30 October 2023; MEMO: Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency has expressed its concerns to the government about the surge in settler violence against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the current conflict on 7 October.

According to Channel 12, the head of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, has notified the Israeli war cabinet, broader cabinet and the defence establishment regarding this issue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats said Monday they plan to subpoena Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and conservative activist Leonard Leo for more information about their roles in organizing and paying for luxury travel for Supreme Court justices.

The announcement by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee comes as the court is being pressed to adopt an ethics code, a move that has been publicly endorsed by three of the nine justices.

30 October 2023; MEMO: Israeli tanks have withdrawn from Salah Al-Din Street in Gaza City after a brief incursion, the government in the Gaza Strip said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports.

“There are no Israeli tanks in Salah Al-Din Street and life has returned to normal,” the Government Media Office said in a statement.

Earlier, witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli tanks moved Sunday night from Juhor Ad-Dik town in the eastern Gaza Strip to Salah Al-Din Street, south-east of Gaza City.

NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (NNN-PTI) – Delhi’s air quality remained in the “Very Poor” category, for the third consecutive day yesterday, as the national capital’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 322 over the past three days.

Several areas in the city recorded even worse AQI of over 350, which is dubbed as hazardous for human life.

On Sunday, Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area recorded its highest AQI of 566 for the season.

TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A suspected gunman took at least two people hostage in a post office in Japan after wounding two other people in a shooting at a hospital, authorities and media said on Tuesday.

The government of the city of Warabi, just north of Tokyo, said in a statement an undetermined number of hostages were taken by a man "in possession of something like a handgun".

30 October 2023; MEMO: The United State’s military will not be deployed to Israel or Gaza amid Tel Aviv’s bombardment of the Strip, Vice President Kamala Harris has assured.

In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Vice President Harris insisted that the US is only providing advice, equipment and diplomatic support to Israel, also claiming that the “US is not telling Israel what to do”.

BEIRUT, Oct 31 (Reuters) - With dozens of Hezbollah fighters killed in three weeks of border clashes with Israel, the Lebanese group is working to stem its losses as it prepares for the possibility of a drawn-out conflict, three sources familiar with its thinking said.

The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon's frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 - about a fifth of the number killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.

TEL AVIV, October 31. /TASS/: At least 240 hostages are now being held in Gaza, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, citing the latest data.

"We have notified the families of the 240 hostages," he said at a news conference.

Hagari also said that 315 Israeli soldiers have been killed since fighting began on Oct. 7.

31 October 2023; MEMO: The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has responded to the Israeli occupation government’s announcement that a female soldier who was held as a prisoner of war by Al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip has been freed.

HANOI, Oct 31 (NNN-VNA) – Two people died and another remains missing, after they were swept away by floods, yesterday, in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh, according to the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Among the three victims, two women, aged 29 and 33, were swept away on their way home through a rainstorm after work in Huong Khe. Another dead victim was a 13-year-old boy.

Vietnam’s central region experienced torrential rain over the past two days, under the influence of cold air and high-altitude eastern winds.

NAIROBI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Britain's tarnished colonial past took centre stage in Kenya on Tuesday as King Charles began a four-day state visit, poised to acknowledge "painful aspects" of the countries' long shared history as local leaders press demands for reparations.

Accompanied by Queen Camilla on his first visit as monarch to a former colony, Charles arrived in the capital Nairobi overnight.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/: Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian army sites producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and naval drones over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"Near the settlement of Malodolinskoye in the Odessa Region, the sites for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and naval drones were destroyed," the ministry said in a statement.