Prosecutors allege that the 50-year-old led a team of divers and an explosives expert who planted charges on the pipelines in 2022. His lawyers argue the pipelines were legitimate military targets and ask the court to halt the case.
A Saudi Energy Ministry statement confirmed a limited fire at an Aramco building in Dhahran, while debris from intercepted missiles injured four people in Riyadh.
Overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people across Ukraine and cut power in several Kyiv districts, while Russian air defences said they repelled 180 drones aimed at the Moscow region.
Maritime security sources say the Singapore-flagged container ship GFS Pride sank after a projectile hit, and the dry-cargo ship Cape Dao is also going down near the strait.
Ukrainian forces lost connectivity on Starlink terminals moving faster than 160 km/h, and officials say no warning was given. Whether Washington requested the limit remains unconfirmed.
A Russian jet drone struck a wholesale store in Lutsk, about 80 km from the Polish border, on 14 October. Ukrainian authorities put the death toll at six, with 12 people injured, while Kyiv reported five dead the same day.
Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed a fire at a Starlink facility near Sofia on Wednesday, 14 October, and declined to give details while the investigation runs. The incident follows an arson attack on a Starlink ground station near Warsaw on 23 September.
The Chamber approved the majority's two resolutions ahead of the 15-16 October European Council, while opposition parties stayed united against the government but split over Ukraine and sat out the vote.
The European Commission paid the sum from its €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan on Wednesday, 14 October, as Kyiv prepares for a fourth winter of war. A further €168.2 million went to missile and drone producers in the EU.
Ukraine's army says its Starlink connection cuts out when drones fly faster than 160 km/h, a limit soldiers say they were never warned about.
The Landtag adopted the AfD and BSW motion in a special session in Magdeburg on Wednesday, 14 October, as CDU, SPD, Greens and Left voted against.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs on Monday, 12 October, that the suspected plot against RAF Fairford was highly likely coordinated in Iran. Seven men have been arrested and all released on bail without charge, while Iran denies any involvement and 29 countries condemned Tehran.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte made the call at a press conference in Tallinn, Estonia, as Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine before winter. Overnight Russian strikes killed at least seven people and left 600,000 without electricity.
Romania's Ministry of National Defence said a target briefly entered Romanian airspace east of Sulina on Wednesday, 14 October, before Ukrainian air defence shot it down. RO-Alert warnings went out to residents of northern Tulcea county.
Former president Joseph Kabila, sentenced to death in absentia a year earlier, has been named leader of a new movement that replaces the AFC/M23 alliance in eastern Congo.
The Malta-flagged Chelsea 3, Ukrainian-owned, was hit by three drones about 18 nautical miles off Bulgaria's coast, and a second vessel sank in the same area, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Tuesday, 13 October. All 15 crew of the Chelsea 3 were rescued.
Iran hanged Ali-Sina Mostafavi on Wednesday, 14 October, after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for armed attacks in Kerman, judiciary-linked agency Mizan reported.
Defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced the formation during drone operator training at Nowy Glinnik in the Łódzkie region on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. The unit is meant to support the Polish army if a conflict breaks out.
Yandex said its Vladimir facility is fully offline and running in emergency mode, while taxi, delivery and voice-assistant services are disrupted across Russia.
Two strikes on King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft on Thursday killed three Saudi citizens, including a pilot. EASA extended its advisory against operating in Saudi airspace on Friday, and Lufthansa Group suspended Riyadh flights through 16 October.
Prosecutors have not said which material was shared or with whom, while Spiegel reports Hanning had longstanding contacts with a former senior Chinese general. Allies in Europe are voicing concern over the BND's credibility.
On Monday, 12 October, BfV chief Sinan Selen said Russia may plan killings on German soil and that the threat would outlast any end to the war in Ukraine. Interior minister Alexander Dobrindt described a 'shadow war' aimed at destabilising the country.
Kim Jong Un opened a Defence Revolution Museum displaying the Hwasong-20 intercontinental missile, which Reuters describes as capable of reaching the United States. The same week, Donald Trump said he may meet Kim during a planned Asia trip in November.
Russian guided bombs hit a five-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia early on Saturday, and Ukraine's emergency service now reports 20 dead, including three children. Large-scale power outages hit Kyiv the same day.
Axios, Channel 12 and N12 report that Netanyahu and Trump discussed a joint US-Israeli operation against Iran before the midterm votes. The White House calls the report false.
One year after the Gaza truce took effect, Israeli strikes continue almost daily, the yellow line has expanded and the second phase of Trump's plan has not started.
Crowds gathered across Israel and Europe on Wednesday for the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks, while fresh bombardments killed five people in Gaza and families in Tel Aviv renewed calls for an inquiry into security failures.
Counter-terror police are investigating after two Latvian men aged 32 and 36 were found inside the perimeter of RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire in the early hours of Thursday. Police say nothing so far links the arrests to the late-September incident at RAF Fairford.
Eritrea asked the UN Security Council on Saturday to condemn what it calls Ethiopia's declaration of war, while residents of the border town Adigrat report that Ethiopian forces have taken control of it.
The carrier docked in San Diego on Thursday, 8 October, with families waiting on the pier. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had visited the flight deck the day before and praised the crew, while the Navy had acknowledged eight suicide attempts on board.
In his annual speech on 13 October 2026, MI5 director general Ken McCallum said Iran is pursuing harder targets such as military sites, and that the suspected RAF Fairford plot is not an isolated case. Tehran denies involvement.
Bulgarian authorities have ended search operations for ten missing crew members after air and naval drone strikes damaged two commercial vessels off the coast of Byala, prompting emergency security talks and EU satellite surveillance.
Turkish security sources, as reported by Anadolu, say the PKK vacated four camps in northern Iraq on 8 October. The withdrawal follows Turkey's parliament passing a conditional pardon law in August that takes effect only once disarmament is confirmed.
Saudi Arabia has halted operations at Riyadh's King Khalid airport until 17 October after a run of strikes. Saudi authorities had stopped issuing public warnings days before the attacks, and the first new alerts came on Monday, 12 October.
Airbus says a Kratos-built Valkyrie drone flew over northern Europe on 29 September, with the German Air Force targeting combat-ready units by 2029.
Counter-terrorism officers detained a 22-year-old British national in London following the evacuation of roughly 12 American B-1 bombers from the Gloucestershire airbase.
Seventeen member states will take part in the drill in Italy until 23 October, and NATO says it is routine and aimed at no country. It follows a tense exchange of letters with Moscow over August manoeuvres near Kaliningrad.
The group said it organised the armed escort during the night of 5 to 6 October and promised further sabotage against Belarus's neighbours. Latvia's interior minister described the incident as a demonstrative and aggressive provocation directed from the Belarusian side.
Teddy Young, 24, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday and was remanded in custody. Police did not name the foreign power the two charges relate to.
The French military launched an unarmed M51.3 ballistic missile from the submarine Le Vigilant off Brittany on Tuesday, prompting Moscow to denounce European defense policy as a dead end.