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• Binance's 5 Trillion Won Net Outflow After Hack

  02-11-2026 01:13 via WN.com - World News
  After the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, resumed customer fund withdrawals halted due to a hack, nearly 5 trillion Korean won flowed out within half a day. The company stated it has covered most stolen assets with its own funds and withdrawals are stabilizing, but it faces scrutiny over whether it can recover customer trust following the largest-ever cryptocurrency hack. According to Bloomberg News and cryptocurrency-focused...
  
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• UK appoints world’s first ‘climate security’ envoy | Kuwait Times Newspaper

  12-11-2026 10:28 via WN.com - World News
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• Indonesian vice president resigns over high school diploma scandal | Kuwait Times Newspaper

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• Coalition intercepts drones over Saudi Eastern Province and Riyadh region | Kuwait Times Newspaper

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• India to ban private equity firms from controlling multiple non-bank lenders: Sources

  12-11-2026 10:21 via WN.com - World News
  India's central bank is working on proposals that would prevent private equity firms from holding a controlling stake in more than one non-bank lender, two people with knowledge of the plans said. It is concerned that financial stress at a global private equity firm or its affiliates could have a contagion effect across several non-bank lenders in which it has significant investments, they said. Authorities, however, hope to encourage smaller financial investments that will be subject to lesser
  
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• India simplifies visa rules, reduces categories from 13 to 9 to boost tourism

  12-11-2026 10:21 via WN.com - World News
  India has simplified its visa regime by reducing the number of categories and making application forms leaner in a move to boost foreign tourist arrivals, including those for medical travel and education. New Delhi has rationalised the visa regime by reducing the number of main visa categories from 13 to nine and the sub-categories from 49 to 23, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday. “The step aims at making it more compact, coherent and responsive to the requirements
  
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• Chinese woman accused of spying on Nvidia chief visited Taiwan 8 times

  12-11-2026 10:21 via WN.com - World News
  The woman accused of spying for Beijing during an affair with Nvidia founder Jensen Huang visited Taiwan a total of eight times in 2024 and 2025, a Taiwanese government minister said Thursday. Taiwan, a dominant player in the global semiconductor industry, sits at the centre of strategic competition between the United States and China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory. Jensen Huang, chief executive of the US-based chip giant Nvidia, has admitted to having an...
  
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• What to know as European leaders meet to discuss Ukraine's security, and their own

  12-11-2026 10:18 via WN.com - World News
  Leaders from over 40 European countries are gathering in Dublin for a summit focused on the continent’s fragile security ......
  
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• What to know as European leaders meet in Dublin to discuss Ukraine's security, and their own

  12-11-2026 10:18 via WN.com - World News
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• US envoys arrive in Moscow for latest round of Ukrainian peace talks with Putin

  12-11-2026 10:16 via WN.com - World News
  US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, part of their latest push for a peace deal in Ukraine. The Kremlin talks - expected to take place in the first half of the day - will be the 10th time that Mr Witkoff has met Mr...
  
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• Two dead and several injured after New York apartment building collapses

  12-11-2026 10:16 via WN.com - World News
  At least two people were killed and several others were injured after a three-storey building next to a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn, in New York. The four-unit apartment building dating from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was under way and the cause was under investigation, said John Esposito, the city's fire department chief. The number of people who were at home when the building in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn collapsed at ab
  
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• Six killed in Israeli strike at Gaza hospital - civil defence

  12-11-2026 10:16 via WN.com - World News
  An Israeli strike killed six people and wounded around 20 at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a civil defence official said. Gaza's civil defence, a rescue agency operating under Hamas authority, said the bodies of those killed and...
  
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• Taiwan's Tourist Pledge Sparks Chinese Backlash

  12-11-2026 10:14 via WN.com - World News
  Tensions between both sides of the Taiwan Strait have flared after Taiwanese authorities were revealed to have required Chinese tourists to submit a handwritten pledge acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign state. While the Chinese government condemned the move as a politically motivated obstruction of tourism exchanges, debates have also emerged within Taiwan over whether it is appropriate to demand political declarations during entry...
  
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• Spain's Nationwide Strike Over Housing Crisis

  12-11-2026 10:14 via WN.com - World News
  Spanish workers protesting soaring housing prices and rents launched a nationwide general strike on the 11th. Large-scale demonstrations demanding solutions to the housing crisis also erupted in major cities including the capital Madrid and Barcelona. This marks the first nationwide strike led by Spain’s two major labor unions since 2012, when workers opposed austerity measures during the eurozone financial crisis. According to Reuters and other outlets on the 11th,...
  
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• NVIDIA Weighs Srouji, Kress as CEO Successors

  12-11-2026 10:14 via WN.com - World News
  Speculation about the potential dismissal of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has intensified, with attention also turning to the selection of his successor. Collette Kress, the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), is widely considered a leading candidate to serve as interim CEO, while the list of formal successors reportedly includes Johny Srouji, Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer (CHO) who spearheaded the company’s in-house semiconductor development. On November 11 (local time), U.S. online medi
  
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• Baidu Unveils 1,024-Chip AI System for 2027 Launch

  12-11-2026 10:14 via WN.com - World News
  “Inference, not learning, will be the key driver of long-term growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor market.” Li Yanhong, Baidu founder and chief executive officer (CEO), said on the 12th, “In the past, computational demand was concentrated on developing and training AI models, but now inference demand has become as important as learning.” He emphasized that as AI agents increasingly perform complex tasks directly, demand for inference semiconductors is growing rapidly.
  
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• Yemen fires missiles at Saudi operations room in Aden

  12-11-2026 10:13 via WN.com - World News
  Tehran, IRNA - Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s armed forces, announced in a statement a missile attack on Saudi Arabia’s command and operations room in Aden. ......
  
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• Hamas terms Nasser Medical Complex bombardment as full-fledged war crime

  12-11-2026 10:13 via WN.com - World News
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• Araghchi says ‘silent genocide’ is going on in Gaza with almost zero attention

  12-11-2026 10:13 via WN.com - World News
  Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized the silent genocide which is going on in Gaza with almost zero attention. ......
  
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• Mongolia protests Malaysia’s handling of a 20-year-old murder case

  12-11-2026 10:07 via WN.com - World News
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Mongolia has lodged a diplomatic protest with Malaysia over the handling of the murder case of a Mongolian woman, urging authorities to ensure a fair legal process and provide answers to her family 20 years after her killing. Altantuya Shaariibuu was shot dead and blown up with military-grade plastic explosives in a jungle outside Kuala Lumpur in October 2006. Her killing touched off a scandal linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has repeatedly denied
  
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• US envoys in Moscow for meeting with Putin following talks in Abu Dhabi

  12-11-2026 10:06 via WN.com - World News
  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the results of U.S.-mediated talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who is also Trump’s son-in-law, attended the two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, which wrapped up Wednesday with an agreement on a large exchange...
  
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• Nvidia scouts for scandal-hit Jensen Huang’s replacement as firm’s shares nosedive

  12-11-2026 10:06 via WN.com - World News
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• Dutch coalition near collapse as 1 party is upset over tax deal with opposition

  12-11-2026 10:06 via WN.com - World News
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The ruling Dutch three-party minority coalition led by Prime Minister Rob Jetten appeared close to collapse Thursday, less than nine months into its four-year term, as a deal to support a tax plan for next year angered one of the coalition parties. Jetten’s centrist D66 party and the center-right Christian Democrats reached the deal Wednesday with two center-left opposition parties to get the tax package — a crucial part of the annual...
  
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• A missing teen is found alive after 6 days in the Australian woodlands

  12-11-2026 10:06 via WN.com - World News
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 17-year-old boy with autism was found alive Thursday after six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. The boy, whom police identified only as William, had begun camping with a teenage friend when he disappeared last Friday near Walhalla, a former gold-mining town 185 kilometers (115 miles) east of Melbourne, police said. A police helicopter...
  
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• Treasury yields edge higher as investors await fresh inflation and housing data

  12-11-2026 10:04 via WN.com - World News
  Treasury yields rose as bond markets reopened following Veterans Day. ......
  
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• US envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, arrive in Moscow for latest round of Ukraine ...

  12-11-2026 10:00 via WN.com - World News
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• The Moody Foundation donated 87.5% of Silver Lake Ranch to Texas; the state paid $11.85 ...

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• Oprah Winfrey paid $6.85 million for Jeff Bridges’ Montecito estate in 2019; the property reportedly ...

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• ‘Nvidia has a significant China problem’: Short seller flagged Jensen Huang's alleged spy links months ...

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• ‘Nobody deserves to be here’: Former Maryland valedictorian addresses ICE arrest from detention facility as ...

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