Day News Recap: Yemen fighting and Red Sea tensions deepen as world marks 9/11 anniversary

Yemen saw the sharpest escalation, with more than 900 people killed or injured in less than a week of renewed fighting and at least 5,000 families forced from their homes as civilians fled Taiz.  🔗

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The conflict around the Red Sea and Bab al Mandab also intensified, with Houthi forces reported to have seized Perim Island and Mokha, tightened their grip on the shipping lane, and advanced across Yemen's Tihamah coast.  🔗  🔗  🔗

That pressure on maritime routes was echoed by the United States, which began telling oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to travel at specific times if they want military protection, while Iran said it will meet Gulf states and Iraq in Oman on Monday to discuss the strait and regional security.  🔗  🔗

Elsewhere in the region, Houthi attacks on Saudi cities and facilities revived questions over whether the Saudi Pakistan Turkiye Mecca Pact could be activated, and in northern Syria at least seven inmates were killed after a prison fire and riot in Kobane.  🔗  🔗

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Russia continued its war on Ukraine with strikes on steel plants in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih, as well as cargo vessels, while Kyiv warned it faces its toughest winter since the full scale invasion because attacks are straining power and water networks.  🔗  🔗

In Europe, the next round of Israel Lebanon talks in Rome was delayed until October amid renewed strikes, and declassified UK files showed officials were warning about Israeli conduct in the occupied West Bank as far back as 2002.  🔗  🔗

Diplomacy also moved elsewhere, with Xi Jinping arriving in New Delhi for the BRICS summit as wars and trade tensions hung over the meeting, and North Korea firing multiple short range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea after joint drills with the United States and South Korea.  🔗  🔗

In the Americas, the United States marked the 25th anniversary of the 11 September attacks with ceremonies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, while Donald Trump said a unified Ireland would be fantastic during a Dublin visit.  🔗  🔗

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Other developments included the UN Security Council extending its partial arms embargo on Sudan's Darfur region for one month, the ECB chief economist defending the latest rate rise as eurozone inflation stayed above target, and a Guatemalan court clearing Deputy Minister Luis Pacheco and three Indigenous leaders of terrorism charges.  🔗  🔗  🔗

In the United States, Mexican authorities rescued eight people from a suspected CJNG secret clinic in Jalisco, the CIA released 71 declassified presidential briefs warning about al Qaeda before 9/11, and Oklahoma cases ended with sentences for a felon in possession firearms case and for unlawful reentry.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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