International news from Thursday, October 22nd, 2026

France on Thursday reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus usually found in livestock in a patient who later died, with authorities adding there was no risk to the general population at this stage.

The son of Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that he had spoken with his mother for the first time in more than five years while she remains under house arrest.

Russia pounded Kyiv with ballistic missiles and Ukraine sent hundreds of drones towards Moscow overnight as the warring sides kept up a barrage of attacks despite the latest US push to end the conflict.

Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other's citizens, the interior ministry in Rome said on Thursday, ending a three-month dispute triggered by the rush of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Companies and governments around the world raced on Thursday to patch vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language, as experts reported a surge in hacking attempts following their disclosure.

Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday as powerful Typhoon Champi approached, prompting more than 200 flight cancellations in the region and forcing changes to a major US-Japan military exercise.

Attacks on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and Aramco's Shaybah oilfield have left four civilians dead, Saudi authorities reported on Thursday.