NDTV: Iran has tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global fuel supplies and causing turmoil in energy markets in response to US-Israeli strikes on February 28. According to maritime data, 60 per cent of commodity-bearing ships crossing the key shipping lane have either come from Iran or were heading there. However, despite […]
(Reuters) CAIRO/WASHINGTON, April 4 – Iranian forces were hunting for a missing U.S. pilot on Saturday from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, raising the stakes for Washington as the war entered its sixth week with scant prospect of peace talks in sight. The incidents show the risks still facing U.S. and Israeli […]
BBC: The Australian government has encouraged people to go ahead with their Easter travel plans, despite fuel shortages at hundreds of petrol stations across the country. “Easter is a very special time of faith and family,” energy minister Chris Bowen said on Saturday, adding: “Go take a break – but get no more fuel than […]
Al Jazeera: A hospital in the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre has been damaged by Israeli air strikes on nearby buildings that injured 11 people, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The director of the Lebanese Italian Hospital told the state-run National News Agency (NNA) on Saturday that the facility would “remain open to […]
(Reuters) KYIV, April 4- Five people were killed and 19 others wounded by a Russian drone strike on a market in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday morning, Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office said. “This is yet another war crime committed by the Russian Federation,” the prosecutor’s office said on Telegram. Nikopol, which faces […]
Al Jazeera: An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara area of Kabul province. Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said on Saturday that a child aged around two years old was the only survivor. Afghanistan’s disaster management agency said the boy was injured. […]
(Reuters) April 4 – Iraq closed the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran after airstrikes on the Iranian side killed an Iraqi citizen, security sources said on Saturday. The sources said at least five Iraqis were seriously wounded in the strikes, which hit a passenger reception area on the Iranian side. Iraqi police recovered the body […]
BBC: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of choosing “Easter escalation” over an Easter ceasefire after Russia carried out another deadly large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine. Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles across the country. Major daytime attacks, which were once rare, […]
BBC: Early reports indicate that the pilot of a US F-15 fighter aircraft downed over Iran was rescued – which, if confirmed, would be the latest in the long history of US combat search-and-rescue missions over decades. The search operation is ongoing deep inside Iran for a second crew member, according to CBS, the BBC’s […]
BBC: Nasa has shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew as they pass the halfway point between the Earth andthe Moon. The mission’s commander, Reid Wiseman, took the “spectacular” images, Nasa says, after the crew completed a final engine burn that set them on a trajectory towards our […]