SANAA -- Yemen's Houthis said they launched multiple missile and drone attacks against two U.S. Navy warships in the Red Sea on Tuesday night.
"We carried out a qualitative military operation, targeting two American warships in the Red Sea. The operation was carried out with a number of naval missiles and drones," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run satellite TV channel al-Masirah. (Yemen-Houthi Attacks-U.S. Ships)
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RAMALLAH -- Israeli forces detained at least 22 Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday, including two Palestinian prisoners who were released during the Israel-Hamas truce in November last year and a woman, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club, a non-governmental organization, said in a statement that the arrests were carried out in the cities of Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, and Jericho. They were allegedly accompanied by "torture, beatings, sabotage operations, extensive destruction in homes, and seizure of funds." (Israel-Arrests-West Bank)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump swept to victory in their respective party's presidential primaries on "Super Tuesday," when over a dozen states held primary elections.
Biden, challenged by American author Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dean Phillips, has won Democratic primaries in Alabama, Massachusetts, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah and California, and the party's caucus in Iowa, according to U.S. media projections. (US-Super Tuesday)
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YANGON -- Six people were killed on the spot as a car overturned in Myanmar's eastern Shan State, an official from Shan State traffic police force told Xinhua on Wednesday.
The accident took place at around 2 p.m. local time on Tuesday in Ywangan township of Shan State. (Myanmar-Car Crash-Death) ■
