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Second Attack On Saudi Airport Within Two Days

Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement has launched drones at a Saudi airport, the second such attack in two days.

Five drones targeted Abha airport and the nearby city of Khamis Mushait, Saudi officials said in a statement.

No casualties were reported and Abha airport was said to be running normally without any disruption to flights. An attack on Abha on Wednesday injured 26 people.

Yemen has faced consistent bombing by coalition forces since March 2015.

The country has been devastated by the conflict, which escalated when the rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.

Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia power Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states began an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi’s government.

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People Carrying Offensive Weapons At Nine Year High

The number of people caught carrying knives and offensive weapons in England and Wales has reached a nine-year high.

Figures for the year to March show 22,041 offences were dealt with by police and the courts.

The Ministry Of Justice says this has increased 34% since 2015, and is the highest number since 2010. Almost two-thirds of cases did not result in immediate prison — but for those jailed, the average term was 7.9 months, up from 7.1 months in 2017-18.

The figures record the number of people possessing or making threats with blades or offensive weapons that resulted in a conviction or caution. It comes amid a national debate on the issue of knife crime, following a spate of assaults and killings involving young people.

According to the MoJ, one in five of those convicted or cautioned was aged between 10 and 17, a slight fall on the previous year.

The MoJ started to report the figures in March 2009.

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26 Civilians Injured At Saudi Airport After Missile Attack

At least 26 civilians have been injured in a missile attack by Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement on an airport in south-west Saudi Arabia, the military says.

Three women and two children were among those hurt when the arrivals hall at Abha airport was hit early on Wednesday, according to a statement. The rebels said they had launched a cruise missile at the facility.

Saudi Arabia leads a coalition of Arab states backing Yemen’s government in its four-year war with the Houthis.

Yemen has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in March 2015, when the rebels seized control of much of the west of the country and forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.

Alarmed by the rise of a group they believed to be backed militarily by regional Shia power Iran, Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states began an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi’s government.

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MI5 Placed Under Special Measures For Use & Storage Of Data

The security service MI5 has been criticised by a government watchdog for «unlawful» storage and handling of large amounts of data.

In the High Court, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner said MI5 was effectively in «special measures» over its use of data obtained under warrants. Some of the data will have been part of counter-terrorism operations.

Civil rights group Liberty said many of the warrants were «probably unlawful».

A ruling by Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, who oversees MI5’s use of data as Investigatory Powers Commissioner, revealed a «historical lack of compliance» with the law in the way it retained and deleted data. The data was gathered under warrants granted by judges on the understanding that the security services comply with the Investigatory Powers Act — the so-called «snooper’s charter».

Placing MI5 under «special measures» because the breaches were of «such gravity», the commissioner said that in future the security service will have to show its systems are fit for purpose «to a greater degree than usual» when applying for warrants.

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100 Villagers Killed In Mali Attack

Nearly 100 people have been killed in attack in a village in central Mali inhabited by the Dogon ethnic group, reports say.

The attack happened in Sobane-Kou, close to Sanga town, according to French-language news outlet RFI. The bodies of the dead have been burned, says a local official, and the search for more bodies is ongoing.

There have been numerous attacks in Mali in recent months, some ethnic, some carried out by jihadist groups. Clashes between Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders are frequent.

The mayor of nearby Bankass, Moulaye Guindo, told Reuters news agency that Fulanis from that district had attacked Sobane-Kou after nightfall.

A local official in the Koundou area, where the village is located, told the AFP agency: «Right now we have 95 dead civilians. The bodies are burned, we are continuing to look for others.»

In the same region in March, more than 130 Fulani villagers were killed by armed men wearing traditional Dogon hunters’ clothing.

Clashes between the two groups have increased since a militant Islamist uprising in northern Mali in 2012.
The Dogon people have lived in central Mali for centuries, and live a largely traditional way of life as settled farmers. The Fulani, on the other hand, are semi-nomadic herders who move across large distances in West Africa.

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