JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah and the Lebanese government quickly blamed Israel for the nearly simultaneous firing of hundreds of pagers Officials said it was used by members of the militant group in an attack on Tuesday that killed at least nine people and injured nearly 3,000 others. Many of those affected were members of the […]
1 min agoTuesday, September 17, 2024, 8:11 p.m. Death list rises to 11 Reuters reported that the death toll from the pager explosions rose from nine to eleven. The number of injured There are currently 4,000 people, 400 of whom are in critical condition, the adviser to the Lebanese health minister told the news agency. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long tried to plant misinformation in U.S. political discourse. Now it has a new approach: It is paying Americans to do the work. This week Charges against two employees of Russian state media over allegations that they paid a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content has revived concerns about foreign […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center has killed two people and injured 10 others, Iranian state television reported Thursday. The leak occurred on Wednesday evening in a Guard workshop in Isfahan province, and the injured were taken to a hospital for treatment, it said. The Isfahan […]
A suspicious incident at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard facility in the central province of Isfahan has left several victims, according to an official IRGC statement. A statement from the IRGC’s Saheb al-Zaman headquarters said a “gas leak” at an IRGC “workshop” in Isfahan killed one person and injured ten others. The statement did not provide […]
As labor protests gain momentum in Iran, oil and gas workers have also joined the movement, underscoring growing concerns about economic and working conditions across the country. The workers at the South Pars Gas Complex (SPGC) refineries held a protest rally on Tuesday to protest against economic grievances and the incomplete payment of wages. They […]
Iran is launching a $70 billion investment program to halt the dramatic decline in production at its key South Pars gas field. Failure to do so will result in 40 percent of the country’s oil production from the Persian Gulf Star gas condensate refinery being lost and petrochemical costs increasing by as much as $12 […]
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Israel is not ready for a full-scale war on multiple fronts, retired deputy defense chief Dan Ronen, former director general of the now-closed Home Front Defense Ministry, said on Sunday at an unofficial civilian inquiry on October 7. He criticized the division of responsibility for the home front among various official bodies. “If there […]
Baghdad relies on profit sharing in new oil and gas contracts BAGHDAD, August 15 (Reuters) – Iraq is making the biggest changes in its relationship with global oil companies in decades, sources said Thursday, in a bid to attract more money to the country’s hydrocarbon sector and share in the profits from the development of […]
