Wednesday, Oct 28

World Digest

1. Netanyahu's Likud leads Israel's vote count, but neither camp has a clear path to a majority elections Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud was on course to be the largest party after Tuesday's Israeli election, but neither his bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot's opposition camp had a clear route to a 61-seat majority, according to the BBC and The Guardian.
2. Two high-speed trains collide in central Spain, halting the Madrid-Andalusia line public-safety Two high-speed passenger trains, one run by Renfe and one by Iryo, collided near Urda in Spain's Toledo province on Wednesday morning, and rail infrastructure manager Adif suspended high-speed service between Madrid and Andalusia.
3. Oleshky truce widened across Kherson region as Finland and Norway leaders hold rare call with Putin conflict A local ceasefire that began Tuesday around the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky has been extended across the wider Kherson region to give humanitarian convoys safe passage, U.S. first lady Melania Trump and Ukrainian officials said.
4. U.S. to grant visas to Flávio Bolsonaro as reports say he left Brazil despite court order diplomacy A senior U.S. State Department official said Tuesday that Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas, as several outlets reported he had left Brazil despite a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.
5. Egyptian court orders closure of independent news site Mada Masr and fines its editor courts A Cairo court on Tuesday convicted Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr, of running a website without a license, fined her 3 million Egyptian pounds and ordered the outlet closed, according to Mada Masr, the AP and the BBC.