Middle East crisis live: US and UK ‘shoot down’ one of biggest Houthi airstrikes in Red Sea

Attack with 21 drones and missiles by Iran-backed rebels comes despite planned UN security council vote on Wednesday to potentially demand halt to the assaults

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Here’s more on the UN security council’s vote scheduled for Wednesday on a resolution that would demand an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea area.

The US draft resolution says at least two dozen Houthi attacks are impeding global commerce “and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security”, reports the Associated Press.