Global Express | November 9, 2026: Kraków Shooting Suspect Dies in Hospital, Polish Police Say

1. Kraków Shooting Suspect Dies in Hospital as Investigation Continues

Polish police said early Monday that the 24-year-old man accused of opening fire in Kraków's Main Market Square, killing six people, has died in hospital. He had been shot by officers during Saturday's midday attack in the historic centre of Poland's second-largest city.

More than a dozen other people were wounded, including two police officers whose condition regional official Krzysztof Jan Klęczar described on Sunday as "serious." Four women and two men were killed; three of the women and one of the men were Polish, while a British man and an Austrian woman were also among the dead.

Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said the gunman "acted with the aim of seriously intimidating a large number of people, making this a terrorist offence." On Monday he said the investigation would continue despite the suspect's death, to establish whether he acted alone or was inspired by a group. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński had said the attacker used an automatic rifle and was "fascinated by far-right ideologies," but government spokesman Adam Szlapka later told TVN24 that "it is best to refrain from making comments" until the matter is fully clarified. Police also said the suspect's parents and sister were found dead in a flat in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, about 93 miles northeast of Kraków; he had faced murder charges in those killings as well.

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2. South Africa's ANC Suffers Worst Election Result in Its History

South Africa's governing African National Congress has recorded the worst result in its history. Final tallies published on Sunday gave the ANC less than 31 percent of the vote in Wednesday's municipal elections, with the main opposition Democratic Alliance on just under 25 percent.

The Electoral Commission said on Saturday that the ANC had lost its majority in six of the country's eight metropolitan areas. With no outright winner in several major cities, parties are expected to enter tough coalition talks. The DA looks set to keep control of Cape Town and performed well in Pretoria and Johannesburg.

Many voters blame the ANC for water and electricity shortages, while high unemployment, crime and corruption dominate the public agenda. President Cyril Ramaphosa has not yet addressed the result, but in his weekly letter he conceded that "municipal failures have contributed to declining public trust and confidence in democratic governance." ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said: "We cannot ask the people to trust us merely because of our history." The party took just over 40 percent in the 2024 national vote and 46 percent in the 2021 municipal polls.

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3. Norway's PM Warns Putin May Not Want Peace

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has warned against expecting a major breakthrough when talks resume in Abu Dhabi. Negotiating teams from Moscow and Kyiv are due to meet the United States there on November 10-11, the first three-way meeting since February.

"I would be cautious," Støre told POLITICO in an interview. He described Abu Dhabi as "a stepping stone" and said one output should be a follow-up meeting soon afterwards. According to him, the agenda could include a Black Sea ceasefire to allow grain shipments, a ceasefire on energy infrastructure, a front-line freeze and confidence-building measures such as prisoner swaps, as well as work on security guarantees for Ukraine.

Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke to Putin for 90 minutes on October 27, a rare contact that unsettled neighbours including Denmark and Latvia. He described Putin as "professional" and "rational" during the call and rejected reports that the Russian leader lectured them on Slavic history: "I was present. He didn't." Asked whether Putin wants peace, Støre said: "If he had wanted peace, there would have been no war at the outset." He stressed that questions about Europe's security architecture "will have to be dealt with after the end of the war" and must not become a bargaining chip.

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4. Ukraine Strikes Russia's Second-Largest Oil Refinery

Ukrainian drones attacked the Kirishi refinery in Leningrad Oblast overnight into November 9, hitting Russia's second-largest oil processing plant. Regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko confirmed the strike and said a fire that broke out on the site has since been extinguished.

The attack took place about 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of Ukraine, with multiple Ukrainian monitoring channels reporting large explosions. NASA's FIRMS satellite system, which detects thermal anomalies and fires, picked up multiple hotspots at the facility. Drozdenko said 113 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region; in the town of Vsevolozhsk, debris from a drone fell on an apartment building and killed a woman.

The Kirishi plant, also known as Kinef, can process 20 million metric tons of oil a year and accounts for more than 6 percent of Russia's refined output. It is subject to Western sanctions and was previously targeted on August 30; on May 5 it halted processing after strikes damaged three of its four crude distillation units. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 317 long-range attack drones at Ukraine overnight, including 105 jet-powered drones.

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5. Asian Stocks Rebound After Global Tech Selloff

Asian stock markets rebounded on Monday after a tech rout triggered by the Democratic Party's sweeping victory in the US midterm elections spilled across global markets. Taipei's Taiex led the gains, closing up 4.94 percent, while Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 2.33 percent and Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.099 percent.

Seoul's KOSPI fell 0.8 percent after rising about 1.7 percent earlier, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dipped 0.22 percent. Cameron Chui, Asia equity strategist at JP Morgan Private Bank in Hong Kong, said the recent drawdown in AI infrastructure names reflected tighter financial conditions, growing scrutiny over credit availability for neocloud companies and uncertainty over possible delays to the AI build-out after the midterms.

He added that AI demand and adoption remain strong, 2027 capex visibility remains high and a meaningful valuation reset has already taken place. On Thursday, fears that Democratic-controlled legislatures could slow data centre construction wiped $2.5 trillion off Wall Street; the selloff spread to Asia on Friday, with the Nikkei and KOSPI plunging about 6 percent and 9 percent respectively.

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6. Dow Futures Jump 538 Points as Oil Prices Slide

US stock futures surged early on Monday, boosted by a decline in oil prices. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 538 points, or 1.1 percent, while S&P 500 futures gained 0.7 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures were about 0.4 percent higher.

West Texas Intermediate futures dropped nearly 3 percent to $88.17 a barrel, and international benchmark Brent slid 3.4 percent to $94.94. On Friday, Wall Street partly recovered from Thursday's AI-driven selloff: the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.09 percent, the S&P 500 added 0.31 percent, while the Dow lost 237.33 points, or 0.46 percent.

Investors this week are watching the consumer price index on Tuesday and the producer price index on Friday, along with earnings from CoreWeave, Cisco and Applied Materials. Nvidia shares were down about 5 percent in premarket trading after the company's board said on Sunday it was investigating CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a businesswoman whom US intelligence agencies describe as a Chinese spy.

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7. Two Trains Collide in Egypt, Killing 7 and Injuring 112

Two trains collided south of the Egyptian capital on Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 112 others. The crash occurred in the al-Ayyat district of Giza province, about 32 miles south of Cairo.

Egypt's Transportation Ministry said a train heading to the southwestern province of Fayoum struck the rear of a train travelling to Aswan in the south, and that one of the trains derailed without specifying which. The health ministry initially reported four deaths before raising the toll to seven later in the day. Seventy-two ambulances were deployed and victims were taken to three hospitals, with at least 45 people already discharged.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a social media post that he had ordered a prompt investigation to hold those responsible accountable. The Egyptian Railway Authority said emergency teams and cranes had been sent to clear the wreckage and restore services. In September last year, two freight trains collided in the same district, injuring a driver and his assistant.

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8. Heavy Rain Floods Tens of Thousands of Tents in Gaza

Heavy rains have flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza, leaving camps under water. Jonathan Veitch, the UNICEF representative for Palestine, said almost everyone in the territory needs help.

Residents used pots and pans to bail water out of their flooded tents, with some saying they had been left without shelter. The Hamas-run government in Gaza said about 70,000 tents had been flooded, and a spokesperson said the collapse of dozens of cracked walls and roofs had caused injuries, some of them critical.

Veitch said Israeli restrictions on the entry of heavy machinery and supplies such as engine oil, together with UN budget cuts that have reduced tarpaulins and tents, were making the response harder. About 90 percent of Gaza's residents have been displaced by the war. He warned that people died of hypothermia last winter and that "we can expect the same again unless we have very, very urgent action now."

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9. Nvidia Board Investigates CEO Over Relationship With Alleged Spy

Nvidia's board of directors said on Sunday it is investigating a relationship between co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang and a businesswoman whom US intelligence agencies say is a Chinese spy. Nvidia shares fell about 5 percent in premarket trading on Monday after the announcement.

The board said it had confidence in Huang and no reason to believe that national security or company secrets had been compromised, but that an independent inquiry would examine "all available information." It said Huang supported the investigation and had pledged his full cooperation, stressing that "US national and economic security" is paramount.

The news adds to pressure on technology stocks this week. On Thursday, the US midterm results triggered a $2.5 trillion selloff on Wall Street over fears that data centre construction could slow. Dan Ives, senior managing director at Yorkville Ives & Co., called it "a black eye moment for Jensen" that would spark multiple congressional inquiries at a minimum.

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10. Israel's Herzog Tasks Eisenkot With Forming a Government

Israeli President Isaac Herzog formally tasked former IDF chief of staff and party leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a new government on November 8, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc lost its parliamentary majority in the election.

According to The Jerusalem Post, Eisenkot was recommended by 67 of the Knesset's 120 members, while Netanyahu received 46. Eisenkot now has 28 days to form a government, with the president able to grant an extension of up to 14 days. His bloc consists of four parties holding 48 seats and still needs support from Arab-led parties or others to secure a majority.

US President Donald Trump appeared unconcerned, telling reporters in Florida that Eisenkot and Netanyahu hold "very similar" positions and that "I guess he thinks highly of me, he said he likes Trump." The Times of Israel noted that Eisenkot has said he wants a "more moderate government" and has sought to distance himself stylistically from Netanyahu, but has not yet set out substantially different policies.

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