🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- An Iranian government aircraft, IRAN06, has landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- This plane was likely carrying Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology alongside a small Iranian delegation to participate in the Fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

🇻🇦🇫🇷⚡️- As Pope Leo prepares to head to France for a 3-stop tour later this month, medias have revealed that the Holy See denied a list of requests from the French government.

Among these denied requests figures a "private meeting with Macron in Notre-Dame" and a formal dinner with the French president. The Holy See also refused to let the French Republican Guard take part in the ceremonies.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese air defences intercepted multiple drones over the disputed al-Fashaga region after they attempted to strike the Upper Atbara Dam and the Setit Dam.

It remains unclear who launched the drones. However, the aircraft approached their targets via the al-Fashaga region rather than through Sudanese-controlled territory. This would make the involvement of Rapid Support Forces, RSF, operating from within Sudan less likely.

Sudanese media have variously blamed the Ethiopian government, Addis Ababa-backed al-Fashaga militias, or RSF elements on Ethiopian territory. In response, certain circles within the Sudanese media are calling for a retaliatory strike on Ethiopia's GERD.

🇪🇺🇫🇮⚡️- European leaders have backed Finland’s push for a joint EU icebreaker fleet, with the vessels potentially being built and based there as Arctic shipping grows and the region becomes more strategically important in competition with Russia and China.

🇸🇦🇪🇬⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in Cairo and is received by Egypt's El-Sisi.

🇪🇺🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia has told some European oil refiners that their September shipments have been cancelled following the Ansarullah attacks on three pumping stations along the East-West pipeline forcing it to cease operations temporarily.

🇲🇾🇮🇱⚡- Malaysia's Coast Guard has seized another three Israeli-bound cargo vessels within its water-spaces.

All three vessels called at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, southwest Malaysia, and were carrying cargo from China.

🇾🇪🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia suspends oil loading at Yabnu's port terminal along the Red Sea.

🇾🇪 - Current situation across the Southern Yemen front.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Very unusual reports circulating among Saudi media: An alleged attack on the city of Mecca, which is being blamed on the Ansarullah.

Note, no sirens were activated in the south recently, and unusual for Riyadh to allow such incidents to even be reported openly, unless the Kingdom is gearing its population for a potential new-war with the al-Houthi forces? Two weeks ago, al-Hadaath openly aired destruction to civilian properties in the south of the country from Ansarullah shelling, something that would normally be unheard of from Saudi state-owned outlets.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Posted by Tawfiq al-Sayegh, one of Saudi's most popular religious scholars.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Several Saudi / Yemeni airstrikes struck al-Ma'Kashah in the Hayfan area of southeast Ta'izz, Ansarullah-controlled southern Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah may be preparing to launch a major offensive against Jabal Habashi, the PLC's last significant stronghold in the northwestern Ta'izz direction, within the coming hours.

Large al-Houthi convoys have been arriving in the al-Jinan area over the past 30 to 60 minutes, with movements still ongoing at this very moment. The reinforcements appear to be originating from the Red Sea coast and are travelling along the N3 highway via al-Mafraq and the Khalid bin Walid Military Camp. The forces make a temporary stop in the town of al-Rahba before continuing towards Jabal al-Jinan.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Alerts in southwest Saudi Arabia.