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ADNOC, the state-owned oil company of Abu Dhabi, confirmed that one of its vessels was targeted by a missile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of Saturday, August 8.The incident resulted in no injuries, and the situation has been brought under control, the company said. Source link
An Israeli army force Friday night incurred towards the town of Zawtar Al-Gharbiya (Western Zawtar) in southern Lebanon, after withdrawing from it last July, in a new breach of the arrangements established for the experimental area under the framework agreement signed between Lebanon and Israel.Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that the Israeli force, comprised infantry soldiers, several vehicles, and a bulldozer that was used in making an earthen berm approximately 100 meters from the town square.NNA explained that the Lebanese army remains stationed at its original position a few meters from the newly constructed berm, while Israeli drones and reconnaissance aircraft conduct intensive low-altitude flights over the town.The Lebanese army had deployed in Zawtar al-Gharbiya following the Israeli withdrawal on July 21, as it was the first experimental area from which the Israeli army withdrew in accordance with the framework agreement signed between Lebanon and Israel on June 26. Related Story Source link
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto agreed Tuesday to promote concrete cooperation in the economic and security fields.In a joint press appearance after the talks in Tokyo, Takaichi said the two leaders also affirmed their nations’ close alignment in addressing the situation in the Middle East, where the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran has fueled energy supply concerns and driven crude oil prices higher.She said that Japan will help Indonesia cultivate artificial intelligence-related human resources and enhance maritime security capabilities, according to Japan’s (Kyodo) news agency.For his part, Prabowo called bilateral ties an “exemplary” model for other countries, adding that Indonesia and Japan should “walk together” in the current international situation, which he said was “fraught with dangers.”He also showed his eagerness to contribute to “deescalation,” apparently with the ongoing Middle East conflict in mind. Source link
Dubai authorities confirmed that emergency teams successfully dealt with the incident involving a Kuwaiti oil tanker in Dubai, the UAE.Dubai’s Government Media Office said in a statement posted on X that no oil spill or injuries were reported as a result of the incident.Earlier on Tuesday, the Office announced that the fire that broke out on the Kuwaiti oil tanker after it was targeted by an Iranian drone had been extinguished. It added that the relevant teams were continuing to assess the situation and take the necessary measures.Kuwait Petroleum Corporation had previously reported that the giant Kuwaiti crude oil tanker Al Salmi was directly targeted in a deliberate Iranian attack while in the anchorage E of Dubai Port. Source link
The Israeli entity continued its attacks on villages and towns in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.The Lebanese National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the town of Abba in the south of the country, killing a young man after his house was struck.It added that the town of Doueir was also subjected to a heavy airstrike that targeted a house in the Al-Rous neighborhood, completely destroying it.Warplanes also launched an attack on the Al-Samouqa between Jebchit and Abba neighborhood in the town of Deir Al Zahrani.The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the Israeli aggression against Lebanon has risen to 1,247, with 3,680 wounded. Source link
Gunmen opened fire on a bar in Jos, the capital of Nigeria’s restive Plateau state, sparking retaliation from a mob and killing nearly three dozen people in all, local sources said Monday.Plateau state, in central Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, experiences recurring violence in the countryside, mostly linked to land disputes between farmers and herders.Jos, a religiously mixed city, has seen sectarian violence but deadly, mass casualty attacks in the crowded capital have been rare in recent years.It was unclear how many people were killed in the Sunday evening shooting in a Jos neighbourhood popular with local university students and staff and how many were killed in the ensuing mob retaliation.At least 12 people were killed when unidentified attackers opened fire at a bar-cum-restaurant in the Anguwan Rukuba neighbourhood, in the Jos North district, said Plateau state Red Cross secretary Nurudeen Hussaini Magaji.He later updated the death toll from the shooting and the mob retaliation to 33, without breaking down how many were killed in each incident.”The attackers shot people at a joint,” said Mangalle Idris, a local youth leader.Then a mob formed, Idris said, and “attacked people that were either passing or doing business and they killed them.”After initially listing the death toll from the mob at 10, he revised that number down to three, with 30 people killed in the gunfire.”Mob action killed three passersby, two of them were burnt beyond recognition,” he said.The University of Jos said the attack, “and the consequential tensions it has generated”, prompted it to postpone exams scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.The state government said investigations were “ongoing”, without giving a toll or naming suspects, and ordered a curfew in Jos North from Sunday to Wednesday.That same evening as the Plateau attack, unidentified gunmen in the northwestern state of Kaduna killed 13 people at a pre-wedding bachelor party, local and security sources told AFP.Nigeria’s northwest suffers from rural organised crime gangs, locally called “bandits”, which kidnap, kill and extort citizens.In the Plateau state countryside, farmers and herders have been clashing for years over land access, sometimes erupting into massacres where entire villages are emptied out.Because the violence falls across ethnic lines, some — including politicians in both Nigeria and the United States — have characterised the killings as religiously driven, a view rejected by most experts.Violence has been rare in recent years in Jos, said Malik Samuel, an Abuja-based researcher at the nonprofit Good Governance Africa.However the city saw deadly sectarian riots in 2001 and 2008 that killed hundreds across religious lines, and remains “a keg of gunpowder”, he said.Samuel said the government was smart to quickly institute a curfew, to halt further reprisals.”But having a clear identity and motive of the perpetrators will go a long way to dousing whatever tension is simmering in the city,” he added.Posts on social media after the Anguwan Rukuba attack variously blamed — without evidence — on herders or “bandits” for targeting a community on Palm Sunday.The Plateau chapter of Jama’atu Nasril Islam, a Nigerian civil society group, called the attacks a “grave threat to peace and coexistence”.”We urge all citizens to exercise restraint. We must not allow anger and grief to push us into actions that could worsen the situation,” it said.Researchers blame Plateau state’s current, mostly rural, crisis on climate change, illegal mining and population growth squeezing available land.Impunity for killings across rural areas largely abandoned by the state often spark recurrent reprisals.Local politicians are also known to inflame tensions in Plateau, where the question of which ethnic groups are “indigenous” to the land is politically sensitive. Related Story Source link
