Saudi Arabia: twelve dead and 309 injured in an attack on Riyadh airport blamed on the Houthis
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AustraliaCanberra is gauging the attack on Riyadh in terms of the traveler and air transport: advisories against traveling to the Saudi capital, hundreds of flights canceled, business conferences maintained.
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BelgiumBrussels relays Riyadh's attack via the AFP wire and brings it back to an infrastructure issue: a closed airport, a second one targeted in Dammam, backup platforms threatened.
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the narrative first places the Australian government's directive before the conflict's toll.
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the account focuses on the evacuation platforms rather than the victims.
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the toll and nationalities are based on an unnamed medical source and an unnamed informed source.
- Australia
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the attribution of the strike is based on an unnamed diplomatic source.
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Australia onlyBelgiumthis perspective does not carry this information