Iran

• Iran hails emerging regional order without foreign intervention after Tehran meeting: Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey met Iranian leaders in Tehran on Monday for talks on regional security and escalating tensions, with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei declaring that “a new atmosphere is emerging in the region.”
  • Rezaei said the sides held “very good” talks and agreed that West Asia’s security should be managed by regional states, without foreign intervention. The “results of the Iranian nation’s resistance” are becoming more tangible “day by day,” he said.
  • The four countries said they would “continue the dialogue,” and officials called it the first in an expected series of meetings, though no date has been set.
• Oman says excluding Iran from Gulf security has been a fundamental mistake: Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi criticized decades of Gulf security arrangements built around excluding Iran and relying on foreign military powers, calling for a new regional security framework that includes Tehran. “Perhaps the most damaging of the priorities imposed on the region from the outside has been the requirement that Iran be excluded,” he said during a lecture at Cambridge University.
  • This, he said, created an unstable system based on the “entirely false perception” of fundamental antagonism between Iran and Arab Gulf states. “There is no such fundamental antagonism,” he said, adding that any security architecture excluding Iran is “inherently unstable” and “structurally unsound.”
  • He also said that Oman and Iran had developed the outline of a temporary arrangement to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, but said implementation would require compromises by both Tehran and Washington.
  • He maintained that a U.S.–Iran nuclear agreement had been within reach before the U.S.-Israeli war began on February 28, an assessment Oman continues to stand by.
• Iran says oil tanker caught fire after striking naval mines east of Hormuz: An oil tanker caught fire after striking naval mines east of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s navy said Tuesday. The vessel had entered a prohibited area with its tracking systems switched off, according to Iranian state media.
  • Separately, Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority announced that all vessels belonging to South Korean shipping company Sinokor will face legal action beginning November 1, accusing the company of repeatedly violating passage regulations in the Strait.
  • The authority, established by Tehran to manage vessel transit requests through the waterway, said Sinokor had recorded the highest number of crossing violations over the past three months and that “appropriate actions” had already been taken against at least seven of its vessels.
• UK charges two British men in Iran-linked investigation at U.S. bomber base: Two British nationals were charged under the UK’s National Security Act following an investigation into a September security incident at RAF Fairford, a British airbase used by U.S. bombers. One man is charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, while another is charged with entering a prohibited site for a purpose prejudicial to the UK.
  • RAF Fairford has been used by the U.S. to deploy bombers to the Middle East, including after Britain authorized its use for strikes against Iran. The U.S. withdrew its bombers following the incident.
  • British counterterrorism police said they believe several recent incidents were directed by the Iranian state. Iran has denied involvement.

Palestine

• Six-year-old girl dies of wounds from Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis: A six-year-old Palestinian girl died Tuesday morning from wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli forces in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, WAFA reported.
  • Over the past 24 hours, six Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks and 32 injured across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
  • The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023, is now 74,561 killed, with 175,759 injured. Since October 11, 2025, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,565 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,640, while 845 bodies have been recovered.
• Israel bars delegates from Birzeit University conference as settlers attack olive harvesters across the occupied West Bank:
  • Hebron: Israeli forces continued their siege of the Al-Jalda and Deir Baha neighborhoods for a fifth consecutive day, raiding and damaging homes, restricting movement, and obstructing aid deliveries. Since Friday, 619 families have been affected, approximately 3,971 Palestinians forcibly displaced, and 85 arrested.
    • Israeli forces also dispersed a protest against the siege with tear gas, causing several people to suffer from tear gas inhalation, and stormed al-Ahli Hospital, firing tear gas at its entrance and courtyard and seizing vehicles from its parking lot.
  • Ramallah and Al-Bireh: Israeli settlers, protected by Israeli forces, attacked Palestinian olive harvesters and foreign solidarity activists in Beit Ur Al-Tahta, beating them and firing tear gas and live ammunition.
    • In Deir Jarir, two Palestinians were injured in a settler attack. Settlers also established a new outpost with two mobile homes north of Al-Bireh.
  • Nablus: A Palestinian man was shot in the foot near the Huwwara military checkpoint, where Israeli forces obstructed Palestinian Red Crescent medics from reaching him.
    • In Burqa, settlers beat a 50-year-old Palestinian man, leaving him with injuries requiring hospitalization. Settlers also detained a Nablus municipal crew repairing a road and seized its equipment.
  • Tulkarm: Israeli forces forcibly evacuated two Palestinian families from their homes in Faroun, converting both houses into military barracks and ordering the families not to return until Wednesday morning.
  • Jericho: Israeli authorities detained, questioned, and denied entry to a 23-member international delegation through the Karama crossing, preventing them from attending a Birzeit University conference on Global South solidarity and resistance to imperialism.
• UN commission finds Israel continuing genocide in Gaza despite ceasefire, committing crimes against humanity in West Bank: Israel continues to commit genocidal acts in Gaza even after the “so-called ceasefire agreement,” with the intent to destroy Palestinians “in whole or in part,” according to a new report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry.
  • The commission also found that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including extermination, persecution, torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence, across the occupied Palestinian territory.
  • In Gaza, Israeli authorities and forces continue to intentionally kill and inflict serious bodily and mental harm on Palestinians despite the October 2025 ceasefire. Israel’s expanding territorial control also continues to endanger Palestinians approaching or crossing the Yellow Line.
  • In the occupied West Bank, Israeli military operations and settler violence form part of a widespread, systematic and coordinated attack on Palestinians, the report said. Israeli military operations since January 2025 caused the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967, with 34,176 still displaced as of August 2026.
  • Israeli forces also deliberately killed and injured Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank, the report found.
• Netanyahu’s Likud prepares election fraud claims as paid teams monitor Palestinian voters: Israel’s ruling Likud party deployed paid teams outside polling stations in Palestinian towns inside Israel to collect footage and testimony that could be used to challenge the results of Tuesday’s Knesset election if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc appears headed for defeat, according to a report published by Haaretz.
  • The operation, estimated to cost millions of shekels, operates separately from official election monitors and is reportedly approaching coverage of nearly every polling station in Palestinian communities. Information gathered by the teams will be sent to a dedicated “election fraud operations room,” while party officials have discussed launching a campaign claiming the election was “stolen” or “rigged” if Netanyahu loses.
  • Netanyahu called on Likud supporters to turn out in force on Tuesday. “The future of our Jewish state is at stake: a strong right-wing government or a left-wing government supported by the Arab parties,” he wrote in a post on X.

Yemen

• Ansarallah says Egypt’s pledge of military support for Saudi amounts to a “declaration of war”: Yemen’s Ansarallah movement said Egypt’s decision to authorize defensive military support for Saudi Arabia against Ansarallah attacks amounts to a “declaration of war” on Yemen, according to AFP.
  • “It is truly remarkable that while these parties are supposedly pursuing peace in the region, Egypt and its parliament announce their support for what they call the defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” said Mohammed Al-Houthi, a member of Ansarallah’s Supreme Political Council. “In doing so, Egypt is declaring war on the Republic of Yemen.”
• Ansarallah claims strike on Saudi oil refinery, military aircraft: Ansarallah’s armed forces said they struck Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura oil refinery in the Eastern Province with a ballistic missile, claiming a direct hit that caused massive fires at the facility.
  • The group also claimed to have targeted two military transport aircraft with ballistic missiles, one at Najran Airport and another at King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait, saying both strikes successfully hit their targets.
  • The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by Ansarallah toward Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
  • Separately, Ansarallah claimed its forces repelled an attempted advance by Saudi-backed forces from the southern direction of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The group said it targeted troop concentrations with ballistic missiles and heavy weapons, killing and wounding large numbers of fighters and destroying several military vehicles.

Lebanon

• Israel shells towns across southern Lebanon despite ceasefire:
  • Hasbaya: Israeli forces fired four artillery shells into Wadi Shebaa on Tuesday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
  • Marjeyoun: Forces carried out a demolition near the cemetery in Khiam, accompanied by heavy machine-gun fire.
  • Tyre (Sour): Israeli forces shelled the towns of Mansouri and Majdal Zoun.

U.S. News

• FTC orders Anthropic executives to testify in consumer-harm probe: The Federal Trade Commission sent testimony demands to Anthropic and other unnamed AI companies as part of a consumer-harm probe, Axios reported on Monday. The escalation of the probe, which has also involved OpenAI, came the same day that Anthropic began pitching investors on one of the largest IPOs ever. Anthropic said in its S-1 filing that the investigation could bring significant costs to the company, and force changes to its models and.
• DOJ charges Comey with leaking information: Federal prosecutors charged the former FBI director James Comey with transmitting national defense information and conspiracy, alleging that he “directed staff to speak” with the New York Times reporter Charlie Savage about an October 2016 news article. Comey’s lawyers said the charges are time-barred because the 10-year limit expired without an indictment. Comey cannot be tried without an indictment or waiver. In response to Monday’s announcement, he said, “I’m still innocent.”
  • Separately, a judge ruled Monday that Comey’s daughter Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired from the Justice Department and ordered her reinstated.
• DOJ orders Washington state to set aside ballots from 400+ supposed noncitizens: The Justice Department ordered Washington’s secretary of state to set aside the ballots of more than 400 voters that the DOJ claims are “noncitizens.” The DOJ’s demand came with a 24-hour deadline. The office of the Washington Secretary of State said it is reviewing voting records, though the top agency official, Steve Hobbs, said that the timing, a week before midterms, is “no doubt intended to cast unfounded suspicion on the results.”
• Court rejects DOJ attempt to cast doubt on 20,000 California ballots: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the DOJ cannot order California to sequester the ballots of 20,000 voters that the Trump administration says are “likely noncitizens.” A panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against the DOJ’s attempt to cast doubt on the ballots. The Trump-appointed judge Mark Bennett said that the Constitution gives California power over its voter rolls, and the Biden-appointed judge Gabriel Sanchez questioned the reliability of the DOJ’s claim that 20,000 California voters could be “noncitizens.” Voting is already underway in California, where every voter receives a mail-in ballot.
• AP: ICE detained mentally ill man for almost a year despite records showing he was born in the U.S.: ICE arrested Phillip James, a U.S. citizen, in January and has held him in detention ever since, according to an Associated Press investigation. James, who has paranoid schizophrenia, said that he was born in Jamaica, but a Florida birth certificate and a 1988 paternity case show that he was born in Orange County, Florida. He was also issued a U.S. passport. An immigration judge ordered James’ deportation to Jamaica in April, though Jamaica said that it has no record of his being born there. His lawyers have petitioned federal judge Damon Leichty for his release.
• FT: Donald Trump Jr. attended hunting trip with Russian oligarch close to Putin: In August, Donald Trump Jr. went on a hunting trip in western Mongolia with the Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who has personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Financial Times reported. A spokesperson told the FT that Kremlev and Trump Jr. have a strictly “personal relationship, not a business relationship.” The exposé follows a ProPublica investigation that Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Trump Jr.’s ritzy Bahamas wedding. President Donald Trump said his son repaid Kremlev for the wedding funding.

Other International News

• Egyptian court orders closure of leading news outlet Mada Masr, detains editor: An Egyptian court continued its attack on Mada Masr on Tuesday, convicting its editor-in-chief and co-founder Lina Attalah on the charge of running an unlicensed website. The court ordered the closure of the publication, took Attalah into custody, and fined her 3 million Egyptian pounds (about $50,000). Mada Masr is one of the country’s last remaining independent news organizations. The rulings followed a sham one-day trial in which Attalah’s legal requests to present documents and call witnesses were rejected, after which the court appointed an unknown attorney in place of her existing legal team. The outlet, which was founded in 2013, has repeatedly applied for license, but has received no response from Egyptian authorities. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the ruling, calling Mada Masr “a vital source of critical reporting” and the decision a “devastating blow to press freedom in Egypt.”
• Bolsonaro effectively concedes defeat in Brazil, lacking Trump intervention and fearing prosecution: Flávio Bolsonaro dropped his demand that Sunday’s presidential election be annulled minutes after Trump said he “didn’t take sides” in the race. Bolsonaro said he would sue President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for abuse of incumbency, a routine challenge that his camp does not expect to succeed. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passport amid a probe of possible corruption and money laundering. Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing. One of his advisers said that he conceded the election, in part, out of fear of imprisonment.
• Drone strike in RSF-held territory kills at least 21, injures 40; western nations warn of famine: A drone strike hit a market in Ayala, the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) de facto capital, on Monday, killing at least 21 people and injuring at least 40 others. Sudanese Armed Forces regularly strike the city. Separately, RSF drone strikes hit a Khartoum transformer station on Tuesday.
  • On Monday, the United States, the European Union, and 30 other countries warned that Sudan is undergoing an “alarming deterioration in its food security.” The countries called for “urgent action” to avoid famine.
• Congo exceeds 10,000 Ebola cases: The Democratic Republic of the Congo surpassed 10,000 confirmed Ebola cases, according to government data published on Tuesday. Almost 4,900 of these cases resulted in death. The Congo’s Ebola epidemic is the fastest-growing and deadliest outbreak in the country’s history, and the second-largest Ebola outbreak recorded. Around 80% of new cases have occurred outside the chains of transmission that health authorities are monitoring. Several treatment centers are reportedly overwhelmed by infections. At least half of people who died from Ebola were never admitted to a health facility.
• 89,000+ people evacuated in eastern India ahead of Cyclone Arnab: Indian authorities evacuated at least 89,000 people from coastal areas in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, ahead of a “very severe” storm, Cyclone Arnab, that is expected to hit the region by Wednesday morning. More than 12 million people live along the storm’s projected path. Authorities in the area have opened over 2,000 shelters, secured 30,000 fishing boats, and deployed over 1,000 medical teams. The neighboring state of Odisha plans to evacuate almost 50,000 people.
• Attacks in Ethiopia kill at least 60 Orthodox Christians: Two attacks in the Oromia region of Ethiopia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians over the last week, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said. Fourteen people were killed in Merti district on October 20, and 46 were killed in Shirka district on October 24. More than 20 people were seriously wounded in the attacks, and 20 homes were burned. A regional spokesperson accused the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) of the attacks, without presenting evidence. The OLA couldn’t be reached, and its leader has previously denied targeting civilians. The OLA belongs to an alliance formed in September to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from power.
• Jordan strikes Syria in response to Karak church attack, killing at least seven: Jordan attacked four sites in the Syrian cities of Deraa and Suweyda on Monday, killing seven people, according to the Syrian Civil Defence. Among the victims was a family of five, including three children. Jordan’s military said the strikes came in response to last week’s attack on a church in Karak. A Jordanian spokesman acknowledged some civilian deaths, but said that the strikes killed 20 Islamic State fighters.
• Romania accuses Russia-backed actors of sabotaging weapons factory: The Romanian Intelligence Service said that it had “uncovered” a Russia-backed network responsible for setting fire to a state-owned weapons factory in September. The attack was “part of a wider campaign of sabotage operations coordinated” by Russia against arms makers and other military and industrial targets, the agency said. Romanian authorities have identified three suspects. Russia has not commented on the case.
• Colombia to withdraw from Hague Group coalition over stance on Israel: Colombia formally requested to leave The Hague Group, a group of states aiming to hold Israel accountable for war crimes, a Colombian government spokesperson announced on Tuesday. The spokesperson said that the group aims “to isolate and attack Israel.” The Hague Group was formed in 2025 by nine countries of the Global South to support the rulings of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. It has sought to curtail weapons sales to Israel.