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WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Sunday Washington was in touch with both Pakistan and India while urging them to work towards what it called a “responsible solution” as tensions have risen between the two Asian nations following a recent attack in Occupied Kashmir. In public, the US government has expressed support for India after the attack but has not criticised Pakistan. India blamed Pakistan for the April 22 attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir that killed over two dozen people. Pakistan denies responsibility and called for a neutral probe. “This is an evolving situation and we are monitoring…

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has ordered several planes to be sent to Iran to help deal with the aftermath of a blast at Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas, Russia’s emergency ministry said on Sunday. Putin has expressed his condolences over the loss of life and offered to provide a help to Iran dealing with the aftermath of a blast, the Kremlin said. It said Putin had conveyed “words of sincere sympathy and support to the families of the victims, as well as his wishes for a recovery to all those injured.” The emergency ministry said a Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft…

BEIRUT: Israel struck south Beirut on Sunday for the third time since a fragile November 27 ceasefire, prompting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to call on its guarantors France and the United States to force a halt. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the strike targeted a building used by Hezbollah to store “precision-guided missiles” and vowed to stop the Iran-backed militant group using Beirut’s southern suburbs as a “safe haven”. An AFP correspondent saw a plume of smoke rising over the building in the Hadath neighbourhood after the strike. Israel strikes Lebanon in response to cross-border launch Lebanese…

DUBAI: The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran’s biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 40, with more than 1,200 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire. Saturday’s blast took place in the Shahid Rajaee section of the port, Iran’s biggest container hub, shattering windows for several kilometres around, tearing metal strips off shipping containers and badly damaging goods inside, state media said. The incident occurred as Iran held a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman. Fires kept breaking out in different…

GAZA CITY: The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza announced Sunday that the death toll from the war had risen to more than 52,000 people, after hundreds previously listed as missing were confirmed dead. “An additional 697 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics after their data was completed and verified by the committee monitoring missing persons,” the health ministry said in a statement, giving the overall toll of 52,243. Several United Nations agencies that operate in Gaza have said the ministry’s data is credible and they are frequently cited by international organisations. One hospital in the Palestinian territory confirmed…

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has offered Iran Russian help in dealing with the aftermath of a blast that rocked the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and has expressed his condolences over the loss of life, the Kremlin said on Sunday. Putin had coveyed his “words of sincere sympathy and support to the families of the victims, as well as his wishes for a recovery to all those injured,” a copy of his message published on the Kremlin website showed. 25 killed, fires still burning in huge Iran port blast Iranian state media have reported that a huge blast probably caused…

A number of people were killed and multiple others were injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday. The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X. The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. (0300 GMT) near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on X: “I am devastated to hear about the horrific events at the Lapu Lapu festival in…

BEIJING: China’s foreign minister has hit out at the “extreme selfishness” of tariffs, hinting at the steep levies imposed on Beijing by US President Donald Trump. “Certain countries” resort to “pressure and coercion, and trigger unjustified trade wars… This extreme selfishness only harms their credibility,” top diplomat Wang Yi told his Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov, according to a ministry statement released on Saturday. This will “only undermine their credibility”, added Wang, who was speaking on Friday on the sidelines of a foreign ministers’ meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan. China and the United States, the world’s two biggest economies, are locked in…

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said Saturday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, whose Houthi rebels have launched attacks throughout the Gaza war, as well as a drone approaching “from the east”. “Following the sirens that sounded recently in several areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted” before “crossing into Israeli territory”, a military statement said. The Houthis later announced a “military operation” targeting the Nevatim air base in southern Israel, claiming that “the missile reached its target”. In a separate incident, the Israeli military said a drone “that was on its way to…

CAIRO: Hamas is open to an agreement to end the war in Gaza that would see all hostages released and secure a five-year truce, an official said on Saturday ahead of talks with mediators. A Hamas delegation was in Cairo to discuss with Egyptian mediators ways out of the 18-month conflict, as on the ground rescuers said an Israeli strike on a family home in Gaza City killed at least 10 people and left more feared buried under the rubble. The Hamas official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinian group “is ready for an exchange of…