RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s military today to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow continues its invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Putin’s decree, published on the official government website, will take effect on December 1. It sets the overall number of Russian military personnel at nearly 2.4m, including 1.5m troops.

EUROPEAN UNION: An influential French member of the European Union’s powerful executive branch resigned today, calling into question the leadership of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

Thierry Breton, a French commissioner for the EU’s vast internal market who recently clashed with tech billionaire Elon Musk, suggested that Ms von der Leyen had gone behind his back to get another French official named in his place to the next commission.

MOROCCO: Security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta following a call on social networks for a mass migration attempt, authorities said.

Some attempted to breach a border fence that has long been a flashpoint for sporadic migration tensions, but none successfully made it into Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry said today.

UNITED STATES: Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. 

Authorities said they were holding a suspect identified as Ryan Wesley Routh was in custody and being questioned.