The US midterms are usually swayed by domestic matters like economy and the cost of living. They’re often a pulse check on voter sentiment towards the incumbent party or a reflection of local political battles and regional trends.

Rarely are they impassioned referendums on a specific foreign policy issue. But for some voters this year in Michigan — where Democrat hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is facing off against Republican Mike Rogers — the Senate race is shaping up to be just that.

Two weeks out from the crucial polling day, The Global Story’s Asma Khalid shares her reporting from Michigan, where a debate among Democrats over the conflicts in the Middle East has become a touchstone issue, especially among the state’s large Arab American and Jewish communities.

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0:00 Introduction to episode
1:08 Asma talks us through the US midterms
6:51 The 2024 election campaign
14:50 Who are voters choosing between in the 2026 midterms?
16:40 How significant is the Arab-American voting block?
22:24 What is it about Abdul El-Sayed that worries Jewish voters?

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Targeted curfews across France contributed to a quiet night after a weekend of riots and looting across the country, the Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has said.

Curfews were introduced across parts of central Paris, including Place de la République, where protesters had gathered over the weekend, and the Les Halles shopping area.

Earlier Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez admitted police had “lost control” in some cities.

Protests first began last month with students demanding better school conditions escalated to take in a broader range of concerns with numbers at demonstrations bolstered by trade unions and various protest groups.

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A £3.6bn proposal to stop sewage being discharged into Windermere, England’s largest lake, has been unveiled.

The plans, which are backed by the local water company United Utilities and clean water campaigners, would see a tunnel up to 12 miles (19km) long built to transport sewage away from the lake.

At the moment both raw sewage and treated effluent are discharged into Windermere and campaigners say that is why parts of the lake have been turning green each summer, so-called algal blooming.

It is now up to the government to decide if the plan can be further developed, and if the £3.6bn price-tag is acceptable.

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Israel’s election is taking place next Tuesday, to elect a new government, in the first election since the 7 October Hamas attacks three years ago.

More than half a million first-time voters are among those due to cast their ballots.

The vote is seen by many voters as an existential decision on the country’s future identity and security.

Surveys suggest that around three quarters of new voters see themselves as “right or centre right” – and that Israel’s far-right parties are among those benefitting.

The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson has been speaking with Gen Z voters in Israel.

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Police have charged a man over the alleged vehicle attack on Australian MP Helen Haines, who is in critical but stable condition and has reportedly lost a leg.

Brendan Nugent, 43, has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury; intentionally causing serious injury; and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official.

Police allege the incident, which occurred outside Haines’s electoral office in Wangaratta, was targeted.

A barber who was at the scene also recounts how bystanders responded “immediately” and helped disarm the alleged attacker.

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