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Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0 Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot finished President Isaac Herzog's consultations with 67 recommendations to Benjamin Netanyahu's 46, after the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism declined to back the prime minister. Herzog has said he will name a candidate to form a government on Sunday.
Erica Fischer, CC BY 2.0 Emailed and telephoned bomb threats forced diversions, fighter escorts and searches on at least 27 passenger flights across Europe on Thursday 5 November, two days after a smaller wave. No explosives were found and no one has claimed responsibility.
Jeanne Menjoulet, CC BY 4.0 France's interior ministry said 575,000 people joined strikes and marches on Thursday 5 November over pay, living costs and school conditions; unions put the figure at 1.6 million. Most rallies were peaceful, but 448 people were arrested.
VOA, public domain Hong Kong's High Court sentenced the pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday 5 November after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law.
Office of the President, Taiwan, CC BY 4.0 Santiago Peña announced his resignation on Thursday 5 November, two days after the central bank seized the digital lender Ueno, and the lower house voted 78-0 to impeach him minutes later. A vote on the resignation collapsed for lack of quorum, so he remains president while the Senate tries him. No verdict had been reported as of early Friday 6 November.
President Zelensky said on Thursday 5 November that 43 people had been killed when Russian bombs hit an aid distribution point in a school in Zaporizhzhia region on Monday. Police said up to 33 more may still be under the rubble.
MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, public domain A senior Iranian official, speaking anonymously to Reuters on Thursday 5 November, said Tehran had passed a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar but would discuss it only once the US meets seven demands. Neither the US nor Qatar has confirmed it. The same day, Iranian forces said several tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
Simfan34, CC BY-SA 3.0 Ethiopia ordered Sudan's consulate in the border town of Asosa closed and its six staff out, and Sudan retaliated by shutting Ethiopia's consulate in Gedaref, Sudanese officials said on Wednesday 4 November, as each accuses the other of backing its armed opponents.
Dasegrama16, CC BY-SA 4.0 The High Court in Mombasa on Friday 6 November sentenced Paul Mackenzie to an aggregate 200 years in prison over the deaths of 191 people, 190 of them children, rejecting a prosecution request for the death penalty.