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Pope Leo the Fourteenth has announced he will undergo surgery this week to remove a small nodule discovered on his lung during a routine health check. It marks the first significant health scare of the seventy-one-year-old pontiff's tenure, and the Vatican says the procedure is expected to be straightforward.
Turning to a dangerous escalation in the Middle East, Yemen's Houthi forces have struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh for the second time in two days. The initial attack killed twelve people, making it the deadliest strike on Saudi soil in more than a decade, and raising serious questions about the trajectory of the conflict between the Houthis and the kingdom.
And on a quieter but still concerning note, a flight from Delhi to Chennai made an emergency landing after a passenger's power bank caught fire mid-flight. It's another reminder that lithium battery incidents in aircraft cabins remain a genuine and underappreciated safety risk, one that aviation regulators have been slow to fully address.
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