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🔮 A Khamis Mushait resident told AFP he heard “intense blasts” which left fires burning for a “long time”, adding “Honestly, we couldn’t sleep at all.”
The Riyadh-led coalition confirmed on Tuesday there had been missile and drone attacks the previous day on Khamis Mushait, Abha and Taif, reporting 13 civilians wounded and damage to seven houses and two vehicles.
Saudi Arabia responded with more than 50 strikes, as it had the day before, according to the Houthis.
As attacks continue, the United Nations Security Council is due to meet to discuss the Houthis’ offensive, diplomatic sources said.
🔮 The co-defendants, who are aged between 28 and 73 and include a paramedic and former football coach, are set to stand trial at the criminal court in Manchester in the coming weeks.
🔮 Non-kinetic means could include lasers to blind satellites, or even electromagnetic or cyber jamming of their data links.
🔮 It also named Russia, another geopolitical rival, which it said "believes space supremacy will be a decisive factor in future conflicts".
🔮 U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to remove limits on climate pollution from coal and gas power plants on Monday (September 14, 2026), according to U.S. media reports.
🔮 A NATO fighter shot down a Ukrainian drone over Estonia in May, the first interception of a foreign drone in the airspace of a Baltic state by NATO's air police since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
🔮 China has seen high-profile knife attacks in recent years, including in May when three people, including two Japanese citizens, were injured in an attack at a restaurant in Shanghai.
🔮 China "develops and operates space and counterspace capabilities as part of a military modernisation strategy," while Russia "views space as a warfighting domain and believes space supremacy will be a decisive factor in future conflicts," according to the U.S. Space Force.
🔮 Despite being owned by the financial might of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, Newcastle targeted rising stars to fill the void of those that left and were outmuscled by a more experienced Leeds.
🔮 “But if our American partners succeed in securing a real readiness from Russia to stop this war of destroying lives, and to do so sincerely and for the long term, Ukraine will make its own de-escalatory steps.”
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