OchtendKrant: news for Sunday 8 November 2026
Each deputy prime minister may bring a second negotiator to De Wever on Monday as the interest bill keeps climbing
With his resignation refused, the prime minister is opting for one-on-one talks with each party, while economists warn that every week without a deal costs money.
Young Pole with far-right views shoots six people dead in Krakow's market square, Tusk calls it terrorism
4 sources · VRT NWS, TRT World, EuronewsBnode, the group behind bpost, cuts its 2026 profit target for a second time and sees its share price drop below one euro
4 sources · Made in, Transportmedia, MarketScreener +OpenAI catches its own internal model quietly putting in less effort on safety research
2 sources · LessWrong, Let's Data SciencePink meteorite from Mali holds crystals from Mars's first 400 million years and traces of water
2 sources · VRT NWS, Live ScienceBelgium
All of BelgiumMore than a week after the attack on the Finance ministry's systems, the tax authority is still handling VAT applications by hand
Start-ups that need a VAT number must send their request by email, and the backlog has grown to 5,500 files.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La Libre, DHAn escaped inmate, a rape complaint and four injured guards: at Haren, unions point to overcrowding
The country's largest and most modern prison went through a turbulent week, with more inmates than places and many new staff.
3 sources · RTBF, BruzzBill White asks for soldiers at a synagogue in Cureghem while police are still unsure whether the paving stone was thrown deliberately
The US ambassador calls the broken window an antisemitic act, while local police have not yet ruled out an accident.
2 sources · Bruzz, La LibreAfter an ignored ultimatum, ULB has police clear the occupied P1 building, four students detained
The occupation on the Solbosch campus lasted more than two weeks; the rector speaks of vandalism and hate messages on the walls.
2 sources · Bruzz, La LibreWorld
All of WorldFormer army chief Eisenkot, not Netanyahu, gets the first shot at putting together an Israeli government
President Herzog follows the 67 Knesset members who recommended Eisenkot, but without the Arab parties or the ultra-Orthodox a majority is hard to reach.
3 sources · Al Jazeera, Israel Hayom, VRT NWSMissiles hit the substations linking Kyiv to nuclear plants, three days before fresh talks in Abu Dhabi
Russia fired 36 ballistic missiles and 172 drones according to Zelensky, and five provinces were without power on Saturday.
4 sources · Kyiv Post, The Moscow Times, Al Jazeera +Smaller turnout on France's fourth Saturday of action against the high cost of living, with rioting again at the end of the Paris march
The ministry counted 146,000 marchers, the unions 250,000; on Monday Prime Minister Lecornu meets unions and employers.
4 sources · Quartz, L'Express via Orange, VRT NWS +Economy
All of EconomyNearly three times as many new US jobs as expected, and investors now bet on higher rates in December
With 165,000 extra jobs and unemployment at 4.1 percent, the Federal Reserve has little reason to sit still.
3 sources · InvestmentNews, Yahoo FinanceAfter the tech rout, investors pencil in a lower price tag for Anthropic, which still aims to list this month
Where 2 trillion dollars was mentioned in October, figures between 1.2 and 1.75 trillion are now circulating.
3 sources · IEX via Headliner, Investing.com, Yahoo FinanceEuropean shoppers tighten their purse strings in September, with German retail sales falling 2 percent
Eurozone retail shrank 0.7 percent, far more than expected, while German industry produced slightly more.
3 sources · ActionForex, Business AMTech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Perplexity now lets AI agents keep working as standing colleagues, for Max subscribers only for now
Teammates are given a role and a goal, keep an eye on connected tools and only ask for input when a decision is needed.
2 sources · ShiftDelete, AlphaSignalAI agents guided by researchers find two cheaper routes to attack outdated 1024-bit RSA keys
Google DeepMind and its co-authors stress that keys of 2048 bits and longer are not threatened, and the working papers have not yet been peer reviewed.
2 sources · Transclew, DEV CommunityProgramming languages
PHP 8.6 enters the home stretch, with the final release featuring partial function application due on 19 November
New test builds are out, and they also include the fixes for the serious PHP2Shell flaws from late October.
3 sources · Warp2Search, Laravel News, TenableTypeScript 7.1 is meant to bring Vue and Svelte tooling onto the fast Go compiler at last, with the release candidate slated for this week
The first feature release since the rewrite in Go restores a programming interface that many developer tools have been waiting for.
3 sources · Microsoft TypeScript-blog, Digital Applied, Warp2SearchOther tech
OpenAI sets AI agents loose on the Linux kernel and counts 948 working attacks for 1.2 million dollars
The company is sending patches to the kernel developers, but experts warn that fixes are far from installed everywhere.
2 sources · Help Net Security, CSO OnlineBeijing puts a stop to the sale of ABB's Chinese robotics operations to SoftBank
China's foreign investment watchdog has banned the Chinese part of the 5.4 billion dollar deal, putting the transaction in doubt.
3 sources · SoftBank Group, Evertiq, Blue NewsA European wave of protests against large data centres opens in Amsterdam with the occupation of a Microsoft site
The Stop Dirty Data Centres coalition wants construction of large data centres halted until governments draw up clearer rules.
2 sources · Reuters via Dawn, Tom's HardwareScience
All of ScienceTurkey chairs the UN climate summit, Australia leads the talks: from Monday nearly 200 countries meet in Antalya
COP31 is mainly meant to deliver on earlier agreements, while the UN expects warming of 2.6 to 2.8 degrees by 2100.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La Libre, ANP via nieuws.nlDespite the storms of late October, eleven Walloon municipalities still have water restrictions
Rainfall over the past three months is back close to normal, but rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the south are recovering slowly.
2 sources · RTBF, BruzzSport
All of SportCharleroi sweep Westerlo aside 5-1 after the break and draw level on points with Club Brugge
The Carolos scored three times in a quarter of an hour after half-time and have 27 points after eleven matchdays.
4 sources · Sporza, RTBF, L'Avenir +Antwerp twice let a lead slip against Lommel, while OH Leuven and Cercle Brugge collect three points
The game at the Bosuil ended 2-2, piling further pressure on coach Marvin Compper, while OH Leuven beat KV Mechelen and Cercle won at La Louvière.
5 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, Voetbal24 +Lentel Huys gives Belgium a first European youth title for women in Zeddam, Brand wins only after a jury ruling
On the first day of the championships Belgium took gold among the juniors and silver and bronze in the under-23 race, with the elite men racing today at 3 pm.
6 sources · Sporza, Wielernieuws, ProCyclingUK +