International News from Monday, October 12th, 2026

Russia hit at least six energy targets during a night and morning of deadly airstrikes across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, adding this showed Moscow had no interest in an energy ceasefire announced by Donald Trump.

A French middle-school student shot and wounded a headteacher and a female staff member with a hunting rifle at a school near Marseille on Monday, the local mayor said.

US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up models currently used by central banks and finance ministries across the world to stabilise economies.

Politicians from former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party have been detained after the federal government suspended a provincial government and imposed emergency rule.

The Saudi civil aviation has extended the suspension of operations at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh on Monday following attacks on the facility.

The death toll from floods in Thailand has risen to 71, with nearly 908,000 households affected across 51 provinces since mid-September, the country's Interior Ministry said on Monday.

An Israeli strike has killed at least two Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said.

Hundreds of opposition party demonstrators marched to India's Supreme Court on Monday to protest the removal of millions of names from voter lists that has sparked days of unrest in the Indian capital and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Hurricane Simon has weakened to a Category 3 storm on Sunday as it moved parallel to Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that flooded homes.

North Korea has fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, in its latest weapons test amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Panama has recorded more than 200 aftershocks following Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that damaged hundreds of homes and infrastructure across the country's central provinces, prompting the government to declare a national state of emergency over the weekend.