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ELON MUSK’S X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 6,700 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 06:07 p.m. ET, Downdetector showed, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Downdetector’s…

IRAN SAID the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack on Saturday but that the “situation was under control”. “The fuel volume in the targeted tank was not high, and the situation is fully under control,“ Iran’s oil ministry’s SHANA news agency reported.

JERUSALEM: Israel’s emergency services said Saturday that an Iranian missile hit on a home in the country’s northern region of Galilee near Haifa wounded 14 people, leaving one in a critical condition. “Teams have reported 14 casualties at a two-storey home in the Western Galilee, including one in critical condition and the rest with varying…

TEHRAN: Iranian news agency Tasnim reported early Sunday that an Israeli strike had targeted the country’s defence ministry headquarters in Tehran and damaged one of its buildings. In “an attack on Tehran this evening by the air force of the Zionist regime, the headquarters of the defence ministry was targeted. One of the headquarters’ buildings…

TEHRAN: Iran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel on Saturday, wounding several people in residential buildings, while Israel said it was striking Tehran. The fresh attacks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to hit “every target of the ayatollah regime”, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned further strikes would draw “a…

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump kicked off his long dreamt-of military parade in Washington on his 79th birthday Saturday, as tens of thousands of protesters rallied across the country to call him a dictator. Trump saluted after walking onto a huge stage in front of the White House, with two huge tanks parked nearby, while…

NEW YORK: A giant orange balloon depicting President Donald Trump in a diaper towered over one “No Kings” protest Saturday, as tens of thousands thronged streets across the United States to decry the president’s policies. Protest organizers expected rallies in all 50 US states, calling them the largest since Trump returned to office in January,…

ISRAELI PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Saturday to strike “every target of the ayatollah regime” in Iran, adding that Israeli strikes had dealt a “real blow” to Tehran’s nuclear programme. “We will hit every site, every target of the ayatollah regime,“ Netanyahu said in a video statement on the second day of Israel’s air…