Key Points and Summary – Moscow faced its third drone barrage this week, forcing three of its busiest airports—Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky—to temporarily halt all flights for safety. -Moscow’s mayor claimed 34 drones were intercepted over the weekend alone.

Russia launched a fresh wave of overnight drone strikes on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy near the Russian border, injuring at least 11 people, including four children, local officials said Friday morning.

Ukraine accuses Russia of "systematic energy terror" as the global atomic energy watchdog warns Moscow's latest strikes jeopardize nuclear plants' safety.

German newspaper Die Welt's chief reporter Ibrahim Naber and his team came under a Russian Lancet drone attack while working in eastern Ukraine on Oct. 13, injuring him and two other crew members.

A third person was injured when a drone fired a missile in the southern town of Harouf, NNA said. Another Israeli strike was reported in Labouneh in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, about 200 meters from a Lebanese army post.

Pakistan has reportedly admitted to having a deal with a foreign country permitting drone strikes in Afghanistan, saying it cannot halt them due to the agreement’s binding nature. The revelation came amid high-level peace talks in Istanbul.

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