Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Saudi minister vows 'serious response' to Houthi attacks on airports
Saudi Arabia's energy minister has vowed a "serious" response to the deadly attacks on the kingdom's airports and oil and gas facilities by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement.
"The events of recent weeks are serious. Our response must be equally serious," Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman told the WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh.
On Sunday, a Pakistani man was killed in an attack on a terminal at the capital's King Khalid International Airport, Saudi authorities said. It came a day after a Houthi missile hit another terminal, killing 13 people and forcing its closure.
The Houthis said they launched the attacks in retaliation for "brutal Saudi aggression" against areas they control in western Yemen. A Saudi-led coalition is providing air support for Yemeni pro-government forces battling the Houthis on Yemen's Red Sea coast and other areas.
Explosions were heard again in Riyadh on Monday night, with the Saudi-led military coalition saying a ballistic missile had been intercepted and destroyed. A Houthi spokesperson said the group had again targeted the airport.
Meanwhile, Qatar Airways has said it will temporarily suspend flights to Riyadh and the north-eastern city of Dammam. Etihad Airways said it had cancelled flights between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam due to "regional disruption".
King Khalid airport is expected to remain closed until Saturday. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said early on Tuesday that the Houthis had shot down what he described as a Saudi "reconnaissance drone".
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjly0zqq27e4o
On Yemen's desert battlefield, a war with global consequences is being waged
It was a journey at high speed through the desert - in a pick-up truck with armed fighters in the back. We were travelling with Yemen's pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance. Houthi rebels were dislodged from here just days ago, we were told.
When you are battling over expanses of empty desert, progress can be hard to see. But these soldiers, in Shaab-al-Jinn in Lahj governorate, showed us new sandbagged defences - new lines in the sand.
"There was heavy fighting," said Tawfiq Al Haboun, a bearded commander in camouflage uniform. "They have snipers, artillery and ballistic missile launchers." Here in the far corners of the Middle East, a war is being waged with global implications.
Yemen's entrenched civil war is now impossible to ignore. It's part of a wider conflict, stretching from Tehran to Riyadh, where missiles slammed into the international airport this weekend. Yemen's Houthi fighters – already a threat to global shipping – are an increasing threat to Saudi Arabia. And they provide leverage for their backers in Iran, Saudi's regional rival.
Tawfiq Al Haboun pointed to shards of fibre glass and bits of metal at his feet – part of a downed Houthi drone that he said was carrying C4 explosives.
Commander Al Haboun is from the Southern Forces, part of the loose – very loose – alliance of groups fighting for Yemen's government, which is internationally recognised, and backed by Saudi Arabia and its air strikes.
The Houthis swept into the capital, Sanaa, in 2014, ousting the government. A year later a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states intervened, trying to dislodge the Houthis. Despite years of devastating air strikes, that hasn't worked.
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5m2dn7zz4nyo
Six Ukrainian energy sites hit by Russia since Trump announced ceasefire, Zelensky says
Russia struck six Ukrainian energy facilities hours after US President Donald Trump announced the two countries had agreed to an energy ceasefire, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Despite Trump stating on Sunday the truce would be "effective immediately", the Ukrainian president said Russia had hit "our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities".
There were blackouts in the city of Izyum after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, Ukraine's state news agency Ukrinform said, while energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine was also targeted overnight.
On Monday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine does not deserve the "respite" a ceasefire would bring.
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvlyd4pdlwkxo
Russia's offensive ability is broken, Kyiv's former top general says
Ukraine has stabilised the front line and "broken Russia's ability to advance" by killing so many of its men, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief has said.
Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi made the comments in an exclusive interview, his first since he was dramatically forced from his post in the summer.
He addressed his sacking, disagreeing with his critics who declared him too "old school" to command Ukraine's new, technologically advanced forces.
He also pushed back against allegations made by soldiers who previously served under him, who told the BBC they were ordered to remain at their positions even when they were almost surrounded by Russians, leading to high losses.
Syrskyi said that Moscow's overall losses in the war were six times higher than Ukraine's. "If you count only dead, then it's up to 11 times," he added.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine officially release the numbers of their dead. Ukraine's military says it inflicted record losses this year on Russian soldiers in September, although that cannot be verified.
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9y7lgg2vdggo
Monday, 12 October 2026
Iran War Prevented a Nuclear Catastrophe, Says Trump
One killed, 11 injured in second Houthi strike on Riyadh airport in two days, their fourth attack in a week
One person has been killed and 11 injured in a second strike on the international airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, officials have said.
A Saudi military spokesman said a projectile had hit King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, causing a fire in a passenger hall. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said in a statement on X that one person, a Pakistani resident, had been killed in the attack.
It comes a day after a strike on the same airport killed 13 people and injured 308 others. There have been a series of other attacks earlier in the week.
The Houthis in Yemen said they were behind them and warned airlines and passengers against using Saudi Arabian airports and airspace.
The group said they had targeted the airport with a mix of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones in the past 24 hours.
They also attacked oil facilities and Dammam airport in eastern Saudi Arabia, their military spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Saree said.
He vowed to continue the "escalating operations deep inside Saudi Arabia", warning that all Saudi airports were potential targets apart from those in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The Houthis have said they are targeting Saudi Arabia over its support for government forces in Yemen's civil war, as well as an air strike on the airport in Sanaa.
On Sunday Maj Gen Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition, said air defences had intercepted a missile near the airport in Riyadh, while authorities were dealing with the fire caused by an "unknown projectile" that hit Passenger Hall No 4.
US President Donald Trump has said the US would "make a decision" and "move very quickly" on whether to strike the Houthis, while UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting suggested the UK could "potentially" provide more support for Saudi Arabia.
FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr93znyk44e1o
The AI Catastrophe They Fear - And The Global Controls That Could Follow
Prophecy News Watch 12th October
 Imagine waking up to find banks, power grids, and communications disrupted by an AI-related crisis. Some industry insiders reportedly fear a major incident within six to twelve months. But an equally urgent question is what sweeping global controls governments might introduce in its aftermath.
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 Diplomats continue pressing for a two-state solution, yet new polling finds majorities of both Israelis and Palestinians oppose it. With confidence in lasting peace at historic lows, why do international leaders keep promoting a plan rejected by so many who would live with its consequences?
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 New survey figures show a dramatic decline in lesbian and bisexual identification among ninth-grade girls, raising questions about cultural influence, changing attitudes, and the labels shaping young people's identities. What does this reversal mean for a generation searching for truth?
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AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president Brad Smith
Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
Brad Smith said there needed to be global safety rules in place, including a legal obligation to tell a "victim" if their system is breached by a rogue AI agent as well as deciding when outside evaluators should sign off on an AI product before it is released.
His comments put him at odds with President Donald Trump, who said the sector should regulate itself so US firms don't lose out to Chinese rivals.
But Smith said: "Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection."
Demands for laws and rules to control AI have grown after experts in the sector said they believed the technology is a threat to humanity. The bosses of the US-based AI giants such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind have all backed the idea of an AI development slowdown, but Trump has pushed against this.
Speaking to the BBC's Big Boss Interview podcast, Smith called AI both a "tool and a weapon" that urgently needed to be regulated. "Let's get started today," he said.
He said firms need "emergency brakes" – often known in the industry as 'kill switches' – to pause or slowdown AI if it got out of control in some way. He also said there should be a legal requirement for firms to write "incident reports" and tell victims if the technology goes rogue. He also suggested that independent government evaluators should vet new AI technology.
"We know how to do this for other products," Smith said. "We should build on that knowledge and think about how to apply it to AI." Smith said the UK was best placed to drive forward these global rules for AI because of its AI Security Institute
, launched during former prime minister Rishi Sunak's government as the AI Safety Institute.
"In the world of technology, in the tech sector, most people that I know would say, if you ask them, name the country that is the leader in having this technical capability, they would say, it's very simple. It's the United Kingdom. They are the best."
FULL INTERVIEW AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6rmy7zmvx3lo
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