Algeria will send army units to Niger to protect its energy and economic interests, according to a statement from Algeria’s presidency on Monday, October 26. Algeria’s Parliament held an emergency vote on Sunday on the deployment, which would be the country’s first such foreign mission since 1973.
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Algeria plans to send army units to Niger.
The stated purpose is to protect Algeria’s energy and economic interests.
Algeria’s presidency announced the plan on October 26.
Algeria’s Parliament held an emergency vote on the deployment on Sunday.
The mission would be Algeria’s first such foreign deployment since 1973.
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The Netherlands will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, reversing a pledge to return after boycotting the 2026 event. Public broadcaster NPO said debate over Israel’s participation and the lack of a suitable format made it too early to rejoin; the contest will still be broadcast in the Netherlands.
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NPO announced the Netherlands’ withdrawal from Eurovision 2027.
Dutch broadcaster Avrotros had said it would not take part, but NPO pledged last month that the country would return.
NPO media director Jurre Bosman said Israel’s participation had caused discussion and division in Dutch society.
NPO chair Jet de Ranitz said discussions did not produce a suitable format for a return.
Eurovision director Martin Green said organisers respected the Netherlands’ decision.
The Netherlands, Iceland, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia boycotted the 2026 contest over Israel’s participation.
Ireland will also not take part in 2027, while the Czech broadcaster withdrew citing spending cuts.
Eurovision 2027 is scheduled for 15 May in Burgas, Bulgaria.
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Former Palestine Liberation Organization official Xavier Abu Eid says Israel’s election outcome remains uncertain, with polls divided between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot. He says the rivals could form a national unity government despite their political differences.
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Xavier Abu Eid is a former PLO official.
Abu Eid says polls are divided between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot.
He says Israel’s election outcome remains uncertain.
Abu Eid says Netanyahu and Eisenkot could potentially form a national unity government.
The article does not provide election dates, polling figures, or details about the parties’ positions.
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After weeks of student unrest in France, the government announced new measures for schools. Student union leaders called the announcement a first step and said they would continue mobilising as they awaited further proposals.
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The protests have continued for weeks.
The French government announced new school measures.
Student union leaders described the measures as a first step.
The union leaders vowed to keep mobilising.
They said they expected further proposals.
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An Iraqi court sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years for membership in the Islamic State group. The defendants were among 47 French suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year, and their lawyer said they would appeal.
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A Reuters witness in the courtroom reported the sentences on Tuesday.
The judge said the court chose life sentences instead of the death penalty because the six defendants were young.
The court imposed the sentences under Iraq’s counterterrorism law for joining the Islamic State group and spreading fear.
The seventh defendant, aged 23, received a 15-year sentence.
The seven men were among 47 French suspects transferred to Iraq from detention facilities in northeast Syria last year.
Defense lawyer Abbas al-Maliki said the group would appeal to Iraq’s Court of Cassation.
Iraq opened the trial of the French nationals last month.
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As Israelis voted on October 27, 2026, the report focused on Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in mixed Jewish-Arab towns. Lod has long been associated with Jewish-Arab coexistence, but violent clashes there in 2021 continue to affect the town, the report said.
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Israel held elections on October 27, 2026.
About 2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel were among those voting.
Some Palestinian citizens of Israel live in towns with both Jewish and Arab residents.
Lod is described as a town long seen as a symbol of Jewish-Arab coexistence.
Lod experienced violent clashes in 2021.
The report said the effects of the 2021 clashes are still felt in Lod.
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A Russian attack on Kyiv on October 26 killed at least one person and injured 15, according to Ukrainian officials. The strike damaged a university campus and nearby buildings; Russia said it targeted Ukrainian defense and transport infrastructure.
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Ukraine said the attack included 16 ballistic missiles, and its forces shot down two.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported at least 255 drones in the attack.
Five injured people were students or university staff, Zelenskyy said.
A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The strike damaged part of the campus, a nearby park and metro station, and residential buildings.
Ukrainian officials said rescue operations were underway and people might be trapped under rubble.
Russia's Defense Ministry said it targeted a facility producing and storing long- and medium-range drones, as well as transport infrastructure.
Zelenskyy reported strikes on multiple other Ukrainian cities, including Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa.
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Sudan’s war has spread into neighboring Chad, where a drone strike killed at least four people in the border town of Bamina last week. Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad seeking safety, including survivors of the massacre in El Fasher, many of whom remain traumatized.
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A drone strike killed at least four people in Bamina, a town on Chad’s border with Sudan.
The strike occurred last week, according to the article.
Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad.
Refugees are seeking safety from Sudan’s war.
Many survivors of the massacre in El Fasher remain deeply traumatized.
France 24 correspondent Harold Girard reported on the situation.
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Syria condemned Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria, calling them a violation of its airspace and sovereignty. Jordan said the strikes targeted confirmed terrorist threats after a church attack in Karak killed nine people, and expressed regret for civilian deaths.
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Syria said Jordan carried out the strikes without prior coordination or notification.
Syria reported that seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed.
Syrian civil defense also reported seven civilian deaths in Daraa and Sweida provinces, including five members of one family and two elderly men.
Jordan said the strikes were based on intelligence about confirmed threats and planned attacks.
The strikes followed a funeral attack at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak that killed nine people.
Jordan said it had arrested three gunmen but did not disclose their affiliation.
Jordan said it wanted to preserve ties with Syria and that the countries continued to coordinate on countering terrorism and weapons and drug smuggling.
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Jordan said its air force carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in response to an attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, southern Jordan. The church attack killed nine people, while Syrian authorities reported at least six deaths from the airstrikes.
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Jordan's air force said it carried out the strikes on October 27.
The strikes targeted armed groups in Syria.
Jordan described the strikes as retaliation for a Friday attack on a Greek Orthodox church.
The church is in Karak, a city in southern Jordan.
The church attack killed nine people.
Syrian authorities said the airstrikes killed at least six people.
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A group of 21 Indian news publishers has challenged the country’s privacy law in the Supreme Court, arguing that its consent and data-erasure rules could obstruct reporting and expose journalists’ sources. The court said it would hear the case next month; the publishers also object to the government’s powers to demand information and block access to it.
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The publishers include Network18, NDTV, the Indian Express and Times Internet.
The publishers argue that requiring journalists to seek consent from people they report on could let those people destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses.
The law allows people to withdraw consent and request that their personal data be erased, with no public-interest safeguard described in the publishers’ filing.
The publishers say a federal authority can fine organizations for failing to comply with the law.
The law gives New Delhi power to block access to information in the interests of the general public, according to the article.
From next year, the government will be able to require organizations handling personal data to provide information it requests, the publishers say.
The publishers say these powers could expose confidential sources and discourage whistleblowers from contacting reporters.
The Supreme Court said it would hear the challenge next month.
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Jordanian strikes in Syria, carried out in retaliation for a church attack the previous week, killed at least seven people, including five members of one family. Jordan said it targeted “terrorist hideouts,” while relatives of the people killed denied that they were connected to the attack.
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The strikes took place in Syria.
Jordan said the strikes targeted “terrorist hideouts.”
Jordan said the strikes were retaliation for a church attack the previous week.
At least seven people were killed.
The dead included five members of one family.
Relatives denied that the victims had links to the church attack.
Al Jazeera reporter Obaida Hitto reported from Deraa.
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British prosecutors charged two men under the 2023 National Security Act in connection with a suspected plot near RAF Fairford, an air base used by the U.S. military. Police say six men remain on bail as the investigation continues; Iran denies involvement.
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Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, faces charges of assisting a foreign intelligence service and conduct likely to help one carry out activities related to the U.K.
Nouman Essghir, 24, faces a charge connected to approaching or being near a prohibited place in a way allegedly prejudicial to U.K. safety or interests.
Both men are British nationals and London residents.
The men were arrested last week on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service.
Police said six men remain on bail in connection with the incident, including four arrested near the base on Sept. 27 and two detained later.
Police found gasoline in three vans near a base entrance during searches after the Sept. 27 arrests; they found no explosives.
The U.S. Air Force removed its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford after the incident.
The Iranian Embassy in London rejected claims linking Iran to the incident.
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Ukraine says it is honoring a localized ceasefire in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine, to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and civilian evacuations. The truce began on October 27, earlier than the October 29 start date initially announced by the White House, while fighting continues elsewhere in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s parliamentary human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, said Kyiv was meeting its commitments under the ceasefire.
The agreement covers Oleshky, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region.
The operation is intended to deliver essential supplies and help civilians who want to leave the town.
The White House estimates that 1,700 to 2,000 people remain in Oleshky, including about 50 children.
Russian officials said their forces would stop shelling toward Kherson from 4 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday and help provide safe passage for the convoy.
The White House announced the ceasefire on October 23 and initially said it would begin on October 29; Russian officials later announced an earlier start, and both sides confirmed it was underway on October 27.
Melania Trump said she and her representative used a communication channel previously established through efforts to reunite children separated from their families during the war.
Russian strikes were reported in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities while the localized truce was in effect.
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Ramallah residents said they hope Benjamin Netanyahu loses power in Israel’s election, fearing his continued leadership could increase tensions and violence in the region. The article also reports that UN-mandated investigators said Israel had committed the crime against humanity of extermination in the West Bank and continued to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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Israel held a national election on October 27, 2026.
Some residents of Ramallah said they hoped Netanyahu would lose power.
One Ramallah resident warned that Netanyahu remaining in power could lead to a clash, rising tension, and an explosion in the region.
UN-mandated investigators said Israel had committed the crime against humanity of extermination in the West Bank.
The investigators also said Israel continued to commit genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Jordan said its air force struck suspected terrorist sites in southern Syria in response to an October 23 attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan that killed nine people. Jordan said the operation was coordinated with Damascus, but Syria said it had not been notified and reported civilian deaths, including children; Jordan had not responded to that allegation in the report.
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Jordan said its air force attacked sites in southeastern Syria on October 27 and reported that people were killed or wounded, but gave no casualty figures.
Jordan said it carried out the strikes in coordination with Damascus.
Syria said the attacks happened without prior coordination or notification and called them a treacherous attack.
Syrian authorities reported seven deaths, including three children, in attacks in Deraa and Suwayda countryside.
Syria’s civil defence agency said a strike on a tent in al-Taff killed five members of one family, including three children and a woman, and injured three others.
ISIL (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the October 23 attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan, which killed nine people.
Jordan said security forces arrested three people over the church attack: two brothers and their brother-in-law.
Syrian customs authorities closed the Nassib border crossing with Jordan after the strikes.
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German climber Wolfgang Waschiczek, 57, died after falling about 1,500 meters on Ama Dablam in Nepal. He had reached the summit on Sunday and was reported missing from Camp 3 the next morning; rescuers later recovered his body and flew it to Kathmandu for a postmortem.
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Waschiczek reached Ama Dablam’s 6,812-meter summit on Sunday and spent the night at Camp 3, at about 6,200 meters.
His guide found him missing on Monday morning after briefly leaving the tent to return borrowed equipment.
Another Sherpa spotted Waschiczek’s body near Camp 2, at about 4,600 meters, around 8 a.m.
A helicopter retrieved the body and took it to Lukla before it was flown to Kathmandu.
Authorities plan to perform a postmortem at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.
This was the first fatality on Ama Dablam this year; more than 300 climbers are attempting the peak this season.
Two climbers died on Ama Dablam during expeditions last October.
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Israelis voted on October 27, 2026, in the country’s first national election since Hamas’s 2023 attack. The vote took place amid unresolved wars and deep divisions over Israel’s direction and leadership.
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Israel held a national election on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
The election was the first national vote since Hamas’s 2023 attack.
Israel continued to face unresolved wars.
The country was deeply divided over the character of the state and who should lead it.
France 24 reporter Clovis Casali reported from Israel and spoke with voters.
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Iran said the United States was not serious about talks, according to the article’s headline. Officials from Iran, Pakistan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia met in Tehran on Monday to try to prevent further escalation.
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Iran said the United States was not serious about talks.
Officials from Iran took part in the Tehran meeting.
Officials from Pakistan took part in the meeting.
Officials from Turkiye and Saudi Arabia also took part.
The officials met in Tehran on Monday.
The talks aimed to stop further escalation.
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Israelis are voting in an election that could determine who becomes prime minister. Polls published Friday show incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu in a close race with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot. The report examines how the rivals’ foreign-policy approaches could affect Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Israel is holding a pivotal election.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the incumbent prime minister.
Gadi Eisenkot is a former military chief.
Polls published Friday suggest Netanyahu and Eisenkot are in a close race.
The report compares the rivals’ foreign-policy positions.
The report considers possible effects on Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports from Jerusalem.
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