Everything in this report rests, for now, on a single source: the health ministry of one side in the war. It says three children are dead in a village in Yemen's highlands. The other side has said nothing at all.
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Three times, the No Kings coalition filled America's streets to send a message. On Saturday it changed the destination — and set a benchmark, in advance, that the next 17 days of early-vote tallies will either…
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Solidarity statements are cheap in this war; legal authorisations are not. On Saturday Egypt's president began turning one into the other — asking parliament to approve, in advance, a defence of Saudi Arabia that…
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Prisoner releases in Yemen usually arrive attached to a negotiation. This one arrived attached to nothing: Sanaa opened the gates on its own, the Red Cross interviewed every man, phoned the families and checked who…
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The ceasefire that ended the Gaza war last October never ended the killing; it rationed it. On Saturday morning the ration was four lives, counted by hospital staff in three different places — and one of them was 14…
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The tanker war was supposed to be a Hormuz story. On Friday it moved deep inside the Persian Gulf, to the waters off Saudi Arabia's biggest industrial port — and one of the attacks arrived in the oldest form there…
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The target was the grid itself. Overnight, Russia hit more than 15 Ukrainian energy facilities in one of the largest attacks on the power system yet — and with winter coming, Ukrenergo warns that repair crews, not…
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Thirty people are dead after a Friday-morning strike on a crowded cattle market in the RSF's Darfur capital — and the three accounts of who sent the drone do not agree with each other.
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Rivals on almost everything, allies on the one question the country is watching: in Red Deer on Friday, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith told Albertans to vote to remain in Canada — then argued, in front of the…
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Less Amazon forest was destroyed in the year to July 2026 than in any year since records began in 1988 — 3,335 square kilometres, down 41.8 percent — and the Cerrado hit a record low too. The result landed eight days…
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The food was made brighter with industrial paint pigment, and 247 of 251 children tested had abnormal lead in their blood. On Friday, a court in Lanzhou gave the kindergarten's operator life in prison — the heaviest…
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The governor confirmed the attack and the fire, but named neither the facility nor whoever sent the drone. The plant Ukrainian sources pointed to sits more than 2,400 kilometres from the border — and the fire landed…
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The tarp came back on at 8:41 p.m. and never came off. Friday's rainout in Cleveland does not just move Game 4 to Saturday night — it deletes the ALCS off-day, sets up a possible four games in four days for the…
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The indictment is gone, but no one was acquitted on Friday. A New Mexico judge threw out the case against Timothy Busfield because of how prosecutors handled the grand jury's own request to hear witnesses — and left…
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Two and a half years after Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson and Carter Rhoad were found shot in a well south of Ensenada, a judge imposed sentences none of their killers can outlive. Prosecutors had sought 210 years.…
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Indonesian stocks did not fall on Friday because of a bad earnings report, a rate shock or a regional selloff. They fell because the referee of global investing said the market itself may no longer qualify for the…
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A year after the ceasefire was meant to end the fighting, the United Nations' acting Middle East envoy stood before the Security Council and sounded the alarm: people along Gaza's Yellow Line say they have not had 40…
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Bangladesh did almost everything right for decades — 96 percent vaccination coverage, a record rich countries envied. Then politics broke the system, coverage slid six points, and measles found the gap: 202,000…
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China did not send a note. Its foreign minister sat across from Israel's president in Baku and said the words out loud — stop the settlements, reverse them, open Gaza — and then Beijing published them for the record.…
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Ukraine's air defences stopped 293 of the roughly 340 weapons Russia threw at the country in a single night — and the night still got through. The fastest missiles were not intercepted at all, and in Kherson the man…
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The toughest Russia sanctions law in years passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, was signed by the president, and was scheduled to bite on October 18. On Friday, with two days to spare, President…
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The rally was supposed to be about Georgia: a Senate seat Republicans want to flip, a governor's race inside the margin of error, and 18 days left to move both. Instead, the moment travelling out of the hangar at…
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The Norte Fire was reported just after 11:30 a.m. on Friday near Portico Del Norte and Eminencia Del Norte in San Clemente and, pushed by Santa Ana winds across dry brush hills, reached 465 acres by mid-afternoon…
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Nick Betts, a former U.S. Army sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and now co-hosts the Liberty Risk podcast, says an unnamed man claiming special-operations service once told him an astonishing story over…
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Ethiopian federal forces and fighters of the Tigray Peace Force have entered Aksum, according to the conflict monitor ACLED, whose account was reported by Al Jazeera on October 15. The entry extends a federal…
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Moldova condemned Russia on Friday after authorities reported five drones identified as Russian crashing on Moldovan territory in less than 24 hours, lightly injuring one person and causing minor damage — and,…
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A passenger jet was on the ground at Aden airport, preparing to take off for Cairo, when two missiles came down about 500 metres away on Friday evening. Nobody was killed. But the strike — the second on the airport…
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Catholics in Africa outnumber Europe for the first time in the Church's recorded statistics, according to figures the Vatican released on Friday through its Fides news agency — a crossover demographers have predicted…
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Alex Murdaugh was back in a South Carolina courtroom on Friday, October 16, for a pretrial hearing of roughly two hours before Judge Debra McCaslin in Lexington County — the first major courtroom step since the state…
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Alexandros Paporakis, 19, of Palatine, Illinois, faces felony charges of making a terrorist threat and unlawfully possessing weapons after police say co-workers at his Taco Bell job reported digital messages…
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