SANAA -- Yemen's armed Houthi group said on Tuesday they launched drone strikes on "military targets" in Israel's Jaffa area and its port city of Eilat.

"We bombed a military target in the Jaffa area with a Jaffa drone, and we hit military targets in Eilat with four Sammad-4 drones," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sare'e said in a statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Israel-Drone Attacks)

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WARSAW -- Poland has decided to reduce its embassy staff in Beirut and will assist Polish citizens wishing to leave Lebanon, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

"The situation in Lebanon is very tense," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski during a press conference following a government meeting. (Poland-Lebanon-evacuation)

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TEHRAN -- Eleven people were killed and 14 others injured on Tuesday in a collision between a pickup truck and a semi-trailer in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The accident happened early Tuesday on an intercity road in Saravan County, Seyyed Mohammad-Mehdi Sajjadi, director general of the province's Red Crescent Society, was quoted as saying. (Iran-Traffic Accident-Death Toll)

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TOKYO -- Shigeru Ishiba, leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was officially elected the country's prime minister on Tuesday after winning a majority of votes in both houses of parliament.

The Japanese Diet convened an extraordinary session in the afternoon to choose the new prime minister. As the ruling coalition led by the LDP controls both chambers, 67-year-old Ishiba received 291 of 461 votes in the House of Representatives and 143 of 242 votes in the House of Councillors. (Japan-Ishiba-PM) Enditem

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