Exit polls after Israel's October 27 election show Prime Minister Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition bloc tied at 51 seats each, short of the 61 needed for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. The Joint List and Ra'am are projected to win a combined 18 seats, their best result ever, after turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel reached roughly 80%. Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas said 'there is no government' with the numbers as they stand, since both main blocs campaigned against relying on Arab party support.
Egyptian lawmakers voted by the required two-thirds majority on October 27 to let President el-Sisi send forces to help defend Saudi territory if Riyadh asks, after repeated Houthi strikes on the kingdom including on Riyadh's main airport. El-Sisi said the role would be limited to defending Saudi soil and borders, explicitly ruling out any part in strikes on Yemen.
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Euronews · Tuesday, 27 October 2026
A Cairo court ordered Mada Masr's closure, a 3-million-Egyptian-pound fine and the confiscation of its equipment, citing a 2018 media law that penalises running an unlicensed news website. Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, already sentenced in absentia in 2024 over the same site, says Mada Masr applied for a licence in 2018 and 2020 and only learned of the rejection during a later prosecution. The site has been blocked inside Egypt since 2017; this is the first of six cases against it in six years to reach trial.
