International

US-Israeli strikes killed on Monday the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Guards said. “Major General Majid Khademi, the powerful and educated head of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred in the criminal terrorist attack by the American-Zionist enemy… at dawn today,” said the Guards in a post on their Telegram channel.

A Japanese shipping firm said on Monday that an Indian-flagged tanker owned by its subsidiary had passed through the Strait of Hormuz and was en route to the South Asian country. Iran has effectively closed the strait — a critical route for global crude oil and gas — in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that began on 28 February. The near ...

Iran launched fresh attacks across the Middle East on Monday and threatened “devastating” retaliation, after US President Donald Trump’s expletive-laced warning that Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reported a barrage of missile and drone strikes early Monday. The attacks came as Tehran ramped up rhetoric against Trump, with Tehran’s central military ...

Israeli firefighters were searching for two missing people in the rubble of a residential building in the northern city of Haifa after it was struck by an Iranian missile that killed two others, authorities said Monday. The direct hit on a seven-storey building tore through sections of the structure which has partially collapsed, the military and rescue services said. AFP ...

Vietnam’s parliament convened on Monday for a new session in which it will confirm top state leaders including the president and prime minister, posts already selected by the ruling Communist Party but not yet announced. Vietnam’s 500-seat National Assembly serves mainly to ratify decisions made by the ruling party, although it occasionally amends proposed legislation. Its members were elected last ...

The United States rescued an airman caught behind enemy lines after Iran shot down his F-15 fighter jet, the government said early on Sunday, resolving a major crisis for President Donald Trump with the war on Iran in its sixth week. “Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue ...

Police arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly beating a Bangladeshi woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida. The murder occurred at a gas station on Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard on the morning of Thursday (2 April) local time. The victim, 48-year-old Nilufar Yasmin, worked as a cashier at the convenience store ...

Two US warplanes were downed over Iran and the Gulf, Iranian and US officials said on Friday, with two pilots rescued and a third still missing and being hunted by Tehran’s forces. The incidents show the risks still faced by US and Israeli aircraft over Iran despite assertions from US President Donald Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that ...

Iran claimed it shot down a US A-10 aircraft near the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report of Tasnim news agency. Citing the army public relations team, the report said the aircraft was targeted in waters south of and around the strategic waterway. The claim could not be independently verified. The A-10 is a US ground-attack aircraft designed for ...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country’s president, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government. The 69-year-old general orchestrated a 2021 coup against the administration of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and placed her under arrest, sparking ...