International news and analysis, with a focus on the developments that matter most to readers in Pakistan and South Asia.
Kenya has confirmed its second death from Ebola, as health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo began vaccinating the first participants in a trial for a vaccine against the strain behind the outbreak. Both announcements came on Friday — and underline the biggest gap …
A gunman killed one person and wounded five others — including a 12-year-old girl — after opening fire from a vehicle at a petrol station, a medical centre and a children’s playground near Paris on Friday morning. French President Emmanuel Macron described the attack in …
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck China’s Tibet region late on Thursday night, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more in the remote northern prefecture of Nagqu, where hundreds of homes collapsed in one of the strongest tremors to hit the plateau in …
Saudi Arabia came under attack on two fronts on Wednesday: one person was killed and eight injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, while air defences intercepted a drone over Aramco’s Shaybah oil field, where falling debris killed two people and …
By WHAT TODAY? News Desk · Published October 21, 2026 LONDON — British counterterrorism police have rearrested two men on suspicion of assisting Iran’s foreign intelligence service, in the investigation into last month’s suspected plot at RAF Fairford, the US-run air base in western England …
France has endured its most turbulent day of protests in years. On Saturday, October 17, more than half a million people joined over a hundred demonstrations across the country against the rising cost of living and cuts to public services. By nightfall, marches that had …
Key takeaways: UKMTO confirmed 12 vessel attacks near Hormuz in the week to October 16, a record pace, with transits 70% below pre-war levels. The US and Iran dispute control of the strait and whether ships hit mines or projectiles. The world’s most important oil …
Key takeaways Donald Trump has put on hold one of the toughest sanctions packages Congress has passed against Russia, signing an executive order on Friday that suspends the measures just days before the tariff provisions were set to activate. The decision hands an immediate reprieve …
Key takeaways The US military has drawn up new strike plans that could include the GBU-43/B “mother of all bombs” against Iranian energy and nuclear sites, CNN reports, citing US officials. President Trump, in a Newsmax interview, said the weapon is “not nuclear at all” …
Key takeaways:North Korea said it fired two types of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles into the East Sea on Wednesday. South Korea’s military confirmed it tracked both launches from pre-launch to impact, while analysts read the test as a step toward a sea-based deterrent amid weeks …