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NYTimes – World Israel's election produced no clear winner, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot both claiming victory. Preliminary results show Netanyahu lost some support but may still have paths to remain in power amid the country's fractured politics.
Sky News – World The luxury cruise ship Villa Vie Odyssey has suspended its three-year round-the-world voyage and left passengers stranded in Cambodia due to high fuel costs, according to operators. The company is working with passengers on temporary living arrangements.
A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another that had stopped, derailing two carriages, authorities say.
A New York Times report alleges that Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign recruited a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to run in the state's Senate race against Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, a move Republicans condemned as a ploy to split votes. Both Sullivans will appear on the ballot in next week's midterm election.
A plan to give people in the United States easier access to unproven peptide drugs favored by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was opposed by most Food and Drug Administration scientific staff members, who had limited input in drafting the policy, according to six people familiar with its development.
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Former FBI intelligence officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are fighting charges that they lied to Congress about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation; prosecutors filed an unsigned, unsworn superseding complaint shortly before a scheduled preliminary hearing, and their attorneys are in court seeking dismissal.
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Ex-FBI officials seek dismissal in Hunter Biden laptop case
Defense attorneys for former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are seeking dismissal of charges they lied to Congress about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation, after prosecutors filed an unsigned, unsworn superseding complaint before a scheduled preliminary hearing.
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The U.S. military's campaign of strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea continues. Its latest reported strike, on 27 October 2026 in the eastern Pacific, killed five people, raising the reported cumulative death toll to at least 240 in more than 70 strikes since September 2025. A UN special rapporteur has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe the attacks violated international law and could constitute crimes against humanity, while U
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US boat strike toll revised to at least 240 in 70+ attacks
New reporting revised the cumulative death toll from 243 to at least 240 and placed the total number of strikes above 70.
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Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a rare, 'frank and substantive' 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss restarting Ukraine peace negotiations. The call was the first known direct communication between European leaders and Putin in more than a year, drawing public scepticism from Danish and Swedish leaders while Ukraine expressed hope for new momentum.
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Nordic split: Denmark, Sweden doubt Finland-Norway Putin call
New reports reveal the 90-minute call was 'frank and substantive,' while Denmark and Sweden publicly criticised the Finnish-Norwegian overture, with Denmark calling it 'solo' diplomacy.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil's 25 October presidential runoff with 51.79% of the vote to Flávio Bolsonaro's 48.21%, securing a historic fourth term. Bolsonaro's opposition party accepted the result on 27 October, but Bolsonaro himself still refuses to concede and is seeking to annul the vote; U.S. President Donald Trump called the election 'rigged' without offering evidence.
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Bolsonaro's party accepts Brazil runoff result while he refuses
Bolsonaro's opposition party accepted Lula's runoff victory on 27 October, even as Bolsonaro himself kept refusing to concede and sought to annul the vote.
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Jordan has arrested three wounded suspects in a dawn shootout over the Karak church funeral shooting and carried out retaliatory airstrikes in Syria against armed groups it blames for the attack.
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Jordan airstrikes Syria groups over church attack; Syria says 6 killed
Jordan's strikes in Syria were carried out as retaliatory airstrikes against armed groups it blames for the church attack, with Syrian authorities reporting at least six people killed.
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Two Catholic bishops have apologized after the White House publicly distributed images of them praying with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, saying they believed the meeting was private and that the images were exploited for partisan political purposes.
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Bishops named in Trump Oval Office prayer photo dispute
The two apologizing bishops were identified as Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, and reports established that the White House publicly posted photos and video of the Oval Office prayer.
