OchtendKrant: news for Friday 6 November 2026
No budget by 1 January: De Wever calls it a failure and ties his premiership to a multi-year plan
Van Peel kept silent after her audience with the king, while the prime minister confirmed in the Chamber that the state will fall back on provisional twelfths; at 10.30 today he hears what King Philippe has decided.
After an unscheduled talk with Putin's envoy, Trump promises a sweeping agreement reaching beyond Ukraine
4 sources · Kyiv Post, Al Jazeera, AFP via Malay Mail +Brent climbs back to around 100 dollars after fresh reports of tankers ablaze in the Gulf
3 sources · BigGo Finance, HDFC Sky, VRT NWSOpenAI makes GPT-6 Cyber available to a small circle of vetted security customers
2 sources · The Register, HeiseAnderlecht deny Salzburg a single first-half shot and win 2-0
4 sources · Voetbalkrant, DH, ORF +Belgium
All of BelgiumAfter ten hours of debate, the law allowing home entries to arrest undocumented migrants is passed
The Arizona majority and Anders voted in favour in the early hours of Friday, Vlaams Belang abstained, and the left-wing opposition and DéFI voted against.
3 sources · Bruzz, RTBF, La LibreFrench career criminal Antonio Ferrara gets thirteen years for a planned raid in Bochum
The Brussels court also sentenced nine co-defendants, who were arrested in Eupen in 2025 after a gunfight with special police units.
2 sources · VRT NWS, 20 minutesOver half a million visitors in a day as everyone can again check their earliest retirement date on mypension.be
The pension website more than doubled its previous record on Wednesday and slowed down at times as a result.
3 sources · VRT NWS, Business AM, Belga SharePlanes bound for Zaventem and Charleroi also targeted in a second wave of hoax bomb alerts across Europe
Some twenty flights received threats on Thursday; minister Crucke has asked OCAM for an assessment.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La Libre, RTBFWorld
All of WorldFrance sees its largest protest of the autumn, but union and ministry are far apart on turnout
The strike day for higher wages was largely calm, with clashes in Lyon and a pupil stabbed near Paris.
3 sources · VRT NWS, Europe 1, AP via ABC NewsCollapse of digital bank ueno costs Paraguay's President Peña his office, yet Congress presses on with impeachment
Half the population has been unable to reach their accounts since Tuesday, and prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation.
3 sources · VRT NWS, El Ancasti, Canal 13 San JuanPost-mortem finds no sign of a crime in the death of Bavarian deputy premier Aiwanger, Söder wants to keep the coalition going
The 55-year-old leader of the Freie Wähler was found dead on Wednesday evening in a Berlin hotel.
3 sources · ZDF, Tagesspiegel, VRT NWSEconomy
All of EconomyKLM wants one in seven jobs to go so it can improve results by a billion euros a year
The Dutch airline points to expensive jet fuel, higher airport charges at Schiphol and international turmoil.
3 sources · VRT NWS, NH Nieuws, Hart van NederlandAn hour worked costs Belgian employers 48.61 euros on average, a fifth more than in 2020
New figures from Statbel show large differences between sectors, regions and company sizes.
2 sources · Business AM, IndexBoxHackers siphon over 100 million euros from Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, while Keytrade customers' accounts are spared
The attackers got in through an external supplier and used an internal account belonging to the bank itself.
3 sources · RTBF, La Libre, VRT NWSTech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Meta takes in young startup Conductor, whose cloud version of its agent software disappears on 20 November
The US group is buying a startup that lets several coding agents work side by side, while OpenAI picks up a developer tool the same week.
2 sources · TechCrunch, The RegisterClaude can now look into bank accounts to explain spending to US subscribers
Anthropic gives its chatbot read access to bank and card data, but no ability to move money.
2 sources · MacRumors, 9to5MacApple
First testers of the touchscreen MacBook Pro are mostly charmed by its OLED panel
The machine goes on sale today; reviewers find touch input handy but rarely indispensable.
2 sources · MacRumors, 9to5MacInvestors offer Apple more than four times the 7 billion dollars it wants to borrow, in the middle of a tech sell-off
Unlike other tech giants, Apple does not link the debt to investment in AI.
2 sources · 9to5Mac, BloombergProgramming languages
Passwords beyond 256 bytes unlock locked accounts, root included, on OpenSSH servers using musl
A combination of choices in the musl C library and in OpenSSH sat unnoticed for almost ten years in systems such as Alpine Linux.
2 sources · The Register, Linux und IchJetBrains gives every one of its IDEs a dedicated workspace for coding agents from different vendors
Air now ships with the 2026.3 versions of PyCharm, GoLand, PhpStorm and the other IDEs, and GitHub plugged Copilot into it this week.
3 sources · JetBrains, GitHub ChangelogOther tech
After the attacks on refrigeration in Belgian shops, US security agencies also raise the alarm
CISA, the FBI and three government departments are asking companies to take cooling systems off the internet, while the question of who is behind it remains open.
3 sources · TechCrunch, The Register, VRT NWSMore than a hundred action groups from fifteen countries call for a halt to large data centre construction today and tomorrow
After the US midterm elections, where server farms were a point of contention, European citizens' groups are taking to the streets.
2 sources · The Register, AlloforfaitScience
All of ScienceAmateur collector from the Kempen lends his name to a previously unknown Cretaceous crustacean
Diederik Eysermans from Vosselaar found the 66-million-year-old fossil in gravel from the former ENCI quarry near Maastricht.
3 sources · VRT NWS, RTBF, Paris Match BelgiqueJust before the Antalya climate summit, researchers work out how warming could come to a halt around 2050
According to Climate Analytics, temperatures could peak at 1.7 degrees if fossil fuels are phased out quickly and methane falls sharply, while Dutch planners foresee difficult years for climate policy.
3 sources · Climate Analytics, Reformatorisch Dagblad, nieuws.nlFor the first time a Flemish minister decides herself that a trainee doctor must stop, and young doctors want clearer rules
Caroline Gennez ended the specialist training of a young doctor in Antwerp over risks to patients; the doctor is appealing to the Council of State.
3 sources · VRT NWS, Leuven ActueelSport
All of SportZeneli wipes out an early Spanish lead as Union take 10 points from 12
The Brussels side fell behind after eleven minutes in Vigo but won 2-1 and remain unbeaten in the league phase.
4 sources · Voetbalkrant, DH, Walfoot +Brann snatch a late equaliser at Stayen as Gent are held 0-0 in Finland
Both Belgian sides in the Conference League picked up a single point on Thursday, dropping STVV out of the top eight for now.
3 sources · Sporza, Voetbalprimeur, L'Avenir