Trump administration rounds up, arrests Iranian immigrants in unprecedented deportation drive
The US Border Patrol arrested Iranians 1,700 times at the Mexican border from October 2021 through November 2024, according to the most recent public data available. The Homeland Security Department reported that about 600 Iranians overstayed visas as business or exchange visitors, tourists and students in the 12-month period through September 2023, the most recent data reports.
Football icon Cristiano Ronaldo signs new two-year deal at 40, says he belongs to Saudi Arabia and talks up 2034 World Cup
Human-rights groups criticised Saudi’s suitability to stage the finals since even before it formally expressed an interest in doing so – with many of the misgivings being similar to the questions posed towards the 2022 World Cup when that was awarded to Gulf region neighbour Qatar.
Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei keeps off funerals of commanders and scientists killed by Israel
In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.
Dust has hardly settled as Trump warns he’d consider bombing Iran again, drops sanctions relief plan
Trump also said that in recent days he had been working on the possible removal of sanctions on Iran to give it a chance for a speedy recovery. He said he had now abandoned that effort.
What next for Iran after choreographed Israel-US battering that neutralised its nuclear arsenal?
Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance,” a group of allied countries and militias in the Mideast, has been mauled by the Israelis since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. Foreign support Tehran may have expected from China and Russia never materialised.
Preliminary intelligence report contradicts Trump’s claims US strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability
The White House said the intelligence assessment was “flat out wrong.” According to the report, which was produced by the Defence Intelligence Agency, the strikes sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities, but did not collapse underground buildings, said one of the people familiar with its findings.
14 Iranian nuclear scientists killed by Israel in an unprecedented elimination on Tehran’s top brains
Strikes cannot destroy the knowledge Iran has acquired over several decades, nor any regime ambition to deploy that knowledge to build a nuclear weapon,” UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
Israel destroys Iranian nuclear research facility in attacks it says killed military generals
Iran launched a new wave of drones and missiles at Israel but there were no immediate reports of significant damage, and the Israeli official called it a “small barrage” that was largely intercepted by Israel’s defenses.
Israel bars thousands of Palestinians from Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews call the area the Temple Mount, saying it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Buried faith: Temple beneath the mosque and why Jews could not establish State of Israel in western Kenya
What was in the nineteenth century the Luhyia Kingdom (also known as Wanga Kingdom) had been carved out for Jews, but this was not to be as resettling in western Kenya would have meant the community that is believed the descendants of Jesus Christ being stripped of their spiritual, cultural and biological attachment to their motherland.
