JD Vance has written to Mohsen Rezaei, the Revolutionary Guard’s longest-serving commander and now Iran’s national security chief, to test a framework for restarting peace talks — with Trump’s approval, no Iranian acceptance yet, and a threatened post-midterm strike as the deadline.
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Israel’s military said airstrikes across Gaza between October 22 and 26 killed six Hamas operatives, including a Nukhba operative it links to the Nir Oz abductions and the holding of hostages — claims Hamas had not answered and no independent source had verified.
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The FEC restored electronic filing Wednesday night after a cyberattack forced it offline for nearly 41 hours — a blind window in the final week before the midterms when super PACs could not file the 24- and 48-hour spending reports voters rely on.
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Five people were killed when U.S. forces struck a go-fast vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Oct. 27, SOUTHCOM said. Outside tallies now put the campaign toll at 243 — and SOUTHCOM released no evidence publicly for this strike.
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About 30 demonstrators blocked the Brooklyn Bridge for roughly half an hour on Wednesday over the Marble Hill ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal. The NYPD took 14 into custody, and all lanes reopened shortly before 1:30 p.m.
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Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget hands 20 million households a £100 energy payment from January, pays for it by doubling the bank surcharge to 6%, scraps the planned cash ISA cut — and leaves the markets calling it reassuringly dull.
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The Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4% in a 10-2 vote — but Cook and Hammack dissented for a hike, the statement called the economy “strong” and inflation “elevated,” and Warsh gave December no guidance at all.
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SK hynix has posted the quarter that redefines the memory business: revenue of 104.6 trillion won, an 80 percent operating margin, HBM4 shipping in earnest — and guidance that the AI memory shortage will now last until 2030, with production effectively sold out through 2029.
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A Russian combat drone struck Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district in broad daylight on Wednesday, killing a 60-year-old man and injuring three men aged 41, 46 and 56 — less than a day after a jet-powered drone set the same district ablaze, injuring five people including a four-year-old boy.
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Pentagon and CENTCOM figures given to Congress put the Iran war’s cost at $47.1 billion as of October 16 — more than $29 billion of it to replace expended munitions — with about 65% of the Patriot interceptor stockpile spent, at least 21 US service members killed and the total up more than 25% since July.
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Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget commits £10 billion more in economic and military support for Ukraine — £7 billion over three years, £3 billion in export finance and £500 million for air defences this winter — after a pre-Budget call in which President Zelenskyy told him: “you’ve made my day”.
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Congo’s Bundibugyo outbreak has reached 10,060 confirmed cases and 4,887 deaths in 165 days — the largest epidemic in the country’s history, the second-largest ever recorded, and, by Africa CDC’s assessment, growing about three times faster than West Africa’s at the same point.
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Canada will compete at Eurovision for the first time in 2027, as the EBU confirms 36 broadcasters for Burgas — while Ireland and the Netherlands stay out for a second year over Israel’s participation, and Spain and Slovenia keep everyone waiting until December.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has opened the door to six unapproved peptides — BPC-157, TB-500, epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c and Semax — letting licensed pharmacies compound them under conditions, even though the FDA’s own staff recommended against it and none has been approved.
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In the first completed head-to-head against Ozempic, Lilly’s investigational triple-G drug cut A1C by 2.2 points and produced up to 47.4 pounds of weight loss over 80 weeks — more than double Ozempic’s 20.9 pounds — at the cost of higher dropout rates, in topline results the company plans to take to the FDA by March 2027.
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The CDC’s first antimicrobial resistance threat report since 2019 counts 19 pathogens, about 9.8 million infections and 50,800 US deaths a year — with Candida auris cases up tenfold, four urgent threats, and more than 42,000 of the deaths tied to healthcare settings.
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Ready to talk about any topic, not ready to pay any price — Ukraine’s president pairs an accelerated timetable for the Abu Dhabi summit with the starkest air-defence arithmetic of the war: 150 US Patriot missiles a year against 150 Russian ballistic missiles a month.
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Villa Vie Residences has suspended the Odyssey’s residential world voyage at Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after fuel costs driven up by the Iran war overwhelmed the ship’s economics — and the 203 residents aboard, who bought cabins as a permanent home at sea, were told on Monday to disembark within roughly seven hours.
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A federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday declined to indict the former White House aide over the testimony she gave Congress about President Donald Trump and January 6 — a rare public rebuke, delivered in private, to a Justice Department that had spent months investigating one of the president’s most damaging witnesses.
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A Brooklyn jury convicted Halima Salman, 27, of receiving military training from ISIS in Syria — the first trial of a woman accused of joining the terror group in U.S. history. The training certificate, the ISIS flag photo and the AK-47 video recovered from a battlefield phone defeated her coercion defence; she faces up to 10 years at sentencing on February 2.
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Houthi authorities say a Saudi-led strike on a crowded market and fuel station in Al-Hazm killed 13 people and wounded 16 — a toll no independent source has verified and the Saudi-backed government has not answered, on a day that also brought explosions at Aden’s airport and a tightening siege of Taiz.
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Two days after a Kuwaiti court sentenced three men to death over an alleged Iran-linked plot to assassinate Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef, Iran’s embassy denied any role — and Kuwait summoned Tehran’s ambassador, handing him a protest note over what it called a blatant intervention in its internal affairs. The sentences can be appealed; Iran denies involvement.
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Three naval drones hit the Contship Jet off Shabla while Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey’s defence ministers were meeting in Sofia — and Turkey’s Yasar Guler used the moment to warn both Russia and Ukraine, in Ankara’s most direct intervention yet, to stop attacking civilian vessels.
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Syria says Monday’s Jordanian strikes killed seven civilians, including three children; Jordan says it killed more than 20 Islamic State militants and coordinated with Damascus, which Damascus denies. On Wednesday the two foreign ministers agreed to investigate together — and the Nassib crossing reopened.
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Beijing dismissed Taiwan’s accusation over the alleged plot against comedian Huang Yi-hao as a ruling-party fabrication, as five defendants stand indicted over a plan prosecutors say was paid for from China to fake a crash and break the satirist’s arms and legs.
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Yahya Saree told everyone at Aden’s international airport to leave immediately, citing a Saudi military cargo plane — after explosions were heard across the city. No casualties have been reported, and Riyadh has not commented.
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Fires were reported at the Novolipetsk steel works in Lipetsk and the EuroChem Azot plant in Novomoskovsk in one of the largest reported drone waves of the war — but Lipetsk’s governor denies any industrial facility burned, and Kyiv has not commented.
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Qatari mediators presented Iran with a new draft agreement on Sunday to end the war with the United States and Israel — a seven-day timeline of daily confidence-building steps under outside guarantors, with Tehran’s response expected by the end of the week.
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World / Europe — At least 68 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided near Urda in Toledo province on Wednesday morning, suspending the Madrid–Andalusia line. It is Spain’s deadliest rail disaster since Santiago de Compostela in 2013.
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Israeli embassy Belgrade attack: a knife attacker was shot dead outside the embassy just after midnight, a Serbian Gendarmerie guard was wounded, and Serbia raised its terror alert to red — its highest level — in the middle of two political transitions.
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