Pilot one of three killed as plane destroyed as Houthis attack Riyadh Airport
Images showed a burning plane A pilot is one of three people to have been killed in a Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s second biggest airport which has left hundreds of flights cancelled. Saudi officials said that the Yemeni Houthis had claimed responsibility for the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which occurred […]
1 week ago
Trump says there were new ‘threats’ which led to US pulling bombers from RAF Fairford
‘So we moved them around a little bit. Not very far’ According to US President Donald Trump, “some threats” to the RAF Fairford base led to the US moving its bombers. Following confirmation by the Pentagon on Sunday that it had removed the bombers, reportedly a dozen B-1s, Trump told reporters on Monday that the […]
1 week ago
China and Iran used Anthropic’s AI to aid spying, the company says
The report has raised serious alarms The San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic listed five case studies of potential biological misuse of its models which it says “is one of the most serious risks of frontier AI models”, in a report titled “Detecting and countering misuse of AI”. Anthropic, in the report, said that it shut […]
1 month ago
Cyber attack shut down British power plant for four days
Why the cyber attack did not hit the grid A power plant in Great Britain was forced to close for four days after a cyber attack by what is said to be Iran-linked hackers, the Mirror reported. The site was disabled “while staff fought to bring it back online” after the July incident. The exact […]
1 month ago
Donald Trump ‘forced to hide in catering cart’ in secret plane swap after assassination threat
The old switcheroo Donald Trump was reportedly ‘forced to hide in a catering cart’ as part of an elaborate ruse to avoid an assassination threat from Iran. The incident, which happened last month during the US president’s visit to Turkey, has only just been brought to the public attention via an insider speaking to the […]
2 months ago
Strait of Hormuz deal with Oman ‘in final stages’, Iran says
A major shift in the Hormuz crisis Iran has said an agreement with Oman on a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz is “in the final stages”, a potential breakthrough for a waterway that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the “geographical […]
2 months ago