The Financial Times reports that Trump Jr. spent two days with Umar Kremlev at a hunting camp in Uvs province in August, while the US Embassy paid $18,715 for Secret Service hotel rooms.
Israelis are voting today for the 120-seat Knesset. Final polls put Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar narrowly ahead of Netanyahu's Likud, with neither bloc projected to reach the 61 seats needed to govern.
US President Donald Trump lashed out at Norway in vulgar terms at a Michigan rally on October 25 over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he did not want anybody from Norway.
Elon Musk wrote on X on October 25 that people should have sympathy for Russian conscripts, drawing criticism. Ukraine had rejected his earlier claim that it violated Starlink terms, while a US Senate inquiry into the Starshield restriction is under way.
Ukraine reportedly struck the Energiya plant in Yelets, Lipetsk Oblast, and the Avisma titanium plant in Berezniki, Perm Krai, on October 25. One person was killed in Yelets and five workers were injured in Berezniki, regional governors said.
About 410,000 people protested across France on October 24 over living costs and school conditions, according to the Interior Ministry, while unions put turnout at about 800,000; nearly 1,000 people were arrested.
Former US President Barack Obama told a campaign rally in Ohio that the Trump administration's war with Iran had given Tehran veto power over the Strait of Hormuz and driven up oil and diesel prices.
During protests over the cost of living and low wages on October 24, a group of young people forced their way into the Colosseum in Rome, while in Barcelona 14 shops were looted and about 100 people were arrested.
After SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed on X that Ukraine's elites had grown rich on US aid, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski replied that the US stopped funding Ukraine last year and that Europeans now pay for American weapons.
