The Rest of the World Report | October 9, 2026 — Morning Edition

Weekday morning and evening editions. Saturdays once. Good news on Sundays. All sources labeled. *I will never put the news behind a paywall. If you want to support keeping it free for everyone else, there’s a paid option. That’s all it is.* ICE SHOOTING IN MARBLE HILL U.S. immigration agents shot and wounded a man in his car on Thursday with a 5-year-old child present. The shooting happened at around 4 p.m. Eastern in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City. The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx. Their alleged aim was to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction. The department said an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the man was injured. It said he is alive at a local hospital. Mayor Mamdani said early reports indicate agents surrounded the man and the child before firing multiple rounds. He said the child was believed to be physically unharmed. He called it an “unconscionable and incredibly serious situation.” He wants all ICE enforcement actions in the city to end. A witness said he heard shots and went outside. He saw three or four cars and several officers in ICE attire. He said the man appeared to be between 20 and 30 years old. He said police arrived about ten minutes later. He said the man was removed from the car only after an ambulance arrived. 🇺🇸 **What American readers need to know:** Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since President Donald Trump returned to office. Seven of them died. *Sources:* Spokesman-Review *(U.S. regional newspaper; Reuters copy; location, DHS statement, Mamdani, witness, shooting count)* 81 AIRCRAFT LOST IN IRAN WAR A Congressional Research Service report says 81 U.S. aircraft have been destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran. The report was released this week. It puts the total cost of the aircraft between $1.9 billion and $3.3 billion. It cites figures from the Congressional Budget Office for the cost. The MQ-9 Reaper drone accounts for more than half of the losses. The list also includes an F-35A fighter jet and an E-3 Sentry, the radar-domed surveillance plane. Some of the aircraft in the count may have been returned to service. 🇺🇸 **What American readers need to know:** The Congressional Budget Office put the top of that range, $3.3 billion, at the cost of replacing all the lost equipment. That assumes the Pentagon sought emergency funding. *Sources:* NewsChannel 5 *(U.S. local television; CNN Wire copy; aircraft count, cost range, MQ-9 share, return to service)*; Military Times *(U.S. defense trade publication; CBO range and emergency-funding condition)* FIRING SQUAD, LIVESTREAMED The Pentagon said Thursday that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed. Hasan is a former Army psychiatrist. He killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. A military jury sentenced him to death in 2013. The Army says the execution will take place at Fort Hood on December 3. It would be the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. military since 1945. The last U.S. military execution of any kind was in 1961, by hanging. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed for the firing squad. He told a conservative media outlet this week that he wants the public to be able to watch. Asked about any final requests from Hasan, he said, “We’ll see him on Dec. 3.” Eugene Fidell is a military law expert who lectures at Yale Law School. He said that as far as he knew, livestreaming an execution would be unprecedented. He said Hasan would need to sue in federal court to block it. Amnesty International knew of at least 17 public executions in 2025. Eleven were in Iran and six were in Afghanistan. 🌍 **Translator’s Note:** RTÉ, Ireland’s public broadcaster, framed the story by what other countries do. It reported that experts know of no other internationally recognised state that televises or livestreams a legal execution. It named Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan as countries known to have held public executions in recent years. It also set the plan against Ireland’s own record. Executions there were carried out on prison grounds, and the last was in 1954. 🇺🇸 **What American readers need to know:** Experts say the last legally sanctioned public execution in the United States was in 1936. *Sources:* MPR News *(U.S. public radio; AP copy; livestream, date, Amnesty count, 1961 execution, Hegseth)*; RTÉ *(Ireland, public broadcaster; Fidell, 1945 and 1936 dates, other countries, Irish record)* BRIEFS **Saudi Arabia says three died in Thursday’s Houthi attacks.** Saudi authorities said Friday that three people were killed, one of them a Saudia Airlines employee. Many airlines canceled flights to Riyadh, and air traffic has since returned to normal. The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed three missile launch platforms used by the Houthis. *Sources:* Investing.com *(U.S.-based financial site; Reuters copy; toll, Saudia employee, flights, coalition)* **Most of Kyiv lost power Thursday night.** Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday’s Russian drone strikes killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, up from earlier reports. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said an energy facility important to the city was attacked. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Ukrainian delegation will meet U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the United States on Friday. They will discuss an energy and Black Sea ceasefire. *Sources:* Kyiv Independent *(Ukraine; outages, Shmyhal, Klitschko toll)*; Kyiv Independent *(Ukraine; delegation, Witkoff and Kushner)* **Witnesses report Eritrean soldiers in Tigray.** Two residents of Adigrat, in Tigray, said they saw trucks carrying dozens of Eritrean soldiers drive through the town on Wednesday morning. The accounts could not be independently verified. Eritrea’s information minister, Yemane Gebremeskel, denied Eritrean forces were there. He called the accounts “part of an Ethiopian plan to justify a war of aggression against its smaller neighbour.” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday that landlocked Ethiopia must have access to the Red Sea. *Sources:* The Star *(Malaysia; Reuters copy; Adigrat witnesses, Eritrean denial)*; ABC News *(U.S. television network; AP copy; Abiy on Red Sea)* **New York Fed: tariffs added 2.9 points to goods inflation.** By February 2026, tariffs had added 2.9 percentage points to goods price inflation. Without them, goods prices would have fallen slightly, the authors wrote. Economists Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise and David Weinstein published the analysis this week. Their sample is 67 non-oil goods categories. *Sources:* Liberty Street Economics *(U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York research blog; Amiti, Heise, Weinstein)* **NUMBERS AT PUBLICATION** 🇮🇷 Iran: 3,684 killed 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 4,386 killed, 12,413 wounded 🇮🇱 Israel: 1,200+ killed, ~5,400 wounded 🇺🇸 US military: 23 killed, 861 wounded 🇵🇸 Gaza: 74,412+ killed, 5,060+ wounded (since ceasefire) 🇵🇸 West Bank: 322 killed (incl. 74 children), 5,927 wounded (incl. 946 children) since January 2025 🛢️ Brent crude: $102.80/barrel ⛽ US gas: $4.37/gallon Sources: Lebanon MOPH; gazacasualties.org (Gaza total); oilprice.com (Brent); AAA (US gas). “Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Get full access to The Rest of the World Report at www.restoftheworldreport.com/subscribe