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The Volgoneft-212 tanker has run aground and one of its 13 crew members has died. The others were rescued, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on Sunday. #EuropeNews

Israel will close its embassy due to the "extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish Government,” foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a statement on Sunday.

One week after President Bashir al-Assad's regime was toppled the Kurdish region in the north is neither as calm nor as relieved as the rest of Syria.

The Volgoneft-212 tanker has run aground and one of its 13 crew members has died. The others were rescued, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday she is resigning as president of the centre-right European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

The clashes trapped residents in their homes and caused fires at the country's second largest oil refinery, city officials said.

FILE - An F/A-18 Super Hornet prepares to launch off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt onJuly 5, 2024, in the South China Sea. Copyright Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/AP Copyright Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/AP By Daniel Bellamy with AP Published on 22/12/2024 - 9:07 GMT+1 Share this article Comments Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft, with one suffering minor injuries, the US military said. Go to accessibility shortcuts Share this article Comments The site where a missile launched from Yemen landed Jaffa district, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Copyright AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum Copyright AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum By Euronews with AP Published on 21/12/2024 - 17:15 GMT+1 Share this article Comments Share this article Copy/paste the article video embed link below: Copied Yemen's Houthi rebels issued a statement on Telegram saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at an unidentified military target. ADVERTISEMENT Some 16 people were injured by shattered glass after a rocket fired from Yemen hit the Jaffa district of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv overnight. Another 14 people sustained minor injuries as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded before dawn Saturday, the Israeli military said. The Houthis issued a statement on Telegram claiming responsibility for the attack, saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a military target. “A flash of light, a blow and we fell to the ground. Big mess, broken glasses all over the place,” said Bar Katz, a resident of a damaged building. The attack came after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, and port city of Hodeida killed at least nine people on Thursday. The Israeli strikes were in response to a Houthi long-range missile that hit a school building in central Israel. The Houthis also claimed a drone strike targeting an unspecified military target in central Israel on Thursday. Israel's military says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 200 missiles and drones during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The Houthis have also attacked shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and say they won't stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli strikes on Thursday caused “considerable damage” to the Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports that will lead to the "immediate and significant reduction in port capacity,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The Hodeida port has been key for food shipments into Yemen in its decade-long civil war. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said both sides' attacks risk further escalation in the region. Go to accessibility shortcuts Share this article Comments Rocket fired from Yemen injures several people in Israeli city of Tel Aviv

FILE - A ferry leaves Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 6, 2024, for Bukavu on lake Kivu. Copyright Justin Kabumba/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved. Copyright Justin Kabumba/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved. By Daniel Bellamy with AP Published on 22/12/2024 - 9:30 GMT+1 Share this article Comments A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on Busira river in the north-east, killing at least 38 people. Go to accessibility shortcuts Share this article Comments FILE - An F/A-18 Super Hornet prepares to launch off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt onJuly 5, 2024, in the South China Sea. Copyright Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/AP Copyright Seaman Aaron Haro Gonzalez/AP By Daniel Bellamy with AP Published on 22/12/2024 - 9:07 GMT+1 Share this article Comments Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft, with one suffering minor injuries, the US military said. ADVERTISEMENT Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down on Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S military said, marking the most serious incident to threaten troops in over a year of targeting of Yemen's Houthi rebels. The shootdown underlines just how dangerous the Red Sea corridor has become over the ongoing attacks on shipping by the Iranian-backed Houthis despite U.S. and European military coalitions patrolling the area. The U.S. military had conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels at the time, though the U.S. military's Central Command did not elaborate on what their mission was and did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press. The F/A-18 shot down had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, Central Command said. On Dec. 15, Central Command acknowledged the Truman had entered the Mideast, but hadn't specified that the carrier and its battle group was in the Red Sea. “The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Central Command said in a statement. From the military's description, the aircraft shot down was a two-seat F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet assigned to the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron 11 out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. It wasn't immediately clear how the Gettysburg could mistake an F/A-18 for an enemy aircraft or missile, particularly as ships in a battle group remain linked by both radar and radio communication. However, Central Command said that warships and aircraft earlier shot down multiple Houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise missile launched by the rebels. Incoming hostile fire from the Houthis has given sailors just seconds to make decisions in the past. Since the Truman's arrival, the U.S. has stepped up its airstrikes targeting the Houthis and their missile fire into the Red Sea and the surrounding area. However, the presence of an American warship group may spark renewed attacks from the rebels, like what the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower saw earlier this year. That deployment marked what the Navy described as its most intense combat since World War II. On Saturday night and early on Sunday, U.S. warplanes conducted airstrikes that shook Sanaa, the capital of Yemen that the Houthis have held since 2014. Central Command described the strikes as targeting a “missile storage facility” and a “command-and-control facility,” without elaborating. Houthi-controlled media reported strikes in both Sanaa and around the port city of Hodeida, without offering any casualty or damage information. In Sanaa, strikes appeared particularly targeted at a mountainside known to be home to military installations. The Houthis later acknowledged the aircraft being shot down in the Red Sea. The Houthis have targeted about 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones since the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip started in October 2023 after Hamas' surprise attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage. Israel's grinding offensive in Gaza has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, local health officials say. The tally doesn't distinguish between combatants and civilians. The Houthis have seized one vessel and sunk two in a campaign that has also killed four sailors. Other missiles and drones have either been intercepted by separate U.S.- and European-led coalitions in the Red Sea or failed to reach their targets, which have also included Western military vessels. The rebels maintain that they target ships linked to Israel, the U.S. or the United Kingdom to force an end to Israel's campaign against Hamas in Gaza. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the conflict, including some bound for Iran. ADVERTISEMENT The Houthis also have increasingly targeted Israel itself with drones and missiles, resulting in retaliatory Israeli airstrikes. Go to accessibility shortcuts Share this article Comments US warplane shot down by friendly fire in Red Sea, pilots eject safely

A far-right protest was held late on Saturday in Magdeburg the night after the attack on the Christmas market.

A far-right protest was held late on Saturday in Magdeburg the night after the attack on the Christmas market. #EuropeNews