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Heavy rains and coastal floodings hit India’s east coast on Tuesday as cyclone Arnab is making landfall.

Pro-Palestine activist Yusuke Furusawa is still protesting daily in Tokyo against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. He told us why.

Former PLO official Xavier Abu Eid says Israel’s election outcome remains uncertain, with polls divided between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot. He suggests the two rivals could potentially form a national unity government despite their political differences.

US Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. has said that Arabs don’t produce science or literature, or win Nobel prizes.

RFK Jr.’s remarks, which were made during a Republican rally, have been widely condemned as factually incorrect and racially biased.

A captain whose cruise ship collided with two docked container vessels in strong winds is being investigated by German police over a possible breach of duty of care. No one was injured, but damage forced the operator to cancel its planned Canary Islands voyage.

American rapper Macklemore opened his ‘Free Palestine’ tour before a sold-out crowd in Dublin after announcing that all tour proceeds would support organisations helping Palestinians. The three-city tour comes after his exclusion from Ed Sheeran’s concerts following pro-Palestinian remarks.

President Trump’s Justice Department is trying to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey for a third time in two years. He is accused of sharing sensitive national security information in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Comey has denied the charges and defended himself in a video on Instagram.

Brazilian police shot a man who assaulted and threatened his partner with a fake gun in Criciuma, southern Brazil. Video shows him striking her and attempting to use her as a human shield as officers arrived. Both were taken to hospital for treatment.

Moroccan police intercepted a migrant swimming towards Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and took him back to Morocco. The incident comes amid a crackdown on migrant encampments after at least 70,000 people crossed into the city in July.

Bayern Munich and England striker Harry Kane has won his first Ballon d’Or after a record-breaking season, becoming the first Englishman to claim football’s top individual honour since Michael Owen in 2001. Kane scored 73 goals in 65 games for club and country last season.

Thousands gathered on the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade for a second night to celebrate the victory of the student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections. The result removed the party of former president Aleksandar Vucic from power.

Flavio Bolsonaro posted a video on social media saying police ordered him to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving Brazil. The demand comes one day after Bolsonaro lost a tightly-contested presidential election to incumbent President Lula da Silva.

Jordanian authorities have arrested three relatives over a church attack in Karak that killed eight people and wounded 40. Officials say the suspects were injured in a three-hour shootout and have found no links to external groups.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine, Russia and the US have agreed to hold trilateral talks next month, as he renewed his push for a meeting with Putin to discuss any ‘territorial issues’.

UN Chief Antonio Guterres has warned of devastating consequences from any military escalation involving Iran and Gulf nations. Egypt’s Foreign Minister says Cairo is in daily contact with Tehran, Washington, and regional partners to prevent another full-scale military clash.

‘Where will we go?’
Rohingya refugees say they are being forced to dismantle their homes in Indian-administered Kashmir, following a court order. After living there for more than a decade, many now fear being returned to Myanmar, where they face persecution.

A new political campaign ad in support of Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is generating conversation online. Released by Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC, the video highlights US foreign aid to Israel as Americans struggle with rising living costs.

Brazil’s right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has called for the presidential election result to be ‘annulled’ after losing to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He called the circumstances ‘unprecedented’ after voting was extended by two hours.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has won an unprecedented fourth term, thanking Brazil’s youth for helping to defeat right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro with more than 51% of the vote. Bolsonaro said he would ⁠not concede ​defeat and would seek to annul the result.

Celebrations erupted across Belgrade as Serbia’s student-backed movement claimed a major victory over Aleksandar Vucic’s long-standing ruling party. The result follows nearly two years of protests after a railway station collapse in Novi Sad killed 16 people in 2024.

Gadi Eisenkot, Benjamin Netanyahu’s rival in Israel’s upcoming election, held his final campaign rally on Sunday, declaring: “Netanyahu must go home.” The former military chief has positioned himself as a moderate alternative to Netanyahu in Israel’s first national election since the October 7 attacks.

The global trend may show young people leaning politically to the left, but in Israel… they’re leaning to the right.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim explores how young Israelis’ views on security and Palestinians could impact this election.