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October 11, 2026 4:16 PM

Yemen’s Houthis renew warning over Saudi airports after deadly Riyadh attack

Yemen's Houthis warned airlines, travellers and airport workers on Sunday to stay away from Saudi airports, a day after an attack on Riyadh's international airport killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others. It was the deadliest such attack in the kingdom in more than a decade and comes amid an escalation of fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. "We renew our warning to all airlines, experts, employees, workers and travellers against using S...

October 11, 2026 1:18 PM

12 killed, over 300 injured in attack on Riyadh Airport; US may consider joining fight against Houthis, says Trump

Twelve people were killed and 309 injured in a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement issued in the wee hours on Sunday. The victims included 4 Saudi citizens and 8 foreigners - 2 from Bangladesh and 1 each from the USA, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Sudan. Some of the injured were in critical condition, while the attack also caused property damage. Airport operations were te...

October 11, 2026 10:52 AM

Trump calls for replacing Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in tussle over diesel deal with Russia

US President Donald Trump on Saturday called for Ukraine to replace its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and railed against Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, a day after announcing a diesel supply deal with Russia that had drawn a sharp rebuke from Zelenskyy. In some of his harshest criticism yet of the White House, Zelenskyy linked the US lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel with a Russian attack on Saturday that killed 20 people, including 3 children, in the Ukrainian city of Zapor...

October 11, 2026 10:48 AM

US: Hurricane Isaias kills four, about 670,000 without power after landfall

Four people died after Hurricane Isaias made landfall early on Saturday, and about 670,000 residents in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi were still without power as the storm weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, according to local authorities and electricity monitoring services. Two of the deaths resulted from trees falling on homes, according to local media and authorities. Authorities in Florida had received no search and rescue requests shortly after landfall in a sign of limited i...

October 11, 2026 10:40 AM

Neither Putin nor Trump wanted to hang up first, Kremlin aide says after ‘very friendly’ call

A conversation on Friday between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call, Russian news agency Interfax quoted a Kremlin aide as saying. During the call, the presidents agreed that Russia would supply diesel to the US and global markets to lower fuel prices, prompting an unexpected temporary easing of US sanctions on Russian fuel that has dismayed Ukraine. The Kremlin said most of the co...

October 9, 2026 1:50 PM

PERM suspension does not automatically affect existing H-1B visas: MEA

India has expressed concern over the US Department of Labor's decision concerning the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) programme for certain companies, stating that the move does not advance the shared ambitions of the two countries. In a statement, India clarified that PERM is distinct from the H-1B visa programme. The suspension of PERM applications does not, by itself, affect the validity of existing H-1B visas or the status of H-1B visa holders and their dependents, though there could b...

October 8, 2026 11:58 PM

Trump says US will not attack Iran before midterm elections in November

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US will not launch an attack on Iran before November’s US midterm congressional elections, asserting that the two countries are having “productive” talks about ending the six-month-old war. “We are having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd.” The war,...

October 8, 2026 12:10 AM

Rubio says US, Greece to jointly combat security threats

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that “strong and model NATO ally” Greece and the United States are launching new counterterrorism information sharing between their law enforcement agencies. During an official visit to Athens, Rubio said Greece was particularly exposed to the threats posed by mass migration and human trafficking. “As part of our efforts to combat these common threats to our nations, we’re proud to announce a new memorandum of understanding establishi...

October 6, 2026 1:10 PM

Piyush Goyal discusses fresh investment opportunities, deeper business ties with global firms in US

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal held separate meetings with senior executives of AIA Group, General Atlantic and IBM in the US, with discussions focused on deepening investments, expanding business ties and strengthening collaboration in insurance, financial services and frontier technologies. Goyal held talks with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna on expanding the company's longstanding presence in India and strengthening cooperation in emerging technologies. The discussions wit...

October 6, 2026 10:03 AM

Trump says US bombers moved from UK due to threats

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase. The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British men were arrested near the base - which Iran's Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target - on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. "We had an idea that there might be a ...