Israeli election authorities released a final vote tally early Friday local time, setting the stage for backroom negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc, the main opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot and the Arab parties as they vie to form a government.

Hundreds of people from an occupied town in southern Ukraine who survived months without basic supplies are set to be evacuated on Friday under a ceasefire agreement negotiated by first lady Melania Trump.

The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange reported Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted in an apparent hack.

The U.S. scrapped plans for a photo of top diplomats of the Group of 20 largest world economies on the opening day of talks Friday as several Europeans objected to being photographed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and threatened to walk out of the photo session.

Spain's transportation minister said Friday that he won't resign in the wake of the high-speed train crash that killed at least 69 people Wednesday.

Cuba has welcomed home a diplomat expelled by the United States after a heated confrontation at the United Nations this week

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed Friday that three oil tankers exploded and caught fire while traveling through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz. It said one was a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil that struck a naval mine.

Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading investigative newspaper, announced it will shut down completely on Nov. 9 after more than 30 years of operation, as pressure from authorities reached new heights. “They’ve killed us,