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Ukraine's air force said its air raid app sent false warnings of nuclear and chemical threats around Kyiv after an apparent Russian hack, while Russia reported a cyberattack on its own app.
Trump said US forces have largely destroyed Iran's military and nuclear program but still have one or two sites to deal with, as Tehran ordered a broader response to any threat.
Israel's elections chief said results will hold even if foreign interference is proven, as Netanyahu's Likud alleged without evidence that the vote was stolen and neither bloc has a majority.
A small jet bound for the Bahamas from Austin crashed into a Palm Beach County neighborhood in Florida, killing all nine people on board, US officials said.
Israeli forces have locked down Hebron for 10 days after an attack that killed two soldiers, displacing thousands, shuttering businesses and keeping tens of thousands of students out of school.
Four volunteers left NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat in Houston after more than a year in isolation, completing the agency's second CHAPEA mission.
Pyongyang tested cluster-bomb warheads for tactical ballistic missiles, state media said, the latest in a string of weapons drills as tensions rise along the inter-Korean border.
Spain's Prado will open an exhibit of more than 70 19th-century Filipino works in November 2027, many of them unseen at the museum since Spanish rule ended in 1898.
A German flight crew member and a Slovak manager died after an incident at the Conrad Bengaluru hotel pool, with Indian police investigating suspected electrocution.
A Russian veto blocked renewal of the UN's Western Sahara mission despite majority Security Council support, a result Morocco welcomed and Algeria regretted.
Neither Netanyahu's bloc nor the Jewish opposition won a Knesset majority on October 27, leaving Arab-led parties as potential kingmakers as President Herzog prepares to name someone to form a government.
Overnight Russian attacks on energy facilities in four Ukrainian regions cut power to hundreds of thousands, while a large Ukrainian drone raid caused major damage at an industrial site in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region.
Qatar Gas Transport Co. says its LNG carrier Al Mayeda was struck by unidentified objects in the Gulf on Friday evening, with no crew injuries or environmental damage, amid a surge in attacks on shipping.
Yemen's recognised government says its troops retook high ground east of al-Hazm from the Houthis, who claim they repelled advances, as fighting displaces hundreds of thousands.
With two days to the US midterms, Democrats lead Republicans in the generic ballot averages, and over 51 million Americans have already cast ballots.
Bangladesh set up a wage board to review garment workers' minimum pay as protests demanding more than double the current wage continued around Dhaka.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that Washington arranged Flavio Bolsonaro's trip to the US after his election loss, saying he was let in because he had held a visa.
The UN is calling for an independent investigation into the death of a Yemen-based human rights office employee held by the Houthis since June 2024, whose family learned of it more than a month later.
Bolivia declared a nationwide emergency to free resources against El Niño-driven drought and flooding, a phenomenon the WMO expects to persist into early 2027.
Civilians from Russian-held Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian territory under a rare six-day humanitarian ceasefire, reuniting with relatives after months of severe food shortages in the town.
Iran says it is working with Qatari mediators on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within two days, provided Washington first meets a list of Tehran's conditions on sanctions and forces.
The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, meeting in Macau, called on Church leaders across Asia to adopt pastoral safeguards and literacy programs for artificial intelligence.
The FBI said North Korean hackers were behind the theft of a record $6.3 billion in digital assets from Binance, which says it has already covered most of the losses with its own funds.
Thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv urging opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to strike a deal with Arab-led parties so Benjamin Netanyahu can be removed after an inconclusive election.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki called emergency talks after the suspension of the Constitutional Tribunal's chief judge deepened a standoff with Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government.
Russia's FSB said it was taking steps after the US embassy warned of a credible threat of a mass-casualty attack at Moscow's Tsaritsyno park and palace complex on October 31.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressed Moscow and Kyiv to stop hitting civilian ships in the Black Sea after talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who agreed to work on a new grain corridor.
Scientists say a meteorite recovered in Mali's Sahara formed in the Martian crust at least 4.1 billion years ago, possibly making it the oldest of the Martian rocks known on Earth.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called a letter from US Vice President JD Vance a positive step, as Iranian envoys keep talking with mediators in Doha amid renewed tanker incidents in Hormuz.
Iran's supreme leader vowed a response without geographic limits to any new attack, even as Qatari envoys held talks in Tehran and Iran floated reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
