Sunday, 11 October 2026

In the Gulf, a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's King Khalid airport on Saturday, the third attack there this week, and the headline toll is 12 dead. Trump says the US may join Saudi strikes on the Houthis. Iran says a supertanker hit a mine in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US disabled a ship leaving an Iranian port. In the Horn of Africa, Eritrea asked the UN Security Council to condemn what it calls Ethiopia's "declaration of war", and Ethiopian-allied forces say they retook Adigrat. At the UN, Russia and China blocked a US push to extend the arms embargo to all of Sudan.

A Bundesbank official warned that euro-zone debt-crisis risks have risen sharply, with France in focus as global bond yields stay high, Bloomberg reports. India's central bank opened a special dollar window for state-run oil companies to support the rupee. The Financial Times reports that Nvidia is in talks to buy or deepen its stake in the open-model start-up Reflection AI.

Ebola has spread to another health zone in eastern DR Congo, the WHO says, and Kenya has confirmed a fatal imported case, which makes cross-border spread the concern. Tomorrow, watch Hurricane Simon, now Category 4 off Mexico's Pacific coast.