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Iran sends tankers loaded with oil past US military blockadeShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleThomas CopelandandShruti Menon,BBC Verify
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The United States and Israel have launched a wide-scale military attack on Iran, plunging the Middle Eastern region into turmoil as Tehran retaliates.
Several nations, including Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Jordan, have since been targeted following the attacks ordered by Donald Trump and Israel on Saturday morning.
It has prompted the closure of airspaces within the region, with global airlines cancelling flights throughout the Middle East and Dubai International Airport, the biggest global aviation hub, suspending all travel.
Confirming the attacks, Donald Trump said the US had launched “major combat operations”, aimed at “eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime”, including to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
The US President called the regime “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people”, adding that “its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world..
President Donald Trump marked the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied powers stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II, by sharing an artificial intelligence-generated content that took aim at a range of his perceived opponents.
Saturday morning, the president shared an AI music video set to the song “Trump,” created by New York congressional candidate Anthony Constantino, who he recently endorsed. The video, which aimed to show Trump’s admiration around the world, featured clips of the president riding a lion, sharing a meal with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and at the UFC Freedom 250 cage fight at the White House. All the while, a house backing track repeats the line: “Everywhere I go, they love Donald Donald Trump.”
It was the only post on Trump’s Truth Social account for several hours on June 6 until he bragged about the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and then shared an AI-generated image of the Obama Presidential Library deteriorating, surrounded by h..
Two arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre museum in Paris9 hours agoShareSaveJake LaphamShareSaveWatch: Two people leave Louvre in lift mounted to vehicleTwo suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum, French media say.
The Paris prosecutor's office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Items worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from the world's most-visited museum last Sunday, when four thieves wielding power tools broke into the building in broad daylight.
France's justice minister has conceded security protocols “failed”, leaving the country with a “terrible image”.
The Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement that the arrests had been made on Saturday evening, without specifying how many people had been taken into custody.
One of the suspects was preparing to travel to Algeria, police sources have told French media, while ..