The US military said on Tuesday it had destroyed eight Houthi drones in Yemen and one over the Gulf of Aden in the past 24 hours.US Central Command said on the social media site X that there were no injuries or damage reported to US, coalition or merchant vessels in the incident.

Five Palestinians were reportedly killed by the IDF while attacking terror targets in the Al-Muwassey area, northwest of Rafah city, according to Palestinian reports on Wednesday morning.

The IDF said on Tuesday it had approved operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon as Israel and Hezbollah stepped up rhetoric that could escalate into a war."As part of the situational assessment, operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated, and decisions were taken on the continuation of increasing the readiness of troops in the field," the IDF said.

The US Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint to the Justice Department against the social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act.

Syrian officer was killed in an alleged Israeli drone attack on the country's southern Quneitra and Daraa provinces, Syrian state media quoted a military source as saying on Wednesday.

The 911 system for emergency calls in Massachusetts suffered a statewide outage on Tuesday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said, preventing residents from using the number to call for police, ambulances or fire assistance."Currently the statewide 911 system is down and calls are not going through," Wu said at an afternoon news briefing. "We've been in touch with the state and all the relevant officials to work on getting this resolved."The cause of the outage has not been determined. State and local officials asked residents needing help to use direct local police or fire numbers."This could be very temporary, we're waiting to hear a little later about how long it will last," Boston Police Chief Michael Cox said at the briefing.