International News Bulletin — October 27, 2026

Politics

• Israel votes in its first general election since October 7 – About 7.3 million Israelis are eligible to vote on Tuesday for the 120-seat Knesset, and the last published polls showed Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist challenger Gadi Eisenkot running neck and neck, France 24 reported, citing AFP. A governing majority requires 61 seats, and Al Jazeera said Netanyahu’s Likud and its far-right allies face an opposition bloc that includes Eisenkot’s Yashar party. Final results could take days and coalition talks weeks, according to AFP.
• Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party accepts Lula’s victory as Trump alleges rigging – Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa Neto said on Monday that “We recognise the presidential election results,” while adding that the issues raised needed to be clarified, Al Jazeera reported, and Anadolu said the party has not endorsed Flávio Bolsonaro’s call to annul the run-off. Donald Trump said the same day that “It looked like another rigged election, frankly,” according to Al Jazeera. Bolsonaro said in an Instagram video that he had been ordered to hand over his passports and was barred from leaving Brazil, France 24 reported.
• Algeria orders its first foreign troop deployment since 1973 – President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered troops to neighbouring Niger at the request of Niger’s authorities, the presidency announced on Monday, after both chambers of parliament approved the deployment in an emergency session on Sunday, Al Jazeera and France 24 reported. Neither the size of the unit nor its departure date has been disclosed. Senator Belkacem Boulghiti said the soldiers would mainly guard economic infrastructure, including Algerian oil facilities, and that Algeria was “not sending our soldiers to wage war in Niger,” according to Al Jazeera.
• Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish officials hold security talks in Tehran – Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan’s army chief General Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met President Masoud Pezeshkian and security chief Mohsen Rezaei in Tehran on Monday, Anadolu and France 24 reported. The four countries agreed to continue talks on regional security without announcing concrete measures, according to Iranian state media cited by AFP. Rezaei told state television he “sensed a very positive atmosphere in the discussions among the gentlemen.”
• Egypt’s parliament authorises military support for Saudi Arabia – Egypt’s House of Representatives voted on Monday to allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to provide military support to Saudi Arabia should Riyadh request it, as Houthi attacks on the kingdom intensify, Al Jazeera reported, citing Reuters. Sisi said on Wednesday that any Egyptian action would be limited to protecting Saudi territory and borders. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who met Sisi in Cairo on Monday, urged “maximum restraint,” according to the same report.

Economy

• Wall Street gains as Brazilian stocks tumble after Lula’s re-election – The S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent to 7,676.77 on Monday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.3 percent to 52,361.58 and the Nasdaq Composite 0.8 percent to 26,169.38, according to AP figures carried by La Nación and matching Yahoo Finance. Brazilian stocks tumbled after the president’s surprise re-election, AP said, and Al Jazeera, citing Reuters, reported that São Paulo’s Ibovespa fell 10 percent from its previous close, triggering a 30-minute trading halt. Earnings from nearly one in three S&P 500 companies and several central-bank rate decisions are due later this week, AP noted.
• Anthropic files for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT – Anthropic’s US IPO prospectus, made public on Monday, reports revenue of about $16.3 billion and a net loss of $80.7 billion for the first half of 2026, Nikkei Asia (Reuters) and RTÉ (PA) reported. Nikkei Asia said the loss widened largely because of a rise in the fair value of convertible bonds, and that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead the underwriting syndicate. The company has not yet disclosed how many shares it will sell or at what price.
• South Korea’s economy grows 1 percent in the third quarter – South Korea’s gross domestic product grew 1 percent in July to September from the previous quarter, above the Bank of Korea’s own projection of 0.3 percent, with exports up 2.3 percent on semiconductor shipments, the Korea Times and Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday. A Reuters poll of 16 economists had put the median forecast at 0.7 percent. The KOSPI was up 3.9 percent at 5,682.6 by 11:20 a.m. in Seoul, and the Korea Exchange briefly paused programme buy orders, the Korea Times said.
• US trade chief says EU loan to Airbus threatens the truce – US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Monday that a European Investment Bank loan of 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) to Airbus, announced in June, could jeopardise the transatlantic truce in the aircraft subsidy dispute, France 24 reported, citing AFP. “This situation injects substantial uncertainty into transatlantic trade in the aerospace sector,” Greer said. The five-year truce agreed in 2021 suspended tariffs the two sides had imposed in the Airbus-Boeing dispute, which began in 2004.

World News

• US-brokered truce takes effect around Russian-occupied Oleshky – A localised ceasefire around Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, began at 01:00 GMT on Tuesday to allow aid deliveries and evacuations, Russia’s defence ministry said, according to AFP and AP. Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said “The sides are adhering to the agreements that we reached,” while neither side has said who will monitor the truce, France 24 reported. The town’s population has fallen from about 24,000 before the war to about 2,000, according to AFP and Al Jazeera.
• Jordan strikes southern Syria after the Karak church attack – Jordan’s armed forces said they struck armed groups’ “hideouts” in southern Syria on Monday in response to Friday’s shooting at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate that killed nine people, Al Jazeera and France 24 reported. Syria’s civil defence said seven people were killed, including three children, while a health official cited by AFP said at least eight civilians died. Damascus said the operation “was conducted without prior coordination or notification” and closed the Nassib border crossing, according to Al Jazeera.
• UN inquiry accuses Israel of crimes against humanity in West Bank – The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that Israel had committed crimes against humanity in the West Bank, including extermination, torture and rape, Al Jazeera reported. Israel’s mission in Geneva called the report part of the commission’s “misinformation campaign to demonize the State of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal.” UN rights chief Volker Türk said separately that threats to empty Hebron neighbourhoods raised “serious concerns of ethnic cleansing,” according to Al Jazeera and France 24.
• Romania blames a Russia-run sabotage network for a Brasov fire – Romania’s intelligence service said on Monday that a September 14 fire at an industrial site near a state-owned weapons factory in Brasov was “part of a wider campaign of sabotage operations coordinated” by Russia, Al Jazeera reported, citing AFP and Reuters. Prosecutors said two Belarusians and a Ukrainian were involved, two of whom are in custody in Germany while the third is at large in Poland. Moscow made no immediate comment.

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