Monday, 9 November 2026

Houthi missiles damaged the Aramco Tower in Riyadh on Sunday, and Houthi authorities say Saudi strikes near Sanaa killed dozens. Russia says it hit power substations and a ship off Odesa on Sunday, while 113 drones were downed over the Leningrad region overnight; Trump says ending the war could change Ukraine's borders. In Israel, President Isaac Herzog gave Gadi Eisenkot 28 days to form a government, though no bloc holds 61 seats. Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk called the shooting of six people in Krakow's main square on Saturday by a 24-year-old Polish man an act of terrorism.

Oil extended its weekly slide at Monday's open. Asian stocks rebounded after last week's AI-driven Wall Street selloff, with Taiwan's authorities moving to stem losses, while crypto slid to two-month lows. The Financial Times reported that Anthropic agreed a $3.4bn deal for gas-fired power for its data centres as energy demand surges.

Less noticed: a drone attack suspended production at Iraq's Khor Mor gas field, according to Reuters sources, and left more than 70 percent of the Kurdish region without power, Al Jazeera reports. The Jerusalem Post notes that Kataib Hezbollah had reportedly referenced the field less than a day before the strike. On Tuesday, US-mediated Ukraine talks open in Abu Dhabi, and France says Europeans will attend.