Boeing estimates Middle Eastern carriers will take nearly 3,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years.

Nov 3 — Xiaomi said it won an innovation-breakthrough award at the 2026 World Internet Conference and its robotics unit received a Leading Technology prize, and disclosed two deployment milestones. In a factory trial, a Xiaomi humanoid robot completed an eight-hour continuous run at a central-console side-cover sorting station, meeting full-day production requirements while performing autonomous error correction and system-level coordination; Xiaomi said this constitutes initial production-line capability validation. In a consumer trial, an embodied-base model entered trial operation in Xiaomi youth apartments; using an Agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, Xiaomi validated a continuous >30-minute long-range task across three rooms covering 50+ tasks.

Ukrainian President ZELENSKIY said the United States, which served as the world’s security guarantor for the past 80 years, no longer exists in that role; people in the Gulf, who once relied on U.S. security guarantees, are now focused on avoiding another full-scale war.