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The truth: Yemen's war is pulling in more countries.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Houthi missiles kill 53 recruits in Yemen, and France pays more to borrow after its riots
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Riots in France reaching shops and lenders High ↑
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France ordered night curfews in parts of Paris and other cities after a weekend of looting. It also told resale websites to take down looted goods.
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Finance
Lenders pushed France's ten-year borrowing rate as high as 4.94% on Monday, and shares in Paris fell. Parliament holds its first vote on next year's budget on Tuesday.
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Money
Official figures say 41.1% of people in France lived in homes that struggled to make ends meet in 2025.
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Gaming
Video appears to show looters in Paris pulling memory chips out of the gaming computers of a professional video-game team.
Yemen's war reaching Saudi Arabia High ↑
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The Houthis claimed six attacks inside Saudi Arabia in two days. Saudi Arabia has asked Egypt and Pakistan for help, and neither has said what it will send.
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Finance
Saudi Arabia put off its biggest meeting for foreign investors, due in its capital on 26 October, until 2027, after bankers raised fears about safety.
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Sports
Sports events in Saudi Arabia are going ahead, even though the US has warned its citizens about travel in the region.
AI used to fake, copy and break in Building ↑
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Fake AI photos of an elderly couple said to be robbed in France's riots got millions of views. Likud, the party of Israel's prime minister, has put out more than 1,800 AI-made posts before Israel votes.
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Gaming
Small game studios are holding back early public tests of their games, for fear that AI tools will be used to make copies.
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Cyber
One hacker used AI programs to break into more than 100 websites, for about $50 each.
Parties chasing votes before the US elections Building ↑
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Food
The US farm department's $8 billion for farmers was announced weeks before the elections for the US Congress in November. Farms with more acres will get more money.
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Mind & body
Republican candidates are making fraud in health programmes a main theme. In one poll, voters trusted Democrats more on health costs, by 42% to 22%.
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World
President Trump's approval fell to 31%, a record low for him, two weeks before the elections for the US Congress.
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Finance
The truth: Lenders charged France close to the most in 24 years on Monday, because the weekend riots made the spending cuts in its 2027 budget look harder to pass.
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Tech
The truth: Amazon released a free tool on Monday to move AI code from Nvidia's chips onto its own, and Tenstorrent raised $1.5bn to sell chips against Nvidia too.
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Mind & body
The truth: Robert F.
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Climate
The truth: Amazon, AEP and X-energy have signed to study a nuclear plant, not to build one: there is no date, no price and no permit, and X-energy has never built a working reactor.
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Space
The truth: Russia flew a military satellite to within a few hundred metres of a radar satellite that Ukraine's army has used, stayed there over a weekend, and left, and neither Russia, the US government nor ICEYE has said what it did there.
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Biotech
The truth: The FDA approved GSK's Jemperli four months early on Monday, under a fast-pass scheme it created for national priorities.
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Money
The truth: Most of Britain's new parking rules, including the 10-minute grace period and the 20-pound charge for a slip-up, were already in the code the parking industry wrote for itself in 2024.
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Sports
The truth: Major League Baseball has argued that low-spending teams cannot compete, and its owners want a salary cap before the labour deal ends on 1 December.
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Gaming
The truth: PEGI is not banning loot boxes.
25 stories · 43 sources
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Food
The truth: The US farm department will hand farmers $8 billion by a formula built on the acres they planted, so farms with more acres will get more money, and it is announced weeks before the US midterm elections in November.
20 stories · 28 sources
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Cyber
The truth: Most of today's break-ins happened at a company that holds other people's data or keys: ETS held California's pupil records, ConnectWise held a key to its customers' email, OpenCode stored its users' AI keys, and FirstVDS ran its customers' servers.
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