Overnight drone and ballistic missile attacks damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyhas said, causing blackouts and disrupting water supplies.

Zelensky said 12 Ukrainian regions came under attack with the capital Kyiv hit hardest.

Nine people are reported to have been hurt across the country, including one child, in the wave of attacks that consisted of more than 30 ballistic missiles and over 170 drones.

The attacks come before Ukrainian and Russian delegations are due to take part in trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi next week.

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The US midterm elections are set to take place on Tuesday, in a vote that could have a major impact on Donald Trump’s presidency.

Americans will choose members of Congress, which is made up of two parts – the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Democrat Party has high expectations, but are the polls right?

To go through how the next 48 hours might unfold, Adam is joined from Washington by chief news presenter Caitríona Perry and Stephen Hawkins, global director of research at the pollster More in Common.

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The murder of Henry Nowak has sparked another debate about so-called ‘two-tier policing’, in which people are treated differently by police based on their ethnicity.

We look at whether it actually exists, what police guidance says, and whether the case might lead to changes in how police deal with reports of crime.

Laura is joined by former BBC legal and home affairs correspondent and Labour home affairs advisor Danny Shaw to discuss.

They also unpack JD Vance’s comments blaming Henry’s death on “the mass invasion of migrants”. Downing Street has responded, saying “politics should bring people together”.

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Serbia’s long-standing leader Aleksandar Vučić has admitted defeat to the student-led protest movement in snap parliamentary elections. “I is clear that we have lost these elections,” the right-wing populist leader said as he conceded.

Preliminary figures provided by Serbia’s election commission indicated a record high turnout, which commentators had suggested would favour the student movement.

Vučić had called the snap elections after two years of protests triggered by the 2024 collapse of a train station canopy in the city of Novi Sad, which killed 16 and was seen as emblematic of corruption and negligence in Serbia.

He made his announcement at the headquarters of his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the capital Belgrade.
There were celebrations on the streets of the city, with people dancing and chanting “victory”, cars honking, and fireworks set off. “Serbia is free,” one student told the BBC. “It’s a miracle.”

The Student List – which has no obvious leaders and whose members are not used to politics – had attracted anti-government voters across Serbia.

It decided to field candidates to the 250-member parliament from across Serbian society including doctors, actors, academics and sports personalities.

“This will be a free state,” its lead candidate – cardiologist Ilija Srdanović – said in a statement to BBC Serbian as the result became clear. He said the movement hoped to “free the country from tyranny”.

The anti-corruption movement campaigned on a manifesto that included purging officials who broke rules cracking down on protesters, stopping party loyalists from leading public enterprises, and freeing the public broadcaster of political control.

Ben Brown presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Nick Thorpe in Belgrade.

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In this slightly bonkers Green Room special Emma Barnett, Women’s Editor of the Telegraph, gets to the bottom of why we are all so hush hush about masturbating, via a homemade confessional, Caitlin Moran and a wet dream team of assembled experts from the realms of religion, history and sex. Ladies, emuff is emuff – let’s own it.

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