In today’s briefing: Israel marks three years since the October 7 attack amid a mounting Gaza toll; Russia launches massive strikes on Kyiv; and the US issues a demarche to Russia over a plague-lab death in Irkutsk. Plus: a FlyDubai pilot’s heroics in a cockpit attack saved 182 lives, PTI’s long march on Islamabad amid a talks offer, and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announcement (full article pending).