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Downtown St John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, in 2012. The city hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 1 to 4 November.

The Caribbean takes its slavery reparations claim to the Commonwealth summit opening Sunday in Antigua

The meeting brings the bloc's 56 member states to St John's from 1 to 4 November, chaired by Gaston Browne, with King Charles III closing a nine-day Caribbean tour there.

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Highlights

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The United States Capitol at sunrise, in a 2023 photograph released by the U.S. House of Representatives. Every House seat is on the ballot on November 3.

Corporations have put a record $737 million into the 2026 midterms, 60% more than they spent on the 2024 presidential race

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., photographed in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department orders California election officials before a grand jury on November 4, the day after the midterms

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Brazil

Women of the Kayapó people during a national gathering of indigenous peoples, in 2021.

Illegal gold mining

Brazilian police destroy three excavators and 19 huts at illegal gold mine inside Kayapó Indigenous Land

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

A NASA satellite image shows the plume of tailings from the Fundão dam collapse reaching the Atlantic through the mouth of the Rio Doce, in late 2015.

Brazil reopens fishing at the mouth of the Rio Doce, ten years after the Fundão dam collapse

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

A view of Nova Erechim, in western Santa Catarina, in 2007. The town recorded the state's third Newcastle disease outbreak.

Brazil confirms a third Newcastle disease outbreak in Santa Catarina, on a farm with 9,600 birds

Redação RecortNews10/28/2026

Brazil's top electoral court calls false Flávio Bolsonaro's claim that his party's observers were removed from the vault room

Redação RecortNews10/27/2026

Culture

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in September 2024.

A federal judge strikes down the narrower "medically frail" test for the Medicaid work requirements that start on January 1

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in green) budding from an infected cell, in a 2014 image.

Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

The West Virginia State Capitol on Kanawha Boulevard East in Charleston, seat of the state government and of the attorney general's office, photographed in November 2022.

Technology and childhood

West Virginia sues TikTok after a test account registered to a 13-year-old girl repeatedly drew sexually suggestive videos

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

Economy

The server room of a data centre run by BalticServers, in Lithuania, in 2013.

Foreign investment

Foreign investment in Brazil's information and communication sector hits record US$5.6 billion through September

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The $6.3 billion Binance theft is the largest in crypto history, and two tracing firms point to North Korea

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen during a visit to the United Kingdom in June 2026.

Eleven EU countries will release 20.5 million barrels of diesel from strategic reserves by the end of January

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

The Herbert C. Hoover Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., home of the Department of Commerce, whose Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the GDP and PCE figures, photographed in 2024.

US growth accelerates to a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter, with September inflation stuck at 3.6%

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

Sports

Marc Marquez at the 2025 Aragon Grand Prix, in a file photo.

Acosta wins the Sepang sprint as Marc Marquez opens a 19-point lead with Jorge Martin out on a broken wrist

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The interior of Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University in Indianapolis, photographed in 2008.

The NBA Cup opens group play, and for the first time the final leaves Las Vegas for a 1928 college gym in Indianapolis

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

Alexander Zverev before a match at the 2026 Miami Open.

Alexander Zverev will be world No. 1 from 2 November, the first German at the top since Boris Becker in 1991

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

George Russell, now one of the two drivers still mathematically able to catch Antonelli, at the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix.

Antonelli can clinch the Formula 1 title on Sunday in Mexico City, where Checo Pérez reaches 300 races

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

World

The Strait of Hormuz in a NASA satellite image, with Iran to the north and the Musandam peninsula to the south.

Strait of Hormuz

Revolutionary Guard reports two more tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US says the lanes are clear of mines

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Dmitry Muratov, one of the five founders and former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, on Nemtsov Bridge in Moscow in February 2021.

Russia's Novaya Gazeta shuts down after 33 years and will switch off the newsroom lights on 9 November

Redação RecortNews10/30/2026

The port city of Wonsan, on North Korea's east coast, photographed in 2008.

Korean Peninsula

North Korea fires about ten ballistic missiles from Wonsan, a day after Trump floated a meeting with Kim Jong-un

Redação RecortNews10/29/2026

President Nayib Bukele alongside Salvadoran troops at a ceremony in San Salvador in June 2019.

El Salvador has about 1,300 troops in Haiti and announces a force of more than 2,000 to rescue four missing servicemen

Redação RecortNews10/29/2026

Politics

Downtown St John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, in 2012. The city hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 1 to 4 November.

The Caribbean takes its slavery reparations claim to the Commonwealth summit opening Sunday in Antigua

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The United States Capitol at sunrise, in a 2023 photograph released by the U.S. House of Representatives. Every House seat is on the ballot on November 3.

Corporations have put a record $737 million into the 2026 midterms, 60% more than they spent on the 2024 presidential race

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., photographed in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department orders California election officials before a grand jury on November 4, the day after the midterms

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Latest news

Downtown St John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, in 2012. The city hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 1 to 4 November.

The Caribbean takes its slavery reparations claim to the Commonwealth summit opening Sunday in Antigua

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

The United States Capitol at sunrise, in a 2023 photograph released by the U.S. House of Representatives. Every House seat is on the ballot on November 3.

Corporations have put a record $737 million into the 2026 midterms, 60% more than they spent on the 2024 presidential race

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., photographed in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department orders California election officials before a grand jury on November 4, the day after the midterms

Marc Marquez at the 2025 Aragon Grand Prix, in a file photo.

Acosta wins the Sepang sprint as Marc Marquez opens a 19-point lead with Jorge Martin out on a broken wrist

The Strait of Hormuz in a NASA satellite image, with Iran to the north and the Musandam peninsula to the south.

Strait of Hormuz

Revolutionary Guard reports two more tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US says the lanes are clear of mines

The seat of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, pictured in January 2016.

Judge suspends the head of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal for a month, and Nawrocki turns his plane around

The server room of a data centre run by BalticServers, in Lithuania, in 2013.

Foreign investment

Foreign investment in Brazil's information and communication sector hits record US$5.6 billion through September

Women of the Kayapó people during a national gathering of indigenous peoples, in 2021.

Illegal gold mining

Brazilian police destroy three excavators and 19 huts at illegal gold mine inside Kayapó Indigenous Land