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Microsoft spokesperson: Azure leadership hasn’t instructed teams to create cost-reduction strategies China's PLA navy: routine drill in annual plan targets boosting troops’ combat readiness China’s PLA navy forms Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group for training exercises in western Pacific waters: CCTV Saudi-led coalition: missile intercepted and destroyed in Al-Kharj OpenAI in early discussions to buy security startup Trail of Bits: The Information Google Play launches personalized app creation through AI studio for users 18+ in select markets State Department: Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Mumbai and Jamnagar, India from October 17-22 Saudi civil defense: debris from intercepted Houthi missiles causes minor damage to 15 homes in Riyadh Saudi civil defense: four injured in Riyadh after debris from two intercepted missiles falls New Zealand External Migration & Visitors Actual 8.0% (Forecast -, Previous 8.5%) NZ short-term visitors rise 8% in August compared with year earlier New Zealand net migration surplus rises 1,530 in August New Zealand Visitor Arrivals Actual 1530 (Forecast -, Previous 3,010) Attack on Saudi Aramco building causes limited fire, no casualties: state news agency citing energy ministry official Aramco facility in Saudi eastern city of Dhahran targeted on Tuesday Foreign ministers of Iran and Oman discuss Yemen situation in phone call - Telegram post Fed's Collins: Fed is not rethinking the 2% inflation target Fed's Collins: Fed economic models are mindful of government debt levels. US Justice Department says a Saudi national was arrested for installing a surreptitious audio recording device at a San Francisco Super Intelligence Company US CENTCOM: Yesterday, US forces assisted Gulf partners in shipping more than 19 million barrels of crude oil through the strait.

Microsoft spokesperson: Azure leadership hasn’t instructed teams to create cost-reduction strategies China's PLA navy: routine drill in annual plan targets boosting troops’ combat readiness China’s PLA navy forms Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group for training exercises in western Pacific waters: CCTV Saudi-led coalition: missile intercepted and destroyed in Al-Kharj OpenAI in early discussions to buy security startup Trail of Bits: The Information Google Play launches personalized app creation through AI studio for users 18+ in select markets State Department: Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Mumbai and Jamnagar, India from October 17-22 Saudi civil defense: debris from intercepted Houthi missiles causes minor damage to 15 homes in Riyadh Saudi civil defense: four injured in Riyadh after debris from two intercepted missiles falls New Zealand External Migration & Visitors Actual 8.0% (Forecast -, Previous 8.5%) NZ short-term visitors rise 8% in August compared with year earlier New Zealand net migration surplus rises 1,530 in August New Zealand Visitor Arrivals Actual 1530 (Forecast -, Previous 3,010) Attack on Saudi Aramco building causes limited fire, no casualties: state news agency citing energy ministry official Aramco facility in Saudi eastern city of Dhahran targeted on Tuesday Foreign ministers of Iran and Oman discuss Yemen situation in phone call - Telegram post Fed's Collins: Fed is not rethinking the 2% inflation target Fed's Collins: Fed economic models are mindful of government debt levels. US Justice Department says a Saudi national was arrested for installing a surreptitious audio recording device at a San Francisco Super Intelligence Company US CENTCOM: Yesterday, US forces assisted Gulf partners in shipping more than 19 million barrels of crude oil through the strait.