FAA issues ground stop, Nvidia and Microsoft latest, Pope returns to Peru (Update)

Hi, I'm Kim Vanell in Whanganui, New Zealand. And I'm Christopher Waljasper in Chicago. It's Friday, November 13th, today. The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all departing flights in the United States. NVIDIA's scandal ripples through markets as Microsoft attempts to recover from a global outage. And Putin says Europeans can join the next round of Ukraine peace talks after meeting American envoys in Moscow. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, 7 days a week. Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for a 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. New customer offer for initial plan term only. Greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. The FAA has grounded all flights from taking off from American airports. The announcement means the flights in the air may land, but no flights on the ground can take off. The agency issued the order after reporting, serious air traffic control issues earlier in the day. It cited extraordinary circumstances and reasons for safety. This story is developing across the country. Check back with Reuters.com or the app for the latest. Microsoft says it's seeing positive results from the fixes it's tried to put in place to overcome the Outlook outage that's crippled workplaces around the world. Some organizations reverted to fax machines and even phone calls to conduct business. Outlook. Teams and Copilot were knocked out, with governments across the world impacted, along with AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic. Microsoft says a faulty server is to blame, not a cyber attack. But there's only been a partial recovery so far. It's the second major disruption to the tech giant this year, and it's raising concerns that corporate clients could question Microsoft's reliability. Stay across at Reuters.com, or the Reuters app for developments. Markets continue to absorb the fallout from controversy embroiling NVIDIA. NVIDIA's shares are on track for the longest streak of weekly losses since 2012. It's shed more than 30% of its value since its early October peak. That's pulling down competitors and the broader semiconductor index, as NVIDIA's intertwined financial relationships in the sector weigh on the industry. Wang resigned from. NVIDIA Thursday. As Reuters learned, he had not one, but two intimate relationships with employees. That's in addition to an affair with Chinese businesswoman Alice Wang, who it was believed U.S. intelligence thought was a spy. Although U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche says nothing has been concluded. So you assume that DOJ learns that she is in fact a spy. I'm not. Nobody said that. I certainly haven't said that. And I don't. All I said a minute ago was that she's a spy. A minute ago. And all that I think I will say is that, of course, DOJ is an investigator looking at it. Reuters is not naming the second employee and was unable to reach her for comment. Lawmakers from both parties are now calling for tougher restrictions on China's access to advanced AI chips. Here's House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. We need a classified briefing made available to members of Congress as it relates to the NVIDIA situation. And to the extent. And to the extent that our national security has been compromised. NVIDIA is declining to comment and Jensen Wang has not replied to requests for comment. Alice Wang could not be reached. To France now, where the heir to fashion brand Hermes has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric assessment as a part of an investigation into the disappearance of billions in Hermes' shares. 83-year-old heir Nicolas Pueche says he was fleeced out of his. He's named LVMH and its billionaire chairman, Bernard Arnault, as defendants in a civil suit seeking more than $15 billion in damages. Prosecutors are investigating whether Pueche's late wealth manager helped divert the shares to LVMH, which once tried to build a stake in its smaller rival. The cognitive assessment could be key to the case. Under French law, exploiting someone's mental vulnerability is a special crime called abuse of weakness. From payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for a 12-month plan required, $15 per month equivalent, taxes and fees extra. New customer offer for initial plan term only, greater than 50 gigabytes, may slow when network is busy. See terms. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin. They flew to Ireland, having met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Putin says he's open to European representatives joining the next round of peace talks, though he's adamant that foreign troops in Ukraine would be a red line for Russia. The European Commission, meanwhile, says it's planning a new sanctions package against Russia. It's also planning new funding for Ukraine when the European Council meets at the end of November. The meeting follows two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, where Russia and Ukraine agreed on what could be the war's largest prisoner exchange, though major differences over territory remain unresolved. In Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, drone operators and medics huddle around a command center full of monitors and remote controls. They hold their breath as the unmanned aircraft touches down. Then, a sigh of relief and celebration. The giant aerial drone evacuating a wounded soldier, from the front line, lands, and medics move in to provide care. This evacuation unit is increasingly using these massive drones to pull wounded soldiers out of the front line's so-called kill zone. One commander in the 475th Regiment drone unit says he's only been a medical evac pilot for three weeks, but the unit is getting better and faster with every airlift. The first mission took seven days to prepare. A more recent one took just 12 hours. Ground robots are slow and easy to hit, the regiment's medical chief says, so it's forming platoons dedicated to drone airlifts. The drone's maker, Skyfall, expects to build about a thousand a month by the end of the year. It cautions that airlifts are not a cure-all and that every mission carries risk. Rescue teams searched through the rubble in Brooklyn, New York, after an apartment building collapse killed at least eight people, including two children. The building was next to a construction site where excavation work, including rock blasting, had been underway. New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani has ordered inspections of a hundred sites linked to the companies involved. A judge in Alaska has rejected a request from Democrat candidate Mary Pelosi, to release records of rejected absentee ballots. Votes from the midterms there are still being counted, with Peltola currently holding a narrow 1.6% lead over Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. The judge ruled that Alaska's Division of Elections is too busy processing ballots to generate the requested report. The race could head to ranked choice tabulation if no candidate wins more than 50%. Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen says he's running for Senate Majority Leader, challenging Chuck Schumer in what he admits is an underdog bid. But Van Hollen says Democrats need new leadership after their midterm sweep, which handed them majorities in both the Senate and the House. Schumer says he's got the votes to stay in place, while Van Hollen has the backing of Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator-elect Abdel El-Sayed. The closed-door secret ballot takes place next month. Manchester United has officially turned to Mauricio Pochettino to rescue the team from possible relegation. United is currently 18th in the Premier League tables, its worst position at this point in the season in nearly 40 years. Pochettino, who's been coaching the U.S. men's national team, will take over next week. United is reportedly paying $10 million to release him from his contract with U.S. soccer. His first match will be away at Liverpool, Liverpool. on November 22nd. And finally, lines of cars into Chiclayo, Peru, forcing many Catholics to walk through the desert, hoping to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo's return to his old home. A crowd of thousands greeted Leo in Chiclayo, where he presided over an outdoor mass in the place he served for eight years as bishop. Pope Leo's health has been closely watched on the trip, after a surgery to remove a cancerous mass on his lung in October. And a moment of levity Friday morning, when Leo accidentally greeted Catholic faithful in Lima in Italian, before catching himself and continuing in Spanish. Buenos dias! For more on any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. Don't forget to follow us on your favorite podcast player. If you're listening on a smart speaker, just ask for the latest news from Reuters seven days a week. We'll be back tomorrow with our daily headline show.