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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance confirms that assets worth US$6.3 billion were stolen, making it the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.
2026 Binance hack
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation says North Korea orchestrated the hack and theft of over $6 billion of cryptocurrency from exchange Binance, facilitated through the Lazarus Group, which also hacked Dubai-based exchange Bybit last year.
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Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the United States, despite orders to surrender his passports to the Federal Police, two days after his defeat in the presidential election runoffs to incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The government subsequently cancels Bolsonaro's passports, while the U.S. grants him and his family visas.
2026 Portuguese housing protests
Portuguese riot police dismantle protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio Square and Porto, arresting 13 people for refusing orders to disperse. Thirteen officers are injured, while activists say more than 30 protesters are also injured.
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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson is convicted of harassing two journalists and causing them to fear violence.
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A Swiss court convicts former Belarusian security officer Yuri Harauski over the 1999 abduction of businessman Anatol Krasouski, later killed, and gives him a two-year suspended sentence. He is acquitted over Yury Zacharanka's enforced disappearance.
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Garment workers clash with police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, over low pay and the rising cost of living. In response, the government forms a wage board.
Crime in El Salvador
A Salvadoran court issues an order to release former president Antonio Saca from prison after the end of his 10-year sentence for corruption.
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Gaza war protests at Columbia University
Algerian-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil returns to Columbia University in New York City, United States, after immigration authorities detained him for more than three months over his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests before a federal judge ordered his release.
Also this week
- Freezers and refrigerators in supermarkets in multiple European countries are targeted by a cyberattack, causing them to overheat.Nov 2
- Metropolitan Police arrest 139 people outside the United States embassy in London, United Kingdom, during a protest supporting Palestine Action, which is designated as a proscribed terrorist organisation.Oct 31
- Madagascar's justice ministry announces dismantling 13 Chinese-run scam centers since August, linked to 148 Chinese nationals who had previously operated scam centers in Cambodia, and who might have been involved in trafficking Africans to commit fraud. The 148 Chinese are extradited to China.Oct 31
- The Swiss supreme court upholds a 20-year jail sentence for former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah after he was found guilty in 2021 for atrocities committed during the First Liberian Civil War, but overturns a conviction for crimes against humanity.Oct 30
- The Court of Appeal of Victoria, Australia, rejects Erin Patterson's appeal against her murder convictions and removes her 33-year parole eligibility, effectively imposing life imprisonment without parole for killing three relatives with death cap mushrooms in 2023.Oct 30
- A youth armed with two knives wounds a police officer outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, before being shot and killed.Oct 28
- An Egyptian court orders independent news website Mada Masr to close after convicting editor-in-chief Lina Attalah of operating without a licence. The court also fines her E£3,000,000 (US$53,500) and orders the outlet's equipment confiscated.Oct 27
- Nigerian police arrest 34 foreigners, including 16 Cameroonians and 18 Nigeriens, suspected of engaging in "illicit activities" in Benue State. The commissioner opens an investigation into their immigration status.Oct 27
- The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation announces they have arrested nine people involved in Nigerian scam centers, as part of an international operation targeting organised crime in Nigeria, locating $11 million in funds purloined by the scammers.Oct 26