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1. Police arrest east Jerusalem teen for allegedly tearing mezuzah from Jewish home Jerusalem Post · 9 Nov 2026

   The resident of Silwan’s Yemenite Village returned home Thursday night to find the mezuzah ripped from his doorframe and graffiti on his door, police said.

2. Andy Serkis Says Gollum Is Keeping Him Up At Night: “It Has Been Insane” Deadline · 9 Nov 2026

   Andy Serkis opened up recently about returning to the character that made him famous. Serkis not only plays Gollum again in the upcoming The Hunt for Gollum, he’s directing the film. In a new interview with the Times, he held forth on the challenge of reviving his fan-favorite Lord of the Rings…

3. Community Closet event in Itaewon offers free medical check-ups, clothing donations for foreign residents in need Korea Times · 9 Nov 2026

   Itaewon Global Village Center will offer free internal medicine check-ups for all foreign residents this Saturday as part of its Community Closet event. The check-ups will cover only seasonal illnesses such as fever, colds, coughs, the flu and related issues, and medicine will be provided free of…

4. Sogang University tops university category in service quality index for 13th straight year Korea Times · 9 Nov 2026

   Sogang University has ranked No. 1 in the university category for the 13th consecutive year in the Korean Standard-Service Quality Index (KS-SQI) survey conducted by the Korean Standards Association (KSA). The university said it earned an overall score of 86.5 points in this year's survey…

5. Second vice minister of foreign affairs discusses role of diplomacy at HUFS lecture Korea Times · 9 Nov 2026

   Kim Jin-a, second vice minister of foreign affairs, delivered a lecture on the changing international order and the challenges facing Korean diplomacy at the Seoul campus of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) on Nov. 4. The university said the lecture was part of the 2026 HUFS Special…

6. PPP leaders gather outside Cheong Wa Dae to protest special counsel bill Korea Times · 9 Nov 2026

   Leaders of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) gathered outside Cheong Wa Dae on Monday to protest the recent passage of a bill calling for a special counsel investigation into alleged fabricated indictments targeting President Lee Jae Myung and others. The PPP leadership held a Supreme…

7. Lagos branches light up i-Fitness GameFest 2.0 Punch · 9 Nov 2026

   Yaba claimed both the male and female 100m titles, Opebi won the male football tournament, and Ago Palace took the female football crown as i-Fitness GameFest 2.0 brought branches from across the… Read More: https://punchng.com/lagos-branches-light-up-i-fitness-gamefest-2-0/

8. Opposition’s consensus candidate plan dead – G-100 chieftain Punch · 9 Nov 2026

   The failure of opposition parties to shelve their individual ambitions in favour of a consensus presidential candidate against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election has effectively ended the… Read More: https://punchng.com/oppositions-consensus-candidate-plan-dead-g-100-chieftain/

9. Singapore minister says Cop31 has ‘enough to work on’ without new targets South China Morning Post · 9 Nov 2026

   Global climate talks starting on Monday are unlikely to yield new targets on curbing greenhouse gases, but negotiators have plenty to do to implement measures already agreed, according to Singapore’s environment minister. “I think that we are not expecting a major upgrade in mitigation targets” at…

10. Forrestania high-grade gold hits fuel 35% WA resource surge Nine · 9 Nov 2026

    Forrestania Resources has upgraded its WA British Hill gold resource by 35% to 286,00oz after hitting 16m at 5.77g/t, while signing a separate 750,000-tonne ore purchase deal.