At least 15 people have been killed in landslides in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi continues to threaten parts of the region, media reports said on Saturday. A landslide that struck Malapatan town in Sarangani province on the southern island of Mindanao early Friday claimed the lives of 10 people, according to the Philippine News More
At least 15 people have been killed in landslides in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi continues to threaten parts of the region, media reports said on Saturday. A landslide that struck Malapatan town in Sarangani province on the southern island of Mindanao early Friday claimed the lives of 10 people, according to the Philippine News More
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has travelled to Muscat for talks with Omani officials on arrangements for managing the Strait of Hormuz and regional developments. According to Iran’s IRNA news agency, Araghchi arrived in Oman on Saturday at the head of a diplomatic delegation and is expected to discuss bilateral relations, the management of the More
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was buried along with four members of his family at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iranian media reported. According to the Iranian news agency ISNA, Khamenei’s body, along with those of four family members, was laid to rest at the shrine More
Iran says it has launched retaliatory attacks against US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait after the United States carried out a second consecutive night of airstrikes on Iranian cities, according to media reports on Thursday. Explosions were reported across several Iranian cities along the Strait of Hormuz, including Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Jask More
A Boeing 737 cargo aircraft carrying five crew members has disappeared from radar over the Arabian Sea while flying from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Karachi, Pakistan. The Associated Press reported that the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) said the cargo aircraft, operated by K2 Airways, reported a navigation system problem at 9:18pm More
At least nine people, including eight Rohingya refugees, have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in southeastern Bangladesh, a media report said on Wednesday. Hillsides collapsed at four locations in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps between late Sunday and early Monday, burying shelters under mud and debris while residents were asleep, Al More
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country has signed three more drone production agreements with Denmark, Estonia and the Netherlands, a media report said on Wednesday. Reuters reported that Zelenskyy announced the agreements on Tuesday on social media on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, the Turkish capital, saying the latest deals brought More
The coffin of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has arrived in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, where funeral ceremonies are scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning, media reports said. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB reported that Khamenei’s coffin arrived in Najaf on Tuesday. According to the report, the funeral procession is scheduled to begin More
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has carried out fresh strikes on several targets in Iran, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced missile attacks on US bases in the region in response. According to reports, an unnamed senior US official told media outlets that the IRGC had targeted two commercial vessels More
