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What we know so far: Supreme Leader Khamenei killed, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes47 minutes agoShareSaveHafsa KhalilandDavid GrittenShareSaveAirbus DS 2026Satellite image showing damage to the compound of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in TehranIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed after Israel and the US launched a “massive” and ongoing attack against Iran's leadership and military.
US President Donald Trump has urged Iranian forces to lay down their arms, and for Iran's people to rise up against its government.
Iran has responded by firing ballistic missiles and drones at US assets and allies across the region, targeting Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
On Sunday, Israel said it had launched fresh attacks on “the heart of Tehran”, as Iranian attacks across the region also continued.
Here's what we know.
Videos shared online show aftermath of strikesWhy have the US and Israel att..

Ayatollah Khamenei's iron grip on power in Iran comes to an end9 hours agoShareSaveSam WoodhouseShareSaveAFP via Getty ImagesAyatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed on the first day of massive US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, US President Donald Trump has announced.
The death of the 86-year-old ruler of the past three decades – one of the longest in the world – was later confirmed on Iranian state TV.
Iran has had only two supreme leaders since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
It's an all-powerful office – the supreme leader is head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, including the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Khamenei is not quite a dictator, positioned in the middle of a complex web of competing power centres, able to veto any matter of public policy and hand pick candidates for public office.
Young Iranians have never experienced life without him in charge.
State television has covered Khamenei's every move. His image is plastered on billboards in pub..

Bill Clinton asked about hot tub photo and testifies he knew 'nothing' of Epstein crimes7 hours agoShareSaveAna FaguyandNada Tawfik and Cai Pigliucci,in Chappaqua, New YorkShareSaveWatch: Hot tub, flight logs, and other key moments from Bill Clinton's depositionFormer President Bill Clinton told a congressional panel he “saw nothing,” and “did nothing wrong” in relation to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The all-day hearing behind closed doors in New York featured the former president being asked about his inclusion in newly released files related to the financier, including in a photo with an unidentified person in a hot tub.
His testimony came one day after his wife, ex-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, told the committee she also “had no idea” of Epstein's crimes.
Appearing in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing, and neither Clinton has been accused of misconduct by Epstein survivors who have come forward so far.
Clinton said that he would h..

Hillary Clinton tells House panel she 'had no idea' of Epstein's crimes3 hours agoShareSaveJames FitzGeraldandNada Tawfik,North America correspondent, in Chappaqua, New YorkShareSaveWatch: The BBC's Nada Tawfik reports from Chappaqua, New York on Hillary Clinton's closed-door testimony.Hillary Clinton told a congressional panel she “had no idea” about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, as she called for lawmakers to question President Donald Trump under oath about his past association with the late sex offender.
“I want to see the truth come out,” the ex-US secretary of state said after testifying behind closed doors for hours to a congressional committee investigating Epstein.
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will testify on Friday.
The couple had resisted a subpoena from the panel, dismissing it as politically motivated, before agreeing to testify as potential contempt-of-Congress proceedings loomed against them.
The Clintons and Trump deny wrongdoing..

Why Trump means the Cuban Revolution faces its biggest threat yet4 hours agoShareSaveWill GrantMexico, Central America and Cuba CorrespondentShareSaveBBCA sizeable exhibit in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana is dedicated to conditions in Cuba before the revolution took power in 1959. Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.
The enduring image is of a woman in a dirt-floored palm-leaf hut cooking with firewood. Similar pictures appear in state museums across the island from the Bay of Pigs to Birán, the birthplace of the father of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. The inference is clear: the revolutionaries saved Cubans from the ignorance and hardship of life under a Washington-backed de facto leader and led them to dignity, education and true independence.
Yet today, Lisandra Botey identifies more with the impove..