Philippines, China trade blame over collisions in contested South China Sea (www.aljazeera.com)
US intelligence report alleging Russia election interference shared with 100 countries (www.reuters.com)
The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide....
Ukraine fears drone shortages due to China restrictions - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
China’s leaders speed towards Japanisation (www.reuters.com)
China’s real estate market is in decline. Debt deflation hangs in the air. The country’s workforce is shrinking and GDP growth is trending downwards....
As foreign workers head home amid war, ministry says West Bank Palestinians aged 60+ will replace them (www.timesofisrael.com)
China police detain GroupM senior executive: Report - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Apple supplier Foxconn subjected to tax inspections by Chinese authorities (apnews.com)
Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company known globally for making Apple iPhones, was recently subjected to searches by Chinese tax authorities, state media reported Sunday....
Canada removes 41 diplomats from India as dispute over Sikh activist’s assassination deepens (www.cnn.com)
Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats and their families from India after New Delhi threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity amid a deepening dispute over the assassination of a Sikh activist....
Australia PM to visit China, with progress on wine, wind tower disputes (www.reuters.com)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he will travel to China from Nov. 4 to 7 to meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang in a bid to stabilise relations with the country’s biggest trading partner....
Philippines says a coast guard ship and supply boat were rammed by Chinese vessels at disputed shoal (abcnews.go.com)
A Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter that heightened fears of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea....
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025 (www.politico.com)
India successfully carried out Saturday the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space by 2025, the space agency said.
Hurricane Norma makes landfall near Mexico's Los Cabos and Tammy hits tiny Barbuda in the Caribbean (news.yahoo.com)
Hurricane Norma came ashore near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon, and hours later Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda....
Israel calls Hamas' claim it rejected hostage release 'propaganda' (www.reuters.com)
Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals (apnews.com)
The state of Gaza’s hospitals: Surgeries without anesthesia and with only mobile phones for light. Vinegar from the corner store as disinfectant. 5,000 patients in a hospital built for 700, some sleeping on the floor. No power, no clean water, little fuel.
Israel-Gaza war: UN agencies call for Gaza ceasefire as aid arrives (www.bbc.com)
By Malu Cursino BBC News...
Egypt’s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza (apnews.com)
The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened Saturday to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory for the first time since Israel sealed it off and began pounding it with airstrikes following Hamas’ bloody rampage two weeks ago....
Viral Photos Of Alleged Hamas Leaders Accused Of Being AI Fakes Actually Just Poorly Upscaled (www.forbes.com)
President of Detroit synagogue found stabbed to death outside home, police say (edition.cnn.com)
‘We will cut out your tongue’: Filipino activists recount kidnap ordeal (www.aljazeera.com)
Brazil police conduct searches targeting intelligence agency's use of tracking software (apnews.com)
About 100,000 turn out in London for pro-Palestine rally (www.theguardian.com)
PLO official say Israeli efforts to evacuate civilians from Gaza a war crime (www.timesofisrael.com)
Vietnam arrests rare earth industry officials, casting shadow over plans to rival China (www.reuters.com)
Police in Vietnam have arrested six people accused of violating mining regulations, including the chairman of a company at the forefront of a drive to create a rare earth industry that could challenge China’s dominance of the sector....
Biden says Hamas attacked Israel in part to stop a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden said Friday he thought Hamas was motivated to attack Israel in part by a desire to stop that country from normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia....