‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary

• President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week during the United Nations General Assembly to discuss postwar strategy for the region. • U.S. officials also met over the weekend with representatives of Yemen's Ansar Allah, known as the Houthis.

• A Saudi-led coalition shot down a Houthi drone near Mecca on Tuesday amid ongoing regional instability. • The United States embassy issued a travel advisory urging citizens to reconsider traveling to Saudi Arabia following alerts in Mecca and other areas.

• UN Secretary-General António Guterres released a report on September 16, 2026, detailing reprisals against human rights activists across 32 countries. • The International Maritime Organization chief called for an immediate end to attacks targeting seafarers and merchant ships.

• World leaders will gather in New York starting Tuesday for several days of high-level debate at the United Nations General Assembly. • Diplomats indicate there will likely be a high-level meeting on the sidelines regarding the conflict in Sudan.

• The BRICS grouping adopted a joint declaration by consensus on September 12 after back-channel negotiations resolved disputes between Iran and the UAE. • The agreement overcame sharp divisions regarding the conflict in West Asia to reach a unified diplomatic position.

• A building collapse in Gaza killed at least 21 people, including 12 children, amid widening Middle East conflicts. • The tragedy occurred alongside diplomatic stalemates in Cairo and delayed security talks in Oman.

• Yemen's Houthi movement evolved from a local Zaydi Shi'ite revivalist group in the 1990s into a heavily armed force capable of striking regional targets. • The group expanded its reach along the Red Sea coast to threaten the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical global maritime chokepoint.

• Iran-backed groups attacked a major Saudi oil pipeline, forcing the facility to shut down. • Social media platforms have seen a surge of old and repurposed videos falsely presented as current footage from the Houthi-Saudi front lines.

• Member states are meeting at the U.N. General Assembly to address global food crises and humanitarian diplomacy amid ongoing financial shortfalls and political tensions. • The session on realigning global food action is scheduled to last only 75 minutes.

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were torturedThis article contains descriptions of torture.A US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced a former Syrian government official who ran one of the country’s most infamous prisons to 60 years in prison on Thursday – the most significant punishment handed to an official of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s regime by a foreign court and to a defendant present in person. Continue reading...

Government spending watchdog warns of price of keeping publicly owned firm in businessLabour has been urged to lay out a credible plan for the future of British Steel, as the government spending watchdog warned of the “startling” costs of keeping the struggling manufacturer in business with no end in sight.British Steel was taken into public ownership in July to protect “the future of steel production”, 15 months after the government stepped in to prevent the closure of its steelworks in Scunthorpe and the loss of 4,000 jobs. Continue reading...