Updated: Apr 5th, 2026 The White House has pushed back against widespread online speculation that President Donald Trump was hospitalised, calling the claims false after rumours spread rapidly across social media following a routine press ‘lid’. The speculation began after the White House announced a travel and photo ‘lid’ at 11 am ET Saturday, signalling...
Updated: Apr 5th, 2026 Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi condemned a US-Israeli strike near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant earlier in the day and warned of its potential lethal consequences for the West Asia region. Earlier, Tehran confirmed that a projectile hit near Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant on Saturday morning, killing one...
Updated: Apr 5th, 2026 Iran’s army has claimed that it carried out retaliatory drone strikes targeting the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, marking a sharp escalation in the ongoing conflict in West Asia, as per reports. The strike, described as a response to recent developments in the region, has heightened global concerns over...
Representative image The second crew member of a US plane that was shot down by Iran has been rescued in a military operation deep inside that country, President Donald Trump said on Sunday. “We got him”, Trump said in a post on Truth Social just after midnight. “I am thrilled to let you know is...
Updated: Apr 4th, 2026 Iran has rejected a US proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Friday. The proposal was delivered to Iran through a “friendly” country on Thursday, Fars quoted an informed source as saying. Washington has stepped up its diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire, particularly after an...
At least eight people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Afghanistan, Mohammad Yousuf Hammad, a spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority, said. A house in Kabul province collapsed following the quake, killing eight residents and injuring a child, Hammad said late Friday night. Strong tremors were also felt in...
Updated: Apr 4th, 2026 United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Artemis II astronauts sent stunning images of Earth as they approached closer toward the moon. Photo captured by Commander Reid Wiseman showed a curved slice of Earth framed by the Orion capsule’s window. A second image revealed the entire globe, with its oceans...
Updated: Apr 4th, 2026 Frequent users of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and Grok may have noticed a recurring pattern that these systems often appear to agree readily with users. While this can feel efficient and helpful, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reportedly have warned that such interactions...
Updated: Apr 4th, 2026 A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran, triggering a combat search-and-rescue operation, with one crew member rescued and another still missing. Both crew members ejected from the aircraft. One has been found alive, while efforts continue to locate the second, whose status remains unclear. The F-15E...
Image: X (Ferozwala) Iranian media has once again claimed that an F-35 stealth fighter jet was shot down over central Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), even as the United States dismissed the assertion as false. According to reports by Iran news agency, visuals of aircraft debris were released, which Tehran described as...