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U.S. officials have stressed that President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran are not primarily aimed at regime change. In an interview with Fox News published on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said that “in a perfect world,” the United States would welcome a leader in Tehran willing to cooperate with Washington. But Trump’s main objective, ...
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The death toll from an alleged airstrike on a girl’s primary school in Iran’s Hormozgan Province has risen to 165, with rescue operations now concluded. The officials said on Monday to the state news agency `Islamic Republic News Agency’. The governor of the southern city of Minab, where the school was located, said search and ...
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The Iranian Red Crescent said on Monday that the death toll from U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran since Saturday has risen to 555. The joint attacks targeted 131 residential areas across Iran, it added in a statement cited by the Fars News Agency. The statement confirmed that the attacks claimed 555 lives, but did ...
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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani on Monday stressed that the country will not negotiate with the United States. Larijani made the remarks in a post on X in response to a Wall Street Journal report, claiming that he was seeking to return to the negotiating table with the United States. The ...
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China has urges all parties to stop military operations and prevent further spread of the current conflict in the Middle East, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday. Mao made the remarks after Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at U.S. military installations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and others ...
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Gulf countries and the United States have strongly condemned what they termed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s “indiscriminate and reckless missile and drone attacks” against sovereign territories across the region. This is contained in a statement issued by the Governments of the Gulf countries and the U.S. on the recent missile and drone attacks launched ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump says the current armed conflict with Iran could run four weeks. “From the outset, it was assumed that it would take about four weeks,” Trump said in a telephone interview with the British newspaper Daily Mail on Sunday. “It’s a big country; it’ll take four weeks – or less,” the U.S. ...
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The Israeli military on Monday advised residents of numerous villages across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley to evacuate their homes immediately ahead of strikes on Hezbollah militia targets there. In a statement, the military told residents to move at least 1,000 meters away to open areas for their safety, adding it does not intend ...
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Iran’s state media on Sunday confirmed that its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Saturday, prompting Iranian missile strikes on Israel and U.S. targets across the region. What happened in the past 24 hours, Why did the United States and Israel take action now, How will Iran retaliate, ...
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China firmly opposes and strongly condemns the attack and killing of Iran’s supreme leader, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday. The spokesperson made the remarks when asked to comment on the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the military strikes launched by the United States and Israel on Saturday in ...
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At least 40 people, including students, were killed and 48 others injured after Israeli strikes targeted a girls’ primary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Quoting a provincial official, Iranian broadcaster IRIB said the school was hit during the attacks earlier in the day. Further ...
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Explosions were heard in the Haifa area in northern Israel on Saturday following launches from Iran, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported. Earlier, air raid sirens sounded in several areas across Israel after missiles were identified as launched from Iran toward the country, the Israeli army said. Israel launched attack against Iran early Saturday under the ...
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Kartz says Israel has launched a “preemptive” strike against Iran. Explosions were heard in Tehran on Saturday night, with thick smoke seen rising over parts of the city. Sirens also sounded across Israel, which declared a “special and immediate” state of emergency across the country. This includes a prohibition on educational ...
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A military cargo plane carrying new Bolivian banknotes crashed near the capital on Friday after skidding off a runway and plowing into a busy road in the neighboring city of El Alto. At least 15 people died in the tragedy while more than 30 others were injured, according to authorities. The crash occurred at 6.20 ...
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised her deposition in front of a congressional committee relating to the scandal surrounding sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, calling it “very long” and “repetitive”. Following Thursday’s closed-door hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee, which lasted about six hours, Hillary Clinton said she “answered every one ...
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The U.S. President, Donald Trump on Wednesday described Venezuela as a “new friend and partner” following the capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro early this year. Speaking during his State of the Union address, Trump called Maduro’s detention a “colossal victory” for U.S. security, saying it marked the beginning of a “bright new chapter” ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. “My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy,” Trump said in his State of the Union address. “But one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror to have a ...
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Zimbabwe on Wednesday announced an immediate moratorium on the export of raw minerals and lithium concentrate, a move aimed at forcing domestic processing and increasing national revenue. Mining Minister Polite Kambamura said in a statement that the ban applies even to materials currently in transit. “Government expects cooperation of the mining industry on this measure ...
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Four people were killed in Russian attacks in Southern Ukraine, authorities said on Wednesday, adding that a child was injured. Airstrikes on a village in the Zaporizhzhya region destroyed one residential building and damaged another, according to Ukraine’s civil protection service. The civil protection service said that the strikes took place Tuesday evening, marking the ...
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Israeli settlers set fire to the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the occupied West Bank on Monday, also spray-painting racist slogans hostile to Arabs and Muslims, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. The Israeli military confirmed a fire at the mosque near Tell, with troops dispatched to the scene for review. Eyewitnesses reported that flammable ...
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Canada has updated its advisory for travel to Mexico to a “high degree of caution”. The country had listed more than a dozen states as areas to avoid non-essential travel due to a surge in violence and roadblocks in the country. According to the latest advisory issued by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), criminal activity and ...
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Chad on Monday announced the closure of its border with Sudan, citing “repeated incursions and violations committed by the warring parties in Sudan on Chadian territory.” Gassim Cherif Mahamat , Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman said in a statement. “The closure, aims to prevent the risk of extending the conflict to Chad, protect citizens ...
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President Donald Trump is weighing an initial limited military strike on Iran, aimed at pressuring Tehran into accepting a nuclear deal, local media reports. If authorised, the strike could come within days, targeting a few military or government sites, said the report. It added that if Iran still refused to comply with the U.S. nuclear ...
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says around 22.9 million people in Afghanistan, including 12 million children, nearly half of the population require humanitarian assistance. UNICEF said a combination of climate shocks, ongoing economic stagnation, and rising unemployment has significantly increased humanitarian needs across the country. According to a report extreme weather events, including repeated ...
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Two people were killed and 10 injured in renewed Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday, as Moscow intensified strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure. “The main targets of the attack were energy facilities in Kiev, Odessa and Dnipro,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram. He added that the damage was ...
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Ten people, including the suspected gunman were killed following a mass shooting at two locations in the northern British Columbia community of Tumbler Ridge, Canadian authorities said on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said officers responded to reports of an active shooter at a local school at approximately 1:20 p.m. local time (2020 ...
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The U.S. has listed 18 Nigerians for deportation from the country, in addition to 79 others earlier earmarked, bringing the total number of those to be deported to 97. This is contained in a statement published on the website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seen on Tuesday. It explained that the arrests ...
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Canadian political and business leaders have pushed back strongly against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to delay the opening of the nearly completed Gordie Howe International Bridge. This is according to Canadian media reports on Tuesday. The bridge, which links Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, Michigan, will become the third crossing at the Windsor-Detroit gateway. The ...
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Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai that access to social media for minors under 16 would be banned. Sanchez added that all platforms will be required to implement age verification systems. “Our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone. “We ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue Grammys host, Trevor Noah after a joke he made about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on stage. Trump blasted the comedian as a “total loser,” adding: “It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for ...