South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed his regret to North Korea after several unsanctioned drone flights entered the airspace of his secluded northern neighbour. Lee underlined that the controversial drone flights were carried out by individuals and without the government's approval.

Amal, while it has a military component, operates far more like a political organization than Hezbollah, Boms noted, and Israel has not targeted the group. The Lebanese Shi’a party Amal is positioning itself as a replacement for Hezbollah and coordinating with the terrorist organization to benefit from the reputation it would gain as part of the resistance, experts told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

The facility is no longer functioning, Katz stated, indicating that IDF strikes on two of Iran's petrochemical facilities responsible for 85% of exports had "taken them out of use. " The IDF struck the South Pars petrochemical facility near Asaluyeh in southern Iran, the largest such facility in Iran, Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Monday afternoon.

There are fears South Sudan may be plunged back into a civil war less than a decade after it ended.

(Bloomberg) -- Two liquefied natural gas tankers from Qatar in the Persian Gulf have switched to Pakistan as their next destinations after appearing to abort an earlier attempt to leave via the Strait of Hormuz.The Al Daayen and Rasheeda had u-turned away from the strait after earlier heading eastward to the waterway, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg, in the first attempt to export the fuels from the Persian Gulf since the Iran war began. They had each loaded LNG from Qatar’

The sharpest setbacks were linked to a wave of military takeovers in the Sahel and parts of central Africa, International IDEA said.

Diesel fuel breached the all-time price record in Germany on Sunday at an average €2. 440 ($2.

Tens of thousands participated in the traditional peace marches held throughout Germany over the Easter weekend, organizers reported on Monday. Events had been held in more than 100 locations, the Bonn-based Peace Cooperative said.

Two distinct espionage investigations in Ashkelon and Jerusalem reveal suspects linked to Iranian intelligence, involving explosive material production and digital recruitment efforts. An Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court allowed on Monday the publication of limited additional details from a sensitive security investigation involving several suspects alleged to have provided services to Iranian elements, in what appears to be the latest case in Israel’s widening wave of Iran-linked espionage affairs.

A Turkish government-owned drilling ship is expected to arrive in Somali waters later this week.

FRC’s proposal would temporarily alter the TCA framework to make it easier for certain entities registered in China to list in London.

There have been twice as many US and Israeli attacks on Iran compared to the number of Iranian retaliatory strikes since the war began.

The exchange of fire between Israel and Iran-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon continued on Monday, with Israeli strikes targeting areas in the capital, Beirut. The Israeli military said it was currently attacking targets linked to the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Beirut.

A woman and her daughter died, and 4,000 people had to be evacuated when a dam wall broke in Russia's Dagestan republic following heavy rains, the Civil Protection Ministry reported on Monday. Around 2,000 homes were flooded in the Derbent region on the Caspian Sea.

The militia forces could bolster the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran. They could also be used by Iran to enforce order and carry out suppression in some areas on its periphery.

Defense Minister Israel Katz and the IDF confirmed that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Intelligence Organization chief Majid Khademi was killed in strikes on the Islamic regime. Defense Minister Israel Katz and the IDF announced on Monday that the Israel Air Force assassinated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Intelligence Organization chief, Majid Khademi.

Tehran criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in strong terms on Monday for inaction after repeated US and Israeli attacks near Iran's sole nuclear power plant. In a letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami criticized him for failing to condemn the latest attack near the Bushehr nuclear power plant strongly enough.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz because of the Middle East war has squeezed energy supplies in imported oil-dependent Bangladesh, but images circulating online that purportedly show motorists sleeping in long lines at petrol stations are AI-generated. While filling stations in the South Asian nation have seen long lines, the circulating images contain numerous visual errors that are tell-tale signs of synthetic content.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed his regret to North Korea after several unsanctioned drone flights entered the airspace of his secluded northern neighbour. Lee underlined that the controversial drone flights were carried out by individuals and without the government’s approval.

Israeli media reports said Iran again used cluster munitions in a new missile attack on the Tel Aviv metropolitan area early on Monday. There were around 20 impact sites in the vicinity of Tel Aviv, ynet news site reported.

The Strait of Hormuz blockade is choking global fertilizer supply, threatening crop yields and food prices from India to Brazil.

The Felix Project is among the organisations feeling the effects of increased costs due to the conflict in Iran.

Hundreds of bats, many rescued from war-torn areas in the east of the country, were released late Saturday at one of multiple events around Ukraine planned to coincide with the arrival of spring. All 28 bat species in Ukraine are listed as protected animals due to declining populations. For many attendees, the event offered welcome relief and an excuse for a family outing after a harsh winter marked by subzero temperatures, nightly Russian drone and missile attacks and crippling power cuts.

Part of the question for Israel is how many of the missiles, many of which have been covered in rubble, can be salvaged and are only temporarily inaccessible to Iran? Although the majority of the IDF believes that Iran only has several hundred ballistic missiles left, which can reach Israel from its original 2,500 total, IDF sources have admitted to The Jerusalem Post that no one really knows for certain. The exchange came after Channel 12 reported on Saturday night from air force IDF Col.

An Easter egg hunt in south-western Germany took a worrying turn on Sunday when two men discovered a vial labelled "Polonium 210" in a garden, triggering an emergency response as authorities tested for the potentially lethal radioactive substance. District fire chief Andy Dorroch said the men found a small white plastic bottle with a red cap and called the emergency services.

Storms across Afghanistan have left 77 people dead, 137 injured and 5,800 families affected. Widespread flooding, landslides and lightning strikes were triggered by heavy rain over the past 10 days — with damage to businesses, agricultural land, water wells and irrigation canals.

The Israeli military said on Sunday it has killed a senior commander of the Oil Headquarters of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, the head of commerce within the Oil Headquarters, was killed on Friday during airstrikes in the Tehran area, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

Israel's military said it again attacked targets of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, with witnesses reporting five heavy bombardments in the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh. Lebanon's Health Ministry reported four dead and dozens injured.

The IDF identified 165 Hezbollah rocket launches targeting Israel, falling near UNIFIL posts in southern Lebanon. The military continues operations against Hezbollah in the region.

Iran executed two men convicted of attempting to storm a military facility during January's anti-government protests. The men were among four facing execution in a crackdown on unrest.