Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 21 September 2026. These are the top five stories making headlines in sports.
Baku hosts its 10th Formula 1 race on 26 September, with the Baku City Circuit once again transforming the capital's streets into one of the calendar's most demanding tracks. The biggest challenge remains Turn 8, which runs alongside the Old City walls and is just 7.6 metres wide, the narrowest point on the entire F1 calendar. Building the temporary circuit is a major logistical undertaking: more than 1,400 local engineers, technicians and logistics workers install and dismantle the infrastructure, with grandstands now going up in 12 weeks and the track itself in around five, according to Subhan Manafzade, Manager of the Venue Delivery Department at Baku City Circuit.
Uzbekistan's national team enters camp on 21 September under Head Coach Fabio Cannavaro. The side faces Iran on 24 September, Syria on 1 October, and South Korea on 6 October. The fixtures offer a gauge of where Uzbekistan stands against Asian heavyweights as the team builds toward its next major qualifying cycle.
The 20th Asian Games opened in Aichi-Nagoya, central Japan, on 19 September and runs until 4 October. The event brings together roughly 11,000 athletes from across the continent. The build-up was overshadowed by organisational complaints, including accommodation shortages given the size of the delegations. Japan is hosting for the third time, following Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. Padel makes its medal sport debut at these Games.
Uzbekistan's men’s first team has won all five of its matches so far at the international Chess Olympiad, which is being hosted on home soil in Samarkand. The perfect record puts the host nation in first place, just ahead of traditional powerhouses India and Germany. Uzbekistan’s women’s team drew 2–2 with the U.S. and is in sixth place.
Azerbaijan's senior team plays a friendly against Tajikistan on 23 September at home in Baku, a warm-up before a busy UEFA Nations League stretch: away to Lithuania on 27 September, then home to Liechtenstein and Lithuania again in October.
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The explosion at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday afternoon killed at least 12 people and injured a further 309, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority. The airport remains closed until further notice.
Yemen's Houthis renewed warning to airlines, airport workers, and travellers against using Saudi airports, saying the warning should be taken seriously and that the kingdom “bore responsibility for failed interceptions”, a day after an attack on Riyadh's international airport that killed 12 people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed surprise after Donald Trump mediated the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement in 2025, the U.S. President said at a rally in New York state on Friday.
The United Nations has condemned a sharp rise in attacks on civilians in Ukraine, reporting that more than 100 people were killed and at least 429 injured in a single week as Russian strikes hit residential areas, passenger buses and critical infrastructure.
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday (9 October) escalating tensions with European allies and potentially targeting companies that provide services to the tribunal. The move came hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ukraine is ready to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow also halts strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
Air France has reportedly informed its pilots and cabin crew of new Israeli restrictions preventing employees holding certain nationalities, including dual nationals, from operating flights to Israel, according to an investigation published by French outlet Mediapart on Saturday.
Nepali authorities urged villagers on Sunday (11 October) to move to safer places after a flood in a river in the central part of the country swept away several houses and infrastructure, but there were no reports of any casualties.
France’s internal police watchdog (IGPN) is investigating 24 cases linked to student protests across the country, including an incident in which a 14-year-old boy suffered a broken jaw and shattered teeth after allegedly being struck by a police projectile.
Pope Leo XIV renewed his condemnation of the death penalty on Saturday (10 October), saying it violated the sanctity of human life and denied people the chance of redemption, days after the Pentagon announced plans to livestream a U.S. military execution.
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