American stock indices fell sharply at the end of trading on November 5: the Dow Jones fell by 3.44%, the S&P 500 by 4.36%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq by 5.52%. Reuters notes that the Nasdaq has not fallen so much in one day for 19 months and separately that the market has shrunk by more than two trillion dollars. It's the biggest drop in Nasdaq history when measured in dollars rather than percentages.

Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Clashes between security forces and people gathered outside a house near Kyiv. November 2, 2026 On November 2, several dozen people gathered outside a private home in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv. Claims had circulated earlier on social media that armed individuals were holding about 40 people against their will in the basement and torturing them.

A jury in London has found actor and stand-up comedian Russell Brand guilty of sexual assault offences. The jury found the 51-year-old actor guilty of one count of rape and three counts of harassment. Four women were recognized as victims. In total, Brand was accused of seven counts of sexualized violence against six women. These events are believed to have occurred between 1999 and 2009. After the decision was announced, Brand was taken into custody.

Officers from Poland’s Internal Security Agency have detained six people on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence services, Rzeczpospolita reported. Five of those detained are Polish citizens ages 25 to 52. The sixth is a 37-year-old Russian woman, said Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister responsible for coordinating Poland’s intelligence services. Law enforcement authorities said the group was illegally supplying Russia with components used to manufacture weapons.

Sergey Mulivanov, a 59-year-old activist with the Latvian Russian Union who moved to Russia two years ago, was charged with fraud and sent to fight in the war against Ukraine, his lawyer, relatives, and acquaintances told the news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti. Mulivanov left Latvia because he disagreed with its policies. He supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and criticized the Latvian authorities for supporting Kyiv, forging closer ties with the West, and restricting the use of Russian.

Police officers and masked people wearing no identifying insignia entered Nora, a venue in St. Petersburg’s Kolomna neighborhood. They disrupted a letter-writing event for political prisoners planned by the Lyudi i Pisma (People and Letters) project, the news outlet Ostorozhno, Peterburg reported. Further details and the reasons for the law enforcement raid are unknown. The event was to be the activists’ first letter-writing event in St. Petersburg.

59-year-old activist of the Russian Union of Latvia Sergei Mulivanov, who moved to Russia two years ago, was accused of fraud and sent to war with Ukraine. His lawyer, relatives and acquaintances told the publication “Caution, News” about this. Mulivanov left Latvia due to disagreement with the country's policies. He supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine and criticized the Latvian authorities for supporting Kyiv, moving closer to the West and limiting the use of the Russian language.

A preview of the report in Novaya Gazeta, No. 16, July 14, 1993 In late October, Novaya Gazeta said it was closing after 33 years. It’s been Russia’s oldest independent publication, and it has documented every major event in the country’s modern history, from the shelling of the Russian parliament building in 1993 and the wars in Chechnya to the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny.

Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In late October, Novaya Gazeta announced it was closing. On November 5, World Digital Preservation Day, RIMA and Kronika are making the complete Novaya Gazeta archive available, including previously unavailable issues. They are now all collected in one place, free to read and fully searchable.

In St. Petersburg, police officers and people in masks without identification marks came to the Nora space in Kolomna. They disrupted the evening of letters to political prisoners, which was going to be held by the project “People and Letters,” claims “Beware, St. Petersburg.” The details and reasons for the security forces’ visit are unknown. According to RusNews, the police came to Nora following a denunciation. Explanatory letters are collected from participants in the evening.

Bochkari, a beer and soft drink producer based in Altai, has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer the businesses of Multon and Multon Partners, the former Coca-Cola bottler, to its external management. Sources told Kommersant on November 5 that the request, submitted in October, had been forwarded to the government and had already won support from some deputy prime ministers overseeing the sector.

A Helsinki court sentenced two crew members of the Fitburg, a ship that damaged cables in the Gulf of Finland, to prison, Yle and Reuters reported. The ship’s captain, Russian citizen Andrei Maksimenko, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The boatswain, Azerbaijani citizen Vusal Majidov, was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison. The court also ordered both men to pay for repairs to the cables.

In France, on November 5, a massive strike of trade unions took place, protesting against the rising cost of living. Participants in the nationwide action demanded higher wages, improved public services, including conditions in the education sector, and also supported the protests of schoolchildren and students. According to the largest trade union and official organizer of the action, CGT , around 1.6 million people took part in the strike across the country.

Volodymyr Zelensky hopes Washington will increase its support for Kyiv under the new Congress . “We have bipartisan support, support from both parties. I’m grateful to the Republicans too, but the Democrats are very clear about supporting Ukraine and providing it with aid,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview with the German broadcaster ZDF. He also expressed hope that increased U.S. support would bring peace closer.

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has announced that he has resigned after the collapse of the country's Ueno Bank . The president stressed in a video message published on his social networks that his priority is “the peace of mind of Paraguayans” who have entrusted their savings to the Paraguayan financial system, and he advocates for the “guaranteed return of these funds.” Peña resigned two days after Paraguay's central bank placed Ueno into receivership due to serious solvency problems.