Month: October 2026

Egypt’s parliament on Sunday postponed a vote on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s request to authorise military support for Saudi Arabia, two lawmakers told AFP, with deliberations set to continue on Monday. The session was convened after Sisi asked lawmakers to approve support for Saudi Arabia’s defence if requested by the kingdom, which has come under near-daily attacks from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis since early October. “The session was extended to give all lawmakers the opportunity to speak and express their views,” lawmaker Ibrahim Kholeif told AFP, adding that parliamentarians were mostly…

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The Kremlin said on Monday that President Vladimir Putin, ‌US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could hold a three-way meeting on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China and that a potential meeting had come ​up in talks. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was commenting after being asked ​about a report in the Wall Street Journal which said that ⁠Putin had proposed such a meeting in order to discuss how to end ​the conflict in Ukraine. “Given that all three heads of state may potentially take…

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Iran on Monday, Russian media said, in his first visit since the outbreak of the Middle East war as Moscow seeks to play a mediating role. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Sunday that the trip would focus on “regional and international developments”. Lavrov is scheduled to meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and hold talks with his counterpart Abbas Araghchi, according to the Russian foreign ministry. The veteran diplomat has said Moscow’s efforts are “aimed at preventing the return of a…

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The mayors of France’s biggest cities on Monday demanded answers from the government ​to what they called a lack of preparation by security forces as the country licked its wounds from a weekend of rioting and looting. The protests followed weeks of ‌student demonstrations with occasional bouts of street violence, rocking the country six months ahead of its next presidential election and increasing pressures over a weak economy and surging debt. French assets were underperforming broader European markets on Monday, though moves were more contained than at some other moments…

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The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi, in collaboration with Aga Khan University (AKU) and Habib University (HU), hosted the Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium 2026 at its main campus under the theme “AI in Pedagogy,” bringing together academic leaders, educators and researchers to discuss the opportunities and challenges artificial intelligence presents for higher education. In her welcome remarks, Dr Sana Tauseef, conference chair and director of IBA Karachi’s Office of Academic Quality and Excellence, emphasised the importance of institutional collaboration in addressing AI’s impact on education and acknowledged the…

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A Houthi ballistic missile attack on a military camp in Yemen’s eastern Shabwa province killed or wounded around 40 people on Monday, according to a local official. The Shabwa deputy governor said the missiles struck Al Alam camp in the Jardan district, which housed new recruits undergoing training before joining the security forces, local news outlet Yemen Monitor reported. Yemen’s armed forces spokesperson said the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles at the province, hitting a training centre for security and police personnel. The spokesperson accused the group of deliberately killing…

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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Monday to lead Pakistan’s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting, being held on October 19–20. Upon arrival, the deputy prime minister was received by Tajikistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Resources and Co-Chair of the Pakistan–Tajikistan Joint Commission Daler Juma, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Tajikistan Irfan Ahmed and Pakistan’s National Coordinator for the SCO Khalil Hashmi, along with senior Tajik government officials, the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a…

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At least nine members of a security agency were killed and several ​others wounded by a mortar blast ‌during a training exercise in a city west of Libya’s capital Tripoli late on Sunday, a ​local TV channel said. The blast, from an ​82mm mortar round, caused casualties among ⁠members of the Anti-Threat Security Agency, according ​to Libya Alahrar TV channel broadcasting from Istanbul. The ​Agency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid ​Dbeibah, according to the force’s verified ​Facebook page. There…

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