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Saudi Arabia Keeps Riyadh Airport Shut as Houthis Warn ‘Worse Is Yet to Come’ After Terminal Attack That Killed 12: October 11, 2026

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia extended the closure of King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, a day after an attack on a passenger terminal killed at least 12 people and injured 309, while Yemen’s Houthis warned airlines, travelers and airport workers to stay away from Saudi airports altogether, ABC News (Australia) and BBC News reported.

The closure was extended until at least 9 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to Flightradar24 data cited by ABC. Saudi authorities said schools in the capital would stay online until the end of the week, and the Saudi embassy in Kuwait said it was organizing buses to bring citizens home after their flights were cancelled. Western embassies have told their citizens to keep away from the airport, and several Gulf airlines have cancelled flights.

“We renew our warning to all airlines, experts, employees, workers and travellers against using Saudi airports and airspace, as they are vulnerable to attack and have become a theatre of operations for our forces,” the Houthis said in a post on Sunday, exempting only the airports serving Mecca and Medina. The Houthi-run foreign ministry said further Saudi military action in Yemen would trigger a stronger response: “Unless the Saudi enemy stops its aggression and interference in Yemen, worse is yet to come,” it said in statements carried by Houthi-run Al Masirah television, according to ABC News. The Houthis also reported two air strikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Sunday and blamed Saudi Arabia; there was no immediate Saudi comment.

Saturday’s strike was the deadliest attack in the kingdom since May 2015, the BBC said. The Saudi civil aviation authority said the dead included four Saudis, two Bangladeshis and one person each from the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, and that some of the injured were in critical condition. The Saudi-led coalition blamed the Houthis and vowed to respond, with spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki calling the attack a “full-fledged war crime.” The Houthis had not commented on Saturday’s strike but claimed attacks on the same airport on Thursday that killed three people.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply shocked,” and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote that “attacks by Iran’s proxies are pushing the region into a spiral of violence.” Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the United Arab Emirates also condemned the attack. President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States was considering joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis. The Houthi-run health ministry says coalition strikes have killed 91 Yemenis and injured 168 in five weeks of renewed fighting.

Sources: ABC News (Australia), BBC News

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World Brief, Evening: October 10, 2026

A Houthi strike on Riyadh’s main airport killed 12 people and hurt more than 300; President Donald Trump said Ukraine should “get a new president” as the toll from Russia’s glide bombs on Zaporizhzhia rose to 20; and Hurricane Simon is closing on Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 4. Ten stories as of Saturday evening, October 10.

1. Riyadh / Saudi Arabia. The blast at King Khalid International Airport this morning turned out to be the deadliest attack in any Gulf Arab country since the Iran war began. At least 12 people were killed and 309 injured, some critically, Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said; the dead were four Saudis, two Bangladeshis and one person each from the U.S., Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Sudan and the Palestinian territories, Al Jazeera reported. A missile hit the complex housing domestic terminals 3 and 4, and airport operations were suspended. The Saudi-led coalition blamed Yemen’s Houthis, called it a “full-fledged war crime” and vowed to respond; a projectile also fell near King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, BBC News reported. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed an American was among the dead, and asked whether the U.S. would join Saudi strikes on the Houthis, President Trump said: “We may. We’re going to look at it,” the Associated Press reported via NPR. It was the third attack on the airport this week. Across the Red Sea, Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces claim to be retaking ground around the Bab al-Mandab strait, though accounts vary, according to The Guardian.

2. Zaporizhzhia / Ukraine and Washington. The death toll from Russia’s five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia rose to at least 20, including four children, with 32 injured and more people believed to be under the rubble, local officials said, BBC News reported. “The ground floor was hit, and the floors above just collapsed,” acting Mayor Regina Harchenko said. Then the row with Washington got sharper. Responding to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s criticism of his Russian diesel deal, President Trump told reporters outside the White House that “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” and said of Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries: “He’d better damn well stop,” BBC News reported. Ukraine has been under martial law since 2022, so elections are suspended. Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev called Trump’s remarks “iconic and historic.” In Europe, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said “this is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t,” and U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham offered Zelenskyy his “complete solidarity,” The Guardian reported.

3. West-central Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast / Mexico and United States. Hurricane Simon was a Category 4 with 150 mph winds about 85 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo at 6 p.m. CST, drifting north at 3 mph, and is still expected to reach west-central Mexico as a major hurricane on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said; a hurricane warning runs from Punta San Telmo to El Roblito and the Islas Marías. Businesses in Puerto Vallarta boarded up windows, and Jalisco suspended classes in 22 coastal municipalities and began evacuations, Al Jazeera reported. Farther north, Tropical Storm Rachel (65 mph) was racing north-northeast at 30 mph about 365 miles south of San Diego, with a tropical storm warning for Baja California and a watch for the Southern California coast (NHC). On the Gulf side, post-tropical Isaias is now blamed for four deaths, two in Florida and two in Alabama, and about 500,000 people were still without power on Saturday evening, BBC News reported. One Escambia County death came from a generator running in a closed garage; “Don’t run any generators inside your home,” Gov. Ron DeSantis warned, per The Guardian.

4. Erie, Pennsylvania / United States. A gunman killed eight people, including a five-year-old, a one-year-old and a woman who was eight months pregnant, at a home in Erie on Friday afternoon before apparently taking his own life, police said, BBC News reported. Two women, a relative by marriage and a family friend, were shot outside after trying to get help from neighbours; all but one of the dead were related. Police Chief Rick Lorah said a motive hasn’t been established but that “mental health is at play here.” “Some scenes stay with you long after you leave them. This is one of those scenes,” he said. The suspect had a history with law enforcement, though its nature is unclear, The Guardian reported.

5. New Delhi / India. By evening, police had detained hundreds of “Cockroach” protesters, along with journalists and lawyers, as a lockdown closed at least 45 metro stations and cancelled more than 240 trains into the capital, ABC News (Australia) reported. The UN human rights office said it was “concerned by reports of mass detentions” and called for those “arbitrarily detained” to be released immediately. The protesters, angry over a voter-roll revision that dropped about 130 million names, are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and some say they’re coming back. “We will come again tomorrow,” one detained protester told the ABC. Founder Abhijeet Dipke and two senior leaders were detained when their flight from Mumbai landed.

6. Tigray / Ethiopia and Eritrea. Eritrea asked the UN Security Council to “forcefully condemn Ethiopia’s deplorable declaration of war” and take “deterrent measures” under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which allows anything from sanctions to military action, Al Jazeera reported. A day earlier, Ethiopia told the council that Eritrean troops had pushed up to 60 km into Tigray in an “all-out invasion,” and said it was exercising its right to self-defence. Ethiopia’s army has retaken the regional capital, Mekelle, from TPLF rebels and says it has launched drone strikes on Eritrean troops, DW reported. Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh warned of “huge devastation to the peoples of both countries.”

7. Okinawa / Japan. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu to offer “sincere condolences” and promise full cooperation with the investigation into the killing of 39-year-old Anna Yagi in a hotel in Naha, the State Department said, Al Jazeera reported. Devin Jacob Ballard, a Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, was arrested on October 4 on suspicion of robbery and murder; he denies it. The case set off protests, and U.S. personnel on Okinawa are under a monthlong curfew and alcohol ban while they go through discipline training.

8. North Kivu / DR Congo and Kenya. The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has reached another health zone, Alimbongo in North Kivu, the World Health Organization said, Al Jazeera reported. The Bundibugyo-strain outbreak has now hit 64 health zones in seven provinces, with 8,728 confirmed cases and 4,205 confirmed deaths as of October 6, a case fatality rate of about 48%. Kenya’s first imported case, a Kenyan who travelled by road through Uganda and flew to Nairobi, died on October 5, and a suspected second case in Wajir County tested negative, though monitoring continues.

9. Curitiba / Brazil. Police shot dead a man who broke into a kindergarten in the São Braz neighbourhood of the southern city of Curitiba, held 13 children hostage, spread a flammable liquid around the classroom and held a lighter, officials said, Al Jazeera reported. All 13 children were rescued; at least one was wounded. “Our negotiating teams were in place but saw no alternative but to neutralise him,” a Paraná police spokesperson said. Police said the man, who also carried a knife and what turned out to be a fake gun, suffered from schizophrenia and kept a child on his lap throughout the negotiation.

10. Temotu Province / Solomon Islands. More than 70 passengers have been adrift since Friday after the ferry MV Awka’s engine failed about 100 nautical miles from its destination on a run between the remote islands of Anuta and Vanikoro, ABC News (Australia) reported. Aircraft from Australia and New Caledonia dropped supplies and equipment, including a life raft, and a Panama-registered bulk carrier reached the ferry on Sunday morning local time and began transferring food and water, a passenger said.

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.

Sources: Al Jazeera; BBC News; The Guardian; Associated Press; NPR; U.S. National Hurricane Center; ABC News (Australia); DW.

World Brief: October 10, 2026

Russia answered Washington’s diesel deal with glide bombs on Zaporizhzhia; three storms are working over North America at once; and New Delhi locked itself down to keep a youth protest off its streets. Ten stories as of Saturday morning, October 10.

1. Zaporizhzhia / Ukraine. Russia dropped five glide bombs on residential buildings in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday morning, killing at least 15 people, including three children, and injuring at least 16, with more people believed trapped under the rubble, officials said, BBC News reported. “Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a jab at Donald Trump’s Friday deal to buy Russian diesel. Ukraine’s largest private energy provider reported “large-scale power outages” in Kyiv. Europe isn’t following Washington’s lead: “This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said, adding that foreign ministers intend on Monday to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings since the war began, and Berlin said it “remains committed” to the sanctions, The Guardian reported.

2. U.S. Gulf Coast and Pacific Mexico / United States and Mexico. Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday after coming ashore near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2. Two people were killed by falling trees, one in Escambia County, Florida, and one in Birmingham, Alabama, and more than 868,000 customers were without power across Florida, Alabama and Georgia early Saturday, The Guardian reported. Flash flooding and tornadoes are still possible. On the Pacific side, Hurricane Simon is “a dangerous Category 4” with 150 mph winds, about 115 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo as of 9 a.m. CST, and is expected to be near or just inland of west-central Mexico on Sunday, with 10–20 inches of rain and up to 30 inches in parts of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco, the National Hurricane Center said. Farther north, Tropical Storm Rachel (60 mph) is due to move onshore in northern Baja California tonight, and a tropical storm watch now covers the Southern California coast from the Mexican border to the San Diego–Orange County line (NHC). It’s one of three storm systems hitting North America this weekend, BBC News noted.

3. New Delhi / India. Police boarded the plane carrying Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, as it landed in Delhi on Saturday and detained him and other leaders before their march against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, BBC News reported. The capital was in lockdown: the Jantar Mantar protest site was sealed, trains into New Delhi were cancelled, mobile internet was suspended, and metro stations and markets were shut, Al Jazeera reported. More than 6,000 people trying to reach the site were bused away, and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was among those detained, according to The Guardian. The anger is over a voter-roll revision that removed about 130 million names. The Election Commission and the BJP deny any bias, and BJP spokesman Sambit Patra called it a “flop show.”

4. Riyadh / Saudi Arabia. King Khalid International Airport was evacuated on Saturday after a loud blast, two international news agencies reported, and a Reuters eyewitness saw more than a dozen ambulances rushing to the airport, BBC News reported. Saudi authorities have not commented, and the airport told passengers to check with their airlines. There was no immediate Houthi statement, though the Iran-backed group claimed this week’s earlier strikes on the airport, which killed Saudis including a Saudia pilot. Etihad and Qatar Airways have cancelled Riyadh flights, some into Monday, DW reported. This one is still developing.

5. Blue Nile / Sudan. A drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a camp for displaced people in the Abu Shandi area near the Ethiopian border killed 41 people on Friday, the rights group Emergency Lawyers said, BBC News reported; eight children are said to be among the dead. The UN humanitarian office said it was “appalled by horrifying reports” and that most casualties appeared to be women and children, in an area that has been “under sustained attack in recent weeks.” The war between the army and the RSF has displaced more than 14 million people since 2023.

6. Ramallah and Gaza / Palestinian territories. President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years. A decree folds the legislative vote that had been set for November 28 into a joint presidential and parliamentary election on September 11, 2027, the official Wafa agency said, Al Jazeera reported. The PLO Executive Committee said Israel hadn’t allowed election materials or international observers into Gaza, while Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Abbas of “fooling the international community.” On the first anniversary of the U.S.-backed ceasefire, at least seven people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, and the Health Ministry says 1,481 Palestinians have been killed since the truce took effect, Al Jazeera reported.

7. Taipei / Taiwan. “Our aim in increasing investment in national defence is not to provoke, but to deter war,” President Lai Ching-te said in his National Day address outside the Presidential Office. His government has budgeted a record NT$1.1 trillion (about $34.5 billion) for defence in 2027, more than 3% of GDP, DW reported. Lai welcomed U.S.-China talks but said Beijing must respect “the right of the people of Taiwan to exist,” and he accused China of using military and grey-zone pressure to change the status quo, Focus Taiwan (CNA) reported. A senior U.S. official said “a routine speech is no justification for aggressive or coercive actions.” Saturday marked 115 years since the 1911 revolution.

8. Vatican City / Holy See and United States. On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Pope Leo XIV posted that capital punishment “is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” Vatican News reported. The American pope didn’t name the case, but the post came hours after Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, called the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan “unacceptable,” saying “it is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle.” Back in Washington, Vice President JD Vance said “I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,” while President Trump said he “absolutely” approved of the plan, BBC News reported.

9. Santiago / Chile. Las Condes, the eastern Santiago district hit by mudslides, has been declared a disaster zone, and more than 1,000 residents have been evacuated, Al Jazeera reported. Thursday’s torrents swept cars through the streets and injured at least six people, including a one-year-old, and President José Antonio Kast declared a state of emergency for the district. Mayor Catalina San Martín said 14.4 cm (5.7 inches) of rain had fallen in recent days, about nine times the October average, and the Mapocho River overflowed, the Associated Press reported via NBC News. The World Meteorological Organization says this El Niño could be among the most intense since 1950.

10. Suva / Fiji. Fiji’s government has told Washington to show its evidence after the U.S. State Department accused Zhao Fugang, director of the Overseas Chinese Service Center in Suva, of “significant corruption,” saying he paid bribes to advance Chinese government, business and criminal interests. Zhao, a prominent local businessman, denied it. “Allegations do not constitute proof of wrongdoing,” the government said on Facebook, insisting any case be handled through Fijian law enforcement, AFP reported via The Manila Times. A 2024 investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project had described Zhao as a key point man for Beijing’s interests in Fiji.

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.

Sources: BBC News; The Guardian; Al Jazeera; DW; U.S. National Hurricane Center; Focus Taiwan (CNA); Vatican News; Associated Press; AFP.

Mexican Court Convicts Three Men of Murdering Australian Surfers Jake and Callum Robinson and American Carter Rhoad: October 10, 2026

ENSENADA, Mexico — A Mexican court on Friday found three men guilty of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad, who were shot dead during a surfing trip in Baja California in 2024, BBC News, The Guardian and DW reported.

The defendants, identified for legal reasons only by their first names — Jesús Gerardo, known as “El Kekas,” who was accused of leading the attack, Irineo Francisco and Ángel Jesús — were convicted in the coastal city of Ensenada. The judge ruled that they had acted with premeditation. Prosecutors asked for 210 years in prison for each, although the maximum sentence in Baja California is 60 years, and sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 16, The Guardian said.

Jake, 30, Callum, 33, and Rhoad, 30, were camping in a remote beach area in April 2024 when they were attacked in an apparent botched robbery of their truck. Their bodies were found days later in a well, with gunshot wounds to their heads. In November 2025, Ary Gisell Silva, then the girlfriend of the main defendant, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting she instigated the robbery.

Debra Robinson, the brothers’ mother, burst into tears as the verdict was read. “They took our sons from our lives forever,” she had told the court. “What hurts us most is that, in their final hours, they were treated with such cruelty.” Their father, Martin Robinson, said outside court: “No outcome can ever undo this tragedy, but we hope today marks an important step towards justice,” according to The Guardian. Rhoad’s fiancée, Natalie Weirtz, who joined by video link from the United States, said the accused “must be punished so that no other family suffers the same pain.”

The killings drew outrage in Australia and the United States. Baja California is one of Mexico’s most violent states, though cartel activity does not usually affect tourists, DW said. The family has set up the Callum and Jake Robinson Foundation to carry on their sons’ legacy.

Sources: BBC News, The Guardian, DW

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Abbas Cancels November Palestinian Legislative Vote and Sets Joint Presidential and Parliamentary Elections for September 2027: October 10, 2026

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday issued a decree cancelling legislative elections scheduled for Nov. 28 and setting simultaneous presidential and legislative elections for Sept. 11, 2027, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

The decree followed a decision by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee and consultations with Palestinian factions, WAFA said. It cited Israeli military attacks, settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank, restrictions on movement, Israel’s withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, and Israeli restrictions on access for election staff and international observers to Gaza and East Jerusalem.

In Gaza, the decree pointed to “exceptional security and humanitarian conditions,” the failure to deploy international stabilization and police forces under U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803, the lack of progress on reconstruction and the incomplete withdrawal of Israeli forces, according to WAFA. It said the delay would also allow a comprehensive national dialogue to strengthen Palestinian unity.

The last Palestinian Legislative Council election, in 2006, was won by Hamas, leading to the rift between the group and Abbas’s Fatah party, The National reported. Abbas, elected in 2005, has overstayed his term by 17 years and rules by decree, the paper said, and faction sources told it the delay was mainly linked to holding a national dialogue in Egypt. An August poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 79 percent of respondents wanted him to resign.

The decree came on the first anniversary of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire, which took effect on Oct. 10 last year. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday that at least 1,481 Palestinians have been killed since then, and medical sources said Israeli attacks killed at least seven people across Gaza on Saturday, including an 8-year-old girl, Al Jazeera reported.

Sources: WAFA, The National, Reuters (via The Jerusalem Post), Al Jazeera

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India Detains Cockroach Movement Founder and Hundreds of Protesters as Police Lock Down Delhi Against Election-Chief Rally: October 10, 2026

NEW DELHI — Indian police detained the founder and top leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party and hundreds of protesters on Saturday as tens of thousands of security personnel sealed off central New Delhi to block a rally demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, BBC News, Al Jazeera and DW reported.

Founder Abhijeet Dipke and fellow leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained on their flight from Mumbai after it landed, the movement said, adding that they had been taken to an undisclosed location and denied access to lawyers. Delhi Police, which had refused permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar, did not comment on the detentions, the BBC said. Before arriving, Dipke said: “If you think you can stop us by threatening us with jail or trying to intimidate us with the fear of imprisonment, you are mistaken.”

The government deployed nearly 30,000 personnel, cancelled trains to New Delhi, closed more than 50 metro stations and imposed an internet shutdown, and several students traveling to the capital were pulled off trains and buses and detained, Al Jazeera reported. “Narendra Modi just made EMERGENCY official,” Dipke wrote on X, invoking Indira Gandhi’s 1975 suspension of civil liberties, according to Al Jazeera. Interim leader Ajinkya Shinde told supporters that “wherever they stop you will become your Jantar Mantar.”

News outlets including Scroll and Newslaundry said their journalists were briefly detained while covering the protest, and the Committee to Protect Journalists urged Delhi Police to release all detained journalists and media workers, DW reported.

The protesters accuse Kumar of favoring Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in a nationwide revision of voter rolls that Al Jazeera said has struck 130 million names; the Election Commission says the exercise is routine and removes dead, duplicate or ineligible voters, and it and the BJP deny any bias. The movement grew out of a viral post by Dipke in May after Chief Justice Surya Kant likened some jobless young people to “cockroaches,” and its protests in July forced the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Sources: BBC News, Al Jazeera, DW

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Drone Strike Blamed on Sudan’s RSF Kills Dozens of Displaced Women and Children in Blue Nile State: October 10, 2026

CAIRO — A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit displaced people beside a shelter site in Blue Nile State near the Ethiopian border on Friday, killing at least 30 people, most of them women and children, according to local officials, the United Nations and a rights group, Al Jazeera and the Associated Press reported.

The governor of Wad al-Mahi province, Mahjoub Al-Sheikh, told Al Jazeera the drone killed 26 women and four children, calling the attack “cowardly,” and said it had been launched from “inside Ethiopia,” according to AFP. The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Denise Brown, said preliminary information indicated at least 31 civilians were killed and dozens injured, while the monitoring group Emergency Lawyers put the toll at 41, including eight children, the AP reported. An RSF spokesperson did not respond to the AP’s request for comment.

“Condemning these senseless killings is essential, but there must also be accountability for this flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law,” Brown said in a statement. She said the victims had been displaced by recent fighting in Geissan and Kurmuk localities and that a similar attack on a displacement shelter in El Obeid, North Kordofan, a week earlier had killed and wounded civilians, including children.

The strike hit just outside a displacement camp near an informal gold mining site, Al Jazeera said. The border region with Ethiopia has become the latest front line in the war between the Sudanese army and the RSF; Sudan has repeatedly accused Ethiopia of harboring RSF fighters and bases, which Ethiopia denies. Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced in Blue Nile State this year, according to U.N. figures. The war, which began in April 2023, has killed at least 150,000 people according to the conflict monitor ACLED, the AP said, while aid workers cited by Al Jazeera estimate more than 200,000 deaths.

Sources: Al Jazeera, Associated Press, UN OCHA (ReliefWeb)

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Russian Glide Bombs Kill at Least 17 in Zaporizhzhia Hours After Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin: October 10, 2026

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Russian glide bombs struck residential buildings in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early Saturday, killing at least 17 people, including three children, regional officials said, as rescuers searched the rubble of a collapsed apartment block, the Kyiv Post and BBC News reported.

Russian aircraft dropped five guided bombs on the city at about 4:48 a.m. local time, damaging at least 26 residential buildings in the Shevchenkivskyi and Voznesenivskyi districts and scoring a direct hit on a five-story apartment building, the Kyiv Post said. Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defense council, put the toll at 17 dead and 16 wounded; Ukraine’s State Emergency Service had earlier reported 15 killed. “The ground floor was hit, and the floors above just collapsed,” acting Mayor Regina Kharchenko told Ukrainian television, according to the BBC, which said more than 80 rescue workers were involved.

President Volodymyr Zelensky tied the strike to Washington’s decision to let Russia export diesel, writing on X that “Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia.” He said 13 Ukrainian regions had been hit overnight and that Ukraine’s “responses to Russian strikes will follow.”

Zaporizhzhia, a city of more than 700,000 people, lies less than 10 miles from the front line. Saturday’s attack was the second straight morning of glide-bomb strikes there; on Friday, six bombs killed one man and injured 23, the Kyiv Post said. On Thursday, at least 33 people were killed in a Russian glide bomb attack on two buses in Kramatorsk, and the U.N. says civilian casualties in Ukraine rose 55 percent in the first eight months of this year, the BBC reported. Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, claimed its forces had captured two settlements in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, according to The Guardian.

Sources: Kyiv Post, BBC News, The Guardian

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Venezuela Authorizes Elon Musk’s Starlink to Operate Nationwide After Satellite Service Proved Itself in June Earthquake: October 10, 2026

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez has authorized Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to operate in the country under an agreement with the U.S. company, the Venezuelan government said, Reuters reported.

The national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, said its board on Thursday granted general license HGTS-00639 and seven Ku-band concessions to the local company SpaceX VZ, legally authorizing Starlink satellite internet service throughout the national territory, with a formal domicile and oversight in Venezuela.

The approval follows technical cooperation during the June 24 earthquake, which severely damaged land-based telephone and internet infrastructure in La Guaira state, Conatel said. Temporary permits issued then allowed more than 1,600 terminals to be activated to coordinate rescue and relief work, and were used to test direct-to-device text messaging between the country’s three mobile operators via satellite, according to El Nacional, which described the June quake as the deadliest in Venezuela in a century.

Conatel said in a statement that the grant reaffirms the state’s commitment to promoting new technologies and the digital inclusion of the population. El Nacional said the arrangement includes agreements with local private operators such as Digitel, which already used SpaceX’s satellite constellation to back up its mobile network, and is expected to expand data coverage in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

Rodríguez, Nicolás Maduro’s former vice president, has led Venezuela as interim president since U.S. forces seized Maduro in a raid on Caracas in January.

Sources: Reuters (via StreetInsider), Conatel, El Nacional

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Brazilian Police Kill Knife-Wielding Man Who Held 13 Kindergarten Children Hostage in Curitiba: October 10, 2026

CURITIBA, Brazil — Police in southern Brazil shot and killed a man who held 13 young children hostage for more than three hours inside a municipal kindergarten in Curitiba on Friday, after he spread a flammable liquid around a classroom and began hitting the children, officials said, Al Jazeera and Brazil’s g1 reported.

The man jumped the gate of the early-childhood center in the São Braz neighborhood, broke into a classroom and held the children, aged 4 and 5, armed with a knife, a fake firearm and a lighter, police said. “During the entire negotiation, he stayed with all the children around him and one on his lap,” said Col. Alexandre Lopes Dias, who commands the Paraná military police’s special missions unit, according to Al Jazeera. Children in other classrooms were able to leave, and a neighboring school was evacuated.

Lopes Dias said that as the children grew more distressed, the man began assaulting them, prompting a tactical entry by the BOPE special operations battalion at about 6:20 p.m.; the man was shot as he tried to grab one of the children, g1 reported. Police identified him only afterward and said he suffered from schizophrenia; his motive was unclear. “Our negotiating teams were in place but saw no alternative but to neutralise him,” police spokesperson Leticia Martins said.

All 13 children were rescued. Only one had visible injuries, bruises to the face, and five were taken to an urgent care unit at their parents’ request, Lopes Dias said. “The 13 children are alive and safe! After anguishing and tense moments, this is the news we were all waiting for,” Curitiba Mayor Eduardo Pimentel wrote on Instagram. The city said the children, their families and school staff would receive psychological support.

Brazil has seen multiple attacks on schools in recent years. In April 2023, a man killed four children with an axe at a day care center in Blumenau, also in southern Brazil, Al Jazeera noted. Curitiba, the capital of Paraná state, has about 1.8 million residents.

Sources: Al Jazeera, g1

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