A senior U.S. State Department official told CBS News that the United States will issue visas to Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family. The report says Bolsonaro faces corruption charges in Brazil; it does not provide details about the charges or the visas.
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A senior State Department official said the United States will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro.
The visas will also be issued to Bolsonaro’s family.
Flávio Bolsonaro is a Brazilian senator.
The report says Bolsonaro faces corruption charges in Brazil.
CBS News reported the information from a senior State Department official.
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New South Wales will abandon rules requiring cafes to offer mugs or glasses to dine-in customers and take part in a reusable-cup scheme. The government reversed course after criticism from businesses and media, but other rules on reusable cups and recyclable takeaway cups will remain.
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The rules would have required cafes to offer mugs or glasses to dine-in customers from 2028.
Businesses that did not join a reusable-cup scheme could have faced fines of up to $110,000.
Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said the government would repeal the mug-and-glass rules and the potential fine.
Customers will still be able to bring their own clean reusable cups, and businesses must accept them.
A requirement for single-use takeaway cups to be recyclable by 2028 will remain.
The government has asked the NSW Environment Protection Authority to clarify that it will not proceed with the rules being dropped.
The legislation will not be repealed until after the March 2027 election.
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Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot said millions of Israelis had voted for change and were tired of what he called Benjamin Netanyahu’s lies. In his first public comments after polls closed, Eisenkot warned Netanyahu against using Israel’s security for political interests.
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Gadi Eisenkot is an Israeli opposition leader.
Eisenkot said millions of Israelis voted for change.
He said voters were tired of what he called Netanyahu’s lies.
Eisenkot made the comments after polls closed.
He warned Benjamin Netanyahu not to use Israel’s security for political interests.
Netanyahu is described in the article as Eisenkot’s rival.
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U.S. envoy Mike Waltz clashed with Cuba’s delegation at UN headquarters in New York during a vote on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. Waltz repeatedly told the Cuban team, “This is America.”
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The confrontation took place at UN headquarters in New York.
The clash occurred during a vote on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba.
U.S. envoy Mike Waltz repeatedly told Cuba’s UN team, “This is America.”
The article says the United States has imposed a fuel blockade on Cuba since January.
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Israelis voted in an election that could remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office. The result could also affect Israel’s approach to the war with Iran and the Gaza Strip, as well as its relationship with the United States.
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Israel held a national election on Tuesday.
The election could end Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister.
The vote could shape Israel’s policies toward the war with Iran and the Gaza Strip.
The election could affect Israel’s relationship with the United States.
Exit polls showed no clear winner.
Voter turnout was higher than in recent decades.
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A 2026 Lancet Countdown report, led by University College London with the World Health Organization, says climate-related health harms are growing and accelerating. It estimates that heat was linked to more than 540,000 deaths per year on average from 2016 through 2023, and that heat-related productivity losses cost the world more than $1 trillion in potential income in 2025.
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The report draws on findings from 146 researchers at more than 100 institutions in over 30 countries.
Researchers estimated that heat was linked to more than 540,000 deaths per year on average from 2016 through 2023.
The report attributes 68% of those heat-related deaths to climate change.
In 2023, heat was linked to an estimated 710,000 deaths, with more than 71% attributed to climate change, according to the report.
The report estimates that nearly 3 million deaths from 2016 to 2023 could be connected to climate change.
Reduced productivity from heat caused more than $1 trillion in potential global income losses in 2025, the third year in a row losses exceeded that amount.
The pace at which land experienced extreme drought rose by about 700% in 2016–2025 compared with the decade before the Paris Agreement.
The share of land affected by very extreme rainfall rose from 14.8% in 2006–2015 to 17.2% in 2016–2025.
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France’s Senate approved a bill that could make people financially liable for damage linked to demonstrations, including through the seizure of some benefits. The bill now goes to the National Assembly, while critics say its provisions could affect peaceful protesters and weaken the right to protest.
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The Senate passed the bill by 229 votes to 105.
The bill would allow fines of up to €10,000 for damage caused during demonstrations.
It would impose joint liability on people found to have knowingly joined a group formed to commit vandalism.
The bill also covers people who continue taking part in a gathering likely to disrupt public order after two police dispersal warnings.
Welfare and housing assistance could be seized to help pay for damages; senators expanded the list to include additional benefits.
The legislation was drafted after riots following Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League final victory over Arsenal in May.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the government needed to respond to damage and violence reported on October 17.
The National Assembly must debate and vote on the bill.
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King Charles said he will discuss slavery’s legacy with Commonwealth leaders at a summit in Antigua and Barbuda during his nine-day Caribbean tour. Caribbean reparations advocates welcomed recognition of slavery’s harms but said the king should offer a formal apology and address reparations.
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Charles arrived in the Bahamas and attended a youth rally at Clifford Park, where the country gained independence from Britain in 1973.
The king said the legacy of slavery would be discussed at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting next week.
The Bahamas National Reparations Committee said Charles’s remarks did not meet its call for a full, formal apology and action to remedy past wrongs.
Committee chair Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean described the king’s comments as hollow platitudes while saying she valued his effort to connect with Bahamian culture.
Caribbean Community Reparations Commission chair Hilary Beckles said reparations efforts should begin with remorse.
Charles is due to visit Guyana before traveling to Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth summit.
The article says the British government has not advised Charles to apologize or offer reparations.
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The second Gaza International Women’s Film Festival opened in al-Bureij alongside the launch of the Gaza Cinema Academy. It screened five documentaries made by Palestinian women, including films about hunger, disability, displacement and grief during the war in Gaza.
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The festival used the slogan “Women Creating Life from Death.”
The five documentaries were produced through a filmmaking diploma programme that began in March and included 25 young Palestinian women.
Mona Abu Qass’s 11-minute film, A Sack of Flour, draws on her experience and depicts hunger, aid distribution dangers and loss in Gaza.
Raghda al-Buhaisi’s directorial debut, Beyond Silence, follows a deaf artist whose studio was destroyed and whose parents and other relatives were killed.
Soso: The Lifeline follows an orphaned child and his donkey as they help people survive.
Remnants of Light follows a filmmaker dealing with the loss of her family and home.
Dandana tells the story of a mother whose eight children were killed and how she copes with grief through Palestinian songs with surviving family members.
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The reported cost of the U.S. war against Iran has risen to $47 billion, more than $3 billion above last month’s figure. The article says President Donald Trump is considering strikes against Iran after the U.S. midterm elections.
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The reported cost of the war is $47 billion.
The cost has increased by more than $3 billion since last month.
Replacing munitions accounts for $29 billion of the reported cost.
The article says Trump is considering launching strikes against Iran.
The possible strikes would come after the U.S. midterm elections.
The article attributes the cost figure to information dated in October, but the supplied text cuts off before giving the full source details.
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Israeli polls have closed, and votes are being counted. Exit polls suggest Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc may win the most seats but fall short of a majority, while Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party may be the largest single party in parliament.
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Voting has ended in Israel and ballots are being counted.
Exit polls indicate Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc could win the most seats.
The exit polls suggest Eisenkot’s bloc would not have a parliamentary majority.
Netanyahu’s Likud party is projected to be the largest individual party.
The article examines possible next steps after the election.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized Flávio Bolsonaro for leaving Brazil, as reports said he was headed to the United States. The article also says Bolsonaro fled after an election defeat and faced a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports amid a money-laundering probe, but it does not clearly identify which Bolsonaro those claims concern.
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Lula criticized Flávio Bolsonaro for leaving Brazil.
Reports said Flávio Bolsonaro was headed to the United States.
The article says Bolsonaro fled after an election defeat.
The article says a Supreme Court order required Bolsonaro to surrender his passports.
The article links the passport order to a money-laundering probe.
The article does not clearly distinguish whether the election and investigation claims refer to Flávio Bolsonaro or another Bolsonaro.
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Itamar Ben-Gvir responded defiantly after polls indicated that his Otzma Yehudit party lost seats in the Israeli election. He said he was proud of his record of demolishing Palestinian homes and tightening prison conditions.
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Ben-Gvir made his first comments after the polls indicated losses for his party.
His party is called Otzma Yehudit.
Polls showed Otzma Yehudit losing seats in the Israeli election.
Ben-Gvir described himself as proud of his political record.
He cited the destruction of Palestinian homes as part of that record.
He also cited tougher prison conditions.
The article gives no seat totals or final election results.
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China’s official figures show that dependent people aged 65 and older outnumbered children aged 14 and under in 2025, for the first time. The shift reflects a falling birth rate and longer life expectancy, and could increase pressure on pensions, health care and long-term care as China’s workforce shrinks.
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The ratio of dependent elderly people to the working-age population reached 23% in 2025, compared with 22% for children.
China had more than 223 million people aged 65 and older, nearly 16% of its population.
About 213 million people in China were aged 14 and under.
China’s one-child policy ran from 1980 to the end of 2015; the government estimates it prevented about 400 million births, though that estimate has been disputed.
China has eased family-size restrictions but has struggled to persuade couples to have more children as birth rates have fallen to historic lows.
More than 53 million elderly people received senior citizen allowances and subsidies by the end of 2025, according to official figures.
China included additional support for older people in its five-year economic blueprint announced earlier in 2026.
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The Pentagon selected Poland to host a maintenance center for Lockheed Martin’s Patriot interceptor missiles. The department said the center will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services.
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The Pentagon announced the selection on Tuesday.
Poland will host the new facility.
The center will support Lockheed Martin’s Patriot interceptor missiles.
The facility will provide maintenance services.
The facility will provide repair services.
The facility will provide overhaul services.
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King Charles III began a nine-day tour of the Bahamas, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda, acknowledging past suffering and injustice linked to slavery. The tour includes discussions about reparations, climate threats to island nations, and a Commonwealth summit; Charles did not issue a formal apology.
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Charles began the tour in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
At a youth rally, Charles said it was right to acknowledge past suffering and injustice.
Charles is receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer.
He will visit Guyana before joining Queen Camilla in Antigua and Barbuda for a Commonwealth leaders’ summit.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said reparations for slavery will be discussed at the summit.
Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali described recognition of slavery’s harms as a first step and called for an apology.
Jamaica filed a petition in a London appeals court last month to advance its push for reparations.
The tour will also address climate threats facing low-lying islands.
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Donald Trump said Venezuela could one day become a U.S. state while promoting an oil agreement with the country’s interim government. He pointed to a tanker he said carried one million barrels of Venezuelan oil and claimed the deal would provide billions of barrels, as critics questioned the lack of progress toward democratic elections.
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Trump made the remarks at a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Trump said the tanker off the Texas coast carried one million barrels of oil from Venezuela.
Trump said the oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim government could cover billions of barrels.
Trump claimed the oil was being provided to the United States at no cost to U.S. taxpayers.
The article says U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in January and took him to New York to face criminal charges.
The article says Venezuela has held no elections since Maduro was detained.
The article links rising U.S. fuel prices to the war with Iran and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Exit polls from Israel’s legislative election project 50 seats for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and 52 for the opposition bloc, short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Arab-led parties are projected to win 18 seats, and negotiations may take weeks or months as President Isaac Herzog selects a candidate to try to form a government.
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The exit polls were released by major Israeli television networks on Tuesday.
The opposition bloc is led by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party.
The Arab-led parties are projected to win 18 seats and could influence coalition negotiations.
Gideon Saar, a Likud member and foreign minister, said it was premature for the opposition to celebrate.
The article says the final vote tally is expected on November 4.
After the tally, President Isaac Herzog will consult party leaders and nominate the person he believes has the best chance of forming a government.
The candidate initially has 28 days to form a coalition, and the president can grant a 14-day extension.
A new government must pass a parliamentary confidence vote; abstentions could allow it to win with fewer than 61 votes.
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A Bournemouth University study found that women with autism reported more severe menopause symptoms, higher levels of depression and anxiety, and lower quality of life than women without autism. The researchers suggested that feeling less in control of menopause and understanding it less clearly may help explain the difference, but the study did not establish a cause.
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The study included 476 women with autism and 425 women without autism, all aged 40 to 60.
Researchers followed participants for five weeks and used standardized self-report measures.
Women with autism reported more severe menopause symptoms throughout the study period.
The autistic participants also reported higher levels of depression and anxiety and, overall, poorer quality of life.
Women with autism reported feeling less in control of menopause and having a less clear understanding of it.
The study was published in the journal Autism in Adulthood on October 27.
Study lead Eunhee Kim said higher rates of physical and mental health conditions among autistic people may have several contributing factors.
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich celebrated at his campaign headquarters after exit polls suggested support for his far-right party had declined. He had called for a full-scale war in the Occupied West Bank.
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Bezalel Smotrich is Israel's finance minister.
Smotrich celebrated at his campaign headquarters.
Exit polls suggested support for Smotrich's party had declined.
The article describes Smotrich's party as far-right.
Smotrich had called for a full-scale war in the Occupied West Bank.
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