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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Wednesday they had "targeted" a container ship bound for Israel, a day after the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the militant group had fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the southern Red Sea.

French President Emmanuel Macron's recent statements calling on Israel to "avoid any escalatory actions, particularly in Lebanon" following the strike that killed the Hamas deputy leader in Beirut highlight some political inconsistencies in his approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The head of Lebanon's powerful armed group Hezbollah said on Wednesday that Israel's killing of the deputy chief of allied Palestinian faction Hamas in Beirut was "a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent".

The European Union has added Russia's Alrosa, the world's biggest diamond producer, as well as its CEO Pavel Alekseevich Marinychev to its sanctions list, it said on Wednesday.

U.S. spy agencies assess that Islamist group Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital to command forces and hold some hostages but largely evacuated the complex days before Israeli troops entered it, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, citing declassified U.S. intelligence.

The United States has reached a deal to extend its military presence at a base in Qatar for another 10 years, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

Simona Halperin, the newly appointed Israeli ambassador to Russia, presented the formal copy of her credentials to Mikhail Bogdanov, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a ceremony held on Monday.

French shipping group CMA CGM will increase its container shipping rates from Asia to the Mediterranean region by up to 100% as of Jan. 15 compared to Jan. 1, it said in a notice posted on its website on Tuesday.

Hackers accessed the court recordings database in Australia's Victoria state and disrupted the audio-visual in-court technology network, impacting recordings and transcription services, an official said on Tuesday.

Sierra Leone authorities have charged 12 people with treason in connection with a failed coup in November, including a member of former President Ernest Bai Koroma's security detail, the government said on Tuesday.

In a significant blow to the Hamas movement, Ismaïl Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas, asserted on Tuesday that his organization "will never be defeated" in the wake of the death of its deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, in a strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut attributed to Israel.

The U.N. Security Council may meet as early as Wednesday on the situation in the Red Sea.