← All briefings

Sun, 11 Oct 2026

Sunday 11 October: Riyadh airport attack and Zelensky row

Houthi attack on Riyadh airport, Trump urges a new Ukrainian leader, the Dutch reject the EU budget plan, Anthropic's AI incidents, and Verstappen on pole in Singapore.

0:0010:54

World news

Houthi attack on Riyadh airport kills at least 12

Al Jazeera | CNN | Al Jazeera | NOS

Storm Isaias kills at least four in the US southeast

NOS | AccuWeather | NBC News

Drone strike on Sudan displacement camp kills dozens

Ahram Online | Sudan Tribune | NOS

World politics

Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after Russian diesel deal

Washington Post | Axios | CNBC | NOS

Justice Department probes TV networks over White House pool boycott

CNN | NBC News | NOS

World economy

EU and China agree first deal to curb hybrid car exports

CNBC | The Irish Times | NOS

IMF and World Bank meetings open in Bangkok

IMF | Nation Thailand | E3G

Dutch news

No trains between Rotterdam and Delft after arson at rail bridge

NOS | NL Times | NOS | NL Times

First woman bishop in the Netherlands ordained in Haarlem

NOS | RODI

Housing protest on Dam Square, empty house squatted afterwards

NL Times | Drimble | Woonbond

Dutch politics

Netherlands rejects Irish proposal for EU budget

NOS | BNR | RD

Jetten calls US sanctions on the ICC highly regrettable

NL Times | NOS

Municipalities want more money for crisis resilience

NOS | Binnenlands Bestuur

Dutch economy

Household gas prices up almost 35 percent, fixed contracts in demand

NOS | TPO | Energievergelijk

Paying readers drive growth at Dutch newspapers

NL Times | BNR | Villamedia

AI news

Anthropic discloses unintended AI actions on outside websites

Bloomberg | The Japan Times | Al Jazeera | The Spokesman-Review

Microsoft releases Decision-1 scoring model

MarkTechPost | TestingCatalog

Cloudflare buys Deno

Forbes | BetaNews

Apple reportedly cuts iPhone 18 Pro orders as memory costs rise

Fortune | Forbes

Also

Verstappen wins Singapore sprint and takes Grand Prix pole

ESPN | Yahoo Sports | NOS

Nature: cranes migrate over the Netherlands in October

Vroege Vogels | WUR

On this day: Apollo 7 launched in 1968

Wikipedia | Supercluster

Weather in Groningen: wet until early evening, 14 degrees

Open-Meteo

On the agenda today

Singapore Grand Prix starts at 14:00 Dutch time

Formula 1 | Crash.net