Riyadh airport attack
Saudi Arabia's aviation authority said an attack at King Khalid International Airport killed 12 people and injured 309. Airport operations were temporarily suspended while officials assessed damage and inspected the facilities.
The Pentagon's current casualty tables list 21 deaths and 865 wounded in action across Operation Epic Fury and Overseas Operations as of October 9.
The Philippines secured €212.7m of World Bank financing for water and sanitation systems in Bohol, Siargao and Sulu. The money backs bulk supply, treatment and hygiene facilities.
OFAC added 22 tankers to its sanctions list in two Iran-related actions and removed two container ships after Treasury reported ownership changes. A new license permits a wind-down involving Samudra Marine Services.
Britain's Trade Remedies Authority proposed five-year duties of 48.29 percent or 63.66 percent on Chinese rutile titanium dioxide after finding dumped imports threaten UK producers.
Russia's Transport Ministry said unmanned vessels attacked the Liberia-flagged Aframax Rio off the Black Sea coast. All 23 crew members were rescued as oil burned on the water.
OFAC removed 125 people and entities from sanctions lists and updated 22 entries, continuing a Treasury review aimed at clearing defunct records and improving identifiers for compliance screening.
North Korean state media said an intermediate-range missile hit a target 1,000 kilometers away. South Korea had measured a flight of more than 700 kilometers from the Wonsan area.
Iran's rial weakened more than 2 percent against the U.S. dollar in Saturday open-market data. Bonbast listed the dollar at 2.688 million rials, while Alanchand showed a 2.695 million rial selling rate.
The UAE attorney-general says a Flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe and tried to take the controls. Investigators have not yet established the motive or any related links.
UKMTO received two reports of tankers being hit by unknown projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz within 11 hours. One suffered a small fire and blackout; crews in both reports were safe.
The joint reconstruction fund approved a critical-minerals platform with BGV Group, an investment in community heat and power hubs, and financing for DTEK's operational battery-storage system.
A new presidential determination revokes four earlier US aviation-security directives involving Lebanon. The transportation secretary must immediately remove rules and orders that conflict with the change.
FinCEN proposes barring covered US financial institutions from transmitting funds involving companies it finds are controlled by the A7 Network. OFAC separately added the network to its sanctions list.
The fiscal 2027 refugee ceiling is 17,500. A presidential determination says admissions will primarily be allocated to Afrikaners from South Africa and remain subject to existing screening and entry restrictions.
Swiss voters rejected initiatives that would have tightened neutrality policy and added food production goals to the constitution. The neutrality measure lost 70.2 percent to 29.8 percent, with every canton opposed.
China's government says Donald Trump and Xi Jinping directed officials to implement eight economic outcomes, including a $30bn reciprocal tariff reduction arrangement. Its readout gives no effective date or product list.
Norway's central bank raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 4.50 percent. Its forecast keeps the rate near that level before a gradual decline.
Canadian retail sales fell 0.7 percent to C$73.7bn in July, with eight of nine subsectors lower. Sales volume declined 1.1 percent, while an early August estimate points higher.
Brazil's central bank lowered its 2026 growth forecast to 1.8 percent and projected 1.4 percent growth in 2027. It expects inflation to reach 5.2 percent at year end.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States and China extended the Busan trade truce from November 10 to January 10, giving negotiators two more months.
South Korea selected 840 property transactions involving foreign buyers for review, up from 605 in 2025. The investigation covers reported deals from June 2025 through July 2026.
South Korea's competition regulator proposed replacing full fine immunity with a 75 percent reduction for the first cartel participant that cooperates only after an investigation has started.
South Korea adopted a 2035 resource-security plan that targets less than 50 percent crude-oil dependence on any one region and adds 20 million barrels of storage capacity by 2030.
The EU and Philippines reached a political-level substantial agreement on a trade pact expected to liberalize more than 94 percent of tariff lines. Technical work and formal conclusion remain.
Britain's competition regulator capped primary veterinary prescription fees at £21.40 and ordered practices to publish standard price lists. Larger groups face the first price-list deadline in December.
United Russia led the State Duma party list count with 57.88 percent after 58.42 percent of precinct protocols had been processed, according to figures reported from Russia's election commission.
Die Linke led Berlin's complete intermediate state election count with 25.7 percent of second votes. Turnout reached 74.2 percent, while the CDU finished second and AfD third.
Alternative for Germany led Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's complete preliminary count with 38.2 percent of second votes. The Social Democrats had 35.5 percent, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU remained at 4.9 percent.
Hong Kong and ASEAN signed an amendment that will extend national and most-favoured-nation treatment to Hong Kong enterprises investing in non-services sectors across 10 ASEAN states once the parties complete implementation.
South Korea's military said North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area Sunday, about three hours apart. The first flew about 450 kilometers and the second more than 600 kilometers.
Saudi Arabia's coalition said its air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh and thwarted attempts against four other cities, including the Red Sea city of Yanbu.
President Trump signed H.R. 5334, requiring new Russia sanctions and tariffs within 30 days. The law permits rates up to 500 percent on Russian goods and 100 percent on certain Russian energy buyers.
A presidential memorandum directs officials to identify Canadian-origin goods that can legally be removed from federal civilian purchasing, citing Canadian procurement preferences and provincial restrictions.
Sweden's live preliminary count put the four parties aligned with the incumbent government on 173 seats and the other four parliamentary parties on 176, with 470 districts unreported.
Ukrainian Railways said a Russian drone struck a passenger locomotive at Yahodyn, two kilometres from Poland. Its monitoring team ordered an evacuation 15 minutes before impact, and nobody was injured.
UKMTO updated its warning after a projectile struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. A fire broke out, and local authorities were helping evacuate crew members while the vessel's condition remained unreported.
An ICSID committee rejected Fengzhen Min's bid to annul South Korea's 2024 win over a 264.1bn won claim. It also ordered him to reimburse about 1.51bn won of government costs, plus interest.
Saudi Arabia said it will hold off any response after drone attacks damaged the East-West Pipeline. The shutdown remains precautionary, with no published restart time or quantified export effect.
The New Delhi declaration keeps BRICS work on cross-border payment links and local currency settlement alive. It also says national priorities differ and there is no single approach for members.
KED Global reports South Korea's workweek cap has added 14 months to construction schedules for Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4. Each reactor is rated at 1,400 megawatts.
The IAEA Board approved a resolution reporting Iran's safeguards noncompliance to the UN Security Council. The final resolution was not public when this brief was published.
Treasury sanctioned 36 aviation targets, including 27 Iranian airlines, and suspended three authorizations involving overflights and flights by certain non U.S. carriers.
The European Commission says a new €200m package will fund projects in Greenland across satellite capacity, energy, critical minerals, housing and tourism during 2026 and 2027.
Australia's draft bill would void noncompete clauses for employees earning no more than A$190,100. It would also ban coworker nonsolicitation clauses and treat no-poach and wage-fixing agreements as cartel provisions.
Singapore opened two online auctions covering 624 forfeited handbags, accessories and jewellery pieces. They are the first sales in a disposal program involving more than 1,000 luxury items and 80 properties.
Indonesia extended closures at eight airports, including two serving Jakarta, through 9 a.m. Monday after volcanic ash from Anak Krakatau continued to affect aviation. The order named eight separate facilities.
U.S. Central Command says American forces have redirected 92 commercial vessels, disabled three and boarded two while enforcing the maritime blockade against Iran. The command did not release a vessel list.
U.S. Central Command said it disabled or destroyed three Iranian crude carriers after ballistic missiles targeted two Navy warships. CENTCOM reported no American casualties.
The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day suspension of strikes on Kyiv during U.S. envoys' consultations. Ukraine had promised a reciprocal air-strike pause for the visit.
OFAC added Türkiye-based Golden Global Bank and two subsidiaries to its blocked-persons list under Iran sanctions. Treasury says the bank provided international access to Iranian funds.
Canada will spend more than C$4.7bn to acquire and maintain 313 VIA Rail passenger cars from Alstom. Manufacturing and assembly will take place in Ontario and Quebec.
U.S. Central Command said American forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran at noon Eastern after attempted attacks on shipping and U.S. personnel.
The commission shortened the approval validity of YTN and Yonhap News TV by three months on Friday and ordered both to comply by 10 October. Neither has formed the president recommendation committee the law requires.
Proclamation 11057, signed 25 August, orders the United States flag flown at half-staff for Dolly Parton until sunset on 1 September, at home and at every American post abroad. It reached the Federal Register this morning.
An order dated 27 August directs the Interior Secretary, within 30 days and with the Board on Geographic Names, to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America and to strike the old name from the Geographic Names Information System.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency filed ten arms sales notifications at 08:45 on Thursday. Five are new proposed sales worth $2.82bn between them and four report additions to cases already notified.
General Licence AA, published in Thursday's Federal Register, authorises the wind down or maintenance of dealings with La Nivernaise de Raffinage SAS until 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on 23 October. Treasury blocked the French company on 24 August.
OFAC designated Palestine Action, Masar Badil and the Italian hosting collective Autistici Inventati under Executive Order 13224, with two Masar Badil officials. Only Autistici Inventati got a wind down licence, to 25 September.
Presidential Determination 2026-22, signed on 21 August and filed on Tuesday morning, approves United States implementation of the NATO ATOMAL Agreement with respect to Finland and Sweden, and authorises the Department of War to cooperate with them.
A determination signed by the director of OFAC on Monday applies section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 to Iran's aviation, digital asset, gold, shipping and technology sectors. It took effect the same day.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control suspended five Iran general licences indefinitely on Monday, including the authorisation for noncommercial personal remittances at 31 CFR 560.550. A wind down licence runs to 8 September.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio rescinded Syria's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism on Monday and delisted Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation dated from December 1979.
Presidential Determination 2026-21, signed 20 August and filed on Monday, continues certain Trading With the Enemy Act authorities with respect to Cuba for one year, to 14 September 2027.
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries put the 2,758 TEU PanStar Acro on the Northeast Passage on 22 August. It carries 737 TEU of cargo and 100 empty containers, 837 boxes in all.
A magnitude 5.9 quake 70 kilometres under southern Ibaraki registered shindo 5-lower in Tokyo's 23 wards. Japan's fire agency reports 22 injuries from four prefectures and 15 more in Tokyo through a separate channel.
OFAC designated 15 Ecuador-based targets on Thursday and blocked 10 fishing vessels working out of Manta, which it says resupplied the go-fast boats running cocaine north, using government-subsidised fuel.
OFAC designated ten people it says carried cash for Hizballah on commercial flights between Lebanon, Turkey, the Emirates and Iran, and re-designated Hizballah itself as controlled by the Qods Force.
NOAA has found TMC USA's consolidated application for an exploration licence and a commercial recovery permit in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone fully compliant. Written comments close on 19 October and a virtual hearing is set for 13 October.
The Ministry of Finance published a 30-year yield of 4.096 percent and a 40-year yield of 4.103 percent for 18 August, the highest daily readings in either published series. Short maturities eased.
Recent assessments found Nigeria maintaining effective antiterrorism measures in its ports, the Coast Guard says, so it is removing conditions of entry imposed in June 2014. Twenty-three countries remain on the advisory.
Australia and New South Wales have jointly put A$2.5bn into the Tomago smelter. The state share is capped at A$1.225bn over ten years from 2029. Rio Tinto's own market release names no public figure.
Presidential Determination 2026-20 was signed on 3 August and publishes on Monday. Its two findings about Colombian airspace match last year's. Only the department named at the top has changed.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations logged Warning 108-26 on 8 August, 18 nautical miles east of Khasab, Oman. The strike started a fire that has been put out, and the crew are reported safe.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations has added four numbered incidents since 3 August, two off Oman and two off Yemen. One vessel was attacked by an uncrewed surface vessel and reported sunk.
Treasury designated six Cuban individuals and five state-owned enterprises under Executive Order 14404 on Thursday, among them the umbrella body for Cuba's military industries. A new guidance answer says food and medicine are not targets.
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control unblocked Fly Baghdad Airlines Company on Wednesday and removed two of its aircraft from the Specially Designated Nationals list. One named individual remains blocked.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission published its plan for the rest of 2026 on Tuesday. It would add divestiture to the remedies for cartels and abuse of dominance, and open its referral power to citizens and provincial governments.
Korea and Bangladesh declared their economic partnership agreement settled in principle in Dhaka on Tuesday. Korea would liberalise 81.7 percent of tariff lines on provisional figures, Bangladesh 81.4 percent.
Zones 3, 7 and 8 of the Saemangeum national industrial complex were designated on 4 August, taking the bonded total to 14.1 square kilometres. Duties are held in suspense from factory construction through export.
The measures took effect on 24 July and were filed for publication on Monday. They bar federal procurement, assistance, munitions sales and new export licences for two years. Russian Ground Forces is on the list.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations logged an advisory at 2037 UTC on Sunday after a tanker master reported hearing an explosion 20 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman. The vessel and crew are safe.
The central disaster headquarters went to Level 2 at 13:00 on Sunday. The labour ministry told its inspectors to press employers to halt outdoor work above a perceived 38 degrees, and to press is the operative verb.
Esmail Baghaei told Iranian state television on Sunday night that the Oman talks are about a new route and do not mean the strait reopens. Trump's Saturday post named a complete opening.
Egypt's cabinet said a drone caused fires on two LNG vessels at Damietta on 29 July. One is the regasification unit the port's imports run through. Corrected from an earlier version.
The 67th Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee met by videoconference on 2 August and repeated verbatim the maritime language it first used on 5 April. One April sentence is absent. It next meets on 4 October.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations has added warnings 101-26 and 102-26, both classed as attacks and both timed to the night of 31 July. Its list now carries 24 reports against 22 on 30 July.
Iraq and Turkey signed a one-year transit deal on Saturday setting a minimum of 750,000 barrels a day through the Kirkuk to Ceyhan pipeline. The line currently moves under 200,000.
An Associated Press account of Iran's leadership finds unity on fighting the war and a split over how it should end. The April ceasefire it describes won 12 of 13 votes on Iran's top security body and failed anyway.
Trump said in a Saturday evening post that Mideast allies had reached the parameters of a deal to end the five month war, and that he will hold off new strikes. Iran has not responded publicly.
Japan's ministerial council amended its nuclear guideline on 31 July to call for about 2 to 5 reactor rebuilds by the 2040s and 11 to 14 by the 2050s. The 2023 text carried no capacity figure at all.
Commerce cut the tariff on patented pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients that are products of the United Kingdom from 10 percent to zero, effective 12:01 a.m. Eastern on 31 July.
The State Department finalised its visa bond pilot on Friday and made the programme permanent for B-1/B-2 applicants from covered countries. About 20,000 applications drew a bond in the pilot and close to half were never paid.
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force added 43 entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act list, taking it to 187 and superseding the version published in January 2025.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated six entities and individuals in China, India, Russia and Iran on Thursday, most of them companies that act as general sales agents for the Iranian airline Mahan Air.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, the Royal Navy centre that merchant masters and company security officers report incidents to, carried 22 reports on its recent incidents list when this desk read it at about 10:45 a.m. Eastern on Thursday.
US Central Command published a release on July 29 saying that at 10 p.m. Eastern that evening its forces completed what it called a heavy wave of strikes against Iran, in response to the attempted missile attacks on American forces the day before.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated ten entities and identified eight tankers as blocked property on July 29, 2026, in an action Treasury titled Treasury Disrupts Iranian Regime's Strait of Hormuz Extortion Network, release sb0581.
An earthquake struck Kumamoto prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu at 4:27 p.m. local time Tuesday, 3:27 a.m. Eastern.
The European Commission's civil protection and humanitarian aid directorate published an account on July 27, 2026 of the assistance deployed to France and Spain under the EU civil protection mechanism.
US Central Command said on Tuesday evening, July 28, that Iranian forces launched multiple ballistic missiles at American forces based in the Middle East and that all of them were intercepted.
Presidential Determination No. 2026-18, signed July 16, 2026 and addressed to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy, was filed for public inspection on July 27 at 11:15 a.m. ET and publishes in the Federal Register on July 28 as document 2026-15273.
Abelardo de la Espriella, who takes office as president of Colombia on August 7, said he will close 14 embassies and around 15 consulates as a first stage of what he called an optimization of the foreign service.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on July 27, 2026 that the wildfires had not progressed during the night, while cautioning that authorities had to remain concentrated and determined and ready to move at any moment.
Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of US Central Command, recommended stopping the bombing campaign around the Strait of Hormuz on the ground that it had reached the limit of its effectiveness, Barak Ravid reported at Axios.
Polizei Berlin and the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Berlin issued a second joint release on Sunday, numbered 0906 and filed under Mitte and Spandau.
Al Jazeera reported on Sunday that more than 360,000 people have now been evacuated across France and Spain, with 55,000 leaving the Gironde overnight and around 250,000 out of that region in total, where roughly 42,000 hectares have burned.
Berlin police and prosecutors published an appeal seeking a 21-year-old alleged to have injured several people with a vehicle and stabbing implements in the Grosser Tiergarten. Euronews, citing rbb and BILD, reported he was later found dead.
The Vietnamese cargo vessel Khoi Nguyen 18, carrying 62 people, sank while operating in severe weather, the foreign ministry spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang said on Sunday in answer to a reporter's question.
Tasnim, the Iranian news agency linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a four-sentence item at 16:08 Tehran time on Sunday saying an oil tanker exploded in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine, having left the navigation route Iran has designated.
A flash flood triggered by sudden heavy rain hit a scenic area in Weiyuan County in China's Gansu province on Sunday, leaving 10 people dead and 23 injured, local authorities said in a report carried by Xinhua.
Iran's foreign ministry condemned what it called a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying an explosion killed one sailor and injured another. Ukraine says it struck vessels carrying military cargo.
CCTV called Noul the strongest typhoon to strike China so far in 2026, with sustained winds of 162 kilometres per hour at landfall near Pinghai in Guangdong. Hong Kong reported nine people injured and at least 350 flights cancelled.
Nathan Rennolds at Euronews reported on Sunday that more than 320,000 people have been evacuated across France and Spain as wildfires burn in both countries.
The final stage of the Tour de France was shortened to 89 kilometres after the Interior Ministry redeployed security forces to the Gironde wildfires, where the burned area reached 42,000 hectares and 220,000 people were evacuated.
An Iranian army spokesman, Amir Akraminia, said on Sunday that Iran had halted its retaliatory operations because the United States had stopped its strikes over the past two nights, in remarks carried by Iran International.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, told reporters on Sunday that Iranian and Omani officials had held several rounds of talks in Tehran over the two previous days at the level of deputy foreign ministers, on arrangements for safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Hong Kong Observatory reported that Severe Typhoon Noul made landfall over Huidong in Huizhou City and was skirting within 100 kilometres northeast of Hong Kong, with the No. 9 Increasing Gale or Storm Signal in force.
Yemen's Houthi forces said Saturday they had launched dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Jizan and a further barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones at oil facilities in Yanbu, two of Saudi Arabia's main energy hubs.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated four individuals and nine entities on July 24, 2026, describing them as key components of a sanctions evasion network run by the Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani.
The Korea Exchange triggered a sell-side sidecar on KOSPI 200 futures at 11:23 a.m. local time on July 24, after the contract fell 5.04 percent to 1,070.80, a drop of 56.88 points from the previous close.
Commercial traffic through the Bab al Mandeb Strait fell sharply after Yemen's Houthi forces declared a blockade of Saudi Arabia on July 20, then rose again this week, according to the Institute for the Study of War's daily Iran Update.
Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 21 that the war with Iran has cost about $37.5bn so far, up from the $29bn the administration estimated in May.
US Central Command said it completed another round of strikes on Iran at 9 p.m. ET on July 20, the tenth consecutive night by the command's own running count, targeting Iranian military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defence systems.
US Central Command said on July 19 that three American service members have been killed and one remains unaccounted for in the conflict with Iran.
US Central Command said Saturday's strikes were designed to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and to punish the Revolutionary Guard forces that attacked American service members in Jordan on July 17.
The State Department said on July 17 that the United States welcomes the intent of Iraq and Syria to rehabilitate and reconstruct the Iraq-Syria crude oil pipeline, and put initial transport capacity at 2 million barrels a day once rebuilt.
The UK took British Steel into public ownership on 16 July under the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Act, which the government's own announcement says requires an independent valuer to assess whether any compensation is payable.
The Central Bank of Libya said its governor, Naji Mohammed Issa Belqasem, met People's Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng in Beijing on July 16, and that the two sides officially agreed to facilitate the participation of Libyan banks in the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System.
The national emergency declared in Executive Order 13936 of July 14, 2020 has expired.
The State Department imposed three additional sanctions on Sudan under section 307(b) of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, effective July 20.
The overnight rate stays at 2.25%. Consumer prices rose 3.2% in May, or 2.2% excluding gasoline.
WTI settled at $79.34, up 1.5 percent. Trump dropped a proposed 20 percent fee on cargo crossing Hormuz.
Consumer inflation slowed from 1.2% in May and missed forecasts. Producer prices grew at their fastest since 2022.
Growth slowed from 5 percent in the first quarter and missed the official 4.5 to 5 percent target range.
Asia to North Europe is near $5,800 per forty-foot container. Drewry's index hit its highest since September 2024.
The EU dropped all duties on US industrial goods. The US rate on most EU goods is a 15% all-inclusive ceiling.
Interest cost $857bn in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, up 13 percent, as the deficit neared $1.4tn.
Insuring a $100 million tanker through the strait can cost $6 million. Requests for quotes have dropped.
CBP has wired roughly $71 billion including interest through its CAPE system since the Supreme Court voided the IEEPA tariffs.
Prices rose faster than the 4.30% economists expected, up from 3.93% in May, on food and transport.
The July 7 auction drew 2,070.0 billion yen of bids against 454.9 billion accepted, a cover ratio of 4.55.
The Ministry of Finance posted zero for May 28 to June 26, after 11.73 trillion yen in the previous window.
The Monetary Policy Committee agreed on 25 basis points on July 8. Headline inflation is seen peaking at 3.9%.
Brent September futures traded above $85 on Wednesday, after trading closer to $70 last week.
Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman met by video on July 5 and agreed the increase.
OFAC designated Ali Ansari, a Saint Kitts holding company, and several Iranian exchange houses on July 10.
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