Bareilly suspended internet services, including mobile data and broadband, from October 2 to October 4, fearing unrest during Friday prayers. This precaution follows last week’s clashes over an ‘I Love Muhammad’ procession, which led to over 80 arrests, including prominent cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan. Security remains heavily deployed across the division.

President Donald Trump has determined the United States is engaged in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, according to a document notifying Congress of its legal justification for deadly U.S. strikes on boats off Venezuela.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield.