An IDF NCO was wounded by a bullet which had strayed from a shooting range at a military base during a military curfew imposed, among other things, to refresh security directives, Israel's public broadcaster KAN reported on Wednesday.

Sirens sounded across northern Israel, including in Haifa, due to missile fire from Yemen, the IDF announced on X/Twitter.🚨Sirens sounding in northern Israel due to projectile fire from Yemen pic.twitter.com/OYTqPjCqsj— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 23, 2025The military later confirmed that "the missile was successfully intercepted."

China has set the launch for its Shenzhou-20 mission that will carry three astronauts to the Chinese space station for Thursday at 5.17 p.m. local time (0917 GMT), state media said on Wednesday.The main purpose of the mission is to complete the in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-19 crew which is scheduled to return to the Dongfeng landing site on April 29, officials said at a press conference broadcast on CCTV.The Shenzhou-20 spaceflight will carry astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, CCTV said. They will conduct space science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks.The mission will also bring with it zebrafish, planarians and streptomyces as research objects to carry out three life science experiments at the space station.

Intel is set to announce a plan to lay off some 20,000 employees, which constitutes 20% of its staff, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a source with knowledge of the subject.