Houthi missiles killed at least four people at Aden's Al-Maashiq palace on Thursday, Yemeni government military sources said. Market odds of Houthi entry into Aden by Oct. 31 sit at 4.2%, Cryptobriefing reported.
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Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry confirmed a hit on an Aramco office building in Dhahran, days after 14 died at Riyadh's airport. The Houthis also claim a Riyadh refinery, and the damage confirmed so far is to an airport and an office building.
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Houthi strikes on King Khalid International Airport killed more than a dozen people, Semafor reported, a week before Riyadh Season opens. For Gulf operators the exposure is duration, and a Semafor columnist now calls the conflict a 'forever war'.
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Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree named every Saudi airport outside Mecca and Medina a potential target, a day after a strike killed 12 at Riyadh's airport. For Gulf aviation the cost so far is closed airports and cancelled flights from three neighbours, and how far it spreads depends on whether US forces join Saudi strikes.
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Brent rose to $101.80 on Wednesday after a Gulf storm curtailed 185,120 barrels a day of US offshore crude and Houthi strikes damaged two Saudi airports. That loss is small beside Middle East shut-ins, so the bigger fourth-quarter cost risk runs through Gulf refineries into diesel.
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Gulf crude flows recover to 80% of normal on shuttle runs too costly to pull prices down
Gulf producers have restored about 80% of Hormuz crude flows with shuttle runs and a partly restarted Saudi pipeline, Seoul Economic Daily reports. Insurance on those runs and Iran's continued force in the strait keep prices on course to stay elevated through year-end.
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Recovering Gulf exports pull Brent under $100 despite more tanker attacks near Hormuz
Brent fell to $99.49 as Gulf crude flows outside Iran climbed past 81% of pre-war levels and the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels. Rising tanker attacks near Hormuz keep the cost of shipping and insuring those barrels high.
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UAE vice president Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed met Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday, their first high-level meeting since January's split over Yemen. Whether the thaw outlasts a US-Iran deal on Hormuz will show which threat is holding it together.
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Houthi advance on Bab al-Mandab exposes Eritrea most by share and China most by dollars
Yemen's Houthis are advancing on Bab al-Mandab, the strait carrying 87% of Eritrea's maritime trade by value and US$520 billion of China's a year. Share and dollar value rank the exposed countries differently, and the researchers' US$30 billion estimate for a 30-day blockade is a global total.
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Anthropic's third misuse report says accounts in Houthi-held northern Yemen used Claude Code to write guidance software for three weapons programs, and a weapons analyst doubts the group can build any of them.
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Trump left Camp David early on Saturday after the first missile reached Riyadh since hostilities resumed. The contract on a US invasion of Iran by the end of 2026 went from 16 percent to 16.5 percent YES, a relative move of about 3 percent.
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Drone attacks shut the pipeline Saudi Arabia used to bypass Hormuz
Riyadh's overland line to the Red Sea absorbed February's Hormuz closure. With it down since Friday and the Houthis holding Mokha, Saudi crude reaching Asia is running near a fifth of June's rate, on Kpler's figures.
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Anthropic knows the Yemen guided-rocket test failed because the users came back to ask why
Anthropic's third misuse report covers December to August and describes a cell in Houthi-held northern Yemen that used Claude Code on missile guidance software before the company blocked its accounts.
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Houthi forces close 90 kilometres on the strait that moves a tenth of seaborne trade
Perim Island splits Bab al-Mandab into two channels. The Houthis now hold it. Crude has crossed $100 on the escalation, while no diverted-tonnage or war-risk premium figure has been published to show cargo has stopped.
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Saudi Arabia's Red Sea detour now runs past a Houthi-held island in the Bab al-Mandeb
Oil is quoted near $100 to $105 after Houthi forces reached Perim Island on September 11. The single report carrying that number counts no stopped barrels, and it gives no freight rate and no current transit count for the strait.
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Oil holds $101 as Saudi exports climb back to 70 per cent of normal
Naked Capitalism reports crude at $101 with Persian Gulf flows increasing and Riyadh exporting at about 70 per cent of its old normal. The futures curve and the baseline barrels, the two things that would price that bid, are not in the reporting.
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