The French blood agency said on the 3rd that a recent cyberattack altered operating parameters at some refrigerated storage units. Monitoring systems raised timely alerts and there was no loss of blood products.

On Nov. 2 China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Director Kang Yi met UN Under‑Secretary‑General for Economic and Social Affairs Li Junhua and signed the Phase IV China–UN Statistical Capacity Development Trust Fund agreement. The program will prioritize the National Accounts System 2025 initiative, digital-economy statistics, and the application of big data and data science to statistical work, aimed at strengthening statistical capacity in developing countries.

President Trump told CNBC on Wednesday he could work with a Democratic-majority in the next Congress on “many issues,” including fiscal proposals he said would be mutually beneficial. He ruled out removing tariffs, insisting that lifting them would force construction on roughly 3,000 factories now underway to stop.