'On the Saudi Trail of the 9/11 Attacks' (2/4). Osama bin Laden may have been treated as persona non grata in Riyadh and pushed into exile, but declassified CIA documents show massive cash flows from the kingdom funded Al-Qaeda until 2003. Washington preferred to keep things quiet, so as not to offend the oil-rich monarchy.
Declassified CIA report, then published online in 2024 as part of the civil proceedings brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the Saudi state.
Ahead of Israel's upcoming October 27 parliamentary elections, several NGOs describe the methods settlers use to drive Palestinians from their land and the obstacles they place in the way of local olive harvests.
Israeli soldiers monitor Palestinians and activists harvesting olives in the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, in the occupied West Bank, on October 17, 2026.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for a security meeting Monday to address the violence, which recalled some scenes of chaos and looting in Paris.
The former commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East condemned the destruction of Gaza orchestrated by Israel and its 'ratification' by the international community. In his view, salvation for the Palestinians can only come through 'external pressure.'
Saturday saw Israeli settlers attack a convoy of European diplomats in the West Bank town of Taybeh and beat up a visiting French mayor, witnesses said.
Vehicles drive at the site where Belgium's foreign minister says masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank attacked Palestinians, Catholic representatives and Western diplomats and officials, in Taybeh, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 17, 2026. in this screengrab from a video obtained from social media.
Many Albanians said they were shocked by the conduct of law enforcement. At least 120 police officers and 32 protesters were injured over four days, according to official reports.
Four soldiers were killed and dozens injured after a fire broke out on Saturday at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright military base in western Alberta province.
The 39-year-old French-American Berkeley professor is campaigning to have voters approve, in a November 3 referendum, a measure that would temporarily impose a 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires living in the state. Some of his colleagues consider that his activism has begun to overshadow his scientific approach.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned against a brewing 'crisis' in the territory a day after an American photojournalist was injured in a brutal attack. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in a statement that Israel must 'urgently halt criminal violence' and arrest those responsible.
Vehicles at the site where Belgium's foreign minister says masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank attacked Palestinians, Catholic representatives and Western diplomats and officials, in Taybeh, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 17, 2026.
Pope Leo XIV's discharge on Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery, ended a stretch of uncertainty that shook the Vatican and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, less than two years into the Chicago-born pope's papacy.
Pope Leo XIV, followed by surgeon Stefano Margaritora, leaves Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on October 17, 2026, after Tuesday's surgery to remove lung cancer.
Heidi Levine had been covering Palestinians' annual harvest of olives, which has been repeatedly disrupted by Israeli settlers. Settlers beat her and stole her passport, telephone, wallet and equipment, according to witnesses. She was taken to the hospital with broken vertebrae, and is now in moderate condition.
Heidi Levine, a photojournalist with the "Washington Post," speaks to journalists at the hospital after sustaining multiple injuries during an attack by Israeli militant settlers on Palestinians harvesting olives, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 16, 2026.
In eastern Afghanistan, a Pakistani airstrike killed a shepherd and five of his family members. Islamabad has sought to pressure the Afghan Taliban into acting against armed groups attacking Pakistan, but the bombings and diplomatic deadlock have raised fears of a protracted conflict.
Abdulraouf Shahed and his son visited the graves of their relatives, killed in a Pakistani airstrike on October 1, 2026, at the Pashad cemetery in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, on October 5, 2026.
The war has revolutionized the Ukrainian intelligence community, just as it has been undermined by inter-agency rivalries. Its rising power has raised questions about civilian authorities' oversight of its activities.
Thirty-two ministers were sworn in before King Mohammed VI on Friday, October 16, but 40% of them were already in office. Women, meanwhile, lost ground in the government hierarchy.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco stands alongside Prime Minister Fatima Zahra El Mansouri and members of the government appointed on October 16, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, on October 16, 2026.
High school students have staged protests in recent weeks against higher university registration fees, but Interior Minister Bernard Quintin blamed the troubles on 'organized violence.'
Cars from the French, Belgian and Polish missions had brought diplomats to visit Taybeh, a largely Christian village in the occupied West Bank, when settlers descended to stop Palestinians from gathering olives, witnesses said.
An Israeli settler moves with his donkey toward the Palestinian-Bedouin compound belonging to the Kaabneh family on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, October 1, 2026.
Facing the prospect of defeat in the midterm elections on November 3, American President Donald Trump chose to sacrifice Ukrainian civilians, clinging to the illusion that buying Russian diesel will lower fuel prices at the pump in the US.
Abhijeet Dipke, 31, was detained on Friday in New Delhi as he headed to join a rally that the CJP protest movement had called in the capital's central Connaught Place district.
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