The edition of

Friday 13 November 2026

9 stories, section by section, the most important first.

International

Middle Eastern crisis — Photo: Pierre Markuse / CC BY 2.0

Iran says it has destroyed an early-warning radar in Bahrain as a retaliation for a United States strike on telecommunication infrastructure on Sirik.

The United States Department of State designates three Guatemalan criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations for providing material support to Mexican cartels.

Qatar and Turkey sign a defense pact in Istanbul.

The Law

In the United Kingdom, Metropolitan Police announce a criminal investigation into actor David Walliams about "alleged serious sexual offences". The police say they are separate to those investigated by ITN and The Guardian.

Environment

Queen of the Mississippi — Photo: Benroethig / CC BY-SA 4.0

A tanker and the cruise ship American Heritage collide in the Mississippi River of the United States. The cruise ship, carrying 130 people, sinks. All aboard the American Heritage survive, with some taken to local hospitals for treatment of minor injuries.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration issues a nationwide ground stop for all flights due to "extraordinary circumstances involving communications failures". It is later lifted.

Twenty-six people are killed and eleven more are injured in a bus–truck collision in Golaghat, India.

Six people are killed and five more injured after an under construction building partially collapses in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sport

In association football, the Royal Spanish Football Federation suspends FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono for 12 matches following a collision with CD Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel during a November 2 match, which resulted in de Miguel's death.

Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 13 November 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.