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Spanish government faces pressure from hard left, throwing budget passage into question

Members of Spanish hard-left party Podemos ("We Can") began voting on Tuesday whether to make its crucial support for this year's budget conditional on the government severing ties with Israel and implementing measures to curb rent prices by 40%.

China to implement solutions with India on resolving border conflict

China has reached a resolution with India on resolving their border conflict and will work to implement solutions, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

With polls tight, US election campaigns target overseas voters

Bob Vallier, a Paris resident who has mostly lived outside the United States for the past 30 years, has already voted in his home state of Michigan for the Nov. 5 election.

South Korea pledges countermeasures over N.Korea-Russia military cooperation

South Korea will gradually take countermeasures in line with the level of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo told a briefing on Tuesday.

Georgia's shark-owning billionaire tells voters: Don't risk war with Russia

While most Georgians are keen to move closer to the West and largely don't trust Russia, opinion polls show, Ivanishvili's message resounds with many who want to avoid Ukraine's fate at all costs.

Taiwan says live fire China drills may be part of a 'deterrence' effect

Taiwan's defence ministry said on Tuesday that live fire Chinese drills in a province facing the island are part of routine annual drills but also possibly part of China's "deterrence effect" in the waters of the Taiwan Strait.

Indigenous Australian embraces King Charles at civil rights birthplace

Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

Russia hosts BRICS summit in Kazan under shadow of war in Ukraine

Russia wants the BRICS summit to showcase the rising clout of the non-Western world, but Moscow's partners from China, India, Brazil and the Arab world are urging President Vladimir Putin to find a way to end the war in Ukraine.

Moldova's EU referendum goes to wire; Sandu decries vote meddling

The tight finish is far from the resounding endorsement of the pro-EU path that Sandu has pursued over four years at the helm of the small ex-Soviet republic tugged between Russia and the West.

Hezbollah says launches volley of rockets into Israel, Blinken returns seeking ceasefire

There were no immediate reports of casualties. Israeli authorities said air sirens were activated in areas southeast of Tel Aviv.