Latest World News Today: 10 November 2026

Cameroon's 93-year-old President Paul Biya has set legislative and local elections for February 7 next year, in a decree read on public radio. The elections have been postponed twice amid a crackdown on the opposition after his October re-election. Security forces detained up to 2,000 people, according to lawyers cited by Human Rights Watch, and the country is also awaiting a government reshuffle and a vice president.

The Odyssey, a round-the-world cruise ship that left around 200 passengers stranded in Cambodia last month, has been seized in Singapore. Its US-based operator, Villa Vie Residences, suspended operations citing extraordinary increases in fuel costs. The vessel had set off from Belfast in October 2024 for a planned three-and-a-half-year voyage, and Singapore's port authority said the crew are well.

A Honduran court has delayed a verdict in a sex-trafficking case linked to the 2022 disappearance of Angie Pena until November 20. The judiciary said it needs to review evidence and wait for a court interpreter to return from abroad. Four men, including two US citizens, are on trial in a case that has drawn comparisons with Jeffrey Epstein.

Senior officials from Moscow, Kyiv and Washington will meet in Abu Dhabi for the first trilateral Ukraine peace talks since February. US officials said both sides are privately showing some flexibility on who would control Ukraine's eastern regions after the war. A key dispute remains over Donetsk, which Moscow wants Ukraine to cede and Kyiv wants to freeze along the contact line. The talks aim to link territorial questions to postwar security.