Illustration of an orange flight recorder beside a clipboard showing a sharply falling altitude line, against a night-blue background with palm silhouettes

News 2 November 2026

All nine killed as Bahamas-bound Learjet crashes in Palm Beach County

A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas came down in a residential area near Greenacres, Florida, at 12:50 local time on Sunday. The pilot reported ice and turbulence and declared an emergency. Nobody on the ground was hurt. The NTSB is leading the investigation.

A Learjet 60 business jet crashed into a residential area of Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, killing all nine people on board. The aircraft had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was bound for North Eleuthera in the Bahamas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s statement.

It came down at around 12:50 local time (17:50 in Lisbon) near Greenacres, beside Military Trail. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed there were no survivors and called it a horrific tragedy.

Ice, turbulence and a near-vertical drop

The pilot reported ice and turbulence, then declared an emergency. Flight data cited by ABC News show the jet falling from 35,250 feet to 8,750 feet in little more than a minute, roughly 350 feet a second, before it hit the ground nose first.

Governor Ron DeSantis said the impact left a crater by the roadside and that there were no reports of anyone hurt on the ground. About 600 people were moved out of a nearby mobile home park as a precaution, and Military Trail was shut between Cresthaven Boulevard and 10th Avenue North.

The jet was 22 years old and belonged to a private company that had rented it out in the past. The victims have not yet been named.

Who investigates

The National Transportation Safety Board leads the inquiry, with the FAA in support. Its preliminary report usually lands within about 30 days, and a finding on the cause can take more than a year.

Earlier this year we also covered the sightseeing plane that went down at Peru’s Nazca Lines, killing all 13 on board.

By Marta Carneiro

Illustration: Tugadaily

News 3 November 2026

US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz on the eve of the midterms

US officials, speaking anonymously, say Monday's strikes were limited and defensive, a response to an Iranian missile fired at a US aircraft. Iranian state TV reported explosions on Qeshm and in Bandar Lengeh. The Revolutionary Guards say they shot down US drones, which Washington denies.

The United States struck targets on Iran's Qeshm Island, in the Strait of Hormuz, on Monday. That account comes from US officials who spoke anonymously to several news organisations. The Pentagon has announced nothing, and US Central Command has not commented. According to those officials, the strikes were limited and "defensive", a response to an Iranian missile fired at a US fighter jet. They also say US forces intercepted another missile launched from…

Night-time illustration of a square with colourful tents, one knocked over, and a line of police riot shields lit by blue light beside a column

News 1 November 2026

Police clear Lisbon and Porto housing camps for a third time, arresting 13 as Portugal's president asks for answers

PSP officers moved in at about 4.30am on Sunday 1 November. Police report six arrests in Lisbon, seven in Porto and 13 officers hurt in Porto. The camps say more than 60 protesters were injured. President Seguro has asked the government and the Ombudsman for a detailed account.

Portugal's PSP police cleared the housing protest camps in Lisbon and Porto in the early hours of Sunday 1 November, for the third time in two weeks. Thirteen people were arrested, six in Lisbon and seven in Porto, according to the police. The order to take the tents down came at around half past midnight, with a warning that anyone who stayed would be charged with disobedience. Officers moved in at about 4.30am, almost simultaneously in both cities. In…

Illustration of a white bus flying a white flag on a riverside road at dawn, between low houses and stacks of aid boxes

News 31 October 2026

Civilians begin leaving occupied Oleshky under a short local truce

The ceasefire the White House announced on Melania Trump's behalf took effect this week and is due to end late on Sunday. Between 1,700 and 2,000 people were still in the town across the Dnipro from Kherson, most of them elderly, plus around 50 children.

Civilians started leaving Oleshky on Friday. The Russian-occupied town sits on the left bank of the Dnipro, directly across the river from Kherson, and the evacuation is happening under a ceasefire that covers this one town only. It took effect this week and is due to expire late on Sunday. The truce was announced on 23 October in a statement from the Office of the First Lady, which credits Melania Trump, acting through a representative, with brokering…

Illustration of a school with its iron gate padlocked shut and a blue backpack left by the railings on an autumn morning

News 30 October 2026

Monday's public-sector strike could keep some Portuguese schools shut

The STTS union and the FESINAP federation have called a 24-hour strike for 2 November covering schools, health centres, hospitals, registry offices and Social Security. There are no minimum services in education, so some schools may not open. The Frente Comum has already set a second strike for 20 November.

A large slice of Portugal's public sector walks out on Monday, 2 November. The STTS public-services union and the FESINAP federation have called a 24-hour strike, and schools are already warning parents. One school grouping's own notice to families says outright that the strike "may even close schools". So if you have children in a state school, check before you set off. A quick call or a look at the school's website will save you a wasted trip.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas speaks at a Mexico City government lectern with the Mexican flag behind him

News 29 October 2026

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who founded Mexico’s PRD, dies at 92

The former Michoacán governor, three-time presidential candidate and first elected head of government of Mexico City died on Wednesday. President Claudia Sheinbaum recalled the 1988 election he lost amid fraud claims. No cause of death has been given.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, one of the defining figures of the Mexican left, died on Wednesday, 28 October, aged 92. President Claudia Sheinbaum paid tribute on X, calling him "a man of firm principles". The family has not given a cause of death. The son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalised Mexico's oil in 1938, he trained as a civil engineer. He spent the first half of his career inside the PRI, the party that ran Mexico for seven decades,…

Dolores Huerta, in a blue T-shirt, speaks at a wooden lectern with her right arm raised, in a school gym in Phoenix

News 28 October 2026

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers, dies at 96

The labour and civil rights leader who built the UFW with Cesar Chavez and gave it the slogan 'Sí, se puede' died at home on Wednesday 28 October, her family said. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

Dolores Huerta, who helped build the first lasting farmworkers' union in the United States, died on Wednesday at the age of 96. Her family announced her death in a statement shared by the foundation that carries her name, saying she died at home. No cause was given. The union she co-founded, the United Farm Workers, marked her death in a statement from its president, Teresa Romero, which credits her with the movement's famous rallying cry, "Sí, se puede".

Map of the Iberian Peninsula marking Urda, in Toledo province, on the high-speed line between Madrid and Seville

News 28 October 2026

Toledo train crash kills 69 as an AVE ploughs into a stationary Iryo

A Renfe AVE hit a stopped Iryo train at 8:54 (7:54 in Lisbon) near Urda on the Madrid–Andalusia high-speed line. The official toll rose to 69 on Thursday, 53 people remain in hospital with 15 in a critical condition, and Spain has declared three days of mourning from 29 to 31 October.

Sixty-nine people were killed when two high-speed trains collided near Urda, in Toledo province in central Spain, on Wednesday morning. Castilla-La Mancha's regional president, Emiliano García-Page, raised the toll to 69 on Thursday morning. On Wednesday evening it stood at 68, with 24 of the dead on the Renfe AVE and 44 on the Iryo train; the first official count, at midday on Wednesday, had been 30. According to regional government spokesperson Esther…

News 28 October 2026

Saudi Arabia downs Houthi missiles over Riyadh as Egypt votes to back the kingdom

The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed five ballistic missiles fired from Yemen at Riyadh and the Eastern Province on Tuesday, along with several drones. Debris hit a building, a construction site and a car in Riyadh, with no casualties. The Houthis claim they struck the defence ministry and the Ras Tanura refinery.

Saudi Arabia spent Tuesday shooting down missiles and drones from Yemen. According to the Riyadh-led coalition, five ballistic missiles were destroyed: three aimed at the Eastern Province before dawn and two aimed at the capital in the middle of the afternoon. Explosions were heard over Riyadh. Saudi Civil Defence said debris from two intercepted missiles came down on a building, a construction site and a car. Nobody was killed or hurt.

News 27 October 2026

Lisbon Metro strikes called off, and Friday's CP rail strike is off too

Unions Fectrans and STRUP dropped the partial Metro de Lisboa strikes on 28 and 30 October after an arbitration court set minimum services. The 24-hour strike by CP conductors and ticket staff called by the SFRCI union for the 30th was suspended on 28 October after a meeting with the infrastructure ministry.

Good news if you take the metro in Lisbon this week. The partial strikes planned for Wednesday 28 and Friday 30 October, from 5am to 10am, have been called off. Update, 29 October: train users can relax as well. The SFRCI union has withdrawn its notice for Friday's CP strike, and services should run as normal. Metro de Lisboa confirmed the strikes were off on Monday evening. On both days the network opens at 6.30am as normal, with every station running.

News 26 October 2026

Yasuo Fukuda, Japan's first prime minister whose father also held the job, dies at 90

Fukuda led Japan from September 2007 to September 2008. The Liberal Democratic Party said on Monday that he died of heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on 22 October.

Yasuo Fukuda, who was Japan's prime minister from September 2007 to September 2008, has died at 90. The Liberal Democratic Party, announcing the news on Monday, said he died of heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on 22 October. His place in Japanese history was settled before he did anything in office. His father, Takeo Fukuda, had been prime minister from 1976 to 1978, and Yasuo became the first son of a Japanese premier to take the same job. Unlike a…

Bar chart: 21.1 months median survival with the combination against 12.7 on Imfinzi alone, and 7.4 against 1.9 months without disease progression

News 25 October 2026

A two-drug maintenance took median survival in small cell lung cancer from 12.7 months to 21.1

In the Phase 3 DeLLphi-305 trial, presented at ESMO 2026 in Madrid, adding Amgen's tarlatamab (Imdelltra) to AstraZeneca's durvalumab (Imfinzi) as maintenance in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer cut the risk of death by 58%.

Small cell lung cancer is one of the hardest cancers there is. Once it has spread, median survival on today's treatment is about a year, and only around 3.6% of patients reach five years. So the figure presented on Saturday at the European oncology congress, ESMO, in Madrid landed hard: adding a second drug to maintenance therapy cut the risk of death by 58%. The trial is called DeLLphi-305, a Phase 3 study of 563 patients with extensive-stage disease…

News 24 October 2026

Thousands marched for housing in Lisbon on Saturday. The camp plans to sleep on Rossio again tonight

The Acampada de Lisboa walked from Marquês de Pombal to Rossio on day eight of its protest, claiming around 25,000 marchers, a figure police called clearly too high. Thousands also marched in Porto. The target is the government's rental law, passed at first reading on 30 September.

Thousands of people walked down Avenida da Liberdade on Saturday afternoon, from Marquês de Pombal to Rossio, asking for homes they can afford. The organisers, the Acampada de Lisboa, put the crowd at around 25,000. The PSP gave no figure of its own but said that one was clearly too high. Whatever the exact count, the avenue was full. The march set off at 3pm, and the organisers asked political parties to walk at the back. Among the politicians who turned…

Tugadaily chart: 26 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more off northern Vanuatu on 24 October, two of them above 6

News 24 October 2026

A 6.9 earthquake hit northern Vanuatu, then 25 aftershocks of 4.5 or more in seven hours

The main shock hit at 1.31pm local time on 24 October (2.31am UTC) off northern Vanuatu, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to warn of hazardous waves for parts of the country. A 6.3 followed four minutes later. By 9.38am UTC the USGS had logged 26 quakes of magnitude 4.5 or more. There were no immediate reports of damage.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the sea off northern Vanuatu at 1.31pm local time on Saturday 24 October (2.31am UTC). The epicentre was about 197 kilometres west-northwest of Port-Olry on Espiritu Santo, at a shallow 10 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey's event page. It was first reported as a 7.2. Four minutes later, at 2.35am UTC, a second quake of 6.3 hit the same area. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said hazardous waves were…

Tugadaily chart: sunset time on Sunday 25 October 2026 in Bragança, Porto, Faro, Lisbon, Ponta Delgada and Funchal, after the clocks go back

News 24 October 2026

Portugal's clocks go back an hour tonight. On Sunday, Lisbon's sun sets at 17:44

In the early hours of Sunday 25 October, 2:00 becomes 1:00 on the mainland and in Madeira, and 1:00 becomes midnight in the Azores. We worked out sunset in six cities: on Sunday it comes an hour earlier than on Saturday, from 17:30 in Bragança to 18:23 in Funchal.

You get an extra hour in bed tonight. In the early hours of Sunday 25 October, when clocks on the mainland and in Madeira reach 2:00, they go back to 1:00. The Azores change at the same universal moment, which there means 1:00 becomes midnight. Phones and laptops will sort themselves out. The oven, the microwave, the car dashboard and the kitchen wall clock that nobody has touched since March are on you. The bit you notice is the light. We ran the sunset…