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Is the war entering a new phase? Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region Share Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region on social media Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, officials reported. Local Russian authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, announced the three deaths on Wednesday. In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions leaving emergency outages in many cities. Ukraine has repeatedly said Moscow is targeting its energy grid as temperatures drop before winter.

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Americans are electing members of Congress, which is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. All 435 House seats are up for election. In the Senate, only 35 of 100 seats are being contested because senators serve six-year terms. This results tracker shows both the races being decided now and the 65 seats that are not up for election this year - 34 held by Democrats and 31 by Republicans. In a race fuelled by withering attacks and inter-party disputes, progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has won a key Senate seat in the battleground state of Michigan.

Iran's chief negotiator says Americans voted'no to war' Iran's chief negotiator in talks with the US has said that Americans have said NO TO WAR, after President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered a stunning defeat in the midterm elections. We endorse this message, parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X. If the US [government] betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare, he warned. Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the poor results for Republican congressional candidates were partly due to the war and the related surge in petrol prices. But he insisted that he did not regret launching a joint attack with Israel on Iran in February.