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Friday briefing: ​After a week of disruption, is living with threats our new normal?

Global Published 6 November 2026, 11:43 · archived 6 Nov 2026

In today’s newsletter: From diverted airliners to hacked ​fridges, a string of disruptive incidents has exposed the ​vulnerabilities of modern ​life. ​There is now an increasingly blurred space between peace and conflict, the grey zone.Good morning. A multiplicity of hoax bomb threats divert passenger flights across Europe. A malign cyber-attack targets supermarket fridges in Belgium, Sweden, the UK and – in a sickening escalation – the cold storage facilities of France’s national blood service.The actors behind this week of chaos and disruption, be they hostile states or criminal gangs – or e...

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