SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for launching a missile attack against an "Israeli" ship in the Arabian Sea.

"The (Houthi) naval forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the Israeli ship, MSC SARAH V, in the Arabian Sea, and the hit was accurate and direct," Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military spokesman, said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Houthis-Ship Attack)

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NAIROBI -- Protesters in Kenya on Tuesday broke through security at the parliament building in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, and stormed the institution just hours after lawmakers passed a contentious tax hike bill.

Hundreds of anti-tax hike demonstrators overpowered security guards and entered both the National Assembly and the Senate, where they vandalized the premises. (Kenya-Tax Hike-Protest)

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JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa has started screening visitors into the country for monkeypox at all ports of entry due to a recent increase in cases of the disease, said the Border Management Authority (BMA) on Tuesday.

The commissioner of the BMA, Michael Masiapato, announced that port health officials have developed an outbreak preparedness plan that outlines the response in dealing with monkeypox, also known as Mpox. (South Africa-Monkeypox-Screening)

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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry in the United States has joined the efforts to hold artificial intelligence (AI) companies accountable for copyright infringement as major record companies filed lawsuits against two AI song generators.

The two cases were filed Monday -- one in a federal court in Boston against Suno, Inc., developer of Suno AI, and the other in New York against Uncharted Labs, Inc., developer of Udio AI. (US-Lawsuit-AI) Enditem

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