Reuters World News - Super Typhoon, Myanmar shipwreck and West Bank attack

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

Super Typhoon Fung-wong batters the Philippines with 140 mph winds, forcing nearly a million to evacuate just weeks after another storm killed more than 200. Hundreds are missing after a boat carrying 300 people from Myanmar sinks near the Thailand-Malaysia border. Israeli settlers reportedly attack Palestinians, journalists, and activists during a West Bank olive harvest, injuring a Reuters photographer and security advisor. World leaders gather in Belem, Brazil for COP30climate talks, with the original 1.5-degree warming target now out of reach. Plus the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts a new class including Cyndi Lauper, Outkast and the White Stripes. Listen to our latest episode of On Assignment⁠ here. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter here.  Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast here. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices.  You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Christopher Wal Jasper in Chicago. It's Sunday, November 9th. Today, Super Typhoon Fun Wong slams the Philippines, forcing nearly a million people to evacuate. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, activists and journalists during an olive harvest, injuring a Reuters team. World leaders gather in Brazil for COP 30 climate talks. Plus, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomes a new class. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.

Super Typhoon Fun Wong is slamming the Philippines, with winds topping 140 miles an hour, forcing nearly a million people to evacuate. The storm is set to make landfall in Aurora Province just weeks after Typhoon Kalmagi killed more than 200 people. Manila and surrounding areas are shut. down with the military shifting thousands of troops to disaster response. Follow Reuters.com for the latest on the storm and its impacts. A boat carrying 300 people from Myanmar has sunk near the Thailand-Malaysia border and hundreds are missing. Malaysian authorities have pulled just 10 survivors and one body from the water three

days later. Most aboard were Rohingya Muslim, according to state media. The group was initially in a larger vessel, but was forced onto smaller boats to avoid detection. The search and rescue operation is still ongoing. Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, activists, and journalists during an olive harvest in the West Bank, according to witnesses. Masked men from a nearby outpost reportedly beat people with sticks and hurled rocks, injuring Reuters photographer Renin Sawafta and smashing her gear. She and a security advisor were hospitalized in Nablis.

Israeli defense forces says it dispatched troops after reports of a confrontation and says it condemns any act of violence. It says it'll continue to maintain security and order in the area, adding that police will conduct a further review of the incident. The police did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, nor did a spokesperson for the Shamran Regional Council. Russia launches overnight drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, killing seven and hitting power stations that supply two nuclear plants. That's according to Ukrainian officials. Keev says the attacks were well planned and pose a deliberate threat to European nuclear safety.

Civilian deaths were reported in Nipro, Zaparizha, and Kharkiv. Russia Defense Ministry says the strikes targeted military and energy infrastructure in response response to Ukrainian attacks inside Russia. Ukraine is calling for tougher sanctions and an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Meanwhile, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says he's ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. But he insists Moscow won't compromise on Ukraine. He's also warning Europe not to seize frozen Russian assets. To get a glimpse of life on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, Have a listen to this weekend's On Assignment podcast.

My colleague David Spencer speaks to our Reuters journalists reporting from Eastern Ukraine, where life goes on despite drone attacks and continued fighting just miles away on the front lines. In Eastern Ukraine, shop owner Maxim Lisenko is proudly showing Reuters around his new clothes store, when he's suddenly distracted. It's going to dive. It's going to drive. He says. This is Kramatarsk.

There's a link in the show notes. World leaders are gathering in Bellum Brazil for COP 30. Two weeks of climate talks aimed at curbing emissions and keeping global temperatures from rising to the level that scientists say could have catastrophic impacts around the globe. Since these talks began 30 years ago, the goal has been to stay below an average temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

That's compared to pre-industrial temperatures. But as our climate editor, Katie Daigle explains, that target is no longer feasible. While we're headed toward temperature rise beyond what the goal was, we are better off than we would have been without the talks. In other words, we have managed to curb the rise in warming 30 years ago. we were headed to 4 degrees, 5 degrees of warming. Today it's about 2.5.

So we are bending the curve. We're just not quite doing it fast enough. But as our climate reporter Valerie Volcovici says, those mixed results have some people rethinking cops approach. Naturally, a lot of people are really starting to put a spotlight on this question of, what is the point of these talks? If global emissions continue to rise, fossil fuel use continues to grow.

Now, you have some people who are really looking at the bureaucracy, looking at the process itself as being a barrier to actual progress. On the other hand, you have people that point out that there is no alternative to this. If you want every country on board to have a voice, so a low-lying island having a seat at the table with a Gulf State oil producer, you need the talks. We're seeing Brazil, we're seeing China now attempt to play a bigger role and to really kind of carry the flag for multilateralism. That being said, China's own pledge to reduce its emissions, I think left a lot to be desired because on one hand, it is leading the charge in producing all of the kind of supply chain needed for the renewable energy transition.

On the other hand, domestically, because it's trying to win the AI race against the United States, has been ramping up continuously its coal use domestically and also looking at other fossil fuel deals with the United States. Staying in Brazil, let's shift gears now to Sao Paulo and Formula One racing. The championship is wide open and racing resumes today with just four races left in the season. McLaren's Lando Norris leads his teammate Oscar Piastro by a point, but Red Bull's Max Verstappen is close behind, He's closed the gap down to just 36 points since August. Three drivers, four races, and one title, all up for grabs. Voters in Iraq head to the polls this week to elect a new parliament.

And as our reporter Timor Azari is reporting, voters are hoping to see increased investment into Iraq's growing infrastructure after two decades of democracy in the country. There's a big question today about whether the system set up in Iraq after the two 2003 U.S.-led invasion has worked for people. Iraq is a very oil-rich country, billions of dollars come into state coffers each year, and you have all of these international companies there, but very few people actually see a lot of those revenues. Meanwhile, you have a political class that's grown extremely wealthy,

and that's driving voter apathy with voter turnout dropping from 80% 20 years ago to around 40% today. Iraq's voters are overwhelmingly young. The median age is around 30 in the country, And so many of them today want to see some of the development, the construction, the incremental improvement in services that they've seen in the past years continue. Now, that can be challenging in Iraq's system of government. So you've got 8,000 candidates vying for seats in Iraq's 329 member legislature, right? So it's a very competitive race. And you have the sectarian system where seats are reserved for different groups, Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Kurds.

In Iraq, people generally run on pretty simple things that the state should provide, because, Because for many years, those services have been pretty decrepit. The frontrunner looks to be the current Prime Minister, Muhammad Shah Sudani. People expect him to do very well off the back of the hiring spree he's been on and the construction that's happened. There are also various other groups vying for power, including militias who have since entered politics,

entering the economy, and even trying to build relationships with former foes like the United States. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has welcomed a new class of inductees. Rock and roll icon Chubby Checker is twisting his way into the Hall of Fame, and Cindy Lopper's True Colors have earned her a spot as well. English rockers Joe Cocker and Bad Company also joined the ranks. And if you're an aging millennial like me, you might be excited, and maybe a little chagrined, to learn that some of your favorite artists have been churning out music for more than 25 years.

That's the minimum requirement for induction into the Hall of Fame. That includes two early 2000s duos, hip-hop group Outcast and the garage rock group, The White Stripes. Rounding out the list this year, Seattle Grunge Band Soundgarden is representing the 90s, reminding us that the music of my youth is now a part of music history. And for today's recommended read, in Trump's second administration, extreme conservative influencers and platforms are becoming mainstream. A decades-long conservative pushback against perceived liberal media is flipping.

Now a shift to the right is reshaping America's information ecosystem. We'll drop a link to that story in today's show notes. For more on any of the stories from today, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player. If you're listening on a smart speaker, just ask for the latest news from Reuters seven days a week. We'll be back tomorrow with our daily headline show.