WORLD AGENDA
NOVEMBER 2026

Nov 3, U.S.: Americans vote in midterm elections, with all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats at stake. The result will decide whether Donald Trump tightens his grip on Washington or Democrats gain power to check him in the final two years of his term

Nov 29, Spain: Voters go to the polls in a snap election called by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is betting that anger over the housing crisis can win him a stronger mandate. Polls favour the conservative Popular Party, which could need far-right Vox to govern

Nov 9-20, Türkiye: The COP31 climate summit opens in Antalya, with countries under pressure to deepen emissions cuts after the UN warned last month that breaching the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit is now unavoidable

Nov 18-19, China: The APEC summit takes place in Shenzhen amid talk of a possible three-way meeting on the sidelines between President Trump and his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, to discuss ending the war in Ukraine

Nov 5, France: A nationwide ​strike is planned by labour leaders who say frustration over living costs and public services is spreading far beyond the student movement

Nov 18, Space: NASA’s Voyager 1, launched in 1977, becomes the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth, around 26 billion km away

Nov 6-17, South America: Pope Leo plans an 11-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, visiting 10 cities, travelling some 31,000km and delivering 36 speeches, less than four weeks after lung cancer surgery

Nov 18, U.S.: The legendary Blaquier-Arrieta collection of Modernist artworks, including Van Gogh’s “Châtaigniers en fleurs” (right), goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York, with an estimated value of $450 million

Sources: NewsAhead, Emma Luck
Pictures: Getty Images, APEC, COP31, Sotheby’s
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