The transport ministry here said on Thursday it has imposed fines on Saudia Airlines, Qatar Airways and eight other domestic and foreign airlines for violating South Korea's aviation law.

Saudia Airlines was slapped with a fine of 100 million won ($75,500) for suspending its flights linking Incheon and Riyadh without permission from aviation authorities.

The Saudi Arabian airline won approval to operate three weekly flights of the route from March through October, but it has not been operating them since June 27, reports news agency.

Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan resumed operations Thursday morning, a day after its closure due to the explosion of a wartime dud shell that damaged a section of its taxiway, local media reported.

A Japan Airlines plane to Fukuoka departed at around 7:40 a.m. local time in the first flight since the airport was shut for safety checks on Wednesday, news agency reported.

The transport ministry office at Miyazaki Airport said Wednesday that a blast was heard on a taxiway shortly before 8 a.m. local time as air traffic controllers saw smoke rising from the site.

The Houthi group in Yemen said on Tuesday that it had launched multiple attacks targeting two ships travelling in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the first operation targeted British oil ship Cordelia Moon in the Red Sea, using eight ballistic and winged missiles, a drone, and an unmanned boat. He added that the operation "severely damaged" the ship, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, news agency reported.

"The second operation targeted the ship Marathopolis in the Indian Ocean with a cruise missile, and the third operation targeted the same ship again in the Arabian Sea," he said.

"We will not stop launching attacks until the (Israeli) aggression on Gaza is stopped and the blockade is lifted, as well as the (Israeli) aggression on Lebanon is stopped," said Sarea.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivered a comprehensive one-and-a-half-hour speech in the National Assembly, detailing his government's key priorities including public deficit reduction, immigration reform, and retirement policies.

Barnier set an ambitious target for France's public deficit, aiming to reduce it to 5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 from this year's 6 per cent and further to 3 per cent in 2029, news agency reported.

To achieve the goal, Barnier pledged to reduce public spending and introduce a more "effective" public spending scheme.

He also called for an additional tax effort, under which large and very large companies that make significant profits should contribute more "without compromising the competitiveness" of France.

The Netherlands will help its citizens to leave Lebanon in the next few days, the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced.

"The security situation in Lebanon has become even more uncertain," the foreign ministry said on Tuesday in a public letter to Dutch citizens in Lebanon.

"We see that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Dutch people to leave Lebanon, the scenario we have been warning about in the travel advice for some time."

The evacuation of an estimated several hundred Dutch citizens will begin within a few days, reports news agency, quoting the ministry.

Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while Israeli forces unexpectedly advanced in the east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Palestinian security sources told news agency that Israeli warplanes targeted a house on Tuesday west of the Nuseirat camp with a missile. They added that the airstrike was accompanied by intense artillery shelling, which also hit a school housing displaced persons.

Medical sources said the Israeli bombardment killed three Palestinians and injured several others, all of whom were taken to hospital.

In addition, local sources reported that the Israeli troops injured several Palestinians at the Netzarim junction in central Gaza.

Israel has vowed to retaliate after Iran launched several waves of missile attacks at Israel on Tuesday night.

Hours after the Iranian strike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Security Cabinet meeting said: "Iran made a big mistake tonight, and it will pay for it."

Earlier, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said: "Iran's attack is a severe and dangerous escalation. There will be consequences... We will respond wherever, whenever and however we choose, in accordance with the directive of the government of Israel."

Israel's rescue services reported that two people in Tel Aviv were lightly injured by shrapnel, noting that a building in the northern part of the city was damaged. There have been no immediate reports of fatalities in Israel yet.

Fifteen people have been killed in a flash flood in the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman, the official news agencyreported on Tuesday.

The flood occurred on Monday afternoon as heavy rainfalls caused Halil River in Jiroft County to overflow its banks, the report quoted Jiroft Governor Ahmad Bolandnazar as saying.

The governor added that 16 teams of the provincial Red Crescent Society as well as voluntary forces and local people had been searching for the 15 people missing in the flood since Monday evening, and all the bodies were found by Tuesday.

According to Bolandnazar, all the victims, except one, were Afghan nationals who were swimming in the river when the flood took place,news agency reported.

Israel's military on Tuesday urged civilians in Lebanon to evacuate about 30 villages and towns, warning of imminent Israeli attacks in the area, after launching a ground operation into southern Lebanon overnight.

"You must evacuate your homes immediately," Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), wrote in a post in Arabic on the social media platform X.

The list included mostly villages and towns near the border with Israel, including Maroun al-Ras, Deir Qanoun, Bint Jbeil, and Aitaroun. However, it also included villages, such as Ibl al-Saqi, located some 60 km from the border, indicating the scope of the ground attack planned by Israel.

Philippine authorities reported on Tuesday that at least two people died and over 77,000 were affected in the wake of Super Typhoon Krathon that barreled across the Philippines over the weekend and early this week.

Provincial authorities said one died from electrocution in Cagayan province and one in Ilocos Sur province.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Krathon affected at least 77,249 people in three regions in the Philippines,news agency reported.

Krathon, the 10th typhoon hitting the Southeast Asian country this year, intensified into a super typhoon on Tuesday morning.