Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility.
The organisers of two major Saudi energy and investment conferences said their events will go ahead this month and reassured visitors on security, after missile attacks on Riyadh's airport left four people dead and an airliner heavily damaged this week.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, 2027 and called a presidential poll for the same date, blaming Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories for the delay.
The Saudi-led coalition said Saturday it is carrying out a "large-scale operation" against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, claiming to have destroyed 136 military targets.
Libya's military brigade seized more than 1.3 million narcotic pills after a firefight with smugglers in a southeastern town that injured three soldiers, the military said on Friday.
King Mohammed VI said on Friday that Morocco's efforts to curb irregular migration had produced "concrete results," but that the current cooperation model with Spain had reached its limits amid recurring crises.
An Omani flydubai co-pilot had intended to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash it into a terminal at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on September 30 in a suicide attack before he was thwarted by the captain, the UAE attorney general said on Friday.
Europe's EASA aviation safety body said on Friday it had expanded the area of Saudi Arabian airspace where it recommended airlines not to operate, after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Riyadh airport.
A small group of protesters clashed with police in Brussels on Friday as union members, joined by hundreds of students, marched as part of a national strike against planned government budget cuts.
Israel has taken part in the Marrakech Airshow with its first official national pavilion, putting its growing defense ties with Morocco on public display.
Turkey's crackdown on LGBT groups, the opposition and the media is pushing it further from European Union membership, EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said on Friday during an official visit.
Palestinian Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh has informed France that a Palestinian legislative election planned for November 28 will be postponed for several months because of worsening conditions throughout the Palestinian territories, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
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