The Saudi Arabian military announced on the 23rd (local time) that it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels toward the capital, Riyadh.

The Saudi military added that it also shot down two Houthi drones in the southern region of Saudi Arabia.

Following the detection of the Houthi attacks, the Saudi General Directorate of Civil Defense issued air raid alerts for Riyadh as well as the southern cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, and Najran.

Meanwhile, the Saudi General Authority for Statistics announced that the UN World Data Forum and the 2nd Saudi Statistics Forum, originally scheduled to be held in Riyadh from November 9 to 12, have been postponed to next year.

Previously, as Houthi attacks on Riyadh intensified, Saudi Arabia also postponed the 10th Future Investment Initiative (FII), an international investment event dubbed the "Davos in the Desert" that was scheduled to be held on the 26th of this month, to next year.

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