YEMEN - Saudi fighter jets struck rebel Houthi targets in an offensive to retake swathes of Yemen, including the Red Sea coast, after attacks on oil infrastructure. Turkey and Pakistan have activated a defence pact with Saudi Arabia as the kingdom and its Yemeni allies fight to seize control of the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait from Iranian-backed rebels. The countries said they would send troops after the kingdom launched an operation alongside the Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen to wrest back control of the strait, which was taken by the Houthis last month. The Yemeni government forces claimed that they had recaptured the strait, which is a vital route for commercial and oil shipments, but sources said the Houthis continue to hold out.

FRANCE - Trump claimed that the protests were not about schools, and instead were "about Islam wanting to take over a once great country!" US President Donald Trump said in a Truth post on Tuesday that mass migration and Islam were to blame for the massive protests occurring in France. "What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration," said the president. "This isn't about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!" The student protests began in September in the deprived suburbs of Paris before spreading nationwide.ŕ

VATICAN - More than 347 million children in nearly 100 countries and territories are expected to face unusually wet or dry conditions in the coming months as the 2026-2027 El Niño develops, UNICEF has warned. The climate phenomenon, marked by unusually warm waters in parts of the Pacific Ocean and associated changes in weather patterns across the globe, is forecast to become one of the strongest El Niño events on record. According to UNICEF, the resulting droughts and floods could threaten children's health, nutrition, education and access to essential services. “For children, El Niño is far more than a weather pattern,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “It can mean increased displacement, malnutrition, water shortages, and disease outbreaks.”

GERMANY - The far-right Alternative for Germany convened for the first sitting of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament on Tuesday but, a month after its landmark election win, the party still lacks a clear path to forming what would be its first state government. Despite winning the vote in the September 6 election in the eastern German state, the AfD fell three seats short of the absolute majority that candidate Ulrich Siegmund had aimed for. Siegmund said before Tuesday's sitting that he aimed to win parliamentary backing to become state premier in a first round of voting that he said would only take place in December, giving him more time to build support.

USA - The US has threatened to impose sanctions on Britain and other European countries over their boycott of Israeli settlements. A Trump administration official criticised countries including the UK, France and Norway for bans on goods produced in illegal settlements in the West Bank, calling such actions “anti-Semitic”. Speaking on Tuesday, Harmeet Dhillon, an assistant US attorney general, said any country engaging in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel “is going to risk – while President Trump is in power – retaliatory or corresponding sanctions”.

UK - Four in 10 British farmers fear they may be forced to leave the industry within the next decade, a report from oven-chip maker McCain has warned. In a survey of 200 farmers, 42 per cent said they had considered leaving their farms in the past year, and 40 percent said they questioned whether they would still be farming in 10 years’ time. Meanwhile, some 77 per cent warned that government policy was the biggest threat to farming’s future. Farmers are coming to the end of the poorest harvest on record, with analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit showing that UK farmers lost some three million tonnes of grain worth around £448 million.

GERMANY - The fairytale castle in the centre of Schwerin was completed in 1857. The same year, Germany was rocked by a global financial crisis. During the economic turmoil, peasants were prevented from emigrating from the city and the surrounding region, which is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The region is once again in upheaval as the epicentre of a political earthquake that threatens to topple Germany’s chancellor amid a modern cost-of-living crisis. “People used to view populism like a cold or the sniffles affecting European party democracy,” said Daniel Fiss, a rising star in the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a lakeside park with a view of the castle, a Unesco World Heritage site. The AfD election campaign manager told The Telegraph: “We have to face the question. Is populism perhaps becoming the new normal?”

GERMANY - Nationwide support for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance has collapsed to a historic low following a series of defeats in regional elections, a new poll suggests. The bloc’s popular backing stood at just 18%, its worst in German postwar history, according to a survey conducted by the INSA polling institution on behalf of Bild. The poll put the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 30%, the highest since the party was established in 2013. It remains the most popular party in Germany by a wide margin, the poll suggests. The CDU/CSU’s junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats and the Greens are polling at 14% each, with the Left Party at 10%.

UK - Donald Trump has said that a 'specific threat' prompted the United States to withdraw its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford following an alleged foiled terror plot. The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that aircraft which were being stationed at the Gloucestershire base had been 'redeployed to their home stations in the US'. It came after the arrests of six individuals over the past week in connection with a suspected terror plot targeting the base.

UK - If just the threat of an attack can lead to the withdrawal of a key strategic US military asset, it emboldens our enemies. Since the end of the Second World War, the close alliance between the UK and America has had its tangible manifestation in the presence of US bases in this country. The “special relationship” was never more obvious than in places like RAF Fairford, where the USAF kept a squadron of 12 B-1 bombers. They have now all been moved back across the Atlantic to home stations in the US following the apparent terror plot that led to the arrest of five men, since released on bail. Andy Burnham has said there were “strong indications” of Iranian involvement in the episode and a British-Iranian was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. He has also been released on bail. Iran has said any base used to attack its territory constitutes “a legitimate target”.