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🚨🇧🇬 BREAKING: CONTAINER SHIP SINKS AFTER THREE DRONE STRIKES OFF NATO MEMBER BULGARIA. The CONTSHIP JET was sailing from Israel to Romania carrying 421 containers. All 18 crew members were rescued. The attacker remains unidentified. Another major blow to Black Sea shipping. #Breaking #BlackSea #NATO

An early exit. Christine Lagarde will leave the ECB on February 7, 2027, ahead of her term's October end. European leaders will choose her successor. The announcement lands hours before today's interest-rate decision. investing.com/news/economy-n…

🚨 BREAKING: Likud has declared Israel’s election “stolen” in a bombshell statement, branding the foreign funding probe an “earthquake” and dubbing it “Ra’am-gate.” With 93.8% of votes tallied, Netanyahu remains frozen at 53 seats against a 67-seat opposition majority. Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #Israel #Likud #Netanyahu #RaamGate #BreakingNews

🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s 67-seat anti-Netanyahu opposition is mobilizing to immediately oust Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and install Yair Lapid. The pre-emptive parliamentary maneuver would seize control of the legislative agenda to mandate an official State Commission of Inquiry into October 7. Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #Israel #Knesset #Netanyahu #Lapid #BreakingNews

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. officials have formally warned Middle East allies to prepare for an intensive renewed military campaign against Iran immediately following the Nov. 3 midterms. Allies were cautioned to brace for direct Iranian retaliation across the Gulf as regional defense forces enter high alert. Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #Iran #MiddleEast #US #Trump #BreakingNews

🚨 Israel's election chief just called in the Shin Bet. Per Ynet, Central Elections Committee chair Justice Noam Sohlberg asked Shin Bet chief David Zini to probe suspected foreign funding and vote-buying in Tuesday's election, with findings wanted within a week because of appeal deadlines. He wrote that he "cannot attest to the substance" of the suspicions. Police say they've found no evidence of widespread fraud. Why it matters: with Netanyahu's bloc projected at 53 seats and ~500K ballots still uncounted, the probe's clock now runs alongside the count's.

🚨🇭🇹🇸🇻 BREAKING: Haiti’s presidential election is pushed to JULY 2027. El Salvador announces a 2,000+ troop operation to help rescue 4 missing military technicians and combat gangs. Haiti has not held national elections since 2016. A deepening security and political crisis. #Haiti

🚨 BREAKING: BITCOIN BLASTS PAST $81,500 IN POST-FOMC SHORT SQUEEZE AS FED PAUSES Bitcoin has surged above $81,500 in overnight trading, sparking an aggressive relief rally after the Federal Reserve voted 10-2 to hold benchmark interest rates steady at 3.75%-4.00%. With over $110M in fresh spot ETF inflows absorbing sell-side pressure and short liquidations detonating across derivatives desks, $BTC is decisively decoupling from regional geopolitical crosscurrents. Is the post-Fed crypto expansion officially underway? Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto #FOMC #FederalReserve #BreakingNews

🚨 BREAKING: SAUDI AIR DEFENSES INTERCEPT HOUTHI BALLISTIC MISSILE TARGETING OIL-RICH EASTERN PROVINCE Saudi air defenses have intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi group targeting the kingdom’s critical Eastern Province energy hub early Thursday, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki confirmed. The interception triggered emergency sirens and civil defense alerts across the Eastern Province and Najran, following back-to-back missile strikes on Taif and Riyadh earlier this week. With Tehran warning of "devastating" shocks to global energy infrastructure, is the regional conflict spilling directly into Gulf oil heartlands? Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #BreakingNews #SaudiArabia #Yemen #Houthis #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #Oil

🚨 BREAKING: ISRAELI POLICE DISMISS LIKUD ELECTION FRAUD CLAIMS, FIND NO SYSTEMATIC TAMPERING Israeli law enforcement and election integrity officials have found zero evidence supporting Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party claims that Arab factions "stole" the election through widespread fraud. The findings deliver a major blow to Likud's demands for police and Shin Bet investigations after Arab parties captured a historic 19 seats, leaving Netanyahu’s bloc stranded at 53. With the fraud narrative debunked, the fate of the Knesset now hinges entirely on over 500,000 double-envelope soldier ballots currently being tallied in Jerusalem. #BreakingNews #Israel #Netanyahu #Likud #Knesset #Elections #MiddleEast

For 42 years, no one could touch a Mac's screen. Until now. 👆 Apple's new MacBook Pro is the first Mac with touch, built into a tandem OLED "PROLED XDR" display (up to 2,000 nits peak, HDR and SDR). Also new, per Apple: a Dynamic Island on the Mac, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and up to 24 hours of battery. The lid gets a glowing Apple logo (MacRumors, CNBC). 14-inch starts at $2,899, 16-inch at $3,399. Pre-orders open now, arriving Nov. 6. Why it matters: touch is no longer an iPad thing, and Apple is pricing it as a luxury: $900 more than the new non-touch M6 MacBook Pro.

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🚨 Thailand's Supreme Court has ruled that Bitcoin is property under criminal law. The case: a victim on Koh Samui was forced in 2022 to convert $50,000 into 2.48 BTC and send it to robbers. The defense argued Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. The full court rejected that and upheld a 10-year sentence. Bitcoin is still not legal tender there. Why it matters: the "it's just code" defense is dead in Thai courts. Taking someone's Bitcoin by force is robbery, full stop.

For nearly 41 hours, America's campaign money went dark. 🚨 The FEC's electronic filing system went offline Monday night (~10 PM ET) and came back Wednesday, per the FEC. An FEC official told compliance firms a "bad actor" was trying to breach its systems, according to an email seen by Reuters and The New York Times. The FEC hasn't confirmed a cyberattack or said who was behind it. While it was down, super PACs and campaigns couldn't file the 24- and 48-hour reports that reveal last-minute spending. The FEC doesn't run elections. Voting should not be affected. Search and notification services are still being restored. Why it matters: in the final week before the Nov. 3 midterms, the money kept moving and nobody could see it. #FEC

One billion users. Alphabet says Gemini has reached that milestone, calling the app Google's fastest-growing product ever. The figure is company-reported. The cited statement doesn't specify daily or monthly active users. cnbc.com/2026/10/28/alphabet…

🚨 The company that sells AI's chips now wants AI's biggest shelf. And the DOJ is asking questions. Per Reuters, DOJ officials are asking whether Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal would let it "capture a fundamental distribution point for AI." The same years-long probe has also looked at Nvidia's Groq licensing deal, Run:ai and SchedMD. Hugging Face has 18M+ users sharing 3M+ models, per Nvidia. Close is expected in the first half of 2027. Why it matters: Nvidia already sells the chips. This would put the main shelf for open models under the same roof. #AI

🚨 A plot to kill Kuwait's interior minister. Three death sentences. Now a diplomatic showdown with Iran. A Kuwaiti State Security court sentenced 3 men to death for plotting to assassinate Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef, spying for Iran and joining Hezbollah. 8 others got 5 years with hard labour. The death sentences can be appealed. Iran's embassy "categorically rejects" the charge. Today Kuwait summoned Iran's ambassador and handed him a protest note calling that statement "blatant interference." Why it matters: a courtroom verdict has turned into an open diplomatic clash in the Gulf. #Kuwait

🚨 The Fed just hit pause: rates held at 3.75%–4.00%. The vote was 10–2. Cook and Hammack wanted another 25bp hike. The statement says the economy is "expanding at a strong pace" and "inflation remains elevated," with no December commitment. Bitcoin climbed back to ~$81K right after the decision. Why it matters: this is a pause, not a pivot. The hike door is still open, and crypto is trading every word. #FOMC

🚨 BREAKING: KUWAIT SUMMONS IRANIAN ENVOY OVER ASSASSINATION PLOT TARGETING DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER A major diplomatic crisis has erupted in the Persian Gulf: Kuwait has formally summoned Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Toutounji after Tehran denied involvement in a foiled plot to assassinate Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad al-Yousef. Kuwait’s State Security Court handed death sentences to three operatives linked to Hezbollah and Iranian intelligence. Kuwait blasted Tehran’s public denials as "blatant interference" and an attack on sovereign judicial independence. With Gulf military tensions at a boiling point, is the regional conflict fracturing diplomatic ties across the Peninsula? Follow @TheRawWire for LIVE updates. #BreakingNews #Kuwait #Iran #Hezbollah #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #Gulf