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Al Jazeera journalist Montaser Nassar was detained in raids near Hebron and evidence was revealed that Israeli forces shot and assaulted a prisoner who was threatened by Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami has the latest.

Voting is under way across the US in midterm elections that could strip Donald Trump’s Republicans of control of Congress. All House seats and 35 Senate seats are being contested, with rising living costs and the war on Iran dominating the campaign.

Tell bullies to ‘sod off’. That’s the advice IOC President Kirsty Coventry has for young athletes facing bullying. She spoke to Al Jazeera ahead of the Youth Olympics in Senegal, where she reflected on her own experience as a young athlete.

Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and Republican opponent Mike Collins made their final appeals to voters in Georgia ahead of the November 3 US midterm elections.

Surveillance footage captured the moment a tornado ripped through a beach resort restaurant in Castellaneta Marina, southern Italy, tearing off metal roofing and flattening a restaurant. Emergency teams secured the area and cleared debris, with no injuries reported.

Hundreds of homes have been bulldozed in the Dhubri district of Assam state in northeastern India as part of a government campaign to evict families it says do not legally live there. Local media says most of the 4,000 people displaced were Bengali-speaking Muslims.

At least 26 people were killed in Russian strikes on a school being used as a humanitarian aid centre in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. Ukraine’s president says there were two separate strikes, an initial attack, and then a second one on a building where residents were hiding.

US air accident investigators said there was ‘a lot of work to do’ following Sunday’s Learjet crash in Florida, which killed all nine people on board. Officials said determining the cause could take time, as the impact crater is complicating wreckage recovery.

High school students in France resumed protests on a smaller scale as pupils returned from a two-week break. Dozens of schools were blockaded and students say they will continue to protest until their demands are met.

Novels by Irish author Sally Rooney are in high demand after her publisher, Faber, halted supplies in the United Kingdom. The publisher said it couldn’t send UK earnings to Rooney due to her support for Palestine Action, but one bookstore is able to keep sales going.

At least seven migrants have died aboard a boat carrying 139 people bound for the Canary Islands after a storm hit. Rescuers reached the boat early on Monday, about 150km from Arrecife. Five bodies are missing overboard and two have been recovered.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Qatar is facilitating indirect talks based on Iran’s seven-step peace plan, which Tehran says could now be implemented within two days if Tehran’s demands are met.

Iliana Iotova has won Bulgaria’s presidential runoff, becoming the country’s first elected female president. Her victory reinforces Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s political direction, including calls for dialogue with Moscow and opposition to military aid for Ukraine.

The daughter of the late champion boxer Muhammad Ali, and her son, have endorsed Abdul El-Sayed’s runs for the US Senate at church service in Detroit. Khalilah Ali and her son, Jacob Ali-Wertheimer said El-Sayed is part of Muhammad Ali’s legacy.

Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan had greeted fans from a bulletproof enclosure outside his residence in Mumbai during his customary Sunday greeting. The security measure follows a bomb threat and the recent shooting attempt on Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff.

US Democrat Haley Stevens from Michigan was heckled as a ‘traitor’, after endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in the US Senate contest against her party’s candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Stevens lost to El-Sayed in the Democratic primary contest.

Al Jazeera has marked 30 years since its first broadcast in 1996, with a ceremony in Doha attended by Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Director General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani called for renewal, to protect the network’s independence and values.

Residents filmed as a house collapsed into a swollen river in Ecuador, where torrential rains and floods linked to El Nino have hit parts of the country.

Dozens of garment workers in Bangladesh clashed with police in the capital Dhaka as they protested against low pay and the rising cost of living. The textile industry is the backbone of the country’s economy.

After years of earthquakes, floods and typhoons, China is seeing growing interest in ‘dark tourism’, where visitors flock to attractions that recreate natural disasters. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports on how the line between survival training and entertainment is blurring.

US President Donald Trump, who says he came to his Mar-a-Lago Halloween costume party dressed as himself, described not being in a hurry to make a decision on striking Iran. Mediators are trying to prevent a new breakout of war, as Trump says ‘one or two sites’ in Iran still need ‘taking care of’.