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"They Don't Need It": Trump Says US Military Aid to Israel Will End This Year, Catching Jerusalem and Congress Off Guard

World Politics 

Overview

On Election Day, November 3, 2026, President Donald Trump told Fox News that the United States will stop its roughly four billion dollars in annual military assistance to Israel at the end of the year. He said he had agreed to the move with Prime Minister…

Eight Seats Short: Israel's Opposition Moves to Build a "Change Government" as Netanyahu Fights the Result

Daily World Politics 

Overview

One week after Israelis voted in the 26th Knesset election, the country's political map looks much as it did on the night of the count: a closed race in which neither side holds the 61 seats needed to govern. What has changed is the behavior of…

South Africa Heads to Local Elections With the ANC Weakened and Coalition Rule Likely to Deepen

SOUTH AFRICA  

South Africans vote Wednesday in municipal elections that pollsters expect to leave the African National Congress (ANC) far below its former dominance and to produce yet another round of coalition bargaining in the country's biggest cities. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close…

Tanzania Awaits Friday Verdict in Opposition Leader Tundu Lissu's Treason Trial

TANZANIA 

A High Court judgment due Friday in the treason trial of Tundu Lissu, Tanzania's best-known opposition leader, will be the clearest signal yet of how President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government intends to handle dissent a year after the country's deadliest postelection violence. Lissu, 58, leads the…

Algeria Breaks With Decades of Restraint, Sending Troops to Niger as the UN Mission in Western Sahara Lapses

ALGERIA 

In the space of a week, Algeria has abandoned two pillars of its foreign policy. It has sent soldiers abroad for what reporters describe as the first time since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, escorting fuel tankers into Niger. And it has watched the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara…

America Votes: Record Early Turnout, a Democratic Edge in the Polls and a Shadow Over the Count as the Midterms Reach Election Day

World Politics 

Overview
Polls opened across the United States this morning in midterm elections that will decide control of both chambers of Congress and set the political terms for the final two years of President Donald Trump's second term. Voters are choosing all 435 House members,…