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Added on the 21/11/2023 10:57:18 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The United Nations Security Council demands an immediate end to attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea. The resolution passed "demands that the Huthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security." It passed after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria abstained. IMAGES
Footage of the Navigator of the Seas, a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International and docked in the Port of Miami, as a group of crew members aboard has gone on hunger strike. The group is demanding that the company send them home after waiting for more than two months to be repatriated. They have been stranded at sea since the industry halted operations amid the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Scores of mourners waving Israeli flags hold a procession from the home of slain US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin to the Jerusalem cemetery where he was set to be buried. Israeli authorities on Sunday announced the death of the 23-year-old along with that of five other hostages seized during Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel. They said their bodies were recovered after they were shot at close range on Thursday or Friday, after nearly 11 months in captivity. IMAGES
Shlomi Ziv, one of the four Israeli hostages rescued after being held captive the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks, arrives at his home in Moshav Elqosh, in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. On June 8 Israel said its forces rescued four hostages alive from a Gaza refugee camp. The four were kidnapped by Hamas at the Nova music festival on October 7. IMAGES
Cast and crew of "Being Maria" arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. IMAGES
"If we see an opportunity to prevent a missile from getting launched, we'll take it out," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says after American forces destroyed a missile belonging to Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels. SOUNDBITE