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Israel’s poll chief rebukes Netanyahu’s claims of ‘stolen’ election

The head of the Central Elections Committee has insisted the elections were ‘conducted properly’

Average fuel costs during president’s second term pass Biden-era levels as affordability issues top Tuesday’s midterm polls

Prices extend decline after Iran’s president said the country’s supreme leader had given officials certain authority over talks

Maga supporters would do well to ponder his economic shadow, which continues to do damage today

Interviewees share nightmarish accounts of being forced about by the dictator, with striking parallels to far-right rhetoric in the west today

French group also sets out plan to cut €2bn in debt in second major profit warning under new chief Martin Sion

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood abandons plans to force many care workers to wait 15 years for permanent settlement

Makers of ultra-processed foods are under pressure as the US government steps up efforts to reduce the causes of preventable ill-health

Claude maker’s infrastructure costs rise faster than revenues, as investors scrutinise economics of AI boom

Everything you always wanted to know about SpaceX (but were afraid to ask)

Freezer temperatures surge to as high as 55C in dozens of stores across Sweden, Belgium, Ireland and Estonia

Puzzle: find White’s winning move

Voters have grown weary of the president’s monument-building at a time of high living costs

Israeli leader and US president talk on phone as mediation efforts led by Qatar seek to broker interim deal between Washington and Tehran

Government says MPs and officials who received warnings from Apple should assume their phones have been compromised

Democratic Alliance targets mayoral election in Africa’s richest city in effort to present itself as the opposition-in-waiting

Blockchains are not the problem; it is the ecosystem around them that has introduced technological vulnerabilities

Saving an entire generation is a whole-systems challenge

Lachlan Murdoch blames ‘viewer fatigue’ as CNN and MS NOW expand viewership

Second deadly accident this year on Madrid-Seville line ‘reinforces the idea . . . everything is a mess’ ahead of November 29 vote

Silicon Valley companies said all-stock deal would create a ‘leader in AI connectivity’

A Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress would see big changes on energy and trade in particular

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