Voters in five US states will decide the fate of reproductive rights for millions of women. California, Michigan, Vermont, Kentucky and Montana are expected to hold votes in November to protect abortion rights. Reproductive rights activists want to replicate their success in Kansas, where they defended abortion rights despite a relatively conservative state government. As The Guardian notes, this is the largest number of abortion-related referendums tabled in one year.

At least 304 people, including 41 children and 24 women, have been killed in protests in Iran. This was reported by the human rights organization Iran Human Rights. In addition, on November 4, a new “Bloody Friday” occurred - according to the organization, security forces then killed 16 people in the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan. The estimate of 304 people is very conservative, meaning there could be many more dead.

According to Bloomberg, Twitter is asking dozens of laid-off employees to return to work for the company. After the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, almost half of the company’s staff was laid off - 3,700 people. The workers were laid off on November 4, and many learned they were no longer working at Twitter when they were unable to log into corporate systems such as email and Slack. The entire team that dealt with the ethics of algorithms for selecting content for users was also cut.

Tomsk Polytechnic University expelled one of its students for a protocol on “discrediting the army.” This is reported by "That's So". Student Daniil studied at the university for only two months. On September 21, Daniil was detained at a rally against mobilization. As he himself claims, he did not participate in the rally - he was walking near the site of the action. However, he was still given a fine of 45 thousand rubles.

The examination found “extremism” in voice messages allegedly recorded by Rodion Stukov in a telegram chat. Rodion himself claims that he recorded these voices under pressure from FSB officers for supposed comparison with the original. According to lawyer Rodion, the examination in Vladivostok, to which the audio messages were initially sent, did not find any calls for violence or extremism in them.

Emergency responders in areas not controlled by the Syrian regime have accused the Syrian military, as well as Russia, of striking opposition-held camps in the northwest of the country. According to the White Helmets, 9 people were killed as a result of these strikes.

In the Gomel region of Belarus, which borders Ukraine, at least 12 people were convicted of filming the progress of Russian military equipment across the country and publishing this footage.