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First published 09 October 2026
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said three Saudi citizens, including an airline pilot, were killed and several people of different nationalities were wounded in attacks targeting King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia plane.
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Oil prices fell after President Donald Trump said no attack on Iran was planned before the November 3 congressional elections, while Iran's foreign minister said Tehran was reviewing the U.S. response to a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine expected European partners to join talks with the United States in coming days and that its negotiators would raise air defence needs after Russian strikes killed more than 70 people over two days.
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Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian and European officials would meet US envoys in Miami on Friday to discuss new ideas for ending the war, following a Russian attack on buses that killed 30 civilians in Kramatorsk.
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A surveillance report reviewed by Reuters identified a Chinese militia boat operating with a coast guard cutter and research vessel off Taiwan's Pacific coast in August, which Reuters described as the first known sighting in the area.
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South Korea successfully test-launched its first hypersonic glide vehicle on Thursday with President Lee Jae Myung observing, testing core technologies including flight trajectories and speed, according to the presidential office.
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A witness reported explosions in Riyadh and at its international airport, where outgoing flights were halted and passengers told to evacuate, while the Houthis claimed a ballistic missile attack without providing evidence and Saudi authorities had no immediate comment.
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An Ethiopian government-allied commander reported that Eritrean soldiers entered two northern Ethiopian towns and that officers were conducting surveillance in one of them.
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Reuters reported that a Russian bomb attack on Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said strikes across Ukraine killed 78 and wounded 215 over two days and criticized Washington's approach to Russia.
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President Donald Trump said talks with Iran were productive and the US would not attack before November 3, while the blockade of Iranian ports remained in place as the two countries exchanged proposals to end the war.
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Iran warned regional countries that opening unauthorized oil-export routes would be considered hostile, sources said, as weekly tanker attacks reached their highest level since the war began and vessel transits fell to their lowest in more than two months.
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Five people familiar with the matter told Reuters that U.S. and Russian officials discussed bringing American investors into the Nord Stream pipelines, with Kushner and Putin adviser Dmitriev also involved.
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A monitoring report reviewed by Reuters recorded a Chinese militia vessel operating with coast guard and research vessels off Taiwan's Pacific coast in August, describing it as the first known sighting in those waters.
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Ukrainian authorities said a Russian attack on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk killed 30 people and injured 18, and public transport operations were suspended.
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A year after Trump's peace plan, reconstruction in Gaza has stalled, with hundreds of thousands living in damaged tents, hospitals under strain and sewage continuing to overflow.
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A group of Middle Eastern investors, including people with business ties to US negotiators, would reportedly hold a majority stake under a multibillion-dollar proposed Russian oil deal.
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Ukrainian authorities said a Russian guided bomb exploded next to passenger buses in Kramatorsk, killing 30 people and wounding at least 18, with public transport suspended in the area.
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Ukrainian rescue authorities said Russian glide bombs struck two civilian buses in Kramatorsk, killing 33 people and injuring 18, while regional authorities ordered public transport suspended there and in neighboring Slovyansk.
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A monitoring report reviewed by Reuters recorded the first sighting in August of a Chinese maritime militia vessel alongside coast guard and research ships in waters east of Taiwan, which Taiwan considers important for wartime supplies from allies.
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Saudi-led forces in Yemen said they intercepted two missiles aimed at Riyadh, as heightened alert followed Saudi authorities' announcement that three people were killed in Wednesday's attack.
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The UK and Israel reached a last-minute agreement to avoid the full closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem, with the facility to remain under a new name, according to the British foreign secretary.
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A Russian missile strike on homes in the northern city of Pryluky killed 22 people, including five children, and injured 54 as rescuers continued searching the rubble, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
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Deaths from Congo's Ebola outbreak exceeded 4,000 amid limited support for patients and responders, and Africa CDC said more than 70% of new infections occurred outside identified contacts, complicating containment.
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Canadian poet Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature, joining past recipients including Toni Morrison and Samuel Beckett.
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Kenyan authorities expanded contact tracing after the country's first Ebola patient arrived in Nairobi via Congo and Uganda, reporting that 10 of 57 contacts had been isolated.
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Nepal announced plans to end search and rescue operations after flooding on August 26 killed at least 1,455 people, while 5,285 people, including hundreds of foreigners, remain missing.
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Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities killed at least 25 people, while President Zelenskyy said Ukraine also attacked two Russian oil facilities and a training ground.
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Saudi aviation authorities said attacks on Abha and King Khalid international airports killed three people and injured 36, while Yemen's Houthis claimed responsibility but Saudi authorities have not identified the attackers.
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Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least four Palestinians, including a civil defense rescue volunteer, according to medical personnel and Palestinian authorities.
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Kenya announced that a Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo became the country's first Ebola fatality, while health authorities inspected quarantine measures at Nairobi's international airport.
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