Neither major bloc is likely to win enough seats to form the next government outright, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is on track to win the most.

Israelis went to the polls Oct. 27 for the first time since the Hamas attacks three years ago in a consequential election for U.S. relations.

Tens of thousands of Israelis who flew in for this election may not return for another one, and Netanyahu would stay on as caretaker prime minister, giving him a platform to attack his opponents and try to expand his own coalition.

Israelis are closely awaiting final election results after their voting delivered a rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government

The launches also followed leader Kim Jong Un’s surprise weekend visit to China, the North's main ally and economic pipeline, to push for greater cooperation.

North Korea last fired ballistic missiles on Oct. 12 amid heightened tension on the inter-Korean border over a mine blast that wounded South Korean soldiers last month.

South Korea said North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile off the North’s east coast. South Korea’s military said the launch happened Thursday but gave no further details, including the type of weapon fired.

North Korea launched an unidentified projectile toward the East Sea on Thursday, which South Korean and Japanese authorities said may have been a ballistic missile and appears to have fallen. Officials had not released further details as tensions on the Korean Peninsula remain high.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had hoped to ride a ⁠wave ⁠of public anger over the eviction of an octogenarian, who later ⁠died, to win reelection in a snap election, but Wednesday's deadly train crash has dealt a serious blow to his campaign.

Rescuers ⁠searched desperately through wrecked carriages on Thursday ⁠in the hope of finding more survivors of Spain's second deadly high-speed train ​crash this year, which has so far claimed 68 lives.

More than 50 others were injured, local emergency services said, in an incident that marked Spain's second train disaster this year.

Shocked residents of ⁠Urda ⁠swung into action to help ⁠as soon as they heard of Wednesday's deadly train crash on the ​railway line a few kilometres from the normally sleepy Spanish town. Urda's 78-year-old pharmacist said he was one ‌of the first on the scene,

The US decision to allow the defeated right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to seek refuge in the US poses a fresh irritant to a bilateral relationship that has been marked by finger-pointing and accusations between the two countries’ leaders.

Bolsonaro lost ⁠Sunday's ​presidential election to ​leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula ​da Silva ​and did not ‌comply ⁠with a Supreme Court order to ​turn ​in ⁠his passports to ​federal police ​on ⁠Tuesday.

President Donald Trump approved allowing Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro entry into the United States following his election loss, a Trump adviser told CNN.

The US State Department tells the BBC it will issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family after he was ordered to surrender his passports by Brazil.

The Defense Department’s watchdog has declined a bipartisan request to open an investigation into the slowdown of the SpaceX’s military-grade Starlink system in Ukraine, according to a letter obtained by CNN.

The Pentagon’s watchdog is refusing a bipartisan request to investigate recent disruptions to Starlink and Starshield satellite internet service to Ukraine

The decision is raising concerns among lawmakers that the military may be reluctant to confront Elon Musk’s influence over defense communications.

The Pentagon inspector general declined a bipartisan request from nine senators to investigate reports that Starlink and Starshield service was throttled in Ukraine, referring lawmakers to the Air Force.

Microsoft smashed Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, with all eyes on the balance between the company’s artificial intelligence spending and revenue growth. The Redmond-based tech giant reported $92.

Microsoft's cloud growth came in better than expected. The disclosed a 48% growth rate for the Azure cloud-computing business during the September quarter. That was above the company's own 44% to 45% forecast,

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent.

Microsoft surpassed expectations for quarterly cloud ⁠revenue ⁠on Wednesday, signaling that its hefty ⁠AI investments were paying off at a time Wall Street grows ​increasingly wary of Big Tech's debt-fueled spending.