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Stories from Nov 2, 2026
Asia·India
Five Kuki men are killed within 24 hours in India's Manipur, sparking clashes and a shutdown in Kangpokpi
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredAsia·India
Assam demolishes the homes of more than 640 Bengali Muslim families in Dhubri, displacing over 4,000 people
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedUnited States·United States
Iowa's measles outbreak reaches 42 cases, up from nine in all of last year
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·South Africa
Johannesburg residents who say their taps have been dry for up to 12 weeks march on Johannesburg Water with a memorandum
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredCaribbean·Guyana
Guyana's opposition leader is jailed on a cybercrime charge over leaked police video, and a second officer is now charged
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Cameroon
Explosion and fire at a Douala steel plant kill at least 4 workers and badly burn 16, the plant's second fire in six months
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredOceania·Kiribati
Five people, including two children, are found alive in Kiribati after drifting about 5,400 km for nearly three months
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Kenya
Kenya calls Saudi Arabia's Ebola travel ban "punitive" as it prepares to release its last quarantined contacts
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedUnited States·United States
Two North Dakota counties ask voters Tuesday to break the state's new 3% property tax cap, or face cuts
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Indonesia
A landslide sweeps away a tent at a Bali glamping resort, leaving an Indonesian guest and a foreign national missing
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedOceania·Samoa
Samoa's rugby union suspends itself from World Rugby's council after the prime minister raised governance concerns
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Kenya
Kenya's power company tells Tana River families to leave before El Niño rains, as 302 households are already flooded out
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Uzbekistan
Hackers claim they stole the personal data of 27 million Uzbeks, and the government has not said whether it is true
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedNorth America·United States
Cherokee Nation puts $50 million into childcare, calling it the key to jobs and growth
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedCaribbean·Grenada
Grenada votes Thursday in a three-way race that could produce its first female prime minister
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredAfrica·Ghana
Ghana's courts lock their gates as judicial staff strike over unpaid 2026 pay, and the Finance Ministry approves arrears hours later
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Chad
Chad makes dengue care free as patients overwhelm hospitals, with 4,600 suspected cases in six provinces
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Guinea
Guinea opens its first gold refinery as it moves to require miners to refine at home
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedNorth America·United States
Crow Tribe lawmakers vote down a bill to count every current member as 100% Crow, reopening the "blood quantum" debate
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredNorth America·United States
A Virginia hatchery lost 130,000 trout after a pump failed overnight, cutting stocking in 11 counties through spring
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedNorth America·United States
Navajo Nation's Shiprock faces major San Juan River flood, second in 10 days
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedNorth America·United States
A tiny Kentucky energy agency is suing more than 20 landowners to force a 53-mile gas pipeline across their farms
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Cambodia
Cambodia's "waiting villages" for 20,000 people still displaced by the Thai border conflict will become permanent, Hun Manet says
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Myanmar
Myanmar airstrikes hit a maternity clinic and a school, killing at least 15 including a week-old baby
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredMiddle East·Yemen
Houthis push to within 80 km of Aden, their closest to Yemen's government capital since 2015
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredOceania·Fiji
Fiji's military tells Parliament it no longer wants immunity for its three coups and asks for a truth commission instead
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·South Africa
Ballot delays keep 217 Cape Town voting stations from opening on the first day of special voting before South Africa's local elections
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedEurope·Georgia
Footage of dogs dumped in pits near a Tbilisi cemetery sparks protests and a criminal probe in Georgia
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Nigeria
Police confirm five officers killed in bandit ambush on Nigeria's Sokoto–Gusau highway
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's top court reserves judgment on a challenge to the amendment stretching terms to seven years and letting Parliament pick the president
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedLatin America·Argentina
Argentina's state workers' union plans protests at 27 airports Friday, warning underfunding is putting flight safety at risk
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedNorth America·United States
Border wall contractors unearthed Native American remains in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, weeks after an elder warned they would
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Senegal
Senegal's own ruling party keeps blocking the budget that would unlock a $2.2 billion IMF deal, with a full vote on Tuesday
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredNorth America·United States
Osage Nation is plugging abandoned oil wells faster after the BIA called them "not a federal function"
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka sends soldiers to protect elephants from snares, explosive bait and illegal electric fences
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedLatin America·Argentina
Milei pitches Patagonia as an unregulated home for AI data centres, and sheep ranchers are leasing land for one
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredLatin America·Colombia
“Either we save ourselves or we’re screwed”: Colombia’s government warns of a 2027 default unless Congress passes its rescue law
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredLatin America·Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago breaks Caribbean ranks to back the U.S. embargo on Cuba at the UN
4O-Score4 · CoveredAfrica·South Africa
South Africa’s Gauteng shuts 20 liquor outlets after 7,322 inspections in a crackdown on gender-based violence
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Bhutan
40,000 volunteers raise 108 Buddhist stupas in one day for Bhutan's "mindfulness city"
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredMiddle East·Palestine
Israeli forces withdraw from Hebron after a 10-day siege that displaced or affected 3,300 Palestinians, governor says
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredAsia·India
India's election "consultants" sell bots and shadow pages to campaigns from Kenya to Suriname, and now the U.S.
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·India
Cyclone Murasu begins landfall on India's Andhra Pradesh coast near Ongole
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredEurope·Hungary
"Traitors in every family": Hungary will publish the names of tens of thousands of communist-era informants on Wednesday
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·DR Congo
Anthrax kills 28 hippos in Africa's oldest national park as Congo fights Ebola
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredMiddle East·Yemen
Yemen's war spills toward Saudi Arabia as government forces push into Houthi-held al-Jawf
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedEurope·Spain
A Spanish island of 11,000 people has seen nearly 3,000 migrants arrive since October
8O-Score8 · Barely coveredAfrica·Sudan / Ethiopia
Sudan takes Ethiopia to the UN, saying 187 drones launched from Ethiopian soil have killed or wounded 484 civilians
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Uganda / Somalia
Uganda starts pulling troops out of Somalia after nearly 20 years fighting al-Shabab
5O-Score5 · Lightly coveredMiddle East·Turkey
Turkey moves jailed PKK founder Ocalan to a new section of his island prison as Kurdish politicians say peace talks have stalled
6O-Score6 · Lightly coveredAsia·Afghanistan
The Taliban voice "serious concern" over a U.S. plan to deport 150+ Afghans through Pakistan, including relatives of U.S. allies
3O-Score3 · CoveredEurope·Poland
"My life has been on hold": Poland's migrants wait up to two years for residence permits under a wartime law that never ended
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAsia·Myanmar
Myanmar stays on the global money-laundering blacklist alongside only Iran and North Korea, despite Japan's lobbying
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedOceania·Australia
Police in Western Australia scanned 1.38 million faces with live facial recognition vans in five months
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedAfrica·Nigeria
Seven people drowned in Nigeria's Niger Delta when a speedboat capsized during a protest against moving an oil vessel
10O-Score10 · Fully overlookedEurope·Latvia