Emirates passenger Jaiveer Cheema, who was set to fly back home to the US on Saturday, told Business Insider that he was stuck on his plane for five hours with no food before everyone was deplaned and shuffled into the crowded terminal at Dubai International. The next several hours at the airport were chaos as no one knew what to do.
Israel has reportedly focused on decapitation strikes and military targets, while the United States has focused mostly on military targets. ISW also cited reports that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's defense minister, intelligence chief, and defense council secretary were killed.
This is the largest military flyover in the history of the Israeli Air Force. The operation was based on extensive planning and high-quality intelligence. Roughly 200 fighter jets participated in Israel's widespread airstrikes against Iran on Saturday, dropping hundreds of bombs on 500 targets in western and central Iran, including air defense systems and missile launchers.
Dubai International Airport (DXB) said that the airport had "sustained minor damage in an incident, which was quickly contained." Four staff sustained injuries and received prompt medical attention. Due to contingency plans already in place, most of the terminals were previously cleared of passengers.
Explosions were heard in Tehran on Saturday, Feb. 28, as the US and Israel launched a "preemptive" strike against Iran. Iranian forces say they struck a US naval base in Bahrain, as the country launched strikes across the region in retaliation.
After years of operating from exile, Yemen's Saudi-backed, UN-recognised cabinet is spending Ramadan in Aden, a move that has coincided with improvements in basic services and a renewed sense of relief. Yet that relief was overshadowed by the deadly confrontation between security forces and antigovernment protesters, in which at least one person was killed.
The Strait of Hormuz: The narrow waterway next to Iran is a choke point that handles a whopping one-fourth of the world's maritime oil trade and a fifth of liquefied natural gas shipments. Iran has previously threatened to close the strait. Still, "supply disruption to global markets would be limited even in the event that Iran retaliates against tanker traffic, given the expected US-led efforts to maintain supply through the Strait of Hormuz," Eurasia Group analysts wrote.
Israeli air strikes have targeted Blat and Wadi Barghouti in several strikes in southern Lebanon's Iqlim al-Tuffah region, in the latest violation of a ceasefire reached in November 2024 between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground. The Israeli military said its forces were launching attacks on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon. This is the usual army line, but large numbers of civilians and civilian infrastructure have been targeted in the ongoing near-daily Israeli attacks.
Taking a taxi in Havana is an increasingly difficult mission, growing more complicated and expensive from one day to the next as drivers run out of the rationed gasoline they receive. When you say taxi, you might find an almendron—a classic car used for public transportation—a gacela—one of the government's yellow minibuses—a cocotaxi—a motorized tricycle with a shell—a bicitaxi—a man pedaling for tourists under an umbrella—a motorcycle, an electric tricycle, or even a horse-drawn carriage.
The ability of criminal groups to exercise this type of power and exercise this type of violence is closely linked to firearms trafficking, said Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, an expert on Mexican organised crime. If we want to see less violence in Mexico, this is a very important conversation.
The fastest way of arresting someone is to surprise them, when they're enjoying life, not knowing what's going on around them. You cannot hide from the invisible, or from what you cannot see. The inspiration for disguises comes from fieldwork and criminal profiling. In the lion dance case, officers were aware the suspect had fled to a new area, and that lunar new year festivities, when the streets would be busy with celebrations, would provide a good opportunity for them to blend into crowds.
It is a good decision that Chad has closed its border with Sudan. This area has been very dangerous since December. Every day, armed men from Sudan attack and kill people without being stopped, sometimes even soldiers. Even we humanitarian workers are not safe.
According to the documents, Epstein had ties with former South African President Jacob Zuma; Karim Wade, a politician and son of Senegal's ex-president Abdoulaye Wade; and deceased Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. The new files also shed more light on Epstein's connections to a relative of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, who appeared to connect the two men.
On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children; the occupation would last for over two months.
