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Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case amid widening regional outbreak 

18 October 2026

News|Ebola Kenyan health authorities say an eighth Ebola case has been detected, bringing the total number of known infe...

Flight from Israel makes emergency landing in Bulgaria after bomb threat 

18 October 2026

News|Aviation An Airbus A320 flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna has made an emergency landing in Bulgaria following a report...

Iran war live: Tehran says Netanyahu seeks more war; Yemen fighting flares 

18 October 2026

Vehicles travel along a street in Sanaa, Yemen, on October 18, 2026 [Yahya Arhab/EPA] By Leena Fraihat and Adam Hancock ...

Venezuela opposition renews support for Maria Corina Machado as leader 

18 October 2026

An alliance of Venezuelan opposition parties has reaffirmed its commitment to exiled Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Co...

Alberta independence referendum: Will separatists survive a loss? 

18 October 2026

Cory Morgan has spent more than 25 years fighting for Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta to become an independent c...

‘Hybrid warfare’: Taiwan drives away 16 Chinese ships 

18 October 2026

News|South China Sea Taiwan has confronted and driven away 16 Chinese coastguard, research and fishing vessels that it s...

‘Anger and shame’: Macron denounces France’s nationwide rioting, looting 

18 October 2026

News|Protests French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed “anger and shame” over what he described as violent pro...

GCC condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia as Yemen fighting intensifies 

18 October 2026

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has condemned repeated attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi fighters on Saudi Ara...

Russia’s war on Ukraine ‘must be brought to an end’, Zelenskyy says 

18 October 2026

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the war with Russia “must be brought to an end” and that his...