Democrats win the US House and Senate, taking full control of Congress

Qatar said it was working toward an interim deal. Iran called the US reply to its Hormuz plan "unconvincing", and Iranian media said Tehran would not attend talks in Pakistan. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned any new US attack would trigger a broader response. Trump confirmed a strike on an Iranian anti-aircraft facility and told CBS the war ends "when I say it ends". The IRGC said four tankers hit mines south of Hormuz and burned.

Trump announced on election day that the US will end its roughly $3.8bn in annual military aid to Israel after this year, saying Netanyahu agreed. Opposition leader Yair Lapid called it "one of the most severe political and security failures in the state's history". Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed welcomed the cut and urged an end to arms sales too. Israel's leadership remains uncertain after the 27 October election, in which Netanyahu lost his majority.

President Isaac Herzog began consultations after the election committee certified the 27 October results, which left Netanyahu's bloc on 53 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's on 48; Eisenkot reportedly led in endorsements. Herzog urged compromise and said he would do everything to avoid a new vote. Netanyahu alleged in a video "serious suspicions" that foreign states spent heavily to sway the election, which the largest Arab bloc called political persecution. The committee found no fraud.

Russia launched 310 strike drones overnight, 272 of which were shot down, and explosions were heard in Kyiv, Dnipro and Rivne, where a private house caught fire. Kyiv had its worst water outage of the war, and outage schedules return Nov 5. Zelensky, who put the toll from the double strike on a school used as an aid centre in Komyshuvakha at 40, spoke for 90 minutes with Witkoff and Kushner before trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Nov 10-11.

Three top policemen, including President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff, were arrested on suspicion of illegally tapping the phones of the president, ministers, journalists, politicians and business people from 2025 to this year. Prabowo then sacked his chief of staff on Wednesday over conduct his office said may amount to treason, and troops were stationed in Jakarta. Reuters called it a new setback for a leader facing challenges on multiple fronts.

Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau NABU and prosecutors searched senior SBU officials under "Operation Carthage", which they said uncovered a criminal group paying bribes to senior SBU, police and prosecutor's office officials to protect fraudulent call centres. Sources said the searches targeted SBU deputy department head Serhiy Duka and internal security chief Anton Kravchuk. NABU said a senior SBU official blocked a court-ordered search by threatening detectives with firearms as SBU special forces arrived.