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A skiff with seven armed men fired on an LNG tanker 140 nautical miles off Yemen's Al Mukalla, capping a day of tanker attacks from the Gulf to the Arabian Sea.

At the Brussels summit, Zelenskyy put Ukraine's 2027 war bill at 155 billion euros and asked the EU to find at least 70 billion euros on top of its existing loan.

Jakarta's main index suffered its worst day since 1998 after MSCI proposed reclassifying Indonesia as a standalone market over governance concerns.

The second GCC-EU leaders' summit, due on October 24 in Riyadh, has been put off with no new date as Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia continue.

US Ambassador Sergio Gor said Trump must decide within roughly 10 days whether to use a law allowing up to 100% tariffs on Russian oil buyers like India.

Hotter-than-expected US consumer prices, driven by energy, put pressure on the Federal Reserve three weeks before the midterm elections.

South Korea's Kospi sank more than 7% on Tuesday as Samsung and SK Hynix tumbled, triggering a sell-side curb and dragging Asian markets lower.

Americans Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 economics Nobel for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.

PM Andy Burnham formally blamed Iran's IRGC for the RAF Fairford plot, summoned Tehran's envoy and sanctioned two Iranians; 29 countries backed the finding.

The UN migration agency says at least 139 people died when a boat bound for Yemen capsized off Djibouti, with 84 still missing.

Saudi Arabia suspended operations at Riyadh's King Khalid airport after a new attack injured several people, the third strike on the hub in four days.

Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, with 105 mph winds, the first US hurricane landfall since 2024, before weakening as it pushed inland.

About 30,000 people marched in Brussels against Belgium's budget cuts, while masked youths clashed with riot police who used tear gas and water cannon.

Washington moved from sanctioning ICC judges to sanctioning the court as an institution, threatening its banking, software and other services.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the 85-year-old former UN human rights chief for her work to promote peace and international law.

A superseding indictment in Manhattan accuses ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife of conspiring to torture detainees, including over a dozen Americans.

Starbucks has worked with advisers on a possible bid for Chipotle, a deal that would be the largest restaurant takeover on record if it happened.

The Belgian-born physicist, 82, is the sole winner of this year's physics Nobel for leading the South Pole observatory that found high-energy neutrinos from deep space.

Eight justices sparred over whether a Colorado county can seek climate damages from oil majors under state law, in the first case of the new US Supreme Court term.

Japan's PM pledged to cut the food consumption tax to 1% without deficit bonds, pitching growth and fiscal discipline together to wary bond markets.

Nearly 159 million Brazilians are voting for president, governors and Congress, with Lula narrowly ahead of Flávio Bolsonaro and a runoff widely expected.

Yemen's government forces say they hit Houthi targets in Sanaa, Saada and Taiz hours after the rebels claimed a missile and drone attack on a Saudi Aramco facility.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made an unannounced trip to Kyiv with defence executives, bringing €1 billion in military aid and a drone production pact.

An SKDS exit poll gives Latvia's ruling United List about 35% as polls close, with six parties set to enter the 100-seat Saeima.

G7 nations will release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel through the IEA over four months, front-loading diesel in the first 20 days.

US payrolls grew by just 29,000 in September, far below forecasts, pushing unemployment to 4.2% and pulling Treasury yields back from two-decade highs.

Washington sanctioned Iran Khodro, SAIPA, state railways and steel firms on Thursday, pushing its economic campaign beyond oil into Iran's industrial base.

Moscow ordered Hungarian embassy and consulate staff to leave within two weeks, answering Budapest's expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats in September.

South Korea says nothing is final on Alaska LNG or eight US reactors after a White House announcement it says went far beyond what was agreed.

Israel says the co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 stabbed the captain and sent the jet into a steep dive before a passenger and crew overpowered him.

A flydubai jet bound for Tel Aviv squawked a hijack code and landed in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after what Israeli officials described as a fight between its pilots.

Trump unveiled America.gov, an AI chatbot for US government services, and promised no curbs on AI as top tech CEOs gathered in Washington amid safety alarms.

The five British men held near RAF Fairford are out on bail, and counter-terror police say they are examining whether a foreign state was behind the plot.

Seoul's defence minister told lawmakers North Korean mines caused last week's DMZ explosion and promised a staged response against Pyongyang.

Nvidia's $150 billion buyback increase is the largest ever, topping Apple's 2024 record, as its stock trades at its cheapest valuation in over a decade.

UK counter-terror police arrested five men near RAF Fairford, a base US bombers use against Iran; Trump says they sought big damage.

Days of relentless rain have triggered fresh flooding and landslides across Nepal, with the Tinau river destroying houses in Butwal and the Narayani and Saptakoshi rivers forcing hundreds of families from their homes.

The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump has turned down Iran's seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, telling aides he expects to resume bombing after November's midterm elections.

India used its Right of Reply at the UN General Assembly to reject Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's remarks on Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty, invoking Osama bin Laden and Pakistan's military establishment.

Kazakhstan detained five Defence Ministry officials, including a deputy navy commander, a day after 14 conscripts drowned when rough seas swept them off a naval vessel.

Hurricane Nolo intensified to Category 1 strength south of Hawaii, with forecasters warning of catastrophic flooding as it makes its closest approach to the Big Island.

Trump and Xi met at the White House with cordial optics but opposing visions on AI, as Washington pushes speed and Beijing pushes control.

US President Donald Trump held summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House on Thursday, with the two sides agreeing to extend their tariff truce to January 10.

Delegates from 77 countries left the UN General Assembly hall before Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's speech, in which he defended the Gaza offensive and called Palestinian statehood recognition 'disgraceful.'

Hurricane Polo rapidly intensified into one of the strongest Pacific hurricanes in decades, threatening Mexico's Guerrero and Michoacan states with heavy rain and flooding.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant UN General Assembly speech rejecting US and Israeli pressure, a day after Trump said he was weighing whether to \\"annihilate\\" Iran.

A Russian ballistic missile barrage struck Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least two people and damaging a maternity hospital, hours after Russia told the UN it would not pause its war.

EU diplomats agreed to delist Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from Russia sanctions while extending the wider blacklist of 3,000 entities for three more years.

Opening the 81st UN General Assembly debate, Trump said he faces a choice between letting Iran rebuild under a deal or destroying the Islamic Republic quickly.

State media said Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of a new hypersonic-class weapon system, two days after North Korea fired short-range missiles that Seoul and Tokyo condemned.

Alibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator and a 20-gigawatt data centre plan by 2032, intensifying China's push to rival Nvidia.

A tanker entering the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unidentified projectile on Monday, the fourth such attack on shipping in the waterway in 11 days, as US-Iran tensions escalate.

A series of explosions hit a Syrian army munitions site south of Aleppo early Monday, injuring at least four people and shutting down nearby roads.

The US Virtual Embassy in Iran issued a fresh Level 4 travel warning, urging Americans to leave immediately as Houthi attacks and US-Iran tensions escalate across West Asia.

President Trump told Fox News he is weighing a massive military strike on Iran, as the US issues a security alert across the Middle East and Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia escalate.

Zelensky approved new long-range strikes on Russia and ordered scale-up of a domestic interceptor drone after a deadly week of Russian attacks on Ukraine.

The Bank of Japan lifted its benchmark rate by 0.25 points to 1.25% on Friday, a 31-year high, days after the US Federal Reserve's own rate increase.

Sweden's centre-right Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will resign after a four-party left-wing opposition bloc won a slim three-seat majority in the country's general election.

A UN-backed fact-finding mission says it found reasonable grounds to believe US strikes on a school and sports complex in Iran in February constituted war crimes.

Fighting between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces intensified near the Saudi border, with the Houthis claiming to have downed a Saudi jet and launched dozens of strikes.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in person before the International Criminal Court for the first time, with a trial over his deadly anti-drugs campaign set to begin in November.

Ursula von der Leyen used her annual State of the Union speech to offer Canada a new associate membership status, deepening ties as Ottawa looks past a trade war with Washington.

New Zealand's Parliament voted 93-29 to pass legislation enabling its free trade agreement with India, a deal its government calls once-in-a-generation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed deeper cooperation with Russia and called Moscow's war in Ukraine a sacred conflict, in a letter state media reported on Tuesday.

Russian drones hit a Kyiv gas station and a warehouse overnight, injuring one man, while NATO jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus.

Poland vows stronger security along its Ukraine border after Russian drone strikes landed near the frontier, as Tusk warns of a likely Russian escalation.

Yemen's Houthis said they struck Saudi Arabia's King Khalid Air Base with dozens of missiles and drones, the latest escalation in a fast-deteriorating regional conflict.

Asian equities fell sharply Monday as fresh attacks in the Gulf pushed Brent crude toward $108 a barrel and investors braced for a likely US Fed rate hike this week.

Rescuers are searching for around 140 people after the ferry Virgo Transport 8, carrying 243 passengers and crew, capsized in rough seas off Indonesia's Borneo coast.

Russian strikes hit power infrastructure across southern Ukraine overnight while Kyiv's forces struck an oil refinery and petrochemical hub inside Russia.

Sweden began voting Sunday in a general election too close to call, with the far-right Sweden Democrats poised for a possible first-ever place in a governing coalition.

Yemen's Houthi rebels captured the island of Mayun guarding the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, prompting Saudi Arabia to shut a major oil pipeline after a drone attack.

President Trump broke with decades of US neutrality by saying he'd love to see Ireland and Northern Ireland unified, during a Dublin meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Iraq's PM sacked a commander in Maysan province after confirming drones that hit Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline were launched from Iraqi soil, amid a wider Gulf security crisis.

Speaking in New Delhi during the BRICS Summit, Vladimir Putin said any European troop deployment to Ukraine would amount to direct war with Russia, while denying Moscow poses a threat to Europe.

PM Modi and President Putin met in New Delhi for wide-ranging bilateral talks ahead of the BRICS Summit, Putin's first in-person appearance at the grouping outside Russia since the Ukraine war.

Mohammed bin Salman twice asked Trump to launch strikes on the Houthis as they advanced on a key Red Sea chokepoint; Washington opted to offer intelligence support instead.

Iran-aligned Houthi rebels captured the strategic Red Sea port of Mocha on Thursday, forcing government troops to retreat and raising fresh fears for shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Iran fired ballistic missiles at a US-linked airbase in Jordan, damaging an A-10 and several F-15 fighter jets, as the six-month Gulf war escalates further.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced a restricted zone stretching toward the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, warning vessels that enter without coordination will be sanctioned.

CENTCOM sank five Iranian crude carriers after IRGC targeted a US warship twice, and Tehran retaliated with a ballistic missile barrage on a US-linked base in Jordan.

World leaders and European royals gather in Oslo as Norway holds a state funeral for King Harald V, who died last month at 89.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister warned of a firm response after Houthi strikes on energy sites wounded dozens, sending Brent crude toward $100 a barrel.

Trump vowed to block Bombardier jet sales in the US unless the Canadian planemaker builds locally, escalating a trade dispute with Ottawa.

Tata Motors-owned JLR confirmed plans to cut about 4,000 jobs over two years, roughly a tenth of its global workforce, as it battles tariffs, a cyberattack aftermath and cheaper Chinese competition.

Iran's military warned of harsher retaliation after US forces sank an Iranian tanker, hours after Tehran fired missiles at a US carrier and destroyer.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow with a proposal to end the war, as the Kremlin ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv.

Russian drone and missile attacks killed at least three people across Ukraine overnight as Kyiv said US negotiators could visit both capitals in the coming days.

US Vice President JD Vance said Washington will not negotiate with Tehran until attacks on commercial shipping end, as Iran's first VP threatened a multi-layered response.

The death toll from the catastrophic Nepal-Tibet flash flood has risen to 1,252 with over 4,200 still missing, as rescue and rehabilitation efforts continue.

US President Donald Trump vowed further strikes on Iran after the deadliest 24 hours of the renewed conflict, as Tehran accused Washington of a war crime over a wedding-party strike.

US Central Command confirmed new strikes on Iranian targets Tuesday, reigniting hostilities after weeks of relative calm around the Strait of Hormuz.

A covert Israeli raid and a wave of strikes across Gaza City killed several Palestinians on Tuesday, underscoring how fragile the nearly year-old ceasefire remains.

A large-scale Russian missile and drone assault on Kyiv overnight killed at least 11 people and wounded more than a dozen, hitting a railway depot and residential buildings.

The FTC and 22 states have sued Amazon, alleging the company secretly overcharged advertisers roughly $20 billion through undisclosed changes to its ad auction system.

A Russian strike on a warehouse in Ukraine's Bucha district has killed at least 37 people, with dozens more wounded and a day of mourning declared.

The US has secured majority control of over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves in a deal Trump says will cut American gas prices.

Nepal's foreign ministry says domestic agencies can handle search-and-rescue after flash floods killed close to 500 people, turning down help from India, China, the US and others.

CENTCOM says US forces have cleared international shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz of Iranian sea mines, though Iran disputes the claim and says none of its own ships have moved without permission.

A glacial collapse triggered flash floods on the Nepal-China border, killing over 165 people and leaving more than 1,300 missing as rescue efforts intensify.

Qatar's prime minister met senior Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday as Doha pushes to revive mediation and ease tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.

A flash flood on the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal's Rasuwa district has killed dozens and left hundreds missing, including more than 100 Indian nationals.

Iran and Oman's foreign ministers agreed in Tehran to pursue a temporary shipping corridor and joint mine-clearing project in the Strait of Hormuz.

Ottawa unveiled counter-tariffs of 15-50% on US steel, dairy and electronics after trade talks with Washington collapsed.

The US State Department is reportedly readying a phased return of diplomats to several Middle East missions that were evacuated during the war with Iran.

South Korea's KOSPI and Japan's Nikkei fell sharply on Tuesday as a Wall Street tech selloff spread to Asian chipmakers.

US stocks rose Friday but still posted weekly losses as Treasury yields climbed and markets awaited Trump's economic pressure campaign on Iran.

Israel's Housing Ministry opened bidding for over 1,200 homes in the contested E1 area, drawing international condemnation and threats of sanctions.

A massive overnight Russian attack on Kyiv killed at least 12 people and damaged a children's hospital, a school and homes across the Ukrainian capital.

Britain condemned Israel's tender for the E1 settlement project and summoned its charge d'affaires, warning of sanctions to come.

At least 10 people were killed in fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza on Wednesday, raising fresh doubts about the fragile ceasefire.

UAE halts all trade and financial ties with Iran after accusing it of firing two missiles toward the Gulf state; Iran calls the claim baseless.

Seoul and Washington agree to cut this month's Ulchi Freedom Shield drills short at Trump's request, as Pyongyang denounces the exercises.

Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northwestern Syria early Tuesday, hitting runways and storage facilities without causing casualties.

Jared Kushner met Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt as mediators scrambled to rescue a Gaza plan rejected by Netanyahu.

Ukraine sent hundreds of drones deep into Russia overnight in one of its largest strikes of the war, killing at least six people.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude quake struck off Flores Island early Saturday, killing at least 38 people and triggering hundreds of aftershocks.

US retail spending unexpectedly dropped in July while consumer sentiment posted its steepest slide in months, both reported Friday.

Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the army to prepare a plan handing West Bank civilian law enforcement to police, after criticism of the military's handling of a settler siege.

Sweden's parliament voted to lower the criminal responsibility age from 15 to 14, weeks before a tightly contested general election.

Colombia's president says 265 people have died and 496 are still missing three days after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake devastated the country's west.

A senior Iranian Basij commander said Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz remains under Tehran's control, rebutting President Trump's claim of US 'total control' a day earlier.

Israel's military says it killed a Hamas cell leader planning an attack on troops, as near-daily strikes continue despite the October ceasefire.

A double missile strike on the Egyptian-owned Tihamah killed six and wounded ten, marking the first shipping deaths linked to the Houthis since the US-Israel war on Iran began.

A drone strike ignited a huge fire at Libya's Zawiya refinery, the third attack on the site's oil infrastructure in two days, with no group claiming responsibility.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia's Choco region on Monday, killing dozens, damaging airports and prompting evacuations across Colombia and Ecuador.

A loud blast and fire were reported at a gas facility in Saudi Arabia's Jubail Industrial City, with Israeli media citing Houthi involvement.

Iran says a shipping-route deal with Oman for the Strait of Hormuz is 'very close,' even as the UAE reported a missile strike on a tanker in the same waters.

An overnight Russian bombardment killed three people near Kyiv hours after the US Senate passed sweeping new sanctions targeting Russian energy exports.