Posts Tagged ‘global-impact events’

Greek police have arrested an Azerbaijani national suspected of spying on a NATO base on the island of Crete. Local media reported on Monday that the man was detained the previous day on suspicion of espionage. Authorities are reportedly investigating whether the case is linked to the arrest in recent days of a man with…

The conflict in Sudan is spilling across its southwestern border into Central African Republic, a country already battered by its own conflict with rebels, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned Thursday. Undersecretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the U.N. Security Council that the attack that killed a U.N. peacekeeper near the country’s border with Sudan last Friday…

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranians for what he described as a victory over Israel and the United States, in a defiant video message that appeared to be his first public statement since U.S. war planes bombed three of the country’s nuclear facilities. Public alarm has been rising in Iran over the absence…

Seven Iranian men have appeared in court in the UK after being charged with assaulting a pro-government protestor outside Tehran’s embassy in London last week. The men, aged between 30 and 50, were charged with grievous bodily harm after two people were allegedly attacked near the embassy on Friday morning. The defendants’ lawyers told Westminster…

Israel warned its public to take shelter after detecting missile launches from Iran early Tuesday. The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes. U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and…

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…

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…