Major world news, summarized in plain language with links to the original reporting.
One ship sank with its crew missing and another caught fire inside Bulgaria's maritime zone, a day after a Turkish-owned grain carrier went down off Romania. Turkey's Erdogan raised Black Sea safety in a call with Putin.
Turkish officials say a 15-year-old from another school entered a middle school in Istanbul's Başakşehir district wearing its uniform and attacked students. A court has restricted coverage as investigators look into the case.
A last-minute deal between the ruling party and the main opposition put an economist and academy head in the presidency with 81 votes, one more than needed, after lawmakers first voted to curb a Hague war crimes court.
The foreign minister began proceedings to add a Russian citizen to the country's banned list after officials accused Ragozin of voicing views that serve Moscow's interests.
Pressed in Athens about reports that Washington discouraged governments from helping the Nobel laureate get home, the secretary of state called the premise false.
The attack, reported by the UK's maritime security office, happened far from the Strait of Hormuz, in waters where U.S. forces have only a thin presence, according to maritime trade press.
An analyst with Denmark's domestic intelligence service said Moscow stepped up attacks on firms supplying Ukraine this summer, often using recruits found on Telegram. Russia's embassy rejected the claims.
The Pacific storm is forecast to weaken but could reach the U.S.-Mexico border region around Sunday with tropical-storm-force winds, coastal flooding, dangerous surf and the first real rain after a punishing heat wave, the National Hurricane Center says.
The PTI convoy led by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's chief minister entered its fourth day after talks with the government collapsed, while authorities ringed Islamabad with shipping containers and vowed marchers would not get in, Pakistani outlets report.
Saudi officials say attacks at Abha and Riyadh's King Khalid airport killed three people and wounded dozens, as fighting for control of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait intensifies, the AP reports.
A Kenyan man who fell ill in Congo died in a Nairobi hospital after traveling through Uganda. Officials are racing to trace dozens of contacts, while doctors and Africa's top health agency ask why nobody caught his illness at the border.
Moscow told the World Health Organization there is "no plague case" in Irkutsk, but reports of a second employee with unexplained pneumonia have the U.S., the EU and the WHO asking for more transparency.
Riyadh has asked Damascus to deploy forces against the Iran-backed Houthis, a U.S. official told Reuters, but any Syrian role carries real risks for a government still rebuilding its own army.
France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for reactions that favor one mirror-image form of a molecule, work that helps explain a century-old puzzle about life and now shapes how medicines are made.
After a 15-year-old lost a hand in a clash with riot police, the government suspended stun grenades at student protests. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promised concrete measures by month's end, but student unions are calling for more marches Thursday.
Memorials ran from the Nova festival site to a packed evening ceremony in Tel Aviv, while in Gaza most of the population remains displaced and a year-old ceasefire has not brought peace.
The vice president's wording stops short of demanding Iran end enrichment entirely, but Tehran says its bigger concerns are sanctions, the U.S. naval blockade and frozen assets, as the war enters its eighth month.
Russian health officials are winding down quarantine measures after a 28-year-old worker at an anti-plague institute died of pneumonia, while the WHO is still asking what caused her illness.
The overnight attack hit Kyiv and about a dozen regions as Ukraine scrambles for scarce Patriot interceptors, according to Associated Press and Reuters reporting published by CBC News.
A missile landed near the runway minutes before a flight from Cairo was due, as fighting around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait displaces more than 200,000 people, Reuters reports.