Health officials report nearly 187,500 infections while millions of children remain outside an emergency immunisation campaign that has already reached more than 18 million.

The September 9 operation reached more than 2,800 kilometres inside Russia, marking Ukraine’s first reported strike on the country’s principal gas-producing region.

Fresh clashes and cross-border attacks are threatening the 2022 truce framework while displacement rises near the Red Sea shipping corridor.

The raid on a teacher-training centre in Wum coincides with separatist attempts to disrupt the new school year in Cameroon’s conflict-affected Anglophone regions.

Global air temperature reached 1.65C above the preindustrial baseline while extra-polar seas set an August record, sharpening the stakes before COP31.

Explosions were reported around Sirik, Minab and Qeshm as the US-Iran confrontation continued to disrupt shipping and energy flows.

The Ukrainian president's visit puts interceptor supplies and longer-term security cooperation at the centre of talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The reported pause around Ngoshe followed the release of 360 abducted villagers, but neither Abuja nor independent monitors have confirmed the arrangement.

A new overnight attack wave hit northern and southern Ukraine, adding pressure on Kyiv’s air defences as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pursued winter-security support abroad.

The coastal breakthrough gives the Yemeni movement greater leverage near Bab el-Mandeb as regional fighting threatens shipping, energy flows and an already severe humanitarian crisis.

Bangkok students are practising emergency responses as authorities reassess school security, weapons screening and mental-health safeguards.

Low distillate inventories and disrupted supplies from the Middle East, Russia and China point to elevated transport and agricultural costs extending well into next year.

Algiers ordered the Emirati ambassador to comply within 48 hours as rivalry over Western Sahara, Israel and the Sahel hardened into a formal rupture.

The deaths aboard the Tedy and Moscow's separate acknowledgement of attacks on vessels bound for Odesa deepen risks to civilian navigation and Ukraine's maritime export corridor.

Children, journalists and former prisoners were among those detained as raids, property searches and settler violence intensified across the occupied territory.

Moscow’s rejection closes off a limited US-backed de-escalation proposal and points to continued pressure on Ukraine’s energy system before winter.

The blaze struck schools in the densely populated eastern Congolese city, adding a civilian disaster to a region where conflict has already badly disrupted education.

The daytime attack hit a civilian commercial site in Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding teenagers and emergency personnel as long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities intensify.