South Africa's president booked off from public engagements over ill health

🔮 Asked if he would retain Huang as an advisor, Trump said: “I would like to say yes.

🔮 The decree also calls for deploying more rescue teams in hard-hit areas as Bolivia grapples with both flooding and drought because of El Nino, Paz said in an address to the nation. “This will be a phenomenon that will have very severe impacts in terms of drought and floods, and we need the cooperation of all institutions,” Paz said.

🔮 The new levy – coming just weeks before the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas season shopping rush – will be on top of the EU’s €3 fee on small parcels.

🔮 US midterm campaign enters final weekend as Alaska, California ballot fights heat up AI generated WASHINGTON/ANCHORAGE – President Donald Trump’s administration pressed a criminal investigation into Alaska’s pivotal US Senate race and said on Oct 31 it would likely take its fight over thousands of California mail-in ballots to the Supreme Court, as the midterm campaign for control of Congress entered its final weekend. In Alaska, federal prosecutors are investigating whether aides to Democratic challenger Mary Peltola helped to recruit a retired schoolteacher, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr, to run because his name is similar to the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan S. Sullivan. The closely contested race is seen as crucial to Democrats’ hopes of taking the Senate in the Nov 3 vote.

🔮 Many relatives of those still detained fear their loved ones will become an unwanted addition to the statistic.

🔮 Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the note ends, followed by Trump’s signature, which takes the place of pubic hair on the nude outline.

🔮 “The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum,” the FBI said on Oct 31 in a statement, referring to the US Secret Service and the criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service. “It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages.

🔮 Rubio’s EU counterpart, Kaja Kallas, said that Putin’s potential attendance at the G-20 leaders’ summit in Miami in December would risk regularising Russia’s return to international forums while its war in Ukraine rages.

🔮 Another US official said that after it became clear that some attendees were unwilling to participate in a joint photo, Rubio acted so the matter would not distract from substantive issues at the event.

🔮 While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 1, 2026 German police, protesters clash after ‘Gen Z’ demos German police and protesters clashed across the country on Oct 31 following massive youth-led protests, with authorities using water cannon and pepper spray as masked demonstrators hurled fireworks, stones and bottles.