On 30 October the Nasdaq fell 2.84%, Intel had its worst day since 1974 and Reddit lost 29%. Investors are no longer paying for artificial intelligence on promise alone. What a market correction in Silicon Valley means for pension funds, phone prices and jobs in Europe.
On 3 November Americans choose a new House, a third of the Senate and 39 governors. The result will not change the Federal Reserve overnight, but it will shape the Iran war, tariffs and the dollar. Here is the chain from Washington to a household in Europe.
Brent crude closed October on course for a 15% monthly rise after two tanker incidents in the Strait of Hormuz. Here is how a mine in a sea lane 4,000 km away becomes a higher bill for diesel, food and heating, and what to watch after 3 November.
For two years the EU AI Act was described as the strictest technology law in the world. In June 2026 Europe gave itself more time to apply its hardest parts. The delay changed the calendar. It did not change who will answer when an algorithm harms a patient or misleads a court.
More than four thousand people in the United States say a weight-loss drug paralysed their stomach. The Ozempic lawsuit will not turn on whether they are ill, but on whether a court accepts that the drug probably made them ill. That is exactly the question on which Europe is about to change its rules.
In June 2000 a committee set up by the Prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal reviewed the NATO bombing. On depleted uranium it was brief: no specific treaty ban, unsettled science, no investigation. The question it closed in The Hague has stayed open in Belgrade ever since.
The 30 mm round fired by an A-10 aircraft is about the length of a hand. Inside it sits a slim rod of depleted uranium weighing roughly 300 grams, and the aircraft’s cannon fires thousands of them a minute. In 1999 about 31,000 were fired at targets in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Montenegro.
Rainwater collected in Pančevo just after the April 1999 strikes looked like Coca-Cola, a Serbian study recalls, and contained lead, copper and mercury. Above the town the petrochemical plant, the fertiliser works and the refinery burned, releasing by the researchers’ estimate 16 kilograms of soot a second.
2025年9月15日，应其女儿要求，约二十年前在贝尔格莱德军事医学院活检中取自内博伊沙·帕夫科维奇将军的肿瘤组织样本被打包寄往意大利的一家实验室。报告带回了一个此后在塞尔维亚被广泛引用的数字：每千克组织含铀23.80微克。
1953年5月19日凌晨，美国在内华达沙漠的一座塔上引爆了一枚代号“哈里”的3.2万吨当量核装置。风向变了。一团放射性云向东飘去，在犹他州摩门教小镇圣乔治上空停留了两个多小时。那年春天，在锡达城附近牧场下风处吃草的数千只羊死亡。当沉降的规模被公开后，媒体给这次试验起了个新名字：“肮脏的哈里”。
2026年6月19日，内博伊沙·帕夫科维奇将军的家属在贝尔格莱德第二基层法院对北大西洋公约组织提起诉讼。据Kosovo Online报道，他的女儿玛丽亚·帕夫科维奇对记者说，诉状约有一千页。“爸爸希望这件事能做成，”她说，“这是又一次努力，哪怕只争取到一小部分正义。”
乌克兰境内的西方坦克发射的贫铀弹，与1999年在科索沃和塞尔维亚南部发射的属于同一种，基辅现在还称俄罗斯无人机也携带贫铀。斯尔詹·阿列克西奇谈巴尔干关于贫铀的经验对乌克兰未来意味着什么，一枚炮弹会留下什么，以及乌克兰人应在疾病到来之前现在就开始做什么。
