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EXPLAINERIran has launched a massive aerial attack on Israel, two weeks after a deadly strike on its consulate in Syria.Iran unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones on Saturday and during the early hours of Sunday, targeting Israel in retaliation for last week’s suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus that killed 13 people. Here is what happened, and what analysts say could happen next. What happened in Israel and when? Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel, two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. This marks the first-ever direct attack by Iran on…

The US president reiterates support for Israel in call with Netanyahu amid reports that he is also opposed to a counterattack against Iran.US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles. Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Iran says it launched the attack on Israel in response to an Israeli raid on the Iranian consulate in Syria and says ‘the matter can be deemed concluded’. Source link

Fears of a wider regional conflict in­ten­si­fy as the Is­rael military and Lebanon’s Hezbol­lah es­ca­late at­tacks.Here’s how things stand on Saturday, April 13, 2024: Bombardments and fighting Dozens of Israeli air strikes have hit central Gaza, including in the area of Deir el-Balah, with several casualties reported. Israel’s military said its aircraft struck more than 60 targets in Gaza over the previous day. Authorities in the enclave said at least 25 people were taken to hospital after a house was hit. Five Palestinians have been killed and more than 30 injured overnight after the Israeli army bombed a residential building…

A Palestinian man has been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where tensions remain high amid fears of more violence. Dozens of settlers stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, killing one Palestinian and wounding at least 25 people after a 14-year-old Israeli settler went missing. The attacks that started on Friday, with several Palestinian homes also set on fire, continued into Saturday in al-Mughayyir, as well as in Duma, Beit Furik and Qusra, Al Jazeera’s correspondents said. One Palestinian was wounded in al-Mughayyir, and at least four others in Duma after they were…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said the drones would take hours before reaching Israel’s airspace.Israel’s military says Iran has launched a number of drones at Israel, and it will take hours to arrive. Iran’s press TV, citing Iranian sources, also reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched extensive drone strikes against targets in Israel on Saturday. This comes nearly two weeks after an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria killed seven IRGC members. “Iran launched UAVs from its territory towards the territory of the state of Israel,” Israel’s army’s spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said late on Saturday. “We…

After an operation lasting almost 24 hours, 184 people stranded in midair since Friday afternoon have been rescued.One person has been killed and 17 others injured in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pole, according to the country’s health and justice ministers. The injured people “were transferred to hospitals and their treatment continues”, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on the social media platform X on Saturday. People who were rescued and stated that they did not need hospital transportation had the health checks performed in ambulances, he added. The accident happened late on…

City-state’s performance is closely watched as a barometer of global economic conditions.Singapore’s economy grew slower than expected in the first quarter, as a struggling manufacturing sector weighed on tourism spending from events including Taylor Swift’s concerts. The city-state’s economic performance is often seen as a barometer of the global environment because of its reliance on international trade. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 2.7 percent on-year, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Friday, faster than the previous three months but weaker than the 3.0 percent projected in a Bloomberg poll of economists. It grew just 0.1 percent on-quarter. The…

IRGC forces conducted an operation via helicopter to take control of the commercial vessel, state media reports.Tehran, Iran – Iranian armed forces have seized a container ship near the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions across the region after a deadly Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Syria. The ship was commandeered by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite force that lost seven members, including two generals, in the Syria strike, Iranian state media reported on Saturday. “The ship has now been guided towards the territorial waters of our country,” state-run IRNA reported. The vessel was identified as…

Manila, Philippines – Against a backdrop of rising tension in the South China Sea between Beijing and Manila, the leaders of Japan, the Philippines and the United States have forged an unprecedented level of cooperation to counter China. But while US President Joe Biden and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have stressed the security aspects of their cooperation, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has highlighted its potential economic rewards, touting the partnership with promised investments of some $100bn as a friendship with benefits. At the televised opening of the summit on April 11, Biden told the other two leaders: “I…