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Sat, 24 Oct 2026

Saturday 24 October: West Bank lockdown and storm Boelo

Israel locks down the West Bank, a deadly church attack in Jordan, Albert Heijn delivers again, OpenAI takes training offline, and storm Boelo reaches Groningen tonight.

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World news

Israel locks down West Bank after deadly Hebron attack

NBC News | NOS

Gunmen kill at least seven at church funeral in Jordan

CNN | CBS News | The Washington Post

Super typhoon Champi passes Taiwan

NOS | Taipei Times

World politics

France bans non-union protests, deploys 70,000 police

Euronews | NOS | Democracy Now

Justice Department sues over Alaska Senate ballot names

Boston Globe | ABC7 | NOS

World economy

Wall Street falls as Brent nears 117 dollars

BNN Bloomberg | Yahoo Finance | Washington Times

First Russian diesel cargo heads to New York

NOS | Baird Maritime

Dutch news

Hajar was killed on the day she went missing

NOS | NL Times

Study: migration not a predictor of femicide

NL Times | Nieuwsuur via Drimble

Storm Austen hits the south, KLM cancels 42 flights

NOS | NL Times

Dutch politics

Book: MIVD watched Kushner's hacked phone

NOS | NL Times | Democracy Now

Dozens of churches offer shelter to refugees with permits

NOS | DutchNews

Dutch economy

Albert Heijn delivers again, police investigate cyberattack

NL Times | NOS | NOS

Highest gas prices in years drive electric heater sales

NL Times | ACM

AI news

OpenAI stops training frontier models on the live internet

TechCrunch | Bloomberg

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro

The Next Web | Unite.AI

UK launches AI Biosecurity Lab with Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic

GOV.UK | Bloomberg

First signs of hackers abusing critical PHP flaws

NL Times | NCSC UK | NOS

Google may use Gmail and Photos data for ads

9to5Google | Techlicious

Sports

Brewers beat Rays 3-2 in World Series Game 1

ESPN | NBC Philadelphia

Nature fact

Night of the Night: why darkness matters for moths and birds

Nacht van de Nacht | Astronomie.nl

On this day

1945: the United Nations comes into existence

United Nations | UNFPA

On the agenda today

National Rally congress and counter-protest in Orleans

Euronews | NOS

Clocks go back one hour tonight

NL Times

Weather in Groningen

Wet day, storm Boelo with code yellow tonight

OOG TV | 112 Groningen | Weeronline