🇸🇦🇾🇪 | The Houthis say they shot down a Chinese-made Wing Loong II UAV belonging to Saudi Arabia over Taiz Governorate in southwestern Yemen — statement

🇲🇩🇷🇺 | Russia will open 15 polling stations in Transnistria for the State Duma elections on September 20, despite Moldova's official protest — NewsMaker.md

🇰🇵🇺🇳🇺🇸 | North Korea will likely send a vice foreign minister to address the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, sources say — Yonhap

🇹🇷 | Turkey plans to sell 30-year operating rights for two bridges spanning the Bosphorus between Istanbul's European and Asian sides — Daily Sabah

🇾🇪 | Yemen's coast guard intercepted the oil tanker Nereida in the Gulf of Aden after it illegally unloaded cargo at the Houthi-controlled port of Ras Issa — Yemen TV

🇩🇪🇺🇦 | A site near Munich has begun mass-producing more than 5,000 medium- and long-range attack UAVs funded by Germany's government for Ukraine — dpa

🇮🇱🇱🇧 | Israel has claimed control over the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon following sustained fighting against Hezbollah — Al Jazeera

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 | Witkoff and Kushner told Ukraine's president that the US wants a breakthrough in talks with Russia before winter, a source says — Axios

🇸🇦🇾🇪 | The Houthis say they shot down a Chinese-made CH-4 UAV belonging to Saudi Arabia over Hajjah Governorate in northwestern Yemen — statement

🇩🇿🇬🇷🇮🇹🇺🇳 | Algeria's defense ministry says a Greek missile frigate and an Italian patrol ship assigned to NATO docked in Oran for a joint naval drill — statement

🇸🇦 | Saudi Aramco's oil infrastructure in the industrial city of Jizan was struck again on Monday and the damage is currently being assessed, sources say — FT

🇩🇪🇷🇺 | Russia's foreign ministry says Germany’s consulate general in St. Petersburg must cease its activities no later than September 18 — TASS

🇱🇾 | Libya's government says foreign nationals are among the five suspects arrested over the attacks on oil tanks and a power station in Tripoli and Zawiya — Hakomitna

🇧🇾🇱🇻🇷🇺🇺🇦 | Latvia says it will impose a 300% tariff on grain shipments from Russia and Belarus and work to identify potentially stolen Ukrainian grain — LETA

🇫🇮🇷🇺 | Finland has officially completed construction of a 200-km, ~€380 million fence along a section of its 1,340-km eastern border with Russia — Yle

🇸🇾 | Rehabilitation work at Qamishli International Airport in northeastern Syria is entering its final stages in preparation for the resumption of service — SANA

🇶🇦 | Seven empty Qatari-linked LNG tankers are returning to the Persian Gulf, signaling that the country may be preparing to resume gas exports — Bloomberg

🇸🇩 | The ICRC says it is holding confidential bilateral talks with all warring factions in Sudan to press for adherence to the laws of war — Sudan Tribune