The Gulf Cooperation Council condemned repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia on Sunday, after a foreign ministers' meeting in Manama, and backed the kingdom's right to self-defence. Saudi forces shot down two drones near Riyadh and in the Eastern Province the same morning. In Yemen, government forces are pressing offensives on several fronts, the fighting has displaced more than 233,000 people, and the World Health Organization warns Taiz's twelve hospitals have only four days of fuel left.
Parties in the Unitary Democratic Platform met in Caracas on Sunday and agreed to “recognise and support” the leadership of exiled Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, while renewing their demand for free elections after the contested 2018 and 2024 votes. Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who has led the country since a US military operation removed Nicolás Maduro in January, has President Trump's backing for a three-phase plan that places stabilisation before any political transition.
Kenya's Director-General for Health, Patrick Amoth, confirmed an eighth case on Sunday, a 49-year-old care attendant likely exposed to the country's first patient. The outbreak in neighbouring DR Congo, caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no vaccine, has killed more than 4,500 people out of over 9,400 cases since May and is the country's deadliest on record; the virus has now reached an eighth province. Authorities in North Kivu are imposing a one-week entry ban and restricting public gatherings from Monday.
