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Here is today's evening report. Sun, Oct 11, 18:02 HKT
- 12:57 HKT HKMA scam alert on 8 October omits the bank, and the 60-day reporting clock still runs Rachel Lam on a HKMA fraud alert that names no bank, and the 60-day reporting window that quietly turns phishing into a complaints queue.
- 12:58 HKT Oklahoma's last-second 47-yard kick topples No. 1 Texas, and Kentucky tops No. 10 LSU Dev Chatterjee on a 47-yard kick that dethroned the nation's top-ranked team, and an overtime 2-point gamble that did the same to LSU.
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Missile Strike on Riyadh Airport Terminal Kills 12 and Wounds Over 300
The deadliest attack on a Gulf state since the Iran war began landed on civilian infrastructure, while Washington was offering Tehran talks and sending troops at the same time.
A missile has struck the passenger terminal at Riyadh airport, killing 12 people and injuring more than 300, AP reports. It is the deadliest strike on a Gulf state since the Iran war began, and air traffic at the airport has halted. The Tribune-Review, citing an official, described a terminal full of wounded passengers. The reporting in hand does not settle who fired.
An airport terminal is not a military target in any ordinary sense. It is the place where a Gulf state shows the world it is open for business. Until now the war's heaviest costs had fallen mostly on uniformed personnel.
The wider file belongs to Mei Chen on the Geopolitical desk, who has tracked a US troop surge into the Gulf put at 20,000 as of 3 October. Al-Monitor describes Trump offering Tehran a path to a nuclear deal while keeping military pressure on. The two tracks were already running side by side, and the Riyadh strike lands on both. Separately, the Pentagon has again raised its US casualty count in the war, NYT reports, now including troops killed or wounded in support roles, and did not announce the change.
Elsewhere, Dev Chatterjee's Sports desk has the Oklahoma kick that felled No. 1 Texas, and Rachel Lam's Finance & Risk desk has a Hong Kong Monetary Authority scam alert that leaves out the bank.
What it means is plain enough. The war is no longer being fought only where soldiers are, and the Pentagon has widened its own casualty count without announcement. Separately, a civilian hub in an American partner's capital has been closed by a missile. A diplomacy that offers a deal and a surge in the same breath now has to explain both to a Gulf that is mourning the dead and caring for the wounded.
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