Israel’s opposition leader reportedly told associates he would take a call from Trump but still refuse a Netanyahu-led government. The report came from Kan, not Channel 12.

Israel’s UN ambassador told Al Arabiya English that talk of a nuclear strike is “delusional” and that Netanyahu is not pressing Trump. He answered Tucker Carlson.

The FSB says a soldier’s suspicions exposed explosive-rigged FPV headsets mailed as volunteer aid, as Russia blames Ukrainian intelligence.

Iliana Iotova secured 57.6% in Bulgaria’s presidential runoff after advocating a more balanced approach to Moscow, questioning further military aid to Ukraine and urging greater independence from Brussels.

Britain could negotiate exemptions from the euro and Schengen if it sought membership again, according to EU officials.

Competing leadership claims at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal have brought the police into the court and prompted presidential intervention, with a disputed assembly scheduled for Wednesday.

Aging populations and strained budgets are testing Europe’s state pension systems, forcing governments to confront longer working lives, mounting debt, and voter resistance.

Kazakhstan’s KNB says it detained 10 people in Atyrau for allegedly planning to change the constitutional order by force. The statement does not use the word coup.

Germany’s cyber agency told lawmakers and ministers to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised after Apple sent spyware alerts, the FT reported.

Germany’s president says anyone chanting “Death to the Jews” must find no applause in any party. He calls rejecting antisemitism a condition wherever governments are formed.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran’s conditions for reopening Hormuz are achievable if Washington shows goodwill, with the strait to reopen first and talks to follow, as Qatar and Pakistan mediate.

NATO diplomats fear a Republican midterm defeat could prompt Trump to withdraw more U.S. troops from Europe, reduce alliance funding or curb Ukraine arms purchases.

Vučić told pro-government TV Pink he is not afraid of arrest because he never signs anything on money, days after his list lost Serbia’s election. No charge or investigation against him has been announced.

Fars News says Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei and Vladimir Putin discussed West Asia by phone. Rezaei thanked Moscow for praising Khamenei and backing Iranians, the agency says.

Britain could compensate universities for lower EU student fees if Brussels grants UK manufacturers equal treatment under its Made in Europe program.

President Masoud Pezeshkian told governors and mayors that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has given the government certain authorities, as Qatar-mediated indirect exchanges with the U.S. continue and Tehran says the ball is in Washington’s court.

Four volunteers spent more than a year in a 3D-printed Houston habitat, growing crops and managing delayed communications to help NASA assess the demands of future human missions to Mars.

China’s commercial shipyards are accelerating warship production, with its navy exceeding 400 vessels in one of the largest naval expansions in modern history, according to U.S. figures.

Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed

There’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen – in the apparently miserable situation of hiking across the Balkans towards Germany, four kids in tow – suddenly explodes with joy. “This is the best holiday I’ve ever had! It’s an amazing adventure. Now I have the chance to walk in the rain – I love it!” Shunted off early into an arranged marriage, never having left Syria until forced out of Aleppo by the civil war, for Nisreen this running jump into the unknown represents total liberation.

Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ superb, forthright and highly moving film bypasses the usual refugee dichotomies, that they’re either external threats or history’s victims. Instead of flat abstractions, we get the knotty reality. Focused over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025 principally on Nisreen’s eldest daughter Israa, it presents an intimate chronicle of how geographical displacement and cultural dislocation reshape families and lives from the inside.

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French authorities found production defects in ultra-thin condoms made by Malaysia’s Richter Rubber Technology, prompting a recall covering 15 products and a one-year suspension of French sales and imports.