Saturday, October 31, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 20 articles, newest first. Past days never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Judge permanently ends Trump's $10bn Epstein letter lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed for the second time to plead actual malice against the Journal's reporting on a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein — and this time the dismissal is with prejudice, so the case cannot be refiled.
PoliticsThe surge of the other: Arab parties take a record 19 seats and redraw Israel's coalition map
Palestinian citizens of Israel turned out in record numbers on October 27, handing the Joint List and Ra'am their highest-ever tally — and a mathematical key to a parliament where neither Jewish-led bloc can govern alone.
PoliticsDC and Virginia sue to block Trump's triumphal arch days before groundbreaking
The District of Columbia and Virginia call the 250-foot monument near Arlington National Cemetery "flagrantly unlawful" and ask a federal court to stop construction before it starts — the third lawsuit in nine months, and the decisive one.
Politics139 arrests in London as hundreds defy Britain's Palestine Action ban outside the US embassy
Defend Our Juries' Halloween “mass action” drew several hundred people to Nine Elms to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation — days before the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal. The Metropolitan Police said most of the 139 detained were held for expressing support for a proscribed group.
PoliticsThousands rally in Berlin as Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in 34 cities
A loose youth alliance called Gen Z Regelt drew registered sign-ups topping 170,000 nationwide for a Saturday of protests over living costs, education cuts and military spending — but early turnouts ran well below the online pledges, and the day ended with scuffles in Cologne and arrests in Hamburg.
PoliticsTear gas over the Halloween march: France's third Saturday of youth protests ends in clashes
The Interior Ministry counted 320,000 protesters nationwide, including 70,000 in Paris, as the third consecutive weekend of youth-led demonstrations over living costs and education was met with 70,000 police, a court-ordered march route on the capital's edge, and tear gas as dusk fell.
PoliticsRabat summons its Parliament: a joint Sahara session on Monday after the UN deadlock
Both chambers of Morocco's Parliament will sit together on Monday afternoon to examine the Sahara file, after the Security Council failed to renew MINURSO — a constitutional signal from Rabat that the kingdom is turning the page on the 35-year UN mission.
DiplomacyAnkara's gambit: Turkey nominates Feridun Sinirlioğlu to succeed Guterres at the UN
Hours after a seventh inconclusive straw poll, Türkiye formally put forward its former foreign minister and current OSCE chief for UN secretary-general — a bid that tests the P5 veto, the Latin American rotation, and the two months left on the clock.
ArcticThe Border That Split Sápmi Is Closing Again
Two hundred years after Norway and Russia drew a line through the Sámi homeland, the war in Ukraine is hardening it into a wall of fences, fines, jamming and brigades. A new longform dispatch from Finnmark records what an Indigenous people stands to lose.
EnvironmentDead dolphins, naval mines: the war that is killing the Black Sea
A Ukrainian researcher's toll — more than 120,000 cetaceans dead, one in four — is the hardest number yet on the war's hidden front. Sonar, mines, and pollution are emptying a sea that cannot replace them for decades.
PoliticsFinal weekend in America: the battle for Congress, a record 49 million ballots, and a legal storm in Alaska
With three days to go before the November 3 midterms, the campaign for Congress reached its final weekend: Donald Trump returned to the trail after a 24-hour rally reversal, early voting smashed the midterm record, and the Justice Department intensified its intervention in Alaska's knife-edge Senate race.
PoliticsCan Democrats win the Senate? Ten races that will decide it on Tuesday
Three days before the midterms, polls and prediction markets agree on one thing: the Republican majority is in genuine danger. From Alaska to Texas, here are the ten Senate battles that will decide control of Washington.
PoliticsLive: France's top court bans Halloween protest in the heart of Paris, permits route on outskirts
Overnight, the Council of State overturned the administrative court's green light for the Bastille–Nation march and upheld the prefecture's outskirts route, as 70,000 officers deploy for a third weekend of cost-of-living protests colliding with Halloween.
PoliticsTwo vetoes, one expired mandate: the 35-year MINURSO chapter closes
On Friday in New York, Russia and the United States vetoed each other's resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara, leaving the UN's 35-year-old MINURSO mission without a renewed mandate as it expires on October 31. Rabat's Royal Office called it a decisive step toward closing the file — as Laayoune lit up for the first Unity Day.
PoliticsThree Days to Go: Democrats Hold an Eight-Point Lead as Record Early Voting Reshapes the Midterms
With the November 3 midterms three days away, Democrats lead the national congressional ballot by 8.2 points, more than 47 million Americans have already voted, and Donald Trump has reversed course on his final rallies — while fabricated polls and election lawsuits put the process itself on trial.
Politics500 Interceptors, No Delivery Date: Washington Approves a $2.1bn Patriot Sale to Ukraine
The US State Department says allies — not American taxpayers — will pay for the biggest defensive-weapons package of Donald Trump's second term. Kyiv, which ran out of interceptors this month, says it needs them this winter, not in the 2030s.
ScienceTwenty Kilowatts in the Dark: Why the US, Russia and China Are Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Washington wants a fission reactor on the lunar surface by December 2030; Moscow and Beijing answer with a joint reactor for their International Lunar Research Station in 2036. The prize is water ice at the south pole — and the unspoken prize is who writes the rules for the ground it sits on.
WorldAt the G20, India Accuses Sanctions and Chokepoints of Holding Energy Hostage
Speaking at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar warned that deliberate attacks on energy trade and infrastructure — and continuous market distortion through sanctions and chokepoints — have produced an energy crisis of unpredictability, not of production.
PoliticsPeltola says she 'knew nothing' about the second Dan Sullivan — as the DOJ widens its probe
The Democratic Senate candidate denied any knowledge of the alleged scheme to put a namesake on Alaska's ballot, one day after a New York Times investigation triggered a state criminal probe, grand-jury subpoenas and a federal bid to segregate the ballots.
WorldEvacuations begin in Russian-occupied Oleshky as US-brokered ceasefire holds into its fourth day
Residents of the devastated town of Oleshky began boarding evacuation buses on Friday as a US-brokered local ceasefire — the first joint Russian-Ukrainian relief operation of the war — held into its fourth day with no recorded violations.