U.S. President Donald Trump failed to deliver on his campaign promise to revitalize the economy for the average American, so voters turned out in last Tuesday’s elections in favor of Democrats, which was seen as a glaring warning sign for Republicans and a viable avenue for Democrats before next year’s Midterm Elections.
The Russian military has been employing retrofitted Soviet-era glide bombs that have managed to strike targets far from the frontlines—including some that have been refitted with jet engines that enable even farther travel, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to put plans into place to carry out nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s earlier decision to tell the Pentagon to begin testing these weapons.
The Ukrainian military last week continued to attack Russian industrial facilities in an effort to destroy the country’s wartime economy, even as its soldiers were losing their foothold in Pokrovsk, the strategic city which The Wall Street Journal called the Kremlin’s “biggest Ukrainian conquest in more than two years.”
The United Nations announced Friday that there have been at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank in October, a new record that has been met with nearly no outrage from the international community.
The Israeli Knesset last week gave approval to a bill that critics say would give the government “full control” over the country’s media.
The IDF carried out new missile strikes across southern Lebanon last week, which was seen as an escalation, even as Israel violates the ceasefire struck last November on a near-daily basis.
Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, told business leaders in Miami last week that he was assured by Hamas leaders that the group would disarm, which is one of the key points of the U.S.-designed ceasefire deal that went into effect last month.
The National Committee for Missing Persons in the Genocide Against Gaza called on the international community last week to help Palestinians in Gaza recover the remains of over 10,000 people buried underneath the rubble inside the enclave that was left behind after the two-year U.S.-backed genocide.
Between 26 and 31 October, three deals totaling $81.4 billion in value made the headlines.