Israel’s president wants the world to help destroy Iran’s nuclear sites
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said that the country is ready to respond to Israel’s airstrikes with its military. He added that the country will “take all necessary actions” to protect its nuclear facilities from Israeli attacks. The comments come after Israel carried out airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for recent rocket attacks on its territory.
The bhugong moths use a compass to navigate at night
University of Oldenburg and Sweden’s Lund University conducted experiments to see if the migratory orientations of moths were affected by the nightly movements of stars and moon. The experiments were conducted under clear starry skies during autumn 2023 (over three nights during the last week of March). The moths were caught in the Australian Alps and ran through two experiments in the dead of night.
The ambong moths use a stellar compass at night
Researchers have used UV LEDs and PNG files to create randomized night sky stimulus images for experiments in autumn 2018 and spring 2019. Screenshots, cut in a circular shape using CorelDRAW X5, were taken and saved as PNG files (300), with a colour intensity equal to the mean of all pixels in the test stimulus that were not part of a star.
The death toll in Gaza is rising, as Israel turns its attention to Iran
Israel has said it “precisely struck” command centres belonging to Iran’s Quds Force, an elite military and intelligence arm of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Israeli military said that four IRGC officials, including the head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organisation, were killed in the strike. The attack comes after Israel launched an offensive against Iran last week.
Tehran is hitting back at Israel for claiming control of Iran’s skies
Israel’s airstrikes on Iran have set back Iran’s nuclear program by a long time, former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said. Netanyahu said that the main goal of Israel is to dismantle Iran’s nuclear capability, but also that the regime is weak. “I don’t think regime change is the objective of this Israeli campaign,” Shapiro added.
At least 15 people have been killed by drones and missiles by Russia
North Korean and Russian soldiers had pushed Ukrainian troops out of most of Kursk region by March this year, a Ukrainian commander has said. Russia has agreed to supply long-range Shahed-style drones and improved accuracy of short-range missiles to the North Koreans, Viktor Budanov, chief of the military intelligence of Ukraine, told The War Zone.
The president is leaving the G7 early to focus on the Middle East
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said, “We are going to try to make America great again.” Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said he was leaving the G7 in Canada early to return to the US to focus on “the conflict in the Middle East” amid the trade war between the world’s top democracies. The G7 Summit is scheduled to begin on Monday in Canada.
Iran retaliates after Israel hits more Iranian targets
Iran on Friday launched missiles at Israel’s biggest airbase and nuclear sites after the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Israel’s attacks on Iran are a “despicable act”. The rockets targeted an airbase in the north of the country along with the country’s military and civilian infrastructure, Iran’s state media reported.
Israel, expanding targets, strikes Iranian State TV are all live updates
Iran on Monday said that it had attacked Israel with missiles and artillery in response to the drone strikes carried out by Israel on Iranian targets. Israeli military officials said that 80 targets, including Iran’s nuclear headquarters and two fuel sites, had been hit in the strikes. At least 78 people have been killed in the conflict between the two countries.
A shooting suspect is in custody
Vance Boelter, a 57-year-old man suspected in the shooting of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, has been arrested, police said. Boelter posed as a police officer and shot Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, inside their home on Saturday, police added. “If officers hadn’t encountered Boelter at Melissa Hortman’s house, forcing him to abandon his vehicle, this would’ve continued,” police further said.