OchtendKrant: news for Monday 9 November 2026
De Wever opens a round of party-by-party talks, with Clarinval first in line and Bouchez likely at his side
Today and tomorrow the prime minister wants to test whether the concessions party leaders promised the king are real, while the MR reworks its own rules.
Trump leaves the door to Iran ajar, saying there will be no fresh bombing if Tehran signs a strong deal
3 sources · CNN, NOS, Foreign ExchangesNvidia's board asks its independent members to establish whether Jensen Huang was targeted by Beijing
4 sources · CBS News, NOS, Al Jazeera +A convenience option in Claude Code left passwords and keys readable in public GitHub projects
2 sources · The Hacker News, iTnewsAn all-Belgian podium at the European cyclocross championships as Nys holds off Wyseure and Vandeputte
3 sources · Sporza, NOS, In de LeiderstruiBelgium
All of BelgiumMore than forty suspected members of a Peterbos cocaine network go on trial in Brussels from today
Alleged ringleader Imad B. is accused of ordering six attempted murders from his cell, and the hearings are expected to last about a month.
3 sources · VRT NWS, BX1, The Brussels TimesAntwerp's Olieweg prison takes in a first group, but the Begijnenstraat jail stays in use for now
De Kade has 440 places and is opening step by step because staff are still missing.
3 sources · RTBF, La DH, VRT NWSRescuers shadow a crowded small boat off Nieuwpoort for hours until it crosses into French waters
The roughly thirty people on board refused to be evacuated; French authorities took over at around 3 pm.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La DH, RTBFYoung man dies in a lifting machine accident on the Brussels Christmas market site at Quai aux Briques
Several young people reportedly used the telehandler beforehand; police and the organiser are waiting for the investigation.
2 sources · La Libre, La DHWorld
All of WorldAfter a deadly air raid on a village near Sanaa, the Houthis fire missiles at Riyadh and shatter windows in the Aramco tower
The Houthis say 33 people died in al-Shariyah, while Saudi Arabia reports only minor damage in its capital.
3 sources · Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, NOSSand washed loose by the rain buries a tent camp in central Gaza, killing three children and two women
The rainy season has only just begun and tens of thousands of tents are already flooded, while Washington pushes for the next step in its peace plan.
3 sources · Malay Mail, NOS, The Times of IsraelThe smallest Canary Island is receiving hundreds of boat migrants a day and asks Madrid and the region for reinforcements
El Hierro, home to some 11,000 people, has seen more than 8,000 arrivals in about five weeks; the Spanish government is convening an interministerial committee.
4 sources · NOS, Infobae, Moncloa.com +Economy
All of EconomyTokyo and Taipei bounce strongly after last week's chip slump, with Brent holding just below 100 dollars
Taiwan's market gains more than 5 percent and the Nikkei more than 3 percent, as investors turn to Tuesday's US inflation figures.
3 sources · AP, Al Jazeera, HDFC SkyMitsui Chemicals pays the equivalent of 11.6 billion dollars for JSR, Japan's specialist in light-sensitive chip materials
The state-backed funds that took JSR private in 2024 are selling the company as the AI wave drives up the value of chip suppliers.
3 sources · TNGlobal, Reuters, Nippon.comMember states want EU methane rules on oil and gas imports to start a year later, Parliament wants three
Importers would only have to measure and report emissions from imported fuels from 2028, and environmental groups fear the delay will not stop at one year.
4 sources · Business AM, The Brussels Times, EUobserver +Tech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Invisible markers in AI-written text are becoming standard as Europe's 2 December deadline draws near
Since Saturday, xAI has marked text from seven Grok models by default, after Anthropic did the same for older Claude models earlier this month.
2 sources · DataStudios, Eden AIThinking Machines aims to release the weights of its new language model this week, once outside safety testing is done
Inkling 2 Small has 594 billion parameters and for now can only be used through the company's own Tinker platform.
2 sources · Thinking Machines Lab, Unite.AIUS Justice Department moves all its AI cases under a new super intelligence unit
The unit is to coordinate cases involving misuse of AI by foreign states, gangs and fraudsters, and absorbs the department's earlier AI team.
2 sources · ExecutiveGov, The Next WebOther tech
An extremely long password could get attackers into some Alpine servers running OpenSSH
Version 10.6p2 closes a hole on systems using the musl C library, where locked accounts still accepted a password.
2 sources · Cyber Security News, Threat LandscapeCriminals set AI agents loose on GitHub to hunt for leaked keys and get into cloud accounts within minutes
Microsoft describes how the ARTEX attack framework in one case went from a search query to stolen vault data in five minutes.
3 sources · Microsoft Security Blog, GitGuardian, TechCrunchAfter protests from publishers and court rulings in Norway and Brazil, Meta puts its plan to crawl business websites on ice
The new business terms were due to take effect on 20 November, but the existing rules remain in place for now.
3 sources · Nieman Lab, The Next Web, Press GazetteScience
All of ScienceTwo weeks of climate talks get under way in Antalya, shortly after the warmest October Copernicus has measured
Türkiye presides, Australia steers the negotiations and the United States sends no official delegation; for Belgium, it is Flanders' turn.
5 sources · Euronews, RTBF, Copernicus +Magnitude 5.7 tremor in Shizuoka leaves over twenty hurt as Japanese seismologists call for a week of vigilance
No tsunami warning was issued and nothing unusual has so far been seen in the Nankai Trough.
2 sources · Al Jazeera, RTBFUrologists urge men not to hide their symptoms as prostate cancer diagnoses keep climbing
As Movember gets under way, doctors and the Belgian Foundation Against Cancer point to embarrassment as a brake on early diagnosis.
2 sources · RTBF, La LibreSport
All of SportAnderlecht halt Club Brugge's winning streak with a 1-1 draw at the Jan Breydel stadium
Hans Vanaken scored in his 500th top-flight match before Mihajlo Cvetkovic equalised after the break.
2 sources · Sporza, VoetbalkrantUnion leapfrog Club Brugge with a 1-0 win over Genk as Gent edge past Kortrijk
Defender Ross Sykes settled the top game at the Duden Park with a header, while in Gent goalkeeper Davy Roef saved a late penalty.
4 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, KV Kortrijk