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A gunman drove into Kraków’s Main Market Square on Saturday and opened fire on pedestrians, killing six and wounding 16 before police shot and arrested him. Poland’s prime minister said three more people were found dead at the suspect’s home.
President Isaac Herzog chose former military chief Gadi Eisenkot on Saturday to attempt to form a government after the October 27 election left neither Eisenkot nor Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a path to a majority.
A third wave of hoaxed bomb threats hit at least 18 flights across Europe on Friday, while newsrooms in Ireland and Britain were evacuated, in an apparently coordinated campaign that a claiming group said was ‘only the beginning’.
Eva Geller, 90, shot during the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre in December 2025, has died in hospital, raising the question of whether the accused gunman faces further charges.
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena resigned Thursday after the collapse of Ueno Bank froze the savings of three million people and prompted unanimous impeachment proceedings.
Pope Leo XIV lands in Friday in Uruguay, the first stop of a 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru undertaken just three weeks after surgery for lung cancer.
Pope Leo received Bob Dylan for a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, giving the singer a rosary and receiving a copy of his autobiography. The American pope grew up in Chicago with Dylan’s music.
A Hong Kong court sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison for colluding with foreign forces, his second conviction under the national security law and the heaviest term yet imposed under it.
President Zelensky awarded Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, for brokering a six-day truce that let nearly 800 civilians leave the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky. Russian and Ukrainian delegations met at the White House on Thursday.
All seven suspected bomb threats reported against passenger aircraft across Europe on Tuesday proved false, a day after a Wizz Air jet made an emergency landing in Budapest under fighter escort.
Óscar Puente announced his resignation in parliament on Tuesday, a week after a Renfe high-speed train struck a stationary Iryo service near Urda, killing 69 people. He also withdrew from the 29 November general election.
Speaking on Fox & Friends as midterms voting began, Mr Trump said the 10-year security aid deal, worth about $3.8 billion a year, would be cut off at the end of the year because Israel “no longer needs it”.
Russian bombs struck a school used as an aid distribution point and shelter in the village of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia region, killing at least 29 people in a double strike, Ukrainian officials said.
The United States reportedly carried out limited strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first publicly known attack on Iranian territory in weeks, as President Trump signalled progress toward a negotiated end to the eight-month war.
Iran warned Sunday that a new war with the United States would last longer than the last, after President Trump threatened at an Iowa rally to give Tehran ’the hammer’ and spoke with Israel’s prime minister about possible strikes.
A private jet carrying nine people crashed into a Palm Beach County roadside Sunday and burned, killing all aboard, minutes after air traffic control recordings captured the pilot reporting ice and an out-of-control descent.
Ukraine and Russia accused each other Monday of hacking their emergency alert apps, with a false radiation warning issued in Kyiv, hours after the war’s longest truce ended without an extension.
President Trump said the war with Iran will end ‘soon’ and that the United States is not ‘in that much of a hurry’ to sign a deal, as Washington and Gulf states opened a renewed diplomatic push.
Riot police were deployed at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw as the government moved to strip the court’s president and vice-president of immunity, deepening a stand-off with President Karol Nawrocki.
A federal judge in Miami threw out President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch, ruling he had not proved actual malice.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Saturday he was open to a formal British apology for the transatlantic slave trade but rejected financial reparations, days before a Commonwealth summit in Antigua as King Charles III tours the Caribbean.
Residents of the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian-held territory Saturday after a rare truce brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump, the most significant halt in fighting since the full-scale invasion began in 2022.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei told Iran’s top commanders that renewed U.S. or Israeli strikes must draw an immediate response without geographical limitations, as President Trump weighs resuming attacks after the midterms.
Christa Pike, who survived an attempted lethal injection in Tennessee last month, said in her first public statement Friday that she has been in constant pain since the procedure and blamed ‘incompetence’ for her survival.
Chief executive John Lee bowed in apology and announced reforms after a judge-led report blamed ‘decades of failure’ for the fire at the Wang Fuk Court estate that killed 168 people. Housing secretary Winnie Ho resigned.
Spain began three days of official mourning after a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda, killing 68 people, the country’s second high-speed rail disaster this year. An error at a control centre is under investigation.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the senator and presidential candidate who lost Sunday’s runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left Brazil before a deadline to surrender his passports, according to Brazilian and Argentine reports, and intends to seek political asylum in the United States.
King Charles began a nine-day Caribbean tour in the Bahamas on Tuesday, acknowledging the ‘great suffering of the past’ as he faces demands for an apology and reparations ahead of a Commonwealth summit where slavery’s legacy will be on the agenda.
Partial results in Israel’s election left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp and the opposition of Gadi Eisenkot short of a 61-seat majority, with the count continuing and Arab parties holding the balance.
Israeli voters went to the polls Tuesday in the first general election since the Hamas-led attacks of October 2023, a vote widely cast as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership and the war in Gaza.
Jordan said its air force struck militant hideouts in southern Syria on Monday, after determining that the suspects behind Friday’s church attack that killed nine Christians were linked to terrorist groups operating across the border.
The Communist Party Central Committee began its fifth plenum in Beijing on Monday, a closed gathering focused on party discipline, anti-corruption and loyalty to Xi Jinping, with 35 full committee members already purged or under investigation.
Brazil’s electoral court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday’s runoff with 51.8 percent, nearly 4.4 million votes ahead of Flávio Bolsonaro, who refused to concede and said he would seek to annul the result.
María Corina Machado announced on Sunday that she had returned to Venezuela after nearly 10 months in exile, greeted by crowds that took eight hours to clear the road to Caracas, a homecoming the interim government and Washington had sought to prevent.
Israel said it would close all West Bank land crossings and bar Palestinian workers from settlements during Tuesday’s parliamentary election, as a military operation in Hebron displaced about 2,000 residents after the killing of two Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds of thousands marched across France on October 24 against the cost of living and shortfalls in schools and public services. Police fired tear gas and water cannon after nightfall, and the interior ministry reported more than 1,300 arrests.
Serbia held parliamentary elections on October 25, with Aleksandar Vucic’s Progressive Party and the opposition Students’ List polling neck-and-neck in the most contested vote of the populist leader’s 14 years in power.
Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan’s northeast coast in the early hours of Saturday, killing one man, injuring 527 people and knocking out electricity to more than 167,000 homes as it weakened and headed toward the Chinese coast.
A major fire broke out Friday evening at the Kehlsteinhaus, the historic Nazi-era mountain retreat known as Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ in Bavaria, and police detained a suspect on suspicion of arson while about 200 firefighters battled the blaze.
One person was killed and five wounded, including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times, in a shooting at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes, south-west of Paris, in an attack President Macron called racist and terrorist.
Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff that Moscow is in principle ready to resume stalled US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine, which could take place in November with security as the main topic, the Kremlin said after their St Petersburg meeting.
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Baqên County in Tibet’s Nagqu region on Thursday night, killing at least 16 people, injuring dozens, collapsing hundreds of homes and cutting power, according to Chinese state media.
Taiwan shut schools, offices and shops as Typhoon Champi approached its northeast coast, with one death reported, hundreds of flights cancelled region-wide and forecasters warning of up to 90 centimetres of rain.
Pope Leo’s doctors said he will need no further treatment after lung cancer surgery and that his tumour had not spread.
French authorities confirmed the first known human case of the Shamonda virus, a livestock virus mainly found in cattle, in a patient in Lyon who died in early October.
Arab parties could hold the balance of power in Israel’s election amid a push to raise turnout among Arab Israelis, the BBC reported.
Russia struck Kyiv with missiles hours after Moscow said it was ready in principle to resume peace talks with Ukraine.
Loudspeakers aimed at South Korea will be ready to restart within days along the entire border, Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said according to state media, as ties between the two countries worsen.
Myanmar’s military government released rare photographs of detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi receiving two books sent by Britain’s King Charles III, along with a sealed letter and a sealed diplomatic pouch.
