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The two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's second-highest body covers trade, connectivity and the bloc's budget, a year before Pakistan hosts the SCO summit.
Major Wajahat Waheed was killed by a roadside bomb during a clearance operation in Gwadar district. The military says operations in Kalat and Gwadar will continue.
Pakistan2 min readThe president and the former president's son called each other liars in a chaotic São Paulo debate, a week before the October 25 run-off.
Brazil2 min readRussia says it downed 1,015 drones in its biggest attack of the war. Trump defended halting new Russia sanctions and said Zelenskyy 'doesn't want to end this war'.
Monday's ballot asks whether to start the legal process towards a future binding vote on separation — plus nine other questions.
Canada2 min readNearly 2,400 people were arrested and about 1,000 police officers injured on Saturday, as cost-of-living protests also swept Belgium, Portugal and Italy.
Netanyahu's Likud faces a tight race against an opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot in the October 27 vote, as the war with Iran drags on.
GCC ministers called an attack on one member an attack on all six. In Taiz, hospitals have four days of fuel left and more than 233,000 people have fled their homes.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon in Tirana. 272 people have been injured since Tuesday, most of them police officers.
Albania2 min readOpposition leaders say India's foreign minister is being 'summoned' to meet the US secretary of state, as tariff talks stall and Russian oil purchases strain ties.
The FRN, announced in rebel-held Goma, replaces the M23-led alliance and calls for resistance 'by all means' against President Tshisekedi.
Kyiv says Russia never stopped hitting its power plants. President Trump criticised the Ukrainian strikes, while EU leaders discussed new financing and a task force on Ukraine's membership bid.
About 80 masked settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks in Abu Falah, witnesses told Reuters. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas towards Palestinians at the scene.
On his first visit to Pakistan, Magnus Brunner said applicants need better documents — and that the EU must make legal travel easier.
