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Netanyahu Bloc Falls Short of Majority as Israel Count Leaves Arab Parties Holding the Balance: October 28, 2026

JERUSALEM — Israel’s election has produced no clear winner, with partial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc short of a majority and Arab parties emerging as potential kingmakers.

With about 84 percent of ballots counted, Netanyahu’s bloc had 54 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, short of the 61 needed to govern, while the opposition “change” bloc anchored by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot had 49 and Arab-led parties 17, the Guardian reported. Likud remained the largest single party with 27 seats, ahead of Eisenkot’s Yashar with 22.

Turnout topped 77 percent, the highest in more than two decades, driven in part by a surge among Palestinian citizens of Israel.

“The right-wing bloc has a clear, decisive majority among the Zionist public,” Netanyahu told supporters, stopping short of declaring victory. “We must form a strong, national, right-wing government.”

“The public has chosen change,” Eisenkot said. “The Israeli public voted against Benjamin Netanyahu continuing as prime minister.” Most of his bloc has ruled out a partnership with Arab parties, while Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen said his alliance is ready to help replace Netanyahu.

Final results, including soldiers’ and other special ballots, are expected to be presented to President Isaac Herzog next week, who will then consult party leaders on who should try to form a government.

Sources: BBC News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera

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Serbia Raises Terror Alert to Red After Knife Attack Outside Israeli Embassy in Belgrade: October 28, 2026

BELGRADE — Serbian police shot dead a young man outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade early Wednesday after what authorities called a “terrorist attack.”

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said the attacker rushed at a police officer with two knives while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The officer suffered a minor knife wound to the face and shot the attacker.

Dačić said the suspect, a minor and Serbian citizen who has not been named, had been monitored by security services because he was “known to be a supporter of the Islamic State.” Security services said he had posted a picture of the Islamic State flag on Instagram, BBC News reported.

Dačić raised Serbia’s terrorism threat level to “red alert,” the highest level, bringing stricter security checks and more police at infrastructure sites and crowded areas. He said the injured officer was doing well and did not need hospital care.

Israel’s foreign ministry said no embassy personnel were hurt and the mission was closed at the time.

It is the second attack on the embassy in less than three years. In June 2024, a man shot a police officer guarding the building in the neck with a crossbow before being shot dead.

Sources: BBC News

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At Least 30 Killed as High-Speed Train Slams Into Stopped Train South of Madrid: October 28, 2026

URDA, Spain — A high-speed Renfe train slammed into the rear of a stationary Iryo train in central Spain on Wednesday morning, derailing two cars and killing at least 30 people, authorities said.

The collision happened just after 9 a.m. local time between Mora and Orgaz in Toledo province, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of Madrid, on the Madrid–Andalusia high-speed line. At least two carriages fell down an embankment.

Castilla-La Mancha regional president Emiliano García-Page said about 80 people were injured, about 50 of them seriously, and warned that the toll “will surely rise” as rescuers reach the most badly crushed carriages. Spanish media later reported he had raised the confirmed toll to 31.

Regional officials said the Iryo train carried 146 passengers plus a baby, and the Renfe train 397, more than 500 people in all, BBC News reported. The cause has not been confirmed. Rail operator Adif suspended all traffic on the line.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he was “shocked by the serious train accident in Toledo” and sent “my affection, solidarity, and support to all the victims and their families.”

It is Spain’s second major rail disaster this year, after a crash near Adamuz in Córdoba province killed 46 people in January.

Sources: AP, BBC News

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Flávio Bolsonaro Flees Brazil Through Argentina and Ecuador, Bound for Miami With US Visas: October 28, 2026

SÃO PAULO — Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate, left Brazil with his wife and two daughters for Argentina and then Ecuador, Argentina’s migration authority said Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration granted the family US visas.

The migration department said the family crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge into Argentina’s Misiones province at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday “carrying valid travel documents and without any legal impediment to entry,” and then boarded a private plane operated by Baires Fly bound for Guayaquil.

Flight-tracking data showed the Gulfstream jet left Puerto Iguazú overnight, landed in Guayaquil, and then departed for Miami’s Opa-locka Executive Airport, where it was scheduled to arrive Wednesday morning, according to Reuters and BBC News.

Bolsonaro, 45, the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro, lost Sunday’s runoff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Hours later Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred him from leaving the country and ordered him to surrender his passports, which he had pledged to do.

His whereabouts had been unknown for more than a day before Argentina’s announcement. US officials have said the family will be issued entry visas.

Sources: AP, BBC News

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El Salvador Rushes About 1,000 Troops to Haiti After Gang Ambush Leaves Four Salvadorans Missing: October 28, 2026

PORT-AU-PRINCE — El Salvador has sent about 1,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed security mission went missing in a gang ambush on the outskirts of the capital on October 18, a security official in Haiti told Reuters on Tuesday.

The flights in recent days dramatically expand El Salvador’s role in Haiti’s gang conflict. It remains unclear who will command the new contingent, how long it will stay or whether more forces will follow. The Haitian and Salvadoran governments did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

President Nayib Bukele last week announced a military operation to recover the missing Salvadorans, who have been unaccounted for since leaping from a burning vehicle during the ambush. He said they were air force technicians returning to base from a market and that he believed they were being held hostage. He has not said how many troops would be sent.

A US military official said the United States provided C-130 transport aircraft to help move the troops. Before the ambush, El Salvador had deployed at least 124 personnel to the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force, which has reached about 2,000 personnel, just over a third of its planned strength, CBC News reported.

No gang has claimed the attack. Wilson Joseph, leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, has released videos denying his group is holding the Salvadorans.

Pierre Espérance of Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network welcomed the deployment but warned that operations must protect residents of gang-held neighborhoods. “Not everybody living in gang-controlled areas are gangsters,” he said. Gang violence has displaced nearly 1.5 million Haitians.

Sources: CBC News / Reuters, The Straits Times / Reuters

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Hackers Target Federal Election Commission Systems Days Before the Midterms, Knocking Spending Reports Offline: October 28, 2026

WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission has suspended its web-facing services after what it called an attempt by “a bad actor” to breach its systems, less than a week before the November 3 midterm elections.

“We have a bad actor trying to breach FEC systems. As a result, we’ve had to temporarily suspend our web-facing services,” the agency said in an email to a campaign compliance firm, according to Reuters.

A status message on the FEC website showed the system went down after 10:15 p.m. EST on Monday. An update posted Tuesday at 8:17 p.m. EST said: “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency referred questions to the FEC.

The outage prevents campaigns and political groups from filing the FEC’s 24- and 48-hour reports, which track late spending on specific races, Al Jazeera reported.

The FEC does not administer elections. Democratic Commissioner Dara Lindenbaum wrote on X that the incident has “NOTHING to do with voter files or voter registration,” which are maintained by the states.

The disruption comes as the midterms have become the most expensive US elections on record, with about $11.21 billion spent or reserved on advertising, according to tracker AdImpact. Super PACs and dark money groups have spent an average of $50 million a day over the past week, said Brendan Glavin of OpenSecrets.

“It’s a big deal,” Glavin said. “In the last days of the election, this is the only way for us to keep track of where the money is being spent.”

Sources: Al Jazeera, Federal Election Commission

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World Brief, Evening: October 27, 2026

Israel’s exit polls point to a hung Knesset, Flávio Bolsonaro turns up missing and the U.S. says it will give him a visa, and the little Oleshky truce gets bigger. Ten stories as of Tuesday evening, October 27.

1. Jerusalem / Israel. Polls are closed, and nobody won outright. TV exit polls show neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor former army chief Gadi Eisenkot’s getting anywhere near the 61 seats needed to govern. Al Jazeera’s tally has them tied at 51 each, with Arab parties projected to win 18, per Al Jazeera. The Guardian has Eisenkot’s bloc slightly ahead, with Likud still the largest single party, on the highest turnout in 50 years. Eisenkot called it a vote of “no-confidence in Netanyahu.” Yair Lapid called it “a total collapse.” Eisenkot ruled out governing with the Arab parties before the vote, which makes them kingmakers without a seat at the table, and it points to long coalition talks, with Netanyahu able to stay on as caretaker while they drag on. Final official results are due by November 4.

2. Brasília / Brazil. This morning Flávio Bolsonaro was grounded. By tonight he’s apparently gone. He missed a Tuesday 11 a.m. deadline to hand his passports to federal police, and CNN Brasil reports he left for the U.S. with his wife and two daughters in the early hours, The Guardian reports. Folha de S.Paulo says allies were told he went to Argentina first, and Argentina’s Todo Noticias says he crossed the border on foot. A senior U.S. official says the State Department will issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family. His whereabouts haven’t been independently confirmed, NPR notes. Lula, celebrating his 81st birthday in Brasília, said “the act of leaving Brazil is shameful.” Lawmakers from Lula’s Workers’ Party have asked the Supreme Court to order Bolsonaro’s arrest and put his name on Interpol’s Red Notice list. In Washington, Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro wants the administration to tell Congress whether it had any role in his exit, per Al Jazeera.

3. Kherson / Ukraine. Day one of the Oleshky truce went quietly, and the truce has now been widened. Melania Trump, who helped broker it with Pope Leo XIV, said on X that it now covers more of the Kherson region to give humanitarian convoys “safe passage.” Kherson’s deputy head said Russian shelling had stopped both in Kherson city and in the wider region, BBC News reports. No breaches have been reported. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says it’s going “according to plan.” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, says it could “pave the way for other steps in the peace process.” David Arakhamia, a senior figure in Zelenskyy’s party, says the truce runs until 22:59 Ukrainian time on November 1 and called it the “largest de-escalation since 2022.” Roads are being cleared of mines so supplies can get in, possibly Thursday, and an evacuation is planned for Friday. An estimated 1,700 to 2,000 people are still in Oleshky.

4. Corpus Christi, Texas / United States. One week from the midterms, Trump pointed to a tanker off the Texas coast that he said held “one million barrels of oil” from Venezuela and called it “the greatest oil victory in history,” The Guardian reports. He also floated Venezuela becoming “a prosperous 51st state.” The point of the rally was Ken Paxton’s Senate race. Democrat James Talarico leads him by 1.7 points in the RealClearPolitics average, which is inside the margin of error, Al Jazeera notes.

5. Eastern Pacific. U.S. Southern Command says a strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday killed five people. Using the WOLA tracker’s count of 238 earlier deaths, that brings the reported toll of the boat-strike campaign to 243 since September 2025, Al Jazeera reports. Legal scholars and rights groups call the strikes extrajudicial killings. Here’s SOUTHCOM’s own announcement:

6. Nassau / The Bahamas. King Charles has started a nine-day Caribbean tour, his first visit to the region as monarch, taking in the Bahamas, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda. At a youth rally in Clifford Park, he said it is “only right” to “acknowledge the great suffering and injustices of the past,” BBC News reports. In line with the UK government’s position, Buckingham Palace says he won’t apologise for Britain’s role in the slave trade or offer reparations. Up in Canada, Olivia Chow was re-elected Toronto mayor, beating Brad Bradford 54% to 41% on record turnout, per The Guardian.

7. Cairo / Egypt. A New Cairo court ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of Egypt’s last prominent independent news outlets. It fined editor-in-chief Lina Attalah 3 million Egyptian pounds (about $53,400), the maximum, for running a website without a licence, and ordered the outlet’s equipment confiscated, Al Jazeera reports. She was held for several hours and released once the fine was paid. Amnesty International called it “a crushing blow to press freedom,” BBC News reports. According to a media watchdog quoted by the BBC, Mada Masr had applied for a licence repeatedly since the 2018 media law, and its applications were rejected or went unanswered. During her release, Attalah also learned of a 2024 in-absentia sentence of one year in prison, and a retrial hearing is set for November 11.

8. Katsina / Nigeria and Nairobi / Kenya. Yahaya Masussuka, a controversial Islamic cleric, was shot dead outside his home in Dutsin-Ma by two gunmen on a motorcycle on Monday evening, and one of his guests was also killed, BBC News reports. It isn’t clear why he was targeted. The 47-year-old had received death threats on social media over teachings that questioned some of the hadiths, and he spoke out against violent extremism and for interfaith dialogue. In East Africa, Kenya has released the first 20 contacts of its first Ebola patient from quarantine. Confirmed cases stand at nine, with two deaths, and 98 people remain in quarantine, BBC News reports. The DR Congo outbreak driving it has topped 10,000 cases.

9. Shanghai / China. China’s AI boom is losing air. The STAR 50 tech index in Shanghai is down 40% since June, and about $2.4 trillion has been wiped off Chinese stocks since May, according to Bloomberg figures cited by The Guardian. Behind it are thin profits, reluctant consumers and the threat of more U.S. bans on Chinese technology. Meanwhile Kylian Mbappé apologised for an “ill-judged” remark about a meme of Mao Zedong, made over a meme on a French talk show, after several Chinese brands dropped him, BBC News reports.

10. Tarawa / Kiribati and Arrival Heights / Antarctica. Kiribati fishermen found 18-year-old Luka Rahan alone and badly dehydrated between Tarawa and Maiana, 41 days after he and his cousin left northern Bougainville in Papua New Guinea on a fishing trip and the boat’s engine gave out. The ABC understands that his cousin died at sea, ABC News reports. Rahan is recovering in hospital in Tarawa. Far to the south, Earth Sciences New Zealand has retired Dobson #17, the spectrophotometer that has measured ozone from Arrival Heights near Scott Base since 1988. It could even take readings by moonlight during the 24-hour darkness of the polar winter. Scientist Sylvia Nichol made both its first and its last measurements, Earth Sciences New Zealand says. The result is a 38-year record that helped track the ozone hole’s recovery.

Coming Up

Confirmed dates on The Watch: the Fed wraps its meeting in Washington on October 28. November 1, Bulgaria’s presidential runoff (Iotova vs Gyurov), and the Oleshky truce’s scheduled end. November 3, U.S. midterms. November 4, Israel’s final official results. November 6, Pope Leo XIV sets off for Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. November 7, New Zealand votes. Full board at the link.

World Brief: October 27, 2026

Israel is voting in record numbers and trading fraud claims before the polls even close; Russia opens a humanitarian window on the Dnipro while it pounds Kyiv’s bridges; two Nordic leaders pick up the phone to Putin; and Ebola in Congo passes 10,000 cases. Ten stories as of Tuesday morning, October 27.

1. Jerusalem / Israel. Turnout in Israel’s Knesset election reached 55.7% by 4 p.m., the highest ever at that hour and up from 47.5% at the same point in 2022, with just over four million ballots cast, The Times of Israel reports. It’s Benjamin Netanyahu against former army chief Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar party, and polls suggest neither bloc reaches 61 seats. The day has been noisy: Netanyahu claimed “they are trying to steal the election,” Eisenkot’s camp accused him of laying the groundwork to contest the result, half a dozen parties reported irregularities, and the Central Elections Committee says there’s no evidence of systematic tampering. Police arrested three Ra’am activists on suspicion of bribing voters, and detained a man with a knife near Democrats chief Yair Golan in Tel Aviv, though they deny it was an attempted stabbing. Polls close at 10 p.m. local time (1 p.m. Pacific), with exit polls right after, BBC News reports. Final official results are due by November 4.

2. Oleshky and Kyiv / Ukraine. A Russian-declared truce around occupied Oleshky, on the left bank of the Dnipro in the Kherson region, began at 4 a.m. Moscow time and runs to 11:59 p.m. on November 1, with an evacuation planned for Friday. Up to 6,000 people remain in the area, including about 200 children, and some 1,700 in the town itself; the White House credits Melania Trump with brokering it, BBC News reports. Elsewhere it was business as usual. Overnight Russia fired 16 ballistic missiles and more than 280 drones at Ukraine, hitting Kyiv’s South Bridge, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a serious escalation in Russia’s campaign targeting our logistics,” Al Jazeera reports. There were also casualties in Kharkiv and Pavlohrad. Russian-installed officials in occupied Zaporizhzhia say a drone strike on a bus killed one and injured 30, and one person was killed in Russia’s Bryansk region.

3. Helsinki / Finland and Oslo / Norway. Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre spent about 90 minutes on the phone with Vladimir Putin, the first European leaders to call him since Emmanuel Macron in July 2025, BBC News reports. Støre said there were “big differences in views” and that both leaders stressed de-escalation. The Kremlin says Putin blamed “confrontational” EU and NATO policies. Not every neighbour was impressed: Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen said she was “very sceptical” and that the call wasn’t coordinated with her. US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi are pencilled in for early November.

4. Gaza and the West Bank / Palestinian territories. The UN Commission of Inquiry says Israel’s genocide in Gaza continued after the ceasefire took hold, and found crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank, including extermination, ABC News reports. The commission counts 254 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. Israel dismissed the report as a “propaganda document.” The findings land on election day, with an Israeli military operation around Hebron that has already displaced more than 3,000 people.

5. Kinshasa / DR Congo and Algiers / Algeria. Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 10,060 confirmed cases and 4,887 deaths, the fastest-growing and deadliest in the country’s history and the second largest on record after West Africa in 2014–16, Al Jazeera reports. It’s the Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine; the first vaccine trial began Friday. About 80% of new cases sit outside known transmission chains, across 66 health zones in eight provinces. A nurse was killed in Bafwasende, Uganda now requires a 21-day quarantine for returnees, Kenya has nine cases (two fatal), and a case diagnosed in Nigeria was evacuated to Switzerland. Up north, Algeria is sending troops to Niger, its first foreign deployment since 1973. The senate voted 148 of 174 in favour, according to AFP, and the lower house followed. The troops will guard energy facilities in northern Niger near the Libyan border. Numbers and timing weren’t announced. “We are not sending our soldiers to wage war in Niger,” Senator Belkacem Boulghiti said, BBC News reports.

6. Daraa / Syria and Karak / Jordan. Jordanian jets struck targets in southern Syria in retaliation for Friday’s attack on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak that killed nine and injured 34. Syria says seven people were killed across Daraa and Sweida, including three children and a woman. Jordan’s communications minister, Mohammed al-Momani, said Amman “regrets” the civilian casualties and claimed more than 20 Islamic State fighters were killed, DW reports. Damascus says it wasn’t told in advance, called the strikes an “unacceptable violation,” and closed the Nassib border crossing. Jordan has arrested three Jordanian suspects in the church attack, two brothers and a brother-in-law, BBC News reports.

7. Moscow / Russia and Tehran / Iran. Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow, Al Jazeera reports. Iranian state TV says they talked energy and bilateral ties, with no mention of the war that has seen Iranian missiles and drones hit targets across the region, Qatar included. Doha was blunter at home: a foreign ministry spokesman called on Iran to stop threatening Gulf states so diplomacy can work, and said a Qatari delegation had visited Tehran to support mediation with the United States.

8. Brasília / Brazil and Buenos Aires / Argentina. Two days after losing to Lula, Flávio Bolsonaro is grounded. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes cancelled his regular and diplomatic passports, citing a money-laundering probe linked to lawyer Willer Tomaz, The Guardian reports. After a report that he’d slipped into Argentina, President Javier Milei’s press secretary denied he had entered the country, Buenos Aires Times reports. His own Liberal Party has recognised the result, but he still hasn’t conceded and is preparing a case to disqualify Lula’s ticket. In Washington, President Trump said “it looked like another rigged election,” offering no evidence, NPR reports.

9. New York / United States. A federal judge ruled the Justice Department illegally fired former prosecutor Maurene Comey. Judge Jesse Furman said the dismissal violated the Constitution and her right to due process, and ordered her reinstated with back pay from July to December 2025, BBC News reports. The department says it disagrees and “will appeal in due course.” The ruling came the same day her father, former FBI director James Comey, was charged with leaking national defence information, his third federal case. He denies wrongdoing.

10. Saipan / Northern Mariana Islands, Geneva / Switzerland, and Antarctica. Typhoon In-fa is a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds and could become a super typhoon by Thursday. Forecasters expect it near or over Pagan late Friday, on a track between Anatahan and Agrihan; Saipan sits just outside the cone, and there are no watches or warnings yet, RNZ reports. In Geneva, the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin says all three main gases hit records in 2025: carbon dioxide at 426.8 ppm (153% of pre-industrial levels), methane at 1,948 ppb and nitrous oxide at 339.1 ppb. “Another year, another new record,” said Deputy Secretary-General Ko Barrett, warning that this year’s strong El Niño could set up another surge, according to the WMO. COP31 opens in Antalya on November 9. And down south, the British Antarctic Survey’s 2026/27 season is under way, with plans for its largest-ever penguin census across about 200 colonies, first-ever drone monitoring of humpback whales, and the Autosub “Boaty McBoatface” headed for the Amundsen Sea, says the British Antarctic Survey.

Coming Up

Oct 27: Israel exit polls at 10 p.m. local. Oct 27–28: Fed meeting. Oct 29: China’s Fifth Plenum wraps. Oct 30: planned Oleshky evacuation. Oct 31: more French protests planned. Nov 1: Bulgaria’s presidential runoff; Oleshky truce ends. Nov 3: U.S. midterms. Nov 4: Israel’s final results due. Nov 6: Pope Leo XIV begins a South America trip. The full board is on The Watch.

US Suspends Visa-Free Travel for Chinese Visitors to the Northern Mariana Islands: October 27, 2026

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — The US Department of Homeland Security is suspending a program that let Chinese visitors travel to the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa, effective October 31.

A notice published in the Federal Register on Tuesday suspends the CNMI Economic Vitality and Security Travel Authorisation Program (EVS-TAP), introduced in February 2025. It allowed stays of up to 14 days, with no onward travel to Guam. More than 3,000 Chinese nationals entered under it in fiscal year 2025, RNZ reported.

DHS cited security risks, including espionage targeting US military bases, and past cases of Chinese nationals smuggled from Saipan to Guam, some later encountered near sensitive military facilities. It also pointed to birth tourism, money laundering and labour abuses, including at the former Imperial Pacific casino.

The suspension applies to new and already-approved travelers. Those already in the territory may stay until their authorized stay ends.

DHS said it will review the program with the State and Interior departments and gave no timetable for reinstating it.

Sources: RNZ

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India Evacuates Tens of Thousands as ‘Very Severe’ Cyclone Arnab Nears Andhra Pradesh and Odisha: October 27, 2026

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities are moving tens of thousands of people to shelters as Cyclone Arnab, classed as a “very severe” cyclonic storm, heads for the country’s east coast.

The India Meteorological Department has issued warnings for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The storm was centred about 260km southeast of Visakhapatnam and is expected to make landfall by 11:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday, with sustained winds of 115-125km/h gusting to 140km/h.

More than 12 million people live along its projected path, Al Jazeera reported. Nearly 50,000 people were in shelters by Monday night out of about 400,000 who need to be evacuated, Prakhar Jain of the Andhra Pradesh disaster management authority told Reuters.

Odisha plans to evacuate 48,000 people, The Hindu reported. At least 12 trains have been cancelled and services on 53 routes suspended.

Neighbouring Nepal advised tourists to stay away from high altitudes from Thursday night to Saturday. A flash flood there in August killed about 1,500 people.

Sources: Al Jazeera

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