Category: NEWS

  • Iran kata ruang udara kekal tutup sehingga petang Rabu

    TEHRAN, 24 Jun – Jurucakap Iran berkata pada Selasa ruang udara negara itu akan kekal ditutup sehingga petang Rabu, menurut agensi berita separuh rasmi Mehr.

    Majid Akhavan, jurucakap Kementerian Jalan dan Pembangunan Bandar, berkata keputusan itu dibuat berdasarkan perkembangan terkini dan bagi memastikan keselamatan penumpang dan penerbangan, dengan menyatakan bahawa penggantungan penerbangan akan terus berkuat kuasa sehingga 2:00 petang waktu tempatan (10:30 GMT) pada Rabu.

    Iran menutup ruang udaranya selepas Israel melancarkan serangan udara ke atas Tehran dan bahagian lain di negara itu pada 13 Jun.

    Gencatan senjata antara kedua-dua pihak diisytiharkan awal Selasa.

    XINHUA

  • Iran says airspace to remain closed until Wednesday afternoon

    TEHRAN, June 24 – An Iranian spokesman said on Tuesday the country’s airspace will remain closed until Wednesday afternoon, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.

    Majid Akhavan, spokesman of the Roads and Urban Development Ministry, said the decision was made in light of the recent developments and to ensure the safety of passengers and flights, noting that the flight suspension would remain in effect until 2:00 p.m. local time (10:30 GMT) on Wednesday.

    Iran closed its airspace after Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and other parts of the country on June 13.

    A ceasefire between the two sides was declared early Tuesday.

    XINHUA

  • Finland siapkan seksyen kedua pagar sempadan dengan Rusia: media

    HELSINKI, 24 Jun – Finland menyiapkan seksyen kedua pagar sempadannya di sempadan timur dengan Rusia, penyiar kebangsaan Yle memetik Pengawal Sempadan Finland sebagai berkata pada Selasa.

    Hamparan yang baru dibina itu terletak di wilayah utara-tengah Kainuu dan terdiri daripada lapan segmen sepanjang kira-kira 18 km, kata Yle. Ini berikutan penyiapan bahagian pertama 35 km.

    Parlimen Finland meluluskan projek pagar itu pada 2022, dengan rancangan untuk akhirnya meliputi sekitar 200 km dari sempadan 1,300 km negara itu dengan Rusia. Pembinaan bermula pada 2023, dengan setiap segmen termasuk penghalang jaringan keluli, jalan perkhidmatan, zon penampan dan sistem pengawasan teknikal.

    Bahagian Kainuu menampilkan peningkatan teknologi berbanding segmen perintis awal yang dibina dekat pekan tenggara Imatra. Kemas kini ini termasuk sistem pengawasan dijana AI yang mampu membezakan antara manusia dan haiwan untuk mengurangkan penggera palsu, dan sistem pembesar suara yang membolehkan komunikasi jauh dengan individu berdekatan pagar, menurut Yle.

    Sementara itu, semua lintasan sempadan darat antara Finland dan Rusia telah ditutup sejak Disember 2023, berikutan beberapa siri keputusan kerajaan.

    Penutupan yang berterusan telah mengundang kritikan domestik, dengan pengkritik memberi amaran ia boleh melanggar konvensyen antarabangsa. Beberapa warga Finland yang mempunyai pertalian keluarga di Rusia juga telah menyatakan kebimbangan mengenai gangguan perjalanan rentas sempadan yang telah lama wujud.

    XINHUA

  • Finland completes second section of border fence with Russia: media

    HELSINKI, June 24 – Finland has completed the second section of its border fence along the eastern frontier with Russia, the national broadcaster Yle quoted the Finnish Border Guard as saying on Tuesday.

    The newly constructed stretch is located in the north-central region of Kainuu and consists of eight segments spanning approximately 18 km, Yle said. This follows the completion of the first 35-km section.

    Finland’s parliament approved the fence project in 2022, with plans to eventually cover around 200 km of the country’s 1,300-km border with Russia. Construction began in 2023, with each segment including a steel mesh barrier, a service road, a cleared buffer zone, and a technical surveillance system.

    The Kainuu section features technological upgrades compared to the initial pilot segment built near the southeastern town of Imatra. These updates include an AI-powered surveillance system capable of distinguishing between humans and animals to reduce false alarms, and a loudspeaker system that enables remote communication with individuals near the fence, according to Yle.

    Meanwhile, all land-based border crossings between Finland and Russia have been closed since December 2023, following a series of government decisions.

    The ongoing closure has drawn domestic criticism, with critics warning it could violate international conventions. Some Finnish citizens with family ties in Russia have also expressed concern about the disruption to long-standing cross-border travel.

    XINHUA

  • Dua dimasukkan ke hospital dengan kesan tikaman berikutan pergaduhan di barat Sydney

    SYDNEY, 25 Jun – Dua lelaki dimasukkan ke hospital dengan kesan tikaman susulan pergaduhan di sebuah pusat beli-belah di barat Sydney.

    Perkhidmatan kecemasan dipanggil untuk laporan pergaduhan antara dua kumpulan remaja dan dewasa muda di sebuah pusat beli-belah di Mount Druitt, 38 km barat pusat Sydney, kira-kira jam 5 petang waktu tempatan pada Selasa, rangkaian 9News Australia melaporkan pada Rabu.

    Pergaduhan itu meluas ke luar di mana dua orang ditikam, menurut polis.

    Seorang mangsa tikaman, seorang lelaki berusia dalam lingkungan 20-an, dibawa ke hospital dengan kecederaan kritikal di bahagian atas badan.

    Yang kedua, seorang lelaki dipercayai berusia awal remaja, dirawat kerana kesan tetakan di tangan dan muka dan dibawa ke hospital dalam keadaan stabil.

    Seorang lelaki berusia 20 tahun turut dirawat kerana cedera ringan yang tidak memerlukan kemasukan ke hospital.

    Polis berkata, kumpulan yang terlibat dalam pergaduhan itu dipercayai dikenali antara satu sama lain.

    Tempat kejadian jenayah telah ditubuhkan di dalam pusat beli-belah dan di laluan pejalan kaki luar, dan polis telah memulakan siasatan ke atas kejadian itu.

    XINHUA

  • Two hospitalized with stab wounds following western Sydney brawl

    SYDNEY, June 25 – Two men have been hospitalized with stab wounds following a brawl at a shopping center in western Sydney.

    Emergency services were called to reports of the brawl between two groups of teenagers and young adults at a shopping center in Mount Druitt, 38 km west of central Sydney, at around 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Australia’s 9News network reported on Wednesday.

    The brawl spilled outside where two people were stabbed, according to police.

    One stab victim, a man aged in his 20s, was taken to hospital with critical injuries to his upper body.

    The second, a male believed to be aged in his early teens, was treated for slash wounds to his hand and face and was taken to hospital in stable condition.

    A 20-year-old man was also treated for minor injuries that did not require hospitalization.

    Police said that the groups involved in the brawl are believed to be known to each other.

    Crime scenes were established inside the shopping center and on an external footpath, and police have commenced an investigation into the incident.

    XINHUA

  • Lebih 80,000 dipindahkan di tengah-tengah banjir serius di barat daya China

    GUIYANG, 25 Jun – Hujan lebat berterusan dan aliran masuk hulu mencetuskan banjir teruk di dua daerah di Wilayah Guizhou di barat daya China, menyebabkan pemindahan besar-besaran.

    Setakat jam 2:30 petang Selasa, 48,900 penduduk dipindahkan sementara di Daerah Rongjiang dan 32,000 di Daerah Congjiang. Tindak balas kecemasan kawalan banjir telah dinaikkan ke Tahap I, yang tertinggi, di kedua-dua daerah.

    Rongjiang, sebuah daerah yang terkenal dengan Cun Chao – liga bola sepak luar bandar yang merangkumi lebih 100 pasukan kampung dan menarik ramai peminat di seluruh negara, menyaksikan ribut hujan lebat mulai jam 8 malam Isnin, dengan tempat di Sungai Duliu melebihi paras amaran sebanyak 6.68 meter setakat 2 petang Selasa.

    Padang bola di stadium Cun Chao ditenggelami air tiga meter.

    Long Tian, ​​seorang penduduk dekat stadium, teringat bahawa apabila dia bangun pada 8 pagi Selasa, air di tingkat bawah sudah setinggi peha.

    “Air naik sangat cepat, jadi saya tinggal di tingkat tiga menunggu untuk diselamatkan. Menjelang tengah hari, saya telah dipindahkan ke tempat selamat,” kata Long.

    Pasukan penyelamat, termasuk anggota bomba dan sukarelawan, mengerahkan bot dan peralatan lain untuk kerja menyelamat di kedua-dua daerah.

    Setakat jam 4 petang Selasa, jabatan kecemasan wilayah telah memperuntukkan barangan bantuan bencana, termasuk 30,000 botol air minuman dan 10,000 mangkuk mi segera, ke dua daerah melalui kereta api berkelajuan tinggi dan pengangkutan jalan raya.

    Juga di Guizhou, tanah runtuh yang dicetuskan oleh hujan menyebabkan runtuhan bahagian jambatan di lebuh raya di daerah Sandu. Tiada kemalangan jiwa dilaporkan setakat ini.

    XINHUA

  • Over 80,000 evacuated amid serious flooding in SW China

    GUIYANG, June 25 – Continuous heavy rainfall and upstream inflows have triggered severe flooding in two counties of Guizhou Province in southwest China, prompting mass evacuations.

    As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, 48,900 residents were temporarily evacuated in Rongjiang County and 32,000 in Congjiang County. The flood control emergency response has been escalated to Level I, the highest, in both counties.

    Rongjiang, a county known for Cun Chao — a rural football league covering over 100 village teams and drawing numerous fans across the country, saw heavy rainstorms from 8 p.m. Monday, with a venue at the Duliu River exceeding the warning level by 6.68 meters as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.

    The football field at the Cun Chao stadium was submerged under three meters of water.

    Long Tian, a resident near the stadium, recalled that when he woke up at 8 a.m. Tuesday, the water downstairs was already thigh-deep.

    “The water rose very quickly, so I stayed on the third floor waiting for rescue. By the afternoon, I had been transferred to safety,” Long said.

    Rescue teams, including firefighters and volunteers, deployed boats and other equipment for the rescue work in the two counties.

    As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, the provincial emergency department had allocated disaster relief items, including 30,000 bottles of drinking water and 10,000 bowls of instant noodles, to the two counties via high-speed rail and road transport.

    Also in Guizhou, rain-triggered landslides caused the collapse of part of a bridge on an expressway in the county of Sandu. No casualties have been reported so far.

    XINHUA

  • Over 600 Iranians martyred in Israeli airstrikes

    TEHRAN, Jun. 24 – The death toll from the Israeli regime’s military strikes on Iran has surpassed 600, over 100 of whom were martyred in the past 24 hours alone, the minister of health said on Tuesday.

    Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi said the official statistics show that 606 Iranian people have been martyred in the Zionist regime’s war of aggression since June 13.

    He noted that a total of 5,332 people have been injured across Iran since the start of the Israeli war.

    Zafarqandi said the deadliest wave of brutal Israeli strikes against Iran was the past 24 hours, during which 107 people were martyred and 1,342 others were wounded before a ceasefire took effect on Tuesday morning.

    The minister noted that 95 percent of the martyrs passed away after being buried under the rubble, while only 5 percent were pronounced dead later after being taken to the hospital.

    The Health Ministry was forced to evacuate three hospitals at risk during the past two weeks in order to save the lives of patients, he added.

    The Zionist regime waged an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on June 13. It carried out airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear, military and residential sites that have resulted in the martyrdom of top military commanders, nuclear scientists and ordinary citizens.

    The Iranian military forces started counterattacks immediately afterwards. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.

    MEHR

  • Lebih 600 rakyat Iran terkorban dalam serangan udara Israel

    TEHRAN, 24 Jun – Angka kematian akibat serangan tentera rejim Israel ke atas Iran melepasi 600, lebih 100 daripadanya terkorban dalam tempoh 24 jam yang lalu sahaja, kata menteri kesihatan pada Selasa.

    Menteri Kesihatan Iran Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi berkata statistik rasmi menunjukkan 606 rakyat Iran telah syahid dalam perang pencerobohan rejim Zionis sejak 13 Jun.

    Beliau menyatakan sejumlah 5,332 orang telah cedera di seluruh Iran sejak permulaan perang Israel.

    Zafarqandi berkata gelombang paling maut serangan kejam Israel terhadap Iran adalah dalam tempoh 24 jam yang lalu, di mana 107 orang mati dan 1,342 yang lain cedera sebelum gencatan senjata berkuat kuasa pada pagi Selasa.

    Menteri itu menyatakan bahawa 95 peratus daripada yang meninggal dunia selepas tertimbus di bawah runtuhan, manakala hanya 5 peratus disahkan meninggal dunia kemudian selepas dibawa ke hospital.

    Kementerian Kesihatan terpaksa memindahkan tiga hospital berisiko sejak dua minggu lalu bagi menyelamatkan nyawa pesakit, tambahnya.

    Rejim Zionis melancarkan perang pencerobohan tanpa provokasi terhadap Iran pada 13 Jun. Ia melakukan serangan udara ke atas tapak nuklear, ketenteraan dan kediaman Iran yang telah mengakibatkan kematian komander tentera tertinggi, saintis nuklear dan rakyat biasa.

    Pasukan tentera Iran memulakan serangan balas sejurus selepas itu. Pasukan Aeroangkasa Kor Pengawal Revolusi Islam melakukan 22 gelombang serangan peluru berpandu balas terhadap rejim Zionis sebagai sebahagian daripada Operasi Janji Sejati III yang menyebabkan kerugian besar ke atas bandar-bandar di seluruh wilayah yang diduduki.

    MEHR, 24.6.2025