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The Saudi-led coalition says that further attacks have been launched against King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh.

Maj Gen Turki al-Maliki, the official spokesman for the coalition, says that an "unknown projectile" hit Passenger Hall No 4 at the airport, causing a fire which authorities were dealing with.

In a separate update, he says that air defences have intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of the airport.

The Saudi-led coalition was formed in 2015 after Arab countries joined forces to stop the Houthis taking over Yemen from the country's internationally recognised government.

I demand that all charges against Chloe Freeman be dropped immediately and unconditionally. Every UAW member, every worker, and every young person should demand the same.

My name is Will Lehman, I work at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and I'm a rank-and-file candidate for president of the United Auto Workers union.

Chloe Freeman is a registered nurse who worked at Trinity Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In May, Border Patrol agents chased a Mexican worker through the city. He tripped, smashed his face on the pavement, and was taken to her hospital bleeding. While he was alone in the CT room, Chloe took out his IV and walked him out the ambulance entrance. She told investigators she didn't agree with ICE tearing families apart. Now the Trump administration is prosecuting her and she faces up to a year in federal prison.

This is a political vendetta. The message is, defend an immigrant and you'll be treated like a criminal.

This is part of the biggest assault on immigrant workers in American history. Hundreds of thousands have been detained and deported. ICE arrested about 51,000 people in July alone. Nearly $250 billion has been handed to ICE and the Border Patrol, including $45 billion for detention camps where men, women, and children are held without charges.

Though this is occurring, people are fighting back. 100,000 marched in Minneapolis. Neighbors are confronting raids in city after city. More than $30,000 has been raised for her defense. Working people are coming to an understanding that an attack on immigrants is an attack on all of us.

The same police state methods are being prepared for any worker who strikes, protests, or speaks out against war and dictatorship. We cannot count on the political establishment or the union bureaucracies which sabotage the call for a general strike in Minneapolis and has done nothing to defend our immigrant brothers and sisters.

Healthcare workers, form rank-and-file committees in your hospitals to protect your patients and co-workers from ICE. Auto workers, nurses and all workers in every industry must unite to stop the raids and deportations. Defend Chloe Freeman and drop the charges now

The congress, held August 22-24, represented a milestone in the fight for Trotskyism in the Canadian working class and an historic advance in the ICFI's struggle on a global scale for the program of world socialist revolution.

Emily Wilson, like Odysseus, is terribly clever. In comments about Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, and in a provocative new essay for the London Review of Books, she does not come out and tell you that she did not like the film. She says watching it is a good way to hide from the heat; that her teenagers liked it; that the source material is so good that it cannot be messed up entirely. The best way to damn, after all, is with faint praise.

Wilson’s fame is closely tied to Homer’s Odyssey, a poem that the Oxford-and-Yale-educated classicist translated in 2017. Her version, celebrated as the first translation by a woman into English verse, has sold over 1 million copies and is widely assigned in classrooms. Like any other translation, it is an interpretation. Especially in a poem, how something is said is just as important as what is said. Wilson’s decision to translate into verse, and to keep the same number of lines as the original, preserves the rapidity and poetry of the original. But it also forces her to be very concise, and her unadorned language occasionally feels a bit blunt.