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Why are Yemen's Houthis targeting Riyadh's airport?

A series of Houthi missile and drone strikes against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has killed over a dozen people, wounded hundreds, and disrupted regional air traffic. The assaults follow the breakdown of an informal truce and have prompted warnings of military retaliation from both Saudi Arabia and the United States.

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‘It was a terrible thing’: Panama declares state of emergency as quake aftershocks rattle communities

More than 100 aftershocks as high as magnitude-5.8 recorded after two quakes toppled buildings and prompted evacuations Panama’s government has declared a state of emergency on Saturday as the aftershocks of two powerful earthquakes that roiled the country shook communities for hours. Officials did not attribute any deaths to Friday’s 7.7- and 6.6-magnitude earthquakes, but reported damages in all 10 of Panama’s provinces and two Indigenous territories. Continue reading...

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​Eritrea urges UN security council to impose chapter VII sanctions on Ethiopia

Eritrea has formally petitioned the United Nations Security Council to forcefully condemn Ethiopia and impose binding deterrent measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, describing recent diplomatic and military maneuvers by Addis Ababa as an imminent threat to regional peace. The diplomatic standoff intensified following a communication submitted to the UN Security Council on […]

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Iran says US response to its proposal to reopen Hormuz was 'insufficient'

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The United States' response to Iran's seven conditions in a proposal to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz was "insufficient", Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, was quoted by state media on Sunday as saying. Iran presented a proposal during the UN General Assembly under which the Strait of Hormuz waterway could be reopened and normal maritime passage restored within seven days if the conditions were met, to which the US later replied via Qatari intermediaries.

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Poland probes suspected assassination attempts on PM, defence minister

Poland’s interior ministry said on Sunday that the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz may have been targeted by assassination attempts. A “report about a potential assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as well as on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, was transmitted to the police via the State Protection Service (SOP)”, interior spokeswoman Karolina Galecka said at a press...

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Russian strike kills at least 33 in eastern Ukraine in deadliest single attack this year

Kyiv, Ukraine —  At least 33 people were killed on Thursday when a Russian strike caused two public buses to catch fire in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, making it the deadliest single attack this year. Another 18 people were injured in the attack in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, which prompted authorities there … The post Russian strike kills at least 33 in eastern Ukraine in deadliest single attack this year appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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At least 109 dead including children after migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti

More than 116 others still missing from vessel that was heading to Yemen with 350 people onboard, UN agency says At least 109 people, including 15 children, have died after a boat carrying 350 migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. More than 116 others remain missing after the incident, which, according to survivors, happened near Guhere, north of the fishing town of Obock, during the night of 8-9 October when the boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen. Continue reading...

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