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Police fired tear gas and charged protesters at the close of a march along the eastern edge of Paris on October 31 to disperse the crowd. Tensions also flared in Lyon and Marseille. Turnout at the protests stood at 320,000 nationwide, the interior ministry said, lower than the previous Saturday.

Syria is weighing joining a defence pact with Türkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Asaad al Shaibani says, calling for stronger joint deterrence to safeguard regional stability https://www.trtworld.com/article/84e67424bc44

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Protesters took to the streets across Italy during a nationwide strike, demanding higher wages and improved public services while opposing rising living costs and increased military spending. In Milan, demonstrators marched onto the city's ring road before gathering outside Politecnico di Milano university, where some carried flares and set objects on fire.

Fans of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv, dressed in the team's colours, chanted "Death to Arabs" as they paraded through the streets of Al Nuzha, in Jaffa, on October 29

American political commentator Tucker Carlson released a video of masked illegal Israeli settlers violently attacking an elderly Palestinian-American homeowner and setting fire to his car in the occupied West Bank. In a social media post, Carlson slammed US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, accusing him of ignoring the victim's appeal for help despite knowing his identity. Carlson condemned Huckabee’s inaction and urged him to do his job.

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Medical staff and locals in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province dance and sing as they celebrate the discharge of the last remaining Ebola patients at a treatment centre run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Mongbwalu. According to MSF, it is the first time since May that no confirmed Ebola cases are being treated at the centre. The region continues to grapple with an Ebola epidemic as Africa's latest outbreak has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of …

At least six Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza, according to local sources. Four government employees were killed and 30 others wounded in a strike on an Economy Ministry post in al-Mawasi, west of Rafah, while two Palestinians were killed in a drone strike targeting a civilian vehicle near Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Two Muslim cattle traders, Abid Qureshi and Hasan Qureshi, and a van driver were assaulted by a far-right mob allegedly linked to Hindu-nationalist outfits in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, on October 26 after accusing them of being "cattle thieves" and "cow killers". Police registered two cases, including one against the victims for alleged animal cruelty, according to Indian media.

With more than 90% of votes counted in Israel's legislative elections, current projections give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc 53 seats, compared to 48 for opposition Gadi Eisenkot’s alliance. Arab parties are projected to secure a record 19 seats. The remaining absentee ballots are unlikely to significantly alter the outcome. With no bloc reaching the 61 seats required for a Knesset majority, Israel faces a potentially prolonged period of political uncertainty as rival camps seek the…

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Turkish freediver Sahika Ercumen marked the 103rd anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye by unfurling the national flag during a dive off Türkiye’s southern Mediterranean coast. The national athlete said Turkish sportspeople “will continue to carry the flag with pride across the world”.

A group of Code Pink activists disrupted the launch of the new iPhone Duo in Washington, DC, to denounce the tech giant’s complicity in human rights abuses in the DRC and Gaza. The ‘Apples Against Apartheid’ group says protests were organised near multiple Apple stores around the world “to address the harm connected to its mineral supply chains in Congo and its ties to Israel.”

If Israel were the State of Tel Aviv, none of Netanyahu's allies—Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, the Haredim—would have gotten past the electoral threshold, and Eisenkot's "Change Bloc" would have won a landslide election victory, securing around 71 percent of the seats

A high-speed train collision near Urda, south of Madrid, killed at least 46 people on October 28, according to regional Civil Protection sources, as emergency crews continued rescue and recovery operations. The crash involved a Renfe AVE train, which was carrying 397 passengers, and an Iryo train, carrying 147, on the Madrid-Seville line. Two carriages derailed and fell down an embankment. The cause remains under investigation and rail services linking Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia have be…

Neither Netanyahu nor the anti-Netanyahu coalitions have been able to secure a majority to form government, while Arab parties have made historic gains Will this be the end of Netanyahu’s genocidal government?

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