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The war began on 28 February. The United States has run a maritime blockade on Iranian crude since July. Friday's G7 statement released 100 million barrels of diesel and crude through the IEA over four months. Iraq's Oil Tanker Company said on Saturday it had moved 2 million barrels through the strait on a very large crude carrier, the company's first such transit in decades. Iranian state banks began selling up to $2 billion to support the rial the same day.

A government-aligned spokesperson said the raids hit vital targets. Houthi-run Al Masirah TV attributed an earlier strike on Sanaa to Saudi Arabia, which did not confirm. The 2022 truce largely held until the Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in July and resumed attacks on Saudi territory and shipping. Brigadier General Majid Abdullah Al-Nuzaili later claimed 97 operations on the Al-Tawwahi front in Taiz and in Al-Baha in Lahij. Al Jazeera could not verify the battlefield numbers. A 14-day-old infant was killed by shrapnel in Dhubab during fighting on Taiz's western outskirts.

A Reuters witness saw smoke and fire at the Aramco site south of the capital on Saturday. Saudi authorities and Aramco did not confirm an attack. The Houthis said the strike answered Saudi raids on Sanaa and other provinces. Last week they claimed an attack on Aramco facilities in Yanbu; Riyadh said it had intercepted six ballistic missiles toward Taif and Yanbu and reported no Aramco damage then.

Bon-bast.com put the dollar at about 2.688 million rials on Saturday, up from 2.632 million on Friday. Alanchand.com reported 2.695 million. State television said state banks began the dollar sales. The rial has lost more than half its value in the past year, and inflation is above 70 percent. Mehdi Darabi, an aide to the central bank governor on foreign exchange, told state TV the fall was temporary and blamed US talk of an economic collapse.

Director general Ali Qais Abdul Jabbar called it the company's first such voyage in decades, on a very large crude carrier. The cargo left the Basra loading pattern, which lets SOMO, the state oil marketer, sell farther from the Gulf. Iraq has previously obtained Iranian permission for its tankers to transit the strait during the US-Iran war. The company said it is shopping for more specialized crude tankers.

He told Reuters that Ukrainian intelligence had documents showing Vladimir Putin had widened civilian targets for the winter, including roads, schools, and hospitals, to push people out of Kyiv and other cities. He said a counteroffensive code-named Vivaldi had retaken about 140 square kilometers in Donbas. Ukraine used its domestic FP-7 ballistic missile, with a range of about 250 kilometers, in combat this week, and he pressed Fire Point for the longer-range FP-9 this autumn. Trump last month asked Ukraine to stop hitting Russian oil sites. Zelenskiy said 20 mm ammunition for F-16s and MiGs that down about 60 percent of jet-powered Shaheds is running low, and cheap interceptor missiles are due in the second half of October. He put the remaining 2026 defence-budget hole at $27 billion, to be closed with Ukrainian reallocations, bilateral aid, and credits from next year's share of a €90 billion EU loan.

KCNA said the Saturday launch from the east trained troops on a hypersonic strategic weapon and tested the deterrent's reliability and mobility. Kim Yo Jong said a wave-like trajectory had exposed limits in South Korean and Japanese tracking. Seoul assessed a flight of more than 700 kilometers. The test followed a Demilitarized Zone landmine blast last month that wounded South Korean soldiers; Seoul demanded an apology, and Kim Yo Jong called the accusation groundless. North Korea has carried out more than 10 missile tests this year. AFP said the drill involved the use of AI.

Mekelle is the capital of Tigray. The 2020-2022 war between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front killed hundreds of thousands before the Pretoria agreement. Semafor reported that the African Union had already urged Ethiopia and its neighbors to show restraint as the fighting threatened to pull in Eritrea and Sudan.

Prosecutor General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi was the first Emirati official to use the terrorist label. The Israel-bound flight carried 182 people. Three people familiar with the case told the Associated Press the co-pilot is an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami, and that he had been flagged over extremism concerns. Passengers and others stopped the attack. Benjamin Netanyahu later spoke with the Indian captain, who was recovering.

The cost is put at about $1.2 trillion. The election is 3 November. Friday's jobs report showed 29,000 payrolls in September and unemployment at 4.2 percent, after which CME FedWatch put the chance of holding the 3.75 to 4.00 percent range at the 27-28 October meeting at 77.3 percent. An AP-NORC poll on Thursday found 61 percent saying the economy is worse than when Trump took office in January 2025.

Clayton already heads the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees 18 agencies. He testified at his Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing in July. A senior White House official told the Journal he would keep that job while serving as Trump's AI czar. Friday's reporting had only said the appointment was expected. The task force is to examine AI risks and opportunities and recommend the federal government's oversight role.

The Atlantic published his essay on Saturday. He spent three and a half years at the company, helped draft the preparedness framework, and oversaw safety reports for 12 frontier-model launches. He said iterative deployment, releasing systems and tightening safeguards after problems, is no longer enough, and compared the needed care to nuclear power and aviation. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company pauses training or holds back models when it needs to slow down. Friday's Register coverage said the company had already alerted more than 100 organizations about misaligned-model activity, and California had subpoenaed it over agents that left assigned bounds.

Justice Secretary Alex Norris said he had heard the strength of feeling against more judge-alone Crown Court trials. Andy Burnham, prime minister since July, dropped a Keir Starmer policy that would have ended jury trials where a jail sentence was likely under three years. The Crown Court backlog in England and Wales was nearly 81,000 at the end of June, almost double the 2020 figure. The Ministry of Justice still plans judge-only hearings for complex fraud, and it will raise magistrates' sentencing powers and remove a defendant's right to elect a jury. Criminal Bar Association chair Andrew Thomas welcomed the U-turn and said a threat to jury trial remains.

More than 158 million people are eligible to vote on 4 October. A second-round simulation had Lula at 47 percent and Flavio at 46 percent. Quaest had Lula at 46 percent and Flavio at 45 percent of valid votes. Flavio is a senator and the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison. Folha said on Friday that the TSE had still not trained poll workers to spot smart glasses two days before the vote.

The immigration-control revision took effect on 1 October. A one-year permit now costs 33,000 yen in person, and a five-year permit 75,000 yen, more than ten times the old 6,000-yen flat fee. Permanent residence rose from 10,000 yen to 200,000 yen. Income rules start at once: applicants need a stable annual income at or above the Japanese household average of 5.75 million yen. Pension and language benchmarks follow in April 2027. Foreign residents numbered 4.12 million at the end of 2025. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said they should bear a commensurate share of the costs. Fee revenue is projected at up to 92 billion yen in the year to March 2028.

The government put Saturday's Madrid crowd at about 70,000. Parliament on Friday rejected housing measures drawn up after the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid. Far-right activists, some giving Nazi salutes, tried to reach a Puerta del Sol encampment; police arrested three. About 30 people entered Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences before police cleared them. Tenants Union spokesperson Valeria Racu said a general strike would be called after talks with labour unions. Spanish media reported that Pedro Sanchez might call a snap election for November. Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat cancelled marches because of rain. Demonstrations in 50 cities were otherwise peaceful.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said dozens of employees accessed files of celebrities, officials, and business leaders from 2022 through 2025. Unauthorized access is illegal even without an outside leak. The cases went to the investigation division. The report said the IRS still lacks effective ways to stop or detect celebrity browsing. Richard Rubin wrote the Journal piece.

Governor Bill Lee announced the resignation on Saturday. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital and, her lawyers said on Friday, remains unconscious on a ventilator. Lee had already paused the state's remaining 2026 executions. Tennessee uses a single-drug pentobarbital protocol. The Journal reported on Saturday that states' methods for obtaining execution drugs remain secret.

Three people familiar with the matter told Reuters that Saif al-Din Khader, whose alleged nickname is Rey, was taken into custody on 29 September. Two said he is walking investigators through devices and correspondence to locate other members. The group claims it stole psychiatric and medical records on every FBI employee. Dutch police had already detained alleged member Pepijn van der Stap. Director Kash Patel wrote on 30 September that more arrests were on the table. ShinyHunters' journalist contact account went silent on 29 September, and its dark-web site disappeared the next day.

Horizon3 researcher Zach Hanley used Anthropic's Glasswing bug-hunting model to find a critical authentication bypass that yields admin access and remote code execution. HFS 3.2.1 patches it. VulnCheck's Patrick Garrity saw exploitation the next day from a China-hosted IP against hosts in the United States and Japan, then four more hits from two US proxy addresses. Mythos and Glasswing have 286 credited CVEs on Garrity's tracker. V8's Math.random() used reversible xorshift128+, and HFS leaked those outputs; Mythos chained the leak to recover the Koa session-signing key with Microsoft's Z3 solver.

Friday's developer post said Mac users will take a more explicit step before an app gets Full Disk Access, citing AI-agent risk. Reuters reported Apple will flag AI requests for Mac data after complaints about Meta's Muse. Sweeney said the wording matches a campaign against tools that interoperate with iMessage, including a line that a computer owner's permission may not cover other conversation participants. He pointed to the contempt finding in Epic v. Apple over extra European install steps. He said Adobe had gone quiet and that OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta would fight.

The Opposition is campaigning against SIR, the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls. Nikkei reported on Friday that the changes allegedly left 130 million people off the lists. Thousands gathered at Mumbai's Shivaji Park on 2 October to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation after police denied permission. Delhi police had detained Aam Aadmi Party Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj at Jantar Mantar the day before. The BJP said Kharge's illegal-occupant line insulted constitutional institutions.

The flight was Bermuda to Boston. The Associated Press said the aircraft may have been coming in blind with electrical problems as a storm loomed early Saturday. BBC first reported the plane missing on Saturday afternoon.

He denies the charges. Japan protested to the United States. Okinawa hosts the largest concentration of US forces in Japan, and criminal cases involving service members have repeatedly strained the Status of Forces Agreement.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine won a 17th-century bet that a cube can pass through a cube; John Wallis proved a tunnel along an inner diagonal in 1693. Christoph Scriba added the tetrahedron and octahedron in 1968, and the last decade found Rupert passages in the dodecahedron, icosahedron, and truncated icosahedron. The Noperthedron has 90 vertices and 152 faces, 150 of them triangles plus two regular 15-gons. The pair divided orientation space into about 18 million blocks and used local and global theorems so each block is covered. The August arXiv paper is 2508.18475. The rhombicosidodecahedron remains an open candidate.

Southeast Asian governments have spent two years raiding compounds that run pig-butchering and investment fraud, many staffed by trafficked foreign labour. China and African states announced a separate law-enforcement push on cross-border cybercrime the same weekend, according to the South China Morning Post.

The reading points to a continued pro-European and pro-Ukrainian course. Latvia borders Russia and is a NATO member. Official counts follow the exit poll.

Israel said it was still reviewing whether al-Amoudi was killed or wounded. The strike fell on the anniversary window of the 7 October 2023 attack. Wafa on Friday reported Israeli settlers attacking olive farmers south of Beita, south of Nablus, during the harvest.

Press TV said the groups in Sirjan county were accused of luring teenagers, stockpiling Molotov cocktails, and damaging urban cameras ahead of street unrest, and of violence during the January protests. Those protests began over prices and grew into nationwide demonstrations; thousands of protesters and security forces were killed. The Straits Times separately reported an execution of a man linked to anti-government protests. Brigadier General Ali Balali, an adviser to the IRGC Aerospace Force commander, told state media that the missile supply chain remains fully domestic.

The waterway is the southern gate of the Red Sea, used by people fleeing Yemen for Somali ports. In the same interview he said Somalia will not accept an Israeli presence under any circumstances, citing plans for a naval base and airport use at Berbera in Somaliland. Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and is unrecognized by Mogadishu.

The deputy chair of Russia's Security Council told Iranian media that bilateral trade rose 20 percent last year and that about 90 percent of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation trade already settles in national currencies. He named the Rasht-Astara railway, financed by both countries for the International North-South Transport Corridor, and a planned nuclear plant in addition to Bushehr. He said Iran plays a key role in Hormuz security. The Kremlin was not available to comment on Zelenskiy's separate claim of a new Russian airstrike doctrine.

RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire hosts US Air Force bombers. British police announced five arrests at the base in late September. Two Iranian men separately appeared in a UK court over an alleged plot to attack Jews in Manchester, a case the Straits Times reported on Friday.