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1. 02

   Gunmen kill 27 in two South African attacks

   Eight gunmen with assault rifles and pistols stormed a tavern in Wedela, a township southwest of Johannesburg surrounded by mining land, on Saturday evening. [14][23] They killed 17 people and wounded 15, then set fire to two cars and fled. [14] Hours later, gunmen killed 10 people at a barbecue venue in a township outside Cape Town. [14] Police say one line of inquiry in Wedela is a turf war over illegal gold mining, and they have launched a manhunt. [14][24]

   Wedela tavern17 killed

   Cape Town barbecue10 killed

   Why it matters — South Africa records about 60 murders a day, among the highest rates in the world. [14] President Cyril Ramaphosa, who sent soldiers to crime hotspots in Johannesburg in March, said security forces would keep 'pulling out all stops'. [14]

2. 03

   Iran waits for the US answer through mediators

   Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that Iran will wait for the mediators to pass on the US government's final view before it decides anything. [25][26] Trump had told reporters on Saturday that he was rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. [25] Araghchi said Trump makes many contradictory statements. [25] Iran's army said it is fully prepared if the US attacks again. [11] Oil rose more than 1% early on Monday, to about $106 a barrel. [27]

   Why it matters — The strait usually carries about a fifth of the world's oil and gas, and it has been effectively closed since the war began in February. [25] Analysts told Al Jazeera that Trump is betting the US naval blockade will squeeze Iran into offering more. [26]

3. 04

   Russian strikes kill eight across Ukraine

   Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on Sunday, officials said. [28] In Sumy, a northern city, bombs hit near a centre for children and families. [28][15] Ukraine's interior minister said three died there, including a 16-year-old girl; the regional governor had earlier counted two. [28][15] Zelensky said Russia had used 277 attack drones since Saturday, 155 of them the jet-powered kind that flies higher and is harder to shoot down. [15] Russia said it hit two data centres in Kyiv. [28]

   • Jet-powered drones155 · 56%
   • Other attack drones122 · 44%

   Why it matters — Zelensky said Russia fired about 3,900 drones, bombs and missiles in the past week, and Ukraine accuses it of aiming at civilians as winter nears. [28] He said the targets in Kyiv included a building where Saudi Arabia's ambassador lives. [15]

4. 05

   Serbia's president resigns

   Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's president, resigned on Sunday, months before his second and last term was due to end next year. [29][20] Serbia's constitution bars him from a third term as president. [20] He plans to lead his Progressive Party into a snap parliamentary election in late October, which could make him prime minister. [20] A presidential election must now follow within three months. [20] Ana Brnabic, the speaker of parliament, becomes interim president. [20]

   Why it matters — Protests began in 2024 after the roof of Novi Sad's railway station fell in and killed 16 people, and they went on through this summer. [20] On his way out, Vucic pardoned 49 people, including 23 students. [20]

5. 06

   A drone hits Tigray's TV station

   A drone hit the headquarters of Tigrai TV, the main broadcaster of Ethiopia's Tigray region, in the city of Mekelle early on Sunday. [30][31] The station, which has about 400 staff, went off air. [30] A humanitarian source said Tigrayan forces took Erebti, a town in the Afar region near Tigray's border, the same day. [31] Ethiopia's army reportedly retook Sekota, a strategic town, from Tigrayan forces. [32] About 20 Israelis are stranded in Lalibela, where flights are cancelled. [31]

   Why it matters — At least 150,000 people have fled their homes in Afar, the same source estimated. [31] Tigray's push into Afar is aimed at the supply route from Djibouti, which handles almost all of Ethiopia's trade, including fuel, the Times of Israel reports. [31]

6. 07

   Ethiopia's army chief blames Egypt and Sudan

   Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, the head of Ethiopia's army, accused Egypt and Sudan of backing an alliance of seven armed groups that wants to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. [33] He said the groups could not succeed unless they were 'pushed, supported and supplied' from abroad. [33] He also accused Eritrea of funding them. [34] He gave no evidence, and Egypt and Sudan had not replied by Sunday morning. [33] He said the army is answering Tigray with 'wisdom and restraint'. [34]

   Why it matters — Egypt gets more than 90% of its fresh water from the Nile, and it has quarrelled with Ethiopia for years over a huge dam Ethiopia built on the Blue Nile. [33] Alemayehu Weldemariam, a law professor at Indiana University, told Al Jazeera that Ethiopia's own government did most to undermine the 2022 peace deal. [34]

7. 08

   South Korea demands an apology from Ukraine

   South Korea's presidential office demanded an official explanation and an apology from Ukraine on Monday. [35] Last week Zelensky told the UN that Ukraine had handed two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea. [17] South Korea says the two governments had agreed to keep the handover secret, to protect the men from danger. [36] A source in Ukraine's presidential office denied there was any such agreement, and South Korea called that false. [36][17] Ukraine captured the pair in Russia's Kursk region in January 2025. [17]

   Why it matters — South Korea is backing efforts to restart talks with North Korea, and Trump says he is willing to talk to North Korea again. [17] North Korea has sent 14,000 to 15,000 soldiers to support Russia since 2024, South Korean intelligence estimates. [36]

8. 09

   Israel's ex-defence chief says he never heard the warnings

   Yoav Gallant was Israel's defence minister when Hamas attacked on 7 October 2023. [37] On Sunday he said he first learned from recent media reports of warnings the UAE and Egypt reportedly gave Israel beforehand. [18] If they were kept from defence officials, it would be a 'grave failure', he said. [18] He said Hamas's only message to Israel's Shin Bet security service was that its leader would 'cause the prisons to quake', which officials read as a hint about a prisoner swap. [37] Netanyahu's office denies both warnings were delivered. [38]

   Why it matters — The row is back at the centre of Israel's election campaign, Haaretz reports. [38] On Sunday Netanyahu secretly visited the UAE and met its president, Mohamed bin Zayed, a source told Haaretz. [19]

9. 10

   Strike near a Taiz market kills seven, Houthis say

   The Houthi-run health ministry in Yemen said a strike near a market in Taiz province killed seven people and wounded 40, including children, on Sunday. [16] The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia's air force. [13] Yemen's Saudi-backed government said its own planes hit a Houthi military camp and vehicles near the market. [16][13] The Houthis, who hold much of northern Yemen, seized the country's whole Red Sea coast this month. [13]

   Why it matters — The new fighting has driven at least 125,000 people from their homes, DW reports. [13] The Houthis have also declared a blockade of Saudi oil exports, timed with Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. [13]

10. 11

    Yemen's government pushes back around Taiz

    Yemen's government forces said they took several areas and high ground in southern Taiz province, including Jabal Bazel, a mountaintop within range of Houthi supply lines. [12] Taiz is Yemen's third-biggest city, home to close to a million people, and Yemen's government holds its centre. [39] The Houthis took the Red Sea port of Mokha, 85km to the west, on 10 September, after a truce that had mostly held for four years fell apart. [39]

    Why it matters — If the Houthis win the high ground west of the city, retaking Mokha gets much harder for Yemen's government, the BBC reports. [39] A farmer near the front, Ali, told the BBC he sent his children to a camp but stayed with his goats, because without them the family would go hungry. [39]

11. 12

    A 7 October kidnapper is killed in Gaza

    Israel's army and Shin Bet said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed Saher Nidal Saqr in Nuseirat, in central Gaza. [40][41] They said he kidnapped Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023. [40] Argamani was rescued in 2024, and Or was freed last year. [41] Gaza's health ministry says 74,016 Palestinians have been killed in the war, 1,145 of them since the ceasefire began last October. [42]

    Why it matters — Israel keeps striking in Gaza, saying it answers threats, and seven Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire. [42] Israeli forces hold more than half of Gaza, Hamas has not disarmed, and rebuilding has not begun. [42]

12. 13

    Floods kill dozens in India and Nepal

    Heavy rain and storms set off floods and landslides across parts of India and Nepal over the weekend. [43] India's Uttar Pradesh state counted 15 dead in 48 hours on Saturday, after 19 times its normal rainfall fell in a day. [43] By Sunday Reuters put the toll at 56 in India and 14 in Nepal, with 11 missing. [44] In Nepal's Baglung district, a landslide buried a family's house while they slept, killing three children and a woman. [43]

    49 of 77

    of Nepal's 77 districts warned of flash floods

    Why it matters — Nepal warned of possible flash floods in 49 of its 77 districts as rivers kept rising. [43] Last month's floods there killed more than 1,450 people and left thousands missing. [43]

13. 14

    Iran says it seized a US underwater drone

    Iran's Revolutionary Guards said their navy captured a US underwater drone on a spying mission in the Strait of Hormuz. [45] They said it was a REMUS 600, a light robot submarine used for surveillance, mapping the seabed and finding mines, and that experts were reading its data. [45] US Central Command, which directs US military operations in the Middle East, said the US has 'positive control' of all its drones. [45] It is Iran's second such claim since Tuesday. [45]

    Why it matters — Iran's army chief, Amir Hatami, said on Sunday that the war 'is not over'. [45] He said Iran will not let its enemies use the strait while Iran itself cannot trade. [11]

14. 15

    Venezuela frees more political prisoners

    Venezuela freed a significant number of political prisoners from several jails early on Saturday, the rights group Foro Penal said. [46] It came days after Delcy Rodriguez, the interim president, met Trump in New York. [46] Among those freed was Wilder Vasquez, sentenced in 2018 over claims he plotted to kill Nicolas Maduro. [46] Rodriguez, Maduro's former vice-president, has run Venezuela since a US military operation removed Maduro in January. [21][46]

    Why it matters — Foro Penal says an earlier release scheme ended with less than half of Venezuela's political prisoners freed. [46] Rodriguez's government still denies that anyone is jailed for politics. [46]

15. 16

    Afghanistan says 28 fighters from Pakistan killed

    Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Sunday its forces killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in Nuristan, an eastern province, after they crossed from Pakistan. [47] It said the group included Islamic State militants, and that most were former Afghan government security forces. [47] It accused Pakistani militias of backing them. [47] Pakistan's military and information ministry did not immediately answer Reuters. [47]

    Why it matters — If Afghanistan's defence ministry is right, men who served Afghanistan's former government are now fighting its current rulers from across the Pakistani border. [47]

16. 17

    Iran moves trade north to the Caspian

    With the US Navy blockading its southern ports, Iran is moving more trade through its ports on the Caspian Sea, which it shares with Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. [48] The northern ports' share of essential goods, such as food, has risen from 18% before the war to 30%. [48] But the Caspian's water level is falling, and Iran's northern ports now take only 4,000-tonne ships, down from 6,000. [48] At the border crossing with Armenia, up to 1,800 trucks queue for days. [48]

    Before the war18%

    Now30%

    Why it matters — One ship in the south can carry as much as 20 ships on the Caspian, the head of Iran's ports agency said. [48] Container arrivals at the Caspian ports rose 50% on a year earlier in the five months to 22 August, a provincial governor said. [48]

17. 18

    Ten Nepali climbers missing after an avalanche

    An avalanche hit a base camp below Himlung Himal, a 7,126m peak on Nepal's border with Tibet, on Sunday morning. [49] At least 10 Nepali climbers are missing. [49][43] They had gone ahead to set up the camp and fix ropes for foreign climbers, who were not there yet. [49][43] Bad weather has kept rescue helicopters and teams from reaching the site. [49]

    Why it matters — Avalanche danger also forced climbers off Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, earlier this week. [49] Less than two months ago, six climbers died on Broad Peak in Pakistan, including the British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja. [49]

18. 19

    Israel's two blocs tie in a new poll

    A poll for the Israeli TV channel Kan 11 came out on Sunday. [22] It gave 52 seats each to the bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, and the bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [22] Eisenkot's Yashar party is on 23 seats and Netanyahu's Likud on 21. [22] Arab parties would win 12 and Yoaz Hendel's party four, outside both blocs. [22] The poll asked 552 people and has a margin of error of 4.2%. [22]

    • Eisenkot's bloc52 · 43%
    • Netanyahu's bloc52 · 43%
    • Arab parties12 · 10%
    • Hendel's party4 · 3%

    Why it matters — On these numbers neither bloc has half of the 120 seats, so the 16 seats outside both blocs matter. [22] The poll came as the row over the 7 October warnings returned to the campaign. [38]

19. 20

    Taiwan says the US still backs its defence

    Chen Ming-chi, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister, said on Sunday the US 'very much' understands Taiwan's defence needs, after last week's summit between Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping. [50] Trump has kept a new package of arms sales to Taiwan on hold since he met Xi in Beijing in May. [50] David Perdue, the US ambassador to China, said Trump has not changed his Taiwan policy. [50] Taiwan's government rejects China's claim to the island. [50]

    Why it matters — US law requires the US to give Taiwan the means to defend itself, and China wants the arms sales to stop. [50] On Saturday Trump said only that Xi understands his position on Taiwan. [50]

20. 21

    Venezuelans march for Machado's return

    Supporters of Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, rode motorbikes and drove through Caracas on Sunday to demand her safe return and a presidential election. [21] Similar marches were held in Valencia, Maracaibo and Merida. [21] Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, has lived in exile for nine months. [21] Her party says she has tried and failed to return seven times this year, three of them on Monday night. [21]

    Why it matters — Rodriguez told the UN there 'will be elections in Venezuela', but gave no date. [46] US officials deny holding Machado back, but say they have sometimes advised her not to return for her safety. [21]

21. 22

    More than 50 arrested at Labour's conference

    Police arrested more than 50 people outside the Labour Party's conference in Liverpool on Sunday, at a protest backing Palestine Action. [51] Britain banned the group under its terrorism law in July 2025. [51] Officers arrested protesters holding signs, on suspicion of showing support for a banned organisation. [51] Amnesty International called the arrests a 'shameful attack on freedom of speech'. [51]

    Why it matters — Britain's Supreme Court has agreed to hear the group's appeal against the ban, which Britain's government says it will fight. [51] Britain's Home Office says the ban is about significant criminal damage to businesses, not about protest for Palestinian causes. [51]

22. 23

    Crime leads Brazil's election race

    Crime dominates Brazil's presidential race, AP reports. [52] Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, promises to loosen organised crime's grip, above all in Rio de Janeiro. [52] Polls suggest his hard line is popular after Rio's deadliest police raid, last year, killed more than 120 people. [52] President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants Brazil's federal government to play a bigger part against gangs. [52]

    Why it matters — In Rio's favelas, residents are trying their own answers: former traffickers run a podcast with 225,000 followers on Instagram, and a free martial arts school has room for 600. [52] Many residents say police shootouts with the gangs cost many lives and achieve little. [52]

23. 24

    South Korea investigates a mine blast at the border

    South Korea's military and the United Nations Command began a joint investigation on Sunday into a landmine blast near the DMZ, the heavily guarded strip between the two Koreas. [53] The explosion on 21 September injured three South Korean soldiers who were clearing a patrol route. [53] About 40 investigators searched the area. [53] Opposition lawmakers want to know whether the mine came from North Korea. [53]

    Why it matters — North Korean forces restarted building work near the border in March, including laying mines, South Korean media reported. [53] Old mines also go off in the area and have injured soldiers on both sides. [53]

24. 25

    Hezbollah drone, Israeli strikes in Lebanon

    Israel's army said Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group, launched an explosive drone overnight at Israeli troops in what Israel calls its security zone in southern Lebanon. [54] Nobody was hurt, the army said. [54] Israel then struck Hezbollah targets in several areas of southern Lebanon. [54] Iran's seven-day plan, which Trump rejected, had asked for a wider ceasefire that included Lebanon. [26]

    Why it matters — Fighting on Israel's border with Lebanon goes on while Iran and the US argue over any ceasefire. [54][26]

25. 26

    Canada says it cannot rely on one partner

    Anita Anand, Canada's foreign minister, told the UN General Assembly on Saturday that Canada 'can no longer afford to be overly reliant on any one partner'. [55] She pointed to closer ties with Europe, India, China and African countries. [55] Canada is raising defence spending in line with NATO's targets and has opened a consulate in Greenland. [55] Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued that 'middle powers' must look out for themselves. [55]

    Why it matters — AP reported the speech as Canada looking beyond the US after a stormy year between the two neighbours. [55]