The Yemeni Ansurallh resistance movement has warned US Navy vessels against approaching the Arab country’s territorial waters.

The United Arab Emirates has rejected the “mischaracterization” of the country’s talks with Washington over Persian Gulf security.

The US Navy says one of its warships carried out what it called "a navigational rights and freedoms mission" in the South China Sea at the same time as Chinese military drills around Taiwan entered their third day.

The Chinese military on Wednesday said it tracked and warned a US warship that had sailed through the strategic Taiwan Strait in a second such move in two weeks.

A senior Yemeni energy official says US and British warships are detaining Yemen-bound fuel ships, and are responsible for deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country.

The Russian Defense Ministry says the United States is setting up a multinational group of armed forces close to Russia's eastern border in the Black Sea region.

Russia says its naval forces have chased away a US Navy destroyer that attempted to cross the Russian sea border in the Sea of Japan.