Monday November 2nd 2026. Europe protests. Ukraine evacuation. US midterms. North Korea crypto theft. DRC Ebola. India electoral protests...

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0:37 Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Monday, the 2nd of November, 2026. starting in Europe today. Across Europe, there were various anti-government protests this weekend. In Italy, tens of thousands of people, largely students and workers, demonstrated against deteriorating public services and the increased cost of living. Marches in over 50 cities were mostly peaceful. However, there were clashes with police in the city of Turin, where farmers also dumped manure on the street. In France, hundreds of thousands of people were reported to have attended protests across the country. In Germany, tens of thousands of people joined protests that were mostly peaceful. However,

1:42 in Frankfurt, rioters looted shops. There were also protests in Spain and Portugal. On the Belarus-Ukraine border, Ukrainians evacuated from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky have arrived after being transported through Russia. Residents were given the choice of being evacuated to Ukrainian or Russian-held territory or remaining in the town.

2:10 It is not clear how many people chose each option. However, some reports have said that a few hundred people chose to stay in Oleshky, despite its dangerous location on the front line. The six-day ceasefire in the Oleshky area finishes today and was the longest ceasefire agreed by Russia and Ukraine since 2022. Despite the localised ceasefire, Russia continued to bombard other areas of Ukraine today. over the last few days, with civilians being killed by Russian drones and missiles in many areas of the country, including when 14 people were killed while waiting for a train in the central city of Dnipro. European Council President Antonio Costa called the attack cruel and devastating. In Russia, Ukraine has attacked more oil

3:04 refineries over the last few days. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joined a G20 meeting of foreign ministers in the United States this weekend. Despite protests from some G20 countries, the traditional group photo was cancelled because of the presence of Lavrov. Speaking to Bloomberg after the meeting, EU Foreign Affairs Chief and former Prime Minister of Estonia Kaya Kallis said that Lavrov was spreading lies during the meeting.

3:38 Well, he was not constructive at all. I mean, we have seen, and we also said this directly, we have seen Ukraine agreeing to unconditional ceasefire for already two years. when it is energy ceasefire or general ceasefire to come and sit down and negotiate. We heard yesterday that Lavrov was saying that, yes, Putin will talk to Zelensky when he comes or if he comes to Moscow. I mean, this is not the way it is. I mean, there are many neutral places provided where they can meet. And if he would be serious, then he would first, you know, really stop killing of the civilians.

4:21 In Poland, there is an ongoing constitutional crisis around the Constitutional Court. President Karol Nawrocki was seen forcing his way into the Constitutional Tribunal building on Friday after he accused the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk of conducting a takeover of the court. The Polish parliament has chosen new judges for the court. However, Navrotsky has refused to swear in the judges. Tusk says that the presidential role of swearing in judges is only ceremonial, so Navrotsky cannot really stop the judges from taking their positions. Yesterday, the European Commission took the Polish government's side, saying that Navrotsky should swear in the judges. There have been rival protests in

5:15 favour of both the government and the president. Asia. In India, thousands of people joined protests in Delhi yesterday demanding the resignation of the electoral chief. After a revision of the voter list, there are allegations that millions of people are now missing from the list and are not able to vote, with some reports that Muslims and women are particularly likely to have been removed. North Korea has been blamed for the biggest ever theft of cryptocurrency in history after $ 6. 3 billion worth of digital assets were stolen from trading platform Binance.

6:02 Binance is the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume of exchange and was founded in China but is now not based anywhere. In a statement Binance said, Binance will absorb the financial impact of these stolen funds, not our users. Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 5,000 people are now known to have died during this outbreak of Ebola. Just over 10,000 cases have been confirmed, suggesting a fatality rate of around half. In Egypt, the news outlet Mada Mazer has been ordered to be shut down and its editor was briefly detained. Mazer said that editor Lina Atala was only released after paying a fine of 3 million Egyptian pounds, which is around 50,000 euros.

7:05 There are many reports of a recent crackdown on independent media in Egypt. America's Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro can stay in the United States as long as he wants, President Donald Trump told reporters this weekend. Bolsonaro fled to the US after losing the presidential election to President Lula last week.

7:34 In the United States, the midterm elections will take place tomorrow. All 435 seats of the House of Representatives are up for election. as well as 35 of the 100 Senate seats, 39 governor positions, and various other local elections. United States President Donald Trump has said that if the Republicans retain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, then the government will give $ 5, 000 to every adult, which would cost around $ 1. 25 trillion dollars, However, most opinion polls and seat projections suggest that the Republicans are likely to lose control of the House of Representatives, with the Senate too close to call. And also in the US, the New York Marathon was won by Swedish runner Andreas Almgren

8:33 in his first ever time running a marathon. Almgren is a middle distance runner who has won many competitions in the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and the half marathon. In his first ever attempt at running a marathon, Almgren won the men's competition, while the women's race was won by Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui, who also won in 2024. That's your world news in seven minutes. Tomorrow you will be with Juliet Martin. Have a great day.