U.S. helicopters repelled an attack by Iran-backed Houthi militants on a Maersk container vessel in the Red Sea, sinking three ships and killing 10 militants, according to accounts by American, Maersk, and Houthi officials on Sunday.
In a recent meeting between Mohammad Abdulsalam, the spokesman for the political bureau of the Houthi movement in Yemen, and Ali-Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the two discussed "issues of common interest and the latest developments in the region.
In a symbolic display of power, the Hamas organization launched a salvo of rockets at Tel Aviv at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. However, residents remained unharmed thanks to the Iron Dome missile defense system.
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi harshly attacked Israel, writing on the X platform that "in 2023 Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, and the Security Council did nothing to stop it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing an election in March, made only passing reference in his New Year address on Sunday to his war in Ukraine, hailing his soldiers as heroes but mostly emphasising unity and shared determination.
President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday that 2024 will be the year of French pride and hope, marked by the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games and the re-opening of Notre-Dame cathedral after a devastating fire.
Israeli Maya Regev lay badly wounded in a nondescript house in Gaza, her leg mangled from a gunshot, under orders not to make a sound.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Sunday he had made clear in a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian that Iran shared responsibility for preventing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
Defence systems shot down an armed drone on Sunday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said in a statement.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, is poised to complete its withdrawal from the country on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement.
In a controversial statement on Sunday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposed the return of Jewish settlers to the Gaza Strip after any potential war, suggesting that the Palestinian population there should be "encouraged" to emigrate to other countries.
Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries as potential participants.
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