HOUSTON, June 28 – Five people were killed and several others injured Saturday in a crash involving seven vehicles near Terrell in northern Texas, authorities said.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident began when a truck-tractor driver fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a Ford F-150 carrying five people. The truck-tractor then collided with two other 18-wheelers, causing one to jackknife and collide with three more cars.
The Terrell Volunteer Fire Department said at least one of the injured was in critical condition.
The crash led to the shutdown of Interstate 20 and triggered an emergency response from multiple agencies.
DUBAI, June 29 – Israel’s attack on the Evin Prison in Iran’s capital Tehran on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday.
At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel struck Tehran’s most notorious jail for political prisoners, in a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim at symbols of Iran’s ruling system.
“In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred including administrative staff, youth doing their military service, detainees, family members of detainees who were visiting them and neighbours who lived in the prison’s vicinity,” Jahangir said in remarks carried on the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan.
Jahangir had previously said that part of Evin prison’s administrative building had been damaged in the attack and people were killed and injured. The judiciary added that remaining detainees had been transferred to other prisons in Tehran province.
Evin prison holds a number of foreign nationals, including two French citizens detained for three years.
“The strike targeting Evin prison in Tehran, put our citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris in danger. It is unacceptable,” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had said on social media X after the attack.
TEHRAN, Jun. 29 – A senior Iranian commander underlines that Tehran only engaged less than five percent of its defensive might against the Israeli regime during the latter’s recent unprovoked war against the country.
Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s deputy commander for coordination, made the remarks during a televised interview on Saturday.
“Less than five percent of our country’s defensive capacity was actually activated” during Iran’s counterstrikes against the Israeli regime, he noted.
“And by ‘activated’ I do not mean ‘spent.’ It merely means that five percent of our defense units became engaged with the enemy,” the official stated, Press TV reported.
“This means our principal capabilities remain untouched and have not entered the fray at all,” he noted, reasserting, “The full magnitude of our forces has yet to reveal itself; it has not even come onto the stage [yet].”
The Israeli regime launched the warfare on June 13, prompting Iran to respond with a whopping number of ballistic missiles, including hypersonic variants, which were fired towards strategic nuclear, military, and industrial targets across the occupied Palestinian territories.
A flurry of footage was circulated online during the retaliation and throughout its aftermath, showing the sheer extent of the damage inflicted on the targets that included the very airbases from which the regime had initiated its assaults.
Earlier, military experts cited by many Western media outlets noted how, besides the full range of the regime’s missile systems, the United States – Tel Aviv’s biggest ally – had also lent full-on support behind its attempts at minimizing the damage from the Iranian reprisal.
According to the experts, the US activated no less than two of its seven-strong much-hyped THAAD missile platforms throughout the globe to deflect the Iranian counterblows throughout the war’s 12-day span.
The support operations, they added, cost Washington more than $800 million.
According to Naghdi – while the retaliation relied mainly on Iran’s air defense capabilities – the strength of the country’s armed forces principally rests in its ground forces.
“We are well-equipped to fight. Perhaps we could keep attacking the enemy like this for several years, striking them with missiles at this same pace,” he added.
People stand where their homes once stood after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. AP
BOGOTA, Colombia – The number of people killed in a landslide this week in northwest Colombia has risen to 22, with eight still missing, according to authorities.
Crews on Saturday were still looking for victims in Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, and the nearby city of Bello.
The landslide occurred early Tuesday following heavy rains. It unleashed mud and debris on crowded neighborhoods, enveloping dozens of homes and leaving hundreds homeless.
Landslides are common in that region, especially during the rainy season from April to November.
ISLAMABAD, June 28 – Fourteen terrorists were killed in a security operation in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following a suicide bombing on a military convoy, the Pakistani army said on Saturday.
The incident took place in the tribal district of North Waziristan where a vehicle-borne suicide attacker targeted a convoy of security forces, according to a statement by the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The assailant was initially intercepted, but a second explosive-laden vehicle rammed into one of the military vehicles, killing 13 troops and injuring three civilians.
Sanitization operations were immediately launched in the area, and after an intense exchange of fire, the 14 terrorists were killed, the statement said.
The ISPR added that the operation is ongoing to eliminate any remaining threat.
A drone view shows Serbian students and other demonstrators participating in an anti-government protest demanding snap elections at the Slavija square, in Belgrade, Serbia, June 28, 2025. REUTERS
BELGRADE, June 28 – Serbian police on Saturday evening clashed with anti-government protesters demanding snap elections and an end to the 12-year rule of President Aleksandar Vucic.
Police deployed scores of officers in riot gear around government buildings, parliament and nearby Pionirski Park, where throngs of Vucic’s backers from across the country gathered in a counter-protest.
After the protest ended at around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) some protesters who wanted to confront Vucic’s backers threw flares at police, while the police used pepper spray to disperse them.
The protesters shouted: “Keep the shields down,” calling on the police to stop intervening.
Months of protests across the country, including university shutdowns, have rattled Vucic, a populist, whose second term ends in 2027, when there are also parliamentary elections scheduled.
Vucic’s opponents accuse him and his allies of ties to organised crime, violence against rivals and curbing media freedoms, something they deny.
The student protest is set to last until 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) at Slavija Square and Nemanjina Avenue, where most of the government offices are located.
The protesters, who want the government to heed their demands by the end of the protest, have pledged non-violence.
Vucic has previously refused snap elections. His Progressive Party-led coalition holds 156 of 250 parliamentary seats.
On Saturday, Vucic said unspecified “foreign powers” were behind the protest. He said police should be restrained, but warned that violence will not be tolerated.
“The country will be defended, and thugs will face justice,” he told reporters in Belgrade.
Sladjana Lojanovic, 37, a farmer from the town of Sid in the north, said she came to support students.
“The institutions have been usurped and … there is a lot of corruption. Elections are the solution, but I don’t think he (Vucic) will want to go peacefully,” she told Reuters.
In the days ahead of the protest, police arrested about a dozen anti-government activists, charging them with undermining the constitution and terrorism. All denied the charges.
Protests by students, opposition, teachers, workers and farmers began last December after 16 people died on November 1 in a Novi Sad railway station roof collapse. Protesters blame corruption for the disaster.
The Belgrade rally coincides with St. Vitus Day, venerated by most Serbs, which marks the 1389 Battle of Kosovo with Ottoman Turks.
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 – The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warned the “delusional” president of the US and the Zionist regime that any new act of aggression will trigger Iran’s different and more severe response.
In comments at the funeral of over 60 Iranians who have been martyred in the Israeli regime’s war of aggression against Iran, held in Tehran on Saturday, General Ali Mohammad Naeini said the Zionist regime and the US have failed to accomplish their declared objectives in the war.
“This is our final message to the Zionist regime and the delusional president of the US: If Iran’s national interests and assets are violated once again, our response will be different, more crushing and more devastating this time, in a way that it will accelerate the process of downfall of the (Zionist) regime,” the spokesman said.
Urging US President Donald Trump to open his eyes and stop absurd comments and unstable behaviors, he said the US and Israel’s heavy defeat in the 12-day war has clearly made Trump confused and imbalanced, which is obvious in his ill-advised remarks.
Trump has no knowledge of the real components of the Iranian nation’s power, General Naeini said, adding that the enemy realized that the continuation of Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes would pose a serious threat to the existence of the Zionist regime.
The enemy was forced to withdraw during the latest war of aggression against Iran and confessed its defeat, he said.
“Most Iranian people were calling for the continuation of decisive response and manhunt for the aggressors. They were expecting a harsher punishment. The enemy itself asked for a ceasefire out of desperation,” 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 resulted in the martyrdom of over 600 people, including top military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians.
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.
A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 brought the fighting to a halt.
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 – An informed source in Iran said Saturday that the news published by some media citing from an unreliable Chinese media regarding Iran’s purchase of weapons from China is fake news created by the Zionist regime.
Some unreliable media speculated that during the recent Iranian Defense Minister General Aziz Nasirzadeh, which took place after the recent 12-day Israeli war on Iran, Tehran sought to purchase advanced aircraft from China as one of the goals of the Iranian minister’s visit to China.
However, an informed source in Iran rejected the media claim and said that such news was fabricated by the Zionist regime.
The Iranian Minister of Defense traveled to China to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers’ meeting and holding bilateral talks.
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 – Iran will no longer allow Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or the installation of surveillance cameras at its nuclear facilities, a top Iranian lawmaker announced.
Hamid Reza Haji Babaei, Vice Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, said on Saturday that Iran’s decision stems from the discovery of sensitive facility data within documents obtained from the Israeli regime.
Speaking at a ceremony honoring the martyrdom of Ayatollah Beheshti and judiciary officials, he added, “The recent 12-day war is a continuation of the 47-year-old hostilities led by the United States against the Iranian nation. The core of this enmity is not about missiles or the nuclear program—it’s about the people of Iran.”
He continued, “The U.S. fears a 90-million-strong nation with a 7,000-year-old civilization that won’t allow American dominance in the region.”
Haji Babaei praised Iran’s armed forces and the strategic leadership of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, stating, “In the end, it was the (Iranian) people who made the final stand. The more the enemy escalates, the stronger the people will respond.”
Referring to the early days of the war, he said the enemy tried to assassinate Iran’s commanders to destabilize the management—just as they had done on June 28, 1981, when they killed Ayatollah Beheshti and judiciary officials, and later assassinated President Rajaei.
“The enemy believes Iran cannot be governed and should be fragmented. They aim to fuel ethnic tensions and falsely assumed that 70 percent of the Iranian population would side with them,” he concluded.
While the Zionist regime waged a war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear, and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan on June 22.
The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. 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, which inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.
A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 has brought the fighting to a halt.
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 – Spokesman for Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmail Baghaei says that Germany has to shoulder responsiblity for supplying chemical arms to the forrmer Baathist regime of Saddam against Iran.
Baghaei made the comments in a post on his X account on Saturday, Today is the 38th anniversary of Saddam’s chemical attack on Sardasht in northwestern Iran. This was not the first time that the Iraqi dictator used chemical weapons in his aggressive war against Iran.
The spokesman continued, “During the eight years of the imposed war, Saddam’s army repeatedly attacked Iranian soldiers and civilians with chemical gases, without being held accountable or punished by the international community. 38 years after that crimes, Iranians still demand that the truth be revealed and justice be exercised for those who equipped Saddam’s regime with chemical weapons.”
He also wrote that “Germany, the united Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands each played a role in the development of Iraq’s chemical weapons program in some way. The role of German companies in production of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program was very significant, and the German government was actively aware of the issue.”
He concluded by emphasizing that “Germany must shoulder its legal and moral responsibility by revealing the truth about its role in Iraq’s chemical weapons program. The Iranians’ demand for truth and justice will not fade, because war crimes and crimes against humanity are not subject to the passing of time.”
