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The election was a celebration of democracy in some ways - but it has left Israel with no clear path to a new government, writes James Landale.

Despite having the highest voter turnout in nearly three decades, Israel's elections have had no clear winner. What does this mean for the country, asks the BBC's Yolande Knell.

The cycle of revenge attacks continue as the country heads towards its first election since independence.

Israel faces what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country's history.

Machado had left the country just a month before the US government seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is "clear" his party has lost the vote billed as a referendum on the country's future.
Exclusive: Forensic analysis of found images continues as Meghan’s father denies possessing child sexual abuse images All signs point to Thomas Markle Sr being a “possible sex offender of the grossest kind” although a full forensic investigation will give a “definitive picture”, the Philippine interior minister has told the Guardian. Authorities in the south-east Asian country are analysing digital images allegedly belonging to the estranged father of the Duchess of Sussex that were said to have been found at his former home in Cebu.

Brazil's tight presidential runoff pits a political giant against a Bolsonaro heir in a battle over the country's political future.
PM will also announce funding for specialised protective gear and the deployment of military aircraft The UK government is to create an AI Cobra unit to spot wildfires after this year’s record-breaking summer saw devastating blazes across the country. The country experienced its hottest-ever summer this year, with prolonged dry periods and extreme heat fuelling wildfires that triggered an emergency alert to mobile phones in England and Wales.

The Ukrainian leader's hug with Steve Witkoff in the Norwegian capital is unlikely to dispel misgivings about US policy towards his country, writes Paul Adams.

The overwhelming vote by Alberta to stay in Canada gives Mark Carney political capital to focus on remaking the country's economy, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet.

The lawsuit argues the White House exceeded its authority in imposing the latest tariffs on the country and caused "immediate harm to American businesses".
The prime minister endorses report that says the adult social care sector has been under-recognised Badenoch says Britain needs tax cuts. We need to get out of the way of job creators who make our country richer.

Ahead of the midterms Trump has boasted about the performance of the US economy. BBC Verify looks at inflation, jobs and economic growth in the country.

The country's interior minister admits that police "lost control" in some cities following a weekend of riots.

Rioting, looting and vandalism has gripped France over the weekend after protests spiralled out of control across the country.
Interior minister concedes police ‘lost control’ of weekend protests as PM vows to restore public order Partial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests around the country. Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday he was “fully resolved to restore public order” and had called for “local and partial” curfews if needed.
Opposition to US-led quarantine center in Kenya follows sweeping funding cuts and withdrawal from WHO An eighth person in Kenya has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the country’s first-ever cluster of cases of the virus, as the second-largest outbreak in history has killed more than 4,300 and sickened more than 9,000 people in the region. It highlights the diminished role the US has played in the worsening Ebola outbreak by building a controversial quarantine center in Kenya, pulling back health support globally, and banning travelers from certain countries.
More than $15 billion has been raised in this year's midterm elections. And, France's president is condemning the violent protests erupting across the country.
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Brazil's defeated candidate Flávio Bolsonaro arrives in the U.S. after a multi-country journey as Washington says it will issue him a visa.

People have been killed after a Spanish high-speed train collided with another train south of the capital Madrid, making this the country's worst disaster since 2013.

The Venezuelan opposition leader spent more than 10 months in exile after escaping the country on a speedboat.
Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda Health officials across Africa are racing to determine how Nigeria’s first Ebola patient in more than a decade became infected, amid fears the outbreak could spread further after reaching a fourth African country. The Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday the patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, had not travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak was first detected in mid-May before spreading to Uganda, Kenya and now Nigeria.
Official forecasts show country will meet energy demand by paying high prices to secure imports Great Britain is expected to pay some of the highest...
41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’ Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights record Lewis Hamilton has said he hopes to remain racing in Formula One until he can take part in the African Grand Prix which is set to take place in Rwanda in the 2030s . The seven-time world champion believes it is right that F1 is to hold a race there despite criticism of the country’s human rights record.

No country for young men and women: why do older politicians seem to have such a tight grip on the US political system?
Department drops efforts to return Tony Hall to Barbados, a country he left at 12 and where he has no living relatives The Home Office has lifted a deportation order handed to a 62-year-old man who has lived in Britain for 50 years after criticism of the department’s attempts to remove him to Barbados, a country he left as a child. The Home Office wrote to Tony Hall on Tuesday to inform him that his deportation order had been revoked.
Case in Africa’s most populous country was detected in a woman who had travelled from Uganda Nigeria has confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said. The woman began showing symptoms on 7 October and was admitted to a hospital in Abuja four days later, where she was later diagnosed with Ebola.
Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wednesday India’s second-richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is launching what could be the country’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), despite a stock market downturn. Mumbai-based Jio Platforms, a telecoms company backed by Meta Platforms and Google, is hoping to raise up to 302bn rupees (£2.
About 20,000 cats were taken into charity’s care last year, an increase driven in part by pet hoarders There is a cat crisis in rescue centres across the country, the RSPCA has said, as abandoned felines now outnumber dogs in the charity’s shelters. Cats are arriving in RSPCA centres faster than they can be rehomed, and the charity is asking people across England and Wales to consider adopting.

France's second city saw some of the worst violence as chaos gripped the country on Saturday.
Critics said images of detained former leader were a stunt by the military to end country’s diplomatic isolation Myanmar has delivered presents from...
DHS says migrants ‘retain protections’ after temporary protected status was set to expire on Monday Send us your questions about immigration and the midterms More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the United States without immediate risk of deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said, in what amounts to a temporary reprieve after their right to stay in the country was set to expire on Monday. Temporary protected status was set to end on Monday for about 101,000 Ukrainians and 1,800 Sudanese.

France is used to protests but the violence and damage seen across the country is shocking many people.

Polling suggests most Albertans favour remaining part of the country, although the debate alone has proven divisive.
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Kyaw Moe Tun - Myanmar's representative to the UN - makes an emotional appeal after saying the international community had failed the country's people.

For Bu and Tyapa, the five-year journey from Russia to the Irish countryside was anything but straightforward.
Water and fresh food running out in Taiz as fighting intensifies and Houthi advance cuts off most supply routes The humanitarian crisis in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz is becoming unmanageable as the city runs out of water, fuel and fresh food, Oxfam aid workers in the country have warned. Iran-allied Houthi forces have largely encircled the city of more than 900,000 people, cutting it off from most supply routes.
More than 200 mostly young people said to be injured after ballistic missile attack on training camp for government forces At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government security forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September. The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and was described as a disaster by the country’s UN-recognised government.
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