Ex-Shin Bet head Ronen Bar files a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking three million shekels, weeks before a tight election.
Argentina has initiated criminal proceedings against companies developing the Sea Lion oil field and will request UN arbitration to stop the project, escalating sovereignty tensions to levels not seen since the 1982 war. The UK has appealed to Interpol to reject related arrest warrants as politically motivated intimidation.
Argentina has filed for emergency measures at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to stop UK-backed oil exploration near the Falkland Islands, targeting the Sea Lion field. The UK government rejects the claim as unlawful economic coercion and vows to defend the project.
Japanese journalist Yuki Imai has been arrested by Russia's FSB on Sakhalin Island, accused of gathering defense intelligence.
A Colombian businessman wanted by the U.S. for allegedly bribing Venezuelan officials has been taken into custody.
Donald Trump announced an immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine via Truth Social, but Kyiv was unaware and Russia struck a Kharkiv power plant shortly after. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy offered conditional acceptance, while Western leaders expressed support and U.S. senators criticized a related diesel fuel deal with Russia.
A Mexican judge will deliver a verdict Friday for three men accused of murdering two Australian brothers and their American friend during a 2024 robbery attempt in Baja California.
Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are accused in a new U.S. indictment of conspiring to torture detainees.
Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, won Brazil's presidential election first round with 47% of the vote.
Michelle Bolsonaro won a Senate seat in her first election while her stepson Flávio Bolsonaro topped the presidential first round, setting up a 25 October runoff against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Argentina has launched formal arbitration against the United Kingdom under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, seeking to halt the Sea Lion offshore oil project in the disputed Falkland Islands waters.
Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva into a historic presidential runoff on October 25 after a first-round victory that defied polls.
Former President Donald Trump attributes rising US gasoline prices to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and closures in Democratic-led states.
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