World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
Pakistan accused the Taliban regime of complicity with terrorist groups targeting it, as a UN rapporteur urged states not to normalise ties with Kabul until it reverses its repression of women.
Brasília called in Argentina’s chargé d’affaires over how the defeated candidate crossed Argentina in defiance of a court order, straining ties between Lula and Milei.
The State Department cleared 500 PAC-3 interceptors for Ukraine, funded by Canada, Germany, Norway and an EU loan, after Kyiv warned it was critically short of air defence missiles.
Seventeen ruling-party legislators in Indian-administered Kashmir demanded an end to ‘unilateral decisions’ after a cabinet expansion left them out, as MP Aga Ruhullah prepares to quit.
Karol Nawrocki abandoned a flight to Senegal after police entered the Constitutional Tribunal and its president was suspended, as the government moved to strip him and his deputy of immunity.
Police Scotland said its inquiry, reportedly linked to claims women were trafficked to the King’s Highland estate, is at a very early stage; several English forces are also examining the Epstein files.
The Chicago-born pope voted by post from the Vatican in Illinois, days before midterms that will decide control of Congress, after clashing with Trump over Iran and immigration.
The UN human rights office says Israeli forces are pushing west past the Yellow Line, attacking displacement camps and squeezing Palestinians into a shrinking share of Gaza.
Christa Pike, who survived a lethal injection in Tennessee on September 30, said she is in constant pain and blamed ‘incompetence’, as the state’s governor said her death sentence should stand.
The IRGC navy said three tankers using ‘unauthorised routes’ caught fire, one after hitting a mine, as a Qatari delegation working with Washington arrived in Tehran to revive a ceasefire.
