Fri, 16 Oct 2026
Friday 16 October: school tragedies and Ukraine ends truce
A deadly school collapse in Pakistan, a shooting in Oregon, Ukraine ends the energy truce, Albert Heijn's outage drags on and Dutch budget talks get harder.
World news
Pakistan school roof collapse kills dozens of children
Al Jazeera | France 24 | CBS News | NOS
Teen gunman kills three children at Oregon elementary school
NBC Washington | CNN | The Washington Post | NOS
Ukraine ends energy truce, drones hit Ryazan refinery
NPR | PBS NewsHour | The Moscow Times | NOS
World politics
EU summit fails to agree on long-term budget
Third night of violent student protests in Albania
Al Jazeera | France 24 | NOS
World economy
US producer prices jump, chip stocks slide again
TSMC posts sixth straight record profit
Dutch news
Albert Heijn: no deliveries until Sunday after cyber incident
NOS | NL Times | Albert Heijn
Fifty heavy fireworks bombs found under Utrecht flat
Nazi-looted Kandinsky sells for almost 32 million euro
Dutch politics
Health budget lacks support; SGP motion against Hermans
NOS | RD | Hart van Nederland
JA21 and SGP demand end to forced asylum housing
First Dutch-French talks on nuclear weapons cooperation
Dutch economy
Unemployment steady at 4 percent
TomTom to cut about 200 jobs
NL Times | TomTom | Investing.com
Bike brand Sparta sold to Tenways
NOS | RetailTrends | Nieuws.nl
AI news
Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue hit 16.8 billion dollars
Meta releases open-weight Muse Spark Open
Google and Nvidia pledge AI tools to European science
Science|Business | Techzine | European Commission
Tech
Timekeepers vote to scrap the leap second
The Conversation | Time and Date | NOS