PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday vowed legal action against those responsible for violence during protests across the country on Saturday.
"Those who destroyed must pay. Those who looted must reimburse," Macron said in a televised address, pledging judicial proceedings over offenses committed during the violence. (France-Protests)
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SANAA -- Fighting intensified across Yemen on Sunday, with the Houthi group reporting a new wave of Saudi air and missile strikes across several Houthi-held and contested areas over the past 24 hours, while the government forces pressed ahead with a major offensive against the group.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement posted on social media platform X that a total of 110 strikes targeted areas in Sanaa and the provinces of Hodeidah, Taiz and Marib, leaving more than 30 people killed or injured. (Yemen-Saudi Arabia-Strikes)
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TEHRAN -- The navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced early Monday that a "violating" oil tanker suffered a blast within the preceding hours after hitting a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz.
In a statement published on the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News, the navy said the blast caused a fire in the oil tanker's engine room. (Iran-Hormuz Strait-Tanker Explosion)
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ADDIS ABABA -- The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reaffirmed its continued support to Kenya following the confirmation of four additional Ebola cases, bringing the country's total caseload to seven.
Kenya's Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed that all four new cases were detected among individuals already under quarantine following exposure to the initial case, as efforts to prevent community transmission of the hemorrhagic fever gather momentum. (Kenya-Ebola) ■
