Officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye met with Iranian leaders in Tehran as tensions rise over possible U.S. and Israeli attacks and Iran’s threatened response. The meeting aims to reduce the risk of wider conflict, including as fighting in Yemen spills into Saudi Arabia, but diplomacy has not produced a peace agreement between Iran and the United States.
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Officials from the Mecca pact nations—Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye—held talks with Iranian leaders in Tehran.
The talks took place amid signals of possible U.S. and Israeli attacks and Iran’s promise to respond.
Diplomacy has not secured a peace agreement between Iran and the United States.
Fighting in Yemen has spilled over into Saudi Arabia.
The discussion examines whether the Mecca alliance can work with Iran on regional security.
The program featured a Tehran-based think tank director, a Saudi political analyst and a former U.S. State Department official.
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An Israeli military lockdown in Hebron’s al-Jalada and Ein Deir Baha neighborhoods displaced thousands of Palestinians after two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on October 23. Among those affected is Haidar Yahya Tamimi, whose wedding plans and access to his home have been disrupted; local businesses and travelers have also been affected.
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Haidar Yahya Tamimi, 27, had planned to marry his fiancée, Ruba, on October 30.
The couple’s wedding furniture, suit, and other preparations remain inside their home, which Haidar cannot reach.
The lockdown began after two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on the western entrance to Hebron; Israeli forces killed both gunmen.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a lockdown, and Israeli forces ordered residents in al-Jalada and Ein Deir Baha to leave their homes.
Hebron’s municipality said more than 3,100 Palestinians had been displaced by Monday.
Locals estimated that more than 100 businesses were affected by the lockdown.
A travel agency in al-Jalada could not access passports for 15 people scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia for an Umrah pilgrimage.
Seven passports for traders planning to travel to China were also reportedly trapped in the agency’s office.
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Israeli election exit polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party as the largest, but neither his bloc nor the opposition appears to have enough seats to form a government. Both sides may struggle to build a coalition, while Arab parties made historic gains in parliament.
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Israel’s Knesset has 120 seats, and a government needs majority support.
Exit polls projected that voters had rejected Netanyahu’s coalition, even as Likud led among individual parties.
Israel’s two Arab parties won more seats than in any previous election.
Netanyahu and opposition leaders had pledged not to rely on Arab parties to form a government.
This was Israel’s first election since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
Israel was still engaged in fighting in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, and had faced two direct rounds of conflict with Iran.
Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the centrist Yashar party, was identified as a leading figure in the opposition’s change bloc.
President Donald Trump endorsed Netanyahu and said he might not continue U.S. involvement in the war with Iran if Netanyahu lost power.
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A Zimbabwean magistrate ordered Marry Mubaiwa released from remand after she spent seven years awaiting trial on an attempted-murder charge. The decision followed a request by the state to postpone the trial, and does not establish that Mubaiwa was acquitted.
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Mubaiwa was charged in 2019 after her then-husband, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, accused her of trying to impede his medical treatment.
The alleged incident took place while Chiwenga was receiving treatment in Pretoria, South Africa.
The magistrate said Mubaiwa had suffered mental, physical and financial harm during the trial, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper.
The state asked to delay the trial by a month so it could engage witnesses.
Mubaiwa had been held in custody and denied bail.
Her lawyer called the release a victory that came too late, citing delays that violated her client's rights.
Mubaiwa said outside court that justice had been achieved and praised her lawyer.
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Early election returns in Israel showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc competing closely with the Change coalition led by Gadi Eisenkot. Eisenkot’s grouping held a slight edge, while voter turnout reached a record, according to the article.
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Early returns were reported Tuesday evening.
Netanyahu’s bloc and the Change coalition were neck and neck.
Gadi Eisenkot leads the Change coalition.
Eisenkot is a retired general and leader of the center-right Yashar party.
Eisenkot’s grouping was slightly ahead of Netanyahu’s bloc.
The article’s headline says turnout broke a record.
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The article is a CBS News page listing an episode of “The Takeout with Major Garrett” and related headlines. It says Israel had record turnout in its parliamentary elections and that Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the United States after an election defeat.
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The episode is dated October 27.
The episode is titled “The Takeout with Major Garrett.”
The page reports record turnout in Israel’s parliamentary elections.
The page says Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the United States after his election defeat.
The page lists a segment about the United States granting visas to Bolsonaro and his family.
Other listed topics include a Houston airport fire, Texas political rallies, and flooding in California.
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Exit polls in Israel’s election gave the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot a slight lead over Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, while Netanyahu’s Likud was projected to be the largest party. The polls suggested no bloc had a clear path to a majority in the 120-seat Knesset, setting up coalition negotiations and leaving the final outcome uncertain.
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Exit polls projected that Israeli Arab parties could win up to 18 Knesset seats, potentially giving them a decisive role in coalition talks.
Netanyahu’s Likud was projected to emerge as the largest party despite the opposition bloc’s slight overall lead.
The Central Elections Committee rejected a request to keep polling stations open past the 10 p.m. deadline.
The committee said it had seen no evidence of systematic tampering after Netanyahu and Likud raised claims about election irregularities.
Turnout reached 74.3% by 6 p.m., about 9 percentage points higher than in the previous election.
The article described turnout as the highest in 50 years and reported a record level of participation by Israeli Arab voters.
More than 7 million people were eligible to vote.
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Exit polls showed no clear winner after Israel’s general election, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc nor opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc securing a majority. Final results were expected Wednesday, followed by negotiations with smaller parties to form a governing coalition.
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Polls closed at 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, October 27.
Exit polls indicated that neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot had won enough seats to form a government alone.
Final election results were not expected until Wednesday afternoon.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is expected to consult party leaders and ask the candidate he believes can form a government to do so.
Netanyahu is expected to remain caretaker prime minister during coalition negotiations, which could last several weeks.
This was the first Israeli election since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza.
Security and foreign policy issues dominated the campaign, amid conflicts involving Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the occupied West Bank.
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Exit polls released by Israel’s major television networks as voting closed showed no clear winner in the country’s election. The article provides no further details about the parties or projected results.
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Israel held an election.
Voting had closed when the television networks released their exit polls.
The exit polls showed no clear winner.
CBS News senior reporter Dov Lieber reported on the election.
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The U.S. military said it killed five people in an October 27 strike on a boat it alleged was involved in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific. A human rights research group’s tracker counted at least 238 people killed in 68 previous strikes since September 2025; the article says the latest strike brings the reported total to 243, while legal experts and rights groups have challenged the campaign’s legality.
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U.S. Southern Command said the strike targeted a go-fast vessel along established drug-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific.
SOUTHCOM said intelligence showed the vessel was involved in drug trafficking and that five people it called “narco-terrorists” were killed.
The Washington Office on Latin America tracked at least 238 deaths in 68 reported strikes before the October 27 operation.
The article says the latest strike brings the reported death toll to 243.
The U.S. government has rarely released details to support its claims that those targeted were involved in drug trafficking.
Relatives of some people killed in earlier strikes have said they were fishermen or workers, not drug traffickers.
Legal experts and rights groups have condemned the strikes as unlawful extrajudicial killings.
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A confrontation broke out at a United Nations General Assembly meeting after U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz accused the Cuban government of profiting from forced labor. Cuban officials, including Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, slammed tables and shouted for a point of order.
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U.S. and Cuban officials argued during a United Nations General Assembly meeting.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz accused Cuba’s government of profiting from forced labor.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla was among the Cuban delegation.
Cuban officials slammed tables and shouted for a point of order.
The article describes the incident as part of a long history of public disputes between the United States and Cuba.
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Fighting in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Ukraine, has stopped under a truce that the White House says U.S. First Lady Melania Trump helped secure. The truce is intended to allow aid deliveries and a civilian evacuation on Friday, but residents told the BBC they were concerned evacuation routes could lead through Crimea and Russia.
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The truce covers Oleshky, a Ukrainian city occupied by Russia.
The White House said Melania Trump helped secure the truce.
Fighting in the city has stopped.
The truce is intended to allow aid deliveries.
A civilian evacuation is planned for Friday.
Residents told the BBC they were concerned about evacuation routes.
The routes could potentially take evacuees through Crimea and Russia.
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An exit poll projected a divided Israeli parliament, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc short of a majority and Arab-led parties potentially influential in government formation. The opposition could reach a majority with Arab-led parties, but cooperation faces political obstacles, and official results were not yet confirmed.
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Channel 13’s exit poll projected 50 seats for Netanyahu’s bloc and 53 for the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot, below the 61 seats needed for a majority.
The Arab-led parties were projected to win 17 seats: 10 for the Joint List and seven for Ra’am.
The poll projected 25 seats for Likud, making it the largest individual party, and 23 for Eisenkot’s Yashar party.
The opposition bloc and Arab-led parties would together hold a projected 70 seats, but forming a government would require political cooperation.
Both principal candidates had ruled out governing with Arab-led parties, though outside support for a minority government remained a possibility.
Voter participation reached 55.7 percent by 4 p.m., compared with 47.5 percent at the same time in 2022.
Election authorities reported no evidence of systematic ballot tampering after Netanyahu alleged that the election was being stolen.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged voters to support his Likud party shortly before polls closed. He warned that the party could lose if its supporters did not vote, as Israel recorded its highest election turnout in 50 years.
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Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel's prime minister at the time of the appeal.
Netanyahu urged voters to support his Likud party.
He made the appeal in the final minutes before polls closed.
Netanyahu warned, “If you don’t go and vote, we will lose.”
Israel recorded its highest election turnout in 50 years.
The article title says Netanyahu rallied Likud voters with a megaphone in a shopping mall.
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez exchanged insults during a General Assembly debate over the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba. The confrontation came as the Trump administration seeks support against an annual resolution condemning the embargo, while Cuba faces fuel shortages and power outages linked to U.S. oil tariffs and longstanding economic problems.
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Waltz urged countries not to support the annual resolution condemning the U.S. embargo.
Cuban delegates, including Rodríguez, shouted and struck their table while Waltz spoke.
Rodríguez walked toward the front of the General Assembly and called Waltz a liar; Waltz told him to back up.
Trump announced in late January that the United States would impose tariffs on countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba.
The article says the oil tariff warning has effectively cut off fuel to Cuba, contributing to widespread power outages.
The U.N. resolution is not legally binding but reflects international opinion.
Last year, the resolution passed 165-7, with 12 abstentions; Argentina, Ukraine and Hungary opposed it for the first time.
The vote on this year's resolution was scheduled for Wednesday.
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An Egyptian court ordered Mada Masr, a prominent independent news outlet, closed and fined editor-in-chief Lina Attalah three million Egyptian pounds for operating a website without a licence. Attalah was briefly detained and released after the outlet paid the fine; she is also challenging a separate 2024 conviction. The ruling followed disputes over Mada Masr’s licence applications and the court’s handling of its defence.
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The New Cairo Misdemeanour Court ordered the outlet closed and its equipment and devices confiscated.
The court fined Lina Attalah three million Egyptian pounds, about $53,400.
Attalah was taken into custody after the ruling and released several hours later after Mada Masr paid the fine.
Attalah learned during her release procedures that she had been sentenced in absentia in 2024 to one year in prison for publishing false news and operating an unlicensed website.
Mada Masr said its lawyers have challenged the 2024 ruling, with a retrial hearing scheduled for November 11.
Mada Masr said it applied for a licence in 2018 and 2020 and that a new application has been pending since June 2023.
The outlet said the court rejected defence requests and appointed a lawyer despite Attalah's objection.
Egypt's journalists' union said it would take legal action to appeal the ruling.
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Former Metropolitan Police officer Mark Tyrrell was found guilty of raping a woman, three counts of sexual assault and one count of perverting the course of justice. The court heard he met the woman through his work; he denied the allegations and said their sexual encounters were consensual. He is due to be sentenced on 16 December.
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Tyrrell, 57, served in the Metropolitan Police’s parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, the same unit where Wayne Couzens and David Carrick worked.
Jurors found Tyrrell guilty of one count of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of perverting the course of justice.
The court heard the woman repeatedly said no before Tyrrell had sex with her.
Tyrrell was found guilty of trying to delete messages with the woman.
Jurors found him not guilty of 13 other charges, including another count of rape.
Tyrrell had previously admitted misconduct in a public office and pleaded guilty to persuading the woman to lie to police about why he was in her bedroom.
Tyrrell will be sentenced on 16 December.
Couzens was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Sarah Everard in 2021; Carrick is serving 37 life sentences for attacks on more than a dozen women.
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Residents in Lebanon and Syria expect Israel’s policy to change little after the election. They are concerned about continued Israeli military activity and the possibility of renewed conflict.
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Residents in Lebanon expect little change in Israeli policy after the election.
Residents in Syria expect little change in Israeli policy after the election.
Residents are concerned about continued Israeli military activity.
Residents are concerned about the risk of renewed conflict.
The article does not identify the election or report its outcome.
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Multiple outlets reported that Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro traveled to the United States after losing the presidential runoff election. The report said Brazil’s Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender his passports in connection with alleged financial crimes.
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Multiple outlets reported Bolsonaro traveled from Brazil to the United States.
The reported move followed his loss in the presidential runoff election.
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports.
The passport order concerned alleged financial crimes.
The U.S. State Department had not immediately responded to The Hill’s request for comment.
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Olivia Chow won a second term as Toronto mayor, receiving 54% of the vote to Brad Bradford’s 41%. She campaigned on expanding rental housing, offering free school lunches and lowering fares for frequent transit riders, while affordability remains a major challenge for the city.
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Chow received more than 532,000 votes, nearly twice her total in the 2023 election.
The article reports record turnout in the mayoral election.
Bradford called for more police and pledged to cut taxes and city spending.
The article says auto theft and high-value property crime have risen, while homicides, firearm-related violence and assault have fallen in recent years.
Chow expanded the police department’s hate crimes unit and supported a bylaw restricting protests within 50 meters of certain institutions.
Bradford conceded and said he wanted Chow to succeed.
Progressive candidates won or retained multiple council seats, including Diana McNally Chan, who the article says will be the first renter on city council.
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