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State media in Iran, say at least 200 people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded
“during the strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces this weekend, U.S. Central Command-mead”
while has revealed details about the bombing campaign in Iran and PR's "Quil Lawrence" as our reports.
"Sent composted on social media that U.S. forces had targeted the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps, Iranian air defenses, and missile and drone launch sites. Along with Israeli forces, Sentcom said it had repelled hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks. Sentcom also confirmed the first use of American one-way attack drones, actually modeled after an Iranian drone.
Officials said precision munitions had been launched from air, land, and sea. Sistained Iranian attacks on U.S. bases in the region have so far not killed any U.S. personnel. Sentcom said on social media that the bombing will continue, quote, "as long as necessary to achieve our objective of peace throughout the Middle East," "Quil Lawrence and PR News."
“Not long after the strike began against Iran on Saturday, and emergency meeting of the United”
Nations Security Council was called, U.S. Ambassador Mike Walts told the Council, "The strikes were a matter of global security because Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Iranian ambassador, Amir Sairi Irvani, told the Council that hundreds of citizens have been killed or injured in his country so far, and he called the strikes unprovoked and premeditated aggression."
"It's justification, advanced by the representative of the United States today are illegal and entirely devoid of legal foundation. The base-based allegation involved to defend this unlawful use of force have no standing on their international law." U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutaris, meanwhile, called for an end to the hostilities.
Iran has been striking Gulf Arab bases that are hosting U.S. troops, those attacks are in response to the deadliest railing in U.S. strikes, and as MPR's Ayah Batrawi reports, civilian areas in the Gulf have also been targeted, including Dubai Airport, which is one of the world's busiest. Dubai is billed as a safe haven, a playground for the rich.
It has no bomb shelters or bunkers, but on Saturday, people's phones here beeped with the sound of national emergency alerts, telling them to seek shelter and quote "secure buildings" due to missile threats.
In a first-for-this-emrit, fighter jets flew overhead in interceptors shot down Iranian missiles
targeting Dubai throughout the day in past midnight. Dibri fell near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower. The fair-mon hotel on Dubai's iconic palm island was also hit, possibly by a drone or debris, catching fire and wounding people. Nearby Abu Dhabi, says a person there was killed by fallen debris as upscale parts of
that amort, also saw fiery debris falling. Meanwhile, Kuwait's airport was hit, and a residential tower in Bahrain was struck by an exploding Iranian drone. Ayah Batrawi and Pair News, Dubai. "And you're listening to NPR News."
Markets are preparing for potentially major swings in oil prices after the U.S. and Israel began attacks on Iran this weekend. It's unclear just what the market impacts will be, but analysts say if shipping lanes and
“other key sites remain open, the overall effect could be minor.”
Fighting is continuing this weekend between Pakistan and Afghanistan, on Saturday, Pakistan's military, set it hit military sites inside Afghanistan. They say they've killed more than 330 Afghan forces since the fighting began, but Afghanistan says those numbers are false. The Library of Congress has found and restored a long-lost film by the pioneering 19th-century
French filmmaker, George Millier, and Pair's Chloe Velman reports experts who's saying
this is likely the first instance of a robot ever captured in a moving image.
The 45-second long-signant film "Gugussido Tomat" or "Guguss in the Automaton" is nearly 130 years old, but the subject matter feels very timely. A child-sized robot clown grows to the size of an adult and then attacks a human clown with a stick. The human then destroys the machine with a hammer.
In an Instagram post, Library of Congress, moving image curator Jason Evans Groth, says the film arrived in a box from a donor in Michigan, Bill McFarland. McFarland's great-grandfather William DeLyle Frisbee, a Pennsylvania potato farmer and schoolteacher, was fascinated by new technologies. "Must a product projector and a bunch of films and decided to drive them around in his
buggy to share them with folks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York." The film is available on the Library of Congress's website, Chloe Velman NPR News. And I'm Dale Wilman, your listening to NPR News.
