Two ships hit by projectiles in Hormuz Strait, maritime agency says A tanker and a container ship were hit by projectiles of unknown origin in the Strait of Hormuz, the British maritime agency UKMTO said on Tuesday, as Iran keeps up its blockade of the strategic waterway in place since the start of the Middle East war. An investigation is underway, the agency said, without specifying whether the attacks caused any damage or casualties. Since the beginning of the war, triggered in late February by US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran has claimed control of the strait and regularly targets ships that try to transit it without its permission. Washington, in response, has imposed its own naval blockade on Iranian ports.

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The strikes exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defense capabilities as the kingdom wages an air campaign against the ​Houthis, who are fighting a ground war in Yemen against the Saudi-backed government

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Riyadh airport attack kills one, wounds 11, Saudi aviation authority says Sunday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport left one person dead and wounded 11, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority says. Officials said a projectile hit two passenger terminals and started a fire. The attack followed Saturday’s Houthi strike on the same airport, which killed at least 12 people and injured more than 300. Yemen’s Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, said they carried out both strikes.

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72 killed in airstrike on gold mine on Sudan-Egypt border Sudanese rights group The Emergency Lawyers on Sunday accusing Egypt's air force of an air strike which killed 72 workers at a gold mine on the Sudan-Egypt border a day earlier. "The attack carried out by Egyptian military aircraft" on Saturday "resulted in the deaths of 72 civilian miners, according to preliminary information, while efforts to document and verify the casualty toll are ongoing," the rights group said.