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Yemen government begins nationwide offensive against Houthis

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Yemen’s internationally recognised government has ordered its armed forces into a nationwide campaign to retake Houthi-held territory, marking a sharp expansion of fighting after weeks of escalating confrontation involving the Iran-backed group and Saudi Arabia. Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council and supreme commander of the armed forces, announced the operation on Sunday, saying the government was moving from preparation to […]

Saudi sets six-year-low Arab Light discount in Asia

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Saudi Aramco has cut the November official selling price of its flagship Arab Light crude for Asian customers by $3 a barrel, setting it at a $5 discount to the average of Oman and Dubai benchmarks, the widest discount since June 2020. The unexpectedly deep reduction comes as Brent crude remains above $100 a barrel amid persistent Middle East security risks, while recovering […]

Israel’s top court restores Arab parties to ballot

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously restored the country’s two main Arab electoral lists to the October 27 parliamentary ballot, overturning disqualifications imposed by the Central Elections Committee before voting this month. The court ruled that neither Ra’am nor the Joint List met the stringent legal threshold required to exclude a political list from a Knesset election. The decision preserves the principal electoral vehicles […]

Bitget probes breach with Mandiant and SlowMist

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has published independent findings from Mandiant and SlowMist into its September 24 security breach, with both investigations tracing the intrusion to compromised third-party security products that enabled unauthorised access to the exchange’s wallet environment. The disclosure sharpens the explanation of an incident initially valued at about $351.6 million and later revised to approximately $387.5 million after additional on-chain tracing identified affected transactions involving Zcash […]

Battle Over CEC Enters Consequential Phase, A Political Flashpoint

By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the very first day of the protests on October 2, by INDIA bloc and other opposition political parties, Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), Civil societies, and common people against CEC demanding his resignation across the country, particularly in Delhi and Mumbai, the campaign entered a consequential phase and at a political […]

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Flydubai pilots transferred to UAE for questioning

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai The two pilots involved in a violent cockpit altercation aboard flydubai flight FZ1073 have been transferred from Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi, placing them directly within a UAE investigation seeking to establish what triggered the mid-air emergency. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior said the captain and co-pilot left for Abu Dhabi on Thursday after receiving medical clearance, accompanied by a UAE security team. […]

Saudi pipeline flows climb above 80% capacity

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Saudi Arabia has lifted crude flows through its East-West Pipeline to nearly 6 million barrels a day, restoring more than 80% of the strategic route’s capacity and sharply increasing oil available for export from the Red Sea coast. The 7 million-barrel-a-day conduit, operated by Saudi Aramco, is now carrying volumes close to levels reached during the Iran war, after running at roughly half […]

Pentagon expands Gulf force with Roosevelt deployment

The Pentagon is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group and thousands of additional sailors and Marines towards the Middle East, expanding US military options as President Donald Trump considers whether to intensify attacks on Iran. The Roosevelt departed its San Diego home port on Sunday, September 27, and is expected to enter the US Central Command area of operations. The deployment, combined with a separate […]

Modi honours pilot Machchhar after flydubai emergency

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised Captain Smit Machchhar as a “hero” for his actions during a cockpit emergency aboard a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, saying his courage helped avert a major tragedy. Modi said on Thursday that Machchhar showed “immense courage” and an unwavering determination to protect others despite suffering serious injuries. “India is proud of Captain Machchhar,” he […]

PwC identifies AI attacks as largest cyber readiness gap

Attacks targeting artificial intelligence systems have become the biggest cybersecurity preparedness gap for organisations, PwC said on Thursday, as its global survey exposed weaknesses in skills, accountability and data protection. Half of security leaders placed attacks on AI systems among the threats they were least prepared to address, ahead of cloud threats at 40%, third-party breaches at 34% and ransomware at 33%. The findings were published on […]

‘CEC Is PM Narendra Modi’s Tool’ Is The New Political Narrative

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The new political narrative brought forward by the opposition INDIA bloc is that CEC Gyanesh Kumar is PM Narendra Modi’s tool through whom electoral democracy of India has been hijacked. No wonder, BJP is trying their best to defend CEC Gyanesh Kumar, to defend PM Modi, who is now in the […]

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Regev presses for Flydubai flight suspension

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Israel’s Transport Minister Miri Regev has called for all Flydubai flights to Israel to be suspended after a Dubai-Tel Aviv service made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia following a serious cockpit incident on Wednesday. Regev asked Israel’s Shin Bet security service to halt the Dubai-based carrier’s operations pending an investigation into the episode and compliance with security arrangements governing its services to […]

‘Save Democracy’ Rallies From Oct 2-8, INDIA Bloc March To ECI On Oct 6

By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the morning of September 30, 2026, Delhi witnessed display of a series of hoardings, unclaimed by any organization but believed to have been put on behalf of the BJP, that targeted leaders of opposition before INDIA bloc meeting, and claiming rift among their leaders. BJP separately criticised Leader of Opposition […]

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Election Commission Scandal Is Now India’s Biggest Democratic Crisis

By K Raveendran The controversy surrounding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has moved beyond another confrontation between the government and the Opposition. What is now at stake is whether the Election Commission of India can continue to command the presumption of institutional neutrality on which the credibility of elections ultimately rests. The latest developments have […]

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Saudi allies coordinate defence response to Houthi attacks

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have moved to activate military coordination under their new joint defence pact after Houthi attacks on the kingdom, with Pakistan pledging to defend Saudi Arabia by “whatever means” are required. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Islamabad stood unequivocally behind the kingdom under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, though he did not say whether Pakistan had joined […]

Oil steadies as Middle East supply rebounds

Oil prices steadied on Wednesday as Middle East crude exports approached pre-war levels, with restored Saudi pipeline flows easing immediate supply concerns despite continuing geopolitical risks around the Strait of Hormuz. The more-active December Brent contract traded near $96 a barrel after falling 1.7% in the previous session, while US West Texas Intermediate hovered around $90. Prices later edged higher after US President Donald Trump rejected reports […]

OpenAI withdraws GPT-6.1 Astra after safety tests

OpenAI has cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal evaluations found the artificial intelligence model fell short of the company’s safety and alignment requirements. The unreleased model was intended to improve ChatGPT and Codex, particularly for complex tasks that could be completed with less human assistance. Testing, however, identified problems involving whether the system remained within the scope authorised by users and whether it […]

Amazon patches AgentCore flaws exposing AWS credentials

Amazon Web Services has patched two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Python software development kit for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands inside Code Interpreter sandboxes and obtain temporary AWS credentials attached to customer execution roles. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-12530 and CVE-2026-16796, affected the SDK’s install_packages() helper, which enables AI agents to install Python libraries inside managed Code Interpreter sessions. AWS has […]

MCP Python SDK patches high-risk OAuth credential flaw

Maintainers of the Model Context Protocol Python SDK have patched a high-severity OAuth weakness that could let a malicious MCP server steal authentication credentials and potentially take over accounts. The flaw affects the official Python implementation of MCP, an open protocol originally introduced by Anthropic to connect artificial-intelligence applications with external tools and data. The security advisory rates the vulnerability 7.5 out of 10 for unattended authentication […]

Pentagon confirms breach affecting more than three million

The Pentagon has confirmed that a breach of a Defense Manpower Data Center information system exposed sensitive personal information linked to more than three million living and deceased people. A US defence official said the incident affected 2.76 million living individuals and about 294,000 deceased people, establishing a clearer scale for an intrusion that exposed Social Security numbers and personnel information held by the department. The Defense […]

OpenAI agent attack trail exposes million-link workaround

Security researchers have reconstructed how hundreds of OpenAI evaluation agents used almost one million public URLs while escaping restricted web access and compromising parts of Hugging Face’s infrastructure during a July cybersecurity test. The forensic study, published on September 25 by researchers affiliated with Parse, Palisade Research and other organisations, analysed public traces left by the agents and decoded more than 80,000 attack payloads. Hugging Face confirmed […]

BotHelper RAT gives attackers live Windows screen access

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan that can continuously stream an infected computer’s display to its operators while supporting command execution, downloads, clipboard monitoring and other remote-control functions. Point Wild’s Lat61 Threat Intelligence team named the malware BotHelper RAT after the Bot. Helper namespace found in its. NET assembly. Its analysis, published on September 24, traced a multi-stage infection chain beginning with […]