Israeli President Herzog Tasks Eisenkot to Form New Government

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Sunday, the eighth of November, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has formally tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with trying to form a new government after the October twenty-eight elections left neither Eisenkot’s bloc nor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition with a clear majority in the Knesset. Eisenkot, a former Israeli military chief who leads the Yashar party, now has up to six weeks — and must secure at least sixty-one Knesset seats — to negotiate a governing coalition. Most of Israel’s main parties recommended him for the mandate during consultations with Herzog. The mandate itself has been assigned, but coalition talks are only beginning. An alliance with Arab Israeli parties would be the easiest path to a parliamentary majority, though it remains politically sensitive.

Meanwhile, in the United States, President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that he has offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The post described White as “a violent Fighter and Warrior” and urged him to take the position. White said he will meet Trump in Washington on Monday but has not said whether he will accept. The press secretary role has been largely vacant since Karoline Leavitt stepped aside in August.

Also in Washington, President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Stephen Miller, the architect of his hardline immigration agenda, will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, with the change set to take effect on Monday. Miller has driven the administration’s mass deportation program and other controversial immigration policies across both Trump terms. Wiles, the first woman to serve as Trump’s chief of staff, is leaving the post after Republicans lost control of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Separately, former top health adviser Calley Means alleged in an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that Wiles repeatedly bowed to lobbying pressure and prioritized campaign donations over health policy.

In Europe, a gunman who fired from a car killed at least six people, including a British tourist, in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday, according to police. More than a dozen others were injured. Police wounded and detained the suspect, who was taken to a hospital. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities are investigating the shooting.

In Ukraine, Russian airstrikes against energy infrastructure on Sunday left about eight hundred and fifty thousand people without electricity in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, as Moscow intensified attacks ahead of winter. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia also launched a drone strike on Komyshuvakha, where rescue workers have been searching for survivors after a bombing killed at least fifty-five people on Monday.

Elsewhere in the region, Yemen’s Houthi forces attacked Riyadh, and falling shrapnel from an intercepted missile damaged a Saudi Aramco tower in the capital’s financial district, Saudi authorities said. No injuries were reported.

On the diplomatic front, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday that European representatives will take part in U.S.-mediated Russia-Ukraine talks scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi. “No one will speak in our name,” he said. Barrot also accused French hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon of echoing Kremlin propaganda.

In the Americas, Paraguay’s Senate voted unanimously on Friday to remove President Santiago Peña from office over the collapse of Ueno Bank, which left nearly three million customers unable to access their savings. Prosecutors ordered his arrest and placed him under house arrest. Peña appeared before prosecutors and was charged Saturday in connection with his business links to the bank. He denies wrongdoing. His successor, Pedro Alliana, has pledged to compensate those affected.

Back in the United States, U S Representative Hakeem Jeffries is in line to become the first Black speaker of the House, promising a bold agenda despite pressure from progressive activists who view the reserved moderate as too timid in confronting President Trump and on Israel.

Also in the U S Wisconsin State Patrol trooper Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe, a South African national who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Thursday while waiting to board a domestic flight, has been released from custody. Van Der Merwe immigrated to the United States at age fourteen and has been waiting seven years for his asylum case to be heard.

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