Month: October 2026

Salman Ali Agha struck his fourth ODI century as Pakistan began the tri-nation one-day series with a 37-run victory over Sri Lanka at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Salman’s 107 off 90 balls helped Pakistan post 305 before the pace quartet of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Faheem Ashraf and Haris Rauf claimed all 10 wickets to bowl Sri Lanka out for 268 in 48.1 overs. Sri Lanka threatened to chase down the target through a fifth-wicket partnership between Pavan Rathnayake and Janith Liyanage, but Pakistan’s bowlers struck back…

President Emmanuel Macron appealed for calm on Sunday, a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in ‌years, with thousands arrested and shops looted or damaged after protests over high prices and declining public services. Fresh clashes broke out in Paris and Marseille, where riot police intervened to prevent attempts to ransack businesses. Nationwide demonstrations had erupted into riots on Saturday, with a town hall torched, shops pillaged and buildings covered in graffiti as violent groups clashed with police in cities across the country. “Looking at…

The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief pause, Ukrainian President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in comments published on Sunday. Ukraine has relied on US ‌intelligence to spot the fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities. US President Donald Trump had said earlier this week that Washington was still sharing intelligence, although Ukrainian officials said some ​Russian strikes had occurred without warning. Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press, Zelenskiy said ​intelligence-sharing had been interrupted…

The Chinese capital Beijing is expected to become “super-aged” by 2035, with around one-third ​of its population aged 60 and above, ‌the official Beijing Daily reported. Chinese policymakers have made population planning a key part of the country’s economic strategy, and ​this year the government faces a ​total potential cost of around 180 billion yuan to boost births, according to Reuters ​estimates. One in every three residents of the Chinese ​capital will be aged 60 or above by 2035, the Beijing Daily reported on Saturday. Beijing had 5.29 million ​permanent…

The captain of a flydubai flight who was attacked by a co-pilot during an Israel-bound flight has described blocking axe blows to the head and screaming for ​help as he reached for a knob to open the cockpit door. Captain Smit ‌Machchhar has been hailed as a hero for his role in averting disaster on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last month, helping to thwart what the UAE attorney general has said was an attempted suicide ​attack by the co-pilot who intended to crash the plane into Ben…

World leaders, diplomats and nature experts gather in Armenia this week to assess lagging efforts to halt biodiversity loss, with ​countries off track on most global targets and divisions over funding still unresolved. The 17th UN “Conference of the Parties”, dubbed COP17, is ‌the first major review of progress under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the landmark 2022 agreement that aims to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030. The climate-focused COP31 begins on November 9 in Antalya, Turkey. While the world is likely to reach an estimated 27.5%…

An oil tanker caught fire after striking a naval mine in the southern Strait of Hormuz while attempting to leave the strategic waterway, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said late Sunday. The explosion hit the vessel’s engine room as it attempted to navigate what Tehran considers an unauthorised southern route, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported, citing an IRGC Navy statement. According to the statement, the tanker had switched off its positioning and navigation systems from the beginning of its voyage and violated maritime regulations governing passage through…

A Russian air strike killed a woman in Ukraine’s ​Kyiv overnight while also hitting a ‌subway station on the left bank of the capital city and damaging a 25-storey ​residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said ​on Telegram on Monday. The attack, which ⁠also saw non-residential buildings and a ​medical facility hit, injured three other people ​in Kyiv, he said. A Reuters witness heard explosions in the city. After a brief pause, ​the US has resumed sharing critical intelligence ​to help Ukraine defend against Russian missile strikes, ‌President ⁠Volodymyr Zelensky said,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US ​President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an ‌end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The proposed summit comes amid warming ties between Trump and Putin, especially after the US President announced a deal to buy Russian diesel and signed an order on Friday waiving key sanctions on Moscow. Citing ⁠a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the matter,…