Saudi says it destroyed missile fired at Aramco facility by Houthis
Yemen’s armed Houthi movement said it had launched a ballistic missile toward a Saudi Aramco oil refinery on Friday, but Saudi air defense forces said they had intercepted and destroyed the projectile.
Russia’s Orthodox Church freezes ties with Constantinople over Ukraine spat
Russia’s Orthodox Church said on Friday it would no longer participate in structures chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, deepening a row in Orthodox Christianity over the Ukrainian Church’s bid to break away from Moscow’s orbit.
Kosovo indicts 12 people including government minister over war pensions fraud
Kosovo’s state prosecutor indicted 12 people including senior government officials on charges of pensions fraud on Friday, accusing them of falsely registering thousands of people as war veterans who claimed millions of euros in state benefits.
Israeli troops kill boy, two men in Gaza protests: medics
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, one of them an 11-year-old boy, and wounded at least 248 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said.
Venezuela hands China more oil presence, but no mention of new funds
Venezuela gave China another stake in the OPEC nation’s oil industry and signed several other deals in the energy sector, but Beijing made no mention of new funds for Caracas during President Nicolas Maduro’s visit to his key financier on Friday.
France wants to triple bike use with better cycle lanes
France plans to more than triple the share of cycling in transport with a multi-year plan to build better bike lanes, financial incentives for bicycle commuters and measures against bike theft, the government said.
Britain steps up efforts to target dirty money from Russia, corrupt elites
Britain is significantly stepping up efforts to tackle the dirty money funneled by Russians and other “corrupt elites” into or through the United Kingdom, a senior police officer said on Friday.
France charges two men over suspected plot to kill Congo Republic opposition leader
French prosecutors have charged two French men over a suspected plot to assassinate an opposition politician from Congo Republic living in the Paris region, an official from the prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
Philippines braces for ‘very destructive’ typhoon
Philippine authorities evacuated more areas on Friday and warned an estimated 5.2 million people in the path of a “very destructive” typhoon to stay indoors, as the country braced for heavy rain and damage to infrastructure and crops.
Yemen’s Houthis say launch missile at Aramco refinery in Jizan: TV
The Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen said it had launched on Friday a missile towards an oil refinery of Saudi Aramco in Jizan in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
