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The Citizen
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Citizen
Iran media reports ‘massive explosion' after Israeli drone strike on refinery
Iran says Israel pushing region into 'dangerous cycle of violence' This picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows a general view of Jerusalem's Old City with the Dome inside the al-Aqsa mosque compound, at sunset on June 14, 2025. Israel on June 14 threatened to strike 'every target of the ayatollah regime' in Iran, whose president warned of a severe response if the Israeli attacks continue, fuelling fears of an escalating conflict. Picture: Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP) Iranian media reported a 'massive explosion' on Saturday following an Israeli drone strike on the South Pars refinery in the southern port city of Kangan. 'An hour ago, an Israeli drone hit one of the South Pars Phase 14 refineries, causing a massive explosion and fire in the refinery,' the Tasnim news agency said. The Fars agency reported firefighters were working to extinguish a blaze that had erupted as a result of the attack. Iran accused Israel of throwing the Middle East into a 'dangerous cycle of violence'. 'This aggression pushes the region into a dangerous cycle of violence,' Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said during a call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, according to a statement from his ministry. 'Iran has responded and will respond in a firm manner to the barbaric actions of the Zionist regime.' Araghchi added, in a call with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that Israel's strikes on his country were undermining nuclear talks with the United States. He said the Israeli attacks since Friday 'took place in the midst of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States' and were 'a further sign of the (Israeli) regime's inherent hostility to diplomacy', according to a statement from Tehran's foreign ministry. © Agence France-Presse
Forbes
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Becky Lynch Wins Intercontinental Title At WWE Money In The Bank 2025
Becky Lynch had a brief alliance with Lyra Valkyria. "(Credit: Craig Melvin/WWE via Getty Images) Becky Lynch finally vanquished her archnemesis Lyra Valkyria at WWE Money in the Bank 2025. After losing to her former protege Valkyria at Backlash last month, 'The Man' made the most out of her rematch in the Intuit Dome, beating her fellow Irishwoman to win the Women's Intercontinental Championship for the first time. It wasn't exactly clean, though. While Lynch was able to do what she couldn't do at Backlash and win one of WWE's newest titles, she only did so after pulling Valkyria's tights for the controversial victory. Lynch's win was the climax of a rollercoaster ride of a storyline that kicked off at WrestleMania 41. That's when Lynch made her surprise return after roughly a year away to team with Valkyria and win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. The next night? Lynch and Valkyria lost those same tag team titles, and a fed-up Lynch turned heel on the star she was supposed to be mentoring. That was all part of WWE's plan to help both Lynch and Raw's women's midcard title. There was a clear knee-jerk reaction when Lynch won a title the same night of her return, but just 24 hours later, WWE cleared that up with Lynch's heel turn. The goal was clear: utilize Lynch to elevate both Valkyria and the brand new Women's Intercontinental Championship. Heading into WWE Money in the Bank 2025, Valkyria had been the lone woman to hold the Intercontinental Championship, and throughout her reign, the title had largely been an afterthought. Lynch has changed that, and even with a victory over Valkyria at Money in the Bank, she has helped catapult Valkyria to the next level. Once getting, at best, lukewarm crowd reactions, Valkyria has become a likable underdog-type babyface, and that's largely thanks to her feud with Lynch. At WWE Money in the Bank, the crowd clearly supported Valkyria, demonstrating that Valkyria's feud with Lynch accomplished its goal. What's more, Lynch has helped raise the prestige of the Intercontinental Championship just by challenging for it. And now that she's champion, Lynch can take it to even greater heights. A small portion of WWE's fan base continues to cheer for Lynch, but throughout her rivalry with Valkyria, she became more hated by that same fan base. It's not easy for Lynch to get jeers, given that she's such an accomplished and respected veteran. Yet, Lynch's win at WWE Money in the Bank 2025 helped entrench her in that role. After all, it took, well, cheating for Lynch to win, which shows how highly WWE thinks of Lynch in that role and of Valkyria as a fan favorite. WWE Raw has no shortage of beloved babyface stars in the women's division, including Iyo Sky, Rhea Ripley and Stephanie Vaquer. There she also recently been teases of a babyface turn for Liv Morgan that could add further depth to that side of the fence. Perhaps that's why WWE is commiting to Lynch as a heel. With the red brand doing just fine on the babyface side of the women's division, Lynch's tainted win over Valkyria at WWE Money in the Bank only further proves that Lynch is a heel to stay.
Otago Daily Times
01-06-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Defence Minister Judith Collins endorses Trump's Golden Dome
By Phil Pennington of RNZ US President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defence project has won endorsement from New Zealand. The vision is of a vast shield of sensors, missiles and even laser beams designed to take out conventional and nuclear missiles. Critics of the proposed system say it may fuel an arms race in space, and China and Russia have condemned it. But Defence Minister Judith Collins told a security summit in Singapore it was justified. "It's a defence mechanism," she said during a panel on cyber, space and undersea challenges. "I don't see it as an attack mechanism. It's a defence mechanism. "And if people did not feel they needed to defend themselves, they wouldn't waste the money on it." The chorus of major defence contractors signalling their readiness to work on the Golden Dome has been growing, joined recently by New Zealand-founded and California-based company Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab used a $460 million acquisition of the parent company of Arizona firm Geost, to state how the deal secured "core capabilities" for achieving Pentagon goals in space, "like the proposed Golden Dome". Prime (major) contractor Lockheed Martin said on its website: "This next generation defence shield will identify incoming projectiles, calculate trajectory and deploy interceptor missiles to destroy them mid-flight, safeguarding the homeland and projecting American Strength [sic]." SpaceX, controversial software innovator Palantir and drone-maker Anduril also feature in media reports and speculation about the Dome. Trump has said it would be operational by the end of his term and over the next decade cost $300 billion, but many analysts doubt the timing, while the Congressional Budget Office has estimated it could cost as much as $1.4 trillion over two decades. Lockheed called it "a Manhattan Project-scale mission". Minister Collins told the Shangri-La Dialogue that taxpayers' money was hard-fought for. "Let me tell you, we are defence ministers, we know how that feels, we have to go in every day and try to get more money. "And we're not going to do it unless there's some reason to do it. So you know, don't be aggressive in space, we won't need Golden Dome or any other sort of dome." Collins told the summit New Zealand's proportion of defence spending on emerging technology would grow, noting that tech made in New Zealand was being used in the Ukraine war. "We are going to be using some of that," she said. Tauranga company Syos makes drones that have been used in Ukraine. 'Everyone wants a piece' China, Russia and North Korea have all condemned Trump's revival of a high-tech form of the Ronald-Reagan era Star Wars missile defence plan, 400 times larger than Israel's Iron Dome. Despite this and critics' fears, defence and high-tech military-linked contractors have begun jockeying for action. "Everyone Wants a Piece of Trump's 'Golden Dome' Defense Plan," a Wall Street Journal headline said. Reuters has reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX - the most prolific satellite launcher ever - was in partnership with two tech firms that had been muscling into the defence industry to become Golden Dome frontrunners. The Times of India asked if the Dome was a shield for the US "or just to make Elon Musk richer?" One of Musk's reported partners is Anduril, a supercharged start-up that has plans for a billion-dollar military drone factory, and the other is New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel's software firm Palantir. The US Army recently tested a Palantir system called Maven for rapid targeting, saying it allowed a 20-person unit to do more than a 2000-strong unit was able to target during the 2003 Iraq war. The track record with the US Army had boosted Palantir, market analysts said. Smart targeting is envisaged as part of Golden Dome, with the Pentagon saying that by 2029 it would deploy smart sensors in space that can distinguish missile threats from clutter. Canada's Globe and Mail reported a range of stocks were benefiting from Trump's talk of the Golden Dome, noting that Palantir was now worth more than Lockheed Martin. The SpaceX link-up with tech firms reported by Reuters, is a challenge to the entrenched defence industry players like Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and RTX (Raytheon), though these "primes" do figure in an Act introduced in February to enable Golden Dome, alongside a Trump executive order. Rocket Lab said in its media release citing the Golden Dome it was "positioning itself as disruptive prime to US national security". The Street financial news site said the Geost deal put the company that launches out of both Mahia and Virginia, "firmly in the national security conversation". America's Defence Intelligence Agency in mid-May profiled the forecast missile threat across six categories, including two hypersonics and two types of nuclear ballistic missiles. The Chatham House thinktank said the Golden Dome might suck resources from regional missile defence and cyber resilience, to go into unproven shield technology. "The plan also has potentially dangerous strategic consequences," it said. "A system that aspires to make the US invulnerable to missile attack would almost certainly be seen by its adversaries as an attempt to undermine the logic of nuclear deterrence. If Washington is perceived to be developing a shield that could one day neutralise a retaliatory nuclear strike, it risks triggering a dangerous global arms race."
Otago Daily Times
01-06-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Judith Collins endorses Trump's Golden Dome amid contract frenzy
By Phil Pennington of RNZ US President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defence project has won endorsement from New Zealand. The vision is of a vast shield of sensors, missiles and even laser beams designed to take out conventional and nuclear missiles. Critics of the proposed system say it may fuel an arms race in space, and China and Russia have condemned it. But Defence Minister Judith Collins told a security summit in Singapore it was justified. "It's a defence mechanism," she said during a panel on cyber, space and undersea challenges. "I don't see it as an attack mechanism. It's a defence mechanism. "And if people did not feel they needed to defend themselves, they wouldn't waste the money on it." The chorus of major defence contractors signalling their readiness to work on the Golden Dome has been growing, joined recently by New Zealand-founded and California-based company Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab used a $460 million acquisition of the parent company of Arizona firm Geost, to state how the deal secured "core capabilities" for achieving Pentagon goals in space, "like the proposed Golden Dome". Prime (major) contractor Lockheed Martin said on its website: "This next generation defence shield will identify incoming projectiles, calculate trajectory and deploy interceptor missiles to destroy them mid-flight, safeguarding the homeland and projecting American Strength [sic]." SpaceX, controversial software innovator Palantir and drone-maker Anduril also feature in media reports and speculation about the Dome. Trump has said it would be operational by the end of his term and over the next decade cost $300 billion, but many analysts doubt the timing, while the Congressional Budget Office has estimated it could cost as much as $1.4 trillion over two decades. Lockheed called it "a Manhattan Project-scale mission". Minister Collins told the Shangri-La Dialogue that taxpayers' money was hard-fought for. "Let me tell you, we are defence ministers, we know how that feels, we have to go in every day and try to get more money. "And we're not going to do it unless there's some reason to do it. So you know, don't be aggressive in space, we won't need Golden Dome or any other sort of dome." Collins told the summit New Zealand's proportion of defence spending on emerging technology would grow, noting that tech made in New Zealand was being used in the Ukraine war. "We are going to be using some of that," she said. Tauranga company Syos makes drones that have been used in Ukraine. 'Everyone wants a piece' China, Russia and North Korea have all condemned Trump's revival of a high-tech form of the Ronald-Reagan era Star Wars missile defence plan, 400 times larger than Israel's Iron Dome. Despite this and critics' fears, defence and high-tech military-linked contractors have begun jockeying for action. "Everyone Wants a Piece of Trump's 'Golden Dome' Defense Plan," a Wall Street Journal headline said. Reuters has reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX - the most prolific satellite launcher ever - was in partnership with two tech firms that had been muscling into the defence industry to become Golden Dome frontrunners. The Times of India asked if the Dome was a shield for the US "or just to make Elon Musk richer?" One of Musk's reported partners is Anduril, a supercharged start-up that has plans for a billion-dollar military drone factory, and the other is New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel's software firm Palantir. The US Army recently tested a Palantir system called Maven for rapid targeting, saying it allowed a 20-person unit to do more than a 2000-strong unit was able to target during the 2003 Iraq war. The track record with the US Army had boosted Palantir, market analysts said. Smart targeting is envisaged as part of Golden Dome, with the Pentagon saying that by 2029 it would deploy smart sensors in space that can distinguish missile threats from clutter. Canada's Globe and Mail reported a range of stocks were benefiting from Trump's talk of the Golden Dome, noting that Palantir was now worth more than Lockheed Martin. The SpaceX link-up with tech firms reported by Reuters, is a challenge to the entrenched defence industry players like Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and RTX (Raytheon), though these "primes" do figure in an Act introduced in February to enable Golden Dome, alongside a Trump executive order. Rocket Lab said in its media release citing the Golden Dome it was "positioning itself as disruptive prime to US national security". The Street financial news site said the Geost deal put the company that launches out of both Mahia and Virginia, "firmly in the national security conversation". America's Defence Intelligence Agency in mid-May profiled the forecast missile threat across six categories, including two hypersonics and two types of nuclear ballistic missiles. The Chatham House thinktank said the Golden Dome might suck resources from regional missile defence and cyber resilience, to go into unproven shield technology. "The plan also has potentially dangerous strategic consequences," it said. "A system that aspires to make the US invulnerable to missile attack would almost certainly be seen by its adversaries as an attempt to undermine the logic of nuclear deterrence. If Washington is perceived to be developing a shield that could one day neutralise a retaliatory nuclear strike, it risks triggering a dangerous global arms race."
Wales Online
26-05-2025
- Business
- Wales Online
'I'm Italian and pizza is serious business': Ooni pizza oven is now at cheapest price
'I'm Italian and pizza is serious business': Ooni pizza oven is now at cheapest price The Ooni Koda pizza oven, which even Italians love for its authentic creations, has dropped to a much cheaper price - but it won't be around for long The Koda pizza ovens cooks fresh pizza in seconds (Image: Ooni ) With summer on the horizon, more people across the UK will be looking to spend time in the garden. Having just spent a sunny Saturday having a BBQ in the garden myself, there's one latest Bank Holiday sale that's caught my eye. As Ooni slash the price of its fired pizza ovens. The outdoor appliances from Ooni can cook authentic homemade pizzas in seconds, and produce a gas flame for a wood-fired taste. I myself am one of many shoppers looking for patio gadgets I can share with my friends and family, and who doesn't love homemade pizza? Ooni has launched a huge 20% off bank holiday sale, available on a range of its gas-powered pizza ovens. One that caught my eye is the 12' Koda, that can be 'carried anywhere' for pizza on the go, and it's now dropped to a much cheaper price of £239.20. READ MORE: Matalan's 'luxury' £20 white bedding set is on offer for 50p in limited-time deal stack READ MORE: Limited 40% off sale on teeth whitening range that shoppers claim leave 'teeth looking amazing' The brand has cut £59.80 off the price of the model, which reaches 500 degrees in 15 minutes, meaning pizzas take seconds to cook. Plus, out of all the models offered by Ooni, it's their lightest one, the most recommended for taking out on picnics, to friends, or to the end of your garden. As Ooni says on their site: "Our lightest and easiest to set-up oven. Ultra-portable gas-powered convenience." The set-up is said to be simple, as 'it can be used straight out of the box' all users need to do is unfold the legs and connect to gas. Ooni also isn't the only brand offering this price, fellow retailer Lakeland has also reduced the price of the 12-inch Koda, to £239.99 in it's rival summer sale. Lakeland shoppers can also find discounts on other brands, including Sage and its high-end £769.99 Smart Oven Pizzaiolo. The Koda 12 is designed to be taken on the go (Image: Ooni ) Unlike Ooni, the Sage model is made to use indoors on the kitchen worktop but still has a 'woodfired' setting. For other outdoor shoppers, Gozney is also hosting a sale, with up to £200 off - which is where we spotted the Dome model, however, the brand's prices are a lot more expensive. Despite being a more affordable pick than Gozney's Dome or portable Roccobox, which is currently £80 off in its sale. The Ooni has a lot of rave reviews from users who say they taste authentic. As one shopper said: "I am Italian, and pizza is a serious thing. Thanks to Ooni koda 12 I can make professional pizzas at home for me and my family. It is an excellent product, and the dimensions are small even for small spaces" Another shopper said: "The koda 12 is awesome. Once it's up to temperature, this thing cranks out a pizza a minute - we've had 30 people over and as long as the kitchen is assembling pizzas, this oven can keep up! Super fun." Over at Lakeland, another Koda user said: "Fantastic little oven, cooks pizzas in a couple of minutes. Apart from making the dough it's all pretty quick and you get fresh stone-baked pizza." While another shopper said: "The oven was easy to set up and ready to use in 30 minutes. However, be aware that the pizza peel does not come as part of the oven. I had ordered one, but it is currently out of stock. Article continues below "Not realising how essential this is, and having promised the grandchildren pizzas, we tried using fish slices and cake tin bases with some success. The results were not pretty, but it did taste good. I feel strongly that the oven should be supplied with this necessary piece of equipment." Shoppers can also buy the Ooni Accessory Bundle for a sale price of £96, which includes a pizza peel, pizza oven brush, and thermometer. However, as the above shopper pointed out, this isn't included in the sale of the Koda oven.
