On 17 October 2024, the US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller commented on the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, saying, “So the United States respects each country’s sovereign right to associate in groupings of its own choosing.

“Satellite images of a target on Tuesday—the Nevatim air base in southern ‘Israel’, home to its F-35 jet fighters—show that as many as 32 Iranian missiles managed to land within the base’s perimeter...

More than 12 hours after most people in the Muslim world watched the horrific scene of at least one Palestinian burning alive where he had been sleeping at Gaza’s al-Aqsa hospital, CNN had no mention of the event on its page titled: “Israel and the Israel-Hamas war”.

On 3 October 2024, Pakistan Today reported, “Nathan Porter, the International Monetary Fund’s mission director for Pakistan, has cautioned that the recent $7 billion bailout package could be the country’s final chance if the recommended reforms are implemented with genuine intent.”