The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the Iran-aligned Houthis fired on Tuesday one close-range ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward USS Laboon in the Red Sea, but it did not hit the vessel, and there were no injuries or damage reported."United States Central Command and a coalition vessel successfully engaged and destroyed two unmanned aerial systems (UAS) launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen," CENTCOM added in a statement early on Wednesday.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Wednesday that if US troops appear in Ukraine, Russia will treat them as interventionists, RIA state news agency reported.Putin, in a wide-ranging interview with RIA and the Rossiya-1 state television, said also that if the United States conducts nuclear tests, Russia may do the same.He also added that Russia is ready - from a military-technical point of view - for a nuclear war, but for now, not "everything is rushing to it."

President Joe Biden won enough delegates on Tuesday to seal the Democratic Party's nomination. A face-off against former President Donald Trump looms in what would be the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years.Biden needed 1,968 delegates to win the nomination, a number Edison Research said he passed on Tuesday night as results began to come in from the primary contest in Georgia, ahead of expected results from Mississippi, Washington state, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Democrats living abroad.He faced only token opposition in the Democratic primary campaign, though liberal activists frustrated by his support for Israel's war in Gaza have convinced a sizable minority of Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in protest.

Activists from the If You Will, a self-described Zionist movement, arrived at the UNWRA offices for a protest vigil Wednesday morning. The activists brought boxes with them labeled with flour, inside of which were plastic guns to illustrate the participation of UN employees in the October 7 massacre.Head of the National Task Force, Matan Jerry, stated, "The UN has officially become an aid organization for terrorism, and the fact that its employees participated in the October 7 massacre proves this more than anything. The Israeli government must expel UNRWA operatives from Israel and seize their property.We have finished reserve services, but we have not finished the fight for the state of Israel. We will not remain silent against the instigators and supporters of UN terrorism! We must act to expel the UNRWA from Jerusalem and generally act to close down this corrupt, failing, and dangerous agency."