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President Ebrahim Raisi
Iran declares five days of mourning for president
TEHRAN — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced five days of mourning following the death of the country's President, Ebrahim Raisi.Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of north-western Iran, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.State media confirmed they were killed after the helicopter they were traveling in came down on Sunday.Ayatollah Khamenei said he offered his condolences "to the dear people of Iran".Raisi, 63, had been tipped as a potential successor to the supreme leader.Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed to assume interim duties after the death of the president.Mokhber will work with the heads of Iran's legislature and judiciary to prepare for a presidential election within 50...
May 20, 2024

Iran declares five days of mourning for president

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi places his hands on his heart as a gesture of respect to the crowd during the funeral ceremony of the victims of Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Iran on Friday mourned those slain in an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing targeting a commemoration for a general slain in a U.S. drone strike in 2020, as the death toll in the attack rose to at least 89. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian President Raisi is confirmed dead after helicopter crash, state agencies say
TEHRAN — Iranian media has confirmed the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, aged 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian following a helicopter crash in the country's mountainous province of East Azerbaijan.Iranian state media Press TV and semi-official Tasnim and Mehr news agencies reported all those on board were killed.Reuters also reported the president's death, citing a senior official.“President Raisi, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,” the official told Reuters, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.The head of Iran's Red Crescent, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, said earlier Monday there were no signs of life of those traveling on board the helicopter, Iranian state news IRIB...
May 20, 2024

Iranian President Raisi is confirmed dead after helicopter crash, state agencies say

The UN now says incomplete information has led to its casualties tally revision
UN defends Gaza  casualty tally amid Israeli anger
GENEVA — The UN humanitarian aid chief has defended the organization's use of casualty figures in the Gaza war in response to sharp criticism by Israel.Martin Griffiths told the BBC the UN was "very cautious" in its approach.Israel earlier said a recent reduction in UN estimates of killed Palestinian women and children suggested it had relied on false data from Hamas.On 6 May, the UN said 69% of reported fatalities were women and children. On 8 May, it said this figure was 52%.The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says incomplete information has led to the revision.The UN also says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, rather than from the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).Speaking to the BBC's...
May 17, 2024

UN defends Gaza  casualty tally amid Israeli anger

Dr. Ahliah Kattan, left, in an operating room of the European Hospital in northern Rafah
American medics trapped in Gaza call on US government to help bring them home
JERUSALEM — Dr. Ahlia Kattan should already be back home in California with her three young children.Instead, she’s spending her days and nights at Gaza’s European Hospital on the outskirts of Rafah.Kattan, an anesthesiologist and specialist in critical care, is one of at least 22 American physicians trapped in Gaza after an Israeli military offensive in Rafah last week shuttered the city’s critical border crossing to Egypt. Rafah had, until then, served as the only entry and exit point for foreign aid workers into and out of Gaza.“My kids have already been texting me today saying, you said Tuesday that you were going to be home,” Kattan told CNN. “The WHO (World Health Organization) is trying to negotiate a safe exit for us. And it’s not happening.”The crossing has been...
May 17, 2024

American medics trapped in Gaza call on US government to help bring them home

Israel has accused South Africa of distorting the truth in its case at the ICJ
Israel accuses South Africa of false claims at ICJ
THE HAGUE — Israel has accused South Africa of distorting reality in its attempt to get the UN's top court to force it to stop its military campaign in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza.The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began two days of hearings on Thursday, when South Africa told the court that Israel intended to "wipe [the Palestinians] off the face of the Earth", calling Rafah "the final stand".Lawyers for Israel presented their response to the court on Friday.The court is already considering a case brought by South Africa in January accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has rejected the claim as false and "grossly distorted".In its latest application, South Africa is also seeking to force Israel to...
May 17, 2024

Israel accuses South Africa of false claims at ICJ

The aid will be collected from a floating base before being transported to Gaza
US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier
WASHINGTON — The US military has confirmed that the first aid shipment via a temporary pier off Gaza has gone ashore.US Central Command confirmed in a post on X that the aid trucks began moving ashore at about 0900 local time (0700 BST)."This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature," the post read, adding that no US troops went ashore.However, the UN has warned that the maritime corridor is not a replacement for land routes, which are seen as the quickest and most effective way of delivering aid.In the coming days around 500 tonnes of aid is expected to enter Gaza, according to US Central Command.British personnel have been working with US counterparts aboard...
May 17, 2024

US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
4,000-year-old mystery solved: How the Giza Pyramids were built
CAIRO — Scientists think they may have finally cracked the age-old mystery of how 31 pyramids, including the famous Great Pyramid of Giza, were constructed in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago.And no, it wasn't with the help of extraterrestrials.A groundbreaking discovery by researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington reveals that these ancient marvels were likely built along a now-buried branch of the River Nile, concealed beneath desert sands and farmlands.For years, archaeologists have speculated that the ancient Egyptians used a waterway to transport massive stone blocks and other materials needed for pyramid construction. However, the exact location and nature of this waterway remained elusive until now.The newly discovered "Ahramat" Branch, stretching...
May 17, 2024

4,000-year-old mystery solved: How the Giza Pyramids were built

Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University's Arts West building, in Melbourne, Australia on May 15, 2024
Australian university orders pro-Palestinian protesters to leave building
BRISBANE — Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a building at the University of Melbourne have been told to leave by university officials, who say they’ve “crossed a line” by entering the building and disrupting class for thousands of students.“Students have a right to protest but that is not a blank check,” said the university’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Michael Wesley in a video message distributed to media on Thursday.“They have crossed a line when they have occupied the Arts West building ... the university’s patience is now at an end.”On Wednesday, students at the university were among thousands who rallied across the country to remember the 1948 al-Nakba or “catastrophe,” when around 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes by armed Jewish...
May 16, 2024

Australian university orders pro-Palestinian protesters to leave building

Israeli forces have gone back in Jabalia months after pulling outIsraeli forces have gone back in Jabalia months after pulling out
Israeli tank fire kills own soldiers in north Gaza
GAZA — Israel's military says five soldiers have been killed by Israeli tank fire in northern Gaza, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind since the war against Hamas began in October.An initial probe found that two tanks fired at a building in Jabalia refugee camp where the troops had gathered.Troops went back into the area this week after previously pulling out, saying Hamas had regrouped there.Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the fighting and bombardment.Both the Israeli military and Hamas's military wing said on Wednesday that battles in Jabalia camp and the surrounding town of Jabalia were intensifying.Battles also raged around the southern city of Rafah, from where nearly 600,000 people have fled since the start of an Israeli operation 10 days ago. More...
May 16, 2024

Israeli tank fire kills own soldiers in north Gaza

Yoav Gallant (L) has been in charge of Israel's war in Gaza
Israeli minister attacks Netanyahu over Gaza future
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has voiced open frustration at the government’s failure to address the question of a post-war plan for Gaza.In a rare public sign of divisions over the direction of the military campaign within Israel’s war cabinet, Gallant urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare publicly that Israel has no plans to take over civilian and military rule in Gaza.“Since October, I have been raising this issue consistently in the Cabinet,” he said, “and have received no response.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded harshly, saying he was "not ready to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan," in reference to rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.Indecision, he warned, would leave only two bad options in Gaza: Hamas rule or...
May 16, 2024

Israeli minister attacks Netanyahu over Gaza future

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