Tuesday

The confirmed toll of the offensive in western Yemen increases to 500 people killed, including 278 Houthi fighters, 216 soldiers of the Yemeni Armed Forces and 29 civilians. (AFP via LBC Group)

The toll from yesterday's Saudi airstrike against a prison in Al-Jawf Governorate increases to 17 people killed and seven more wounded. (Saba News Agency)

September 2026 Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia

Russia launches drones and missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, following a weekend pause in strikes, killing five people and injuring at least 10. The attacks damage civilian infrastructure at at least 16 locations and cause fires in five districts. (The Pioneer) (Reuters)

Canada's retaliatory tariffs of 15% to 50% on CA$27.6 billion (US$19.9 billion) of U.S. goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances, agricultural equipment, paper products, and electronics, take effect in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. (AFP via France 24)

The British government announces it will ban imports of all goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as well as some services, including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate, and advertising. (Telegraph India)

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority reports that 13,583 people have been rescued so far since flash floods ravaged Nepal. (The Rising Nepal)

Bosnia declares two Serbian embassy diplomats, military attaché Milan Dulanović and Security Intelligence Agency representative advisor at the embassy Darko Maksimović, as persona non grata after attending the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić in Belgrade. (Reuters)

In return to the sanctions by the UK government, the Israeli government announces it will close the UK consulate in East Jerusalem. Israel also forbids Britain from participating in the US-led mission for Gaza, and bans some British officials, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, from entering the country. (The North West Star)

Thieves steal Jeune Femme au puits [fr] and Madame Colonna Romano [fr] by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the Musée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The works have an estimated value of €9 million. (BBC News)

OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, with the announcement raising questions about plagiarism. (BBC News) (Scientific American)

In American college football, Mid-American Conference commissioner Jon Steinbrecher says that the conference has filed a appeal to overturn the results of the Western Michigan Broncos–Michigan game, which ended in a game–winning Hail Mary pass for Michigan after officials during the game added 1 second on the clock. (The Hill)