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Houthi strikes on Riyadh airport killed three Saudis as war escalates

Thursday's attacks on Riyadh airport killed three people, Saudi authorities said on Friday, as Yemen's Houthi group stepped up missile strikes on the kingdom and tried to shut down its airspace in an escalating war triggered by the US-Iran conflict. The strikes, which also injured several people, damaged a Saudia Airlines plane and sent smoke billowing over the airport, led many airlines to cancel flights to the Saudi capital days before it is due to host a major meeting of global oil chiefs. #Statement Two attacks targeted King Khalid International Airport facilities and a Saudia aircraft.#GACA pic.twitter.com/6YnBN717Cw — هيئة الطيران المدني (@ksagaca) October 9, 2026 Saudi airstrikes hit Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, Houthi officials and affiliated media said, part of an intensifying air war against the Iran-allied group aimed at reversing its recent territorial gains, threats to international shipping, and attacks on the kingdom. A ...
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South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, 85, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pillay ​held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to ​victims of violence and conflict, and demonstrated a firm moral ⁠compass in her long career, the committee said. "A common thread runs ​from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood ​up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time," the committee said. Read: Nobel Peace Prize haunted by the 'spectre' of Trump Navi Pillay was chair of ​the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory ​that concluded last year that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Israel dismissed the ‌report ⁠as "scandalous". The peace prize is the fifth Nobel awarded this week, after literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won in 2025. The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 12 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.2 million, is due to be ​presented in Oslo ​on December ⁠10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.

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