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The UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which has been in place for 35 years, will come to an end because the UN Security Council failed to extend its mandate. UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced this on October 31, Reuters reported on Monday, November 1.
Morocco, which considers Western Sahara an integral part of its territory, welcomed the decision. Meanwhile, representatives of the military-political organization POLISARIO Front (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro), which is supported by Algeria, expressed concern.

Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) that strike deep within Russian territory have been able to choose targets more effectively thanks to intelligence provided to them by the United States and France. This was reported on Wednesday, July 29, by the British newspaper Financial Times (FT). According to its data, using American and French information, Ukrainian planners created a detailed map of Russia’s power system and identified critical nodes on it where malfunctions could lead to the shutdown of large parts of the system. AFU drones are now targeting precisely these nodes, as well as equipment that is hardest to replace—this is a “targeted and coordinated” strategy, an FT source in the AFU told the outlet.

Forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government have reached the outskirts of the port city of Mocha, where they intend to drive out the Yemeni Houthis, who captured the city a month ago. Reuters reported the Yemeni government’s statement on Monday, October 5, saying its forces had advanced deeper into positions held by the Houthi group Ansar Allah.

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoys Stephen Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday, September 5, Russian state media and Reuters report. They were met at Vnukovo Airport by Russian President's special representative Kirill Dmitriev.
They are expected to hold another round of talks on ending Russia's war against Ukraine, and on Sunday they will head to Kyiv.

Saudi Arabia has temporarily halted operations of the “East — West” oil pipeline after drone attacks on this key oil route. Meanwhile, forces of the Houthis, linked to Iran, are strengthening control over shipping lanes in the Red Sea, Reuters reports.
The 1,200-kilometer pipeline makes it possible to transport Saudi oil bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. According to companies monitoring ship movements and analysts, in recent months it has been pumping between 4 and 5 million barrels per day, which is about 4–5% of global oil supply.

Saudi Arabia stocks fell on Sunday, and losses spread to Gulf markets after Yemeni Houthi militants said they launched missile and drone attacks on targets in Riyadh, Reuters reported.
Saudi Arabia’s benchmark stock index fell by 0.5%: shares of oil giant Saudi Aramco dropped by 0.6%, and shares of Saudi National Bank — the country’s largest bank by assets — lost 0.5%.

Directors Rachel Shor and Yuval Abraham received a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival
The Minister of Culture of Israel, Miki Zohar, demanded that British directors of Israeli origin, Rachel Shor and Yuval Abraham—the authors of the documentary film NAZA, which contains criticism of the Israeli army—be stripped of their citizenship. "The destructive self-hatred of these directors, who are willing to harm their own country for the applause of anti-Semites from all over the world, is unthinkable and constitutes a betrayal of the state," Zohar wrote on Sunday evening, September 13, on the X platform.

During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, American representatives in the person of U.S. special envoy Stephen Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner discussed “concrete plans” for further steps aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, and these plans are to be made public “in the coming weeks.” This was reported to AFP by a White House representative on the night of Sunday, September 6. “The U.S. envoys are looking forward to equally productive meetings to be held in Ukraine,” the agency quotes its source in Washington as saying.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday— the second day of ongoing attacks despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement of progress in implementing last year’s ceasefire agreement, Reuters reported.
Palestinian medical officials said Israeli military aircraft carried out separate strikes on residential homes in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.

On Saturday, near the Aramco company facility in Riyadh, a large column of smoke and fire was spotted, raising concerns about the safety of Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure amid heightened tensions with the Yemenite Houthi movement linked to Iran.

In the night of Wednesday, August 5, at the Leipzig/Halle airport, next to a Ukrainian cargo airplane An-124, a suspicious item was discovered. X-ray examination showed that it was a drone equipped with explosives with a detonator, reports the dpa agency. It was defused using a remotely controlled robot.

According to official Damascus data, senior representatives of Syria and Israel have begun talks aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries. A Syrian delegation headed by the foreign minister of the transitional government, Asaad ash-Shaibani, and with the participation of intelligence service representatives, met with the Israeli delegation in Jordan with the mediation of the United States, the Syrian foreign ministry representative said on Sunday, 23 August.

The US State Department removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a status the country held for almost 50 years. In addition, US sanctions were lifted against the group "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" (HTS), which came to power in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime, according to a press release published on Monday, August 24, on the US Treasury Department website.

The government of Yemen supported by Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday the start of a large-scale military operation to retake territories under the control of the Houthis, who are backed by Iran.
Yemen’s President Rashad al-Alimi said in a televised address: “Today I declare the start of military operations to retake the remaining territory of the republic and extend the authority of the state and its institutions across the entire national territory.”

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said. It was the deadliest escalation since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was reached in June.
Seven people, including three children, were killed as a result of an attack by an Israeli military aircraft on a house at the outskirts of the village of Ansar; four more were killed in a separate strike on Deir el-Zahrani, the state-run Lebanese news agency reported.

Kazakhstan is holding talks with Russia on the processing of Russian oil at its refineries. Reuters reported this on Thursday, July 30, citing the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan.
"Negotiations are under way on the processing of Russian-origin oil, followed by the sale of the resulting products within Kazakhstan and the export of part of the products to the Russian Federation", Reuters quotes a statement from a Kazakhstan agency.