00:00The Tirun Airways flight from Muscat, the capital city of Oman, arrived at London Stansted just
00:07before 1 a.m. on Friday. More than 140 000 Britons have registered their presence in the
00:15Middle East with the Foreign Office, and 6,500 have returned home so far.
00:21Etihad Airways announced late on Thursday that it would be resuming a limited commercial flight
00:27schedule on Friday, including flights to Heathrow. The U.S. and Israel have continued to pound Iran
00:34with nationwide strikes. Overnight, Israel increased its attacks on Lebanon after warning
00:41hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hexet has warned
00:48that strikes against Tehran are about to surge dramatically. In turn, Iran fired missile and
00:56drone attacks into Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, all countries that host U.S. forces.
01:03There were no immediate reports of casualties.
01:07Earlier, Donald Trump told the news website Axios that he should be involved in choosing
01:13Iran's next supreme leader. The U.S. President dismissed possible successor Mojtaba Khamenei,
01:20son of the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as a lightweight.
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