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Tue, 13 Oct 2026

Tuesday 13 October: Riyadh strikes and Albert Heijn outage

Riyadh airport stays shut, the UK blames Iran over a base plot, an economics Nobel, Albert Heijn's outage, and Meta's first frontier model.

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World news

Riyadh airport stays shut after fourth strike in five days

Al Jazeera | Aviation Week | NOS

Zelensky says Russia broke Trump's energy ceasefire

CNBC | The Moscow Times | CBC

UK blames Iran's Revolutionary Guard for RAF Fairford plot

Axios | France 24 | NOS

World politics

EU chooses talks over countermeasures on US sanctions against the ICC

NL Times | NOS | Agence Europe

Federal agents search home of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Axios | NBC News | CNBC

World economy

Economics Nobel for Robert Hall and Michael Woodford

CNBC | CNN | NOS

IMF sees 3.1 percent global growth this year

CNBC | IndexBox

Dutch news

Seal centre in Lauwersoog faces bankruptcy within two weeks

NOS | RD

One dead in large house fire in Doesburg

NOS | NL Times

Aalsmeer warehouse fire closes Schiphol runway for hours

NH Nieuws | Up in the Sky | NL Times

Dutch politics

Thirteen week pregnancy scan scrapped from 2028

NOS | Hart van Nederland

D66 draft law: children heard within 48 hours in abuse cases

NOS | NL Times | DutchNews

New permit system for zoos

Rijksoverheid | AT5 | NOS

Dutch economy

Albert Heijn distribution halted by security incident

NOS | NL Times | VRT NWS

Grid congestion holds back greener factories

NOS | NL Times

Two-way shipping back on the IJssel

NOS | DutchNews

AI news

UK regains pre-release testing of OpenAI and Anthropic models

The Decoder | Startup Fortune | The Next Web

Meta releases first frontier models, Muse Wonder

TechCrunch | Meta | Yahoo Finance

Chip stocks fall for a fifth day

Strategitz | Investrade

Nebius first customer for Rotterdam AI data centre

NL Times | DCD | Techzine

Also

Van de Zandschulp beats Fils in Shanghai

NOS | Flashscore | ATP Tour

Nature: barnacle geese arrive for the winter

Natura 2000

On this day: White House cornerstone laid in 1792

Britannica | History.com

Weather in Groningen

Open-Meteo | NOS

On the agenda today

IMF and World Bank meetings continue in Bangkok

IMF

RB Leipzig against PSV in the Champions League

NOS