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Facing the camera with a defiant gaze, her index finger raised in the air, Iranian TV presenter Sahar Emami became an icon in her country after an Israeli attack on the state broadcaster. “What you can see is the flagrant aggression of the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian broadcaster,” she said on air Monday ...

An Iranian missile struck Israel’s largest oil refinery complex in the northern port city of Haifa early on Monday, killing three workers and sparking a fire at the facility, Israel’s military censor said in a statement. The missile hit the Bazan oil refinery before dawn, igniting a blaze that continued into Monday afternoon, according to local media. The refinery, located ...

Israel has attacked the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB and interrupted a live broadcast with an explosion, marking another escalation in the conflict with Tehran and replicating its previous attacks on news media targets in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon. TV anchor Sahar Emami denounced Monday’s “aggression against the homeland” and the “truth” as a blast went off and ...

Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service reported on Monday that five people were killed and 92 others injured in Iran’s latest missile strikes on central Israel, raising the earlier death toll from four. The casualties occurred across four strike locations. According to the MDA, the fatalities included “two women and two men around the age of 70, as well ...

Sonia Gandhi, the chief of the Congress party in India’s parliament, has been admitted to a hospital in New Delhi with a stomach-related ailment. She was admitted to the Department of Gastroenterology at Ganga Ram Hospital at 9pm local time on Sunday. She is under observation, broadcaster NDTV reports, citing the hospital. On Jun 7, Sonia had been admitted to ...

Five people were killed when a helicopter carrying six passengers crashed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Aryan Aviation helicopter was flying from Guptkashi to Kedarnath Dham with pilgrims on board. During the 10-minute journey, the chopper crashed between Gaurikund and Sonprayag. According to Uttarakhand Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Law and Order, Dr. V. Murugeshan, six ...

Overnight missile attacks launched by Iran on Israel have left at least eight people dead, including children, and injured nearly 200 others, according to Israeli emergency services. In the central region, four people, among them a 10-year-old boy, were killed when a rocket struck the area. Around 100 others were wounded, said a spokesperson from Magen David Adom (MDA). An ...

Israel’s strikes on Iran have killed 78 people, including top military commanders, and wounded more than 320, the Islamic republic’s ambassador to the United Nations said Friday. “So far, 78 people, including senior military officials, have been martyred and over 320 other injured. The overwhelming majority of them (are) civilians, including women and children,” Iran’s ambassador to the UN Amir ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei confirmed on Friday that several military commanders and scientists were “martyred” in Israeli strikes on Tehran, reports Arab News. In a statement carried on state television, Khamenei warned that Israel will not go unpunished for its attacks. State television earlier said that Hossein Salami, the chief of the Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was ...

Iran launched a counterattack on Israel, firing nearly 100 drones toward Israeli territory in response to an airstrike in Tehran, according to IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Effi Defrin, reports BBC. The IDF spokesperson stated that measures are being taken to intercept the drones launched toward Israeli territory. Earlier, after 4:00 AM local time on Friday, Israel conducted multiple airstrikes in ...