Cristiano Ronaldo, the 41-year-old Portugal forward, announced his retirement from international football on Thursday, ending a national-team career that began in 2003. He leaves as the men's all-time leading international scorer and most-capped player, with 146 goals in 234 appearances.
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The United States carried out limited strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the eve of the US midterm elections, including on Qeshm Island. A US official speaking anonymously said the targets were "Iranians using surface to air missiles against US assets."
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Canelo Alvarez fought Christian Mbilli for the WBC super middleweight title on Saturday at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, but no result from the main event is available.
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Middle East carriers are showing sharply divergent recovery patterns six months into the regional conflict, according to an analysis published Friday by Aviation Week comparing September flight activity to the same month in 2025.
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Air traffic between Europe and the Middle East fell 14% in cumulative 2026 totals compared with the same period last year, according to a Eurocontrol report, with the decline reaching 20% when measured against pre-war levels from January and February. Those two pre-war months had themselves been running 9% ahead of the prior year, a trajectory the outbreak of war in the region reversed through airspace closures and higher fuel costs.
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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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European chip stocks fell on Tuesday as a global selloff in artificial-intelligence shares spread from Asia, while other sectors on the continent moved higher, leaving major indexes mixed.
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Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned that recent attacks on Saudi Arabia could bring "potentially negative spillovers for everybody, everywhere."
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Two maternity hospitals in Ireland are not providing specialist mental health services for pregnant women and new mothers because of staffing constraints, and five others run those services only four days a week.
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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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A missile strike hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, killing at least a dozen people and wounding more than 300, according to Saudi officials, who blamed Iran-backed Houthi rebels based in Yemen.
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Christian and Jewish leaders gathered at Jerusalem's Southern Wall on October 9 for the Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit, marking three years since the October 7 attacks with testimony from released hostages and bereaved families. The summit was led by Friends of Zion founder Dr. Mike Evans in cooperation with Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and organizers said the event's 24-hour international broadcast reached more than 120 million viewers across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Latin America.
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Tavus has unveiled an AI video tool called Griffin that generates a lifelike avatar capable of standing in for a person on real-time video calls. The avatar, named Vanessa, blinks, emotes, reacts to interruptions, and drops in conversational fillers like "ums" and "ahs," and the company says internal studies found 48% of participants across 54 calls believed they were talking to a real person.
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A FlyDubai co-pilot stabbed the captain of a Boeing 737 flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, and the plane began to drop sharply afterward.
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A flydubai copilot allegedly stabbed the plane's captain and tried to crash the aircraft on Wednesday during Flight FZ1073, which was bound for Tel Aviv. The plane, a 737 carrying more than 170 people, made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.
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Repatriation flights are set to begin Friday for passengers stranded after an incident aboard a FlyDubai flight bound for Tel Aviv. India Today reports that Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to start the flights.
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A Flydubai Boeing 737 Max flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after a pilot allegedly stabbed another pilot during the flight. Israeli officials called it an "attempted terrorist attack."
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A violent fight in the cockpit of a Flydubai passenger jet left one of its two pilots stabbed on Wednesday, forcing an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 Max flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, set down at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Tabuk at 9:45 am local time.
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A flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was allegedly hijacked over northwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, in an incident that ended with the Boeing 737 landing safely in Tabuk. flydubai confirmed that all 174 passengers on Flight FZ1073 were safe.
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A flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after what the airline called an "incident" en route. Flight FZ 1073 touched down at 09:45 local time (06:45 GMT).
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