WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces disabled an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday, the U.S. Central Command said, claiming the vessel violated the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran by attempting to sail to an Iranian port.
"U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) disabled Palau-flagged M/T Marivex as it transited international waters in the Gulf of Oman toward Iran," the command said on X, adding that the vessel's crew failed to comply with directions from U.S. forces.
Marivex is no longer sailing to Iran after an F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the ship's engineering and steering spaces, said the command. (US-Iran-Oil Tanker)
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BEIRUT -- At least 12 people were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese health authorities, media reports, and rescue agencies.
Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center said an Israeli airstrike on Zefta in the Nabatieh district before dawn killed seven people, including a Syrian girl and a woman, and wounded eight others.
In separate attacks, one person was killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Kharayeb, while four people were killed and a number of others wounded in an Israeli strike that targeted a vehicle in the Tyre district, according to Lebanon's National News Agency and civil defense authorities. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrike-Casualties)
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LA PAZ -- Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz on Monday enacted a new law regulating states of emergency, as 39 consecutive days of protests and road blockades have led to disruptions in supplies, transport and the economy.
Law 1740 allows the president to declare a state of emergency through a supreme decree in situations involving threats to state security, external threats, internal unrest or natural disasters. The decree must be sent to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, Bolivia's national legislature, which has 72 hours to rule on it.
Speaking at the government headquarters in La Paz, Paz said the law is aimed at protecting the majority of Bolivians, defending the constitutional order and restoring economic normality. (Bolivia-State of Emergency)
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GENEVA -- The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is expanding rapidly, with rising case numbers, wider geographic spread and cross-border transmission to Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
In its latest update, WHO currently assesses the risk as very high for DRC, high for Uganda and neighboring countries sharing land borders with affected areas, and low for the rest of the African region and globally.
As of Sunday, DRC has reported 515 confirmed cases, including 91 deaths. Uganda has reported 19 confirmed cases, including two deaths and one probable fatal case. All cases in Uganda remain epidemiologically linked to the outbreak in DRC, with evidence of both imported infections and secondary transmission among contacts and healthcare workers. (Ebola-DRC-WHO) Enditem
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