NewsOvernight upheaval: Ballot fires, space launches, and global tension. This is what happened overnight

Overnight upheaval: Ballot fires, space launches, and global tension. This is what happened overnight

This happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what global agencies reported overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

It happened at night. Ballot boxes were set on fire in the USA.
It happened at night. Ballot boxes were set on fire in the USA.
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7:02 AM EDT, October 30, 2024

  • Two election ballot boxes were set on fire in the American states of Washington and Oregon. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed. Investigators are searching for the suspect who started the fire, CNN reported.
  • "They didn't do that only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant," said Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Tuesday during the largest rally of her election campaign in Washington. Harris spoke at the location where Trump encouraged a crowd of supporters to march on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
  • Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-19 (Divine Vessel), with a crew of three aboard, launched from the Jiuquan spaceport on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China.
  • EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell announced on Tuesday that the Union would consider taking "significant measures" against Iran in response to the execution of German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd and called on Tehran to abolish the death penalty.
  • At least 10 people were killed in an Israeli Air Force attack on the town of Sarafand, located in southwestern Lebanon about 37 miles from Beirut.
  • The Cuban Council of State dismissed Vice Premier Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, one of the top government officials, due to what it described as "mistakes made during the performance of this function."
  • The Spanish government approved on Tuesday the nomination of a new ambassador to Buenos Aires, ending a months-long diplomatic crisis with Argentina sparked by the controversial country's president, Javier Milei.
  • The UN Security Council gathered on Tuesday in New York for an open session devoted to the escalation of the Middle Eastern conflict and the blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. Speeches were scheduled from representatives of at least 56 countries.
  • Severe floods caused by the storm Dana swept through southern and eastern Spain. Local authorities in Valencia reported the first fatalities.
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