On the 15th of October 2018 the BBC reported that Yemen in facing the worst famine the world has ever known in 100 years. As many as 13 million civilians are at risk of dying from the lack of food in the war-torn country in the next three months.

Trump told CBS on the 13th of October that "We're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment," after the US Senate foreign relations committee was briefed about the mysterious disappearance of the dissident Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who appears to have been assassinated inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey.

Lately, media reports are rife with the news that oil prices will soon reach $100 a barrel and may even go higher [oilprice.com]. Trump has wade into the debate and has demanded Saudi Arabia to increase production to offset the high price of crude.

The Supreme Court of India on 26 September unanimously struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code that made adultery a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison. The colonial era law punishes a man for an extra-marital affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's property.