SANAA -- Yemen's Houthis said in a statement on Tuesday that the group had shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone over the Yemeni northwestern province of Hajjah, and launched fresh attacks against two U.S. aircraft carriers.

"We shot down a hostile American MQ-9 drone while carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Hajjah province," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in the televised statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Houthis-Attacks)

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GAZA -- At least 25 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli attacks targeting several areas across the Gaza Strip overnight, the territory's Civil Defense said on Tuesday.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal described it as "a particularly difficult night" for Gaza residents, citing a combination of air raids, artillery shelling, and gunfire from military helicopters. (Gaza Strip-Israeli Airstrikes-Casualty)

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CAIRO/GAZA -- A Hamas delegation led by its chief Khalil al-Hayya has arrived in Cairo to discuss a new Egyptian proposal for a long-term ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian source told Xinhua on Tuesday.

"The Egyptian plan calls for a five- to seven-year truce, a full exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees, the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and a complete Israeli withdrawal from the enclave," the source said on condition of anonymity. (Egypt-Hamas-Truce Proposal)

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BEIRUT -- A leader of Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group) and a Hezbollah operative were killed on Tuesday in two separate Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.

One of the airstrikes targeted a vehicle in the village of Baawerta in Mount Lebanon, and the other targeted the town of Haniya in southwestern Lebanon's Tyre District, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center at the Ministry of Public Health said in two statements. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrikes-Deaths) Enditem

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