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At least 12 people, including four Saudi nationals, two Bangladeshi, one American, one Egyptian, one Argentinean, one Syrian, one Palestinian and one Sudanese, were killed and 309 wounded on Saturday in the attack on Riyadh airport. The Saudi-led military coalition accused the Yemeni Houthis of being responsible.
Yemen's pro-Iranian Houthis renewed on Sunday their appeal to travellers, employees and all airlines not to use Saudi airports, threatening them with further strikes following a deadly attack at Riyadh airport. Follow our direct.
The Saudi-led coalition announced Saturday that it was conducting a "large-scale operation" against the Houthis. A media affiliated with the pro-Iranian rebels reported attacks in north-western Yemen.
Three years after the October 7 attack and on the eve of decisive elections for the Hebrew state, Israeli society is still traumatized and partly deaf to the war that Benjamin Netanyahu's government is leading in retaliation for Hamas' attack in the Gaza Strip. A conflict that has since spread throughout the Middle East region.
After several weeks of setbacks against the Houthis, the Yemeni government forces are trying to resume the initiative against the pro-Iranian rebels. Supported by Saudi aviation, they say they launched a "strategic" counter-offensive during the weekend. They even claim advances on several fronts, which the Shiite rebels deny.
Israel commemorated on Wednesday the Hamas attacks on its territory on 7 October 2023, the memory of which weighs on the campaign of the general elections. Civilians and relatives of the victims gathered on the site of the Nova Electronic Music Festival, where 348 young people had been executed by Hamas, but also in Tel Aviv.
Three years after Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu played his political survival as he approached the legislature at the end of the month. Accused of ignoring warnings before the massacre and refusing any independent investigation, Benjamin Netanyahu sees his electoral base stand still.
Israel pays tribute on Wednesday to the victims of Hamas' terrorist attack three years ago. Ceremonies are planned throughout the day throughout the country. Elections will be held in Israel on 27 October, the first since the Hamas massacre and the war waged by the Hebrew state in Gaza. Follow our direct.
Several ceremonies are held this Wednesday in Israel, three years after the October 7 attacks. At dawn, mourners observed a minute of silence at sites in the south of the country that Hamas stormed in 2023. These commemorations take place in a state of heightened alert, three weeks from the parliamentary elections.
On the eve of the 7 October commemorations, the Israeli Defense Minister said on Tuesday that he had asked the Israeli army to increase its level of vigilance and to stand ready for "any possible scenario" in the Gaza Strip in the event of a Hamas attack.
The Houthis claimed on Monday strikes at Riyadh International Airport, an Aramco oil refinery and sites in southern Saudi Arabia. Activating their mutual defence pact, Turkey and Pakistan announce the deployment of military personnel to the kingdom. On the other hand, Yemeni forces are launching a counter-offensive on Sanaa.
The Yemeni government announced on Monday that it had conducted an offensive to recapture the entire country to the pro-Iranian Houthis fighters. The latter cut off a key axis linking Taëz, a large southwestern city that they now surround, in Aden, where the internationally recognized government sits. The Saudi-led coalition announced its support.
A look back at the highlights of last week's news and its most striking images: the movement to block high schools and universities marked by violence, a Flydubai flight stolen from Saudi Arabia after the pilot was attacked by his co-pilot, but also the floods in Bangkok.
The head of the Yemeni Presidential Council, Rachad al-Alimi, announced on Sunday the launch of an offensive to recapture the entire country in the Houthis, which intensified their attacks. On the same day, the pro-Iranian rebels cut off a vital axis from Taez to Aden. They are now encircling this great city in the southwest.
Zara Esmaeili sang for about ten years in the streets of Tehran, in violation of the ban on women performing in public. Arrested in July 2024, detained and sentenced to 61 lashes and 4 years of suspended prison, this thirty-year-old fled Iran and lives in exile in France.
To vote in the 27 October parliamentary elections, Israelis living abroad have no choice but to go to Israel. With the price of the plane tickets that explodes, some sacrifice holidays, trips and family reunions to participate in an election that they consider decisive for the future of the country. Testimonies of Israelis living in Paris.
The Yemeni Houthis claimed to have targeted on Saturday a site of the oil giant Aramco in Riyadh, from which flames have risen. Shortly before that, he charged the Saudi army with 26 air raids on Sana'a, the capital of Yemen they controlled.
The Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing his captain on a Flydubai flight on 30 September attempted to carry out a "terrorist" attack, according to the UAE Attorney General. The man reportedly attacked the pilot with an axe in the cockpit and attempted to take control of the aircraft.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Friday to "pay a high price" to possible sponsors of the attack on Flydubai flight. According to him, the co-pilot "intended to crash the aircraft with his passengers".
A fake BBC report generated by IA and based on a hijacked video wrongly claims that Indian agents are responsible for the hijacking of Flydubai's robbery.
