Two days after losing the runoff to Lula, Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil in defiance of a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports — and arrived in the United States to a welcome approved by President Trump, with State Department visas for him and his family. Lula called the flight 'shameful'; his own campaign says it never saw it coming.
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World / Middle East — Washington told Gulf allies to prepare for a short, intense campaign against Iran after the November 3 midterms, the Wall Street Journal reports — as a Patriot battery heads from Texas to Israel, a carrier strike group readies to sail, and the war’s cost passes $47 billion. No attack has been ordered.
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War — Oman’s foreign minister used a Cambridge lecture to propose what five decades of Gulf security policy has avoided: a formal non-aggression pact that puts Iran inside the region’s security order instead of building that order against it. The pitch revives an ambition first aired in Muscat in 1976, and it lands while Gulf capitals are separately planning how to avert a renewed US-Iran war.
Read articleSix days before Election Day, Trump defended Ramaswamy’s ad built around Amy Acton’s estranged mother, promised to consider putting the U.S. Space Academy in Ohio if Jon Husted wins, and backed voter ID — a base-turnout closing argument in a state he won by 11 points.
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Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — once at the summit of luxury real estate — were sentenced in Manhattan to 30 years in federal prison each, after 11 accusers faced them in court and Judge Valerie Caproni called their conduct monstrous.
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Ben Williamson singled home Nick Fortes with the bases loaded and nobody out in the 12th, capping a two-run rally that answered Cooper Pratt's go-ahead homer and kept Tampa Bay's season alive at Tropicana Field.
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Ukraine says its troops moved more than 15 kilometres underground through gas pipelines to emerge behind Russian positions near Kupiansk — Kyiv claims more than 100 Russian soldiers killed and more than 30 captured in Operation Veles.
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League Two Fleetwood, 18th in the fourth tier, held the Premier League champions 1-1 at Highbury Stadium and won the shootout 5-3 — Jay Lynch saved from Bruno Guimaraes before Conor Haughey hit the winner.
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The S&P 500 rose 0.28% to 7,743.98 and the Nasdaq added 0.27% as the Fed held rates at 3.75%-4.00% in a 10-2 vote, chip stocks surged on SK Hynix's blowout results, and oil climbed back above $102.
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Nasdaq +1.18% and the S&P 500 +0.60% as chips surged on the Broadcom-Anthropic deal; Boeing's 10.7% plunge capped the Dow. Oil settled below $100 before the Fed decision.
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Milwaukee is nine innings from its first World Series title. Tampa Bay turns to Griffin Jax at Tropicana Field to keep its season alive in Game 4.
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Brazil stock market crash after Lula's win: the Bovespa fell about 14 percent, trading was halted by a circuit breaker and the real sank about 8 percent.
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A storm gust drove Mein Schiff 3 into two container ships at Bremerhaven on October 26. TUI Cruises cancelled the 20-night voyage; no injuries were reported.
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Federal agents searched the Beverly Hills mansion of Stephen Cloobeck, the billionaire donor who bankrolled Eric Swalwell's governor bid and then cut him loose — the latest escalation of a probe that has already taken the former congressman's phone, his laptop and his seat in Congress.
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The former FBI deputy director says the warnings going out about 30 days of preparedness are not hype: 'Get your stuff today. Please. Do it for your family.'
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All three television exit polls make Likud the largest party but leave Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc on 50 seats — 11 short of a government — with Gadi Eisenkot's camp ahead on 52 to 53 and the Arab parties holding the balance on 17 to 18.
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War — The pause that began around one occupied town at 3 a.m. has grown into a Kherson region ceasefire, the First Lady announced Tuesday, moved two days early to protect civilians and clear the way for aid. Both capitals say it held through its first day; its first real test is whether the convoys can roll before it expires on November 1.
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Susan Saint James, the Emmy-winning star of The Name of the Game, McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie who retired at her peak in 1989, died Monday after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. She was 80.
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Five people are dead and one is in hospital after a shooting at Hotel Bilas Inn in Guwahati on Monday night. Police arrested the man who leased the hotel within an hour and seized a licensed pistol — and say a lease dispute is where the investigation starts.
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Nigeria's emergency agency now puts the Binnari death toll at at least 62, with 52 bodies recovered — 15 of them from the Benue River — 52 wounded and thousands displaced after Friday's raid on the Taraba village.
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Senegal Pastef budget rejection: Sonko's party, holding 130 of 165 seats, will not pass the revised budget. Debt is 132% of GDP and the IMF deal is at risk.
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Kyiv ballistic missile attack: Russian missiles hit a university dormitory, metro area and medical facilities, killing one and injuring 10. What we know.
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A Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Monday evening killed one person and injured ten, hit beside a metro station in Desnyanskyi district and shattered windows at two medical facilities — the same east-bank stations struck a week ago.
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The Pentagon is developing a standard no US base currently meets: under the FORTRESS plan, every major installation in the continental United States would have to keep fighting for 90 days with the civilian grid down, the water off and the supply trucks gone.
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Jordan's air force struck what it called militant hideouts in southern Syria on Monday, three days after gunmen killed nine people at a Greek Orthodox funeral in Karak. Syria says seven people, including three children, were killed, denies the strikes were coordinated, and has closed the Nassib crossing — the only passenger and commercial gateway between the two countries.
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Japan's disaster minister Goshi Hosono says that on November 2, when the new Disaster Prevention Agency launches, he will issue an emergency request to every citizen, ministry and prefecture: keep at least 3 days — ideally a week — of food, water and toilet supplies at home.
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War / Middle East — Saudi Arabia says it intercepted three Houthi ballistic missiles toward the Eastern Region and four drones toward the Southern Region early on Tuesday, with Civil Defense alerts for the Eastern Region and Kharj and no casualties or damage disclosed.
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Frontex expansion 30000 officers: the EU plan triples its border force, creates a returns centre and a 24-hour reaction force after Ceuta.
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Two men charged RAF Fairford under the National Security Act: prosecutors allege help for Iran's intelligence service and entering a prohibited place.
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Britain and Poland signed a three-year Warsaw Defence Plan in Warsaw on Tuesday — covering next-generation air defence missiles, drones and counter-drone systems, cyber cooperation, Baltic naval activity and a major Multinational Force Ukraine exercise in Poland next month.
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