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October 17, 2025 4:50 PM

Britain’s Starmer calls for Israeli soccer fans to be allowed at Aston Villa match

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said fans of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv should not be barred from a soccer match in Birmingham next month, as tensions over antisemitism and protests against Israel's war in Gaza dog his government. Aston Villa said travelling Maccabi fans - who were involved in violence a year ago in Amsterdam - would be barred from the Europa League match on November 6 after West Midlands police expressed concerns about potential protests outside the stadium. Israel...

June 30, 2025 7:03 PM

935 people killed in Israeli strikes on Iran, official says

Some 935 people were killed in Iran during the 12-day air war with Israel, based on the latest forensic data, a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said on Monday, according to state media. Among the dead were 38 children and 132 women, the spokesperson, Asghar Jahangir, said. The death toll was a sharp increase from a previous Iranian health ministry tally of 610 killed in Iran before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday last week. Jahangir also revised the number of people killed in a...

June 29, 2025 1:05 PM

Iran says 71 killed in Israeli strike on Evin Prison

Israel's attack on the Evin Prison in Iran's capital Tehran on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday. At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel struck Tehran's most notorious jail for political prisoners, in a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim at symbols of Iran's ruling system. “In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred including administrative staff, youth doing their milit...

June 27, 2025 2:04 PM

Iran’s three key nuclear sites significantly damaged in 12-day operation: IDF

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that its 12-day military operation against Iran resulted in significant damage to three of the country’s main nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, dealing a major blow to the Iranian regime’s nuclear infrastructure. The IDF asserted that Israel launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’ on June 13 with the intention of damaging the Iranian nuclear and missile projects following the identification of progress in the three programs, wh...

June 27, 2025 1:35 PM

Iran says no agreement made to resume US talks

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday said that no arrangement or commitment has been made to resume negotiations with the United States, amid escalating tensions following recent attacks by Israel and the U.S. on Iranian territory. In an interview with state broadcaster IRIB, Araghchi said the possibility of restarting talks remains under consideration, but any decision would be guided strictly by Iran’s national interests, Xinhua News Agency reported. “Our decisions will be...

June 27, 2025 2:32 PM

Trump accuses Democrats of leaking intelligence report on Iran strikes

US President Donald Trump accused the Democratic Party of leaking a classified intelligence report that contradicts his administration's claims that recent US airstrikes had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. “The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!,” Trump said on Truth Social on Friday. The accusation followed after the report by the US Defence Intell...

June 26, 2025 2:13 PM

France says it intercepted drones targeting Israel prior to Iran ceasefire

France's military took part in efforts to stop Iranian drones targeting Israel prior to this week's ceasefire, the country's defence minister Sebastien Lecornu said late on Wednesday. "I can confirm that the French army intercepted less than 10 drones in the last few days during the different military operations conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Israel, either by ground-to-air systems or via our Rafale fighter jets," Lecornu said during a parliamentary debate on the situation in...

June 26, 2025 12:19 PM

Operation Sindhu: 275 people, including 3 Nepalese citizens, evacuated from Iran, express gratitude to Indian govt

A total of 275 people — 272 Indian nationals and three Nepalese citizens — arrived safely in New Delhi from Mashhad, Iran, on Thursday, as part of the Indian government's ongoing Operation Sindhu. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed that the total number of citizens repatriated from Iran under Operation Sindhu has now reached 3,426, amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Emotions ran high as relieved evacuees stepped back onto Indian soil. Sharing his experience, on...

June 24, 2025 12:27 PM

Operation Sindhu: 2,295 Indians evacuated from Iran, 604 from Israel as India steps up rescue efforts

India evacuated 292 of its nationals from Iran early Tuesday as part of Operation Sindhu, a mission launched to ensure the safety of Indian citizens amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. The evacuees arrived in New Delhi at 3:30 AM IST on a special flight from Mashhad, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. “292 Indian nationals were evacuated from Iran on a special flight that arrived in New Delhi from Mashhad at 0330 hrs on 24th June,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal ...

June 23, 2025 4:53 PM

Putin tells Iranian foreign minister there was no justification for US attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iran's foreign minister on Monday there was no justification for the U.S. bombing of his country and that Moscow was trying to help the Iranian people. Putin hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow two days after U.S. President Donald Trump sent U.S. bomber planes to strike Iran's three main nuclear sites. "The absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran has no basis and no justification," Putin told Araqchi in televised comments. "For o...