01/03/2026

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US, Israel attack Iran DUBAI: The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran yesterday, targeting its Key leader moved to secure site targeted Iranian officials, a source said. An Israeli official said Iranian Supreme Leader indirect talks between the US and Iran this week failed to produce a breakthrough. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said a first wave of retaliatory Iranian missile and drone attacks had been launched against Israel, and that all US bases and interests in the region were within Iran’s reach.

20 dead in Bolivia plane crash LA PAZ: At least 20 people were killed when a Bolivian military cargo plane carrying banknotes crashed while landing near the capital city of La Paz, police said on Friday, as crowds attempted to loot the site. The aircraft, a C-130 Hercules transport plane, made by Lockheed Martin, veered off the runway at El Alto International Airport and crashed into an avenue, destroying cars and damaging trucks. Mangled parts of the aircraft were seen on the road where the plane came down and bystanders could be seen rushing to grab the scattered cash, prompting police to use tear gas to repel the crowd. Authorities later set the money alight in a bonfire at the scene of the crash. It was not immediately known what caused the crash but witnesses told AFP that the weather had been treacherous. “A heavy hailstorm” was falling and “there was lightning” when the plane went down said Cristina Choque, a 60 year-old vendor whose car was struck by aircraft wreckage. “The tyre fell on us, my daughter was injured and has a head wound,” she said. Colonel Rene Tambo, head of the police homicide division in El Alto, said “there are about 20, maybe a few more”, casualties. – AFP MOSCOW: Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, chided President Donald Trump yesterday for the attack on Iran and questioned Washington’s staying power given the relatively short history of the United States compared to that of Persia’s civilisation. “The peacemaker once again showed his face,” Medvedev, a former Russian president, said. “All negotiations with Iran are a cover operation. No one doubted it. No one really wanted to negotiate anything. “Who has more patience to wait for the inglorious end of their enemy. The USA is only 249 years old. The Persian Empire was founded more than 2,500 years ago. Let’s see in 100 years.” – Reuters Medvedev chides Trump

heard loud booms as well. Bahrain said the service centre of the US Fifth Fleet had been subjected to a missile attack. Qatar said it had downed all missiles targeting the country and that it had a right to respond. Explosions were heard near Iran’s Kharg Island. Iran exports 90% of its crude oil via Kharg, for shipping through the narrow Strait of Hormuz. Global airlines cancelled flights across the Middle East. Trump urged Iranians to stay sheltered because “bombs will be dropping everywhere”. “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance.” – Reuters

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian were targeted but the result of the strikes was not clear. A source with knowledge of ߑ the matter had earlier told Reuters that Khamenei was not in Tehran and had been transferred to a secure location. An Iranian source close to the establishment said several senior commanders in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and political officials had been killed. The renewed confrontation between Iran and its foes dimmed hopes of a diplomatic solution to Tehran’s nuclear dispute with the West. The latest

leadership and plunging the Middle East into a new conflict that President Donald Trump said would end a security threat to the United States and give Iranians a chance to topple their rulers. The strikes put oil-producing Gulf Arab countries on edge as fears of escalation in the region grew, and Tehran responded by launching missiles towards Israel. The first wave of strikes in what the Pentagon named “Operation Epic Fury” mainly

Iran’s retaliation would continue until “the enemy is decisively defeated,” the Revolutionary Guards said. Loud booms sounded in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, a major ߑ oil producer and close US ally. Blasts were also heard in the country’s business capital Dubai. One witness in Abu Dhabi heard five booms in rapid succession. Other witnesses in the Al Dhafra and Bateen areas

Video grabs show explosions in Tehran during the attacks. – AFPPIC

Pakistan fighter jet downed KABUL: A Pakistani fighter jet crashed in Jalalabad in

two days, which observers said could have been drones. Pakistan launched airstrikes on Friday on the Afghan capital Kabul and southern Kandahar, where Afghan Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is based. That came after Afghan forces began a border offensive on Thursday, which the government said was in response to earlier Pakistani strikes. Pakistan’s information minister said 37 locations had been subject to aerial targeting. – AFP possible rework of the wiring is necessary. If no oil change and no microfilter replacement has been performed, there is no immediate need for action. Rework during the first oil change is sufficient, the spokesperson said. – Bernama

down in the sixth district of Jalalabad city and its pilot has been held captive,” police spokesman Tayeb Hammad said. Wahidullah Mohammadi, spokesman for the military in eastern Afghanistan, said the Pakistani jet was downed by Afghan forces “and the pilot was captured alive”. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said the claims were “totally untrue”. Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry has said it carried out airstrikes on Pakistani territory over the past “No accidents are known in connection with this fault,” said a BMW spokesman, adding that it was only a precautionary move. If the vehicle has already had an oil change and with it a microfilter replacement, an immediate inspection and

denied harbouring militants and its spokesperson has called for “dialogue” to resolve a previously simmering conflict that Pakistan’s defence minister said on Friday was now “open war”. An AFP journalist heard a jet flying over Jalalabad, followed by the sound of two explosions from the direction of the city’s airport. Jalalabad residents said they saw a person who parachuted from the plane, who was subsequently detained. “A Pakistani fighter jet was shot damage to cables during microfilter replacement, resulting in a short circuit with smoke and subsequent fire”, it said. As a measure, the routing of the cockpit wiring harness will be inspected and, if necessary, corrected.

Afghanistan’s east, the Afghan military and police said yesterday, after Islamabad launched airstrikes on at least three cities in a flare-up of cross-border fighting. The United States voiced its diplomatic support for Pakistan’s actions after Islamabad said it would not stop strikes that were meant to pressure an Afghan government that it accuses of backing militancy. The Afghan government has

BMW recalls more cars worldwide over fire hazard MUNICH: BMW is again recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles due to a potential fire hazard. 7 Series, M5, 5 Series and i7, made between June 9, 2022 and Dec 5, 2025.

A total of 337,374 vehicles are potentially affected, including 29,441 vehicles in Germany. The faulty routing of the cockpit wiring harness “can lead to

The carmaker has confirmed its recall notice as published in the database of the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. The affected models are the i5,