procurement plans for power generation equipment for US AI data centre projects.

SoftBank said it made advance “bridge investments” to secure power generation equipment amid concerns about shortages and long procurement lead times. Cumulative payments for power equipment for US AI data centre projects, including the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, totalled $9.48 billion by the end of September. Revenue rose 13.3% in the six months, helped by telecoms and AI computing.

The Vision Fund segment swung to a loss of 81.58 billion yen in the quarter, compared with a 2.38 trillion yen profit a year earlier. SoftBank's cumulative investment in OpenAI stood at $54.6 billion, with a fair value of $99.6 billion and a $45 billion gain. The company said a potential valuation increase after OpenAI's new funding round had not yet been reflected and could show up in the third quarter. SoftBank shares closed 13.9% higher on Tuesday.

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6. PepsiCo to cut about 1,000 North American jobs as sales lag

Source: CNBC

PepsiCo is cutting about 1,000 jobs across North America as it tries to turn around lagging sales at home. In a Monday letter to employees, PepsiCo North America CEO Ram Krishnan said the company has “a clear ambition” to build “a stronger, more future-fit business”, adding that it must be “faster, more connected, and more capable” while continuing to invest in people, capabilities and brands.

The cuts are due over the next week. PepsiCo employed about 306,000 people worldwide, including roughly 125,000 in the US, as of Dec. 27. The company cut its full-year earnings outlook in October; in the third quarter, North American beverage volume fell 2% while the North American food unit reported flat volume. CFO Steve Schmitt said on the earnings call that the turnaround was taking longer than expected.

Pepsi shares rose slightly in afternoon trading but are down nearly 1% this year, lagging the S&P 500's gain of nearly 11% over the same period.

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7. Three children and a woman killed as sand embankment collapses on Gaza tents

Source: BBC

Three children and one woman were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto tents at a camp for displaced families south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Sunday night, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Monday morning. Five injured people were rescued.

Videos showed men using phone torches to search for survivors beneath boulders, sand and collapsed tents. The Civil Defence service said the “humanitarian tragedy” should prompt urgent action by international organisations to provide safe shelters and move tents away from sandy areas, slopes and locations at risk of collapse. The dead were named as Tahrir Nabhan and children Mariam Nabhan, her brother Salah, and Habiba al-Zein.

Torrential rain on Saturday flooded tens of thousands of tents across Gaza, with water reaching up to 1.5 metres in some places. The Civil Defence said it received 2,100 distress calls but could respond to only about 10%. Karl Baker of the International Organization for Migration told the BBC that Gaza's 2.1 million people are confined to 30% of the territory's total area, and that aid entering the strip is “the very smallest of Band-Aids”.

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8. Senegal migrant boat sinking kills 39 as rights group seeks inquiry

Source: Al Jazeera

A Senegalese human rights group is calling on the government to launch a parliamentary inquiry after a small boat carrying migrants sank off the West African country's coast, killing at least 39 people. Action for Human Rights and Friendship (ADHA) denounced a “lack of lasting results” in reducing migrant deaths at sea.

State media said the pirogue left Saint-Louis in northern Senegal on Sunday bound for the Spanish coast and overturned off the Lompoul dunes in the Kebemer department, 180km north of Dakar. The toll rose from an initial 21 to 34 and then 39 as search efforts continued. Only one passenger was rescued alive and several others are believed missing.

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye offered condolences and pledged to clamp down on traffickers. ADHA said irregular arrivals to the Canary Islands are still rising despite 300,000 euros for the navy and the training of more than 300 agents. Spanish authorities declared an emergency on El Hierro on Saturday after more than 3,300 people arrived on about 30 boats since the start of November.

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9. Anthropic begins IPO pitch in what could be the biggest listing ever

Source: CNN

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is expected to start trading on public markets as soon as next week and began marketing to investors this week. CNN notes the market has never seen a dedicated AI model developer go public, few companies have listed as a public benefit corporation, and apart from SpaceX, none has gone public with a potential target valuation above $1 trillion.

The five-year-old company's filing runs more than 300 pages, about 90 of them warnings and caveats: it promises its technology will “bring forth an age of miracles” while warning it may doom humanity. Anthropic brought in $17 billion in sales in the most recent quarter, up 1,127% from a year earlier, and $33.2 billion in the first nine months of this year versus $4.6 billion in all of 2025. The company says such growth is not sustainable.

Anthropic has had only one quarter of operating profit and is committed to spending nearly $900 billion on computing power and data centre infrastructure over the next few years. Five customers accounted for a quarter of its sales this year, some of them competitors. Paul Marino, chief revenue officer at Themes ETFs, told CNN the concentration “gives me a little bit of concern” but that he is “not overly concerned”.

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10. Explosion at Turkish steel plant in Izmir kills 16, injures 13

Source: 中国新闻网

An explosion at a steel plant in Turkey's western Izmir province on Monday killed 16 people and injured 13, two of them seriously, according to a report from Ankara. The blast struck the Habas steel plant in the Aliaga district at midday, sending a large plume of grey dust into the air.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the toll that evening and said an investigation had been launched to establish the cause and identify those responsible. Initial findings suggest a crane came loose during steel casting and fell into an electric arc furnace. A fire sparked by the blast has been extinguished and rescue work is continuing; provincial officials said the final toll will only be confirmed once the debris is cleared.

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