News Headlines - 23 June 2019

▽Yemen′s Houthi rebels strike Saudi airport | DW

Houthi rebels have attacked a civilian airport in Saudi Arabia for the second time in less than two weeks. The Houthis said the strike was in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.

▽Ethiopian Army Chief Killed as Government Says It Thwarts Coup - Bloomberg

The Ethiopian army’s chief of staff was shot dead by a bodyguard in what the government of Africa’s second-most populous country said was an assassination related to an attempted coup.
General Seare Mekonnen and retired Major General Gezai Abera were killed Saturday at the army chief’s residence in the capital, Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said in an emailed statement. Authorities arrested the bodyguard.

▽US 'launched cyberattacks on Iran weapons' after drone downing | USA News | Al Jazeera

The United States military launched cyberattacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network on Thursday after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, US officials have said... after the drone's downing, Trump secretly authorised US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory cyber attack on Iran, two officials told the Associated Press news agency on Saturday.

▽Putin: No plan to hand over territories to Japan | NHK WORLD

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reaffirmed that Russia has no plan to hand over what Japan calls the Northern Territories to that country.
Putin appeared in an interview program on state-run TV on Saturday. The interview was recorded two days earlier... Putin denied that would happen, saying that the government does not have such a plan. The president added that his administration has plans to develop a region that includes the islands.

▽Czech Republic protests: Andrej Babis urged to quit as PM - BBC News

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Prague demanding that PM Andrej Babis resign.
Mr Babis is facing a criminal investigation over alleged fraud, and is also the subject of an EU conflict-of-interest investigation. He denies the allegations.
Organisers say about 250,000 people attended the rally... It is said to be the largest protest since the fall of communism in 1989.