Category: 2. Middle East

A powerful explosion ripped through a key port in southern Iran on Saturday, killing five people and injuring more than 700, state media said.

Although the cause of the blast was not immediately clear, the port’s customs office said in a statement carried by state TV that it probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazmat and chemical materials storage depot.

State media reported a “massive explosion” at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port, located in Hormozgan…

A powerful explosion ripped through a key port in southern Iran on Saturday, killing four people and injuring more than 500, state media said.

Although the cause of the blast was not immediately clear, the port’s customs office said in a statement carried by state TV that it probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazmat and chemical materials storage depot.

State media reported a “massive explosion” at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port, located in Hormozgan…

A massive explosion tore through Iran’s largest commercial port on Saturday, triggering a major blaze, with 14 people killed and 750 injured so far.

The blast occurred at Shahid Rajaee Port in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz through which a fifth of world oil output passes.

Although the cause of the blast was not immediately clear, the port’s customs office said in a statement carried by state TV that it probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical…

Iranian authorities have dismissed a state television official and his executive assistant and filed lawsuits against eight other employees for insulting Sunnis and Saudi Arabia.

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Friday that the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Peiman Jbeili, dismissed the director of the first channel on the state television and his executive assistant.

The newspaper reported that this move came after a wave of…

Meetings of the Israeli Security Cabinet revealed “major disagreements” between the political and the military ranks regarding the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on the genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

The disagreements resurfaced during the latest cabinet meeting held Thursday evening, which ended without a statement, following a similar meeting held Tuesday evening.

The cabinet is scheduled to meet again next Monday in the…

The United Nations confirmed on Friday that more than 480 civilians have been killed in North Darfur in western Sudan over the past two weeks, warning that the actual number could be much higher.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had confirmed the deaths of at least 481 civilians in North Darfur since 10 April 10, “although the actual number is likely to be much higher.” It noted that “at least 210 civilians, including nine…

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said “the achievements are great, but still, the dangers are great and the prices are heavy,” in a post on X Friday evening, after a deputy company commander in the Armoured Corps was killed and others were wounded by an anti-tank missile and a sniper operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Katz said, “Thousands of IDF soldiers in the standing army and reserves are now heroically fighting in Gaza for the release of…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that “a burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and this is even more so in Gaza, Palestine,” following over 19 months of attacks by the Israeli forces, causing the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.

MSF said in a statement, “Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some people have as much as 40 per cent of their total body surface…

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and his visiting French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, discussed preparations and efforts Friday for a peace conference on the Palestinian issue, Anadolu reports.

A Saudi Foreign Ministry statement said bin Farhan and Barrot “reviewed bilateral relations between both countries and discussed a range of regional and international issues of mutual concern, foremost among them the ongoing situation in the Gaza…