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🇾🇪 🇸🇦 ⚡️ - Ansarallah (Houthis) claim their air defenses shot down a Saudi Air Force drone over Bani Matar, southwest of Sana'a, releasing footage of the wreckage.

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⚠️ Iran's IRGC claims another tanker was hit in Hormuz tonight.
🛳️ Unverified tracking data suggests about 12 vessels a day crossed over the weekend, roughly 14% of pre-war traffic.

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🚢 TANKER REPORT
❌ No verified passage through Hormuz today.
💥 1 tanker verified struck: an outbound tanker hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz.

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5️⃣ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 - Russia fired 10 missiles at Kharkiv in three waves, injuring at least 11 people, as powerful explosions rocked central Kyiv.

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4️⃣ 🇬🇧 🇮🇷 - The British Prime Minister says the attempted attack on RAF Fairford was very likely directed by Iran's IRGC and announced new sanctions on Iran.

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3️⃣ 🇮🇱 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 - Israeli PM Netanyahu is seeking Saudi approval, through U.S. mediation, for Israel to join the campaign against the Houthis, Hebrew media reports.

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2️⃣ 🇾🇪 - Ansarallah (Houthis) say they captured the Jabal Habshi district and key crossroads in Taiz governorate as heavy fighting rages west of Taiz city.

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📋 TODAY'S 5 BIGGEST DEVELOPMENTS - Mon, Oct 12.

1️⃣ 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 - Ansarallah (Houthis) fired new waves of ballistic missiles at Riyadh and Khamis Mushait; the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted them, and Saudi Arabia has opened an investigation into earlier air defense failures.

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🇾🇪 ⚡️ - Houthi shelling killed 5 civilians and injured others in Taiz, the city's human rights office says, as Ansarallah (Houthis) push into the Jabal Saber heights south of the city.

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🇮🇶🇮🇷 ⚡️ - Suicide drones, reportedly Iranian Shahed-136s, have entered the airspace over Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.

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@Osint613 In the last 48 hours the IRGC itself announced a third tanker hitting a mine, UKMTO reported a projectile striking an outbound tanker, and the UAE coastguard rescued 22 crew from a burning tanker off its coast. That is the diesel problem.

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@ABC Zelenskyy's counter, from ABC's This Week: an energy ceasefire on both sides - Ukraine stops hitting Russian refineries and diesel shipments if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian power plants. He said Russia attacked Ukraine's energy sector 196 times this past week.

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🇾🇪🇸🇦 ⚡️ - The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed 3 Houthi ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and Khamis Mushait.

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🇺🇦 ⚡️ - Ten Russian missiles were fired at Kharkiv in three waves over two hours, with another high-rise building in the city center hit.

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🇸🇦🇾🇪 ⚡️ - The Royal Saudi Air Force is carrying out airstrikes on southwestern Sana'a, the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen.

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🇾🇪🇸🇦 ⚡️ - Saudi Civil Defense issued alerts in Khamis Mushait and Riyadh warning of a new attack from Yemen, with explosions reported in Abha and air defenses activated over the Saudi capital.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 ⚡️ - Ukrainian drones have knocked out or damaged three of the five major data centers run by Russian tech giant Yandex in the space of four days.

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🇮🇱🇸🇦🇾🇪 ⚡️ - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking Saudi Arabia's approval, through U.S. mediation, for Israel to join the campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, Hebrew media reports.

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🇺🇦 ⚡️ - Powerful explosions rocked central Kyiv during a Russian missile attack, with blasts heard before the air raid alert was even issued.

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🇸🇦🇾🇪 ⚡️ - Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation into how its air defenses failed to intercept a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones, AP reports.