If you're just catching your breath, Jensen Huang , the leather-clad tycoon leading the world's second-most valuable company (Nvidia) at the heart of humanity's most valuable tech (AI / chips), just apologised for having an affair.
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TURKEY
The UN’s COP31 climate summit kicks off today (Monday), hosted by Turkey while Australia chairs the negotiations, right as research warns that a breach of our 1.5°C global warming limit is now both imminent and unavoidable. (Guardian)
POLAND
Prime Minister Tusk has declared two days of mourning after Saturday’s mass shooting in Kraków left seven dead (including the attacker) and 15 injured. Authorities say the 24-year-old shooter, who also killed three relatives at his home, might’ve been motivated by far-right ideology. (NBC)
ISRAEL
President Herzog has offered opposition leader and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form a new coalition government. Eisenkot now has ~six weeks to make the legislative math work before Herzog passes the baton to someone else (presumably Netanyahu). (F24)
NEW ZEALAND
Disillusioned voters have delivered an incredibly close election outcome in New Zealand, with Saturday’s results still too close to call. (RNZ)
UNITED STATES
Following last week’s big midterms loss, President Trump has swapped his disciplinarian chief of staff Susie Wiles for hardline immigration architect Stephen Miller. The president also insists he was “just kidding” when he announced UFC boss Dana White as his next pick for press secretary — ie, not confusing the cage-fight promoter for a former Pentagon spokesperson with the same name. (The Hill)
HAITI
Prime Minister Fils-Aime has announced the drone-strike death of gang leader Mathias Saintil in a law enforcement operation on Friday. (Al Jazeera)
GABON
President Xi has hosted his Gabonese counterpart (junta leader-turned-president Nguema) for a state visit, formally elevating ties to a “community with a shared future” while signing pacts across security, trade, and mining. (Reuters)
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