🔴 NEW: The Democrats have flipped a crucial Senate seat in Pennsylvania, with John Fetterman defeating Trump-backed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in a significant and surprise result.
🗣️ Ron DeSantis, the likeliest Republican rival to Mr Trump in 2024, bolstered a potential White House bid by increasing his margin of victory in the critical battleground state of Florida
🔴 Donald Trump's most high-profile election denier candidate, Kari Lake, appeared on course to lose her race to become Arizona governor along with dozens of other election deniers
🗣️ A 25-year-old candidate has won the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, according to CNN, becoming the first from his Gen Z to be elected to Congress.
🇷🇺 The Kremlin has said that Moscow's ties with Washington were likely to remain at rock bottom regardless of the results of the elections, with relations at a historic low over the conflict in Ukraine
🗣 Former US President Donald Trump is "livid” and “screaming at everyone” after the Republican party's disappointing midterm election results, according to CNN, which cited a Trump adviser as the source.
🔴Abortion rights supporters have won in the four states where access was on the ballot
Voters enshrined the right to abortion into the state constitution in battleground Michigan, California and Vermont - and defeated an anti-abortion measure in Kentucky telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇸 The US Senate contest in Georgia that could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress is headed for a December runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed Herschel Walker, media projections are suggesting telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣Donald Trump has spoken out on the midterm election results, calling them “somewhat disappointing”.
The former president said however that “from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory”.
🗣Joe Biden has said yesterday's midterms were a "good day for democracy and a good day for America"
He said: "While the press and the pundits are predicting a giant red wave, that didn't happen... the Democrats had a strong night" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Joe Biden is keen to keep up the momentum, with infrastructure projects and clean energy initiatives.
But he also strikes a conciliatory tone, saying: "The voters were also clear that they're still frustrated. I get it" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣 "Regardless of what the final totals show, I am prepared to work with my Republican colleagues," says Mr Biden.
🇺🇸The President closed his speech stating: "It has never been a good bet to bet against America. We just need to remember who the hell we are. We're the United States of America." telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣Joe Biden has praised young voters and hailed the midterm elections as "a good day for America and a good day for democracy" in his first public comments since results started rolling in.
🚨Biden has announced his intention to run again in 2024.
"Our intention is to run again. That was the intention no matter what the result was," Mr Biden says. "My intention is to run again but I am a great respecter of fate" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.