World News: Sunday 1 November 2026
Russian strikes cut power across Ukraine as the Kherson ceasefire ends, Gulf states brace for the worst in Qatar-led US–Iran talks, thousands rally in Delhi against India's election chief, Israeli strikes kill eight in Gaza and Serbia arrests its criminal police chief.
Here are five of the top world news stories from Sunday 1 November 2026.
1. Russian strikes cut power to hundreds of thousands in Ukraine as the Kherson ceasefire ends
Russia struck energy infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions overnight, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, and another strike killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the Vinnytsia region. Ukraine said it hit a missile fuel producer in Russia's Rostov region, while a rare humanitarian ceasefire in the Kherson region, which let civilians evacuate occupied Oleshky, was due to expire on Sunday night. Read more at BBC News
2. Gulf states "braced for the worst" as Qatar-led US–Iran talks run into a third day
Indirect talks in Doha continued on Sunday, with Qatar trying to negotiate the release of more than $6bn in Iranian assets that could lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a restart of nuclear negotiations ahead of Tuesday's US midterm elections. UAE envoy Anwar Gargash said the region was "braced for the worst", and the mediation went on despite unidentified missiles striking a Qatari LNG tanker near the strait on Friday. Read more at the Guardian
3. Thousands rally in New Delhi demanding India's election chief resign
Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi led thousands of protesters through New Delhi to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that removed more than 130 million names. Opposition parties say the exercise disproportionately hit Muslims and other minorities, while the Election Commission denies favouring any party and says wrongly removed voters can register again. Read more at Al Jazeera
4. Israeli strikes in Gaza kill eight, including a child, despite the ceasefire
Hospital officials said a missile attack near a school in Gaza City's Al-Rimal neighbourhood killed three people, including a four-year-old boy, and a drone attack in Khan Younis killed five police officers, according to the Hamas-run interior ministry. The Israeli military said it had carried out two attacks on what it described as military operatives; Gaza's health ministry says 1,580 people have been killed since the ceasefire began in October last year. Read more at BBC News
5. Serbia arrests its criminal police chief a week after Vučić's party lost power
Serbian authorities arrested Marko Kricak, head of the criminal police directorate and seen as a loyalist of defeated President Aleksandar Vučić, along with organised crime commander Bosko Sekulovic, on suspicion of abuse of office. Belgrade's chief prosecutor said the arrests had no link to the 25 October snap elections, in which the student-backed Student List ended 14 years of rule by Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party. Read more at Al Jazeera
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