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Netanyahu wants to be first to try to form a government, Israeli media reported, as a former ambassador said there is “no way in the world” he can build a coalition.
Turnout hit a record 77.7 per cent. Only partial results are in, and Ra’am’s leader says both blocs have courted him while Netanyahu stays silent.
Opposition leaders said voters had “fired” the government and the Joint List celebrated projected gains, while Netanyahu stayed silent hours after the exit polls.
Likud is projected to fall to 24–25 seats from 32, Ben-Gvir’s camp called voters “stupid”, and Gantz urged a unity government. These are exit polls, not results.
Channel 12 and Channel 13 project 52–53 seats for the opposition bloc and 50 for Netanyahu’s, short of the 61 needed, with Arab-led parties on 17–18. These are exit polls, not results.
A student-led movement defeated Aleksandar Vučić’s alliance in Sunday’s election, and crowds celebrated for a second night.
Exit polls come at 1am Pakistan time, but the count, the threshold and coalition talks mean the final answer could take weeks.
A former chief of staff who lost a son in Gaza and quit Netanyahu’s war cabinet now leads the main challenge to him.
Arab-led parties accused the prime minister of inciting hatred, as rights groups reported delays and shortages at polling stations in Arab towns.
Culture Minister Aurangzeb Khan Khichi has been invited to the SCO Civilisational Dialogue Forum on November 20-21.
The UN commission also found crimes against humanity in the West Bank, while Israel called the report part of a campaign to demonise it.
One in six voters has been removed from the Indian state’s final roll, as protests grow against the chief election commissioner and the Supreme Court hears challenges to the nationwide revision.
Pakistani clients have been told Qatari gas cargoes will not arrive before the end of December, leaving the country without them as winter demand peaks.
None of the people who answered a Thursday Times street survey said the Israeli prime minister should win, with most citing Gaza and one warning that “a whole line” stands behind him.
Protesters torched a police station and a state power company office in Pasighat over a planned mega-dam on the Siang that Adi villagers say will drown their ancestral land.
Turnout hit 66.7 per cent by 6pm, the highest at that hour in decades, as Netanyahu accused Arab citizens of trying to “steal” the election.
Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, sued for defamation by Adani Enterprises, says his film The Friendship Files has struck a nerve at the highest levels.
Pakistani diplomat Gul Qaiser Sarwani told the veto debate that new permanent seats would deepen inequality and risk paralysing the Council. "Reform for all. Privilege for none!"
Information Minister Ataullah Tarar called CPIC the voice of CPEC, with a fact-check mechanism, a Karachi business office, think-tank work and a Xinjiang to Gilgit-Baltistan tourism corridor.
Ramesh Singh Arora answered the Indian Punjab chief minister’s wish to attend a Lahore conference with an open invitation to Kartarpur, while doubting New Delhi would let him come.
The IMF puts Bangladesh’s GDP per person at $2,886 this year against India’s $2,749, but India is growing almost twice as fast and is set to regain the lead by 2029.
The Court of Appeal ruled that an arbitration tribunal was wrong to turn away the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority’s case over a cancelled Andhra Pradesh aluminium project.
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and Ethiopia’s ambassador also discussed the risks that global conflicts pose to energy and fertiliser supplies, and air links between the two countries.
A former judge’s Rashtriya Adhikar Morcha plans to fight 150 seats in next year’s Uttar Pradesh election, as Brahmin voters angry over university caste rules weigh whether to stay with the BJP.
Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik pitched Pakistan’s refinery upgrade programme to American investors, while the US chargé d’affaires praised the country for avoiding a fuel shortage during the Middle East conflict.
Iran’s president urged Islamic countries to “stand together” as he hosted Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye in Tehran, and the four agreed to continue talks after their first meeting.
Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin began talks with Iran’s leadership on Monday, as Riyadh called for negotiations to prevent a renewed war.
Field Marshal Asim Munir, Prince Khalid bin Salman and Ibrahim Kalin are set to meet Iran’s leadership in Tehran, in talks a senior Iranian official says Pakistan initiated.
Bhagwant Mann says he has been invited to the International Punjabi Conference in Lahore, but doubts India's BJP-led government will let him go.
The UAE's former UN envoy would be the first woman and second Arab to lead the world body, but joins a deadlocked race in which every candidate has drawn a veto.
The BJP calls the National Conference chief's Baramulla speech treason and a rival Kashmiri party warns people not to follow him, as Omar Abdullah stays silent.
At least 23 unarmed civilians, including a pregnant woman and a 17-year-old boy, were killed in a single month as Manipur's Naga-Kuki conflict shifts from fighters to villagers, an investigation finds.
Farooq Abdullah tells a Baramulla rally that Pakistan is protecting Kashmiris by raising their issue abroad, drawing BJP accusations of treason.
Iran's Supreme Leader's representative in India, Ayatollah Abdul Majid Hakim Elahi, calls India and Iran "two pages of the same book" and says India can help bring peace to the Middle East.
Three families in Paschim Medinipur say they were beaten, disrobed and threatened with death over two days by a mob they identify with Bajrang Dal, and that police offered little protection.
The prime minister told aviation officials to work out how to get the first flight to Malé off the ground, as he and President Muizzu pushed for closer trade and travel links.
The Reserve Bank of India has used about $90bn of more than $140bn raised from the diaspora to shore up a currency that has fallen 5% against the dollar this year, the Financial Times reports.
New Delhi called references to India in the resolutions of the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting in Baghdad “malicious, biased and false” and said they had been orchestrated by Islamabad.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, arrested for scaling barricades at Jantar Mantar, walked free vowing to keep up their campaign against India’s chief election commissioner.
The army chief met the Maldivian president in Islamabad on the second day of the first visit by a Maldivian head of state in 11 years, as the two countries signed a defence and maritime security pact.
