TEHRAN, July 12 – Three policemen have been killed in a clash with members of a “terrorist” group in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, the official news agency IRNA reported Saturday.

The confrontation occurred on Friday in Chabahar County, where the militants engaged in an armed exchange with patrol officers. Four officers were injured during the clash, three of whom later died from their wounds, the report said.

The firefight also killed one militant and injured another, the report said.

Sistan and Baluchestan, a province bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been the site of several terrorist attacks targeting both civilians and security forces in recent years.

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SYDNEY, July 12 – A Qantas flight from Sydney to Johannesburg has been delayed by almost a full day after being struck by an aerobridge.

Flight QF63 was at a gate at Sydney Airport preparing for its scheduled 9:30 a.m. take-off for Johannesburg on Saturday when an aerobridge made contact with one of the Airbus A380’s four engines, causing damage.

Passengers, who had already boarded, disembarked via the aircraft’s lower deck. There were no reported injuries.

Qantas said in a statement that the flight would be delayed 21 hours until 6:45 a.m. on Sunday when a replacement aircraft will be available.

The airline said that an investigation into how the aerobridge made contact with the aircraft was underway.

“The aircraft will be inspected by engineers in Sydney and repaired before returning to service,” it said.

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GAZA CITY, Palestine/ANKARA – At least 66 Palestinians, including 27 aid seekers, were killed Saturday in Israeli airstrikes that hit multiple locations across the Gaza Strip, according to medical and local sources.

An airstrike on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University in western Gaza City, killed a mother and her three children.

In the city’s eastern Al-Tuffah neighborhood, four women were killed and 10 other civilians wounded when an Israeli missile hit a house near Yaffa School.

Three members of the same family were killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City after an airstrike targeted a residential apartment.

Two more Palestinians were killed in a separate strike on a home in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood.

Central Gaza City

In the central Gaza Strip, a child was killed and others injured when a home near Al-Hassaina School west of the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed.

Local sources said an Israeli drone also struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mansura area of Deir al-Balah, killing seven Palestinians, including four of the same family.

Two women were also killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment in the eastern part of the city.

Near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, three Palestinians were killed when a tent sheltering displaced people was targeted.

Southern Gaza Strip

In Khan Younis, 11 Palestinians, including children and a woman, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed tents sheltering displaced families near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Al-Mawasi area.

Separately, rescue teams recovered the bodies of two more victims from the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood in Khan Younis.

Humanitarian aid seekers

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and 180 others injured when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid north of Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.

Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops fired directly at crowds gathered near the Al-Shakoush aid distribution point, where hundreds had assembled in hopes of receiving food and basic supplies amid worsening famine conditions in the besieged enclave.

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LIMA, July 11 – At least five people were killed in a road accident Thursday afternoon in Peru’s southeastern region of Puno after their vehicle plunged into a ravine, local media reported Friday.

The crash occurred on the road connecting the districts of Sina and Cojata, private news network Radio Programas del Peru reported.

The passengers were traveling in a private pickup truck that fell approximately 100 meters into a river.

State news agency Andina reported that while the cause is under investigation, witnesses said the truck was struck by a speeding minivan whose driver fled the scene.

Emergency responders, police and local residents worked to recover the bodies, which have not yet been officially identified. Local reports suggested that the victims may have been members of the same family.

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PARIS, July 11 – The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Friday that the social media platform X is under investigation by French police.

At this stage, X is primarily accused of two offenses — “impairing the operation of an automated data processing system by an organized group,” and “fraudulently extracting data from an automated data processing system by an organized group,” Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a press release.

The investigation has been assigned to the Directorate-General of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), Beccuau added.

In January, the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office received two formal complaints, submitted respectively by a member of the French parliament and a senior official at a French public institution, Beccuau said, adding that both complaints alleged that X’s algorithm had been exploited for the purpose of foreign interference.

The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed in February that it was examining these complaints, before announcing on Friday that it had opened the investigation “based on verifications, input from French researchers, and information provided by various public institutions.”

Laurent Buanec, CEO of X France, stated on the platform in January that X “has strict, clear, and public rules aimed at protecting the platform from hate speech,” adding that it “fights disinformation” and that its algorithm “is designed to avoid recommending hateful content.”

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JERUSALEM, July 11 – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday that the man it killed earlier in the day in an airstrike in Lebanon was involved in advancing attacks against Israeli civilians.

Official and security sources in Lebanon reported earlier that Mohammad Hassan Shuaib was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in the town of Al-Numairiyah in southern Lebanon.

According to the IDF statement, the Israeli Air Force strike was based on precise intelligence from the IDF and Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency.

It claimed that Shuaib was “a Lebanese terror operative who was involved in advancing terror attacks in the northern arena (Lebanon and Syria) against Israeli civilians.”

As part of his activities, Shuaib operated to smuggle weapons into Israel “to carry out terror attacks in Israel and establish terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon,” the statement said.

Shuaib was also a significant figure in the weapons smuggling route from Iran to various locations in the northern arena and the West Bank, it said, adding that in this capacity, “he maintained ties with weapons dealers in Syria and Lebanon.”

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ISLAMABAD, July 11 – At least five people were killed and four others injured when a pickup plunged into a deep gorge in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, local rescue officials said.

The accident occurred in Para Chamkani Gondal area of Kurram district, Bilal Ahmad Faizi, spokesperson for Rescue 1122 KP, told Xinhua.

The vehicle was en route from Spin Ghar Manro to Sadda Bazaar in Lower Kurram when it lost control while navigating a sharp bend and veered off the road, falling into a ravine, Faizi said.

Five people died on the spot, and four others sustained serious injuries, he added.

“The injured were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Sadda for medical treatment,” the spokesperson said.

XINHUA, 11.7.2025