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Three wounded in Saudi airport attacks as Yemen fighting intensifies
Attacks on Jazan and Najran airports injured three people as Saudi-backed forces claim gains near Mocha and Houthis dispute the battlefield account.
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Makkah Pact goes live: Türkiye and Pakistan to deploy forces to Saudi Arabia as Yemen war flares
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan agreed on October 5 to immediately implement their August mutual-defence pact and rapidly deploy forces to the Kingdom, as Houthi attacks on Saudi territory escalate and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government launches a major counteroffensive.
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When the Cloud Burned: AWS Admits Iranian Strikes Destroyed Its Bahrain Data Beyond Recovery
Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, Amazon's cloud division has admitted the loss is permanent: the Bahrain region is a total write-off, and one UAE availability zone is gone forever. What died in the Gulf was not just data, but the central promise of the cloud era — that redundancy could survive anything.
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The $2 million question at Hormuz: Iran's toll booth on the world's oil keeps prices high
Crude bypassing Hormuz surged in September, yet oil prices stay high. Al Jazeera asks whether a secret Iranian toll is the reason. The $1-2M per-transit fee is now codified and partly settled in crypto — and ultimately priced into fuel worldwide.
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Gaza's Christians bury a mother and daughter killed in an Israeli strike — five dead as the 'ceasefire' bleeds
Maysa Abu Daoud and her daughter Mary al-Najjar were among five Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City — the latest killing under a US-brokered 'ceasefire' — and were buried at Saint Porphyrius Church on Saturday.
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Stones, live rounds and tear gas: settlers and soldiers turn West Bank olive harvest into a battlefield
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters at Beita in the occupied West Bank on October 2, firing live ammunition and stoning homes, while soldiers opened fire and forced farmers out of their groves at gunpoint, witnesses and footage show.
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Mourners at Gaza's Saint Porphyrius church bury mother and daughter killed in Israeli strike
Maysa Abu Daoud, 56, and daughter Mary al-Najjar, 36 — Palestinian Christians who served displaced families at Gaza's Holy Family Church — were among five killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City early Saturday. Their funeral at Saint Porphyrius Church drew Muslims and Christians together in grief.
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Algeria confirms it flew fighter jets into Niger to stop a 'coup attempt', president says
Algeria's President Tebboune confirmed on October 3 that Algiers sent four Su-30 fighter jets to Niger in late August after mutineers attacked a military base, the state broadcaster and the presidential palace in Niamey — breaking with its non-intervention doctrine.
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Not an inch of our sea: Somalia rejects Israeli designs on the port of Berbera
In an exclusive Al Jazeera interview, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel is planning a naval base at Berbera — and that Somalia will not accept an Israeli presence 'under any circumstances'.
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Five more dead in Gaza City: the 'ceasefire' keeps killing
An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians in an apartment building in Gaza City early Saturday, health officials said — the latest in a year of ceasefire that has claimed 1,400 lives. Negotiators have still not agreed terms for disarmament or withdrawal.
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'They refused to even entertain the idea': Qatar PM says Israel rejected early offer to free all civilian hostages
Qatar's PM says Israel rejected a post-October 7 offer to free all civilian hostages for a temporary ceasefire. Netanyahu denies rejecting viable deals. The claim lands weeks before Israel's October 27 election.
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Yemen carries out 20 strikes on Houthi targets in Taiz as Saudi escalation deepens
Yemen's internationally recognised government says its warplanes carried out 20 strikes in three hours on Houthi movements, personnel and equipment in Taiz province, amid the most serious escalation with Saudi Arabia since the 2022 UN-brokered truce. Roads into the province have been closed as military operational areas.
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A third US carrier, a rejected roadmap and a war-weary America: the war on Iran grinds into its eighth month
Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days in exchange for an end to the US naval blockade, sanctions relief and the release of $12bn in frozen assets. Trump rejected it. As a third US aircraft carrier heads for the Gulf, nearly 70% of Americans say the war is not worth fighting.
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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza as the ceasefire death toll climbs past 1,400
At least five Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Wednesday, medics said, as Gaza health officials put the number killed since the October 2025 US-brokered ceasefire at over 1,400 — mostly civilians.
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