TEHRAN: A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 28 people and injured 17, state television said on Sunday, with 24 people still missing.The accident was caused by a methane gas explosion in two blocks of the mine run by the Madanjoo company, state TV said. There were…
PARIS: It’s around 3:30 in the afternoon on September 17. People in Lebanon are going about their daily business, doing the shopping, having a haircut, conducting meetings.Hundreds of pagers across the country, and even outside its borders, then simultaneously bleep with a message and explode, wounding and killing their owners and also bystanders.The communications devices…
BEIRUT: The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urged de-escalation on Friday after a big increase in hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading fire for almost a year.The UNIFIL force had witnessed “a heavy intensification of the hostilities across the Blue Line” and throughout its area of…
LONDON: At precisely 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, an estimated 3,000 pagers carried by Hezbollah members beeped several times before exploding simultaneously, killing at least 12 people and injuring thousands more across Lebanon and parts of Syria. At least eight of the dead were reportedly members of Iran-backed Hezbollah, and the many wounded included…
MADRID: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet Thursday in Madrid with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in his first visit to the country since it formally recognized a Palestinian state in May.Abbas is stopping in Madrid at Spain’s invitation before heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, according to an…
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have released Austrian citizen Christian Weber, detained for crimes committed in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, to Austria’s ambassador in Tehran, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported on Tuesday.Austria had said in 2022 one of its citizens was arrested in Iran for charges not related to protests that broke out in the…
Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children.A strike early Monday flattened a home in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children.The Awda Hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the toll and…
TEHRAN: Iran Saturday sent a research satellite into orbit with a rocket built by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.The report said the Chamran-1 satellite has a weight of 60 kilograms and successfully reached in 550-kilometer (341 miles) orbit in space. It said testing space hardware and software is the main…
JEDDAH: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned what it described as a blatant Israeli intrusion by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a Palestinian-controlled area of the Jordan Valley. It said the incident was a provocative action carried out with the aim of expanding Israeli settlement activity that violates international law and resolutions…
RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan participated in an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Tuesday. During the meeting, ministers discussed joint Arab action to intensify coordination on the Palestinian issue and other matters of concern. Regional and international developments were also discussed at the meeting that was attended by a…
