The Ukrainian president says a three-day pause is over after fresh Russian attacks and US attempts to pressure Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky made the announcement in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.

Asked whether Russia could use proceeds from the diesel deal to purchase more bombs, Trump sidestepped the question. "That's a ⁠diesel deal, not for us. That's being released in

BBC Ukraine Correspondent Dan Johnson is in Kyiv, where at least three people were killed in overnight strikes.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition have threatened new strikes on each other, a fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict.

Iran-backed Houthis continue their attacks on the kingdom, targeting airports, oil facilities and other infrastructure.

Any American military intervention against the Houthis after the recent attacks would risk widening an already costly and politically contentious Middle East conflict, just weeks before November’s midterm elections.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition have threatened new strikes on each other, a fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict

The roof of a private school collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 34 children and a teacher and injuring more than 50 other people in the deadliest incident of its kind in the country,

Thirty-two children and a teacher were killed and dozens injured when the roof of a school in northern Pakistan collapsed on Thursday morning, authorities said.

At least 27 students, most younger than 13, were killed in Pakistan along with a teacher when a school roof collapsed during classes in the northwestern city of Peshawar, authorities said.

An official says the roof of a private school has collapsed in northwestern Pakistan and killed at least 10 schoolchildre

A Russian attack on Kyiv’s Desnianskyi district killed at least one person and injured more than 20, damaging residential buildings.

The fresh strikes follow ⁠earlier Russian ⁠attacks on ⁠the energy ​infrastructure in Ukraine as temperatures ​start ⁠to cool down with the heating season on the horizon. Reuters witnesses ⁠heard multiple explosions in Kyiv as air ⁠defences repelled overnight attacks.

President Zelensky of Ukraine has said Russia has hit energy facilites in Kyiv and that allies again gave no warning of strikes. We look at what more Nato should be doing for Ukraine. Pope Leo is recovering in hospital in Rome after having surgery for lung cancer.

A ​series of explosions jolted the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the late evening. and Zelenskiy and his military said there had ​been no advance warning of the strikes. "Once again, no ⁠advance ⁠warning from our partners.

North Korea’s wartime friendship with Russia grabs the headlines. But China is its true patron, propping up its despotic regime. The two did $2.7bn-worth of bilateral trade in 2025, up from $2.2bn the year before and not accounting for illicit deals kept off the books because of sanctions.

China and North Korea officially marked the long-delayed opening of their most significant land border crossing on Thursday (October 15), aiming to rejuvenate trade and commerce after years of soured ties and pandemic-related suspension in exchange.

The New Yalu River Bridge spans 3km (1.9 miles) from the Chinese border city of Dandong to Sinuiju in North Korea A long-delayed road bridge linking China and North Korea has opened, Chinese state media report,

North Korea has opened two major bridges connecting it to key trading partners in the last month, with the latest — a bridge link to China — inaugurated Thursday after a more than decade-long delay.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “might have gone too far” in the war with Iran, while claiming U.S. military action had devastated Tehran’s

President Trump said the Iran war will end “very soon,” as he spoke to reporters in Kalispell, Montana, after a rally there ahead of midterms.

During his rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, on Oct. 14, 2026, Trump tells supporters that the Iran war will end soon and gas prices will go down.

President Trump said Wednesday night at a rally in Montana that he wasn’t sure who U.S. officials were negotiating with in their efforts to bring an end to the Iran war. “They don’t have a navy. They