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Al-Shuhada Street in the Old City of Hebron, in the West Bank, in a 2016 photograph.

Israel seals off the West Bank and clears about 2,000 residents out of Hebron, who will not return until the operation ends

Demonstrators at a march in Paris on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 October 2026.

France's Interior Ministry counts 410,000 marchers and nearly 1,000 arrests, while the CGT puts the turnout at 800,000

Ronaldinho at the 2011 Taça Guanabara final in Rio de Janeiro.

Ronaldinho returns to play at 46, and his Ravenna debut in Italy's third division is set for 15 November

Justice Alexandre de Moraes during his Senate confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, in Brasília, in February 2017.

Brazilian justice freezes up to R$ 6 billion from lawyer Willer Tomaz and suspends his passports after a trip to Miami

The bay of Manta, in Ecuador's Manabí province, in 2015. All three trials of the fishermen are being heard in this city's criminal court.

Pacific strikes

Ecuador has cleared 32 of the 88 fishermen prosecuted after the US strikes, and rules on nine more on 29 October

A vehicle-mounted Active Denial System, the U.S. military's directed-energy "heat ray," in an Air Force photograph from 2007.

Pentagon lends its "heat ray" to Homeland Security for seven months of testing at the southern border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspect commercial trucks at the Detroit–Windsor truck ferry port of entry in Detroit, Michigan, in August 2022.

Trump reshuffles the 50% tariff list on Canada, dropping plywood and packaging and adding flooring, carpets and valves

American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the Brewers, before a game in September 2025.

Brewers edge the Rays 3-2 in World Series Game 1, and Misiorowski opens with a 103.5 mph pitch

A junction between the Ngezi and Lumumba neighbourhoods, in the Mbunya commune of Bunia, capital of Ituri province, in 2022.

DR Congo launches the Tumaini vaccine trial in the country's largest Ebola outbreak, with 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths

Typhoon Champi at peak intensity, in an image from the Himawari-9 satellite taken on 20 October 2026.

Typhoon Champi leaves one dead and 527 injured in Taiwan, and the land warning is due to be lifted on Saturday

The city of Al-Karak, seat of the governorate where the village of Hamoud is located, in southern Jordan, in August 2026.

Gunmen kill seven at Orthodox church funeral in southern Jordan in attack interior minister calls "unprecedented"

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Superior Electoral Court) in Brasília, opened in December 2011, pictured in 2012.

Electoral Justice

Brazil's electoral court gives Meta and X 24 hours, under a R$500,000 daily fine, to explain how they distribute political content

A Brazilian UE2020 electronic voting machine, in a 2021 handout image from the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Superior Electoral Court). The presidential runoff is on Sunday, 25 October.

Brazil Elections 2026

Brazil's final presidential debate ends with an apology for a "nine fingers" jab and 2h30 of corruption charges

The Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., with the Washington Monument behind it, in 2015.

Capital controls

Treasury would ban some US investments in Chinese AI and chips, and require notice on anything above $50,000

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court lets New Hampshire turn away student IDs at the polls, 12 days before the midterms

A red-level heatwave alert in the Paris metro, at Châtelet station, on 13 July 2026.

Climate and health

Summer 2026 killed more than 50,000 people in European cities, and two-thirds of the deaths are blamed on global warming

Bleached corals on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in March 2016. The Australian system is among those the IUCN classifies as critically endangered.

IUCN lists 96% of shallow-water coral reefs as critically endangered, with a high risk of collapse by 2075

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute compiles and publishes the IPCA-15.

Brazil's inflation preview slows to 0.32% in October, but the 12-month rate climbs to 4.62% and breaches the target ceiling

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, photographed in 2011.

Supreme Court refuses, 7-2, to let the Bureau of Prisons cut off hormone therapy for transgender inmates

Energy Secretary Chris Wright during a visit to the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Longview power plant in June 2025.

Trump turns a 1950 defense law into an energy fund, with $150 million for refineries and $42 million for a stalled pipeline