🇱🇧 Israeli airstrikes have completely destroyed a three-story residential building in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, causing significant damage to nearby structures, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

Israeli jets targeted the residential area on Wednesday morning. Rescue teams attempted to extract survivors, but most of the women and children inside perished, with their bodies taken to a nearby hospital.

Mayor Ali Khalifeh stated that the building was home to three families, all related: a father, his two sons, and their families. All 21 family members were present during the strike, resulting in 15 fatalities, primarily women and children. Khalifeh condemned the attack, emphasizing that Sarafand had been considered safe until recently and that the village now hosts around 2,000 families.

"This is one of many crimes committed by Israel against the Lebanese people," the mayor said.

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🇺🇸🪖 More than 75% of youth in the US unfit for military service - Pentagon

More than three-quarters of young people in the US are currently unfit for military service, including on medical grounds, Katie Helland, Director of Military Accession Policy at the Pentagon, said. In fact, young people nowadays are not considering military service.

“For the first time since this metric has been tracked, a majority of youth have never even considered military service as an option. It's not even on the radar,” she said at a Pentagon briefing.

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🇪🇸 The Government of Spain declared three days of mourning on October 31, November 1, and 2 for the people who died in the floods.

The number of deaths from flooding in Valencia has risen to 95, according to local media.

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Market forecasts indicate Trump as front-runner, while polls show neck-and-neck race with Harris

US financial exchange and prediction market Kalshi and Polymarket, the largest global prediction operator, put Donald Trump's chances of winning next week's election at 62% and 67%, respectively.

Trump is leading Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who has a 33% to 38% chance of winning office – around 20 points behind the Republican.

But the prediction markets are at odds with opinion polls which claim that Trump and Harris are neck-a-neck. A New York Times/Siena College poll published earlier this week indicated that they would win 48% of the popular vote each.

The FiveThirtyEight website says its simulations of the 2024 presidential election showed that Trump wins 52 times out of 100. Harris wins 48 times out of 100.

News website Axios tried to explain the gap between the market forecasts and pollsters. Brad Allen, senior analyst at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, suggested that "markets can be moved by big money, and that big money is not necessarily making bets based on who they think is actually going to win the election."

But large overseas bookmakers – not easily influenced by US interests – show similar results, Axios noted. BetMGM Canada Sportsbook puts the odds of a Trump win at -225 – meaning you would have to stake $225 to win $100, equating to a 69% chance of a Trump victory. But "Odds aren't oracular – even a 99% chance is not a sure thing," Axios insists.

Conservative US commentators distrust polls, suggesting that they over-sample Democrat supporters to inflate support for Harris. Despite raising and spending more than twice as much campaign money than Trump, her chances of winning are slim, they believe.

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🇦🇷 Javier Milei fires foreign minister after UN vote on Cuban embargo

President of Argentina ordered Diana Mondino's resignation after she voted on behalf of her country in the UN in favor of lifting the United States blockade against Cuba, in contrast with Milei's allies Israel and the US.

She will be replaced by Gerardo Werthein, currently serving as the South American country's ambassador to Washington.

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🎃 Joe Biden, dressed as the oldest US president, handed out candy to children at a Halloween party at the White House.

The event featured music by Russian composer Mussorgsky.

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🚛🇺🇸 Trump arrives for Wisconsin rally in a garbage truck

Donald Trump holds a campaign rally today in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 5 days before the election.

”This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden," former president said.

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⚡🇦🇷 Argentina's authorities will audit the Foreign Ministry to find those who don't support their agenda

Following the resignation of Foreign Minister Diana Mondino, the Argentine government will audit the ministry to identify staff who do not support “the values that characterize Western democracies.”

“The government will launch an audit of the Foreign Ministry's personnel to identify those who promote an agenda hostile to freedom,” the presidential press office said.

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❗️🇰🇵 North Korea launches an alleged ICBM towards Japan

According to Japan's defense minister, the missile launched by the DPRK was an intercontinental missile, its range was 1,000 km and its altitude was 7,000 km, the largest ever launched.

“The flight time was 86 minutes, the longest flight time ever,” he added.

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🪖💀 Ukrainian army's 58th brigade emptied by losses & corruption - Ukrainian POW

The 58th brigade of the Ukrainian army has dead soul companies due to losses and corruption, Robert Pogorelov, a prisoner of war and former Ukrainian police officer who was mobilized, told Sputnik.

"Weapons were written off, money was being earned. A lot of missing people, there are also manipulations with documentation. Few people talk about it, but this is the case," he said.

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Trump's reduced aid to Kiev will cause a “domino effect” in Europe - expert

Hungarian political expert Georg Szpetle recalled that Trump had promised to significantly reduce military aid to Ukraine if he won the election in November.

“I think that within a couple of months [after the decision to reduce aid] there will be a ‘domino effect’ - the US will stop, then Germany will stop, then, for example, France, Denmark, and others will say that they can not do it anymore and that it is necessary to start negotiations. Thus, the conclusion will be to force Zelensky to conduct meaningful negotiations with Russia,” he told Sputnik.

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Zelensky started to suspect you can't trust the West?

Several Western media previously claimed that Zelensky had asked for Tomahawk missiles from the US as part of his 'victory plan', and the US had rejected it. Now the Kiev regime head is complaining that his allies leaked his confidential requests.

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⚡🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un confirms the ICBM launch by the North Korea

In his message the leader said the launch demonstrates DPRK's "counteraction will" against its rivals. He added that “nothing will change” the country's policy to enhance its nuclear potential.

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📉 250,000 subs loss - The Washington Post under fire

Since The Washington Post announced on Friday that it would not endorse a presidential candidate, the newspaper has lost at least 250,000 subscribers, about 10% of its digital audience, according to a recent report from the newspaper.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said that presidential endorsements in the newspaper can give the impression of bias, but they have little effect on how readers vote. He regretted making this decision known so close to the election, when emotions were running high.

According to reports, the editorial team of the newspaper had prepared an endorsement for Kamala Harris.

Despite its denials, however, the paper's impartiality is questionable. The lack of a formal endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate does not prevent compelling headlines from continuing to promote Kamala.

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🤝 Russia has signed a digital cooperation agreement with North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

The document outlines plans for collaboration between the two countries in various areas of communication, information technology and digital development.

This could include sharing knowledge and experience in cybersecurity, software development and artificial intelligence, among other advanced technologies.

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🗣OSCE recognizes unprecedented level of election violations in Moldova - Russian foreign intelligence

"The OSCE informally recognizes an unprecedented level of violations by the authorities during the first round of the presidential elections in Moldova and the referendum," the Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) press office said.

Moldova will hold a runoff presidential election on November 3 after none of the candidates won more than required 50 percent of the vote in the first round, with nearly all ballots counted, the head of the country's Central Election Commission said.

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🔸 North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile

🔸 WP loses a quarter million of subs after election non-endorsement

🔸 Watch Trump arriving for Wisconsin rally in a garbage truck

🔸 More than 75% of youth in the US unfit for military service - Pentagon

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