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By Reuters and Posted by TOE U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped an end to the war against Iran was near, as the conflict, in its seventh month, escalated with Saudi aircraft pounding Yemen and Houthi fighters launching drones and missiles at Saudi cities. The Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance ‌in Yemen along the Red Sea and their attacks on Saudi Arabia, along with attacks that damaged Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, have extended Tehran’s ‌reach in the war and heightened global oil-supply risks. As the war expands into a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles (30 ​km) of the Yemen border. Still, just hours after reports of the Houthis and Saudi Arabia fighting, Trump told reporters on Wednesday evening: “Well, hopefully we are towards the end of the war.” TRUMP SAYS IRAN WANTS A DEAL, OIL PRICE STILL ELEVATED ...

By Jana Choukeir and Nayera Abdallah Reuters Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran’s reach in the Middle East war and further disrupted global oil supplies. In a sign of ‌the worsening conflict in a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles ‌of the Yemen border. The Houthis, who since last week have swept through Yemeni towns along the Red Sea coast and seized islands in the Bab el-Mandeb strait at its mouth, released battlefield video overnight ​of fighters seizing armoured vehicles from Saudi-backed forces. Warplanes flew overhead and huge explosions billowed into the sky from desert dunes, the video showed. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet. No immediate evidence was presented and S...

By Timour Azhari Reuters | Posted by TOE Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia and were digging into positions on the western coast of Yemen along the Red Sea, Yemeni ​officials said, as urgent deliberations took place in Riyadh over how to respond to their lightning advance. Meanwhile, Gulf Arab states postponed planned talks with Iran, raising concerns the ‌Middle East conflict could spread further and threaten global oil supplies. The Houthis on Monday said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at a military airbase in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, targeting aircraft hangars, radar systems, runways and ammunition depots in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen. Saudi authorities issued emergency alerts there and in three other southern cities. Thirteen civilians were wounded in the Houthi attacks, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said. The Houthi advances in recent ​days, including the taking of Perim ...

By Reuters | Posted by TOE A Russian drone hit a passenger train on Ukraine’s border with NATO member Poland on Sunday, shortly after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European diplomats had used ‌the same line. The train, on a route frequently used by foreign delegations returning from Kyiv, was attacked just ‌2 kilometres (1.2 miles) from the Polish border, Ukraine’s railway operator said. No casualties were reported. “This wasn’t our train, but the one just minutes after us by ​the border crossing. It was evacuated as the drone approached and no one was hurt,” Carl Bildt, former Sweden’s Prime Minister said on X. He and other politicians were returning to Europe by train after attending a conference in Kyiv. “It is entirely possible that the Russian drone’s intended target was the diplomatic train, which departed the station earlier than scheduled after train timetables were adjusted in ‌rea...

By Reuters | Posted by TOE  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that events in Europe, including the far-right victory in a German state election, were the ​result of “system errors” committed by globalists in the West. Putin , speaking to reporters ‌in a pool report on the first day of a visit to India, also said the conflict in Ukraine was the fault of the West for constantly putting pressure on Moscow and seeking ​to “drag” Ukraine into the NATO alliance. The Russian president said he would offer no ​comment on Sunday’s top result for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ⁠in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, but then added that Western elites were ​to blame for events on the continent, including the election. “I think that everything happening ​in Europe right now is basically the result of system errors by the so-called West … the Western globalists in politics, security, and economics,” Putin sai...

By Pavel Polityuk and Anna Pruchnicka Reuters Russian drones pounded central part of the industrial city of Pavlohrad in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing five, as ‌well as striking a petrol station in the capital Kyiv and an international agribusiness facility in Dnipro as Moscow intensifies attacks ‌on logistics and economic targets. Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, writing on Telegram, said Russia deployed drones, artillery and aerial bombs in hitting five districts of in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two more ​people. A total of 76 people were injured, including several children, he said. Photos posted online showed shattered shops and burned-out vehicles in the city, which has acted as a critical supply route for the Ukrainian military connecting central Ukraine to eastern front lines. The attack on the petrol station in Kyiv and on an agribusiness facility run by Bunge in the southeastern city of Dnipro added to Russia’s intensified air campaign in re...