World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
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.
The paper said Russian authorities and intelligence services forced it to shut, weeks after its editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov was questioned and his home searched; it will go dark on November 9.
The Cabinet Committee on Security approved eight next-generation corvettes, to be built by GRSE and Goa Shipyard, with deliveries expected from 2030.
India’s home minister told BJP workers in Lucknow the party would bring a Uniform Civil Code to Uttar Pradesh if it retains power, after Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Assam adopted one.
All five pilgrims from Bengaluru and the pilot were killed when a Trans Bharat Aviation helicopter crashed near Chai village in Chamoli; the operator’s fleet has been grounded.
A Kalol sessions judge sentenced Vasim Kureshi, Mahmad Rafiq Kureshi and Asfak Bahelim to rigorous life imprisonment over 277kg of beef, citing the Manusmriti and the Vedas in his ruling.
A CREA study found air pollution deaths in Indonesia jumped 42% in September, with forest fire smoke blamed for 3,560 deaths and a record 58 million people breathing unhealthy air.
Victoria’s Court of Appeal threw out Erin Patterson’s challenge to her death cap murder convictions and removed her 33-year non-parole period, meaning she will never be released.
A glacial lake outburst in Bhutan’s Gasa district released about 7.4 million cubic metres of water into the Sankosh, prompting evacuation calls in Cooch Behar and alerts in Assam’s Dhubri and Kokrajhar.
More than 10 US military cargo flights reached Israel’s Nevatim and Ovda bases in a week, as Washington and Israel reportedly weigh renewed strikes after the midterms and Vance rules out a “forever war”.
