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Iran-backed Houthi fighters have entered Yemen’s strategic port city of Mokha, according to residents interviewed by The Associated Press, bringing the movement closer to a vital shipping passage as renewed fighting threatens to engulf the country.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has moved its long-running confrontation with Iran back to the Security Council, escalating pressure on Tehran over its failure to account for nuclear material and cooperate with inspectors.

A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was nearly hit by a drone while leaving Moldova for the funeral of Norway’s King Harald V, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Wednesday, underscoring the dangers facing the wartime leader as Russia intensifies aerial attacks across Ukraine and beyond.

Russia has attacked Ukraine’s capital with powerful drones and missiles after a brief halt for the visit of U.S. peace negotiators, striking a television newsroom and other sites in attacks that killed at least five people and injured dozens more, authorities confirmed.

Archaeologists working at Egypt’s famed Saqqara necropolis have uncovered the roughly 4,000-year-old tomb of a powerful Old Kingdom official whose titles included the mysterious designation “Keeper of the Secrets of Royal Commands.”

Iran launched a previously undisclosed second wave of ballistic missile attacks against U.S. Navy vessels in the Middle East, targeting an American aircraft carrier, destroyers and at least one Marine ship as the confrontation between Washington and Tehran sharply escalates.

A Russian court has sentenced Nikolai Shcherbakov, 48, to 14 years in a strict penal colony for treason after authorities accused him of photographing Russian soldiers’ graves and sending the images to Ukrainian intelligence services, Worthy News learned Wednesday.

Elderly British citizens, including a widow and a man suffering from dementia, face removal from Sweden despite their longtime ties to the Nordic nation.

Austria’s controversial ban on Islamic headscarves for girls under 14 has entered its first school week, prompting protests and preparations for a constitutional challenge by the country’s main Muslim organization.

Fourteen men have gone on trial in Paris over their alleged roles in the deaths of more than 30 migrants in the English Channel, nearly five years after the worst recorded migrant disaster in the narrow seaway separating France and Britain.

Two senior aides to Nigel Farage, the populist Reform UK leader and close ally of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, have stepped down after an undercover investigation alleged the party sought to circumvent British electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to fund political polling.

Indonesia reopened all eight airports closed by volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau, including Jakarta’s main international airport, but concern remained as rescuers searched Wednesday for at least seven people, including five journalists who disappeared while reporting on the eruption.

Spanish police have helped dismantle what authorities described as one of the world’s largest criminal financial networks, known as the “Dubai Bank,” an underground banking system supporting major cocaine shipments and laundering proceeds for some of the biggest drug trafficking organizations.

Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen launched a major wave of ballistic missile and drone attacks against energy and military targets across southern Saudi Arabia Tuesday, setting fires at oil facilities, temporarily halting operations and wounding at least 73 people.

Syria’s former Bashar Assad regime was secretly constructing a nuclear reactor designed in a configuration capable of efficiently producing fissile material for nuclear weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi revealed Monday.