Morning news brief: Trump back in Pennsylvania after failed assassination; Israel on alert, and more

JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, backed Donald Trump’s state-based approach to abortion, just days after Melania Trump's pro-choice statements.

In Israel, the military has been placed on alert ahead of the anniversary of the Gaza conflict. Meanwhile,reports suggest that Israeli airstrikes hit southern Beirut with intense force.

Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania, where heclaimed the assassination attempt in July was orchestrated by political opponents.

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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Saturday (Oct 5) addressed the Trump campaign's stance on abortion.Just days after former first lady Melania Trump voiced her support for a woman's right to abortion, Vance defended the campaign's conservative position on the issue.

Israel on Saturday (Oct 5) placed its forces on alert ahead of the first anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack,after a military official said the country was preparing its retaliation for Iran's missile attack.

Donald Trump on Saturday (Oct 5) made a defiant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassination attempt nearly claimed his life in July. Speaking to a massive crowd from behind bulletproof glass, Trump questioned whether his political opponents were behind the attack, declaring that he would "never quit."

Israeli strikes hit south Beirut Saturday night into Sunday, some of them "very violent," the news agency AFP reported citing state media. The report said that Israeli military aircraftcarried out four very violent strikes on (Beirut's) southern suburbs, and one strike on the Chweifatarea, with ambulances rushing to the site.

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