China pushed back on Monday, 26 October 2026, after the Pentagon designated Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes a threat to US national security, calling the move stigmatisation while Washington said rebranded centres had been dismantled.
Storms Boelo and Austen battered northern Europe on Sunday, killing a man in Scotland, cutting power to more than 150,000 homes and disrupting flights, trains and phone networks across several countries.
The UK government is asking every household to be ready for three days of disruption under its new Be Ready campaign, with bottled water, non-perishable food, a torch, a radio and cash on the checklist.
Mein Schiff 3 collided with the moored container vessel MSC Victorine while departing Bremerhaven, Germany, amid strong winds; all 2,428 passengers and 922 crew members were safe, with no injuries reported.
Three university staff were killed and eight students wounded in an Israeli strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City on Sunday, with Gaza’s Civil Defense reporting five more people killed elsewhere in the territory the same day.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted two bills to Ukraine’s parliament on 26 October 2026 seeking a 90-day extension of martial law and general mobilisation, which would run until 29 January 2027 if approved.
A minor fire broke out on the terrace of Delhi’s North Block on Monday, October 26, prompting six fire tenders to rush to the Secretariat building on Raisina Hill; it was extinguished within minutes and no casualties were reported.
United States forces are prepared to launch a major attack against Iran within 96 hours of an order from President Donald Trump, two US officials told CNN, but Trump has not made a final decision on whether to order such action.
Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are meeting Iran’s leaders in Tehran on Monday, October 26, in the first high-level contact between Iran and all three Makkah Pact members since Saudi Arabia was drawn deeper into the wider Iran conflict.
A father and son died after two slabs collapsed at a house in Delhi’s Harsh Vihar on Sunday evening, as an extra floor was being built above an old structure. Rescue teams worked through the night, and police say an investigation into the cause is under way.