The Pentagon is planning to redeploy a US carrier strike group from South China Sea to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) area, which includes the middle east amid heightening tensions with Iran, which is witnessing massive ant-government protests due to soaring inflation, as per a report. The carrier group includes an aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln), at least one attack submarine and multiple warships.
The Saudi authorities on Tuesday said they destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen after explosions were heard over the Saudi capital Riyadh. They added that the air defences destroyed another three Houthi ballistic missiles fired towards the country’s eastern region. Meanwhile, the Houthis accused government forces of killing two people in a strike at a gas station near the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz, where fighting has been intensifying between the two sides.
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Very severe cyclonic storm Arnab has begun making landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said with the storm’s centre remaining very close to the coastline. The northern spiral band of the cyclone has further entered the land and the landfall process is expected to continue for the next three hours, it said. “The centre of very severe cyclonic storm Arnab remains very close to the Andhra Pradesh coastline, and the landfall process is continuing,” the Met department said in an official press release.
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