Serious incident at Canada military base in Alberta causes major fire, Carney says

🔮 Keen for change, Israel’s Arab minority sees election as existential Majd al-Krum, Israel - After boycotting Israeli parliamentary elections his entire life, 55-year-old Said Kabat will head to the polls for the first time on Oct 27.

🔮 He could not check out a book from the school library because he had not yet returned his last book.

🔮 Three years after suffering their deadliest single attack, Israelis will deliver their verdict on veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an Oct 27 election that could decide if the country moves definitively into hard-right nationalism.

🔮 A spokeswoman for Canada's Department of National Defense said the government is closely monitoring the situation and will provide additional information as it becomes available.

🔮 He did not identify the driver or say whether charges would be filed.

🔮 Republican members of Congress blasted US President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed in September to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine. The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports – aimed at lowering prices ahead of the midterm elections – but critics said it was irresponsible to bypass the sanctions law passed in September that was championed by the late senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican closely allied to Trump, said the administration should have found other ways to lower fuel costs, such as importing more from Canada or waiving renewable-fuel requirements. “I wish the President hadn’t done it, I think it was a mistake,” Cruz said on Oct 17 on Fox News, referring to Trump’s executive order late on Oct 16 waiving the Graham law.

🔮 Trump has openly criticised the practice of mail-in voting, and opponents have expressed concern that the administration will attempt to undermine the results – especially if Republicans end up losing, as opinion polls show is likely.

🔮 WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump’s decision to waive sanctions on Russia and tariffs on its goods days before they were to take effect will embolden Moscow to keep attacking Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct 17, predicting even more US sanctions relief. “The decision to undo all of this, to block all of it, seems wrong to me,” Zelensky wrote on X. “It definitely helps only the Russians.”

🔮 The interceptions came as the President of Egypt, which is also a member of the coalition, said he was willing to “carry out any measure to protect” Saudi Arabia if its leaders requested it.

🔮 European diplomats and a French mayor also were attacked in the occupied West Bank, Belgium's foreign minister said.