BBC nieuws

• Ukraine air raid app apparently hacked as users receive false radiation threat, Air Force says

  Hours later Russian authorities said its app was also hacked, with fake warnings sent inside the country.

• Russian strikes cut power to thousands in Ukraine as Kherson ceasefire ends

  A rare humanitarian ceasefire allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky.

• Democrat endorses Republican candidate in key Michigan Senate race as party spat erupts

  The move by Haley Stevens, who lost out on the Democratic Senate nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, was called a "despicable betrayal" by one top Democrat.

• Israeli strikes in Gaza kill eight including child, hospitals say

  Five officers from the Hamas-run police have been killed in Khan Younis and three people, including a child, killed in Gaza City, officials say.

• France launches attempted murder investigation after petrol bomb thrown at police

  There were hundreds of arrests as protesters took to the streets in cities across France for the third weekend in a row.

• University of Cambridge scientist among those who died in Spanish train crash

  Marta Shahbazi was an "inspiring, talented and passionate scientist", says the laboratory where she worked.

• Armed police start patrols in Sydney after Bondi Beach attack

  The new police unit is a security measure in response to last year's deadly shooting attack at a Hanukkah festival.

• Shops looted as German cost-of-living protests turn violent

  The protests in cities across Germany - including Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt - came on the same day hundreds of thousands also protested in France.

• India's opposition holds mega rally seeking election chief's resignation

  Thousands gathered in the heart of delhi, calling for the chief election commissioner to step down.

• Crypto firm Binance covers 90% of losses after $6.3bn hack

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says North Korea was responsible for the hack.

• Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday book

  Trump had sued the media outlet after it published a letter to Epstein purportedly written and signed by the president as part of a birthday book.

• Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening US election officials

  The order comes after election officials received letters demanding they set aside the ballots of possible non-citizen voters.

• Alaska Senate candidate denies knowing about alleged plot to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot

  The incumbent Republican running for re-election and allies have accused the Democrats of trying to confuse voters by recruiting a second Dan Sullivan to also stand in the race.

• More than 5,000 die from Ebola in DR Congo's deadliest outbreak

  Government data shows that more than 10,000 people have contracted the rare virus.

• Ethiopian PM puts ministers through military training

  The prime minister has previously emphasised military preparedness as central to his government's ambitions.

• Spain train disaster clouds Sánchez chances of re-election

  The Spanish PM is hit by a succession of crises just weeks before a snap general election.

• Ukrainian evacuees reunite with family after years trapped in Russia-occupied city

  Oleshky residents had been without food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.

• Global nature talks reach deal but money remains an issue

  Countries have been trying to get a global agreement to halt nature decline back on track.

• Peaceful protests in Germany spiral into violence and looting

  Thousands joined largely orderly demonstrations earlier in the day, before violence erupted in Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.

• Watch: Heidi Klum as giant severed hand for Halloween bash

  The supermodel and TV host provided a gory new shock at her New York event.

• Thousands demonstrate in Paris as protests spread across Europe

  More than 320,000 people demonstrated across France against the rising cost of living and poor public services, with clashes between some protesters and police.

• Emotional reunions with loved ones for Oleshky evacuees

  The BBC's Dan Johnson travelled to the northern Ukrainian border with Belarus after evacuated Oleshky residents arrived in buses and ambulances following a temporary ceasefire.

• CCTV and zip ties: How US mail-in votes are secured and counted

  BBC Verify goes to an election centre to get a behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots for the US midterm elections are processed.

• Democrats have high hopes for midterms, but polls have let them down before

  Polls have been predicting a Democratic surge, but last-minute deciders and sampling issues mean there's no guarantee.

• Lindsay Clancy is back in court - where will her case go next?

  The Massachusetts mother, accused of murdering her three children, is expected back in court as she awaits a decision on whether her case will be retried.

• Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - could Talarico turn the tide?

  The state's $500m Senate race may be the most closely watched in the US midterms, and is about far more than control of Congress.

• How the downfall of Serbia's Vučiċ mirrored that of Hungary's Orbán

  Defeat for Serbia's Aleksandar Vučiċ in last weekend's vote was a carbon copy of Viktor Orbán's fall in Hungary.

• 'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied front-line city

  One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in search of food.

• I've been stuck on a tiny Pacific island for years and can't get a transit visa to fly home

  Ruchira Ranasingha, 50, has been stranded in the Cook Islands since 2023 and wants to return to Sri Lanka.

• These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst

  The amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.