Overnight papers closed Brazil's runoff with Lula profiles and reports that FlĂĄvio Bolsonaro had to surrender passports and was barred from leaving the country. By evening that order had turned into a flight story, with reports he missed the deadline and left for the United States.
From morning onward attention moved to Israel's parliamentary vote. Previews cast Netanyahu as campaigning under pressure against challenger Gadi Eisenkot, with disputes over Likud observers, diaspora returns to vote, and restrictions in Hebron. After polls closed first projections put Likud narrowly ahead as strongest party but without a governing majority, with Eisenkot's bloc described as stronger overall and Arab parties gaining, shifting coverage from result to coalition arithmetic.
Domestic coverage ran underneath, from electricity prices and care reform to the narrowed nuclear-waste search and the October 31 youth protests.