All 197 Aboard New Orleans Riverboat Accounted For After Tanker Collision

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Saturday, the fourteenth of November, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

All passengers and crew from a river cruise boat struck by an oil tanker at the Port of New Orleans on Friday have been rescued and accounted for, with no fatalities reported, according to the Port of New Orleans. The paddleboat American Heritage was partially submerged after the collision on the Mississippi River. At least thirty-two people were treated at local hospitals, officials said, and the port said no critical injuries had been reported. Accounts of the number rescued varied in the immediate aftermath, with the port stating that all one hundred and ninety-seven passengers and crew were accounted for, while other early reports cited around one hundred and thirty people rescued and one hundred and twenty-nine passengers on board. A portion of the Mississippi River remains closed following the collision, which forced a chaotic river rescue. The cause of the incident has not been established.

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration lifted a rare nationwide ground stop for all U S airports on Friday after halting departures for nearly five hours, the longest such stoppage since the September eleven, two thousand and one attacks. The F A A cited extraordinary circumstances and reasons of safety, pointing to a communication issue affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. More than eight thousand two hundred flights, or over thirty-one percent of those scheduled in the United States, were canceled, according to aviation tracker FlightAware. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the stoppage stemmed from a communication issue, and officials blamed outdated air traffic communications equipment while stating there was no evidence of a cyber attack. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin described the disruption as a telecommunication outage and said he did not know what caused it. The airspace has since reopened.

Meanwhile, at Microsoft, the company said on Saturday morning that its services had been fully restored after a global outage disrupted governments, businesses and public services for more than twenty-four hours. Microsoft said operations had been recovered for all customers and regions affected across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications. It had earlier apologised for the disruption, saying it was deeply sorry as it reported a broad recovery for Outlook and other services. The U S homeland security chief confirmed there was no Microsoft link to the separate U S air traffic stoppage.

In Colorado, Republican Representative Lauren Boebert lost her re-election bid on Friday to Democrat Eileen Laubacher, the Associated Press projected, ousting a three-term incumbent and prominent conservative media figure. Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, defeated one of President Trump's highest-profile supporters in a deep-red district. The result represents a significant victory for Democrats in a conservative House district.

In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan Police has opened an investigation into sexual offence allegations against comedian and children's author David Walliams, fifty-five. The force said it had received a number of allegations of past abuse following a joint investigation by I T V News and the Guardian newspaper this week. Walliams denies the allegations, saying he has not broken the law. The accusations include sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour towards young women and girls.

Also in Britain, Noel Fielding, the Great British Bake Off presenter, said he is appalled, horrified and deeply disturbed by jokes he made with Russell Brand in the 2000s, after Brand was sentenced to more than ten years in prison on Monday. Fielding said he has not been in contact with Brand for many years and regrets the inappropriate jokes the pair made during the work they did together.

In Hungary, Hungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth nineteen point five dollarsm (fourteen point eight poundsm) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating Miklós Seszták, a former minister of national development in Viktor Orbán’s cabinet between twenty fourteen and twenty eighteen, who is accused of taking bribes. Investigators found large amounts of cash concealed in forests, agricultural buildings, warehouses, residential properties and a high-value safe in a remote location.

In Spanish football, Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono has been suspended for twelve matches by the Spanish football federation's disciplinary committee after an on-field challenge that resulted in the death of Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel.

In Alaska, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won the governor's race, becoming the first Democrat to win the office since one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight and, at thirty-seven, the youngest governor in the state's history. A former state legislator, Kreiss-Tomkins ran a campaign emphasising bipartisanship in a state that usually votes Republican, and made a name for himself as a coalition builder willing to raise alarms about Alaska's dire fiscal straits.

In rugby, France held their nerve to beat South Africa twenty-one-nineteen at the Stade de France on Friday, making it four wins from five in the Nations Championship and putting the home side in a strong position to top the northern hemisphere standings. The defeat ended the world champions' hopes of lifting the first Nations Championship trophy.

On Ukraine diplomacy, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Friday that Brussels will send diplomats from the twenty-seven-nation E U bloc and five members of the Coalition of the Willing that backs Ukraine — the U K, France, Germany, Italy and Poland — to upcoming Ukraine talks, as European leaders push for a voice in the negotiations.

In eastern England, the U S Air Force said it responded to suspected unauthorised drone activity on Friday night at R A F Lakenheath, a U S airbase in Suffolk. No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected, and there were no injuries or damage, the military said.

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