TEL AVIV: Israel on Wednesday described what has been an open secret for two decades — that it has used drones not just for surveillance but also in strikes within the country, against Palestinian militants in Gaza, and possibly targets as far away as Iran or Sudan.
DUBAI: A person has died and three people were injured after a residential building collapsed in Imbaba, Egypt on Tuesday, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population said.
Five ambulances were dispatched to the scene to provide emergency services and transport the injured to hospital.
Two of the injured have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment while another is still being treated.
KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Tuesday as they confronted thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital Khartoum.
Protesters chanted “No to military rule” as they marched toward the presidential palace, denouncing a coup last year led by army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan that derailed a transition to civilian rule.
Burhan seized power in October 2021 and arrested civilian leaders appointed following the 2019 ouster of long-time autocrat Omar Bashir, plunging Sudan into a political and economic crisis.
BEIRUT: As the Lebanese state continues to operate without a new president in place, the security services will take all necessary steps to maintain order, the country’s acting interior minister said on Tuesday.
Following a meeting with the Central Internal Security Council, caretaker minister Bassam Mawlawi said security is something all Lebanese require and “it is the duty of security bodies to maintain it using all available means.”
AL-MUKALLA: A Yemeni military leader who had fought the Iran-backed Houthis for the past seven years was assassinated on Tuesday in the central city of Marib, while local human rights groups blasted the Houthis for launching ballistic missiles on the city.
Local security officers and media reports said that unidentified men killed Brig. Gen. Mohammed Al-Jaradi, an adviser to Yemen’s defense minister, as well as his bodyguard outside the city of Marib.
