Yemen’s Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out 26 strikes on Sanaa on Oct. 3, while an AFP journalist in Riyadh reported seeing flames and smoke from an oil facility outside the Saudi capital. Neither Saudi officials nor the Houthis commented on the fire. The Iran-backed group has attacked oil facilities in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks amid the Yemen war, in which Riyadh supports the internationally recognised government. The sides have exchanged strikes since the Houthis seized Yemen’s Red Sea coast and took control of the Bab al-Mandab strait. Elsewhere, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian pilot whose Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight was attacked, to Israel as a guest of honour. Netanyahu also proposed that Machchhar and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi light a flame at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony next May, a role usually reserved for Israeli citizens. Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said President Vladimir Putin understood that invading Ukraine in 2022 was a mistake but was not ready to negotiate an end to the war. In Tennessee, the state’s corrections chief will step down this month after Christa Pike’s failed lethal-injection execution left her gravely ill. Governor Bill Lee halted further death-penalty attempts for the rest of 2026 after the state’s second failed execution this year. In football, Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka scored twice each as England beat Croatia 7-0 in Rijeka. Jude Bellingham added a goal and three assists, while Anthony Gordon and substitute Morgan Rogers also scored. England sit second in League A, Group Three with six points, behind Spain on nine; Croatia have three points and the Czechs none.