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Here's a rundown of all the news you need to know for Saturday, including Türkiye and Qatar signing five agreements, including a mutual defense pact, during the 12th meeting of the Türkiye-Qatar High Strategic Committee in Istanbul; the US Federal Aviation Administration lifting a nationwide flight ground stop after a telecommunications outage; and US President Donald Trump set to hold trilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen next week, according to the White House.
Türkiye and Qatar signed five agreements, including a mutual defense pact, during the 12th meeting of the Türkiye-Qatar High Strategic Committee in Istanbul, with the signing ceremony held at the Presidential Dolmabahce Office in the presence of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Erdogan and Sheikh Tamim signed the mutual defense agreement, while the other deals cover consumer protection, education, and cooperation on peace, reconciliation and conflict resolution.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani signed the memorandum on peace, reconciliation and conflict resolution, along with a joint declaration marking the committee’s 12th meeting.
The US Federal Aviation Administration lifted a nationwide ground stop at airports after a telecommunications outage affecting Air Route Traffic Control Centers prompted authorities to halt flights as a precaution, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy describing the problem as a "communication issue" and "an emergency."
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters at the White House that the public was "never" in danger and that there was "no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack."
"We’re not ruling out anything," Mullin said when asked about a possible cyberattack, while the FAA said every flight had been accounted for and international flights would be handled case by case.
Separately, Microsoft said it had "no indication" the ground stop was related to any of its services, while FlightAware said more than 10,000 flights were delayed or canceled.
US President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, with assistant White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales saying he will discuss reducing nuclear weapons, whose proliferation Trump believes is "very dangerous."
A senior US official said Washington does not expect an agreement, calling the talks "the entry point, the first conversation" at the leader level, and said Trump plans to raise Iran but not Ukraine because China is not part of the separate US-Russia track.
Trump will leave Washington on Monday for Manila for a Quad leaders’ meeting and the US-ASEAN Special Summit, then travel to Shenzhen on Wednesday, where he will hold a meeting and working lunch with Xi on Thursday before the trilateral meeting. Another senior US official described the Trump-Xi session as an "implementation check-in” on the trade agreement, with no tariff changes expected.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will join Trump for parts of his visit to China but will not participate in official meetings, according to US officials.
- A 9-month-old Palestinian baby, Kinan Ahmed Arqiq, died of severe hypothermia in the Gaza Strip, the first recorded cold-related death of the winter, the Health Ministry said.
- Israel’s Arab Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen has hinted at informal talks with the Jewish opposition in the Knesset and outlined demands including repealing the Kaminitz Law on home demolitions and adopting a plan to tackle crime.
- Türkiye’s law ratifying the "Mecca Agreement for Joint Defense" with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was published in the Official Gazette and took effect upon publication, after parliament approved it 279-119 on Nov. 5.
- International Criminal Court judges have ordered the formal closure of the court’s original Afghanistan investigation, which included allegations against US troops, saying the prosecution had not shown it could "effectively carry out any further investigative or prosecutorial activities," while a separate probe into alleged Taliban crimes since August 2021 continues.
- Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed for a second time legislation implementing key provisions of the EU’s Digital Services Act, arguing it would give officials excessive control over online speech, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized the move.
- Nvidia interim CEO Colette Kress and board chair Harvey Jones sought to reassure employees following Jensen Huang’s resignation, with Kress thanking staff for their "resilience, professionalism and continued dedication" in internal emails published by The Verge.
- A Syrian soldier was killed and two others were injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Jadid Bakara town in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, the Defense Ministry said.
- US visa restrictions have forced Zambia to withdraw its Miss Universe contestant and left Zimbabwe’s Roseanna Hall uncertain of competing in Puerto Rico less than two weeks before the final.
- A global Microsoft outage disrupted government and private services in the Asia-Pacific, with Japan’s government email services going down and New Zealand suspending all visa processing until further notice
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said Israeli forces have killed 245 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, including 41 in incidents involving reported stone-throwing, calling the killing of a child for throwing stones "abhorrent."
- US safety regulators have advised owners of 720,796 BMW vehicles to park outside and away from buildings because a water pump electrical connector fault could cause a fire, in a new recall replacing a 2024 campaign.
- Microsoft said its global outage was caused by a technical issue unrelated to cyber activity or AI, traced to a network capacity upgrade, and apologized as services showed broad recovery.
- The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the US measles elimination status after outbreaks in several states and 5,400 cases reported in 2026, with health experts blaming low vaccination coverage.
- A new diphtheria outbreak has been reported at a boarding school with more than 2,000 students in Nigeria’s Kano State, as the country’s largest recorded outbreak has reached 28,151 cases and 1,126 deaths as of Nov. 7.
Czech Sports Minister Boris Stastny said the government had no plans to introduce legislation or take other measures preventing Czech national teams from competing against Russian teams, saying the move would interfere with the autonomy of sports federations.
His remarks came after the Czech Ice Hockey Federation announced its national teams would not play against Russia, following a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling allowing Russian teams to return to international championships.
The federation’s decision followed similar announcements by several European ice hockey associations.
The Kutahya Archaeology and Mining Museum, inaugurated Sept. 30 in western Türkiye, displays 3,300 artifacts from a collection of more than 62,000 pieces, including the rare Amazon Sarcophagus dating to around 160 AD, which depicts battles between Greek soldiers and the mythical Amazon warriors.
The museum also displays figurines and coins from the ancient city of Aizanoi, home to one of the best-preserved temples of Zeus in Anatolia, along with a collection of ceramics spanning the Seljuk era to the present day.
The relocation of Kutahya’s ceramic museum, established in 1999, to the new complex has nearly doubled the museum’s exhibition space, museum director Sevgi Gurdal told Anadolu.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Wallet, a payment feature developed with American Express, Mastercard and Visa that enables its “dots” AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users, subject to approval for each transaction.
Eligible users enter their card details once, and payment networks generate transaction-specific tokens containing a limited-use card number, security code and expiration date, so agents never have access to actual card details.
OpenAI said it would not initially take a share of transactions processed through the wallet, focusing instead on building relationships with merchants and payment networks.
US producer prices rose 6.5% year-on-year in October, the largest annual increase since November 2022, up from 6.3% in September, according to Labor Department data.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand increased 0.3%, easing from a 1.4% gain in September, with goods prices climbing 0.5% and services prices rising 0.2%.
Excluding food, energy and trade services, producer prices rose 0.5% for the second consecutive month and 4.9% year-on-year, slowing from 5% in September.
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