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Israel’s Election Produces No Clear Winner, High-Stakes Coalition Race Begins
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Israel’s Election Produces No Clear Winner, High-Stakes Coalition Race Begins

Israel’s October 27 election produced no clear winner, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc nor former military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist Yashar-led bloc securing the 61 seats needed for a majority. Preliminary results indicate Likud and allies won 53 seats, Yashar and allies 48, and Arab-led parties 19. Eisenkot declared the election a rejection of “the culture of lies, of failure, of division and incitement,” saying, “We have made history.”

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Israeli Exit Polls Suggest Opposition Edges Ahead of Netanyahu
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Israeli Exit Polls Suggest Opposition Edges Ahead of Netanyahu

Exit polls in Israel’s first election since the October 2023 Hamas attacks suggest opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc has edged slightly ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, with Eisenkot’s bloc projected to win 52 of the 120 Knesset seats, compared to 50 for Netanyahu’s religious right-wing alliance. The results, published by Israeli news outlets including Channel 12 and Channel 13, indicate no clear victor and set the stage for a complex coalition-building process.

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Israel Election Ends in Deadlock, No Bloc Near Majority
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Israel Election Ends in Deadlock, No Bloc Near Majority

Israel’s October 27 election ended in a political stalemate, with exit polls showing neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, securing the 61 seats needed to form a majority government. Netanyahu’s bloc was projected to win 50 seats, while Eisenkot’s opposition bloc took 52 to 53, according to multiple Israeli media outlets. Arab parties, including the Joint List and Raam, were projected to win 17 to 18 seats combined, their strongest showing in Israeli history.

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Former FBI Director Comey Charged for Third Time with Classified Info Leak
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Former FBI Director Comey Charged for Third Time with Classified Info Leak

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged for the third time with federal crimes, this time for allegedly leaking classified national defense information to a reporter in October 2016, according to a court filing unsealed October 26 in Washington, D.C. The Department of Justice charged Comey with communicating the information to a person not entitled to receive it and conspiring to do so.

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Lula Re-elected in Brazil, Halting Rightward Trend in Latin America
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Lula Re-elected in Brazil, Halting Rightward Trend in Latin America

The result limits U.S. influence in the region’s largest economy, a key counterweight to Washington. Lula’s win, analysts said, complicates U.S. plans to recruit Brazil into a hard-line security alliance and gain access to its mineral resources. “Lula is pragmatic enough to work out some kind of modus operandi with the Trump administration,” said Will Freeman, a Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement
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Serbia’s Vucic Concedes Election to Student-Led Movement

Serbia’s long-serving leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat on Sunday to a student-led opposition movement in a snap parliamentary election that marked a seismic political shift. Vucic, whose Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had dominated Serbian politics for 14 years, said his opponents in the Students’ List were projected to win between 135 and 140 of the 250 parliamentary seats. “The Students’ List has won,” Vucic said at his party’s election night event, though he blamed “independent media,” “unnamed European countries,” and an “American deep state” for the loss.

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