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World Brief: October 11, 2026

Donald Trump announced a Russia–Ukraine “energy ceasefire” that Kyiv says it learned about from the announcement; Riyadh’s airport was hit again a day after the deadliest attack on Saudi soil in a decade; and the shipping war around Hormuz is heating back up. Ten stories as of Sunday morning, October 11.

1. Kyiv, Moscow and Washington / Ukraine, Russia and United States. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. “Both parties have agreed. … Do not break it!” There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow, DW reported, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Axios: “The ceasefire announcement was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree.” Trump made a similar claim in September that turned out to be untrue, The Guardian noted. Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian drones damaged a Yandex data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, the third strike on “Russia’s Google” this week; the company said operations there were “completely suspended,” BBC News reported. The backdrop is the week’s row over Trump’s Russian diesel deal and his call on Saturday for Ukraine to “get a new president.”

2. Riyadh / Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition said an “unidentified projectile” struck Terminal 4 at King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, causing a fire, and that air defences intercepted a cruise missile nearby, AFP reported via The Guardian. The airport was already closed after Saturday’s strike killed 12 people, including an American, and injured 309, BBC News reported. Saudi authorities extended the closure and moved Riyadh’s schools online until Thursday, while the Houthis warned airlines, passengers and airport staff to stay away from Saudi airports and said “the worst is yet to come,” The Guardian reported. They exempted Mecca and Medina. Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said Saudi Arabia struck Sanaa’s airport on Sunday afternoon, DW reported. On whether the U.S. joins in, Trump said: “We’re gonna look at it.”

3. Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz / Iran and United States. U.S. Central Command released footage of a fighter jet bombing the stern of a Panama-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman and knocking out its propulsion. CENTCOM said the crew ignored repeated warnings and tried to run the naval blockade of Iran’s southern ports. Since the blockade was reimposed in mid-July, it says, U.S. forces have disabled four commercial vessels, turned back 135 ships and destroyed 10 Iran-linked tankers, Al Jazeera reported. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said an unnamed supertanker hit a naval mine and caught fire while using an “unauthorised route,” and it warned other tankers of the same fate. UKMTO reported a projectile hitting an outbound tanker on Sunday, and the UAE coastguard rescued 22 crew from a burning tanker. Kpler data cited by CNBC put crude flows through the strait about 40% below normal last week.

U.S. Forces Disable Cargo Vessel Attempting to Violate Blockade

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman, Oct. 10, after the ship’s crew ignored repeated warnings and attempted to run the ongoing naval blockade… pic.twitter.com/qBKcU6gWqR

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 11, 2026

4. Obock / Djibouti. At least 139 migrants died and 84 are still missing after a boat headed for Yemen capsized off Djibouti’s coast late Thursday, the UN’s International Organization for Migration said on Sunday, DW reported. That’s up from an earlier count of 109 dead, including 15 children. Reports put the number on board at 305 to 350. About 80 people survived, all of them Ethiopian, and Djiboutian search operations are continuing, BBC News and Al Jazeera reported. “This is a devastating loss of life,” said Alexandre Coissac, the IOM’s Djibouti chief. The agency has counted more than 20,000 crossings from Ethiopia into Djibouti since September 10, despite the war in Yemen. More than 900 people died or went missing on the route last year.

5. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Pakistan. President Asif Ali Zardari put the north-western province under emergency rule on Sunday, effectively suspending its government, which is run by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s PTI party, DW reported. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office cited the “provincial government’s deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism.” Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said the governor will take charge with an advisory council, initially for six months. A PTI lawmaker said Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and the party’s provincial president were arrested, which officials haven’t confirmed, Al Jazeera reported. It comes a week into a PTI march on Islamabad demanding Khan’s release.

6. Warsaw / Poland. Police received information about a possible plot to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and security chiefs held an emergency meeting on Sunday. “We take this matter extremely seriously,” said Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesperson for the minister overseeing the intelligence services, adding that officials saw a high probability the threats would have been carried out, The Guardian reported. Radio Zet reported that the tip came to police by email, according to Al Jazeera. Poland was already on edge after three school attacks in Mazovia province in four days, and Tusk has warned of Russian hybrid attacks on NATO’s eastern flank.

7. Vatican City / Holy See. “The doctors found an early, well-localised nodule on my lung,” Pope Leo XIV told pilgrims in St Peter’s Square at Sunday’s Angelus, saying he had agreed to surgery. The Vatican press office said the operation is set for early this coming week at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, and that the 71-year-old should need about a week to recover, BBC News reported. The pope didn’t say whether the nodule is malignant, but he said it was caught “at an early stage,” The Guardian reported.

8. Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán / Mexico. The core of “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Simon was near the coast of west-central Mexico at 9 a.m. CST: a Category 4 with 145 mph winds, 65 miles west-northwest of Manzanillo, moving north-northwest at 7 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It’s expected to be very near the coast later today and to stay close on Monday. A hurricane warning runs from Punta San Telmo to El Roblito and the Islas Marías. Forecasters expect another 8 to 16 inches of rain, with isolated totals of up to 30 inches in Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco, and warn of “life-threatening flooding and mudslides.” Farther north, the remnants of Rachel are bringing heavy rain to parts of the south-western U.S., and the NHC has issued its last advisory on that storm.

9. Brasília / Brazil. Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court gave Meta 48 hours to say whether it cut the reach of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign posts, and to “report, profile by profile, all the measures applied” to his official accounts, AFP reported. Lula’s campaign says Facebook’s and Instagram’s parent company is trying “to interfere in the Brazilian electoral process to the benefit of Flávio Bolsonaro’s candidacy.” Meta’s Brazil office called the claims “simply false” and said many of the technical issues weren’t limited to Brazil or to specific accounts. Lula faces Bolsonaro, the son of the former president, in the October 25 runoff. Bolsonaro finished first in last Sunday’s first round.

10. Nikumaroro / Kiribati. A team from the U.S.-based Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University is due by Monday at Nikumaroro, a remote atoll in Kiribati, to inspect what it thinks could be Amelia Earhart’s plane, BBC News reported. The target is the “Taraia Object,” spotted on the edge of a lagoon in 2020 satellite imagery and since found in aerial photos dating back to 1938. The team is aboard a Kiribati National Shipping Line vessel for the 830-mile trip from the capital. “Finding Amelia Earhart’s Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” said expedition lead Richard Pettigrew. Earhart vanished in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

Coming Up

Confirmed dates on The Watch: October 12, the Nobel economics prize, the last of this year’s Nobels. October 12–18, the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, with G20 finance ministers there October 15. October 15–16, the European Council in Brussels. October 19, Alberta’s referendum on whether to move toward a binding independence vote.

Sources: BBC News; The Guardian; Al Jazeera; DW; AFP; U.S. Central Command; U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Cargo Ship Reaches Drifting Solomon Islands Ferry MV Awka as Australian and French Aircraft Drop Water and Life Rafts to Stranded Passengers: October 11, 2026

HONIARA, Solomon Islands — A cargo ship reached the Solomon Islands ferry MV Awka early Sunday and began handing over food and water to dozens of people who have been adrift aboard since its engine failed on Friday in remote Temotu Province, ABC News (Australia) and the Solomon Star reported.

The ferry, which serves the far eastern islands under the government’s franchise shipping service, lost its main engine on Friday morning while sailing from Anuta to Vanikoro, about 100 nautical miles from its destination. The Solomon Islands Maritime Authority told ABC there were 74 passengers and 16 crew on board; the Solomon Star put the number of passengers and crew at 73.

“The urgent need was water. We’ve run out of water onboard … the ship’s water supply was used to cool the engine down when it was heating up,” passenger John Tua, a provincial government nurse, told ABC News. “We have lots of brown coconuts on board to drink, but our water is finished.” Passengers have kept in touch with relatives through the ferry’s Starlink connection.

A French aircraft from New Caledonia was first on the scene on Saturday, dropping life rafts and desalination equipment, and a Cairns-based Australian Maritime Safety Authority jet made several drops of food, water, medical supplies and communications gear. The Panama-registered bulk carrier Sunnine 3, which diverted from its route, arrived around 2 a.m. Sunday and dropped relief supplies after daybreak, the Solomon Star said. The Temotu provincial government said those aboard now had access to drinking water, food and medical provisions.

A landing craft sent from Vanikoro turned back on Saturday because of high swells, and the patrol boat Gizo was due to reach the ferry late Sunday, the Solomon Star reported. The drama comes four weeks after the inter-island ferry MV Matui sank in rough seas in neighboring Vanuatu with more than 50 people aboard; two have been confirmed dead and 39 remain missing, ABC said.

Sources: ABC News (Australia), Solomon Star

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Brazil’s Electoral Court Gives Meta 48 Hours to Answer Lula’s Charge That It Throttled His Campaign Before the Runoff: October 11, 2026

BRASÍLIA, Brazil — Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court has given Meta 48 hours to explain whether it reduced the reach of posts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election campaign, after the campaign accused the tech giant of trying to interfere in the presidential race to benefit his rival, AFP and the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported.

In a statement on Saturday, Lula’s campaign said Meta had in recent days “prevented President Lula’s profile from promoting Instagram feed posts,” that a post on his official account “experienced an interruption in view counts,” and that before the first round the profiles of Lula and other leftist leaders “suddenly disappeared from Instagram’s search function.” The series of problems “raises strong suspicions that Meta’s actions constitute an attempt to interfere in the Brazilian electoral process to the benefit of Flavio Bolsonaro’s candidacy,” the statement said, according to AFP. The campaign also said it would file a complaint with Brazil’s data protection authority, G1 reported.

The court, known as the TSE, ordered Meta to preserve its moderation logs, ad data and metrics; report, profile by profile, every measure applied since Aug. 16 to Lula’s official accounts and to third-party accounts; explain anomalies in view counts on videos posted on Oct. 7; justify disabling the campaign’s ad account on Sept. 23; and say whether it had identified a network of 255 AI-run Instagram profiles that the fact-checking agency Lupa found drew 58 million views in a month attacking Lula, his Workers’ Party and first lady Janja da Silva, Estadão reported. The campaign and the electoral prosecutor will then have 24 hours each to respond before the court rules on an urgent injunction request.

Meta’s Brazil office called the accusations “simply false” and “not supported by the facts.” “Many of the technical issues mentioned did not affect only Brazil or specific accounts,” the company told AFP. “We comply with electoral regulations and are committed to a level playing field regarding the use of our platforms.”

Lula is seeking a fourth, non-consecutive term in the Oct. 25 runoff against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who finished first in last Sunday’s opening round. Lula, who does not use a mobile phone, launched a social media push after the first round that includes videos of him speaking directly to his followers.

Sources: AFP, Estadão, G1

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Category 4 Hurricane Simon’s Core Closes In on Mexico’s West-Central Coast as Forecasters Warn of Catastrophic Wind and Up to 30 Inches of Rain: October 11, 2026

MANZANILLO, Mexico — Hurricane Simon, an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, pushed its core up against the west-central coast of Mexico early Sunday, with forecasters warning of catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

At 6 a.m. CST, the eye of Simon was about 60 miles west of Manzanillo and 110 miles south-southeast of Cabo Corrientes, moving north-northwest at 6 mph with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and a minimum central pressure of 933 millibars, the center said in its intermediate advisory 16A. Simon is expected to be near or just inland over west-central Mexico later Sunday and to move very close to the coast on Monday; some slight weakening could occur, but it is forecast to stay a major hurricane Sunday, and could weaken rapidly if its core moves fully onshore.

Hurricane #Simon Advisory 16A (6 AM CST, Sun Oct 11): Simon Moving North-Northwest. Core of Extremely Dangerous Hurricane Very Near the Coast of West-Central Mexico. https://t.co/NyUGSIFCuo

— NHC Pacific (@NHC_Pacific) October 11, 2026

A hurricane warning is in effect from Punta San Telmo to El Roblito and for the Islas Marías, with a tropical storm watch east of Punta San Telmo to Lázaro Cárdenas. The center expects an additional 10 to 20 inches of rain over parts of southwestern Mexico, with isolated totals of 30 inches possible in Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco through Monday, bringing life-threatening flooding and mudslides in steep terrain. Hurricane-force winds extend up to 25 miles from the center.

Jalisco state declared a red alert for several municipalities, Puerto Vallarta’s airport suspended operations, and Mexico’s navy evacuated about 100 people from coastal settlements, AFP reported. Rain from Simon has already caused flooding in Acapulco. In Puerto Vallarta, shop owners sandbagged and boarded up their stores; one boutique owner put up a sign reading “Simon, be brief, be peaceful,” according to AFP.

Simon is the latest storm in a busy Pacific season, with El Niño weakening the wind shear that normally limits hurricanes, AFP said. On the Atlantic side, the remnants of Isaias, which killed at least four people in the southeastern United States, were still bringing a flood threat to the region.

Sources: National Hurricane Center, AFP

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Flash Flood Roars Down Nepal’s Budhi Gandaki River, Sweeping Away Homes and Bridges as Five People Are Reported Missing: October 11, 2026

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A flash flood tore down the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal’s Gorkha district on Sunday, sweeping away about a dozen houses and several bridges and damaging a hydropower project, as authorities urged villagers downstream to move to higher ground, BBC News and ABC News (Australia) reported.

Two women and three men were out of contact, the national disaster authority said, though there were no immediate reports of deaths. The army said 49 people, including a foreigner, had been rescued, and 18 workers at the hydropower project escaped to safety after their camp was damaged, the authority’s chief, Dharam Raj Uprety, said, according to ABC. A highway bridge linking two districts was also washed away.

Authorities said a dry landslide at Chumnubri village, about 100 kilometers west of Kathmandu, had blocked the river and unleashed the flood. The BBC said the cause was still unclear, with some suggesting a landslide had dammed the river or a tributary and others reporting that locals upstream had seen an ice avalanche. Water levels at one point rose from 2 meters to nearly 8.5 meters within a couple of hours. “Our hydrological station was swept away and we are not getting any data from that location,” government meteorologist Binod Parajuli told the BBC.

“We have asked villagers living along the river banks downstream to evacuate and remain safe,” said Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, Gorkha’s most senior administrator. Alerts were issued for the Gorkha, Tanahun, Chitwan, East Nawalparasi and West Nawalparasi districts, and army and police rescuers were monitoring the river by helicopter.

The flood struck on the first day of Dashain, a major festival in Nepal. The Budhi Gandaki feeds the Trishuli River, where a glacier collapse in August caused a catastrophic flood that killed 1,457 people; Nepal has ended the search for the more than 5,000 people still missing from that disaster, ABC reported.

Sources: BBC News, ABC News (Australia)

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Pakistan Imposes Emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sidelining Imran Khan’s Party as Its March on Islamabad Rolls On: October 11, 2026

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s federal government on Sunday imposed a state of emergency and governor’s rule in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, effectively suspending the provincial government run by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, after President Asif Ali Zardari approved the cabinet’s recommendation, Al Jazeera and Dawn reported.

The emergency was invoked under Articles 232 and 234 of the constitution following a meeting of the federal cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. His office said ministers had taken note of the “provincial government’s deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism.” Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said the provincial governor would take charge with an advisory council, initially for six months, and the federal government named Muhammad Fakhr Alam Irfan as the province’s chief secretary, according to Dawn.

صدرِ مملکت آصف علی زرداری نے خیبر پختونخوا میں کی سلامتی کی صورتحال پر وزیراعظم کی ایڈوائس پر دستخط کر دیے ہیں۔

آئینِ پاکستان کے آرٹیکلز 232 اور 234 کے تحت صدرِ مملکت نے وزیراعظم کی ایڈوائس منظور کرتے ہوئے دستخط کیے۔

وفاقی کابینہ کے فیصلے، وزیراعظم کی ایڈوائس، متعلقہ اداروں کی…

— The President of Pakistan (@PresOfPakistan) October 11, 2026

PTI leaders said Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and the party’s provincial president, Junaid Akbar, had been taken into custody, and provincial Information Minister Shafi Jan urged people across the province to gather in the provincial capital, Peshawar, The Express Tribune reported. Police and federal authorities had not officially confirmed the arrests, Pakistani media said.

PTI spokesman Zulfikar Bukhari said the decision would only lead to “further bloodshed, instability and collateral damage,” Reuters reported, according to Al Jazeera, and PTI leader Barrister Gohar called it “an extremely concerning and serious political mistake.” Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said the move was aimed at “establishing peace in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”

The emergency comes as the PTI presses a march on Islamabad, led by Afridi since Oct. 4, to demand Khan’s release. Khan has been in jail for more than three years but remains widely popular, and the government has blocked main routes into the capital with shipping containers and said it will not let the march enter the city.

Sources: Al Jazeera, Dawn, The Express Tribune

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Ukraine Knocks Out a Third Yandex Data Center in a Week Despite Trump’s Warning, as Zelensky Offers a Reciprocal Halt to Energy Strikes: October 11, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian drone strike forced Russian tech giant Yandex to shut down a data center in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow, on Sunday, the third attack on the company’s facilities this week, hours after President Donald Trump said Ukraine should “damn well stop” hitting Russian oil refineries, BBC News and Al Jazeera reported.

“Operations at the data centre have been completely suspended,” Yandex said in a service alert on Telegram, warning that “the remaining resource configuration is considered unstable” and advising users to activate disaster-recovery plans. No one was injured, but several of its services were unavailable, the company said. Ukrainian strikes shut down Yandex’s hub in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, on Thursday — where two of the three supercomputers used to develop its AI model are housed — and partly knocked out its center in the Kaluga region on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said later on Sunday that “Ukraine will be ready to stop striking Russian oil refineries if Russia stops striking our energy infrastructure,” adding that “any de-escalation steps must be reciprocal and backed by real guarantees,” the BBC reported. Trump said Saturday it was “time for Ukraine to get a new president” after Zelensky condemned a U.S.-Russian deal to release Russian diesel onto world markets.

Kyiv says it is targeting businesses that feed Moscow’s war revenues. “We always respond in mirror-like fashion,” Zelensky said after the Sasovo strike, adding: “You all know, they have been hitting and continue to hit our data centres. We are responding,” according to Al Jazeera. Russia has struck several Ukrainian data centers and telecommunications sites over the past month, including targets in central Kyiv.

Russian attacks continued through the weekend. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said six people were injured overnight in four districts of the south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and Zelensky said search and rescue work in Zaporizhzhia ended Sunday morning with the death toll from Saturday’s glide-bomb strikes at 23, including four children.

Sources: BBC News, Al Jazeera

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Poland Treats Possible Plot to Attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Defence Minister as ‘Serious’ After Emergency Security Meeting: October 11, 2026

WARSAW, Poland — Polish police have received information about a possible plot to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, authorities said Sunday, and security officials said after an emergency meeting that they were treating it as serious, The Guardian and Al Jazeera reported.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Karolina Gałęcka said on social media that the ministry had ordered “action to be taken in this matter” and that police, the State Protection Service and ministry officials would meet on Sunday. Government spokesman Adam Szłapka said Tusk had learned about the “exceptionally concerning” threat first thing Sunday morning.

“We take this matter extremely seriously,” said Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the minister who oversees Poland’s intelligence services, after the meeting. He said the authorities considered there was a high probability that the threats would have been carried out, and that the information first reached the State Protection Service, which passed it to police, according to The Guardian. He gave no further details, though Polsat News quoted him as saying further action had been agreed, and Radio Zet reported that police had received an email about the threat, Al Jazeera said.

No information was immediately released about the origin of the alleged plot. Kosiniak-Kamysz is also deputy prime minister. Dobrzyński said Polish services are receiving a growing number of threats of various kinds every month.

Poland has been on high alert after three attacks at schools in central Poland’s Mazovia province in four days this week left one person dead and many wounded, including children, and amid fears of Russian “hybrid” sabotage aimed at weakening Western support for Ukraine. Tusk said last month that Moscow was likely to step up such attacks on NATO’s eastern flank; Russia denies any such plans.

Sources: The Guardian, Al Jazeera

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Pope Leo XIV to Undergo Surgery This Week to Remove an Early-Stage Nodule on His Lung: October 11, 2026

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he will have surgery in the coming days to remove a nodule found on his lung during a recent medical check, telling pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square that it had been caught early, BBC News and The Guardian reported.

“Doctors found a small, localised nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is circumscribed. The doctors believe it’s best to take action, so, following their advice, I’ve decided to have surgery to remove it,” the 71-year-old pontiff said in Italian at the end of his Sunday noon prayer. “The surgery is already scheduled for the coming days. Thank you for your spiritual support, and I entrust myself to your prayers,” he said, according to The Guardian.

Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni said the operation is scheduled for the first days of this week and that recovery is expected to take about a week. Vatican News said it will take place at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, which keeps a special papal suite that has been used since the failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981.

Leo, born Robert Francis Provost, became the first American pope in 2025, succeeding Pope Francis, who died of a stroke in April 2025 after a long hospitalization for double pneumonia. Leo has no previously known health problems and is considered physically active, with weekly tennis games and swimming at the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo, The Guardian said.

The pope said his planned Nov. 6–17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru would still go ahead. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her “personal solidarity,” President Sergio Mattarella wished him “a peaceful recovery and a speedy and full return to health,” and Israeli President Isaac Herzog also sent wishes for a full recovery, the BBC reported.

Sources: BBC News, The Guardian

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At Least 109 Migrants, Including 15 Children, Die as Boat Bound for Yemen Capsizes Off Djibouti: October 11, 2026

DJIBOUTI — At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and scores more are missing after an overcrowded boat heading from Djibouti to Yemen capsized late Thursday, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said, BBC News and Al Jazeera reported.

The BBC, citing the IOM, said the boat was carrying 350 people when it went down near the port town of Obock and that around 80 people were rescued. Al Jazeera, citing the agency’s Sunday statement, said survivors put the sinking near Guhere, off Djibouti’s eastern coast facing the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab strait, between Thursday night and before dawn on Friday, with more than 300 people aboard and more than 116 still missing. All of the more than 80 survivors are Ethiopian, and Djiboutian search and rescue operations were continuing.

The IOM said the bodies recovered were those of 52 men, 42 women, nine girls and six boys. “This is a devastating loss of life,” said Alexandre Coissac, the agency’s chief of mission in Djibouti. “This tragedy is a stark reminder of the dangers faced by migrants along this migration corridor as they seek economic opportunities,” he said, according to Al Jazeera. The agency is providing medical care and help contacting families to 64 survivors at its response center in Obock, and local authorities are arranging burials.

Tens of thousands of people from the Horn of Africa cross the narrow Bab al-Mandab each year hoping to reach Gulf countries for work and safety, despite the war in Yemen, where fighting between government forces and the Houthis resumed last month. The IOM said it has recorded more than 20,000 movements from Ethiopia into Djibouti since Sept. 10. More than 900 migrants died or went missing on the route in 2025, according to IOM figures cited by the BBC, and in March this year nine people were killed and 45 went missing in a similar sinking.

Sources: BBC News, Al Jazeera

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