Day News Recap: Crypto shock, regional conflict and election tensions dominate a crowded global news day

Binance said users withdrew $3.6 billion after the record crypto hack, with the exchange processing $4.649 billion in withdrawals and $1.01 billion in deposits between 06:00 and 15:30 GMT as services resumed in phases. The figures left a net outflow of about $3.6 billion and underscored the scale of the disruption.  🔗

In the Middle East, violence continued on several fronts. Israeli strikes in Gaza killed eight people in two separate attacks, while Israeli forces withdrew from a neighbourhood in Hebron after a 10 day operation, allowing displaced Palestinian residents to begin returning home. Israel also extended its ban on Al Jazeera for another 90 days, according to the network.  🔗 🔗 🔗

Elsewhere in the region, the Saudi led coalition said it intercepted a ballistic missile aimed at southern Saudi Arabia as fighting and airstrikes continued in Yemen, where government forces pressed a counteroffensive in al Jawf under Operation Dawn of Yemen. Iran warned of stronger retaliation if war with the United States and Israel restarted, said the Strait of Hormuz could reopen within two days if Washington met its conditions, and China stepped up diplomacy with separate meetings in Beijing with Iranian and Omani officials.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

Ukraine and Russia both reported fresh cyber disruption after false nuclear, chemical and radiation alerts were sent through emergency apps, with Kyiv and the Lviv region among those affected. Separately, Ukraine said it would channel up to €1 billion in EU loans into joint defence industrial projects with European partners.  🔗 🔗 🔗

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In Europe, the UK Royal Navy intercepted and tracked three Russian vessels in British waters, including in the English Channel and around Scottish waters, as monitoring continued. France opened an attempted murder investigation after petrol bombs and other projectiles were thrown at police during protests, while Germany's Frankfurt remained the main flashpoint in weekend unrest with more than 100 officers injured. Poland's constitutional court crisis also deepened as Donald Tusk urged President Karol Nawrocki to confirm judges elected by parliament.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

Election and political tensions were also building elsewhere. In the United States, more than 53.6 million people had already voted early ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, while Donald Trump closed out his campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas. A federal judge in Alaska dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit over certification of the state's Senate race, and Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalised after suffering a stroke at his son's hockey game.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

In Asia and the Pacific, India began evacuating low lying coastal areas in Andhra Pradesh as Cyclone Murasu approached landfall, while severe storms and large hail hit south east Queensland with flash flooding warnings still in place. Bangladesh's garment workers kept up protests for a third day, disrupting hundreds of factories over wages, and a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Sofia was diverted to Budapest after a bomb threat.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

Other developments included a fresh cyberattack wave that disrupted supermarket refrigeration systems in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden, a Learjet 60 crash in Florida that killed all nine people aboard, and Mary Robinson's call for G20 countries to release pledged Ebola funding for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UN also confirmed the end of its Western Sahara peacekeeping mission, while Bulgaria's presidential runoff was won by Iliana Iotova amid Black Sea security concerns.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

Further afield, Saudi and regional security concerns were echoed by Israel's opening of diplomatic ties with Somaliland, Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed to confront terrorism after the Karak church attack, and British Airways said it would resume its London Heathrow to Dubai service after an eight month suspension. Canada and the United States also signalled progress on trade talks, Uganda began a phased troop withdrawal from Somalia, and five people including two children were rescued in Kiribati after drifting at sea for about three months.  🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

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