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Trump Says the US Will Not Attack Iran Before the Midterms, While Tanker Attacks Cut Hormuz Traffic to a Two-Month Low

A Truth Social post promises a pause until 3 November, but the blockade stays, Tehran calls the talks pointless and tankers are being hit outside the strait. Brent held above $100.

Oct 9, 2026/3 min read

The deck of an oil tanker docked at the Al Basrah Oil Terminal taking on crude in the Persian Gulf, photographed in November 2005, a file photograph illustrative of Gulf tanker traffic and not of any vessel attacked this week

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Russian Strikes Killed 22 in Pryluky and at Least 30 on Two Buses in Kramatorsk Within Two Days

A cruise missile hit a block of flats in the north on Wednesday and a guided bomb struck two buses in the east on Thursday. Zelenskyy warns the attacks will grow as winter nears.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

The Mykolaiv Church and the Transfiguration Cathedral in the centre of Pryluky, Ukraine, photographed in July 2014, a file photograph of the town and not of the building struck on Wednesday

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A Year After the Gaza Ceasefire, More Than 100 Aid and Rights Groups Say It Exists in Name Only

On the eve of the anniversary, aid groups and the UN's relief chief describe a Gaza short of shelter, clean water and working hospitals, while Israel says it blocks items with military use.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

Damaged residential buildings in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City after an airstrike on 9 October 2023, a file photograph illustrative of the destruction the aid groups describe and not taken this week

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Bosnia Returns the Same Ethnic Parties as Turnout Falls to a Record Low and Dodik Claims a Victory From Off the Ballot

Preliminary results show Becirovic, Cvijanovic and a new Croat member taking the presidency, with fewer than 42 per cent of voters bothering to cast a ballot. Coalition talks could last for months.

Oct 6, 2026/2 min read

The parliament building in Sarajevo after its reconstruction, photographed on 31 July 2007, a file photograph and not from the election

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Hegseth Calls the Hormuz Blockade 'Ironclad' While Iran Says There Is No Military Solution

After a Camp David meeting, the Pentagon chief said Iran has 'literally gotten nothing through' the strait. Shipping data tell a messier story, and Tehran says talks should rest on lifting sanctions, not new pressure.

Oct 5, 2026/2 min read

Two United States aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf during a 2014 carrier relief, a file photograph illustrative of US naval power in the region and not of the current blockade

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The UAE Calls the Flydubai Cockpit Attack a Terrorist Act as Israel Reviews Foreign Crew Checks

Five days after a co-pilot stabbed his captain with a crash axe on a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight, the UAE's prosecutor general says it was an attempted terrorist act, and Israel's prime minister has ordered a review of security for foreign flights.

Oct 5, 2026/2 min read

The flight deck of a Boeing 737 on display in a museum, photographed in August 2008, illustrative of the type of cockpit involved and not the flydubai aircraft or its crew

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Flavio Bolsonaro Edged Lula in Brazil's First Round, Sending a Tight Race to a 25 October Runoff

With more than 99 percent counted, the right-wing senator had just over 47 percent to the president's 45, a result that beat the final polls and sets up a three-week contest over Brazil's direction and its relationship with Washington.

Oct 5, 2026/3 min read

The National Congress building in Brasilia, where the Senate and Chamber of Deputies that Brazilians also voted for on Sunday sit, photographed in October 2009

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Latvia's Prime Minister Kulbergs Won Saturday's Election With About 35 Percent as a Pro-Russian Party Came Third

The centrist, pro-Ukraine United List topped the poll with most ballots counted, well ahead of the populist Latvia First, though it will need partners to govern.

Oct 4, 2026/2 min read

The Saeima, Latvia's parliament building, in Riga, photographed in February 2023 and not on election night

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About 400 French Lycées Were Shut on Friday as a Student Protest Over Class Sizes and Absent Teachers Turned Violent

Roughly 2,000 young people have been detained and more than 100 schools badly damaged in blockades that began over classes of 35 and missing teachers. The government blames the hard left.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

A lycee building in Paris, photographed in August 2023, illustrative of a French secondary school and not one of the schools closed or damaged in the protests

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Swiss President Guy Parmelin Will Leave the Federal Council at the End of 2026, Saying the Passion Has Faded

Switzerland's president and economics minister announced in Bern that he will step down on 31 December after eleven years in government, opening a contest to replace him that parliament will settle on 9 December.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

Official portrait of Guy Parmelin, photographed in December 2019

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An Israeli Strike Killed a Gaza Journalist as the Ceasefire's Death Toll Passed 1,400

Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar became the 263rd journalist killed since the war began, one of at least eight Palestinians killed in strikes on Gaza City and Khan Younis that Al Jazeera's correspondent said show the ceasefire's violence has not stopped.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza-Israel war, illustrative of the strikes described in this report rather than the specific attack that killed the journalist named