Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s drilling arm received approval from Kuwait Oil Company and signed two offshore jack-up rig contracts totaling $313.6 million.

Nov 9 — China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun, at a regular briefing, dismissed US officials' claims that the woman linked to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's confessed extramarital affair works for Chinese intelligence as baseless and slanderous. Huang has acknowledged the affair and NVIDIA has opened an internal investigation. When asked whether the episode could affect next week's China-US leaders' meeting in Shenzhen, Guo reiterated Beijing's prior denials.

U.S. defense secretary Hegseth said he is not worried that enough Republicans will defect in impeachment proceedings to vote to convict.