Iran plans to reshape governance of the Strait of Hormuz to secure long-term economic and security gains, Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said on Sunday. "The Strait of Hormuz regime will no longer be as it was in the past," Aref wrote on X, adding that the government aims to "transform the battlefield achievements into sustainable economic and security benefits for the country.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it was a safety measure following recent Iranian strikes.
The Lorenzo Carcassi violin was made in Florence, Italy, in 1740
The Environmental Protection Ministry stated that the possibility of hazardous chemicals leaking was being investigated, but that at this stage, there was no expected risk to nearby towns. An Iranian missile impacted in the industrial zone of Ne'ot Hovav on Sunday afternoon, starting a fire and potentially causing a leak of hazardous chemicals, Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry stated.
A humpback whale struggling in shallow waters off Germany's northern Baltic Sea coast has become stranded for a third time, experts said on Sunday, just hours after the animal had freed itself from a sandbank.After escaping a second sandbank late Saturday near Wismar, it was stranded once again on Sunday.
Marine scientists in Germany are increasingly worried about a whale that managed to free itself from a sandbank, only to run aground again in shallow waters, as local experts say the mammal's prospects of survival are now worsening. The humpback whale's condition has deteriorated significantly in the past 24 hours, Burkard Baschek, director of the German Oceanographic Museum, said at a press conference in the coastal city of Wismar on Sunday.
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said it had immediately taken over the investigation.
The Israeli military on Sunday reported attacks on Tehran and other targets aimed at Iranian infrastructure and power structures. Iran's Fars news agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported missiles striking a residential area to the south of Tehran.
The eggs were discovered near the remains of a campfire believed to have been connected to prehistoric desert nomads who collected, cooked, and ate the eggs at the site. A cache of ostrich eggs dated from approximately 7,000-years-ago was discovered at an archaeological site near Nitzana in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a Sunday social media post.
A German social media ban for children will face legal hurdles, mainly from European law, according to a report by parliament's scientific service seen by dpa on Sunday. Parents' rights on how they bring up their children, which are constitutionally guaranteed in Germany, could also present an obstacle to a ban on social media platforms, says the report, which was commissioned by the far left Die Linke opposition party.