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In response, the Saudis pumped as much oil as they could – around five million barrels per day – through their east-west pipeline to their export terminal on the Red Sea, on their opposite coast, at Yanbu. From there it was loaded onto tankers that headed south, out into the Arabian Sea and off to markets in Asia. So far so good. But on 13 July, the Saudis bombed Sanaa airport just outside the Yemeni capital. The strike was claimed by Yemen’s Saudi-supported government, which said it wanted to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. In retaliation, the Houthis attacked…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.France has issued a deportation order for Xenia Fedorova, a Russian author and television commentator known for espousing pro-Kremlin positions on media outlets owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.Fedorova ran the state-backed Russia Today in France before it was shut down by the government shortly after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The 45-year-old pivoted to appearing regularly on Bolloré’s CNews, a rightwing 24-hour news channel, hosting a show on Christian values and commenting on the news on various programmes.Casting…

Apple’s new Upgrade program is here, allowing you to lease select models of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches with a relatively low monthly payment. The company promises you won’t pay more than the full price of the device over the course of the one- to three-year lease, and in some cases, you’ll pay hundreds of dollars less.The basics of the program make it sound like an amazing deal… so surely there must be a catch, right?The answer basically depends on how you use the Upgrade Program. At least with current pricing, a diligent user really should be able to make…

For campaigners perpetually disappointed by the failure of England’s political classes to fix England’s creaking adult social care system, the fear was that Andy Burnham’s long-trailed speech would be less Brave New World, more Groundhog Day.Burnham acknowledged he had been here before. Back in 2010, as health and social care secretary, he unveiled extensive proposals to overhaul social care, only for them to collapse amid right-wing media hostility and furious political rows about “death taxes”.The new PM might talk a good game about expending political capital on an issue close to his heart, but recent history suggests that social care…

The discovery comes a year after kits were filmed on Dartmoor, where the project released 15 pine martens in 2024.The reintroductions represented the first attempt to re-establish a sustainable breeding population of the tree-climbing members of the weasel family in the South West since they were hunted to extinction more than a century ago.Conservationists said the pine martens have proved to be highly mobile, shy of people and difficult to see.Ali North, field officer at the project for Exmoor, added: “We were incredibly excited to finally see kits after so many months of intensive monitoring.”This has been a community effort…

Trent Rockets handed Welsh Fire a first defeat of the season in The Hundred in a one-sided affair at Sophia Gardens.The visitors chased down a below-par target of 123 with 28 balls to spare, Ben Duckett seeing the Rockets to victory with an unbeaten 52. The start of the Rockets’ chase was not fluent by any means but the Fire bowlers were sloppy, giving away four free-hits in the powerplay and seven in total. Duckett faced the first four, only finding the boundary once, but he and Finn Allen (33) still managed to move the visitors onto 42-0 after 25…

A good outfit and glam combo isn’t enough to save Rachel Chinouriri from an existential downward spiral at the club on her latest single, “One Song Away From Crying.” “She’s never looked better and she’s never felt worse,” the British singer and songwriter sings on the record, which offers the first glimpse into her upcoming second studio album, I Think I Spoke Too Soon, out Oct. 16. “‘One song away from crying’ is about the precipice of a night out where you know you need to leave and have to make a decision,” Chinouriri shared in a statement. “It’s a…

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Philippine time. The New York Times Several moderately strong earthquakes — ranging in magnitude from 5.0 to 5.4 — struck in and near the Philippines on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The first temblor happened at 9:16 p.m. Philippine time about 2 miles northeast of Balangonan, Philippines, data from the agency shows. At least two subsequent quakes struck in the Philippine Sea east of…

The Lagos State government has confirmed the arrest of a suspect over the alleged intimidation, assault and attempted dispossession of a widow following the death of her husband in Ikorodu. The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, saying it swung into action after receiving reports on Tuesday about the woman’s ordeal. According to the agency, the widow alleged that members of her late husband’s family had threatened her life, physically assaulted her and attempted to take over properties belonging to her and her children. The agency withheld the widow’s identity, who…

Nume Ekeghe Liquidity in  banking system declined sharply by 18.4 per cent last week as monetary tightening by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), offset sizeable market inflows, highlighting the monetary authority’s continued determination to contain excess liquidity and inflationary pressures. According to the Financial Markets Dealers Association (FMDA) Weekly Market Snapshot, system liquidity fell to N3.78 trillion from N4.63 trillion recorded in the previous week following the impact of CBN’s Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) debits, a private Open Market Operations (OMO) auction and the Federal Government bond auction conducted by the Debt Management Office (DMO). The report noted that the…