The Palau-flagged oil tanker *Elbus* diverted to a Turkish port on Wednesday after sustaining damage from a drone attack in the southwestern Black Sea, according to Lloyd's List Intelligence and maritime security sources. The vessel, en route from Singapore to the Russian port of Novorossiysk with 2
Aidarous al-Zubaidi, leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council, fled to an undisclosed location on January 7, 2026, hours after refusing to board a flight to Riyadh for emergency talks brokered by Saudi Arabia. His disappearance follows the most serious rupture yet between the kingdom and the
