International News from Monday, November 9th, 2026

A blast at a steel and iron manufacturing plant in western Turkey on Monday killed 16 people, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting.

Leaders of the COP31 climate summit urged the world to accelerate the fight against global warming amid rising temperatures and worsening climate-driven disasters, as the annual meeting began in Turkey on Monday.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte's lawyers on Monday sought to counter allegations she had accumulated unexplained wealth, opening their defence in a high-profile impeachment trial where a conviction would kill off her hopes of becoming president.

A young gunman who killed six people in central Krakow on Saturday in an unprecedented Polish mass shooting has died in hospital, police said on Monday.

Nvidia shares fell in out-of-hours trading on Monday after an internal investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort put his future at the AI chipmaker under scrutiny.

Air quality deteriorated in India's capital Delhi on Monday, after residents celebrating the festival of lights set off fireworks in violation of court orders.

President Donald Trump will meet with Qatar's prime minister at the White House on Monday, according to the White House schedule, as the conflict with Iran drags on and diplomatic efforts to end it face significant obstacles.

A fire on Sunday at a high-rise building in Taiyuan, in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, killed 14 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

A 1,768-km rail network linking Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman is set to begin operations in December 2030, according to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).