About 27 million tons of Saharan dust deliver roughly 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon annually/ Image: NASA In 2015, scientists reported evidence that vast plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert help replenish phosphorus in the Amazon rainforest, linking the world’s largest desert to its largest rainforest through what researchers described as one…
NEW DELHI: Hours after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a sweeping US–Israel operation, Tehran launched what it described as a broad retaliatory campaign targeting American and Israeli military assets across the Middle East.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that all Israeli and US military targets in the region had…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: For nearly a decade, US President and MAGA supremo Donald Trump fashioned his political identity around a simple, potent pledge: end America’s “endless wars.” He derided the foreign policy establishment as reckless interventionists and insisted he alone could resist the military-industrial complex. “I am the most militaristic person there is, but…
Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (File photo) Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline figure known for his confrontational rhetoric and role in Tehran’s nuclear defiance, was reportedly killed during Israeli airstrikes inside Iran on Saturday. According to media reports like Israeli outlet Ma’ariv quoted by NY Post, Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at…
Terrified Arizona residents are rushing to build panic rooms after the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, who is still not found nearly 1 month after she was snatched from her Tucson home.Kevin Hand, who specialises in break-in-resistant “safe rooms” at Sportsman Steel Safes in the Grand Canyon State, told the Daily Mail his business is flooded…
What happens in a $20,000-a-night suite doesn’t always stay there — especially when there’s a hot tub, a private jet nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” and some very familiar names in the guest list.The infamous picture of Bill Clinton in a hot tub with a mystery woman is from a 2002 trip to Asia that the…
Saudi Arabia arrested 19,077 residency, border and labour law violators between February 19–25/Representative Image A week-long nationwide enforcement drive has led to the arrest of 19,077 illegal residents across Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday. The coordinated inspections were conducted between February 19 and 25 by security forces working alongside relevant government…
Iran President Pezeshkian vows revenge after Khamenei killed in US–Israel strikes (Picture credit: AP) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared that avenging the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is both a “legitimate duty and right” of the Islamic Republic, following joint US–Israeli strikes that killed the 86-year-old leader.In a statement carried by state…
Amid the ongoing US, Israel and Iran conflict, a reported Iranian missile strike hit the Fairmont The Palm hotel in Dubai, leading to the injury of four people. Now, a TikTok influencer has gone viral, claiming he was merely feet away from the luxury resort when it was struck during the attack.British content creator Will…
Strikes in Iran (AP photo) With the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran launched attacks against the United States and Israel, hitting key US military bases in the region and targeting Israeli sites.Operation Epic Fury, the US-led military action under President Donald Trump, achieved its most critical objective: the killing of Khamenei in…