Daily News Aktualisiert: 19.10.2026, 06:05:00

US President Donald Trump publicly endorsed Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Truth Social, calling him a "great warrior prime minister" and crediting him with joining US strikes on Iran in February. The war with Iran is in its seventh month and has disrupted global energy markets. Polls show no clear path to power for any candidate, and Israeli support for Trump has dropped over disagreements on Iran.

Ukraine fired more than 1,000 drones in one of its largest aerial attacks, hitting an oil export terminal and the Ruchi oil depot in St. Petersburg; one person died and five were wounded. Russia says it downed 1,015 drones. The strikes come amid tension with Washington, as Trump criticises attacks on Russian oil sites and has waived planned sanctions on Russia.

Protests against rising living costs and poor school conditions drew about 550,000 people (organisers say 800,000) across France, with looting and arson; at least 1,800 people were arrested. In a televised address President Emmanuel Macron blamed far-left insurrectionists and criminals and said looters must pay. Limoges city hall was nearly destroyed by fire.

Pope Leo XIV appeared in St. Peter's Square for the first time since surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung, where a malignant tumor was found. He thanked the faithful and the staff of Gemelli Hospital and said he will gradually resume his duties.

The Democratic Republic of Congo reported two cases, one fatal, in Nord-Ubangi province bordering the Central African Republic. The outbreak, declared in mid-May, has at least 9,400 cases and over 4,500 deaths, making it Congo's deadliest; Kenya recorded an eighth case. The WHO says pockets are declining but the disease keeps spreading geographically.

In der Nacht auf Sonntag versammelten sich in Bern bei der Schützenmatte viele Personen zu einer unbewilligten Spontandemo und zogen Richtung Lorraine. Teils Vermummte zündeten Pyrotechnik; Einsatzkräfte wurden mit Feuerwerk und gefährlichen Gegenständen angegriffen, die Polizei setzte Gummischrot ein. Verletzt wurde niemand.

Ab nächstem Jahr haben rund 46'000 Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine mit Schutzstatus S erstmals Anspruch auf reguläre Sozialhilfe. Der Bund will, dass die Kantone die Höhe selbst festlegen dürfen; Behörden halten das für fair, Hilfswerke warnen vor sozialen Folgen.

Um 4:37 Uhr bebte die Erde rund sechs Kilometer westlich von Linthal im Kanton Glarus mit Magnitude etwa 4,0. Laut Schweizerischem Erdbebendienst der ETH Zürich wurde es wohl schweizweit gespürt; Stunden später meldete die Kantonspolizei Glarus keine Schäden.

Wegen des Hitzesommers 2026 verzeichneten die SBB 97 Gleisverwerfungen und Stauchungen, fast viermal so viele wie im Vorjahr (laut SonntagsZeitung). Die SBB sagen, die Sicherheit sei nicht beeinträchtigt gewesen, und haben eine Arbeitsgruppe eingesetzt.

Beim Hackerangriff auf die Softwarefirma PK Softech Ende September wurden vermutlich Personendaten von Versicherten der Pensionskasse Stadt Zürich (PKZH) entwendet, im schlimmsten Fall Adresse, AHV-Nummer, IBAN und Vorsorgedaten. Vorsorgegelder und Renten sind laut PKZH nicht betroffen, die Kasse hat Strafanzeige erstattet; Versicherte sollen bei Mails, SMS und Anrufen vorsichtig sein.

Der Wildschweinbestand im Kanton wächst trotz 1300 bis 1500 Abschüssen pro Jahr um bis zu 300 Tiere; derzeit leben 2500 bis 3000 Tiere hier, vor allem im Unterland und Weinland. Der Kanton zahlte Landwirten zuletzt je 380'000 Franken Entschädigung und will die Tiere mit einem neuen Konzept eindämmen.

Die Kantonspolizei Zürich kontrollierte am Freitagabend eine Stunde lang beim Autobahnkreuz Zürich-Nord und stoppte rund 36 Fahrzeuge, die über eine Sicherheitslinie an der Kolonne vorbeigefahren waren. Die Lenker erhielten Ordnungsbussen.

Wegen des SBB-Ausbaus «MehrSpur Zürich–Winterthur» wird der provisorische Parkplatz am Chaletweg am 30. Oktober aufgehoben, Ende Dezember folgt der P+Rail-Parkplatz; im Dezember wird zudem die Unterführung Nord gesperrt. Ersatzparkplätze gibt es bei Eichelwiesen und Hallenbad, Bewilligungen stellt die Gemeinde aus.

Rund zweistündiger Spaziergang um Watt inklusive Kaffeepause, organisiert von der Kulturkommission Watt. Mittwoch, 11. November 2026, 09:15 Uhr, Treffpunkt Dorfplatz Watt, Dorfstrasse 140, 8105 Watt.

Nach der Stimmabgabe gibt es Zopf und heissen Kaffee, Einladung der Kulturkommission Watt. Sonntag, 29. November 2026, 08:30–11:00 Uhr, Primarschule Regensdorf, Unterdorfstrasse 52, 8105 Watt.

Rund zweistündige Wanderung um Watt über Stock und Stein inklusive Kaffeepause. Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2026, 09:15 Uhr, Treffpunkt Dorfplatz Watt, Dorfstrasse 140, 8105 Watt.

Taiwan's Ting Yi "Eric" Tsai beat Calvin Lee heads-up in the $60,000 Super High Roller at the KPC Poker October Series in Jeju, Korea, for his first seven-figure score. The event drew 66 entries and a $3.7M prize pool; Lee took $700,000.

Latvia's Vitalijs Zavorotnijs won the $10,500 NLH Event #4 of the Poker Masters in Las Vegas for $224,000, beating Clemen Deng heads-up when both made a full house but his was bigger. It is his second PokerGO Tour title; 80 entries built an $800,000 prize pool.

Sean Winter leads the final seven of Poker Masters Event #6 in Las Vegas with 1,405,000 chips, only 10K ahead of Victoria Livschitz. Action resumes Monday on the PokerGO stream; buy-ins rise to $15,700 from Event #7.

Online platform GGPoker introduced five new security measures, including a ban on all third-party software and automation tools such as Jurojin, Hand2Note and PokerTracker 4.

At Genting Highlands the Deepstack drew 449 entries, the biggest single-day event in Poker Dream history. William Tan Chee Liang also won the Malaysia Open that day, and Xiaohong Lai won the Ladies Event Turbo.

On the Sources podcast Altman said OpenAI will build a humanoid robot, arguing the human form fits a world designed for people but that the AI "brain" matters more. He told Fortune to expect a demo in 2027, with robots on the street years after; OpenAI has not disclosed details.

Google Cloud AI Research released Harness2 under Apache 2.0 on Oct 9. With model weights frozen, it lets an agent edit its own instructions, tools and memory via a Propose-Probe-Compose loop that needs no labelled answers.

The latest OpenClaw release makes openclaw update finish and recover on its own across devices, Windows elevation and macOS shells, and makes conversations restart-safe so interrupted turns and subagent work resume after a Gateway restart.

Per TechCrunch Mobility, Rivian is developing proprietary in-vehicle AI models and an end-to-end driving stack, co-designing a 5nm chip with Arm and TSMC. It plans to license its architecture and software to other automakers beyond its $5.8B VW venture.

At Money20/20 World unveiled World ID for Zoom and World ID for Agents/AgentKit to verify humans and delegate proofs to AI agents. Design partners include Bain Capital and VanEck Funds, but no bank has been named and no pricing was disclosed.

Paramount's video-game adaptation Street Fighter topped the North American weekend with about $31M from 3,575 theaters, beating new openers Whalefall, Sense and Sensibility and You Can See Everything. Audiences skewed older and male.

A24's nearly three-hour Theranos documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim made $15M from just 855 screens, the biggest non-music documentary opening in two decades and best under-1,000-screen debut since Borat. Reviews are near-perfect and over 70% of the crowd was under 35.

Waititi told Inverse his long-developed Star Wars film, in the works since 2020, is on hold indefinitely while he works on other projects, though he added that "ice ages do come to an end."

20th Century Studios' $60M survival thriller Whalefall opened to only about $8M, per Deadline, losing male audiences to Street Fighter.

Axpo completed its first LNG refuelling in Valencia on 13 October 2026, with its 12,500 m³ vessel Alisios supplying a container ship by ship-to-ship transfer; more than half was bio-LNG. Valencia is Axpo's fourth Spanish bunkering port after Málaga, Algeciras and Barcelona.