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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.
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.
A California federal judge issued a restraining order late Friday stopping the Justice Department from threatening election officials with criminal prosecution or demanding that they segregate ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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.
Federal prosecutors sent letters to county registrars across California demanding they identify and set aside ballots that may belong to noncitizen voters within 48 hours, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s election litigation before the midterms.
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.
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.
Meta’s plan to offset a possible $10bn wealth-tax bill for Mark Zuckerberg is sharpening the fight over California’s Proposition 40, a one-time 5% levy on residents worth more than $1bn, with voting set for Nov. 3.
The Supreme Court granted New Hampshire’s emergency request, backed by the Republican National Committee, to bar voters from using student IDs at the November midterms, ruling a federal judge should not have changed the state’s election rules so close to the vote, with Justice Jackson dissenting.
Wall Street is bracing for stocks to fall if Democrats regain control of both houses of Congress in the US midterm elections less than a month away, Bloomberg reported.
