Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old British adventurer and former paratrooper, walked into his hometown of Hull, in northeast England, on Monday, completing a trek on foot that took about 28 years. He set out from Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, at age 29, and the journey crossed South America, North America, Asia and Europe.
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Ukrainian forces say the speed restrictions on SpaceX's military-grade Starshield satellite service were still in place as of Friday. President Donald Trump instructed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday to lift the restriction, and Trump has said Musk did so.
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European Union leaders gathered in Brussels for a summit on the war in Russia and Ukraine, but the proceedings at the European Council press briefing room were repeatedly overtaken by an unrelated disruption: a persistent, unexplained odor that twice sent journalists fleeing the room.
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Four members of a Waterford family have died in circumstances that have renewed calls for a crackdown on drug-related intimidation.
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Protesters in Delhi have called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and authorities carried out mass detentions and imposed security restrictions in the city on October 10. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi led a march toward the Supreme Court days later to challenge recent revisions to voter rolls, which he says contain irregularities.
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Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck the headquarters of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Dhahran on October 15, damaging the top three floors of the company's CEO offices. Two regional officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike caused no casualties.
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Houthi forces said they targeted Saudi Aramco facilities in Yemen, and Saudi officials confirmed that a strike hit a building in the company's operations area. One account put the attack at Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran on Tuesday night, saying a ballistic missile damaged the top three floors of an office tower and set it on fire.
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Russia's Federal Security Service said Tuesday that it had arrested a Japanese journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on espionage charges, accusing him of gathering information on Russian defense capabilities for Japanese intelligence while preparing to leave the country.
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Russia's Federal Security Service announced on Tuesday the arrest of a Japanese journalist working for the newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun, detained in the Sakhalin region as he prepared to leave the country.
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Houthi rebels renewed strikes on Riyadh's international airport, killing one person and wounding 11, according to one account; a separate report described the attack as injuring pilgrims without giving a death toll.
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The week ahead spans a hurricane landfall, a Nobel announcement, a European strike wave, and a diplomatic reversal on Russia sanctions that Washington is tying to the cost of energy heading into the midterms.
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The United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on October 10, hours after the court's former judge, Navi Pillay, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The Trump administration's order bars transactions with the ICC and opens the door to penalties against companies that provide services to it, though the US Treasury Department set a six-month grace period before the measures take effect.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday at 11 a.m. local time, choosing among 287 candidates nominated this year — 208 individuals and 79 organizations. That total is well below last year's field, according to DPA International.
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Latvians vote in a parliamentary election on October 3, with about 1.5 million eligible voters, while NATO air policing is in place over the country. German Eurofighter jets are providing airspace protection.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for a two-day BRICS summit hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking his first visit to the country since 2019.
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North Korea and Russia have opened their first road bridge across their shared border over the Tumen River. The one-kilometer crossing links the North Korean city of Rason with the Russian city of Khasan.
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