Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Posted by Tawfiq al-Sayegh, one of Saudi's most popular religious scholars.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Very unusual reports circulating among Saudi media: An alleged attack on the city of Mecca, which is being blamed on the Ansarullah. Note, no sirens were activated in the south recently, and unusual for Riyadh to allow such incidents to even be reported openly, unless the Kingdom is gearing its population for a potential new-war with the al-Houthi forces? Two weeks ago, al-Hadaath openly aired destruction to civilian properties in the south of the country from Ansarullah shelling, something that would normally be unheard of from Saudi state-owned outlets.

🇾🇪 - Current situation across the Southern Yemen front.

🇾🇪🇮🇶🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia suspends oil loading at Yabnu's port terminal along the Red Sea.

🇲🇾🇮🇱⚡- Malaysia's Coast Guard has seized another three Israeli-bound cargo vessels within its water-spaces. All three vessels called at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas, southwest Malaysia, and were carrying cargo from China.

🇪🇺🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia has told some European oil refiners that their September shipments have been cancelled following the Ansarullah attacks on three pumping stations along the East-West pipeline forcing it to cease operations temporarily.

🇸🇦🇪🇬⚡- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in Cairo and is received by Egypt's El-Sisi.

🇪🇺🇫🇮⚡️- European leaders have backed Finland’s push for a joint EU icebreaker fleet, with the vessels potentially being built and based there as Arctic shipping grows and the region becomes more strategically important in competition with Russia and China.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese air defences intercepted multiple drones over the disputed al-Fashaga region after they attempted to strike the Upper Atbara Dam and the Setit Dam. It remains unclear who launched the drones. However, the aircraft approached their targets via the al-Fashaga region rather than through Sudanese-controlled territory. This would make the involvement of Rapid Support Forces, RSF, operating from within Sudan less likely. Sudanese media have variously blamed the Ethiopian government, Addis Ababa-backed al-Fashaga militias, or RSF elements on Ethiopian territory. In response, certain circles within the Sudanese media are calling for a retaliatory strike on Ethiopia's GERD.

🇻🇦🇫🇷⚡️- As Pope Leo prepares to head to France for a 3-stop tour later this month, medias have revealed that the Holy See denied a list of requests from the French government. Among these denied requests figures a "private meeting with Macron in Notre-Dame" and a formal dinner with the French president. The Holy See also refused to let the French Republican Guard take part in the ceremonies.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- This plane was likely carrying Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology alongside a small Iranian delegation to participate in the Fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- An Iranian government aircraft, IRAN06, has landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi / Yemeni airstrike on a weapons depot in Jabal Hilan, Ansarullah-controlled Ma'rib, central Yemen. Secondary explosions continue at the site.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia is shelling the Ansarullah-controlled al-Buq heights, northern Yemen, with a combination of rockets and artillery.

🇾🇪⚡- Earlier this morning, the Ansarullah launched an attack on Harib, Ma'rib direction, for the second time this week after the first ended in failure. The al-Houthi attack was repelled.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Explosions heard were likely interceptions across several points in southern Saudi Arabia. No confirmed impacts have been reported in the latest Ansarullah attack.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Alerts in southern Saudi Arabia - Ansarullah attack ongoing.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi / Yemeni airstrikes on Ta'izz Airport, near the town of al-Janad, Ansarullah-controlled southern Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump reportedly met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican National Convention on Thursday—at Altman’s request—to discuss AI's “growing power”, according to MS NOW.