The hour's dominant story is the Binance theft. The FBI says North Korea stole more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from the exchange 1. Binance puts the haul at roughly $6.3 billion, taken from its hot wallets Thursday. It says it has covered about 90% of that with its own funds and will reopen withdrawals Sunday in phases, subject to security checks 2. The blockchain analytics firms TRM and Chainalysis independently pin the attack on TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking unit, which aligns private-sector forensics with the FBI's attribution 1. In a separate report that gives no cause, Circle redeemed about $11.7 billion in USDC, bringing circulating supply down to roughly $70 billion 3. Israeli politics is the clearest multi-item thread. Demonstrators are demanding a coalition that includes Arab parties while right-wing activists push for a snap election 4. Veteran MK Tibi says the Joint List would back an anti-Netanyahu government from outside without joining it 5. Likud activists blame minister Ben-Gvir's provocations for fueling Arab turnout, which reached nearly 80% in Rahat, and say this damaged Netanyahu's bloc 6. In Poland, PM Donald Tusk defended suspending the constitutional court's president and vowed to press on with the judiciary overhaul. The opposition accuses him of an institutional coup 7, and overnight protests brought riot police to guard the court building 8. On the war in Ukraine, a Russian strike destroyed the Kramatorsk city executive committee building on Peace Square, which had survived the 2014 occupation and which the mayor called the foundation of Ukrainian Kramatorsk 9,10. Russia's shadow fleet is reportedly fitting improvised netting and rubber tires against drones as Ukraine aims to hit its oil exports 11. An AP analysis of Iran's strikes on US Mideast bases finds that early-warning systems were the first assets knocked out 12. Separately, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned of a credible threat of a mass casualty event at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve
. Other items worth noting: several police officers were injured in Gen Z protests in Germany 13, and a lower-tier report describes Halloween-night riots in Frankfurt with petrol bombs and a looted gun store 14. Turkey installed Muhsin Atci as chief of its market regulator in response to an investment fund crisis that rocked markets 15. Six or more suspected Havana syndrome cases among U.S. government personnel in the Washington area are reportedly being treated at Walter Reed, with the cause not yet established 16.
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