Air Raid Sirens Sound in Israel after a Missile Attack from Yemen

 A woman walks past a boy near models of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and missiles used by Yemen's Houthis, displayed in an open-air installation in Tahrir Square in the center of the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on March 23, 2025. (AFP)
A woman walks past a boy near models of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and missiles used by Yemen's Houthis, displayed in an open-air installation in Tahrir Square in the center of the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on March 23, 2025. (AFP)
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Air Raid Sirens Sound in Israel after a Missile Attack from Yemen

 A woman walks past a boy near models of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and missiles used by Yemen's Houthis, displayed in an open-air installation in Tahrir Square in the center of the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on March 23, 2025. (AFP)
A woman walks past a boy near models of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and missiles used by Yemen's Houthis, displayed in an open-air installation in Tahrir Square in the center of the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on March 23, 2025. (AFP)

Air raid sirens and explosions were heard over Jerusalem on Monday evening after the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen.

Yemen’s Houthi militias have fired a handful of long-range missiles at Israel in the days since Israeli forces resumed the war in Gaza.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the Houthis.



Bodies of Four Migrants Found as Boat Sinks off Greek Island of Lesbos

A dinghy transporting dozens of refugees and migrants is pulled towards Greece's Lesbos island after being rescued by a war ship during their sea crossing between Türkiye and Greece on February 29, 2020. Aris Messinis, AFP/File picture
A dinghy transporting dozens of refugees and migrants is pulled towards Greece's Lesbos island after being rescued by a war ship during their sea crossing between Türkiye and Greece on February 29, 2020. Aris Messinis, AFP/File picture
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Bodies of Four Migrants Found as Boat Sinks off Greek Island of Lesbos

A dinghy transporting dozens of refugees and migrants is pulled towards Greece's Lesbos island after being rescued by a war ship during their sea crossing between Türkiye and Greece on February 29, 2020. Aris Messinis, AFP/File picture
A dinghy transporting dozens of refugees and migrants is pulled towards Greece's Lesbos island after being rescued by a war ship during their sea crossing between Türkiye and Greece on February 29, 2020. Aris Messinis, AFP/File picture

The bodies of four migrants - one boy, one girl and two women - have been recovered from a sinking boat off the Greek island of Lesbos while another 23 migrants were rescued, Greece's coastguard said on Thursday.

The boat was detected by a patrolling coastguard vessel at about 2 a.m. (2300 GMT). A search and rescue operation was still ongoing, a coastguard official said. It was not immediately clear how many people may have been on the boat, Reuters reported.

Greece, in the southeast corner of the European Union, has long been a favored gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 2015 nearly 1 million people landed on its islands.

Last year, about 54,000 migrants reached Greece, the second largest number in southern Europe behind Italy. The vast majority of them arrived by sea, according to data from the UN refugee agency UNHCR.