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Get you up to speed: U.S. military launches second night of strikes against Iran
The U.S. military conducted strikes on approximately 90 Iranian targets late Wednesday night, following Iranian attacks on three commercial oil tankers earlier in the week. Reported explosions were heard in several Iranian cities, including Bandar Abbas, while Kuwait stated it was “confronting hostile missile and drone attacks” and emergency sirens were activated in Bahrain.
U.S. Central Command conducted a series of strikes against approximately 90 Iranian targets, including infrastructure and naval assets, in response to Iranian attacks on commercial oil tankers. The ongoing military exchanges and the recent escalation threaten the viability of a ceasefire agreement signed last month, which had aimed to facilitate further negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
The U.S. military, under President Trump’s orders, conducted significant strikes against Iranian targets to counter recent Iranian attacks on commercial vessels, stating the actions aim to “further degrade [Iran’s] ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.” Amid rising tensions, Kuwait and Bahrain reported missile and drone threats, with Kuwait acknowledging confrontations, while the U.S. positions itself firmly against Iranian claims to control the Strait as diplomatic talks appear to deteriorate.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain how the latest military actions will affect the ongoing peace negotiations and ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran.
US military conducts second consecutive night of strikes on Iran
Washington — The U.S. military launched another round of strikes against Iran late Wednesday night, U.S. Central Command said, in the second night of attacks as diplomacy between the two countries appears to collapse.
CENTCOM said on X that Wednesday’s strikes are intended to “further degrade [Iran’s] ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.” It said the strikes were ordered by President Trump in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial oil tankers earlier this week.
The military said it hit about 90 Iranian targets, including air defenses, drone and missile storage, naval targets and logistics infrastructure on Iran’s coast. Iranian state media outlets reported that explosions were heard in several cities, including the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
Early Thursday morning, Kuwait said it was “confronting hostile missile and drone attacks.” Emergency sirens also sounded in Bahrain. The two countries did not specify the source of the threats, but Iranian counterattacks against U.S.-allied Gulf states have closely followed previous U.S. strikes on Iran.
Hours earlier, Mr. Trump had vowed to “hit [Iran] hard again tonight.” Asked about the three-month-old ceasefire between the two countries, which has repeatedly been mired by on-and-off fighting, he told reporters: “As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.”
After Wednesday’s strikes began, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social that “it will get much worse” if Iran attacks more ships.
This week’s back-and-forth began with Iranian attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and Tuesday. The Trump administration retaliated by striking dozens of targets inside Iran on Tuesday and rescinding a sanctions waiver that allowed Iran to sell its oil abroad. Iran then fired drones and missiles at U.S.-allied Kuwait and Bahrain.
The latest round of fighting could endanger already tenuous peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding last month to extend their ceasefire by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports and begin easing sanctions on Iran. The two countries also agreed to hold two months of further talks to tackle thorny issues like the fate of Iran’s nuclear program.
Since then, there have been a handful of military exchanges between the U.S. and Iran, and both countries have accused each other of violating the deal. Commercial ships have begun returning to the Strait of Hormuz, easing oil prices, but Iran has continued to push for some degree of control over the strait — a demand the U.S. has rejected.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump appeared pessimistic about diplomatic talks with Iran, calling the country’s leaders “sick” and saying “it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.”
“I’ll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want, but I don’t see it,” he told reporters during a NATO summit in Turkey. “I don’t like these people, you know that.”
Later in the day, after Wednesday’s strikes began, Mr. Trump told reporters that Iran wants “to make a deal so badly,” but he doesn’t know if Iran is “worthy of making a deal.”
“I don’t know if they’ll honor a deal,” he said.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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