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WorldAug 9, 2026

Houthi Attacks Kill 11 in Yemen and Hit a Saudi Oil Refinery

Yemen's Houthi movement said it struck Saudi Arabia's Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone and carried out separate strikes near the port city of Mokha that killed at least 11 people, as the wider regional conflict tied to the US-Iran war keeps spreading beyond its original battle lines. The Houthis said the attacks were a response to Saudi drones crossing into Yemeni airspace.

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Archaeologists Uncover an 1,800-Year-Old Statue of the Greek God of Healing in Turkey

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Uber Commits 10 Billion Dollars to Put 120,000 Driverless Cars on the Road

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English News in Levels

Houthi Attacks Kill 11 in Yemen and Hit a Saudi Oil Refinery

Archaeologists Uncover an 1,800-Year-Old Statue of the Greek God of Healing in Turkey

Uber Commits 10 Billion Dollars to Put 120,000 Driverless Cars on the Road

Travis Barker Opens Up About Surviving a Plane Crash in New Documentary Louder Than Fear

Airbnb Stock Jumps to a Four-Year High After a Strong Earnings Report

Iran Publishes a List of Demands Before It Will Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds a Giant Honeycomb Pattern on Mars

Anthropic Will Design Its Own Computer Chips for Claude AI

Reality TV Star's Probation Ends, Then Her Celebration Photos Raise Questions

Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds Post Fifth Straight Day of Gains as Crypto Market Tops $2.2 Trillion

UAE Says Iran Fired a Missile at an Oil Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

Divers Find a 2,400-Year-Old Shipwreck Off Greece Carrying Hundreds of Ancient Amphorae

Tesla and SpaceX Announce a 16.8 Billion Dollar Chip Factory in Texas Called Terafab

Ted Lasso Returns for a Fourth Season, Reuniting Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple

Cloudflare Stock Jumps 16 Percent After Earnings Beat and Raised Guidance

Iran Debates the Wording of a Hormuz Shipping Deal as Trump Says Talks Are Moving Along

Lost Megalodon Vertebrae, Missing Since a 1989 Museum Move, Rediscovered on a Storage Shelf

Scientists Say Mining Asteroids Could Become the Hardware Store for a Future Mars Colony

Suri Cruise Legally Changes Her Last Name to Noelle, Confirming a Long Estrangement From Tom Cruise

Atlassian Shares Surge 35 Percent After Blowout Earnings and Raised Guidance

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan Sign Landmark Mutual Defense Pact in Mecca

Scientists Use Underground Scans to Find Hidden Human-Shaped Stones Inside 6,000-Year-Old French Burial Mounds

World's Largest Solar Telescope Captures the Sharpest Images of the Sun Ever Taken, Revealing Tiny Whirlpools of Plasma

Tom Holland Wears a Wedding Band in Public for the First Time, Confirming He and Zendaya Have Secretly Married