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Snapshot:

• November 12, 2026 — A widespread Microsoft outage left users unable to access Outlook email and other Microsoft 365 tools for hours. Microsoft said server failures overwhelmed its remaining systems, and restoration was still under way.
• November 12, 2026 — Binance said it covered more than $6.34 billion in losses from October’s hack; U.S. authorities separately secured court authority to seize or restrain over $1.2 billion in stolen crypto. Withdrawals were reopening in phases.
• November 12, 2026 — Israel struck Nasser Hospital’s surgical wing in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, killing six people and wounding at least 28; surgeries and other services stopped after damage.

Geopolitics & Military Activity:

• November 12, 2026 — Saudi-led coalition forces, which back Yemen’s government, said they intercepted drones over the Riyadh region and Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The Houthis said they aimed at oil and military sites; damage was not confirmed.

• November 12, 2026 — At a Dublin, Ireland, summit, the United Kingdom sanctioned Slavneft and other Russian energy targets, putting all 10 of Russia’s largest oil producers under British sanctions. The package also targets oil-shipping vessels and Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project.

Economics & Markets:

• November 12, 2026 — India’s statistics ministry said October consumer-price inflation reached 6.09%, above the Reserve Bank of India’s 6% ceiling, while food inflation was 8.94%, making a further rate rise more likely.

• November 12, 2026 — The United States State Department said nearly all of $12.26 billion from Venezuelan oil and other resource sales had been returned to Venezuela for approved infrastructure, humanitarian and vendor payments; $168.6 million remained in escrow.
• November 12, 2026 — The National Association of Realtors, a United States housing trade group, said existing-home sales fell 5.5% in October to a 3.75 million annual pace, the lowest since 2010, as high mortgage rates kept many buyers out.
• November 12, 2026 — In Colombo, Sri Lanka, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, also finance minister, presented a proposed 2027 budget with 2 trillion rupees in capital spending and a higher income-tax-free threshold; Parliament must still approve it.

Business:

• November 12, 2026 — Kernel, Ukraine’s largest sunflower-oil producer, temporarily stopped all eight processing plants after Russian attacks damaged its buildings, equipment and tanks. It paused seed purchases but continues shipping stock from warehouses.

• November 12, 2026 — ReNew, an Indian clean-energy company, announced ₹80,000 crore in planned projects across Andhra Pradesh, India: a 1-gigawatt data centre and factories making solar-panel materials. Some facilities target 2028–29 starts; none is operating yet.
• November 12, 2026 — Canada gave Stellantis, the automaker, a default notice over its closed Brampton, Ontario, Canada plant and the shift of planned Jeep Compass production to Illinois, United States. It has 30 days to respond or could face funding penalties and repayment demands.
• November 12, 2026 — Umicore, a Belgian metals recycler, decided to invest €450 million to expand its Hoboken, Belgium refinery, subject to approvals, with work planned for 2027–30. Proposed company-wide changes could put up to 350 jobs at risk over two years.

Politics & Society:

• November 12, 2026 — Spain’s 69-member interim parliamentary committee ratified a housing decree, 35–34, in Madrid, Spain. It keeps rent caps, a temporary eviction ban and limits on corporate home purchases; the opposition says it would repeal the measures if it wins the November 29 election.

• November 12, 2026 — The U.S. House passed the Major Richard Star Act, 392–18, in Washington, D.C., United States. The bill would let about 59,000 combat-injured medical retirees keep both retirement pay and disability benefits, but the Senate must still pass it.
• November 12, 2026 — Garment workers in Kaliakair, Bangladesh, blocked the Dhaka–Tangail Highway while demanding a 30,000-taka monthly minimum wage. Police cleared the road with stun grenades; traffic resumed after nearly two hours, while seven factories closed for the day.
• November 12, 2026 — Gibran Rakabuming Raka resigned as Indonesia’s vice president in Jakarta, Indonesia, and President Prabowo Subianto accepted the resignation. The post remains vacant while the People’s Consultative Assembly chooses from two presidential nominees within 60 days.

Environment & Weather:

• November 12, 2026 — Energex, Queensland’s electricity distributor, restored power to 32,000 customers after storms in Logan, Australia, downed more than 400 lines. About 50,000 properties still lacked electricity that morning, and repairs continued.

• November 12, 2026 — Chennai Metro Water increased desalinated-water output in Chennai, India, after the city’s five main reservoirs fell to 4.79 tmcft, or 41% of capacity. Officials may restrict supply if rain stays poor; rationing has not begun.
• November 11, 2026 — A. Siri, Kurnool’s district collector, barred irrigation use of two reservoirs in Kurnool, India, through June, reserving water for households. The order aims to prevent summer shortages but cuts water available for Rabi, or winter, crops.
• November 12, 2026 — Thanet District Council said it was removing oil deposits from 18 closed beaches in Thanet, United Kingdom, with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. People and dogs must stay off the beaches; samples will be tested because the oil’s source is unknown.

Cyber:

• November 12, 2026 — An unidentified attacker kept using stolen GitHub accounts to test access to public software projects and install code that steals build-system secrets. Aikido Security found the code had run in at least 1,806 repositories, putting cloud access keys at risk.

• November 12, 2026 — ConnectWise, maker of ScreenConnect remote-control software, told partners to keep five add-ons disabled and update technician apps. Security firm Huntress found attackers had installed rogue remote-access tools on 288 computers at 48 organizations; the entry route remains unknown.
• November 12, 2026 — N-able, maker of N-central remote-management software, restricted some features and told customers with internet-exposed servers to disable an older access interface after new flaws were disclosed. Researchers found cryptocurrency-mining software on at least 21 affected servers, including 19 using the latest update; N-able said its hosted service was not affected.

Science & Technology:

• November 12, 2026 — Microsoft restarted affected servers and changed a health check after an outage interrupted Outlook email, Teams, SharePoint and other Microsoft 365 tools across the Americas. Some people could not reliably reach work mail, meetings, files or security tools; recovery was still under way.

• November 12, 2026 — Agile Robots, a Munich, Germany, maker of industrial robots, raised $500 million in a SoftBank-led round to expand in the United States and add production capacity in Germany. The $8.5 billion valuation finances planned growth, not confirmed future robot sales.
• November 12, 2026 — OpenAI enabled eligible businesses to have supported API requests and GPT-6 Luna calculations processed in India. The option can help firms that must keep work data in India, but it covers supported API workloads rather than every OpenAI service.
• November 12, 2026 — University of Tokyo-led researchers in Tokyo, Japan, created cultured animal cells that stably retain an alga’s entire DNA, a lab-only result called Planimal cells. It may help scientists study how cells use genetic material, but it is not a treatment or product.

Space:

• November 12, 2026 — The European Space Agency released Euclid’s first major data set, drawn from 13 months of observations near the Sun–Earth L2 point. Its more than 900 million galaxies give scientists material to start building a 3D map of the universe.

• November 11, 2026 — SpaceX launched the classified USSF-627 payload for the U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States, into low Earth orbit. Its purpose and contents remain undisclosed; the Falcon 9 booster landed on a Pacific Ocean drone ship.
• November 12, 2026 — Curtin University astronomers in Perth, Australia, published evidence that radio pulses every 7.9 minutes come from near a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star more than 5,000 light-years away. The pulses also revealed storms on the companion star, though their exact source remains uncertain.

Trends:

• U.S. home sales fell even as mortgage rates edged down, showing that cheaper borrowing has not yet reopened the market for many buyers. U.S. envoys won European participation in the next Ukraine talks, but no ceasefire followed. Microsoft restored some servers after an outage hit workplace tools, showing how one fault can interrupt daily work across regions.

• What to watch: Watch U.S. home sales after lower rates; watch whether Europe’s new role in Ukraine talks produces an agreed step; and watch whether Microsoft completes recovery and explains the failed server checks.

Statistic of the Day:

• U.S. employers added 165,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October 2026.
• Nonfarm payroll employment counts jobs reported by businesses and government agencies, excluding farm jobs. It measures jobs rather than people, so someone holding two jobs can be counted twice.

History of Euclid space telescope:

• Euclid is a European space telescope built to map how galaxies have spread and grouped over the last 10 billion years. It grew from two earlier proposals into a long survey from space, helping scientists test ideas about dark matter, dark energy and gravity.
• 2007-03: March 2007 — The European Space Agency, or ESA, asked for Cosmic Vision mission proposals. Two teams, Dune and SPACE, suggested different ways to study dark energy; their related methods were combined into the Euclid concept.
• 2011-10: October 2011 — ESA selected Euclid for development. The decision moved the combined idea from a study into a planned mission, designed to measure galaxy shapes and distances across a very large area of sky.
• 2012-06: June 2012 — ESA formally adopted Euclid. Engineers could then build a telescope with visible-light and infrared instruments, because distant galaxies need both kinds of observations to be measured well.
• 2023-07-01: July 1, 2023 — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Euclid from Cape Canaveral, United States. The telescope travelled to the Sun–Earth L2 point, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, for steadier observations.
• 2026-11-12: November 12, 2026 — After routine surveys began in February 2024, Euclid released DR1-Foundation: observations from about 13 months. Its more than 900 million galaxies give researchers a large starting set for a three-dimensional map.

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