Iran’s armed forces have tested their air defences in a second major manoeuvre in recent days. In the south-west of the country, the army practised tracking, pursuing and destroying targets, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. Domestic radar systems were also used. Military tensions with arch-enemy Israel in the past few months have l

Feb. 3 (UPI) — Animal rescuers in Australia responded to a hotel where a bat apparently attempted to take a drink from the swimming pool and became trapped in the water. Kate CJ Murphy, president of Townsville Bat Rescue Australia, posted a video to the organization’s Facebook page showing the black flying fox swimming in […]

A 17-year-old girl has been killed by a shark while swimming in Queensland, Australia. Paramedics were called to the scene at Woorim Beach, just north of Brisbane, at about 4.45pm local time as they responded to a “serious shark bite incident”, the Queensland Ambulance Service said on X. The girl is understood to have suffered […

Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Tuesday on his second official trip abroad since taking power, the Turkish communications directorate announced. The meeting is be held on Tuesday afternoon, the presidential palace in Ankara said. Sources in the Syrian transitional government co

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, is to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest next week. Weidel, the AfD candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming election, confirmed she would visit Orbán in a post on X. “Thank you for your invitation, Prime Minister (Viktor Orbán),” wr