Author: Emmanuel
A piece of crucial intelligence arrived just hours before the attack on a compound in central Tehran.
After Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in his office on Saturday morning during a US-Israel attack, there were celebrations in several cities.
A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. As U.S. and Israeli forces intensify their campaign, The Department of National Defence has so far declined to clarify Canada’s operational role.
Iran launched retaliatory attacks in the Middle East after US-Israel strikes across the country.
The UK’s terror threat level is “absolutely” under review following US and Israel strikes on Iran, the defence secretary told Sky News.Since the strikes on Saturday, Iran has carried out retaliatory attacks on Israel, US military installations around the Gulf, and Gulf Arab states, including the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, and the global business and tourist hub of Dubai. Politics latest: Healey refuses to rule out UK joining offensive actionAsked on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips if the UK’s terror threat level is now under discussion, John Healey said: “Absolutely.”When you get a regime like this lashing out in the…
Defence Secretary John Healey has revealed details of the UK’s operations in the Middle East – including taking down Iranian drones – after the US and Israel targeted Iran.Mr Healey told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips the UK has had “no part of the strikes” on Iran on Saturday, which saw the killing of Iran’s long-time supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer revealed British planes were “in the sky” in the Middle East as part of a defensive operation “to protect our people, our interests and our allies” as Iran launches retaliatory action.Politics…
Sir Keir Starmer is treading a characteristically cautious diplomatic path in his response to the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel.He’s under pressure from those on the left of British politics to condemn US President Donald Trump’s actions as “illegal” and unjustified – while those on the right want to see him offer his open support. Military intervention in the Middle East is clearly a sensitive issue for a Labour party haunted by the Iraq war.While British planes are now in the sky to defend UK interests in the region, Starmer made it explicitly clear that such defensive…
As much as the study has indicated an increased risk of diabetes with red meat, experts agree that demonizing food groups is not the answer to a healthy and balanced diet.“The takeaway is not that red meat is forbidden, but that overall dietary pattern matters most. A way of eating centered on legumes, nuts, vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, and fermented dairy, with red meat eaten occasionally rather than daily, is consistently associated with better metabolic health,” Routhenstein said.Cutler said it was important to create a dietary plan that both helps prevent diabetes and maintains adequate protein intake.“Substitution of alternative…
A Plaid Cymru Welsh government would aim to establish a national commission to explore Wales’s constitutional future, including a potential path toward independence, within its first 100 days in office.The party’s leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, confirmed a Plaid Cymru Welsh government would rule out a referendum should the it win power in May’s election. But his party has pledged to “spark a national conversation about the next steps on our constitution journey”.Just 26% of adults in Wales say they would vote for independence if a referendum were held, according to YouGov polling carried out in January this year. Image: Rhun ap Iorwerth,…
As U.S. President Donald Trump charges ahead with a major attack on Iran, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada supports at least one component of the American mission: destroying Iran’s nuclear program.