OchtendKrant: news for Tuesday 3 November 2026
Three days of talks at the palace: King Philippe receives the five party leaders and sees De Wever again on Friday
The King did not accept the government's resignation on Monday and has taken matters into his own hands; Les Engagés and CD&V are first in line today.
Election day in America: the House looks within Democrats' reach, the Senate remains a steep climb
4 sources · Al Jazeera, RTBF, VRT NWS +What the budget crisis means for the Treasury: higher interest, possible provisional twelfths and a 26 billion deficit
3 sources · Reuters, Business AM, L'AvenirAfter France, intruders now switch Belgian shop fridges to defrost
2 sources · RetailDetail, The RegisterWhite blood cells push cancer cells towards spreading, Cédric Blanpain's team at ULB shows
2 sources · La Libre, BX1Belgium
All of BelgiumThe Chamber carries on as usual while the budget ministry already plans for provisional twelfths in 2027
A government with a pending resignation does not mean parliament grinds to a halt, but it does mean delayed savings; Les Engagés and the PS each struck their own tone on Monday.
5 sources · La Libre, VRT NWSParents of severely disabled Esekia (11) from Frameries go on trial at the Mons assize court
Prosecutors speak of murder by withholding care and food, while the defence disputes intent; the trial opened on Monday.
3 sources · RTBF, L'Avenir, La DHPolice impound Gaza activist's vehicle for six months after repeated night-time drives through Jewish neighbourhood
Antwerp police speak of provocation, the Norwegian-based driver says he was simply following his GPS; Oslo has asked its embassy to follow up the case.
2 sources · VRT NWS, La DHProtestant church in Boechout refuses its hall to a group linked to Go Church and warns other congregations
An organisation using a different name wanted to rent the church on Sunday afternoons; only after some research did the link with the controversial youth church emerge.
2 sources · VRT NWS, HLNWorld
All of WorldUS carries out 'defensive' raids on Qeshm while Vance points to good conversations with Iran
Washington targeted Iranian air defences in the Strait of Hormuz on the same day the vice president said negotiations are moving forward.
3 sources · The Korea Times, Al Jazeera, i24newsGlide bombs strike an aid handout in Komyshuvakha, leaving at least 26 dead just after the Oleshky truce ended
Russian bombs hit a school where aid was handed out every week and then a shelter; Zelensky sees it as a sign that Moscow does not want de-escalation.
3 sources · La Libre, The Korea Times, The Kyiv IndependentIsrael's opposition puts Eisenkot forward as Netanyahu seeks to lead a broad government himself
A week after the election no bloc has a majority; the Arab parties, with a record number of seats, hold the key, and President Herzog begins his consultations on Wednesday.
3 sources · RTBF, La DH, 20 minutesEconomy
All of EconomyEurope's factories keep expanding, though rising costs and a weak France cloud the picture
Euro zone industry held up well in October thanks to exports, while input prices rose at the fastest pace in five months.
4 sources · Reuters, Business AMTrump and Carney move closer in their trade dispute, but the details still have to be written down
After several phone calls, both leaders speak of a deal in the making, with agriculture, steel, cars and the Keystone pipeline on the table.
2 sources · Business AM, Transport TopicsFixed energy contracts rise steeply again in November, with Engie still the cheapest option for gas
The new tariffs of 1 November reflect a gas price above 100 euros per megawatt hour; those who signed in October already pay hundreds of euros more than a month earlier.
2 sources · RTBF, Test AankoopTech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Grok and ChatGPT put their heaviest users on a tighter ration
Elon Musk admits Grok Bot became too expensive to run, while OpenAI will have ChatGPT and Codex draw on a single shared allowance.
4 sources · TechCrunch, TechRadar, Yahoo FinanceGoldman Sachs takes AI coding assistants away from its bankers and traders
According to Bloomberg, only the investment bank's roughly 12,000 engineers may still use Claude Code and GitHub's coding tools.
2 sources · Bloomberg, PYMNTSFour American newspapers take Brave to court over the search index it sells
The New York Times and three titles from the Alden group accuse the browser maker of harvesting their journalism and reselling it to AI companies.
2 sources · TechCrunch, The Next WebProgramming languages
On GitHub, agents kick off four out of ten pull requests
The annual Octoverse report shows an explosion in commits and pushes, with TypeScript as the most popular language and Rust as the fastest grower.
2 sources · GitHub Blog, GitGuardianTornadoVM drops Graal and now translates Java into GPU code on its own
Version 8.0 of the open source project brings its own compiler that turns Java kernels into CUDA, OpenCL or Metal, without developers having to change their code.
2 sources · InfoQ, GitHubOther tech
Chinese manufacturer built a backdoor into 1.3 million TV boxes, and Google has knocked the network out
Together with Japanese police and security firms, Google disabled the XCPE botnet and is barring device maker Videostrong from its Android programme.
2 sources · The Register, CyberScoopSUSE sheds a tenth of its workforce and points to AI
The Linux company, owned by investor EQT, is laying off roughly one in ten of its approximately 1,900 employees after too few people left voluntarily.
2 sources · The Register, AI WeeklyScience
All of ScienceAfrica CDC counts 5,376 Ebola deaths as the Bundibugyo strain keeps spreading with no approved vaccine
More than 10,000 people have been infected since May, mostly in Congo; a vaccine trial in Ituri should show whether an existing vaccine also protects against this strain.
4 sources · La Libre, Euronews, Al JazeeraIndian generic HIV jab costing 40 dollars a year wins tentative clearance from US regulator
The Dr. Reddy's product, a copy of Gilead's lenacapavir, is injected twice a year and is intended for 120 low- and middle-income countries.
3 sources · WBTV, Business Standard, UnitaidSport
All of SportTwo coaches fall on a single Monday: De Meyer out at STVV, Caixinha replaces Friis at Cercle
STVV act after five straight league defeats, while Cercle Brugge dismiss their coach barely a day after the first win of the season.
5 sources · Sporza, DH, VoetbalkrantClub Brugge head to Eindhoven on six points as five Belgian sides play in Europe this week
After wins in Milan and against Lens, the Bruges side face a PSV fresh from a 7-0 victory on Wednesday, with Union, Anderlecht, STVV and Gent following on Thursday.
7 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, WalfootSweden's Almgren stuns New York in his first marathon as Dumoulin runs a lifetime best
The European 10,000m champion clocked 2:06:01 on the demanding course, while Sheila Chepkirui won the women's race for the second time.
5 sources · LetsRun, Sporza