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'Missiles were flying all over': Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls' school in Iran

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran on February ‌28, the first day of the Iran war , that killed scores of children. Reuters reported in March that an initial internal US military investigation showed US forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab in southern Iran. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe but it has not acknowledged any ⁠preliminary findings. “I don’t know that they are ever going to solve that problem,” Trump told reporters. “I don’t know that they are ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it because there were missiles flying all over the place, and it’s horrible what happened but there were missiles flying all over the place,” he said. “Somebody said it was our missile, maybe it wasn’t our missile but I have seen nothing to lead me to believe ‌it ⁠was,” Trump remarked, addi...

Major power outage in France as Europe wilts under record heat

Europe braced on Wednesday for another day of a sweltering heatwave that has smashed records, left tens of thousands of people without power and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill-equipped to handle searing heat. The extreme weather is being driven by atmospheric patterns that keep hot air trapped in place for days, with these factors worsened by global warming, experts say. France’s national temperature indicator — an average of daytime and nighttime temperatures across 30 stations — reached 29.8 °C on Tuesday, the hottest since measurements began in 1947. With four more French departments being put under the highest heat alert category on Wednesday, around 44 million people are affected, according to AFP calculations. Added to the 31 departments currently on orange alert, more than 90 per cent of the French population is exposed to extreme heat, with temperatures of 39°C to 41°C expected on Wednesday from Brittany to ...

6 'most-wanted terrorists' killed in Lower Dir operation: CTD

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and Lower Dir police killed six suspected terrorists during an operation in the district’s hilly areas on Wednesday, according to an official statement. The statement, issued by the CTD, said the slain individuals were “most-wanted terrorists” who had been involved in a recent attack on the Badwan Bridge checkpost in Lower Dir, in which Constable Mohammad Ismail was martyred. According to the statement, the CTD and district police had cordoned off the area after the attack on the Badwan Bridge checkpost. It said that the CTD and district police received information about the presence of “a group of Fitna-al-Khawarij terrorists in the hilly areas of Lower Dir” and tried to arrest them when they came out of their hideouts in the area. “But, the terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on police parties”, the statement said, adding that law enforcers fired back in retaliation. Fitna al-Khawarij is a term that the state uses for t...

Shehbaz hopes US-Iran MoU will lead to 'long, lasting' agreement

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is addressing the National Assembly. He began his speech by recalling the developments at the recent summit in Burgenstock, where delegations from the US and Iran held hours-long talks with Pakistan and Qatar participating in the dialogue as mediators. “Pakistan tried its best, with complete sincerity, to close the distance between the two sides,” he said, adding that the dialogue that began on Sunday stretched past midnight into Monday. He hoped that the memorandum of understanding signed by the two sides before the talks in Switzerland would turn into a “long-lasting agreement”. More to follow from Dawn - Home https://ift.tt/3p4Koif

North Korea's Kim Jong ‌Un says country will exercise its position as nuclear state

North Korean leader Kim Jong ‌Un said exercising the country’s position as a nuclear state is the only way to cope with an unpredictable and complicated global security situation, KCNA state news agency reported on Tuesday. “Unimaginable, astonishing incidents and events” are occurring because of the “gangster-like” greed of hegemonic forces, making confrontations around the world more violent, Kim said, blaming the US for worsening bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East. He was speaking at a Central Committee meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, running from Saturday to Monday, KCNA said. Kim accused the US ⁠and South Korea of making the security situation on the Korean Peninsula more dangerous by steadily upgrading their combined nuclear posture, the only purpose of which, he said, is to attack North Korea. “To steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear forces … and to thoroughly exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state is the most correct and unique way to active...

Unloved and directionless, UK's Starmer quits after just two years as prime minister

Keir Starmer was once hailed as the leader who would bring pragmatism and stability to Britain after years of political chaos. When he quit as prime minister on Monday, the very lack of ideology that propelled him to power drove his downfall. After guiding the Labour Party into power in 2024 with the biggest parliamentary majority in Britain’s modern history, Starmer focused on what he believed was possible to achieve, rather than setting out a clear vision of a future Britain. He soon came to be seen by many voters and members of his party as lacking conviction and a clear direction, more than 20 party insiders said. He had no big idea. Without what one senior Labour lawmaker called “a guiding light”, the former lawyer was buffeted by competing Labour factions, lobbied by vested interests and misunderstood by wary voters, many of whom came to hate what they saw as his indecision and his robotic performances. Turned to his wife for c...