Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ has returned to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for a 40th week. It earned 55,000 equivalent album units during the Oct. 29–Nov. 5 tracking week.
A new AI office has opened in Kazakhstan’s North Kazakhstan Region to improve access to public services and digital skills. The region has also established 16 IT centres under the Digital Aimak project.
TotalEnergies has signed an agreement to sell South Atlantic Petroleum Limited a 40% participating interest in Nigeria’s offshore OPL257 block. Completion is subject to customary conditions, including regulatory approvals.
Ukraine’s State Property Fund sold the property complex of the Dniprodzerzhynsk Civil Design Institute at an online auction. Nine bidders competed, driving the price up 25-fold.
Ingalls Shipbuilding and the U.S. Navy have begun construction of a customer support complex in Pascagoula, Mississippi. More than 600 military and civilian personnel will work at the facility.
Sade will not attend Saturday’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The band confirmed the news on its official website.
China has brought the world’s first continuous line for extracting low-grade rubidium and cesium associated with lithium ore to full capacity. The project was built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Process Engineering, Ganfeng Lithium and other partners.
KazMunayGas chairman Askhat Khasenov and KBR senior vice-president Hari Ravindran discussed plans for Kazakhstan’s first sustainable aviation fuel plant. The facility is designed to produce 57,000 tonnes of SAF a year.
Officials in Kabul discussed economic cooperation between Afghanistan and Russia and identified investment priorities across several sectors. A bilateral cooperation document has been finalized and is expected to be signed soon.
A pilot technology for producing chemicals rich in long-chain olefins has passed a 72-hour assessment in China. Its developers called the test a key step from laboratory research toward industrial application.
Nearly 400,000 large and small animals were vaccinated and treated in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. The campaigns targeted lumpy skin disease, external parasites and Crimean-Congo fever.
Armenian and Iranian officials discussed ways to expand cultural cooperation, including possible Armenian culture weeks in Iran and translations of literary works.
TotalEnergies has announced it will acquire a 25% interest in 26 Chevron-operated exploration leases offshore the United States. Chevron will also acquire a 75% operated interest in two adjacent leases from TotalEnergies.
A delegation led by Kazakhstan Supreme Court chair Aslambek Mergaliyev met Constitutional Council member Laurence Vichnievsky in France. Their talks covered constitutional courts’ decisions and safeguards for their independence.
Some of the music confirmed for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been revealed. A 34-track album will launch with the game, while Justice’s original score is due on streaming services in December.
The US House of Representatives sent a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee. The move effectively blocked it from reaching the full chamber for consideration.
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