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Houthis attacked the international airport in the southern Yemeni town of Aden with ballistic ​missiles and explosive-laden drones early on Wednesday, Yemen's Transport Ministry said, as fighting intensified across several fronts between the ‌Iran-aligned group and Saudi-backed government forces.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Republic of Armenia, Florian Escudier.

European health authorities are closely following the suspected plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia. The European Commission and member states are set to discuss the matter on Wednesday morning.

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance on Monday to retake the coast around ​the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha, the government said, pushing the Iran-backed Houthis out of most of the areas they seized last month.

A passing ferry found only an overturned lifeboat and life jackets at the scene, while two injured sailors from a second vessel are being rushed to hospital in Varna.

Armenian representatives participated in the regular meeting of the Council of Heads of Migration Agencies of the CIS Member States in St. Petersburg, presenting the migration situation in Armenia and the latest developments in the sector.

Students are demanding the government address issues they view as critical to their education, including upgrading classroom facilities, ensuring schools in less economically affluent areas are not disadvantaged, as well as reforms to the school system and the long hours pupils spend in schools.

In a new deadly incident in the Black Sea, a drone strike sank a Turkish cargo ship killing two sailors, while 11 others were rescued. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has blamed Russia, stating it "consistently chooses terror".

Official meetings of Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ararat Mirzoyan, have begun in Tehran.

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

Another day of mobilisation is planned for Tuesday. By then, 400 to 500 secondary schools are expected to remain fully or partially closed, including 24 that have been “burned or vandalised”. The ministry also reports that 78 education staff have been injured since the movement began.

Ararat Mirzoyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Armenia, will pay an official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran on October 4–5. This was reported by the Ministry.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday. Accompanied by Economy Minister Katherina Reiche and representatives of German defence and energy companies, he aims to pledge further military and financial support for Ukraine.

The eviction of an 87-year-old woman has turned anger over rents that have nearly doubled in ten years into a threat to Pedro Sánchez's minority government.

The driver has been identified as an 18-year-old man who is said to have been "revving" when he lost control of his car.