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Yemen’s Houthis rebels have released a video showing armed men seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea.

The video from Yemeni Military Media shows at least seven masked men, carrying what appears to be AK-47s, drop from a helicopter and land on the top deck of the ship.

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The video purportedly shows the rebels successfully seizing control of the vessel, and appear to have raised both the Yemeni and Palestinian flags on board.

The footage was released by the movement’s TV channel Al Masirah on Monday.

The ship was hijacked on Sunday by the Iran-backed group, who said the ship was linked to Israel.

Israel claimed that the seized ship was instead British-owned and Japanese-operated.

Moscow has put a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list, according to reports in Russia.

Susana Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, was charged under a law introduced in 2022 which bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine, according to the Russian independent news site Mediazona.

A listing in a Russian interior ministry database says she is being sought for violating a criminal law, Russian state news agencies have reported.

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Jamaladinova, who is of Crimean Tatar descent, won Eurovision with her song 1944.

The title refers to the year the Soviet Union deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars from Crimea.

Her winning performance came almost exactly two years after Russia annexed Crimea as political turmoil gripped Ukraine in 2014.

Most other countries regard the annexation as illegitimate.

Russia protested against 1944 being allowed in the competition, saying it violated rules against political speech in Eurovision.

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However, the song made no specific criticism of Russia or the Soviet Union, although it drew such implications, opening with the lyrics: “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty.’”

Ms Jamaladinova has appeared on the wanted list as Russia continues its war on Ukraine – with fears the capital Kyiv will come under winter bombardment after a series of drone attacks on the city.

According to OVD-Info, a prominent rights group that monitors political arrests and provides legal aid, a total of 19,834 Russians have been arrested between February 24, when the war began, and late October 2023 for speaking out against or demonstrating against the war.

Nearly 750 people have faced criminal charges for their anti-war stances, and more than 8,100 faced petty charges of discrediting the army, punishable by a fine or a short stint in jail.

Earlier this month the wives of deployed Russian soldiers conducted what was probably the first public street protest in Moscow against the invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Russian police reportedly broke up the Teatralnaya Square protest in minutes.

A first group of prematurely-born babies evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital has arrived in Egypt for treatment.

The 28 infants were transported from the Emirati hospital in southern Gaza having been removed from the besieged al Shifa hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent and Egyptian media.

Egyptian TV footage showed medics lifting babies from inside an ambulance and placing them in mobile incubators, which were then wheeled towards other ambulances.

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Health officials initially said a total of 31 premature babies had been safely moved to the facility, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) said three babies still remain at the Emirati hospital.

The babies now being treated in Egypt have “serious infections”, according to the WHO.

Eight infants have died since doctors at al Shifa raised international concern this month about 39 premature babies at risk from a lack of clean water and medicines, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel has been criticised for the number of civilian deaths reported in Gaza, with the ministry claiming more than 13,000 Palestinians have been killed.

The Israeli military has come under particular scrutiny because of the impact on the territory’s hospitals.

Reports of fighting around another facility in northern Gaza on Monday have raised fears another evacuation will have to take place.

A shell struck the second floor of the Indonesian Hospital, where health officials said 700 patients along with staff were under Israeli fire, according to the Hamas-led health ministry.

The ministry claims at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded by firing into the complex, which was encircled by Israeli tanks.

The WHO’s director-general said he is “appalled” by the reported attack on the Indonesian Hospital.

“Health workers and civilians should never have to be exposed to such horror, and especially while inside a hospital,” Tedros Ghebreyesus said on social media platform X.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Marwan Abdallah, a medical worker at the facility, told the AP news agency Israeli tanks were operating less than 200m from the hospital, and Israeli snipers could be seen on roofs nearby.

As he spoke over the phone, the sound of gunfire could be heard in the background.

Mr Abdallah said the hospital – among those forced to cease operations due to the fuel shortage – received dozens of dead and wounded after airstrikes and shelling overnight.

He said medical staff and displaced people fear Israel will besiege the hospital and force its evacuation.

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Nahed Abu Taaema, director of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, told Reuters they had information that “tanks were besieging the Indonesian Hospital” but that “communications there are almost cut”.

Human Rights Watch warned hospitals have special protections under the laws of war and only lose that status “if it can be shown that harmful acts have been carried out from the premises”.

Israel claims Hamas uses civilians as human shields and operated a major command hub beneath al Shifa. Around 1,200 people were killed in the group’s 7 October attack, Israel says, with 242 taken back to Gaza as hostages.

Critics say Israel’s offensive amounts to collective punishment of the territory’s 2.3 million Palestinians.

K-pop star Kyuhyun has been injured while attempting to restrain an “intruder” carrying a knife inside a theatre, his record label has said.

The musical actor and member of boy band Super Junior was at the LG Arts Center in Seoul when the incident happened on Sunday.

The 35-year-old’s record label said he sustained a “minor abrasion on his finger” and was “fully capable of continuing” his normal activities.

The South Korean performer was backstage with other actors in the Ben-Hur musical when the incident is said to have happened.

Local media reports said a woman, who was not known to any of the actors, had been arrested.

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In a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, Antenna Music said the altercation took place during Kyuhyun’s visit to “celebrate the final performance of the musical”.

“While he was in the dressing room, Kyuhyun encountered an outsider who caused distress to other actors,” the label added.

“In the course of restraining the intruder, he had a minor abrasion on his finger.

“He was immediately treated on the spot and is currently in good health, fully capable of continuing his regular activities.

“We express our gratitude to all the devoted fans for their genuine concern.

“Rest assured, we remain committed to supporting the artist.”

Football shirts worn by Lionel Messi during Argentina’s winning run at the World Cup in 2022 are set to go under the hammer – and are predicted to become the most valuable collection of sports memorabilia ever to sell at auction.

Sotheby’s estimates the six shirts worn by the Argentina captain in Qatar, including during the nail-biting final against France in December 2022, could fetch more than $10m (about £8m).

Argentina won the final – and the country’s third World Cup – in a penalty shoot-out after a 3-3 draw in which Messi scored two goals.

The footballer, 36, shared news of the auction on social media, announcing that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to the Unicas Project, led by the Sant Joan de Deu Barcelona Children’s Hospital, for children suffering from rare diseases.

Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals jersey, which sold for $10.1m at Sotheby’s in New York in September 2022, holds the current record for a game-worn item of sports memorabilia.

In terms of football memorabilia specifically, the current record for a game-worn item is $9.3m, also in 2022, and comes courtesy of another famous Argentinian – the shirt worn by Diego Maradona during the 1986 quarter-final 2-1 victory over England, during which he scored his infamous “Hand of God” goal.

Sotheby’s will put Messi’s shirts up for auction between 30 November and 14 December and they will be on view during these dates at its headquarters in New York as part of a free public exhibition.

The auction house is working with US-based tech start-up AC Momento, which partners with high-profile athletes to help manage their match-worn memorabilia.

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Messi, who currently plays in the MLS in the US for Inter Miami, the club part-owned by David Beckham, spent 17 years at Barcelona, winning Spain’s league on numerous occasions and the European Champions League four times. He has won the Ballon d’Or, which is presented annually to the game’s top player, a record eight times.

Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of modern collectibles, described Argentina’s World Cup win as “one of the greatest events in sports history, intrinsically connected to Messi’s valiant journey”.