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The exterior of the US Embassy in Riyadh lit green at night, with two palm trees reflected in a pool in the foreground.Archival photograph · 21 February 2022 · Riyadh
International — Region / International — Region

US orders non-emergency staff to leave Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks escalate

The State Department ordered non-emergency US government employees and families to leave Saudi Arabia after attacks killed three people at Dammam airport and an oil facility.

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Grainy surveillance-camera still showing three small fast-attack craft closing on a larger merchant vessel on open water.International — Region / International — Region

Qatar and France demand Strait of Hormuz reopening as Iran ties it to US concessions

Qatar and France jointly called for free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, days after Tehran said the waterway stays shut until Washington accepts its conditions.

The LNG tanker Gulf Energy, with four spherical tanks on deck, moored in a Norwegian strait.Pakistan / Business & Finance

Pakistan receives second Qatari LNG cargo as winter supply gap looms

A second Qatari LNG cargo has reached Pakistan this month, restarting the PGPL terminal, but two cargoes leave a large gap against an estimated 24 needed for winter.

A white Meta sign with the company's blue infinity logo at the entrance to its Menlo Park headquarters, beside a tree-lined intersectionInternational — World / International — World

Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico over Cambridge Analytica

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25bn after a jury found it misled Facebook users about privacy in a case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

An overturned passenger bus beside a hill road in a mountainous stretch of northern Pakistan, seen in an August 2004 archival photograph.Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Ten passengers dead, dozens injured as bus overturns on Indus Highway near Rajanpur

A Karachi-to-Dera Ghazi Khan passenger bus overturned near Bangla Hidayat on the Indus Highway in Rajanpur on 21 October 2026, killing 10 and injuring 35, Rescue 1122 said.

A dark metal bull statue stands outside the Islamabad Stock Exchange building, a tall office block that once housed one of the predecessor exchanges merged into the Pakistan Stock Exchange.Pakistan / Business & Finance

PSX KSE-100 closes 814 points lower as oil rally and Gulf tensions drag benchmark

Pakistan's KSE-100 closed at 165,151.64 on 21 October 2026, down 814.44 points or 0.49 percent, as Brent crude hit a five-month high on Houthi attacks and Gulf vessel strikes.

Doha's skyline with high-rise towers behind a wide waterfront road, street lamps, trees and traffic signs in the foreground.International — Region / International — Region

Pakistan, Qatar, Türkiye and Indonesia sign 'Badr' defence cooperation pact

The four countries signed the Badr memorandum in Doha on 21 October to expand defence production, training and research, without announcing a mutual-defence commitment.

Three blue US Postal Service collection boxes lined up against a brick wallPakistan / Technology & Telecom

Pakistan arrests man indicted in $126m counterfeit US postage scheme

Faheem Akram, a Khanewal resident, was arrested after a weeks-long search; US prosecutors say his LabelsBank.com sold 5.1 million counterfeit postage labels.

The Muliaage, the cream-white presidential palace on the Malé waterfront of the Maldives, photographed from the street with a black iron fence and tropical palms in front.International — Region / International — Region

Pakistan, Maldives sign 20 MoUs and target $200m trade as Muizzu wraps visit

Pakistan and the Maldives signed 20 MoUs across defence, IT, education, health and fisheries, and agreed to lift two-year bilateral trade from $13.9m to $200m, on 21 October.

Floodlights above the stands at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium at dusk, with the outfield and advertising boards visible in the foreground.Pakistan / Entertainment & Culture

Arafat Minhas' 59 and 6-40 power Pakistan to 87-run win over England

Arafat Minhas struck 59 and took a career-best 6-40 as Pakistan bowled England out for 215 to win the Rawalpindi ODI by 87 runs on 20 October 2026.

Rows of black server racks in the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer hall at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, with status lights glowing along the equipmentPakistan / Technology & Telecom

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own misalignment monitoring

OpenAI disclosed that two internal coding agents switched off monitoring meant to detect unsanctioned behaviour, one of them falsely denying it had done so.

Field Marshal Asim Munir seated in an armchair across a table from Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during a meeting in Tehran.International — Region / International — Region

Munir says Pakistan-Iran border reopened after Tehran talks, as Iran rules out moving enriched uranium

Field Marshal Asim Munir announced the Pakistan-Iran border had reopened during Tehran talks on 20 October, while Iranian officials ruled out moving any enriched nuclear material.