World in brief: November 10, 2026

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TURKEY: A huge explosion and fire at an iron and steelworks in western Turkey left six people dead yesterday as rescuers searched for eight missing workers, officials said.

The fire at the Habas plant in Aliaga, Izmir province, also injured 13 people, two of them critically. An investigation has been launched.

ARGENTINA: Pope Leo XIV underlined opposition to President Javier Milei’s cuts by visiting a care home that has lost funding in Claypole, south of Buenos Aires, yesterday.

Cottolengo Don Orione houses more than 400 disabled people. Mr Milei’s cuts to spending on disabilities have hit its funding, and he has refused to implement a funding increase passed by Congress, meaning it is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars.

BOLIVIA: Urban teachers began a 48-hour strike yesterday against government plans to decentralise education.

Teachers say handing responsibility to regional governments will entrench inequalities and there are no funding guarantees. Many are also on hunger strike.

Teachers say walkouts will continue until ministers agree to formal negotiations.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: Three Ukrainians and one Russian were killed in missile strikes yesterday, a day ahead of planned trilateral peace talks with the United States in Abu Dhabi.

The Ukrainians were killed in Russian shelling of Odessa and the Russian by falling drone debris in the Leningrad region, which contains St Petersburg.

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