16/10 6AM GMT - 5 Top Stories

These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, on Friday Oct. 16 at 6am GMT.

- UN Security Council backs Saudi right to self-defense after deadly Houthi strikes on Riyadh airport

- Houthis have launched 20 attacks on Riyadh airport since Oct. 1, coalition says

- The supply chains and gaps in export controls that make it easier for the Houthis to build missiles

- Rubio urges Lebanon to not return confiscated explosives to Hezbollah, US official says

- Hormuz shipping disruption is starting to hit harvests, UN agency says

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