UNICEF says that 10,000 children have been either killed or injured in Yemen since Saudi Arabia started bombing the country in 2015 in reaction to the IslamistHouthis' ousting of the government. This equates to an average of four children killed or injured every day since the start of the conflict. (Reuters)
MoscowMayorSergei Sobyanin announces a stay-at-home order for unvaccinated or unrecovered people age 60 years and older for four months and ordering businesses to shift 30% of their workers to remote work beginning from October 25 due to record 1,015 deaths in Russia over the past 24 hours. (CBC)
United Kingdom reports 233 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of daily deaths since March 3. (Inews.co.uk)
Singapore reports a record 3,994 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 154,725. (Today)