Day News Recap: Binance hit by record crypto hack as Middle East tensions and Ukraine strikes escalate

Binance said hackers stole about $6.3bn from its wallets in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency theft on record, forcing the exchange to suspend deposits and withdrawals while it froze $2.54bn in funds amid a potential security issue. The company said the attack began with a staff laptop compromise and that it was still assessing the full scale of the breach.  🔗  🔗

Maritime security fears deepened in the Gulf after Iran's Revolutionary Guard said two oil tankers encountered incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, while Qatari mediators arrived in Tehran to push ceasefire diplomacy between the United States and Iran. The developments come as the waterway remains one of the world's most sensitive shipping routes.  🔗  🔗

In Yemen and Saudi Arabia, cross border attacks continued to raise alarm, with residents in Aden stockpiling food and preparing escape plans after repeated missile strikes and explosions, and Saudi Arabia saying it intercepted a Houthi drone aimed at the Mecca region. Explosions were also heard in Riyadh after authorities warned of a hostile aerial threat.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Russia's war on Ukraine continued to exact a heavy toll, with a strike on Chernihiv killing two teenage girls and another attack leaving more than 200,000 people without power in Dnipropetrovsk region. Separately, a drone attack reportedly triggered a major fire at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Russia's Samara region, while the EU moved to accelerate disbursement of its €90 billion support loan to Ukraine as Kyiv faces a financial crunch.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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There were also signs of limited humanitarian movement in Russian occupied southern Ukraine, where evacuation and aid deliveries began in Oleshky under a six day ceasefire and hundreds of residents were later reported to have been moved towards Ukrainian controlled areas. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia was ready for war with Europe, even as he said Moscow did not want such a conflict.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Across the wider Middle East, Israeli forces continued raids across the occupied West Bank as Hebron's lockdown entered its seventh day, and Israel extended its ban on Al Aqsa imam Sheikh Ekrima Sabri until April 2027. In Israel's election aftermath, final results left Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc short of a majority, prompting opposition figures to accuse him of trying to delegitimise the vote.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in Europe, France braced for a high risk of disorder at Halloween protests, Italy tightened security as student and union demonstrations spread nationwide, and Albanian opposition lawmakers again disrupted parliament with flares and smoke bombs. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, four Italian nationals were killed when an EUFOR Chinook helicopter crashed during routine training, while Spain's inquiry into a high speed train collision near Toledo gained new detail from leaked audio.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Asia saw a series of security and political developments, with North Korea firing around a dozen short range ballistic missiles and separately staging a weapons demonstration featuring attack drones, cruise missiles and multiple rocket launchers. Switzerland reopened its diplomatic office in North Korea after a rare ministerial visit, China expelled a record 33 officials as its fifth plenum ended, and Kazakhstan's President Kassym Jomart Tokayev called for faster construction of two nuclear power plants.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the Americas and beyond, the United States midterm campaign intensified as early voting passed 43 million, Donald Trump cancelled rallies in Kansas and Iowa and turned to online campaigning, and a Texas Republican county party filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block certification of election results over AI and machine concerns. In separate US political and legal moves, the Pentagon fired Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia amid a classified leak probe, and the Justice Department renewed its bid to block Alaska Senate results from being certified.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included a helicopter crash near Joshimath in Uttarakhand that left six people on board, including five pilgrims, with rescue teams sent to the site, and a glacial lake burst in northern Bhutan that flooded the Gasa Tshachu hot springs area and cut road access. In Africa, Cameroonian families protested in Yaounde over allegations that relatives had been recruited into Russia's war in Ukraine, while in South America Donald Trump called Brazil's election a disgrace after Bolsonaro's defeat and a market drop.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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