Houthis fire ballistic missile at Riyadh

Saudi Arabian forces on Tuesday intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Yemeni Houthi rebels towards Riyadh after authorities issued a danger warning.
The kingdom "intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Riyadh", said Turki Al-Malki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen's government in its war against the Houthis.
Riyadh was shaken by two blasts, according to AFP journalists in the capital.
"A warning has been issued by the National Early Warning Platform in Riyadh City to alert for a potential danger," the Saudi civil defence said in a statement on X.
But the alert was lifted a few minutes later, with the civil defence saying "the danger has passed".
A senior Yemeni official says the death toll from a Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen has increased to 73 people.
The recruits were all aged between 18 and 20, and some were 
still missing a day after the Iranian-backed rebels hit the al-Alam training camp in the southern province of Shabwa with ballistic missiles, Shabwa governor Awad Ibn al-Wazir told The Associated Press. 
More than 250,000 people have been internally displaced in Yemen since the civil war reignited, the United Nations said Tuesday.

emen's civil war -- in which a Saudi-led military coalition supports the government against the Iran-backed Houthis -- reignited in July, months into the US-Iran conflict that has plunged the Middle East into crisis.
After an uneasy, four-year truce, Yemen's conflict has surged back to life and then intensified when the Houthis seized strategic territory along the Red Sea coast last month.
Displacement is continuing to rise sharply across Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, which was already suffering a vast humanitarian crisis.
"UNHCR is obviously deeply concerned about the escalating displacement situation," Matthew Saltmarsh, spokesman for the UN refugee agency, told a press conference in Geneva. 
Britain will deploy Royal Air Force fighter jets on defensive missions to help protect Saudi Arabia from escalating Houthi attacks, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing British officials familiar with the matter.
RAF Typhoon fighter jets will help defend Saudi cities and infrastructure against aerial attacks by the Iran-backed group, while Britain will also provide an Atlas A400M transport aircraft and military advisers, the report said.
Britain's Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, Iran has deliberately prolonged talks with the US to try to weaken Donald Trump politically ahead of November's US midterm elections, senior officials say, while fears of renewed military action and deep distrust of Washington have reinforced Tehran's reluctance to strike a quick deal to end the war.   

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Three senior Iranian officials and an Iranian insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tehran was convinced the US president was ready to resort to renewed attacks to try to break the stalemate in the eight-month-old war.      
"Iran is preparing for renewed Israeli and US attacks, not for a deal with America to end the war," one of the officials said. "The clerical establishment is determined not to give Trump a political victory."
Tehran analyst Saeed Leylaz said that, by prolonging the talks, "Iran is influencing the US election without taking any unlawful action".

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