00:01Tehran's foreign ministry announced that Iran and Oman have agreed on a proposed
00:05shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. FIFA president Gianni Infantino is
00:12set to keep his position following a crisis meeting with senior executives
00:15on Wednesday but calls for his resignation continue amid a collapsed
00:18investment plan. Hiroshima commemorated the 81st anniversary of the US atomic
00:24bombing of the city on Thursday with a ceremony held at the Hiroshima Peace
00:28Memorial Park. Iran and Oman have agreed on a proposed shipping route through the
00:35Strait of Hormuz, Tehran's foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. Tehran said the
00:40agreement includes technical, legal, security and environmental points.
00:45Official sources told Iranian media that the final touches were being added to the
00:50deal and that any reopening of the strait would depend on the United States ending
00:54its naval blockade of Iran's ports. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly
00:59insisted Tehran is keen to do a deal to reopen the route to shipping but Iran
01:04denies this and says the US is not involved in the negotiations with Oman.
01:09Iran also said that even if an understanding was reached it would not
01:13mean that the strait had become safe for all passing vessels. European Commission President
01:23Ursula von der Leyen condemned what she called horrible atrocities by Moscow on Wednesday following
01:29a deadly overnight attack on the Kyiv region. She said Ukraine would soon receive 1.4 billion
01:35euros from proceeds generated by immobilized Russian assets to fund its war effort. The EU froze around
01:43200 billion euros of Russia's international reserves shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
01:48in 2022. While the assets remain untouched, the profits generated from them have been used to support Ukraine.
01:57Von der Leyen announced the latest funding after at least 17 people were killed in Russian ballistic missile
02:02and drone attacks on Kyiv. Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, striking several
02:09civilian targets. Four previous trenches of windfall profits from Russia's frozen assets have been
02:15transferred to Kyiv, the latest in March this year, with Wednesday's announcement bringing the total to
02:208 billion euros. German police deployed a bomb disposal robot at Germany's Leipzig Halle airport
02:31over overnight after a drone was found on the tarmac near a Ukrainian cargo plane, sparking alarm and
02:37forcing the diversion of numerous flights. A DHL cargo aircraft that had to abort its scheduled landing
02:44at the airport then collided mid-air with a drone, sustaining minor damage, before landing safely at Hanover
02:50airport. A NATO spokesperson later confirmed that a drone equipped with explosives and a detonator had been
02:57found near an aircraft belonging to Kyiv's cargo carrier Antonov Airlines. Ukrainian media outlets later reported that the
03:05item was carefully taken off the tarmac and destroyed in a controlled explosion. The airport in eastern Germany plays a
03:12key
03:12role in the transport of military goods, including by the German military and NATO allies, and also serves as a
03:19base for
03:19Ukraine's Antonov Airlines.
03:25The barge sinking operation has been postponed by one day. The reason behind this decision is the safety of
03:30the divers involved in this operation. Following the destruction of that Pujoaia rock formation, the Danube's flow
03:37has changed, creating currents that are too strong to carry out a safe control sinking.
04:08The sinking of the bars represents the final
04:11stage of the operation that began after the detonation of the Pujoaia rock. The barges will form an
04:17artificial barrier on the Bala Danube branch, with the purpose of diverting more of the Danube's flow
04:22toward the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.
04:25Vestea buna este că, în toată perioada până la începutul săptămâni viitoare, vorbim despre o stabilizare a
04:32decât de 1.400 m³ secundă. Prognoza indica faptul că am câștigat 2-3 zile în plus pentru menținerea
04:40debitolor minime în vederea funcționării centralei de la Cernavodă.
04:44However, experts say that this stabilization is not enough. For the water level to rise by another 10-12
04:52cm and extend the safe operation of Cernavoda reactor 2, sinking the four barges remains essential.
05:03FIFA president Gianni Infantino is set to remain in office following an emergency crisis meeting
05:08with senior executives in Rabat on Wednesday. The high-level talks followed a fierce international
05:14backlash over a private investment plan. The proposed commercial subsidiary, dubbed FIFA Forward
05:20Enterprise, sought to raise up to $4.2 billion based on an initial $20 billion valuation.
05:27FIFA released an official statement acknowledging that errors were made confirming letters of apology
05:32were dispatched to member associations while reaffirming the plan has been binned.
05:37Despite FIFA management declaring full support for Infantino, hostility across the sport continues
05:42to escalate. European governing body UEFA threatened to boycott FIFA events while member
05:48associations including Wales, Serbia and Sweden formally withdrew backing for his re-election.
05:54The political fallout deepened as former player Luis Figo and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
06:00publicly called for Infantino's immediate resignation. The crisis adds to existing scrutiny
06:05surrounding Infantino's leadership during the 2026 World Cup across North America and ongoing
06:11disputes over host allocation process for the 2030 tournament.
06:19London Metropolitan Police have arrested a 47-year-old woman after four men were
06:24stabbed in Covent Garden on Wednesday afternoon. Emergency services responded to reports of a violent
06:30attack in the busy shopping district at around 12.30 pm. Paramedics treated four men aged 34, 39,
06:3742 and 52 before transporting them to major trauma centres as a priority. Two victims remain
06:44hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries while two others have been discharged. Witnesses reported
06:50seeing police officers deployed tasers to detain the suspect who was known locally in the area.
06:56Officers seized a pair of scissors at the scene. Authorities cordoned off the streets for several hours
07:03with air ambulance crews landing in nearby Trafalgar Square. Detectives confirmed the investigation
07:11remains at an early stage but is currently being treated as a mental health-related incident.
07:22Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating
07:28establishment candidate Haley Stevens in a victory for the party's progressive wing in the battleground
07:33state. Stevens called El-Sayed to concede on Wednesday and she issued a statement saying she would
07:40back El-Sayed's candidacy. This country of ours, this America of ours is more than a flag, it's more
07:45than a set of colours. If you're a patriot then you better fight for an America that is America for
07:52all
07:53of her kids. That's what this is about, building a movement to take our democracy back to serve the
07:59people who absolutely deserve the best of what America has to offer them. El-Sayed overcame tens of
08:06millions of dollars in outside spending supporting Stevens, including a record intervention by groups
08:12aligned with the influential pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC. His win, however slim, represents a significant
08:18shift for the Democratic Party, as he campaigned on Medicare for all, halting military aid to Israel
08:24and campaign finance reform. He had support from progressive leaders including Senator Bernie Sanders
08:30and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who framed the race as a grassroots-focused movement and broader
08:36fight against the establishment. He now faces the more difficult challenge of uniting the party
08:41to defeat Republican candidate Mike Rogers in November, for a seat considered essential to
08:46Democratic hopes of regaining the Senate, where the party must defend Michigan while gaining four
08:52Republican-held seats. Myanmar's former junta chief Min Ong Lain arrived in Bangkok on Thursday for his
09:03first visit to Thailand since becoming civilian leader. His visit comes in an effort to improve
09:08the country's diplomatic standings and gain political legitimacy after years of isolation. As a general
09:15Lain led a 2021 military coup that ousted Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The move triggered a civil
09:23war estimated to have killed more than 100,000 people on all sides. Lain became Myanmar's president in
09:30April following state-managed elections. Since then, Myanmar has been trying to get back onto the
09:35diplomatic playing field. While the European Union has excluded Myanmar's leadership from high-level
09:41summit since the military coup, Thailand and other regional countries have tried to normalize relations
09:47with the country. Hiroshima marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Western
09:57Japanese city on Thursday. The city's mayor criticized major powers for waging wars and resorting to nuclear
10:04threats. He urged them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence.
10:10the
10:11State of the N.P.A.
10:17The
10:18State of theéfense
10:18in law
10:26the
10:27State of the
10:29State
10:29S,
10:39the
10:41I will not be able to create a return to the future, and I will not be able to build
10:44a return to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
10:49Prime Minister Sanayi Takaichi, who attended the memorial for the first time as Prime Minister,
10:54said she will take a realistic approach toward achieving a world where nuclear weapons are never used.
11:00The ceremony, however, comes at a time of speculation that Takaichi's government may ease its non-nuclear principles.
11:22The bombing of Hiroshima on the 6th of August in 1945 destroyed the city and killed 140,000 people.
11:30A second bomb dropped three days later, and Nagasaki killed 70,000.
11:35Japan surrendered on the 15th of August, ending World War II and Japan's nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
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