1. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their last-ditch appeals to swing state voters as the two remain locked in a tight race for The White House.

2. Moldova's pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu claimed victory in a closely-fought presidential election.

3. Russian forces attacked Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv and the surrounding region with guided aerial bombs.

4. Economists say that Trump's tariff plans would push US import duty rates back up to 1930s-era levels, stoke inflation, collapse US-China trade, draw retaliation and drastically reorder supply chains.

5. China has urged France to push the European Commission towards a solution acceptable to both the European and Chinese electric vehicle industries.