UK news roundup: Yemen support, drone torpedo test, Kremlin fintech sanctions evasion, prison tagging delays

The UK's support for Saudi Arabia in its war against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen makes the front pages of the Times, external, the Daily Telegraph, external and the Guardian, external, which calls it a significant military intervention.

The i Paper reports that the UK has fired a torpedo, external from an uncrewed, underwater drone for the first time. According to the paper, the test was carried out last week in British waters and the weapon is part of the deterrent designed to protect UK ships and seabed pipelines from attacks by hostile powers.

The Financial Times says a financial technology company backed by the Kremlin managed to trick its way into the global financial system to launder nearly $7bn (£5bn) using what it describes as a "vast document forgery, external operation". The paper says it allowed Russian companies to settle bills abroad, even though its banks were cut off from the system because of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The majority of prisoners being freed under the government's early release scheme next month will not be fitted with monitoring tags, external before they leave prison, according to The Times. The paper says 1,350 prisoners will be freed over a two-week period from 1 October, but it understands the Probation Service does not have the capacity to fit tags before release to all but the most dangerous offenders, with the remainder being fitted in the community. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson is quoted as saying that the government's investing £100m in the "biggest expansion of tagging in British history, introducing a presumption to tag offenders before release for the first time".