Americans punish Trump over the war on Iran

TEHRAN - U.S. voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. 

Vance says war on Iran is ‘real reason’ Republicans lost midterm elections

JD Vance said that the war against Iran doomed the Republican party in the US midterm elections, which are widely seen as a sweeping rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Guardian reported.

Senator-elect El-Sayed says US tax dollars should not fund Israel’s ‘genocidal war’

Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won a highly coveted Michigan Senate seat on Wednesday, and will become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber of Congress in January. 

Saudi Arabia in Ansarallah’s sights as Trump sees air campaign futility

TEHRAN - Yemen’s Ansarallah forces are on the march, and America’s ally Saudi Arabia is in their crosshairs. 

What to know about the crisis around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal

Judges at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal are meeting Tuesday to decide its future, following the suspension of the court president in a dispute with the government and a battle over the future of the rule of law.

Israeli forces demolish five Palestinian businesses in West Bank

Israeli forces accompanied by heavy machinery raided the Haska Road area northwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, demolishing five Palestinian-owned commercial businesses, local sources said.

Living costs, housing, and employment uncertainty have united protesters across Europe

Countries across Europe have been swept by a wave of protests by young people angry at the spiraling cost of living who have little trust in traditional institutions, France 24 reported.

China hosts 2026 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road in Fuzhou

TEHRAN – The 2026 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road is being held in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Tuesday, bringing together more than 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries, as well as international and regional organizations, and 182 media outlets and institutions.

397 attacks on West Bankers in Oct, highest monthly total in 20 years: UN

Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank reached an unprecedented level in October, with the number of incidents causing injuries or property damage exceeding all monthly totals recorded since the United Nations began monitoring them in 2006.

Algeria launches second operation to clear French nuclear test sites

Algeria’s Defense Ministry announced on Sunday the launch of a second operation to remove radioactive waste from former French nuclear test sites in the Sahara Desert, as Paris continues to refuse to hand over maps showing where the waste was buried or take responsibility for clearing it. 

Violent protests erupt in Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel

Similar to youth-led protests in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Albania, two demonstrations were held in Switzerland.

Iran inflicted at least $5 billion in damage on US military bases: WSJ

Iranian missile and drone strikes have inflicted at least $5 billion in damage on U.S. military bases across the Middle East, according to a sweeping Wall Street Journal investigation that offers the fullest public picture yet of what the war on Iran has cost American forces in the region.

Protests, fueled by high cost of living, hit streets in France and Germany

Major cities in France and Germany were the scenes of protests on Saturday. Protesters in Paris, the capital, began marching from Porte de Bagnolet.

A minority in their homeland who have been facing discrimination and state violence

TEHRAN - “Palestinian citizens of Israel,” also known as the “Palestinians of 1948” or “Palestinians inside Israel” have been subjected to discrimination and violence at the hands of successive Israeli governments.

Vote for UAE candidate for UN chief will endorse genocide

TEHRAN - A vote for Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE's candidate for the post of UN secretary general, will mark an endorsement of genocide, mass atrocities and war, a former UN Security Council says.

Linking Qatar to high Arab voter turnout in Knesset elections is fundamentally misleading

TEHRAN - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has claimed Israel’s election was “stolen” by Palestinian citizens after their record turnout and electoral gains, even as election officials and opposition politicians dismissed the allegation as "baseless".

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Hezbollah chief declares US-brokered framework agreement 'effectively nonexistent'

TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a speech on October 28 that the resistance will keep its weapons for as long as Israel occupies Lebanese land.

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Trump’s falling popularity hangs over a midterm vote shaped by Iran war, inflation

TEHRAN — Donald Trump is not on the ballot, yet the election is about little else. On November 3, roughly 210 million registered voters will decide all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships.

Spain high-speed train crash kills 68

A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century.

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Israeli firm turned Starlink traffic into espionage tool across 105 countries

Netanyahu loses his majority, Eisenkot cannot win one, and the wars go on

TEHRAN — Recent disclosures from digital defense watchdogs have exposed an obscure Tel Aviv-registered advertising company, Discover-Tech, running aggressive online ad campaigns designed to geolocate and track users of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network across more than 100 countries.

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Each of the three options facing US in confrontation with Iran carries strategic losses

LONDON - America's available options in the West Asia region are constrained by substantial strategic costs, meaning that none appears to be free of losses. These options can be summarized in three main scenarios: maintaining a state of neither war nor peace, withdrawing without an agreement, or withdrawing under an agreement.