Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late on Thursday, citing a U.S. official, days after Iran launched a drone strike on Israel in response to an attack at the Iranian embassy in Syria. Iran’s Fars news agency said an explosion were heard at an airport in the Iranian city of Isafahan but the cause was not immediately known. Several Iranian nuclear sites are located in Isfahan province, including Natanz, centerpiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Several flights were diverted over Iranian airspace, CNN reported. Over the weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in a retaliatory…
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Burkina Faso has accused three French diplomats of “subversive activities” and ordered them to leave the country within 48 hours, according to a foreign ministry letter viewed by Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agencies. Burkina Faso’s government did not provide details of the allegations against the expelled diplomats, who it named as Gwenaelle Habouzit, Herve Fournier and Guillaume Reisacher. Reuters cited a source with direct knowledge of the situation as saying their expulsion was due to meetings they held with civil society leaders. France condemned the move on Thursday. “There were no legitimate grounds for the Burkinabe authorities’ decision.…
Members of Ghana’s LGBTQ community and activists are waiting to see whether the West African country’s president will sign into law a bill that would further restrict their rights and likely worsen the persecution many face. Kwame, a gay man who spoke to Reuters on the condition his real name was not used, already bears the scars of Ghana’s widespread intolerance of homosexuality. “I was born with two eyes, but this is what I have now,” said the 30-year-old, removing his oversized spectacles to reveal an eye that he said was damaged when neighbours attacked him over his sexuality in…
A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. At least 20 people were reported to have died in the deluge in Oman while another person was said to have died in floods in the UAE that closed government offices and schools for days. The storm had initially hit Oman on Sunday before it pounded the UAE on Tuesday, knocking out power and causing huge disruptions to flights as runways were turned into rivers. In the UAE, a record 254 millimetres (10 inches) of…
Former player Daniele De Rossi will continue on as AS Roma’s manager for the next season and the “foreseeable future”, the Serie A club’s owners said on Thursday. De Rossi, who was appointed in January on a deal that ran until the end of the season, replaced Jose Mourinho and took over a side that was ninth in the league’s standings. Under the former Italy international, Roma have climbed to fifth in the standings following a seven-game unbeaten run in the league. They have also reached the Europa League quarter-finals, in which they have a 1-0 advantage over opponents AC…
Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dumping more than a year and a half’s rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in just a few hours and flooding major highways and its international airport. The rains began late on Monday, soaking the sands and roads of Dubai with some 20mm (0.79 inches) of rain, according to meteorological data collected at Dubai International Airport. The storms intensified at about 9am (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday and continued throughout the day, dumping more rain and hail onto the overwhelmed city. By the end of Tuesday, more than 142mm (5.59 inches)…
Borussia Dortmund stormed into the Champions League semi-finals with a rip-roaring 4-2 home win over Atlético Madrid on Tuesday that saw them fight back from a 2-1 defeat in the first leg to win the tie 5-4 on aggregate. https://twitter.com/ChampionsLeague/status/1780344061263491271 The German side scored twice in the first half and looked to be cruising into the last four, but Atletico bounced back with two goals early in the second half to put Dortmund on the ropes before they dug deep to complete a superb comeback. Dortmund will now take on Paris Saint-Germain, who came back from 4-2 down to beat…
Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappé scored twice in the second half to help guide his side to a 4-1 comeback win at 10-man Barcelona in their Champions League quarterfinal second leg to wrap up a 6-4 aggregate victory on Tuesday. PSG took advantage of a first-half red card to Barcelona defender Ronald Araújo to keep their hopes of the trophy alive in what is set to be Mbappé’s last season in Paris. They will next face Borussia Dortmund, whom they played in the group stage, after the Germans beat Atletico Madrid. Having failed to get past the round of 16 in the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for restraint as Israel weighs its response to Iran’s unprecedented weekend drone and missile attack. Putin made the remarks in a phone call with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday. The leaders discussed what the Kremlin called “retaliatory measures taken by Iran” after an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on April 1. Putin urged all sides to refrain from action that would trigger a new confrontation that would have catastrophic consequences for the Middle East, the Kremlin said. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel late on Saturday…
When Israel responds to the unprecedented weekend Iranian drone and missile salvoes, its aim will be to send a message of deterrence to Tehran, while drawing a line under this round of hostilities, a senior Israeli lawmaker said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Among Israeli considerations in planning a counter-strike are the war-wariness of Westerns powers, the risk to air crews from any sorties against Iran and the need to keep focus on the more than half-year-long Gaza offensive, Yuli Edelstein said. “We’ll have to react. Iranians will know we reacted. And I sincerely hope that it will teach them a lesson…
The international community must act to secure an “immediate” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister said Tuesday during a visit to Pakistan, Anadolu Agency reports. Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud met with Pakistan’s President, Asif Ali Zardari, and Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday to discuss a host of bilateral and regional issues, including investment, trade and Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. During his meeting with Zardari, the two sides discussed the regional dynamics and recent developments in the Middle East and called for an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire and end to the Israeli…
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday won the dismissal of some claims in a dozen lawsuits accusing him of concealing from the public that Facebook and Instagram were harmful to children. The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, came in the sprawling litigation by children pursuing hundreds of lawsuits accusing Meta and other social media companies of addicting them to their platforms. Twenty-five of those cases sought to hold Zuckerberg personally liable, saying Meta’s billionaire founder created a false impression about the platforms’ safety despite repeated warnings they were unfit for children. Also Read: Elon Musk And Mark…
Israeli awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran’s first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew amid fears of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. Netanyahu on Monday summoned his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 hours to weigh a response to Iran’s weekend missile and drone attack, a government source said. Military Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Israel would respond. He provided no details. “This launch of so many missiles, cruise missiles, and drones into Israeli territory will be met with a response,” he said at…
The United States is renewing efforts to push through a stalled funding package for Israel despite stressing it will not help with any counteroffensive measures against Iran. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call late on Sunday that the US would not take part in any retaliatory action in response to Iran’s air attack the previous day. Despite the US president joining global calls for restraint, the rising tensions in the Middle East look set to accelerate approval of a stalled funding package that would see Washington hand Netanyahu $14bn in aid. “We believe Israel has…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has opened a criminal investigation into the collapse of a Baltimore bridge last month, the United States law enforcement agency announces after its agents raided the Dali cargo ship. The Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26. The FBI said on Monday that it had boarded the ship to conduct “court-authorised” law enforcement activity regarding the crash, an agency spokesperson told the Reuters news agency. There is no other public information available, and the FBI will have no further comment, the spokesperson said. The cargo ship crashed into the bridge about 1:30am…