Month: November 2026

US President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about whether and when to intensify military operations against Iran, US media reported on Sunday. Axios, citing one US and one Israeli official, reported that the two leaders discussed the state of negotiations with Tehran, with Netanyahu urging Trump to launch strikes immediately after the US midterm elections, while the US president favoured allowing diplomacy to continue. The Israeli official described the call as “tough”, while the US official called it “direct”, according to the report. Throughout the eight-month…

A tearful Kimi Antonelli became Formula One’s youngest world champion at 20 years and 68 days old on Sunday when he finished third for Mercedes in a red-flagged and restarted ​Mexico City Grand Prix won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. The first Italian champion since 1953 sobbed with joy over the team radio as he took the chequered flag at the high-altitude ‌Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with his overall lead now an unassailable 119 points. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton started from pole position and took a close second place – after clashing…

The four members of a crew who took part in a simulated mission to Mars have emerged after 378 days in isolation ​at the US space agency’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, an endeavour designed to help prepare for a ‌possible future excursion by NASA astronauts to Earth’s planetary neighbour. “It’s been a hell of a year — analogue astronauts living in captivity of our own free will,” Ellen Ellis, the medical officer on the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue, or CHAPEA, mission, said in remarks at Johnson Space…

Oil prices slipped more than 3% on Monday after Iranian and Qatari officials ‌held a third straight day of talks aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran. Brent crude futures fell $3.68, or 3.2%, to $109.75 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude ​was at $100.69 a barrel, down $3.43, or 3.3%. Brent ended October at its highest in six ​months amid concerns that the US-Iran conflict could escalate again after Tuesday’s US midterm ⁠elections. “Oil is seeing a technical pullback this morning…

A prominent Michigan Democrat endorsed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, giving President Donald Trump’s Republicans an unexpected boost in ​a critical US Senate race two days before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democrats’ Senate primary to Abdul El Sayed in a bitterly ‌contested race, publicly backed Rogers and appeared with him at a Detroit church, threatening to worsen divisions in a state viewed as crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking the US Senate. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign,”…