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Nov 13, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin next Thursday in China for talks expected to center on a nuclear arms deal Trump has sought since his first term, the New York Post reported in an exclusive Friday.“It will be the first-ever trilateral meeting between leaders of the three countries,” the Post’s Steven Nelson reported. The summit is expected to take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Shenzhen. For Trump, the meeting offers a chance to turn a year-old proposal into negotiations with both Beijing and Moscow. He has argued that maintaining vast nuclear stockpiles is unnecessarily expensive.“Trump already all-but confirmed plans for the summit among the three nations that control most of the world’s nuclear weapons,” according to the Post.The sit-down could also delve into other global issues. A White House official told the outlet leaders could also discuss the war in Iran and North Korea. Russia’s war in Ukraine could come up as well, though the Post reported the issue was “not a top agenda item.”Trump previewed the possible meeting Sunday. “We’ll talk a lot of things, including denuclearization,” he told reporters. “But we’ll be talking a lot of things. We’re trying to end the war in Iran, and we’re doing well.”

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Anti-corruption agency carried out searches as part of investigation into Orbán-era minister accused of taking bribesHungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth $19.5m (£14.8m) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating an ex-minister of nationalist former leader Viktor Orbán’s cabinet.Miklós Seszták, Hungary’s minister of national development between 2014 and 2018, is accused of taking bribes in a scheme involving the state transport company, purchasing secondhand buses at inflated prices. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Reactions were mounting on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop for all flights in the United States, citing "extraordinary circumstances" and safety concerns.The FAA cited a communications issue amid reports that the agency had started using a new AI tool. This is the third time the FAA has grounded all national flights; the first was on Sept. 11, 2001. A second time was in 2023 during a system outage. Secretary Sean Duffy shared a statement on social media and updates on the situation."The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them," Duffy wrote.The news drew responses on social media.Marcy Wheeler, a national security journalist, pointed out the timing in a post on Bluesky."Yesterday," Wheeler wrote, sharing an Ars Technica report from Thursday indicating that a union representing the air traffic controllers had not had the opportunity to weigh in on or test the new technology.CNN's Hadas Gold reported officials said it was not tied to a national security concern."Law enforcement sources tell my colleagues preliminary reports indicate this is NOT a cyberattack via @evanperez @HBRabinowitz," Gold wrote on X.Rapper Flavor Flav was at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and shared on update on Bluesky."Ground stop will be 'multiple hours' This has been Flavor Flav from the Atlanta Airport. And now to Chuck D from JFK," he wrote on Bluesky.Others also reacted."Key lawmakers are in the dark at the moment about the ground stop. FAA has been reaching out but they do not have answers thus far," Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman wrote on X."Simply: Sean @SecDuffy is a moron," political commentator and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann wrote on X.Editor's Note: This story was updated with additional information about the FAA outage in 2023.

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Kaja Kallas says Moscow is trying to divert attention from its aggression by raising issue of European securityThe EU’s foreign policy chief has warned against “walking into the traps that Russia is setting” as she said Moscow was trying to start a debate about European security in order to divert attention from its aggression.“We have one aggressor and one victim, and the aggressor does not have security concerns,” Kaja Kallas said on arrival at an EU leaders’ summit in Dublin. “Nobody has ever attacked them. They have attacked others. I mean, keep the focus, people.” Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen HuangUS politics – live updatesThe US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the Nvidia spying scandal as other Trump administration officials publicly raise questions over his decisions.Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, blamed Lutnick’s commerce department for the fact the US had not imposed export restrictions on certain Nvidia chips to China. Continue reading...