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Lithuania closed the two border crossings with Belarus on 29 October after meteorological balloons flying from Belarus caused repeated disruption to air traffic.

Israeli soldiers have described a chaotic situation in Gaza and a collapse of norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the discretion of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.

Few things attract Kremlin-watching more than the unexplained absence of a senior official.

Turkish authorities formally arrested eight people, including a top-tier club chairman, on Monday as part of an investigation into alleged betting on football matches.

The Vatican confirmed it was investigating a possible antisemitic incident, in which a Swiss Guard allegedly made a spitting gesture toward two Jewish women.

Donald Trump’s administration is once again urging the Supreme Court to deny complete funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, which is embroiled in a rapid legal battle concerning the fate of essential food aid during the government shutdown.

The family of Sami Hamdi, the British journalist held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), says he is to be released.

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have launched a large-scale operation to dismantle a high-level criminal organization accused of using political influence over strategic state-owned energy companies, including nuclear operator Energoatom.

The Supreme Court has swiftly rejected a longshot request to overturn the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage, leaving in place a decade-old ruling that upheld marriage equality across the United States.

The BBC has been threatened with legal action by Donald Trump after the corporation admitted that the editing of a speech broadcast on Panorama misled viewers.

US forces struck two more suspected drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, resulting in the deaths of six people, as announced by the Trump administration’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Germany and the United Kingdom have warned of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which have been regularly spotted spying on satellites used by Western powers.

American families will have to cancel their Thanksgiving plans if the government shutdown continues, the US transportation secretary has warned.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a migrant boat from Myanmar capsized near Malaysia.

Several people were injured on Sunday evening after two passenger trains collided on the main railway corridor between Pezinok and Bratislava, Slovak authorities said.

A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.

Hamas has handed over the body of a British-educated Israeli soldier who was captured and killed 11 years ago.

After being alerted to the matter by The Observer.

More than one million people have been evacuated and at least one person killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines before typhoon Fung-wong’s expected landfall on the East Coast.

The longest federal government shutdown in US history persists into its 40th day as Democrat and Republican senators conflict over health care funding.