01Law and institutions27 October 20266 accounts

Vucic concedes Serbia's parliamentary election to the Student List

Serbia's governing party has lost power for the first time since 2012. Vucic blames foreign interference, Moscow praises him, and the winners, a movement without a leader, must now form a government.

02Law and institutions26 October 20266 accounts

Gunmen attack a church funeral in Jordan's Karak and remain at large

Three days on, the official toll has risen to nine. No group has been confirmed as responsible, and accounts differ on whether Christians alone were the target.

03Law and institutions26 October 20266 accounts

Lula wins Brazil's runoff by 4.4 million votes; Flávio Bolsonaro says he will seek annulment

The electoral court has confirmed the result. The challenge rests on a two-hour voting extension ordered minutes before polls closed, and the accounts differ on who asked for it.

04Economic governance25 October 20266 accounts

Haryana power strike ends after the state tells its regulator to halt a private distribution licence

A 25-year licence for a second electricity distributor set off a strike and long blackouts. The state has now told the regulator not to put such licences into effect.

05Law and institutions25 October 20266 accounts

France bans city-centre marches as protest turnout falls to 410,000

The government blames 'seditious' ultra-left groups; protesters say the bans are meant to wear the movement down. Police weapons and the grievances that started it are still disputed.

06Law and institutions24 October 20266 accounts

Chorbagan stampede: nine arrests, a Special Investigation Team and competing accounts of what caused the crush

Police have arrested the men at the microphone. The chief minister calls it human error. One announcer's note, a forensic report and a police officer's account point elsewhere, and the SIT has three months to decide.

07Law and institutions24 October 20266 accounts

Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25bn over Facebook privacy claims; company says it will appeal

A jury found more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer-protection law. The judge found that Facebook misled users; Meta argues the judgment threatens free speech. The appeal will test the legal basis for the judgment and the scale of the penalty.

08Indian politics23 October 20266 accounts

Rahul Gandhi’s RSS remarks spark a dispute over women’s membership and representation

Gandhi says the Sangh treats women as men's property. His critics point to women at RSS events and call the remark an insult. Nobody in the row has said what the RSS's own membership rules are.

09Law and institutions23 October 20266 accounts

Albania's protests have outgrown the Kushner resort, and Rama has no one to negotiate with

What began as a fight over a protected island is now a leaderless demand for the prime minister to go. He offers dialogue and warns of foreign hands; the movement has no one to send to the table, and no election is due until 2029.

10Indian politics22 October 20264 accounts

India's government and opposition are fighting over what 'regime change' means

Ministers call the anti-SIR protests a foreign-backed plot; their critics say voting a government out is the whole point of democracy. The voter-roll question underneath remains unanswered.

11Geopolitics22 October 20264 accounts

A US envoy tells the Gulf that America's guarantee is gone, and cannot say what replaces it

Tom Barrack called it realignment, not abandonment. The Gulf's own record this year suggests the guarantee lapsed months ago, and the pact Washington now endorses has terms nobody has spelled out.

12Geopolitics21 October 20265 accounts

Trump is open to a Putin-Xi summit on Ukraine that would leave Kyiv out

The US president says he would meet the Russian and Chinese leaders in China next month; the accounts divide over whether the talks would be about nuclear weapons, the war, or Beijing's standing.

13Law and institutions21 October 20266 accounts

Alberta votes to stay in Canada, and the separatists vow to keep going

Three in four Albertans chose Canada; the accounts divide over whether the remaining quarter is a protest vote, a movement in waiting or a bargaining chip.

14Geopolitics20 October 20266 accounts

Rubio bypasses New Delhi for Mumbai and a Reliance refinery, and India argues over why

Everyone agrees on the route; the accounts split over whether it is a snub, a routine choice, a midterm errand or a sideshow to a relationship still doing business.

15Indian politics19 October 20266 accounts

Ladakh's leaders reject the Home Ministry's draft for the territory's future

Both sides agree a 32-page draft was put on the table in Leh, and divide over whether it broke a promise or simply opened a negotiation.

16Economic governance19 October 20266 accounts

Macron vows to punish rioters as France argues over who is to blame for 17 October

Half a million marched over prices and schools; the accounts split over whether the fires that followed belong to the far left, to immigration, or to a grievance nobody has yet answered.

17Indian politics19 October 20266 accounts

India rebukes a US lawmaker who called its voter roll revision a purge

Both sides cite the same revision of India's voter rolls, and divide over whether thirteen crore draft exclusions make a purge or a clean-up.

18Geopolitics18 October 20266 accounts

Trump waives new Russia sanctions two days before they were due to start

The accounts agree on the signature and part ways on whether it buys cheaper diesel, a peace deal, a reprieve for India or a longer war.

19Law and institutions14 October 20267 accounts

Delhi Police moves the capital's protests out of Jantar Mantar

The capital's best-known protest street has lost its status, and the accounts split over why it happened and who now pays the price.