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The Rest of the World Report | September 16, 2026 — Evening Edition
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Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Houthi drone before it could enter the airspace over Mecca on Tuesday, the first security alert activated in Islam’s holiest city in nearly a decade. Hundreds of miles away in Jerusalem, Israeli police have quietly begun allowing something the same religious framework has forbidden for decades: Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third-holiest site.
Turki al-Maliki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, said Royal Saudi Air Defence Forces…
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