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  • After United States halted its strikes on Iran for the last two nights, the Iranian military said it had halted retaliation airstrikes against US allies in the Middle East.
  • Reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their respective territorial waterways is a topic of ongoing talks between Iran and Oman.
  • After a nearly 24-hour search in downtown Berlin following the Pride attack, Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots killed.
  • Since the start of the year, wildfires in France have burned around 115,000 hectares, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez on Sunday.
  • An attacker opened fire on a group of people gathering outside in a Chicago neighborhood on the Northwest Side early on Sunday, injuring at least six people, two of them critically.
  • Nearly 260,000 people have been forced to flee due to uncontrolled wildfires that are blazing on Saturday in the southwest of France near Madrid, the capital of Spain prompted French government to send out its military.
  • Eight people, including six children, were discovered dead inside a Michigan home on Friday.
  • Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, was officially announced on Saturday as the candidate from his father's Liberal Party to challenge the incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
  • The most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed over 1,309 lives.
  • In Syria, two buses collided, which caused at least 35 deaths and 30 injuries.

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October 27, 2020

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