JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nearly 20-year-old threat to strike Iran came true on Friday, as US President Donald Trump warned Tehran of further “brutal” attacks if it refuses to negotiate. In its largest military action against Iran to date, Israel’s strikes hit about 100 targets including nuclear facilities and military command centres, and…
ECUADOR said Friday it will probe the finances of any judge or prosecutor who releases a suspected violent criminal, amid allegations of bribery frustrating the government’s fight against organized crime. Once-peaceful Ecuador averaged a killing every hour at the start of the year as drug cartels battle for control over cocaine routes that pass through…
WASHINGTON: The upcoming UN conference co-hosted by Saudi Arabia and France on the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine has been postponed amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Anadolu Ajansi reported. The High-Level Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution was scheduled to take…
ISTANBUL: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot reiterated on Friday the country’s determination to recognise the State of Palestine, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. France would “uphold the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination by recognising the State of Palestine,“ Barrot said during his speech at the civil society event, Paris Call for the Two-State Solution,…
RENNES: Four people were killed and nine others seriously injured in a motorway accident Friday in western France involving a bus carrying a group of Ukrainian students, authorities said. Local prosecutors said later Friday that the two Ukrainian drivers had been detained on suspicion of manslaughter and “involuntary wounding”. All four people who died were…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump urged Iran Friday to make a deal or face “even more brutal” attacks by Israel, as Washington said it was helping its key ally defend itself against Iranian retaliation. But Trump also kept the door open for negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program, as the president who boasted he had “no…
WASHINGTON: For President Donald Trump, few goals on the world stage have been more explicit — he will not drag the United States into another “forever war.” Yet Israel’s massive strikes on Iran will test that promise as never before, potentially setting up a showdown with his base as Trump decides how much support the…
KIGALI: At least 52 people have been confirmed dead, and dozens remain missing after two passenger boats capsized on Lake Tumba in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials said on Friday, Anadolu Ajansi reported. The boats sank overnight between Wednesday and Thursday near Bikoro, about 128 kilometres (79 miles) from Mbandaka in Equateur…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s firefighting service said its teams were responding to several “major” incidents resulting from an Iranian missile attack, including efforts to rescue people trapped in a high-rise building. “Firefighting crews are handling several major incidents, mainly in the Dan region” around Tel Aviv, a statement said, adding that “firefighters are working in a high-rise…
TEHRAN: Israel began feeling Iran’s wrath on Friday evening as the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces launched a wave of strikes on Israel. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the strikes came hours after the Israeli regime, in what Iran described as unprovoked aggression, targeted locations inside Iranian territory, including residential buildings….
