The Brief

Qatar has led intense mediation efforts to prevent a new round of U.S. attacks on Iran after Tuesday's U.S. midterms, NPR reported, leaving the Gulf region on edge. CBS News reported that both sides are trading threats while keeping diplomacy alive, with Iran saying "the ball is in the U.S. court" and that Trump must decide whether to end the war or return to it.

Al Jazeera reported Iran is pushing an accelerated plan for ceasefire talks that Tehran says has been condensed and could be implemented within two days. PBS reported that Iran's delegation has left the negotiations in Qatar after a tense weekend.

Ukraine says 24 people were killed when Russian aerial bombs hit an aid centre in a village in the south of the country. BBC reported that local officials said at least nine 3,000kg bombs struck the village and that 27 people had been missing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted by Al Jazeera, called the attack further proof that Russia does not want any kind of de-escalation or real justice.

The FBI attributed the theft of $6.3 billion from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange to North Korean hackers, tying it to an entity known as TraderTraitor. PBS reported the same group was behind a $1.5 billion Bybit hack last year, and the theft is described as the largest crypto hack in history.

BBC reported Binance froze transactions after the incident, users then withdrew $3.6 billion, and the exchange said it would cover 90% of losses. CBS News later put the withdrawals at $4.6 billion, which Binance said was a net outflow of 2.1% of its total holdings.

A six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied Kherson region has ended, allowing hundreds of residents to evacuate, NPR and BBC reported; BBC said fighting has returned to the region.

Late Sunday, both Ukraine and Russia reported cyberattacks on their air-raid alert apps that produced fake warnings, including false nuclear alerts, BBC, CBS News and PBS reported. PBS said Zelenskyy confirmed in an interview that Ukraine hacked back into Russia's emergency alert system. Al Jazeera reported that Ukrainian authorities said they cleared up the confusion in under an hour.

Thousands joined largely orderly demonstrations in Germany before violence broke out between police and protesters in Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg, with shops looted. Hundreds of thousands also protested in France the same day.

BBC reported hundreds of arrests in France, where protests have taken place for a third weekend in a row, and that a petrol bomb thrown at police prompted an attempted murder investigation. Al Jazeera reported on Monday that German unions have launched an expanded wave of strikes over cost-of-living pressures.

Freezers and fridges in shops in seven European countries were hit by a suspected cyberattack, BBC reported, with temperatures reportedly rising as high as 50C. BBC said dozens of supermarkets dumped large quantities of food. Al Jazeera, which named Sweden and Belgium among the affected countries, said dozens of store cooling systems were affected.

CBS News reported that grocery chains said temperatures in some stores soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit, weeks after a similar incident in France.