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Ecuador’s Gangs Push Into Quito as Crackdown Elsewhere Scatters Criminal Groups: October 29, 2026

QUITO — Ecuador’s capital has become a new battleground for criminal groups, as a government crackdown on gangs in the country’s port cities pushes splinter factions to seek new territory, Reuters reported Thursday.

Police say Los Lobos, Los Choneros and Los Tiguerones — all designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations — are present in Quito. “Organized crime groups are trying to establish a foothold in Quito,” said Lieutenant Colonel Miguel Saavedra, whose army brigade is checking cars for weapons at entry points to the city.

President Daniel Noboa has responded with a broad military, police and legislative crackdown, and about 4,000 police and military personnel have been deployed at entry points and along strategic corridors in Quito. Police arrested more than 300 people in the first six weeks of the plan, and drug seizures in the city rose nearly 500% between January and September compared with a year earlier.

Violent deaths in Quito fell in 2024 and 2025 from a high of 294 in 2023, according to Interior Ministry data, and remain below levels in the port cities of Guayaquil and Durán. But analysts say the captures of gang leaders have fragmented the groups and spread the violence.

“In Quito’s case, international cartels and national gangs are beginning to converge and establish themselves,” security analyst Colonel Mario Pazmiño, a former head of army intelligence, told Reuters.

Sources: Reuters, Devdiscourse / Reuters

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Pope Leo XIV’s Upcoming Argentina Visit Brings Renewed Scrutiny of Clergy Abuse Scandals: October 29, 2026

BUENOS AIRES — Pope Leo XIV’s planned visit to Argentina next month is drawing fresh attention to allegations of sexual abuse and other crimes involving Catholic clergy and lay members, with survivors demanding stronger action from the Vatican, the Associated Press reported.

Victims have voiced frustration over the Vatican’s silence on church proceedings involving priests already convicted in criminal courts, and are demanding they be defrocked. Some survivors hope to meet the pope; others, including members of a survivors’ network, oppose the visit, saying the church has failed to deliver on promises of “zero tolerance.”

The pope is scheduled to visit Córdoba province, where priest Alejandro Nicola faces allegations of sexually abusing children at a Catholic school’s kindergarten, mostly in 2025. More than a dozen families have filed complaints; prosecutors are investigating and the local church has opened a preliminary inquiry. Córdoba Archbishop Ángel Rossi has invoked the priest’s presumption of innocence.

Separately, 43 women who say they were subjected to human trafficking and forced labor at Opus Dei centers in Argentina between the 1970s and 2015 hope to meet the pope in Buenos Aires. Opus Dei authorities in Argentina have categorically denied the allegations.

“We were just little girls when we entered. They will never give us back the dignity they stole from us,” complainant Andrea Martínez, 52, told the AP.

Sources: AP, The Hindu / AP

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Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers and Coiner of ‘Sí Se Puede,’ Dies at 96: October 29, 2026

LOS ANGELES — Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez and spent seven decades fighting for poor farm workers, has died at the age of 96, her family announced Wednesday.

“As you can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for us, and we ask for privacy as we grieve this incredible loss to our family,” family spokesman Erik Olvera said. The BBC confirmed that she died of cancer.

Born in New Mexico and raised in Stockton, California, Huerta worked as a teacher before turning to organizing. She helped negotiate the first farm worker contracts in North America and later took up civil rights, women’s rights and environmental causes while raising 11 children, continuing her work through her foundation into her 90s.

The UFW said Huerta coined its motto, “Sí se puede” — “Yes, we can” — and that “she has left farm workers and the entire Latino community stronger and more organised than she found it.”

Earlier this year Huerta said Chavez, who died in 1993, had “manipulated and pressured” her into sex and on another occasion forced her in the 1960s, after a New York Times investigation detailed abuse allegations against him, the BBC reported.

Former President Bill Clinton said “we’ve all lost a stalwart champion of working Americans,” while California Governor Gavin Newsom said Huerta “represented the best of us.”

Sources: BBC News, CBC News

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Trump Demands Removal and Prosecution of Two Alaska Senate Candidates Over Alleged Ballot-Stacking Scheme: October 29, 2026

JUNEAU — President Donald Trump has called for two candidates in Alaska’s US Senate race to be removed from the ballot and prosecuted, accusing Democrats of orchestrating a scheme to split the vote of Republican Senator Dan Sullivan days before the November 3 election.

In posts on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump accused Democrat Mary Peltola and Daniel J Sullivan Jr, a retired teacher who shares the senator’s name, of election fraud, describing the alleged operation as “Voter Fraud at the Highest Level.”

The demand followed a New York Times investigation into efforts by people linked to Peltola’s campaign to recruit candidates who could draw support from the senator. The Times reported the effort began in 2025, when a Peltola aide was asked to identify Alaskans named Dan Sullivan, and named Democratic operative Jerid Kurtz as a recruiter who sometimes approached potential candidates under an assumed name.

The newspaper noted that recruiting candidates to split an opponent’s vote, known as ballot stacking, is generally legal and has been used by both parties in Alaska. Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee denied recruiting candidates, and her campaign said political threats from Washington would not stop her candidacy, Al Jazeera reported.

The two Sullivans are among four candidates in Alaska’s ranked-choice race, and the ballot identifies the sitting senator as the incumbent Republican. Alaska’s Supreme Court upheld the retired teacher’s right to run in June.

The Justice Department sued Alaska last week, seeking to delay certification if Senator Sullivan loses and votes for his namesake could have affected the outcome. The race could help determine control of the Senate.

Sources: Al Jazeera

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World Brief, Evening: October 28, 2026

Spain’s train crash toll climbs and the anger turns on the government, Israel’s count stalls without a winner, Flávio Bolsonaro surfaces in Miami in a bulletproof vest, and the Fed holds. Ten stories as of Wednesday evening, October 28.

1. Toledo province / Spain. At least 68 people are now dead after a Renfe Madrid–Seville train carrying 397 passengers ran into a stationary Iryo train with 147 aboard between Mora and Orgaz, about 140 km south of Madrid, BBC News reports. Transport Minister Óscar Puente blamed a computer failure, followed by what he called an “inexplicable” decision by the control centre to restart trains without speed limits. Spanish media say the controller has been questioned. Pedro Sánchez declared three days of mourning and called two crashes in a year “unacceptable.” The first was Adamuz in January, which killed 46. The CSIF union wants Puente out, riot police were deployed in Madrid as protests broke out over the crash, per Al Jazeera, and Andalusia’s president, Juanma Moreno, said the AVE “is no longer a safe means of transport.” The Guardian looks at the doubts now hanging over Spain’s high-speed network, a month before the November 29 snap election.

2. Jerusalem / Israel. With nearly 90% of votes counted (88.62%, more than 5 million ballots, per the Central Elections Committee), there’s still no winner. Netanyahu’s bloc is on 53 seats, Gadi Eisenkot’s on 48, and Arab parties a record 19, with the Joint List on at least 12 and Ra’am on 7, Al Jazeera reports. It takes 61 to govern. Hundreds of thousands of double-envelope ballots, mostly soldiers’, are still to be counted, and final results could come Thursday evening. Likud claimed, without evidence, that Arab parties “stole” the election. President Isaac Herzog praised the 77.7% turnout and will start consultations next week, saying he wants to avoid another election, per BBC News.

3. Miami / United States and Brazil. Flávio Bolsonaro, beaten by Lula in Sunday’s runoff, landed at Miami-Opa Locka at 9:24am wearing a bulletproof vest. He’d crossed into Argentina by land and flown a Gulfstream from Puerto Iguazú by way of Guayaquil, BBC News reports. A letter released in his name called him Brazil’s “true president.” It was deleted and reissued calling him “the leader of Brazil.” “I did not flee Brazil; I left for the sake of Brazil,” he said, repeating unsubstantiated fraud claims, even though his own party has accepted the result. Donald Trump: “We gave him a pass to come into the country,” but “I won’t get involved.” Lula’s reply: “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear,” per The Guardian.

4. Washington / United States. The Fed, under Chair Kevin Warsh, left its benchmark rate at 3.75% to 4% on a 10–2 vote. Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack dissented, wanting another quarter-point hike after September’s, according to the Federal Reserve. “Inflation remains elevated,” the statement says. September CPI ran at 3.7%, the PCE inflation figures come out Thursday, and the next meeting is December 8–9, Al Jazeera reports. Also in Washington, the names, work addresses and phone numbers of more than 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including nearly 6,600 ICE agents and more than 21,000 at CBP, were posted online. DHS says it’s “aware of a potential breach,” per BBC News.

5. Tehran / Iran and Aden / Yemen. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is in “close and ongoing contact” with mediators over its seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump denied directing JD Vance to start peace talks, saying the contact was about Iran needing “help with medical supplies,” per Al Jazeera. Envoys from the new Mecca pact (Pakistan’s Asim Munir, Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman and Turkey’s Ibrahim Kalin) have been to Tehran, with fears of fresh US and Israeli strikes after November 3, DW reports. In Yemen, the Houthis hit Aden airport after telling people to evacuate it. Government forces reported civilian injuries, and air traffic was halted, per Reuters via Al-Monitor.

6. The Hague / Netherlands and Ukraine. On a visit to the Netherlands, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three-way US–Russia–Ukraine talks will run November 6–10 in the UAE. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says Europeans won’t be at the table, and Finland’s Alexander Stubb says they will, Al Jazeera reports. Dutch PM Rob Jetten pledged €500m in military aid, and Britain’s Andy Burnham announced a £10bn package that includes £500m for air defence. Zelenskyy warned against a “Yalta 2, 3, 4” at any US–Russia–China summit, and said Ukraine gets 12 Patriot missiles a month against 150 Russian ballistic missiles, per DW. The Oleshky truce is holding for now.

7. London / United Kingdom. In his first Budget, Chancellor John Healey gave millions of households in council tax bands A to D a one-off £100 toward energy bills, paid for by doubling the tax on big banks’ profits from 3% to 6%. He also extended the 5p fuel duty cut to July and raised the minimum wage by 3.9% from April, BBC News reports. Gas standing charges are to be scrapped during 2027, and income tax thresholds stay frozen. The Office for Budget Responsibility cut next year’s growth forecast to 1%. Its chief, David Miles, called household living standards “pretty grim.” Kemi Badenoch said the plans were “not bold enough.”

8. New York / United Nations and Cuba. The UN General Assembly again condemned the US embargo on Cuba, 130 to 17, with 25 abstentions. Germany and Italy were among the countries that switched to abstaining, Al Jazeera reports. US Ambassador Mike Waltz called the shift a win for American diplomacy and said a Cuban diplomat would be expelled for “assaulting an American diplomat” after Tuesday’s shoving match in the chamber. Cuba’s Bruno Rodríguez said the US was “once again isolated.” In Central America, Costa Rica’s $35m mega-prison outside San José, built with El Salvador’s help and able to hold 5,100 inmates, took in its first 123 prisoners, per Al Jazeera.

9. Mtwara / Tanzania and Moscow. Tanzania announced its first natural gas discovery in a decade, an estimated 223 billion cubic feet at the Kasa-1X well in the Mnazi Bay area. The well is owned by state-run TPDC and France’s Maurel & Prom and is due to start production early next month for domestic supply, BBC News reports. Gas makes nearly 80% of the country’s electricity. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin told the third Russia–Africa Summit, with delegations from 48 African countries, 22 of them led by heads of state, that Russian business does not engage in “neo-colonial exploitation.” He said Russia shipped 13 million tonnes of farm products to Africa in the first nine months of the year, per Al Jazeera.

10. Canberra / Australia and the Southern Ocean. A long-secret military inquiry into Australia’s SAS in Afghanistan found an “inversion of authority” in the regiment and an “abandonment of curiosity” among senior commanders, who overlooked warning signs like the rising number of enemy dead, ABC News reports. According to The Guardian, the newly posted executive summary says some officers knew about “throwdowns,” weapons planted on dead Afghans to make them look like combatants, and did nothing. Around Antarctica, a study in Nature Climate Change finds that the sea-ice crash since 2016 has made Antarctic Intermediate Water, a layer 2,300 to 4,000 feet down, abruptly saltier, reversing decades of freshening, Inside Climate News reports. “Since we have records in oceanography, we have never seen this water alter,” lead author Bishakhdatta Gayen said, per Matangi Tonga.

Coming Up

Confirmed dates on The Watch: November 1, Bulgaria’s presidential runoff (Iotova vs Gyurov) and the Oleshky truce’s scheduled end. November 3, U.S. midterms. November 4, deadline for Israel’s final official results. November 6, Pope Leo XIV leaves for Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. November 7, New Zealand votes. Full board at the link.

World Brief: October 28, 2026

Two high-speed trains collide south of Madrid and at least 68 are dead; Israel’s count leaves Netanyahu just short; Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami; the Oleshky truce spreads across Kherson; a drone strike on a Darfur market kills more than 100; and the Fed decides on rates today. Ten stories as of Wednesday morning, October 28.

1. Mora and Orgaz / Spain. A Renfe high-speed train rear-ended a stationary Iryo train just after 9 a.m. local time between Mora and Orgaz, about 140 km (100 miles) south of Madrid, sending at least two carriages down an embankment. At least 68 people are confirmed dead, with 80 treated for injuries, 15 of them critical, the BBC reports; more than 500 people were on the two trains. Transport Minister Óscar Puente said a computer failure first halted six trains, and the control centre then let them move again without speed restrictions “under inexplicable circumstances.” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he was “shocked,” and politicians cancelled campaigning for next month’s election. It is Spain’s second high-speed rail tragedy this year, after a January derailment killed 46.

2. Jerusalem / Israel. With results still coming in, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud is the largest single party and his bloc sits just short of a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset, the BBC reports. Analysts caution the early count leaned toward right-wing areas, and absentee ballots, mostly soldiers’, mean a clear picture could take another day or two. Turnout topped 77%, and Arab-led parties matched or beat their previous record seat count, which could make them kingmakers. Netanyahu told supporters the right has “a clear, decisive majority among the Zionist public” but stopped short of declaring victory; Gadi Eisenkot said “the public has chosen change.” Israeli stocks fell and the shekel weakened as Netanyahu’s bloc beat forecasts, says Reuters. Final official results are due by November 4.

3. Miami / United States and Brazil. Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday’s runoff to Lula, landed at Miami-Opa Locka airport with his wife and two daughters and left under police escort without speaking to reporters, The Guardian reports. He crossed into Argentina by land on Tuesday night, then flew a Gulfstream via Guayaquil, Ecuador. A State Department official said the family will get U.S. visas, and Donald Trump said, “They’re fine people. The election was very strange.” Lula called the flight “shameful.” Bolsonaro is under investigation in at least two criminal cases, including an alleged money-laundering scheme involving betting companies, and had ignored a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports; he denies wrongdoing, says DW.

4. Kherson / Ukraine. The truce that began Tuesday to get food and medicine into Russian-occupied Oleshky has been extended across the wider Kherson region, and no breaches have been reported, the BBC reports. U.S. First Lady Melania Trump, who helped broker it with Pope Leo XIV, said the area was expanded to give humanitarian convoys “safe passage.” The Kremlin says things are going “according to plan.” Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia says it runs until 22:59 Kyiv time on Sunday, November 1, calling it the “largest de-escalation since 2022.” Aid could roll in Thursday, with evacuations planned for Friday for the roughly 1,700 to 2,000 people left in the town.

5. Nyala / Sudan. More than 100 people were killed and 113 injured when a Sudanese military drone struck a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, on Monday evening, according to the rights group Emergency Lawyers, which called for an independent investigation, AP reports. Many of the victims were women and children. Doctors Without Borders says its hospital received 36 bodies and more than 150 wounded, and a second strike hit a civilian neighbourhood. Nyala is held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. On October 16, a drone strike on the city’s Al Mawashi market killed at least four people.

6. Democratic Republic of Congo and across Africa. The Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000 cases: 10,091 in total, 10,060 of them in DR Congo, where 4,887 have died, with two deaths each in Uganda and Kenya and a case in Abuja, Nigeria, The Guardian reports. Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya compared its spread to Covid and warned, “We want all countries to know that they are not safe if they don’t take appropriate measures.” He meets African health ministers today. The Bundibugyo strain behind it has no approved treatment. About a third of the dead are children, and roughly three in four infected under-5s have died, per NPR.

7. Moscow / Russia. Vladimir Putin opened the third Russia–Africa Summit (October 28–29), co-chaired with African Union chair Évariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi. Delegations from 48 African countries are attending, including 22 heads of state by the Kremlin’s count, up from 17 in 2023, Al Jazeera reports. Putin is scheduled to meet Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed, and Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is expected. Putin told the leaders Russia was their best partner and accused a West “accustomed to thinking in terms of their colonial past” of using debt to hold Africa back, Reuters reports.

8. Andhra Pradesh / India. Cyclone Arnab killed at least three people in Andhra Pradesh after making landfall and is weakening as it moves inland. It has been downgraded to a severe cyclonic storm and should become a deep depression by evening, DW reports. Northern Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha were hit hardest, with trees uprooted and 31 houses damaged, and nearly 40 disaster-response teams are deployed along the east coast. More than 180,000 people were evacuated, per France 24.

9. Washington / United States. The Federal Reserve announces its rate decision this afternoon. It is expected to hold its benchmark at 3.75% to 4% after September’s hike, its first increase in three years, USA Today reports. Futures put the chance of another hike today under 10%, so the focus is on what Chair Kevin Warsh says about December, according to CNBC. Meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission suspended its web-facing services after “a bad actor trying to breach FEC systems,” which blocks last-minute campaign spending reports days before the November 3 midterms. Commissioner Dara Lindenbaum stressed it has “NOTHING to do with voter files,” per Al Jazeera.

10. Northern Mariana Islands and Antarctica. Governor David Apatang has declared Typhoon Condition III for Agrihan, Pagan and Alamagan as Typhoon In-fa approaches. At 1 p.m. Wednesday local time it was a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds, about 905 miles east of Saipan, and it could become a super typhoon tonight, RNZ reports. It is forecast to pass between Pagan and Agrihan around 7 p.m. Friday; Saipan, Tinian and Rota have no typhoon condition but should expect heavy showers and big surf. Down south, a UC Irvine and NASA JPL model projects that Thwaites Glacier, the “Doomsday Glacier,” could add up to 30 mm to global sea levels by 2100. That is about double earlier estimates, even without further warming, according to NASA.

Coming Up

Oct 28: Fed rate decision, Washington. Nov 1: Bulgaria’s presidential runoff (Iotova vs Gyurov). Nov 3: U.S. midterms. Nov 4: Israel’s final official results due. Nov 6: Pope Leo XIV begins his Uruguay–Argentina–Peru trip. Nov 7: New Zealand votes. The full board is on The Watch.

Australia’s Inflation Jumps to 4.3% on Fuel Costs, Making Next Week’s Rate Hike a Near Certainty: October 28, 2026

CANBERRA — Australia’s annual inflation rate rose to 4.3 percent in September from 4.0 percent in August, driven by a jump in fuel prices, sharply raising expectations of an interest rate increase next week.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said a 9.4 percent rise in fuel costs in September was largely responsible. Petrol and diesel prices were on average 24 percent higher than a year earlier. Underlying inflation for the September quarter was 3.7 percent, above the Reserve Bank’s August forecast of 3.5 percent.

Markets now put the chance of a rate hike at the Reserve Bank’s meeting on Tuesday at 87 percent. A 25-basis-point increase would take the cash rate to 4.85 percent, its highest since 2008, ABC News reported.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the figures were “too high” but rejected opposition claims that government spending was the main driver, citing the Middle East war and a surge in private investment in data centers. “For every five dollars of demand in our economy, four dollars [are] private and one dollar is public,” he said.

Chalmers also played down the chances of further fuel tax discounts, citing budget pressures.

Sources: ABC News (Australia), The Guardian

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Al-Shabab Ambush Kills at Least 20 Somali Soldiers, Survivor Says, as Government Discloses No Losses: October 28, 2026

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamist militants killed at least 20 Somali soldiers in an ambush in southern Somalia, a military officer who survived the attack said, as the government acknowledged damage to army vehicles but disclosed no troop casualties.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group claimed Monday’s attack near Jameeca village in Burhakaba district, Bay region. Officer Abshir Abdikarim told the Associated Press he saw at least 20 fellow soldiers dead after troops advancing from Leego exchanged heavy gunfire with militants.

Two soldiers told Reuters dozens were killed. One said he helped carry 40 dead soldiers and more than 100 wounded to hospitals in Mogadishu, Reuters reported.

The Defense Ministry said troops killed about 75 militants and wounded 56, and that the militants used explosives-laden vehicles. Al-Shabab claimed it killed 321 soldiers and seized Turkish-supplied armored vehicles. None of the figures could be independently verified.

Some soldiers previously reported missing reached Baledogle on Tuesday, while others remain unaccounted for, the officer said.

Sources: AP, Reuters via Yahoo News

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Africa CDC Warns Ebola Could Spread Like Covid as Outbreak Passes 10,000 Cases: October 28, 2026

KINSHASA — Africa’s top public health official warned on Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo could reach countries far beyond the continent, as confirmed cases passed 10,000.

“We want all countries to know that they are not safe if they don’t take appropriate measures,” Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Guardian, comparing the outbreak to the early spread of Covid. “The geographic extension of this outbreak is unprecedented.”

Congo’s health ministry has recorded 10,060 confirmed cases, and nearly half have died, making it the deadliest outbreak in the country’s history and the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, CBC News reported.

The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, has no approved vaccine or treatment. It has spread to 66 health zones in eight Congolese provinces and reached Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, with one case in France.

About 80 percent of new cases come from outside known contacts, pointing to hidden chains of transmission. African health ministers were due to hold a virtual summit on Wednesday to strengthen the response.

“Ebola is crossing borders. Our response must move faster, with stronger co-ordination, greater solidarity and decisive political leadership,” Kaseya said.

Sources: The Guardian, CBC News / AP

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Fuel Costs Sink Round-the-World Residential Cruise, Stranding Passengers in Cambodia: October 28, 2026

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia — A US-based residential cruise ship on a years-long voyage around the world has suspended operations in Cambodia because of soaring fuel costs, forcing its passengers to leave what had been their floating homes.

Florida-based Villa Vie Residences said monthly fuel costs per cabin that historically averaged $1,800 had reached an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia during the war with Iran. Slowing the itinerary and spending more time in port could not offset the increase, it said.

“Passing the full increase on to residents is not a realistic solution,” the company said. It plans 60 days of “restructuring and recapitalisation,” though “no outcome is assured.”

The Villa Vie Odyssey carried 203 passengers of 15 nationalities, mostly Americans, and 156 crew, NPR reported. It docked in Sihanoukville on October 23 for a five-day visit and was due to sail on to Vietnam.

Passengers Lanette Canen and Johan Bodin told the BBC they were told by the company’s chief executive at 6 a.m. Tuesday that they had to leave by 2 p.m. “It felt like our dream had been crushed,” they said.

The ship left Belfast in 2024 on a planned 3.5-year voyage to nearly 150 countries. Cabins sold for $120,000 to $440,000.

Sources: BBC News, NPR / AP

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