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A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news:

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday said he told Pakistani Army Chf. Field Mar. Asim Munir that there would be no talks with the United States until Iran’s demands were met. According to an Iranian readout of the meeting, Munir also met Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who said the United States could not regain Tehran’s trust until it fulfilled seven conditions Iran set out last month for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Menna Alaa El-Din and Yasmine Ghania report for Reuters.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis today denied launching any drones towards the Saudi holy city of Medina. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen earlier said it had intercepted drones over Medina and the wider Eastern region. Nayera Abdallah reports for Reuters.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi yesterday said Iran has not received a response from Saudi Arabia or the Houthis to its offer to help broker talks to end the fighting between them. Araghchi added that any “foreign intervention [in the conflict] would complicate matters,” and said Egypt has previously told Iran it would “not directly” interfere in the Yemeni conflict. Menna Alaa El-Din and Yasmine Ghania report for Reuters.

A Turkish lawmaker from the ruling AK Party today told Reuters that Turkey will submit to parliament a mandate allowing for military personnel to be deployed to Saudi Arabia under its joint defense pact with the kingdom and Pakistan. Nevzat Devranoglu reports.

U.K. counter-terrorism police yesterday said two men have been re-arrested in connection to the incident near Royal Air Force Fairford last month. A U.K. national and dual U.K.-Iranian national are being held on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service under Section 3 of the National Security Act 2023, and the police said the investigation relates to Iran. Cachella Smith reports for BBC News.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing to resume large-scale strikes against Iran and had instructed the Israeli military to plan for a new major offensive earlier this month, sources told the Financial Times. The IDF had prepared for a multi-day bombing campaign to take place on the weekend of Oct. 10 that would have targeted civilian infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and regime targets, and would have surpassed the intensity of the joint U.S.-Israel offensive in Feb. 2026. The sources cited President Trump’s opposition to restarting any conflict before the midterms as why the mission did not go ahead. Neri Zilber reports.

Israeli strikes and gunfire in two separate incidents in Gaza yesterday killed at least four people, according to local health officials. The IDF later said that Akram Yassin, who was killed alongside his wife, was a senior official in Hamas’ general security apparatus in Gaza which was tasked with protecting senior Hamas officials, but did not comment on the two gunfire incidents, one of which killed a 17-year-old boy. Nidal al-Mughrabi reports for Reuters.

Ukrainian police today said four people were killed in overnight Russian attacks that targeted energy facilities across four regions. Two of the dead were in the capital Kyiv, while the other two were killed outside the northeastern city of Kharkiv. Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said Russia had attacked power facilities in the Kyiv, Volyn, Odesa, and Mykolaiv regions, as well as civilian enterprises in at least two other regions. Dan Peleschuk reports for Reuters.