PYONGYANG -- A "serious accident" occurred when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched a newly-built 5,000-tonnage destroyer on Wednesday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday.
During the launching ceremony at the Chongjin Shipyard, the launch slide of the stern has departed first and stranded as the flatcar failed to move in parallel, and some sections of the warship's bottom crushed to destroy the balance of the warship and the bow could not leave the shipway, said the report, attributing the accident to "the inexperienced command and operational carelessness." (DPRK-Destroyer-Accident)
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WASHINGTON -- Two staff members from the Israeli Embassy in the United States were killed in a shooting Wednesday evening near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
"We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share," Noem said in a post on social platform X.
The shooting occurred near the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, known as the Capital Jewish Museum, according to media reports. (U.S.-Shooting)
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SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement on Thursday that it had launched a missile attack toward Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, which was reportedly intercepted by Israeli defense systems earlier in the day, and launched another missile attack toward Israel at noon.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea claimed the missile attack before dawn in a statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Houthis-Attack)
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JAKARTA -- Rescuers discovered on Thursday five more bodies of flash floods victims in Indonesia's West Papua province, bringing the total death toll to 15, with five others still missing, an official said.
An additional piece of heavy machinery was deployed to the scene to assist search and rescue operations in Gunung Arfak Regency, increasing the total to two units, according to Agus Bashori, spokesperson for Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Office. (Indonesia-Flood-Death) ■
