Houthis hit Riyadh and Dammam airports; Saudi Arabia vows response, US may join

Trump said Zelensky must hold elections and blamed Ukraine, not the Iran war, for record US diesel prices. Britain and Germany backed Zelensky, who said Ukraine would hold elections after a 60-day ceasefire. Trump then announced an "energy ceasefire" without terms. Kyiv, caught off guard, said it would accept if Russia did. Moscow said only that it stays open to talks, and the White House said Russia was "thinking about it". Witkoff and Kushner postponed their Moscow trip.

CENTCOM said a fighter jet disabled the Panama-flagged Ocean Molica after it left an Iranian port, without harming the crew. Since July 14, 135 vessels have been redirected, four disabled and 10 IRGC-linked tankers destroyed. Trump said the US won't attack before the November 3 midterms, while Iran's security chief called Washington's reply to its deal conditions "inadequate". The IRGC said a supertanker hit a mine and warned that ships going dark would be treated as hostile.

At least 139 migrants, including 15 children, died and 84 were missing after a boat carrying about 305 people from Djibouti to Yemen capsized overnight on October 8-9 north of Obock, the IOM said. Early reports had cited 109 dead. The 82 survivors were Ethiopians.

Hurricane Simon, a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, closed in on Mexico's west-central Pacific coast on Sunday, with destructive winds, storm surge and deadly flooding feared. President Claudia Sheinbaum urged coastal residents to stay indoors, and Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco faced a possible direct hit. The eye was expected to move inland later on Sunday.

President Asif Ali Zardari imposed a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province run by jailed ex-PM Imran Khan's party, effectively suspending its government and letting the federal government assume key powers. The PM's office blamed the province's "deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism".

Ebola spread to another health zone in eastern DR Congo, where deaths passed 4,000 on October 7. Kenya confirmed its first imported case on October 6: a patient who travelled from the DRC through Uganda and died in Nairobi. The health ministry said 293 tests since then had found no new cases.