Posts Tagged ‘global-impact events’
Israel announces new list of top regime targets in ‘unprecedented’ attack on Tehran
Israel has launched a new, “unprecedented attack” targeting the regime in Tehran and “its repressive apparatus”, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Monday. According to reports from Iran, police command headquarters, state-run broadcaster IRIB and Evin prison have been hit in the strikes amid the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict, now in its second week. Earlier, US…
Read MoreTerrorism advisory bulletin warns of “heightened threat environment” in U.S. after strikes on Iran
A bulletin from the National Terrorism Advisory System warns of a “heightened threat environment in the United States” following the U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. The bulletin, first obtained by CBS News on Sunday morning, June 22, does not note any current specific threats, but warns that “low-level cyber attacks against US networks…
Read MoreMan in Germany accused of murder, child abuse tied to predatory online group
German authorities arrested a man in Hamburg on Tuesday and accused him of orchestrating a campaign of online abuse that allegedly coerced a 13-year-old American boy into killing himself while on a live-stream video. Prosecutors said the man was a “relevant member” of 764, a global online community that preyed viciously on children. Hamburg public…
Read MoreIsrael attacks Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant
Israel said on Thursday it had struck Iran’s only functioning nuclear power plant on the Gulf coast, potentially a major escalation in its air war against Iran. Israel has struck a number of Iranian nuclear targets since launching its attacks last week. But a strike on the Bushehr plant, which is located near Iran’s Arab…
Read MoreUS pulls out of two more bases in Syria, worrying Kurdish forces
U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop drawdown that the commander of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces said was allowing a resurgence of Islamic State. Reuters reporters who visited the two bases in the past week found them mostly deserted, both guarded by small…
Read MoreLebanese leaders indirectly urge Hezbollah to stay out of the Israel-Iran conflict
Lebanon’s president and prime minister said Monday that their country must stay out of the conflict between Israel and Iran because any engagement would be detrimental to the small nation engulfed in an economic crisis and struggling to recover from the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Their remarks amounted to a message to the Lebanese militant Hezbollah…
Read MoreIran’s leader rejects call to surrender, saying US intervention would cause ‘irreparable damage’
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in an official statement read by a state TV anchor. The remarks from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has only been seen once since…
Read MoreRussia’s latest deadly drone and missile attack on Kyiv ‘pure terrorism’, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian officials said 14 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv. The attack comes as world leaders convene in the Canadian Rockies for the G7 summit. The latest Russian missile and drone attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight on Tuesday killing at least…
Read MoreCanada and India to share terrorism intelligence despite 2023 murder plot, says report
Canada and India plan to share intelligence in an effort to combat the rising threat of international crime and extremism, according to a new report from Bloomberg, days before a meeting between the two countries’ leaders. Canadian officials declined to comment on the report, which, if confirmed, would represent a dramatic shift in relations between…
Read MoreIran missile attacks on Israel kills 5, while Israel claims it now has air superiority over Tehran
Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed in the fourth day of the conflict that it had now achieved “aerial superiority” over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital without facing major threats. After days of attacks on Iranian air defenses…
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