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Saudi Arabia: a new explosion heard in Riyadh
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Le Figaro Actualités·1 hour ago·World·1 min read·🇫🇷France·

Saudi Arabia: a new explosion heard in Riyadh

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Update on international news: the announcement of a public execution in the United States, a deadly attack on Riyadh airport and developments in the situation in the Strait of Hormuz according to American diplomacy.

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The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic sea route for global oil transportation. Tensions between Iran and Western powers are recurrent there.

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United States: the execution by firing squad of the author of a massacre on a military base in 2009 will be public and broadcast live

“He will be shot by soldiers, as it should be, and we will make sure that the public can witness it, that it is public,” announced Pete Hegseth in a video shared on X by official accounts affiliated with the Pentagon.

Strike against Riyadh airport: a French woman among the injured, Paris expresses “its total solidarity” with Saudi Arabia

A missile hit the airport on Saturday “around 3 p.m.”, according to a diplomatic source. Twelve deaths are to be deplored. On Sunday, the Houthis threatened to again strike air traffic in Saudi Arabia.

Strait of Hormuz: Marco Rubio announces that Tehran “has lost full control” of the maritime passage

On an official visit to Athens, the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio estimated on Wednesday that oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz had almost returned to its pre-conflict level, a sign according to him of a weakening of the control exercised by Iran over this strategic route.

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