1. 01🇺🇸

   Democrats win Senate and House in US midterms

   On the agenda in 36 countries

   • Democrats won majorities in both the House and the Senate in the US midterm elections, taking control of Congress from President Donald Trump's Republicans.
   • Trump said he accepts the results and is ready to work with the Democrats, while also saying Republicans would have won had he been on the ballot.
   • A vote tally circulating on Nov 4 put Democrats on 54 Senate seats and 228 House seats, with Republicans credited with 44 Senate and 139 House seats.
   • Republicans are calling the midterm result a devastating loss and pressing President Donald Trump to change course, with some turning on him directly.
2. 02🇺🇸🇮🇷

   US strikes Iran's Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz

   On the agenda in 19 countries

   • US forces struck Iran's Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions reported on the island.
   • US officials described the strikes as limited and defensive, while accounts differed on how to characterize the action.
   • The strikes came hours after Trump praised diplomatic advances with Tehran and on the eve of US midterm elections.
   • Trump said he had decided on military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and Tehran warned a new war could be longer than the last.
   • Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported fires on two oil tankers and a maritime tug in the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran's navy said the two tankers struck naval mines east of the strait.
   • South Korea widened its Cheonghae Unit's patrol area from the Strait of Hormuz to waters 650 kilometres south of Oman and is sending extra maritime patrol aircraft and mine-clearing assets.
3. 03🇷🇺🇺🇦

   Hackers send fake nuclear alerts via Russian and Ukrainian emergency apps

   On the agenda in 12 countries

   • Hackers breached the emergency alert apps used in Russia and Ukraine and pushed out false warnings, including of a nuclear strike.
   • The fake alerts reached users in both countries, with one report saying they reached millions of Ukrainians and Russians on the same day.
   • Russia's emergencies ministry called the attack large-scale, and Kyiv said there was no radiological threat after the false alerts circulated.
4. 04🇫🇮🇮🇹🇵🇱🇫🇷

   Bomb threats force emergency landings of European flights

   On the agenda in 10 countries

   • No explosives had been found on the threatened aircraft by Thursday, and the alerts were described as false.
   • A threat sent by email in Italian warned, "We will place a bomb," and prosecutors were notified of the alerts.
   • A Russian organisation calling itself the "Warriors of the Male State" signed the email that triggered the bomb threats, and traces of the messages appeared to lead to a Russian extremist group and to Colombia.
   • NATO issued an ALPHA alert to Hungary, and Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled to three bomb-threatened passenger aircraft within a few hours.
   • A bomb threat on a Wizz Air flight arriving at Bucharest's Otopeni airport from Milan activated the airport's crisis cell, and the alert was not confirmed.
5. 05🇳🇱

   Hackers raise supermarket freezer temperatures across Europe

   On the agenda in 8 countries

   • Cyberattacks disrupted supermarket refrigeration systems in several European countries, with temperatures in some units rising to as much as 50 degrees Celsius.
   • The weakness was reported to lie in internet-connected IoT cooling equipment rather than in the retailers' own systems, and an outdated vulnerability is believed to have enabled the attacks in Sweden.
   • Thailand's Department of International Trade Promotion warned Thai food exporters to prepare for cold-chain disruption after the attacks on European refrigerated storage units.
6. 06🇧🇬

   Iliana Yotova wins Bulgaria's presidential election as first woman president

   On the agenda in 6 countries

   • Iliana Yotova won Bulgaria's presidential election, becoming the country's first woman president.
   • With 99.95 percent of polling stations counted, the Yotova–Valchev ticket took 57.58 percent of the vote, about 1.1 million ballots.
7. 07🇺🇸🇮🇱

   Trump says US will end military aid to Israel by year's end

   On the agenda in 6 countries

   • President Donald Trump said the United States will stop giving military aid to Israel, with the funding ending at the end of the year.
   • The announcement came on the day of the US midterm elections.
   • Israeli opposition figure Benny Eisenkot called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down after the announcement.
8. 08🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦

   US, Russia and Ukraine to hold talks in Abu Dhabi

   On the agenda in 5 countries

   • Three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States are to be held in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
   • Vladimir Medinsky will head the Russian delegation, while Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will lead the US delegation.
   • The agenda covers de-escalation, security guarantees and steps toward peace.

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