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Several Lebanese regions were subjected Wednesday to a series of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling, leading to three deaths and a number of injuries, amid heavy warplane activity over Beirut and its southern suburbs.The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Health Emergency Operations Center said that three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted Bint Jbeil at dawn, following the killing of seven citizens and the wounding of 11 others in airstrikes on Al Shahabiya in the Tyre district.Israeli warplanes also targeted a house in Al Hamiri in the district of Tyre, leading to injuries to a number of civilians who were transferred to the city’s hospitals for treatment.Al Haniyah was subjected to artillery shelling that coincided with an Israeli drone raid on the town, while Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on Harbat, north of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley.In Beirut, Israeli warplanes launched several successive airstrikes on the southern suburbs, targeting the Haret Hreik area, coinciding with intensive low-altitude flights over the suburbs and over Beirut and its suburbs.Lebanon, especially its southern regions and the southern suburbs of Beirut, has been witnessing an Israeli military escalation since March 2, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. Source link
S. Korea announces precautionary measures to maintain stable electricity price fluctuations
The South Korean government announced on Wednesday its intention to prepare a package of precautionary measures to maintain the stability of electricity prices, amid amid recent volatility in global energy prices following tensions in the West Asia.The Ministry of Climate and Environment in South Korea explained that Climate Minister Kim Sung-hwan presented this plan during a meeting with state-run utility companies, including Korea Electric Power and Korea Gas, to discuss ways to deal with the sharp rise in energy prices.Kim explained that the country has so far experienced only a limited impact on electricity prices as a result of the recent increase in global oil and natural gas prices, but that it will likely face financial pressures in the future if supply chains are disrupted further.Officials said the government measures will include restarting nuclear power plants undergoing maintenance in a timely manner, in addition to coal-fired power plants that were temporarily shut down to manage the seasonal fine-dust problem.The ministry also announced that it will work to enhance the growth of the renewable energy market, which is less affected by global energy prices, noting that it is the optimal solution to reduce the impact of volatility in South Korea’s energy system. Source link
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) injured four Palestinians on Wednesday during a raid on the town of Tammun, southeast of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.WAFA news agency reported sources from Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) as saying that PRCS’s crews treated four young men for injuries sustained during the raid.The IOF stormed Tammun, deployed throughout its neighborhoods, and raided several homes before withdrawing without detaining anyone.Cities, towns, and refugee camps across the West Bank and Al-Quds witness daily raids and incursions by the IOF, often accompanied by confrontations, arrests, and the firing of live and rubber bullets, as well as tear gas canisters, at Palestinian citizens. Source link
Iraqi air defenses engaged a drone targeting a military base at Baghdad International Airport, a military source said on Tuesday.The source said the drone approached Victoria Base and fell within the perimeter of the base after air defense systems attempted to intercept it, without providing further details.Earlier in the evening, a security source said shelling targeted the area around Victoria Base and the headquarters of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service, resulting in injuries.The source said it was not yet clear whether the attack was carried out using drones or rockets, adding that initial reports indicated members of the Counter Terrorism Service were among the wounded. Source link
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‘No one should be a hibakusha’: Young Japanese activist’s mission to share atomic bomb survivor stories
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Motorists stand in a long queue at a fuel station, as concerns grow over fuel supply amid US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Dhaka, Tuesday. (Reuters) The oil price spike caused by the war in the Middle East has sparked unrest in Bangladesh and exasperation at petrol pumps around Asia, where many economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports.Even as governments move to limit the impact on fuel prices, lines have formed at petrol stations in countries including Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines, although the situation remains stable elsewhere.In Bangladesh — which imports 95% of its oil and gas needs — the military has been deployed at major oil depots, as police patrol in and around filling stations.”We haven’t received supply from the depot, but the bike riders weren’t convinced and vandalised the station,” said petrol station worker Ashrafuzzaman Dulal told AFP, describing violence on Sunday.Tuesday his station Shahjahan Traders, one of the oldest in the capital Dhaka, had hung a banner apologising because its stock had run out.The South Asian nation of 170mn people has started fuel rationing, sent students home and scrapped celebratory light displays over the energy crunch.One man was killed on Saturday night in the southern Bangladeshi district of Jhenaidah after an altercation over refuelling with staff.Following the 25-year-old’s death, angry crowds torched three buses and vandalised a filling station, police said.Tuesday, queues stretched for 1.5 kilometres (nearly one mile) through Dhaka’s city centre.”My boss left the car here and took a rickshaw to reach his destination,” Kamrul Hasan, who was waiting in a vehicle almost at the end of the queue, told AFP.Filling station worker Akhtar Hossain said he had not stopped for hours.”Even during the Gulf War, we didn’t experience this sort of rush,” Hossain told AFP.Oil prices fell Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said the US-Israel war on Iran could end “very soon”.The previous day, the price of benchmark crude had rocketed past $100 a barrel — its highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The market instability came as Iran targeted the crude-rich Gulf with missile and drone barrages.Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz — a key Gulf waterway through which a fifth of global crude passes — has also all but halted since the war broke out.Thousands of motorbike riders queued for fuel Tuesday in Vietnam, where prices for unleaded gasoline have surged more than 20%.Vietnam has so far avoided mass shortages, with the government scraping duties on many imported petroleum products.A 57-year-old who gave his name as Tuan told AFP at a Hanoi petrol station that he was “so, so angry”.”I have been waiting in line for almost one hour. Then my turn came, and they said their system is down,” he said as dozens of drivers waited but others gave up.Vehicles also lined up in scorching heat at Philippine petrol stations this week, as officials warned against hoarding fuel, with similar scenes unfolding in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Enrico Guda, a gas station attendant in Metro Manila, said the station had double its usual daily workload as people rushed to fuel up before prices jumped.In Myanmar, which imports 90% of its fuel oil and has long suffered from a fragile energy supply chain owing to the civil war consuming the country, traffic curbs are in place.From Saturday, half of private vehicles have been ordered off the roads each day to preserve oil stocks.”Some drivers depend on their vehicles for work and survival… the new system has made it harder for them to run their businesses,” said Hla Htay, 56, a car rental business owner.In the Myanmar frontier town of Tachileik, an AFP reporter saw signs cross-border supplies from Thailand had been cut — with some petrol stations shut last week after an up-to threefold price spike the day before.In several other Asian countries, from Japan to Indonesia, as well as China, India and Afghanistan, panic appears not yet to have hit, apart from a few sporadic queues for petrol.”I used to fill up regularly once a week, but now I try to fill up whenever I find a cheaper gas station,” South Korean businessman Lee In-tae, 42, told AFP in Seoul. …
