While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 11, 2025
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Indian police personnel inspect the scene of a blast near the red fort in New Delhi, India.
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At least eight dead after car blast in New Delhi
At least eight people were killed and 20 injured on Nov 10 when a car exploded near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital, Delhi, police said, a rare blast in the heavily guarded city of more than 30 million people.
Major train stations across India, the financial capital Mumbai and the state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Delhi, were all put on high alert, authorities said.
“All angles” were being investigated and security agencies would come to a conclusion soon, Federal Home Minister Amit Shah said.
A previous owner of the car, named only as Salman, was arrested after the blast, NDTV reported, without going into more details. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Trump threatens BBC with $1.3 billion lawsuit over speech edit
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US President Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with a US$1 billion (S$1 billion) lawsuit over the “defamatory, malicious” editing of a speech he gave just before the 2021 US Capitol riots, according to a letter obtained by AFP.
Mr Trump’s lawyers gave the British broadcaster a deadline of Nov 14 to fully retract the documentary containing the edit, apologise and “appropriately compensate” the president “for the harm caused.”
If the BBC fails to comply “President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights... including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages,” it said.
White House backs deal to end US shutdown in the coming days
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The White House on Nov 10 expressed support for the bipartisan deal to end the US shutdown, a key development that makes it likely the government reopens within days.
President Donald Trump has wanted the government reopened since the start of the shutdown and considers the deal a positive development, a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity said.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he spoke with Mr Trump about the deal on the night of Nov 9 and he expects the president to sign it into law once Congress passes the legislation.
Ukraine anti-graft agency raids energy sector over ‘kickback’ allegations
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Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency said on Nov 10 it had conducted large-scale raids on the country’s energy sector – an operation that comes after months of infighting over Kyiv’s anti-graft efforts.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) said 70 searches had been staged after a 15-month investigation – in collaboration with the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office – into the sector, which has been battered by Russian attacks since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Nabu said it had uncovered a “high-level criminal organisation” based on securing kickbacks from contracts awarded by major nuclear power provider Energoatom.
Three Vietnam men survive 40 hours at sea after Typhoon Kalmaegi
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Three men swept far from Vietnam’s coast by Typhoon Kalmaegi have been plucked safely from the surf after drifting helplessly for more than 40 hours, a rescuer and the wife of one of the survivors said on Nov 10.
They were rescued over several hours on Nov 8 in an operation involving three vessels scouring the waters off Vietnam’s central coast, according to a sailor aboard one of the rescue ships.
Kalmaegi crashed into the country’s storm-battered middle belt on Nov 6, killing at least five people after leaving more than 200 dead in the Philippines.
