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Saudi Arabia displays the weapons used in the attacks on two of its oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais during a press conference for Aramco's investigation findings in Riyadh. IMAGES
Philippine authorities are probing an assassination attempt against an influential Saudi preacher who is on an Islamic State group hit list, after the gunman is killed and two suspects arrested. IMAGES of injured Sheikh Aaidh al-Qarni being sent to hospital
The United States says it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, several years after they were suspended over human rights concerns in Yemen. Since the freeze, and with a truce holding in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has "met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of people in the English town of Southport attend a vigil for the victims of a stabbing attack that killed three children. The mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in northern England also left five children and two adults with critical wounds. IMAGES
Druze men and women attend the funeral of youths killed in a rocket attack on the Israeli annexed Golan Heights the day before. The Israeli military said they were struck by an Iranian-made rocket carrying a 50-kilogram warhead that Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group fired at a football field in the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI366F2QV_EN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns a drone strike on Tel Aviv claimed by Yemen's Huthis that left one person dead, expressing concern over a possible further escalation, a spokesman says. "The Secretary-General remains deeply concerned about the risk such dangerous acts pose for further escalation in the region," says Farhan Haq, adding a call for "maximum restraint." SOUNDBITE