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US midterms: 2 days to go – what polls say as Trump, El-Sayed hit the trail 

01 November 2026

With two days to the United States midterm elections, Democratic and Republican leaders are making last-ditch efforts to...

Police storm Portugal housing protest camps 

01 November 2026

News|Protests Police have used shields and batons to disperse housing protesters who stormed a tent camp in Portugal’s...

Gaza doctors struggle with bereavement, overwork, trauma amid genocidal war 

01 November 2026

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Manar Fayyad, 29, an anaesthesiologist at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, has suffered severe psycholo...

Rubio says Trump administration did not help Bolsonaro flee Brazil to US 

01 November 2026

News|Elections US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s administration did not help Brazil’s ...

‘Like Kashmir’: How a toxic marble dump yard became a tourist spot in India 

01 November 2026

Kishangarh, India – As Bagharam Gurjar kneels to pull weeds from his maize field in western India’s Rajasthan state,...

Bolivia declares state of emergency over El Nino weather pattern 

01 November 2026

News|Climate Bolivia has declared a nationwide state of emergency to free up resources to deal with the effects of the E...

UN demands investigation after staffer’s death in Houthi custody in Yemen 

01 November 2026

News|United Nations The United Nations has demanded an investigation into the death of an employee in Houthi detention i...

Ukrainian evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky reunite with family 

01 November 2026

Starved and exhausted residents of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky have crossed into Ukraine in a major e...

Thousands rally in Israel urging Eisenkot-Arab deal to remove Netanyahu 

31 October 2026

News|Benjamin Netanyahu Thousands of people have rallied in Tel Aviv to urge the Israeli opposition to make a deal with ...