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Air quality has hit unhealthy and very unhealthy levels. Singapore's environment minister says the haze will persist for some time and should ease with the monsoon in three to four weeks.
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.
Hijackings have surged since April as navies focus on the Houthis. Three ships were freed this month, but five crew members died in one rescue.
The 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.
A Singapore-flagged vessel went down after being struck by a projectile, while daily transits through the strait remain a tiny fraction of pre-war traffic and Brent crude holds above $100.
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.
After peaking as a Category 3 storm, Trudy brushed Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco with up to 30cm of rain. All coastal warnings have now been lifted.
Mexico2 min readUN chief António Guterres joined a 'Leaders for Nature' summit in Armenia ahead of the October 19–30 biodiversity conference, where countries will review progress on the 2030 goals.
Discharged from hospital, the 71-year-old pontiff thanked about 15,000 people in St Peter's Square. His surgeon sees no clinical reason to cancel next month's Latin America trip.
Viral clips claim a sunken container ship spilled iPhones and perfume into the sea. The ship sinking is real; the footage has not been verified, and some images are AI-generated.
Authorities say a 16-year-old attacked Silver Rail Elementary in Bend on Thursday. Another child and a teacher were critically wounded.
United States2 min readThe Central Bank of Kuwait's new platform will track salary transfers in real time — good news for expatriate workers, including hundreds of thousands from South Asia.
Lawson, JR East and Times Car are among the victims. Banks have been told to stop accepting driver's licences alone as proof of identity, and officials warn AI is lowering the cost of attacks.
Drivers are paying about 17 cents less per litre, Deutsche Bahn's alcohol ban now covers all 5,400 stations, and the clocks go back on October 25.
Germany2 min readOn his first visit to Pakistan, Magnus Brunner said applicants need better documents — and that the EU must make legal travel easier.
Three Saudi Pro League games, including Al Nassr's, have been moved and the Netflix-streamed tennis exhibition pushed to December after strikes on Riyadh's airport killed 13 people.
The South African jurist was honoured for promoting peace and international law. Canadian poet Anne Carson took literature and IceCube's Francis Halzen won physics.
