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 Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 1:26pm On Mar 05 |
NATO chief: Iran ‘close’ to becoming threat to Europe NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has told Reuters that Iran is “close” to becoming a threat to Europe, and expressed support for Trump for taking out Tehran’s nuclear and missile capabilities. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 1:26pm On Mar 05 |
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 1:25pm On Mar 05 |
Photos: Israeli attacks continue in Lebanon
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:53am On Mar 05 |
Breaking! Iran says it attacked US oil tanker in Arabian Gulf Iran’s IRGC says it attacked an American oil tanker in the Arabian Gulf. The IRGC’s Public Relations Department said in a statement carried by the state IRNA news agency that Iranian naval forces “successfully targeted an American oil tanker”. No further details were provided. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:52am On Mar 05 |
Israeli attacks have killed 77 in Lebanon in four days: health ministry Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks in the country since Monday have killed a total of 77 people and injured 527. As we reported earlier, at least eight people have been killed in such attacks today, including four members of the same family in the southern village of Kfar Tebnit. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:42am On Mar 05 |
Oil tanker attacked in Iraqi port of Khor al-Zubair An Iraqi security source has told Al Jazeera that a boat struck an oil tanker flying the flag of the Bahamas in the Iraqi port of Khor al-Zubair, causing damage and an oil spill. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:41am On Mar 05 |
Iraqi Kurdistan gov’t says it is not part of any campaign to expand war Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government has denied involvement in any plans to arm Kurdish groups and send them into Iran, following reports Kurdish armed groups have consulted with the US about potentially waging attacks in western Iran. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:40am On Mar 05 |
Russia says Iran has not asked it to supply arms Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia has not received a request from Iran to send it weapons during the ongoing war. Asked by a reporter whether Moscow plans to offer material support to Iran, including arms, Peskov said: “In this case, there were no requests from the Iranian side. Our consistent position is well known to everyone, and there have been no changes in this regard.” Last year, Iran sealed a 20-year strategic partnership agreement with Russia. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:16am On Mar 05 |
European countries send naval assets to Cyprus in wake of drone attack Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands are sending naval assets to Cyprus to protect the island in the coming days, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has told parliament. Spain’s defence ministry said in a statement that Madrid would send a frigate. Greece and France said they would send assets to the island after a British air base there was targeted with an Iranian-made drone on Monday. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:13am On Mar 05 |
Analysis: Iranians ‘rallying around flag’ in wake of US, Israeli attacks Despite calls from Trump for Iranians to “take back their country” from Iran’s leaders, the US and Israeli strikes appeared to be driving many to rally around the flag instead, says a Tehran-based analyst. Abas Aslani, senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies, told Al Jazeera that, rather than rising on the streets against Iran’s leaders, there had been gatherings in Tehran and other cities “to condemn the aggression and support the political system” amid the ongoing US and Israeli attacks. “There was a part of society that thought Trump would come to help them because they were unhappy with the economic condition or even the political system,” he said. “But now it is more clear that the US is not … helping them.” |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:03am On Mar 05 |
Breaking! Two more killed by Israeli attack in Lebanon An Israeli attack targeting a car on a highway near the town of Zahle in eastern Lebanon has killed two people, raising today’s death toll to eight, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports, citing the health ministry. The latest attack also injured two people, according to the ministry. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:02am On Mar 05 |
Developing: Second Iranian vessel indicated to Sri Lanka it is facing engine trouble We already know what happened to the first ship, the Dena which was sunk yesterday by the US. The second ship contacted local authorities in Sri Lanka to indicate they are running into some engine trouble and asking to call into port. That is not happening, but there is some communication from what we’re hearing. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:01am On Mar 05 |
Russia accuses US and Israel of ‘trying to drag’ Arab countries into war “They deliberately provoked Iran into retaliatory strikes against targets in some Arab countries, which led to human and material losses, which the Russian side deeply regrets,” the ministry said in a statement. “In doing so, [the US and Israel] are trying to drag the Arabs into a war for someone else’s interests.” The ministry said the only path to further destabilisation was to stop the attacks on Iran, but there were no signs for now of this happening. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 11:00am On Mar 05 |
‘Elevated’ threat level alert in Qatar Authorities in Qatar have sent out an ‘elevated’ emergency alert informing residents that the security threat level is elevated. This comes after multiple explosions were heard above Doha.
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:59am On Mar 05 |
Explosions above Doha continue The blasts above Doha’s sky are ongoing. We are hearing continuous explosions heard closer to the centre of the city. We’ve heard earlier from the Qatar’s Defence Ministry saying its air defence systems are intercepting the attacks. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:58am On Mar 05 |
Photos: Explosions in the skies above Qatar’s capital Doha
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:57am On Mar 05 |
Qatar’s Defence Ministry says its air defence systems are intercepting a missile attack. The statement comes as multiple explosions are being heard in the skies above Doha. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:56am On Mar 05 |
Explosions in Doha happening ‘closer and closer’ to the centre Since then, there have been at least a dozen, maybe 20, booms. Looking up, you can see the familiar smoke of where the interceptors have hit Iranian missiles or drones. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:55am On Mar 05 |
Analysis: Where are Iran’s allies? Why Moscow, Beijing are keeping their distance?? 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:53am On Mar 05 |
Azerbaijan summons Iran’s ambassador over drone incident We can now bring you more from Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry on the reported drones from Iran hitting its territory. The ministry said the “attack” on its territory violates international law and demanded that Iran quickly clarify the situation and take measures to ensure such incidents do not happen again. “The Azerbaijani side reserves the right to take appropriate response measures,” the ministry said, adding that it had summoned Iran’s ambassador to the country to express “a strong protest”. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:07am On Mar 05 |
Breaking! Multiple explosions over Qatar Multiple explosions are being heard in the skies above Qatar’s capital Doha. Our colleagues are reporting that the defence systems are intercepting missiles entering Qatari air space. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:05am On Mar 05 |
Azerbaijan says drones from Iran land on its territory Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has said several drones fired from Iran have hit its territory, one striking a terminal building in Nakhchivan International Airport and another landing near a school building in the village of Shakarabad. “We strongly condemn these drone attacks carried out from the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in damage to the airport building and injuries to two civilians,” said the foreign ministry in a statement. We’ll bring you more on this shortly. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:04am On Mar 05 |
Iran’s internet blackout exceeds 120 hours: Monitor Cybersecurity watchdog Netblocks says Iran’s near-total internet shutdown has now reached its fifth day, with internet use “around 1 percent of ordinary levels”. It warned of an “increasingly Orwellian environment” as people who try to use the global internet face threats of legal repercussions. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:03am On Mar 05 |
Limited flight operations have resumed at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport, according to the Abu Dhabi media office. As we reported earlier, the UAE’s two flag carriers, Emirates and Etihad, are set to hold limited flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi through the UAE’s safe air corridors. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:02am On Mar 05 |
Photos: US and Israel continue attacks on Tehran
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:00am On Mar 05 |
Second Iranian warship moving towards Sri Lanka’s waters A second Iranian warship is heading towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, the same area where a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate yesterday. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:00am On Mar 05 |
Breaking! Six killed in Israeli attacks in south Lebanon: State media Israeli attacks have killed six people, including four members of one family, in villages in southern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency is reporting. In a village near Kfar Tebnit, two children and their parents were killed, while another attack in the Nabatieh region killed the mayor of a village and his wife. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 9:59am On Mar 05 |
Qatar’s move to evacuate homes near US embassy ‘made out of abundance of caution’ |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 9:58am On Mar 05 |
Thousands seek safety in Lebanon after Israeli army renews forced evacuation threats |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:41am On Mar 05 |
Iran claims preemptive operation on ‘separatist groups’ plotting to breach border Iran’s Intelligence Ministry claims it worked with the IRGC to preemptively strike against US and Israeli-backed separatist groups who were plotting to breach Iran’s western borders and wage “terrorist attacks”. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:37am On Mar 05 |
Sri Lanka says trying to rescue people on another Iranian ship off its coast Sri Lanka is trying to “safeguard lives” on another Iranian ship off its coast, the country’s cabinet spokesperson said, adding that the vessel was in the economic zone beyond the South Asian island nation’s territorial waters. “We are doing our utmost to safeguard lives,” spokesperson Nalinda Jayatissa said. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:34am On Mar 05 |
IRGC claims it hit US tanker in northern Gulf The IRGC has claimed its navy hit a US tanker in the northern Gulf this morning, noting that military and commercial vessels belonging to the US, Israel and European countries that support them “will not be allowed to pass through”. “If they are observed, they will certainly be hit,” IRGC said. “We had previously said that, based on international laws and resolutions, in times of war, the Islamic Republic of Iran will have the right to control the passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” IRGC said, Iran’s Tasnim News reports. |
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