| Top News:  The Democratic Party on Tuesday regained control of both the US House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections, winning in Republican strongholds such as Texas, Ohio and Kansas in a heavy blow to President Donald Trump, who will govern for the remaining two years of his term with Congress in opposition hands.
 Paraguay’s Central Bank on Tuesday took over Ueno Bank, one of the country’s largest banks, after its solvency ratio fell below 50% of the legal minimum, and froze all its assets and liabilities, including the savings of some 3 million customers and more than US$800 million in public funds. The bank immediately suspended all its services.
 US President Donald Trump said he accepts the results of the midterm elections, in which Democrats regained control of both chambers of Congress, and signalled willingness to negotiate with the opposition, but blamed the Republican defeat on his absence from the ballot and threatened to veto the new Congress’s legislation.
 The US dollar weakened against major currencies on Wednesday morning and gold rose more than 2% to above US$4,000 an ounce as markets assessed the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, which will give the opposition control of both chambers of Congress for the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
 Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigned on Tuesday, six days after a collision between two high-speed trains near the town of Urda, in Toledo province, that killed at least 69 people. Puente also said he was withdrawing his name from the Socialist Party’s lists for the snap general election on November 29.
 Former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner on Monday received Brazilian lawmaker André Janones, creator of the WhatsApp channel that helped Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva win re-election, in Buenos Aires, as the Peronist opposition looks to Brazil for keys to defeating Javier Milei in the 2027 presidential election.
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