Yemen’s Houthis claimed on October 27, 2026, that they hit Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry in Riyadh and the Ras Tanura refinery, while Saudi authorities did not confirm either strike.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a rare joint call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, pressing for de-escalation and direct discussions ahead of US-mediated Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi — even as Russian strikes hit Kyiv.
The UN’s political mission in Somalia closes on 31 October after more than three decades, as a new World Food Programme chief takes office warning that conflict is driving people into hunger.
Russian ballistic missiles struck a Kyiv university campus, a hospital and the Southern Bridge overnight into October 27, killing one person and injuring at least 14, Ukrainian officials said.
Around 36,600 people have fled southern Ethiopia into northern Kenya after renewed fighting on the Ethiopian side of the border, the UN migration agency IOM says, with most hosted by border communities and nearly 11,000 sheltering at a church compound.
A United Nations inquiry has concluded that Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, finding that the strikes were carried out intentionally and as part of a state policy to deprive civilians of essential energy supplies.
British prosecutors have charged two men under the National Security Act over an incident near RAF Fairford, with police saying one is suspected of assisting Iran’s intelligence service. Both men were due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in attacks on October 20 and 24 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, church officials said, with more than 20 injured and 20 homes burned — while who carried out the attacks remains disputed.
France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, October 27, that he will seek European Union sanctions over an alleged Russian interference operation targeting countries in Africa, including Cameroon and the Republic of Congo, after a report by France’s digital-interference agency Viginum.
Seventeen undertrial prisoners escaped from the Thekkampatti sub-jail in Theni district, Tamil Nadu, late on Monday night after faking a medical emergency and attacking staff. At least four were recaptured by Tuesday morning as police launched a statewide manhunt.