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US service members order the occupants of a skiff carrying suspected pirates to raise their hands before boarding, in the Gulf of Aden, in February 2010.

Somali pirates seize Iranian fishing vessel with 23 people aboard, and maritime security centre warns of a "floating base"

The island of İmralı, in the Sea of Marmara, home to the prison where Abdullah Öcalan has been held since 1999, in a 2013 satellite image.

Türkiye moves Abdullah Öcalan to a new wing of the İmralı prison where he has been held since 1999

The UN flag on the facade of the Palais Wilson in Geneva, home of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in 2020.

UN staff member dies in Houthi custody in Yemen, and rights chief demands an independent investigation

The Strait of Hormuz in a NASA satellite image, with Iran to the north and the Musandam peninsula to the south.

Strait of Hormuz

Revolutionary Guard reports two more tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US says the lanes are clear of mines

Dmitry Muratov, one of the five founders and former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, on Nemtsov Bridge in Moscow in February 2021.

Russia's Novaya Gazeta shuts down after 33 years and will switch off the newsroom lights on 9 November

The port city of Wonsan, on North Korea's east coast, photographed in 2008.

Korean Peninsula

North Korea fires about ten ballistic missiles from Wonsan, a day after Trump floated a meeting with Kim Jong-un

President Nayib Bukele alongside Salvadoran troops at a ceremony in San Salvador in June 2019.

El Salvador has about 1,300 troops in Haiti and announces a force of more than 2,000 to rescue four missing servicemen

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, arrives at the NATO summit in The Hague, in June 2025.

Finland and Norway spend 90 minutes on the phone with Putin, and Denmark and Sweden criticise a move made outside the European bloc

An Iryo train passes at speed on the Madrid–Seville high-speed line, near the town of Mora in Toledo province, in 2023.

Renfe AVE slams into stopped Iryo train on Madrid–Seville line, killing at least 64 in Toledo province

Algeria's president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, at an official meeting in Slovenia in May 2024.

Algeria sends troops to Niger in its first military operation beyond its borders since 1973

The central square of Oleshky, in Ukraine's Kherson region, in a 2007 archive photograph, before the Russian invasion.

Local truce takes effect in Oleshky, the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city where about 2,000 residents remain

The front of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, in 2022.

Israeli elections

Israel votes on Tuesday for all 120 Knesset seats, and the polls give neither bloc a majority

Internally displaced women sell charcoal at a market in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, in February 2015, eight years before the war that destroyed the city.

UK sanctions 15 Sudanese commanders a year after the fall of El Fasher and pledges £15 million in aid

The Palace of Nations in Geneva in October 2014. It is the UN's European headquarters, home to the Human Rights Council and the commissions of inquiry it creates.

UN commission says the ceasefire has not stopped genocidal acts in Gaza, and Israel denies it

Northern Tehran seen from the top of the Milad Tower in April 2019. The Iranian capital receives the three delegations on Monday.

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey send their defence and intelligence chiefs to Tehran for security talks

The Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge over the Yalu River, linking Dandong, in China, to Sinuiju, in North Korea, seen from the Chinese side in 2011.

North Korea and China

Kim Jong Un walks across the new Yalu River bridge on his first trip to China in a year

Plaça de Catalunya, in Barcelona, at night, in a file photograph from February 2024.

Barcelona reports 128 arrests and 14 injured officers after a night of looting in the city centre

Al-Shuhada Street in the Old City of Hebron, in the West Bank, in a 2016 photograph.

Israel seals off the West Bank and clears about 2,000 residents out of Hebron, who will not return until the operation ends

Demonstrators at a march in Paris on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 October 2026.

France's Interior Ministry counts 410,000 marchers and nearly 1,000 arrests, while the CGT puts the turnout at 800,000

The bay of Manta, in Ecuador's Manabí province, in 2015. All three trials of the fishermen are being heard in this city's criminal court.

Pacific strikes

Ecuador has cleared 32 of the 88 fishermen prosecuted after the US strikes, and rules on nine more on 29 October