Houthis attack Saudi energy facilities
Houthis launch drone attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure: Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia that targeted a liquified natural gas plant, a water desalination plant, a power station and an oil refinery owned by Aramco and China’s Sinopec, the Saudi Press Agency said yesterday. The attacks caused a temporary drop in output at the oil refinery, but no casualties, it said.
Also worth knowing this morning:
- The brother of Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh has been arrested as authorities step up their probe into alleged money laundering and embezzlement by senior officials at the bank, Reuters reports.
- US classifies Rohingya violence as genocide: The Biden administration has ruled that the ethnic cleansing carried out against Myanmar’s Rohinigya minority by the country’s military constitutes a genocide and crime against humanity, US officials told Reuters.