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The Houthis launches missiles against the airports of Najran and Jizan, in Saudi Arabia, causing material damages and wounding three people. (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says that the Israel Defense Forces has killed 4,000 militants who took part in the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. (The Jewish Chronicle)

A ship sinks off the coast of Bulgaria after being struck by a drone. (Reuters)

Kenya confirms its first imported case of the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebolavirus in Nairobi in a deceased male who traveled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Nairobi Hospital steps up its infection-control measures, tracing, and staff monitoring following Kenya's first imported case of Ebola. (The Star Kenya)

The Daily Mail reports that a second person has died from a pneumonic plague outbreak that contains Yersinia pestis. (Insider Paper)

The faculty of Cornell University are reportedly preparing a no-confidence vote against the university's administration, including its president, Michael Kotlikoff, over its handling of rape allegations from 2024. (CNN)

August Hanning, former head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, is arrested at his home in Nordwalde after being charged by the country's Federal Public Prosecutor General with treason, espionage, and trading state secrets. A former aide of Hanning's is also arrested for aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage. (Deutsche Welle) (AP)

Riots break out in Liège, Belgium, following a day of student protests, resulting in damaged shops and destroyed bus shelters in the city center. (Le Soir)

The Presidential Leadership Council launches a large-scale military operation against Houthis in Yemen, with the aim to capture all Houthi-controlled territories. (Al Arabiya) (Al Jazeera) (TRT World)

Turkey and Pakistan agree to deploy troops under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement to help Saudi and Yemeni forces against the Houthis. (Al Jazeera)

A Yemeni government offensive pushes the Houthis back from the Bab al-Mandab Strait. (Reuters)

A Nigerian Air Force ATR 42-500 aircraft carrying 32 people crashes in Ondo State, Nigeria. (DW) (Reuters)

The toll from yesterday's collision between two ships in the Congo River near Lukolela, Democratic Republic of the Congo, increases to 30 people killed and dozens missing. (AP)

The United States Air Force withdraws all of its B-1 Lancer strategic bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. The U.S. Department of Defense confirms the bombers have returned to bases in the United States. (BBC News)

The International Criminal Court unseals arrest warrants for Taliban education minister Habibullah Agha and higher education minister Neda Mohammad Nadeem, accusing them of the crime against humanity of gender-based persecution in Afghanistan. (AFP via France 24)

Protesters clash with police in Pristina, Kosovo, after parliament fails to advance legislation limiting the Kosovo Specialist Chambers' powers. One police officer and 11 civilians are injured. (AP)

Ethiopian forces capture Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Region, after the withdrawal of the Tigray People's Liberation Front. (Al Jazeera)

A drone strikes a displacement camp in Sheraro, Tigray Region, killing at least eight people, including a child, and seriously injuring six others. (AFP via France 24)

The World Food Programme reports an airstrike on a United Nations truck in South Kordofan, Sudan, that killed the driver. (Al Jazeera)

Four people are killed in an American airstrike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. (AP)

The Houthis take control of Al-Turbah, Yemen, after government troops withdrew earlier in the day. This is the first time the Houthis have held Al-Turbah since the war began. (Yemen Online) (AP)

The United States Coast Guard suspends the search for the Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100 aircraft that went missing yesterday with six passengers on board after finding a debris field in the ocean south of Nantucket, Massachussetts. All six passengers, including four Canadian pilots and crew and two Bermudian passengers, are presumed dead. (CBC) (Winnipeg City News)

A lab worker in Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov, Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, dies from a pneumonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis, with nearly 200 workers in quarantine. (EuroWeekly News) (Kyiv Independent)

Nicaragua announces its immediate withdrawal from the Central American Parliament after the Organization of American States approved a resolution on Friday calling for Nicaragua to release political prisoners and restore civil liberties. (Reuters)

Two people are killed and at least 35 are injured in a mass shooting during a homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, United States. (AP) (The Guardian)

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests a 34-year-old Chinese American woman at Los Angeles International Airport in California for allegedly acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te's son and family in the United States. (AFP via RFI) (The Daily Telegraph)

Two people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting at a hunting party in Halden, Norway. The perpetrator is arrested. (AP)

An American Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, is arrested by Okinawa prefectural police in connection with the alleged robbery and murder of a local woman in Naha. Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi summons U.S. ambassador to Japan George Edward Glass regarding the incident. (NPR)

Three students are arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old classmate in Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia. (The Straits Times)

Iraq's Oil Tankers Company says that they have transported 2 million barrels of oil from the country through a very large crude carrier in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters)

Five people are killed and several more are injured in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. Three other Palestinians are also killed in more airstrikes. (Al Jazeera)

The Israel Defense Forces says that they have targeted de facto Hamas leader Ali al-Amoudi in a airstrike, and acknowledge that the results of the strike are under review. (The Times of Israel)

Unknown gunmen open fire against a vehicle in Ras al-Maara, Syria, killing three people and wounding seven more. (Hawar News Agency)

Ethiopian federal forces retake control of the Alula Aba Nega Airport in Mekelle, Tigray, from the Tigray People's Liberation Front. (Los Angeles Times)

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko reports that Russian forces have struck the Pivnichnyi Bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Kyiv Independent)

Five workers are killed and ten more are rescued after the collapse of a gold mine in Chah Ab District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. (AP)

Ten people are injured, including some critically, in a motor vehicle hooning accident in Newcastle, Australia, during a Newcastle Knights procession before the NRL Grand Final. The driver is arrested at the scene. (DW) (Nine News)

A Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100, flying from St. David's Island, Bermuda, to Boston, United States, goes missing over the Atlantic Ocean with six people on board, including four Canadian crew and two Bermudian passengers. (News 18)

Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive on the Houthis in the coming weeks to take back the Bab al-Mandab Strait. (Reuters)

Ethiopian government forces push Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels out of Afar Region after recapturing the towns of Abala, Erebti and Megale. (AFP via France 24)

Sudan's armed forces announces that they have recaptured the North Kordofan town of al-Mazroub. (Al Jazeera)

The death toll in the Rapid Support Forces drone attack on the University of Kordofan in El Obeid rises to 10. (AFP via Arab News)

A Russian drone strikes Pivdennyi Bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine, for the fourth time in two days. (The Kyiv Independent)

Eighteen people are killed as Boko Haram gunmen open fire on villagers collecting firewood in Marte, Borno State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Twenty people are killed and five others are injured after a four-vehicle crash in Plateau, Nigeria. (Xinhua)

The United States National Park Service confirms that the Hōlei Sea Arch, located on Hawaii's Big Island, has collapsed into the Pacific Ocean. (The Guardian)

Mass rioting continues for a third day across France with hundreds reportedly injured and over 735 schools shut, while more than 2,000 people are arrested. (BBC News)

Riot police clash with protesters in Paris, Montpellier, Nantes and Marseille as justice minister Gérald Darmanin says protests had "gone from high-school student demonstrations to a public order disturbance" and urges an immediate end to violence. (BBC News)

French government ministers, including education minister Édouard Geffray, accuse the far-left of inciting the youth-led unrest across the country. Intelligence agencies briefing the government during a crisis meeting on the riots accuse the left-wing La France Insoumise of actively inciting people to join the protests. (AFP via NDTV) (Ynet News)

Ahmad al-Hamidawi, leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah, announces that the group will suspend military activities in Iraq following the withdrawal of U.S. troops, with the exception of targeting hostile aircraft violating the country's airspace. (Middle East Eye)

Israeli settlers shoot and kill a Palestinian man at his home in Yasuf, West Bank, and injure another. (Reuters)

A Russian Su-35 fighter jet shoots down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter over Voronezh Oblast, Russia, in a friendly fire incident. All three crew members are killed. (Kyiv Independent)

A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a dormitory at the University of Kordofan in El Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, kills five people. (Sudan Tribune)

Explosions caused by suspected drone strikes are reported in Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa, including one near the Ethiopian National Defense Force' headquarters. (BBC News)

Pakistan launches airstrikes in Afghanistan, claiming the killing of 22 Taliban fighters at two locations, while the Government of Afghanistan reports that nine women and children are killed in Kunar Province and Helmand Province by Pakistan airstrikes. (Al Jazeera)

A medical helicopter transporting a patient crashes off the coast of Santa Catalina Island in Los Angeles County, California, United States, killing two people, injuring two others, and leaving one missing. (AP)

Ethiopia closes its embassy in Eritrea and announces the expulsion of ten Eritrean diplomats from the country, after accusing its neighbour of financing the Tigray People's Liberation Front. (AP)

Eritrea's foreign ministry announces that the country will cut off diplomatic ties with Ethiopia in response. (AFP via Al Arabiya) (Reuters)

A diplomat from Egypt is told to leave Ethiopia within 48 hours after being declared as persona non grata. (Reuters)