Breakfast News Recap: Israel deadlock deepens as Ebola toll tops 10,000 and UK Budget looms

Israel is heading for another hung parliament, with exit polls and early counts showing no clear winner and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc short of the 61 seats needed for a majority. Arab parties could again hold the balance of power, while Netanyahu has accused unnamed opponents of trying to steal the vote.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In eastern Ukraine, fighting intensified around Kharkiv and Kupiansk, where Ukrainian forces said they used underground gas pipelines to move behind Russian positions in an unusual assault. Separately, a Russian jet powered drone struck Kharkiv's Osnovianskyi district, causing a major fire in residential and industrial buildings.  🔗  🔗

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has now passed 10,000 confirmed cases, according to health officials, as the crisis is compounded by attacks on health workers. In a separate development, a ceasefire in the Russian occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky is holding, with aid deliveries and evacuations planned for Friday.  🔗  🔗

Across the Middle East, Syria is reopening the Nassib border crossing with Jordan after a brief closure linked to Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria. In Belgrade, Serbian police shot dead an attacker outside the Israeli Embassy after a suspected knife assault, while Russia hosted its third Africa summit in Moscow with trade, energy and payment systems high on the agenda.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the region, Qatar urged Iran to ease regional threats and reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing mediation efforts involving the United States and regional partners. Human rights groups also pushed back against the UAE's bid for diplomat Lana Nusseibeh to become UN secretary general, citing concerns over Sudan.  🔗  🔗

In the UK, Chancellor John Healey is due to deliver the first Budget of the new government at lunchtime, with papers focusing on cost of living pressures and tight fiscal room. King Charles III has begun a nine day Caribbean tour in the Bahamas, where he acknowledged the great suffering of the past as calls grow for a formal slavery apology.  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, the US military said it killed five people in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific as its campaign widens. In Texas, Donald Trump touted a new US oil arrangement with Venezuela and floated the idea of the South American country becoming the 51st state, while in Brazil the US said it would grant visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family after reports he had left the country following election defeat.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Asia Pacific, Cyclone Arnab made landfall on India's southeast coast, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain to Andhra Pradesh as evacuations continued. Australia faces a fresh inflation shock after September prices rose to 4.3 percent, increasing pressure on the Reserve Bank, while The Star Entertainment Group was fined A$260 million over historical money laundering breaches.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Australia and other countries are also backing International Criminal Court staff as the Trump administration intensifies sanctions against the tribunal. In Cambodia, about 200 passengers were left stranded in Sihanoukville after the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise operator suspended operations. In the US courts, a Brooklyn jury convicted Halima Salman of receiving ISIS military type training in Syria, and Ukrainian national Artem Stryzhak was sentenced to 70 months in a ransomware conspiracy case linked to attacks on hospitals and governments.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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