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Three days before Serbia votes on 25 October, Reuters reports beatings, spyware claims and a press-freedom ranking at its lowest ever, while a student list of 250 candidates runs neck and neck with Aleksandar Vucic's SNS.
A day after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Oslo, US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in St Petersburg on 21 October to put Ukraine's ideas to Vladimir Putin — with a bitter row over Starlink and intelligence sharing hanging over the shuttle.
A smouldering grass fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright turned, in under a minute, into one of Canada's worst peacetime military tragedies - four soldiers dead, 39 in hospital, 19 of them critical. What investigators still cannot say is how it started.
A month of school protests over missing teachers met a country squeezed by prices, and on Saturday 17 October France had its worst unrest in years — a town hall burned, thousands of shops looted, some 2,400 people arrested. The government now has to calm the streets with an empty treasury.
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