With the number of confirmed cases now surpassing 11,000, the outbreak is the second-worst on record.

The reported move comes amid allegations of two extramarital affairs and scrutiny over Huang’s links to a Chinese businesswoman suspected of facilitating restricted chip shipments to China.

Consumer price pressures from fuel to food were a major driver in the US midterm elections ​that handed control of Congress to Democrats, and are an important vulnerability for leaders across Europe, ⁠Asia and elsewhere.

The new American drive for a deal has galvanized ​European officials into pushing for a place ​at the negotiating table to seek ⁠an end to Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.

Allegations linking Huang to a suspected Chinese spy have triggered a board investigation and renewed scrutiny of Nvidia’s chip shipments to China.

Bangladesh’s garment workers say stagnant wages and rising living costs are forcing families to cut back on food, forgo healthcare and pull children out of school, even as the industry drives the country’s export economy.

Pakistan says winds carried pollution from Diwali fireworks in India into Lahore, pushing the city’s air quality index to 263 and making it the world’s most polluted major city for a second consecutive day.

Russian state news agency RIA reported the start of what is scheduled to be two days of talks, in which Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are to mediate between the two warring sides.

The former prime minister says she plans to return in December, despite a death sentence, the revocation of her travel documents and the risk of arrest.

Former Chinese finance executive Alice Huang became Megaspeed International’s controlling shareholder in 2023 and is under scrutiny over alleged espionage links to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

The US president says Jensen Huang told him he had no idea the Chinese businesswoman was allegedly a spy, as Nvidia launches an internal investigation and its shares fall more than 4 percent.

Turkey’s COP31 presidency has ​focused this year’s summit on a goal to electrify more than a third of the global economy by 2035, up from around a fifth today.

Smoke billowed over ​the 40-storey structure as firefighters poised on cranes ​outside fought flames that spread upward from a lower annex.

An internal investigation into whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation has put his future at the chipmaker under scrutiny, while his daughter cancels a planned visit to South Korea.

Hasina has asked Bangladesh’s embassy in New Delhi to issue her a new passport and identity card, signalling a possible return in December amid a death sentence and deepening political divisions at home.