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Jordanian security forces arrested three men Monday suspected of attacking a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hmoud, killing nine Christians in Jordan’s worst terror attack in years. Get the whole story:

Flávio Bolsonaro wants Brazil’s presidential election annulled after losing to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva yesterday, citing a court order that kept polls open two extra hours—an extension he had also requested. Get the whole story from GlobalPost: bit.ly/3WNz1h5

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected US Embassy accusations that Canada is meddling in the Nov. 3 US midterms. Get the whole story with GlobalPost:

Serbia’s elections on Sunday cap a two-year showdown between student protesters and longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić. Polls give the protesters’ Student List 40 to 45 percent, against about 40 percent for the ruling party. Get the whole story: bit.ly/4sjPq8R

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Italy’s government will deploy 500 more soldiers to Milan and make violent participation in a protest punishable by up to five years in prison, after weekend riots driven by anger over fuel prices and living costs. Get the whole story here:

Britain will send Royal Air Force Typhoon jets to defend Saudi Arabia after a Houthi strike on Riyadh’s main airport killed 13 people, as Yemen’s conflict becomes an increasingly important front in the wider Iran war.

Gangs in Haiti attacked a Salvadoran military armored vehicle with explosives near Port-au-Prince this week, the first major strike on the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force since it was set up in 2025. Get the whole story with GlobalPost:

Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta rejected independence by about 76.5 percent to 23.4 percent, a major win for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid a trade war and annexation rhetoric from the US. bit.ly/4hTr2HC

Mali’s military and its Russian-controlled Africa Corps allies “have killed and wounded scores of civilians” in violation of international humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch said Monday, as Mali’s war spreads across the Sahel.

Israeli police arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank on Monday over weekend settler attacks on a Washington Post photographer and European diplomats, as settler violence draws worldwide scrutiny. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

Thousands of Tunisians marched Saturday on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, a focal point of the 2011 uprising, in the largest protest in years against President Kais Saied, whose opponents call his 2021 and 2022 power expansion a coup.

Costa Rica, once considered one of Latin America’s more peaceful countries, opened a $35 million mega-prison Wednesday modeled on El Salvador’s gang crackdown as the country becomes a transshipment point for Europe-bound cocaine.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama rejected calls to resign Thursday as violent student-led protests spread beyond Tirana, the biggest challenge yet to a leader who won a fourth term last year. Get the whole story here:

The island nation of Mauritius extended a curfew across 15 areas on Wednesday after its largest protests in 30 years, set off by water shortages, the rising cost of living and the police shooting of a 27-year-old woman who remains in critical condition.

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Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal has charged 10 former FARC commanders over war crimes against five Indigenous groups near the Amazon, a major step toward accountability for a conflict that killed at least 450,000 people. Get the whole story here:

Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila now heads a new coalition of rebel groups fighting government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a move that complicates the conflict and peace efforts in the mineral-rich region.

EU sanctions on almost 1,600 Russian individuals and companies tied to the arms industry—the bloc’s largest single package—landed as European officials criticized US President Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Moscow. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

China sanctioned senior officials from Paraguay and Belize on Monday over their countries’ ties with Taiwan, part of an escalating Beijing campaign that has already pushed Honduras, Nicaragua and Nauru to cut ties with Taipei. Get the whole story here:

Dominican officials expelled Cuban diplomats, putting the Dominican Republic alongside Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica in turning away from Havana as US pressure on Cuba mounts. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

Twelve women’s bodies found near Johannesburg since July have stoked serial-killer fears in South Africa and spotlighted a crime crisis the World Bank says costs the economy at least 10 percent of GDP a year. Get the whole story:

Eritrean troops were reportedly seen this week in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, raising fears that renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia could widen into a regional war. Neither government has publicly commented. Get the whole story:

Russian officials deny that a 28-year-old technician at a Siberian plague research institute died of the disease, even as the World Health Organization and the US press Moscow for more information about her death. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

International Criminal Court judges have unsealed arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and three other senior officials over the persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan, a crime against humanity. Get the whole story here:

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the government and Election Commission to explain a voter-roll revision that disenfranchised millions, after three days of protests demanding election chief Gyanesh Kumar resign. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

An estimated 80 million unexploded US cluster submunitions still litter Laos more than 50 years after the Vietnam War, and the clearance rate remains below 1 percent—keeping farmland off-limits in one of Asia’s poorest countries. Get the whole story here:

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government launched a major offensive Sunday to retake territory from the Iran-backed Houthis, after the Houthis said they struck oil facilities in Riyadh. The escalation has raised fears the war could widen. Get the whole story:

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s imprisoned former president, beat President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 47 percent to 45 percent in Sunday’s first round, forcing an Oct. 25 runoff for Latin America’s biggest economy. Get the whole story from GlobalPost: bit.ly/4rKKRnA

Washington this week accused nearly 20 people from Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador of corruption or drug ties. Within days, Bolivian police had arrested two of them, including Attorney General Roger Mariaca. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

Germany is sending warplanes to Latvia to guard against Russian drone strikes during the Baltic country’s Oct. 3 parliamentary elections, a sign of how heavily Russia’s war on Ukraine hangs over the vote. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

Norway’s parliament opened public hearings Wednesday into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the country’s politicians and diplomats, summoning 11 current and former ministers in a scandal that has also reached the royal family. Get the whole story from GlobalPost:

A banking scandal implicating Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has made corruption a major issue before Sunday’s vote. Yet polls show he’s still running neck-and-neck with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Get the whole story here: bit.ly/4yujD7s

Students protested outside a Tehran university this week over hijab laws, tuition and campus conditions, a rare display of dissent amid an intensified crackdown during the US-Israeli war with Iran. Get the whole story from GlobalPost: