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Huge fire near F1 track after rebel attack on Saudi oil plant

Yemeni rebels attacked a Saudi Aramco oil facility setting off a huge fire visible and smelt from Jeddah's Formula 1 track as part of a wave of attacks on Friday report Agence France Press. 'We did several attacks with drones and ballistic missiles,' the Iran-backed Huthi rebels said in a statement, including an 'Aramco installation in Jeddah (and) vital installations in Riyadh'. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed rebels confirmed the attack, which comes ahead of the seventh anniversary of its military intervention in the brutal civil war in Yemen. Smoke billowed near Jeddah's F1 track as drivers took part in practice runs, with Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen saying...
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