The Breakfast Table

The Houthis, an armed group from Yemen, said on Monday that they had attacked Saudi energy, airport and military sites, including an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Shaybah oilfield and Riyadh's airport. Saudi authorities had not immediately confirmed this, and Reuters could not verify it.

The oil market reacted. Brent crude, the benchmark price for oil, settled at $109.55 a barrel on Monday and was near $110 on Tuesday. Kpler, a data firm, says crude flows through the Gulf region averaged about 8.5 million barrels a day last week, down from more than 20 million the week before.

Governments are reacting too. President Trump signed an order waiving some sanctions and tariffs on Russian energy exports, which analysts said did little to ease the Gulf disruption. Egypt says it is ready to support Saudi Arabia, but its parliament put off a vote until October 26.

India's Election Commission is running a Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, a check of voter lists, in Delhi. A voter list decides who can vote. The Supreme Court has moved its hearing on the Delhi SIR from October 30 to October 28.

A new application says voters whose names were deleted are being asked to fill in Form 6, the form for getting back on the list. Advocate Prashant Bhushan said Form 6 needs a declaration that the person has never voted before, and that a false declaration can bring imprisonment. He asked the Commission to allow Form 8 or create another form.

He also noted that October 30 is the last date for correcting deletions. Chief Justice Surya Kant said the court was thinking of passing an order to take care of this. The court earlier told the Commission that notices seemed to be issued almost mechanically. The main case, filed by Anjali Bhardwaj and another petitioner, asks the Commission to explain how it chose voters to receive notices as having a "logical discrepancy".