WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that Poland successfully prevented what appeared to be an attempted provocation on its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad overnight.
He gave few details but said that “individuals with flashlights” had been observed in the border area. The Polish guards prevented any incident from happening.
Poland, NATO’s largest member on the alliance’s eastern flank, borders Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to the north and Belarus, Moscow’s close ally, to the east.
“Just after midnight, I received information from the border guards that disturbing movement had been observed on the Polish-Russian border,” Tusk said.
The Polish police, working with the military, border guards and intelligence services, have been carrying out additional activities recently to strengthen security along Poland’s borders with Russia and Belarus, including near the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
The preventive measures were being conducted in the northeastern regions of Warmia-Masuria and Podlaskie, a police spokesperson told the AP.
On Tuesday, Tusk confirmed that a special operation coordinated by the police was happening in the two border regions.
Tusk said additional police and other troops, including counter-terrorism units, were recently directed to Poland’s north-east border regions after authorities received “more precise” information that acts of sabotage, including a potential incursion into Poland by “armed people,” were possible in the first half of November.
“We have been receiving information for some time from our services and from allies' services that ... acts of diversion or more serious provocations on the border with Russia, or even sabotage acts orchestrated by hostile services, could occur,” Tusk said.
He said he received further warnings about possible escalations from Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, while he was in Warsaw in October.
Tusk has been warning for months that Russia might be preparing a more serious hybrid attack against a NATO country. His warnings have gotten increasingly specific as he received intelligence from NATO, Ukrainian and U.S. secret services, including the CIA, he said.
Tusk said it was not possible to confirm with full certainty that the incident was an attempted provocation. He said Russia’s intensified escalation would continue and was unlikely to be limited to this incident.
FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks with the media as he arrives for the EU Summit in Nicosia, Cyprus, on April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Iran’s chief negotiator says it’s up to the United States to prevent renewed war after what he described as a “firm and rational response” to Washington. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf did not elaborate. His comments came after the U.S. conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, India says an attack on a commercial vessel off Oman killed an Indian national while 13 others were rescued.
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Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker says it's up to the United States to prevent new fighting after Tehran delivered what he called a “firm and rational response” to the U.S., state TV reported.
In an address to parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Iran remained ready “for battle with its finger on the trigger.”
He did not elaborate and it was unclear what “response” he referred to. His comment came after a U.S. official said the military conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the official, the strikes targeted Iranians using surface-to-air missiles. The official wasn’t authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Iranian state television reported that explosions were heard on Qeshm Island.
Qalibaf said: “If Washington makes another strategic miscalculation, it should know that this time it will face a new battlefield and will find itself even more desperate than it is today, searching for a way out.”
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A commercial vessel was attacked near Limah, Oman, India’s foreign ministry said, killing one Indian national while 13 were rescued in the aftermath.
Indian Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the Indian-flagged vessel MSV AL JUSUFI was hit by an unidentified aerial object off the coast of Oman on Monday.
India’s foreign ministry said the Indian Embassy in Oman was working with local authorities to arrange the return of the rescued nationals and the body of the deceased.
There was no claim of responsibility, but Iran previously has claimed attacks on vessels it says took unauthorized routes through the strait. It also has claimed some vessels have struck mines laid in the early days of the war.
Iran opened its third military training center in Tehran as authorities announced plans to train 1 million paramilitary volunteers nationwide, amid fears of renewed conflict with the United States and Israel.
Members of the Basij, a paramilitary force affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, attended the inauguration, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported. Two similar centers previously opened in Tehran in August and September.
Iran's “Janfada,” or “sacrificials,” campaign began registering volunteers in March and includes military training, emergency relief and logistical support. Courses cover urban defense, weapons handling, air defense, rescue operations, firefighting and navigation.
Women and children displaced by the fighting in Yemen are losing access to essential services, including maternity care and protection from violence, the U.N. said.
Renewed fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and the Saudi-backed government forces has displaced some 300,000 people over the past few months. The conflict, which is mainly concentrated on the west coast and in the southern province of Taiz, broke a four-year truce and exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation in one of the Arab world’s poorest countries.
Francesco Galtieri, the U.N. Population Fund's representative in Aden, said fighting has led to limited access to services, leaving women and girls increasingly vulnerable to gender-based violence, sexual violence and exploitation.
In the besieged city of Taiz, Galtieri warned of a “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation,” with life-saving services increasingly out of reach for more than 147,000 women and girls of reproductive age. Of the city’s 27 emergency maternal and neonatal hospitals, only five remain operational.
The leaders of Israel’s political parties opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time since last week’s election, as the country is mired in political deadlock from results that do not show either side with a conclusive win.
The opposition parties agreed to recommend former general Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, to form the first coalition. Israel’s president, who holds a largely ceremonial position, chooses which party will have the first attempt to build a majority coalition of 61 seats after the election.
Results released by election officials early Friday showed Netanyahu’s bloc winning 53 seats in the 120-member assembly, well below the 68 seats it had controlled at its peak in the previous parliament. His main opposition won 48 seats and Arab-led parties secured the other 19.
A plane from Israel made an emergency landing in Bulgaria following a bomb threat, officials said.
The threat was made by email, according to Lyubomir Nikolov, the acting chief secretary of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior. The plane landed safely at Sofia’s Vasil Levski Airport and is being searched by special counter-terrorism units. Security measures were stepped up.
The incident comes as several planes in Europe have been grounded by bomb threats over the past few days.
This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard demonstrate rappelling techniques, with the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in the background, during the inauguration of a military training center for civilian volunteers in Tajrish Square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A woman holds a sign calling for the killing of U.S. President Donald Trump and a poster depicting, from left, Iran's supreme leaders Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei and Mojtaba Khamenei during an anti-U.S. gathering beneath a billboard depicting Trump in central Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
