International news from Friday, October 16th, 2026

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has been fired after less than a week on the job, two US officials said on Friday, after a rocky start as President Donald Trump's top spokesperson.

Yemen's Saudi-led coalition has announced on Friday the interception of a ballistic missile, two cruise missiles, and three drones targeting Saudi Arabia in several regions.

Thousands of young Albanians have marched through Tirana on Friday, breaking some windows and traffic lights on the fourth day of an increasingly violent student-led campaign to force Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign.

Pope Leo will appear in public on Sunday for the first time since undergoing lung cancer surgery as the 71-year-old pontiff shows steady improvement and is able to work and do normal daily activities independently, the Vatican said on Friday.

Russian drones killed at least three people across Ukraine early on Friday, hit two shopping centres and knocked out power to around 370,000 in the northwest after strikes on the energy grid, officials said.

Police detained India's 'cockroach' movement founder Abhijeet Dipke and some supporters on Friday, ahead of a protest called by him in capital Delhi's central business district, the latest rally to demand the resignation of India's election chief.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it has intercepted and destroyed a drone launched towards Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Region on Friday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr says comments by China’s ambassador to Manila sound “very much like a threat”, escalating a diplomatic row between the two countries.

US President Donald Trump says Washington is holding talks with Russia and China aimed at reducing their nuclear arsenals.

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has said she did not pass the bar exam, after facing scrutiny over her legal career.

A 16-year-old gunman killed four people, including three children, at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, before being shot dead by an armed member of the public, police said.