turn off opera news stories I have never used Opera. Still, once a day or so I get a notification of some news headline. I don't have to open opera for this, it appears on my phone "dashboard" that lists all my apps and I can also see the notification from the screen that just shows the clock and text message notifications, etc. (Sorry I don't really know much mobile terminology).

Is this the same issue described here?
How to turn off Opera Mini &quot;discover&quot;/&quot;top stories&quot; news feed?
The person who posted that question seems to have a problem with the browser home page showing news stories.

I'm using Android 6.0.1, Security Patch Level Oct 1, 2016. My phone is a Blu Life One X2.

This feature is extremely irritating and I wonder who thought such an intrusive app was a good design decision.
You can try this:


Turn off notifications 


Menu > Settings >  Advanced > Notifications > Turn Off Opera notifications

See screenshot:



Screenshot (click image for larger variant)

Opera will display a message when 


New email, feed, or news items arrive
Downloads are completed


So turning off these notificaions will help you get rid of annoying news, and I been pretty using this settings and no news items appear on notification bar.


Patching the application


There is also a patch developed by namok o95 which "disables recommended stories" but works at system level so you may need another application to apply the patch.

It may depend on your current opera mini versions but  I use  method 1. 

Hope this helps