Footage shows a Turkish C-130 Hercules military cargo plane spiraling out of control, leaving a trail of white smoke before crashing near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border. Twenty people were aboard, although the exact death toll is unconfirmed.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels seem to have indirectly confirmed they have stopped their attacks on Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza continues to hold.
The Houthis have carried out a military campaign of attacking ships through the Red Sea corridor in what they describe as solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
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The group has launched numerous attacks on vessels in the Red Sea since late 2023, targeting ships they deem linked to Israel or its supporters.
However, in an undated letter to Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, recently published online, the Houthis have indicated that they have halted their attacks. The group has not formally announced it has ceased attacking ships in the region.
“We are closely monitoring developments and declare that if the enemy resumes its aggression against Gaza, we will return to our military operations deep inside the Zionist entity [Israel], and we will reinstate the ban on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas,” the letter from Yusuf Hassan al-Madani, the Houthi armed forces’ chief of staff, reads.
A shaky United States-brokered ceasefire took effect in Gaza on October 10. Israel has repeatedly violated the brokered deal, killing more than 240 Palestinians in continued strikes on Gaza. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 69,182 Palestinians and wounded more than 170,700 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
The Houthis’ maritime campaign has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk, disrupting shipping in the Red Sea, through which about $1 trillion of goods passed each year before the war.
The attacks greatly disrupted transits through Egypt’s Suez Canal, which links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. The canal remains one of the top providers of hard currency for Egypt, providing it $10bn in 2023 as its wider economy struggles. The International Monetary Fund in July said the Houthi attacks “reduced foreign exchange inflows from the Suez Canal by $6bn in 2024”.
More recently, Yemen’s Houthi authorities detained dozens of United Nations employees after raiding a UN-run facility in the capital Sanaa, the UN confirmed in late October. The Houthis have alleged that the detained UN staff have spied for Israel or had links to an Israeli air strike that killed Yemen’s prime minister, without providing much evidence. The UN has strenuously denied the accusations.
The UN said at the end of October that a total of 36 UN employees were arrested after Israel’s attack. It says that at least 59 UN personnel are being held by the group.
On October 31, Houthi officials said the government would put dozens of the detained UN staff – who are Yemenis and could face the death penalty under the nation’s laws – on trial.
A Turkish military plane with at least 20 people on board has crashed in Georgia close to the border with Azerbaijan, Turkiye’s Defence Ministry has said.
There were no immediate reports on the number of casualties or the cause of the accident involving a C-130 cargo plane, which had taken off from the Azerbaijani city of Ganja on Tuesday.
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However, both Turkiye and Azerbaijan, which are close allies, have indicated that there have been fatalities.
Turkiye’s Defence Ministry said 20 Turkish personnel, including flight crew, were on the C-130 plane, but did not mention possible passengers of other nationalities.
Local media said that Azerbaijani personnel were also travelling on the United States-made aircraft, which was heading back to Turkiye when it crashed.
Dramatic footage published by Azerbaijani media appeared to show the aircraft sending a large cloud of black smoke into the sky after it hit the ground.
Turkiye’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said his Georgian counterpart, Gela Geladze, arrived at the scene at around 5pm local time (14:00 GMT). Search and rescue operations were ongoing, he added.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said he was “deeply saddened” by the crash, expressed his condolences to those who had been killed.
“We are deeply shocked by the news of the loss of life of our soldiers in the accident that occurred on Georgian soil,” said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, according to Turkiye’s state-run Anadolu Agency.
The plane went down in the Sighnaghi area of the Kakheti region about 5km (3.1 miles) from the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, the Georgian interior minister confirmed.
Meanwhile, the country’s Sakaeronavigatsia air traffic control service said the aircraft disappeared from radar soon after entering the country’s airspace. It sent no distress signal prior to the crash, it added.
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A court in the Netherlands has ruled imprisoned Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash can be extradited to Austria, after he fled the country earlier this year, claiming Austrian authorities raided his home and abused his pregnant wife.
Ayyash, the founder of the news site Gaza Now, escaped to Austria after he lost relatives during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. He had been living in Austria since 2016, but says he was forced to flee to the Netherlands after Austrian authorities raided his house and physically abused his pregnant wife.
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“He was actually in Gaza when the house of his family was bombed, and they think, his relatives believe, that he was actually targeted as a journalist for doing his job,” Al Jazeera’s Step Vassen reported from Amsterdam following the Dutch court’s ruling. “Many of his family members passed away.”
Austria has accused Ayyash of financing Hamas after Gaza Now asked for donations for humanitarian efforts in Gaza. United States and United Kingdom authorities also sanctioned Gaza Now in 2024 over its fundraising efforts, accusing the media site of “having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Hamas.”
Ayyash has been imprisoned in the Netherlands since September 19. A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday that Austrian authorities had presented enough evidence to justify Ayyash’s extradition. However, judges in Amsterdam did not rule on whether or not Ayyash was guilty of the charges.
Ayyash has denied the accusations. If convicted for “terrorism” in Austria he could face up to 10 years in prison.
In his fight against extradition, Ayyash’s lawyer cited his deteriorating mental health, noting that the journalist is currently being housed in the psychiatric ward of the prison where he is being held.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed nearly 300 journalists and media workers, including 10 from Al Jazeera, as of October 10, 2025. Israel has long repeated unfounded claims that the journalists it has attacked are members of Hamas to justify those strikes.
Israel is returning hundreds of Palestinians bodies to Gaza, but without names or identifying records. Rasmia Khalil is one of many inspecting the unrecognisable bodies—often showing signs of torture—in the hope of identifying loved ones.