SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi rebels said they had fired two ballistic missiles and four bomb-laden drones at a Saudi civilian airport and a military airbase in southern Saudi Arabia at dawn on Monday.

"The attacks hit military targets in the Najran Airport (in Najran city) and the King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait city," Houthi military spokesman Yehya Sarea said in a statement aired by the group's al-Masirah TV.

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TEHRAN -- Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations has denied a media report concerning a prisoner swap agreement between Iran and the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

"This news is not confirmed," Majid Takht Ravanchi, the representative, told IRNA.

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BOGOTA -- Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Sunday that he has asked Congress to withdraw the tax reform bill presented by his government after outrage against the bill and looting were seen in several cities in the country over the last four days.

"I have asked the Congress of the Republic to withdraw the project filed by the Ministry of Finance and urgently process a new project that results from a consensus, and thus avoid financial uncertainty," said the president.

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NIAMEY -- Sixteen soldiers of the National Guard of Niger were killed and six others wounded in an attack in Tilia, west Niger, an official said on Sunday evening.

"We have just gone through a painful time. Captain Maman Nameywa of the National Guard of Niger, with his mates, fell yesterday" in an ambush launched by armed bandits in the department of Tilia, Ibrahim Miko, secretary general of the region, confirmed on national television. Enditem

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