New Zealand Election

According to a report, Saturday’s election results in New. Zealand were that the two main partys, the conservative national party and the labour party lost votes to the greens, the right wing libertarian act party and a new comer, the centrist opportunity party who say they focus on system changes rather than left right division.

Reportedly, unemployment has been high for years, especially for the under 24 years. According to the report, other problems are affordable homes, the price of electricity, and although New Zealand produces eight times more food than required to feed the nation, food prices are among the highest in the world.

Israel Election Results

According to a report, the Likud party coalition won 53 seats and the yashar party and allies 48 seats in Israel’s election on Tuesday, but Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the yashar party who recieved 67 recommendations from within the party compared to Benjamin Netanyahu’s 45 has been asked to form a new government. Reportedly, he has 28 days plus a possible further 14 days in which to do so.

According to the report, a possuble outcome is a coalition with Mr Netanyahu”s Likud party, and other possible outcomes are a coalotion with pro-palestinian arab partys, or a Likud party coalition and defectors from Yashar (Yashar meaning truthful). Reportedly, Mr Eisenkot and every member of his coalition except one has previously refused to work with arab partys but there is speculation that an agreement could be reached..

China

According to a report, 33 members of China’s communist parry, 16 being from the military been been expelled.as a four dat closed door political meeting came to a close. Reportedly, party discipline was the focus of the gathering which had 36 less attendees than previous meetings focusing on economic reforms or social and development issues,

According to the report, since China’s current leader Xi Jinpin came to power in 2023, two million people have been disciplined for cases relating to pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. Reportedly, China’s top anti-corruption observer reported that 680,000 members of the party were disciplined during the first nine months of 2026. According to the report, a statement from the party saud they had confronted the reality that the party leadership had at times weakened or hollowed out and they would continue to enforce strict party self governance to curb disorder.

United States Election

According to a report, the war in Iran is said to be a factor in the democrats winning the united states mid term election on Tuesday which is always held at the middle point of a president’s term of office. Reportedly, democrats won their largest majority in nearly two decades, securing seats in the former republican areas of Texas, South Carolina and Kansas which last ekected a democrat almost 100 years ago.

Israeli Election

According to reports, the final results of Tuesday’s election in Israel won’t be known for a few days but Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party coalition which includes religious groups is expected to win 53 of the 120 seats in the israeli parliament

Reportedly, the conservative Likud party was founded by Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin in 1973. Mr Sharon was an early architect of israeli settlements in Samaria. According to a report, Likud who are talking about the islamization of Israel have tried to ban pro-palestinian arab partys from running in the election citing their refusal to designate hamas and hezbollah as terrorist organisations. Likud advocate strong national security based on a military force. Reportedly, their main opponent is the Yashar party, founded in 2025 and described as centrist. According to the report, their coalition with three other opposition partys is expected to win 48 seats. Reportedly, pro-palestinian arab led partys are set to win an unprecedented 19 seats.

Luis da Silva

According to reports, Luis Lula da Silva won Brazil’s election ton Sunday taking 51.79% of the vote. Reportedly. he first came to office as the country’s first socialist leader in nearly 50 years in 2003.

According to a report, Luis came from a poor background, working as a shoeshine boy and not learning to read until he was ten years old. Reportrdly, he trained as a metal worker and became involved in union activity, helping to transform the trade union into a powerful independent movement.

According to the reporr, in 1980 Luis founded Brazil’s first socialist party, the Workers’ party, promising to eradicate hunger and create a self confident, caring and outward looking nation. Reportedly, his social programmes, increasing the
minimum wage and remodelling social welfare helped to reverse Brazil’s inequalities. According to the report, he retired in 2011 and a recession followed. Reportedly, he was jailed on corruption charges which he said were politically motivated, but released 18 months later in 2019 and his convictions were annulled. He has been president of Brazil since 2023.

Israeli Election

According to reports, on Tuesday 27 October Israel will be holding their first election since the hamas led attacks in October 2023. Reportedly, in order to win a governing majority a party needs to secure atleast 61 of the 120 seats in the israeli parliament or form a coalition.

According to a report, polls suggest prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing alliance will win 50 seats while the opposition coalition is expected to win 52, if so arab parties such as ra’am and the joint list which are pro-palestinian will determine who governs.

Halloween

Ancient celts celebrated samhain on October 31 to November 1 to mark the end of harvest, and in the 8th Century the christian church merged with the festival and November 1 became all saints or all hallows day with the rest of November a month to remember all the dead.

People dressed up to resemble the dead or carried harvest vegetables such as turnips which were carved into faces. During the 19th Century, celtic immigrants brought the festival’s traditions to America. Halloween or hallows eve became a secular celebration of horror and is associated with the macabre

Sudan

Sudan are experiencing their third civil war which began in 2023. According to reports, south Sudan split with northern Sudan in 2011, said to be due to cultural and religous differences. Reportedly, north Sudan is mainly arabic and muslim, but inp 1978 oil reserves were discovered in the south which have caused further tension, though the oil has to run through pipelines in the north compelling the two to make multiple agreements to share resources.

According to a report, northern and southern Sudan were governed as seperate entities under british empire rule, said to prevent northern exploitation though gold has been mined in northern Sudan for thousands of years. Reportedly, in 2011 South Sudan’s withdrawal from Sudan, that is previously north Sudan, decreased oil revenue by 75% causing a crisis, but in 2012 gold was discovered in Darfur, south Sudan which is said to have exacerbated a conflict between the sudanese army and a break away group called the rapid support forces who according to the u.n. are backed by the united arab emirates.

According to a report,

massive deposits of gold was discovered in Darfur in 2012, the rsf entered Darfur in 2025 and are now in control and causing violent land clearances and forced displacement that has been described as genocide.

Reportedly, Sudan is one of Africa’s top gold producers with between 80-90% mined by around 200,000 migrant workers using traditional methods and smuggled out of the country. According to a report, the eu say over 70% of Sudan’s gold is unaccounted for.

Housing crisis, Spain

According to reports, thousands of people are protesting in Madrid and around 50 cities and towns across Spain due to a rental crisis. Reportedly, rents in Spain have been increasing rapidly in recent years, have risen by 12.2% in the past year and are nearly double what they were 10 years ago. According to a report, an estimation is that the country is short of 700,000 homes based on supply and demand.

Reportedly, protests began when an elderly resident in Madrid was forcibly evicted from her flat because she couldn’t afford an increse in rent which had been 500 euro per month and rose to 2,650 euro following a change of ownership. According to reports, the woman who had to be taken out of her home on a stretcher has since been allowed to return, but protests have continued because parliament have rejected measures that were designed to address the housing crisis and protect tenants.

Reportedly, the first proposal banned the eviction of vulnerable people and included legislation regarding extending short term rentals; the second was to make leases automatically renew when they expired, making them indefinite. According to reports, Spanish mp’s rejected the first proposal by 178 votes to 172, and the second proposal by 184 votes to 186.

Reportedly, protests also concern the policy of vulture funds or investment funds buying or bulk buying undervalued property that may be facing financial, legal or physical problems. According to a report, protestors in Valencia have removed barriers and thrown objects at police who have responded with rubber bullets. Reportedly, nine police officers were injured and five people arrested.