Israel looks to be in political deadlock. With 85% of votes counted, neither incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot, look set to have sufficient seats for a majority.

After his far-right coalition lost 11 seats in the election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to discredit the results by claiming there was mass voting fraud in Arab communities. Why it matters: Netanyahu appears to be trying to spook the opposition bloc out of cooperating with Arab parties to form a new government.

Israel’s election ended without a clear winner after neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Gadi Eisenkot failed to win enough seats to govern.

Israelis are waiting for final election results to confirm what is becoming clear: a lack of majority for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his opponents

Brazilian Senator ​Flavio Bolsonaro ‌said on ‌Wednesday ⁠he left ⁠the country to the ​United States ​to avoid the "politicization ⁠of the ⁠justice ⁠system in ​Brazil," claiming without ​evidence ⁠that he ⁠was the rightful president-elect despite his ⁠defeat to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The defeated Brazilian presidential candidate arrived in the U.S. after defying a judicial order to surrender his passports.

Flávio Bolsonaro released an inflammatory open letter on Wednesday claiming fraud in Sunday’s presidential election in Brazil, just hours after he arrived in the US in breach of a travel ban. Providing no evidence that the election result had been manipulated,

Incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated Flavio Bolsonaro on Sunday.

A security breach at Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resulted in an estimated $6.3 billion impact, the biggest crypto heist ever.

Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that $6.3bn (£4.7bn) of digital assets have been impacted by what could be the largest hack in history". The world's biggest crypto exchange said about half of those assets have been frozen with the help of other platforms,

The company said that $6.3 billion in user funds had been affected the incident.

Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder of Binance, said that the world’s largest crypto exchange may have been hacked but that user funds were safe.

Spain has begun three days of national mourning after 69 people were killed and over 100 injured in a high-speed train collision, the third deadly incident this year on the country’s rail network.

More than 50 others were injured, local emergency services said, in an incident that marked Spain's second train disaster this year.

Families are desperately searching for missing loved ones after two high-speed trains collided in central Spain

The collision occurred near the towns of Mora, Orgaz and Urda.

An aid ⁠convoy ⁠started moving overnight ⁠towards the Russian-held town of Oleshky in ​southern Ukraine, carrying food and medical supplies among ‌other items, the Russian ‌newspaper Izvestia said on Friday.

A planned six-day ceasefire brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump has brought rare quiet to the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson

Overnight, Russian forces launched 112 attack drones, 40 of the jet-powered, at Ukraine, according to the Air Force.

Humanitarian aid is poised to roll into the stricken city of Oleshky on Friday, a Ukrainian official said, as a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine stretched into a third day and military units cleared away landmines.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela, asserting that the country is moving toward presidential elections in 2027

Venezuelan opposition leader ⁠Maria ⁠Corina Machado, in her ⁠first substantive remarks since returning to the country over ​the weekend, said on Thursday the United States has suggested presidential elections ‌in the country take place ‌next year,

On Thursday in Caracas, María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, gave her first news conference since returning to the country last week.

Machado, who was in exile for nearly a year, said the transition in Venezuela's government would be "irreversible, organised, pacific".