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October 18, 2026. A fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta killed soldiers on Saturday. The Defence Minister confirmed fatalities and gave no number. The Prime Minister and the Premier gave no number. One figure is circulating, from unnamed military sources, and we print it with that label attached rather than pretending it is official.

Tonight's report:

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October 17, 2026. In September Congress passed a sanctions law against Russia and Iran, 86 to 11 in the Senate and 262 to 159 in the House, and named it for a senator who had died that summer. The President signed it on September 18. On October 16, with its main sanctions due to take effect two days later, he waived them.

Tonight's report:

• The Lindsey O. Graham Sanc...

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October 16, 2026. On Wednesday we reported that Ukraine's military Starlink had been throttled, that an adviser called it "no coincidence," and that he had produced no evidence. We said we would not join those two things until somebody showed us the join. Tonight somebody has.

Tonight's report:

• Reuters reports the order limiting Ukraine's military Starlink came from...

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October 15, 2026. The energy ceasefire is over. It lasted three days, and Zelensky ended Ukraine's side of it this morning in six words to the Financial Times: "The block is out. We're done."

Tonight's report:

• Ukraine had held off striking Russian refineries since the arrangement announced on October 11. Russia kept hitting Ukraine's power stations throughout. Zelen...

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October 14, 2026. Three days ago the President announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Overnight Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine's electricity. Ukraine's Air Force says it stopped four of them.

Tonight's report:

• 39 ballistic missiles and 120+ drones, per Zelensky. 4 ballistic missiles and 115 drones neutralised, per Ukraine's Air Forc...

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October 13, 2026. A boy of fourteen is dead in northern Israel because a munition that failed to explode in a war lay in the brush where a school took its children walking. Then Army Radio asked whose job it was to clear that ground, and got two official answers that cannot both be true.

Tonight's report:

• Elazar Yair Wilensky, 14, youngest of five siblings, killed o...

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October 12, 2026. The President announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, effective immediately, both parties agreed. Kyiv says it has no information about it and doubts Moscow was told either.

Tonight's report:

• "Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE." A senior Ukrainian official says Kyiv has no information about it. Zelensky: "please ...

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October 11, 2026. Something struck King Khalid airport in Riyadh yesterday. Twelve dead, more than 300 wounded, the worst attack on Saudi Arabia in a decade. And yesterday's Zaporizhzhia figure of twelve has finished at twenty, a correction we carry on air.

Tonight's report:

• Riyadh: twelve killed at King Khalid airport, 309 wounded in the body of the reporting. Four...

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October 10, 2026. Russian aircraft dropped five guided bombs on Zaporizhzhia at 4:48 this morning, and the count rose all day: seven, then eight, then eleven, then twelve, with twelve more unaccounted for. Plus a correction we owe you.

Tonight's report:

• Zaporizhzhia: five guided bombs on residential districts. Twelve dead including three children, fourteen injured, ...

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October 9, 2026. The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navi Pillay, a South African jurist born under apartheid. The committee could not reach her by telephone. Yesterday Russian glide bombs struck two minibuses in Kramatorsk and killed thirty-three people.

Tonight's report:

• The Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, "for her efforts to promote peace and international law...

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October 8, 2026. A Russian missile brought down part of an apartment block in Pryluky, Ukraine, and the toll climbed all day: four, then eighteen, then twenty, depending on who counted and when. We print all of it.

Tonight's report:

• Pryluky, ninety miles east of Kyiv. The emergency service said four dead. Zelensky said eighteen, four of them children, three aged one...

October 7, 2026. Israel has spent the day marking three years, with commemorations beginning at 6:29 this morning — the minute it began. The International Chamber of Commerce warns the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is now brewing a global food crisis, because the fertiliser does not move either.

Tonight's report:

• The White House denies the President suggested Iran should "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego. No recording or...

October 6, 2026. A third American aircraft carrier is steaming for the Middle East, and the President says there are early indications linking Iran to the co-pilot who tried to bring down a passenger aircraft last week. The co-pilot has told Emirati interrogators he planned the attack before the airline hired him. And Ukraine says it has destroyed more than half of Russia's oil-refining capacity.

Tonight's report:

• The Theodore Roos...

October 5, 2026. The full account of what happened aboard Flydubai 1073 last Wednesday is far worse than first reported, and it is now the central question of an Israeli election twenty-two days away. The co-pilot attacked the captain with the cockpit crash axe and tried to fly the aircraft into the ground. He had been barred from flying by his own government.

Tonight's report:

• Flydubai 1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv. As it approached Isr...

October 4, 2026. Russia is methodically striking the bridges of Kyiv, with the object — as Ukrainian officials read it — of making the capital unlivable before winter. Chinese aircraft crossed into Taiwan's air defense zone 181 times last month, and the number is falling rather than rising. Israel votes in twenty-three days. And an American Marine has been arrested for murder on Okinawa.

Tonight's report:

• Kyiv sits on b...

October 3, 2026. Day 218. Every night we read the American casualty figure. We have not been reading the Iranian one, and that stops tonight: HRANA records 3,636 deaths, and Iran's own Health Ministry records at least 2,362 civilians killed and more than 32,314 injured. Two more tankers were struck in the strait today by projectiles nobody has claimed.

Tonight's report:

• An omission of our own, corrected: the Iranian casualty compil...

October 2, 2026. Day 217. The President says Iran is "ready to fold up" — and, in the same remarks, that he does not think "you could ever have peace" with Iran. He has given the first concrete reason for Saturday's rejection: Tehran offered to open only "some aspects of" the strait. Rubio has told the Iranian delegation to leave the country a day early.

Tonight's report:

• Trump says Iran is "ready to fold up," that the U.S. d...

October 1, 2026. Day 216. At last a set of Strait of Hormuz figures from one monitor, by one method, that can be compared with each other. Kpler reports 12.8 million barrels a day left the Middle East in September — of which 7.4 million went through the strait, against a pre-war level of 18.8 million. That is a little under 40%. And Iran's foreign minister says he is still waiting for an official American answer through the m...

September 30, 2026. Day 215. The President says the war will be "over with very soon" and offers no details, declines to rule out strikes before the midterms, and says talks will continue. A detail of Iran's seven-day proposal has emerged that changes how it reads: the strait would reopen under a toll-free Iran-Oman arrangement. And CENTCOM answers Iran's claim of controlling the waterway with four words.

Tonight's report:

• Trump Tu...