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An Air India flight en route to New Delhi from Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to India's northwestern Jaipur city on Wednesday following a suspected hijack alert and an alleged bomb threat, according to media reports. Flight AI-2030 landed safely at Jaipur International Airport at 9.35 am (0405GMT) and was moved to an isolation bay for security checks, while authorities investigate the incident, India Today reported, citing sources. Initial checks found that the aircraft's operations were normal, the report said. According to preliminary information, Ahmedabad Air Traffic Control received an emergency signal from the aircraft for a few seconds around 9 am (0330GMT). The pilot reportedly activated Squawk 7500, an internationally recognised transponder code used to discreetly alert air traffic control to a hijacking or unlawful interference with an aircraft. Airport management said all passengers aboard the aircraft were safe and being deboarded, adding that the situa...

An Indian court ordered that two leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) be detained in jail for five days, the party and police said on Wednesday, a day after they scaled barricades to enter a historic site popular for protests and chanted ​slogans demanding the election chief's resignation. The detentions risk triggering fresh protests by youth supporters at a time ​when opposition groups and student bodies are holding almost daily demonstrations to demand commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's ⁠resignation over voter list revisions that critics say favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Election Commission has ​denied favouring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol, while the BJP has accused rivals of trying to ​undermine democracy by wrongly questioning legitimate electoral processes. CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were among about a dozen people who jumped barricades on Tuesday to enter the grounds...

French investigators on Tuesday were hunting the hackers ​who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a cyberattack that underlined the vulnerabilities of connected systems, ‌with no group publicly claiming responsibility. The absence of a claim of responsibility by hacktivists or a ransom demand by cybercriminals has puzzled investigators, according to a source with knowledge of the probe. Typically, such groups tend to quickly seek to monetise their hacks or claim credit for them for ​political ends. The cyberattack, which manually overrode the temperatures at fridges in supermarket groups including Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarche and Cooperative ​U, appears to have been easy to pull off, three cyber experts told Reuters. Staff at some ⁠Paris supermarkets threw boxes full of perished meat and frozen goods into giant trash containers on Tuesday. At least 350 ​supermarkets — a small fraction of the total number in France - were caught up in the...

Yemeni government forces carried out nine airstrikes on Tuesday targeting Houthi fighters and military equipment in the southwestern Taiz province as escalation continues to rage across the country, according to the army. The Taiz Military Axis Media Centre said warplanes belonging to the Yemeni armed forces carried out five strikes in the Al-Dhabab area and four others in Al-Misrakh district. The strikes targeted Houthi personnel and military equipment, the centre said. It added that clashes were also ongoing between government forces and Houthi fighters on the Al-Shaqab front south of Taiz. The military did not provide details on casualties or damage. Meanwhile, the Taiz office of Yemen’s Human Rights Ministry said in a statement late on Monday that six civilians, including a girl, were killed and others were injured in Houthi shelling that struck densely populated villages in rural Taiz on Sunday. Read: Saudi warning system stayed silent before deadly airport att...

North Korea said Tuesday it successfully tested a tactical ballistic missile to verify a technological upgrade to a key component, claiming the development could significantly improve its offensive weapons systems, according to state media. The country's Missile Administration conducted the test a day earlier as part of ongoing efforts to modernise its missile technology, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. U.S. Pacific Command Statement on DPRK Missile Launches The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea launched two ballistic missiles on October 12, 2026 (KST). We are aware of the missile launches and are consulting closely with our allies and partners. Based on current… pic.twitter.com/mvdhTcD3fs — U.S. Pacific Command (@USPACOM) October 12, 2026 The administration described the upgrade as a “big success,” saying it would bring an important change in improving the performance and sophistication of offensive weapons sy...

One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack ​Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300. Saudi-led coalition forces in ‌Yemen said an unidentified projectile had targeted Riyadh's international airport Terminal 4 on Sunday, causing a fire. A Pakistani resident was killed and eleven people were wounded, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. #Statement | Follow-up on the attack targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.#GACA pic.twitter.com/L7aaMrvj9P — هيئة الطيران المدني (@ksagaca) October 11, 2026 Coalition forces also said Saudi air defences had intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of King Khalid International Airport. They later added that a drone had been intercepted and destroyed in the country's Eastern Province, and a ballistic missile launched towards Khami...