November 7, 2026

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NZ election 2026 live results: count on as National and Labour battle it out in knife-edge New Zealand poll

Polls show no coalition is expected to secure a majority of seats, in one of the closest elections in recent historyNew Zealand heads for election cliffhanger with minor party cast as kingmakerIn New Zealand’s bellwether seat, what are locals thinking as a knife-edge poll looms?Another update here with 8% of the vote counted. National on 31.2%, Labour 28.4%, the Greens 12.9%, Act 11.2%, NZ First 9.6%, Opportunity 5.7% and Te Pāti Māori 0.4%.On these numbers, we would have a right…

The Guardian46 minutes ago

World

Ousted Paraguay president under house arrest after bank collapse

Paraguayan authorities placed ousted president Santiago Peña under house arrest on Friday, shortly after the Senate removed him from office over a massive banking crisis that locked nearly half of Paraguayans out of their savings. Peña offered his resignation over the scandal, but lawmakers pressed ahead with impeachment proceedings that stripped him of political immunity.

France 241 hour ago

Technology

OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPO

OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuation of $852 billion. Echoing FT and Wall Street Journal […]

The Verge8 hours ago

Technology

China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang

China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and "potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China." Megaspeed […]

The Verge8 hours ago

World

The end of Maga as we know it

The Republican party will regroup after their shellacking in the US midterm elections, but it won’t look the sameWalking by a tattoo studio and medical spa on the pretty main street of Round Rock, in Texas Hill Country, Tarik Bakir recalled voting for Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2024. But when it came to the 2026 midterm elections, he was firmly back in the Democrats’ column.“I’m not happy with the Iran war,” said Bakir, 41, a financial…

The Guardian1 hour ago

World

US midterm results may help unite Israeli coalition to unseat Netanyahu

Democrats’ sweep could urge Israel’s divided opposition to join forces and remove prime minister closely allied with TrumpThe Democrats’ sweep of Congress may make it easier for Israel’s splintered opposition to overcome deep internal divisions and form a coalition government, by increasing the urgency of unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, who has associated himself so closely with Donald Trump’s Republicans.But as Israel took stock of the results, there was also a sense that the elections marked a longer-term shift in US politics…

The Guardian1 hour ago