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Ten people have been rescued after Yemen’s Huthis sank a cargo ship, an EU naval force said Thursday, with three killed and 12 missing in one of the rebel group’s deadliest Red Sea attacks.

Three Filipino crew and a Greek member of the Eternity C ship’s onboard security team were plucked from the sea overnight, “bringing the total number of those rescued to 10”, the European Union’s Operation Aspides force posted on X.

On Wednesday, the Iran-backed Huthis said they had “rescued” an unspecified…

Unprecedented criticism has surfaced within Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as analysts describe the war in Gaza as Israel’s own “Vietnam phase” — a deadly trap marked by heavy losses and an unending drain on resources — with warnings that a full military occupation of the Strip could prove an even “bigger mistake” than the one made by the United States in Vietnam.

In a strongly worded opinion published in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israeli…

The halt to US foreign aid is a “ticking time bomb” that could reverse decades of hard-fought gains in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations warned Thursday.

Around 31.6 million people were on antiretroviral drugs in 2024 and deaths from AIDS-related illnesses had more than halved since 2010 to 630,000 that year, the UNAIDS agency said in a new report.

But now infections were likely to shoot up as funding cuts have shuttered prevention and treatment programmes, it said.

The United States…