Day: October 16, 2026
U.S. restricts staff use of Saudi airports after deadly Houthi attacks.
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⚡️Order limiting Starlink access for Ukraine’s military came from within White House, Reuters reports.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency mistakenly issued an early warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake, but the actual magnitude was 6.9, according to the USGS; no tsunami alert was issued.
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🇸🇦 🇾🇪 A Yemen war Riyadh expected to win fast became a decade long disaster… and now cheap Houthi drones hit Saudi infrastructure almost at will.
Khalid Aljabri traces the mess back to oversimplified assumptions at the very start, when short term goals were supposed to wrap things up quickly.
All the expensive firepower in the world still can’t shield oil sites and airports from drones that cost next to nothing, and his fix is to separate defending the border from Riyadh’s political meddling inside Yemen.
Until Riyadh draws that line, the war keeps draining money and the drones keep finding targets.
@JabriMD
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Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇸🇦 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia locked up two children of its exiled former intelligence chief for years to pressure him into coming home.
Khalid Aljabri says Saudi authorities took his brother Omar and sister Sarah and made them disappear as leverage against their father Saad, who lives in exile in Canada.
Human Rights Watch says the two were arrested at their Riyadh home in March 2020, held with no contact for about 10 months, then sentenced to nine and six and a half years.
Every dissident living abroad now has to wonder what happens to the family they left behind.
@JabriMD
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— https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2110941514008346628
