A fresh air strike hits pro-Iran fighters in Iraq, as fears grow of a proxy war erupting between Washington and Tehran a day after an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general.

Beleaguered Australian communities braced for yet more catastrophic bushfire conditions expected today, as Australia’s navy evacuated around one thousand people from a southeastern town.

Terror blacklist: On April 8, 2019 Washington declares Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist” group. Its Quds Force, which operates abroad, is also put on the blacklist.

“There is no doubt that the great nation of Iran and the other free nations of the region will take revenge for this gruesome crime from criminal America.”

Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed Friday in a US strike, was one of the most popular figures in Iran and seen as a deadly adversary by America and its allies.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani’s death in Iraq has opened a new chapter in the region’s endless conflicts and no one can predict how this will turn out.

Turkey’s parliament has approved the deployment of troops to Libya aimed at shoring up the UN-backed government in Tripoli, sparking a blunt warning from US President Donald Trump against any “foreign interference” in the war-torn country.

Israel held emergency security talks yesterday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a foreign visit as the Jewish state braced itself for fallout from the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in a US air strike.

Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “frequently comparing India with Pakistan”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday wondered if he was an “ambassador of Hindustan or the neighbouring country”.

A US air strike in Baghdad that kills a top Iranian commander aimed to disrupt an "imminent attack" that would have endangered Americans in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in television interviews.

Union Home Minister of India Amit Shah says the government will not budge an inch on its decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) despite the opposition parties’ criticism of the law..

Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.

Oil prices soar more than four per cent following news that the US killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region, with Tehran warning of retaliation.

Three crashes involving Teslas that killed three people increase scrutiny of the company’s Autopilot driving system just months before CEO Elon Musk has planned to put fully self-driving cars on the streets.

For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani widely represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of US pressure.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says that President Donald Trump has “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox” with the targeted killing of Iran’s top general in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.

A US strike killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad's international airport Friday, dramatically heightening regional tensions and prompting arch enemy Tehran to vow "revenge".

The Australian military has begun the seaborne evacuation of hundreds of people trapped in a fire-ringed southeastern town, as the country braced for yet more catastrophic conditions.

US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who died in Baghdad "in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad," the Pentagon says.

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