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Asharq Al-Awsat
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Israel Killed 30 Iranian Security Chiefs and 11 Nuclear Scientists, Israeli Official Says
Israel killed more than 30 senior security officials and 11 senior nuclear scientists to deliver a major blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions, a senior Israeli military official said on Friday in summarizing Israel's 12-day air war with Iran. In the United States, an independent expert said a review of commercial satellite imagery showed only a small number of the approximately 30 Iranian missiles that penetrated Israel's air defenses managed to hit any militarily significant targets. "Iran has yet to produce missiles that demonstrate great accuracy," Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at the CNA Corporation specializing in satellite imagery, told Reuters. In Israel, the senior military official said Israel's June 13 opening strike on Iran severely damaged its aerial defenses and destabilized its ability to respond in the critical early hours of the conflict. Israel's air force struck over 900 targets and the military deeply damaged Iran's missile production during the war that ended with a US-brokered ceasefire, the official said. "The Iranian nuclear project suffered a major blow: The regime's ability to enrich uranium to 90% was neutralized for a prolonged period. Its current ability to produce a nuclear weapon core has been neutralized," the official said. Iran, which denies trying to build nuclear weapons, retaliated against the strikes with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites and cities. Iran said it forced the end of the war by penetrating Israeli defenses. Iranian authorities said 627 people were killed in Iran, where the extent of the damage could not be independently confirmed because of tight restrictions on the media. Israeli authorities said 28 people were killed in Israel. Eveleth, the independent US expert, said Iran's missile forces were not accurate enough to destroy small military targets like US-made F-35 jet fighters in their shelters. "Because of this the only targets they can hit with regularity are large cities or industrial targets like the refinery at Haifa," he told Reuters. Iranian missile salvos, which were limited by Israeli airstrikes in Iran, did not have the density to achieve high rates of destruction, he wrote on X. "At the current level of performance, there is effectively nothing stopping Israel from conducting the same operation in the future with similar results," he wrote. In a statement on Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he had directed the military to draft plans to safeguard air superiority over Iran, prevent nuclear development and missile production, and address Iran's support for militant operations against Israel. Israel's military Chief of Staff Lieutenant General, Eyal Zamir, said on Friday the outcome in Iran could help advance Israeli objectives against the Iranian-backed Palestinian Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. Zamir told troops in Gaza an Israeli ground operation, known as "Gideon's Chariots," would in the near future achieve its goal of greater control of the Palestinian enclave and present options to Israel's government for further action.
India Today
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Two Mizoram journalists part of BBC team that won Emmy for Myanmar docu
Two journalists from Mizoram became the first from the northeastern state to be part of a team that won an International Emmy Award for a BBC documentary on Myanmar's civil war. HC Vanlalruata and Isaac Zoramsanga, contributed to BBC World's coverage titled Myanmar's Civil War, which received the Emmy for Outstanding Continuing News Coverage in Short Form category. Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma congratulated the duo on the "historic moment" and praised their "dedication and courage in reporting" from the conflict zone, ravaged by the years-long civil told India Today Digital that the BBC team of five members, including the two from Mizoram, went to Chin state of Myanmar in 2024, and it took a total of eight days for them to gather the inputs from the ground."I congratulate HC Vanlalruata and Isaac Zoramsanga for their historic achievement as the first from Mizoram to be part of a team that won an International Emmy Award. Your dedication and courage in reporting Myanmar's Civil War make Mizoram proud," Lalduhoma wrote on X on Thursday. Both Vanlalruata and Zoramsanga worked as producers on the BBC project, according to the citation of the provided crucial on-ground reporting support during a 10-day assignment in Chin State, western Myanmar, which shares a border with India. Their efforts enabled the BBC team to access rare conflict zones where ethnic resistance groups have been pushing back against Myanmar's military junta and continue to fight for control of the official X account of the Emmys announced the award saying, "The Emmys for Outstanding Continuing News Coverage - Short Form goes to Myanmar's Civil War (BBCWorld)," posted The Emmys on TEAM WENT TO REBEL HEADQUARTERS, BOMBED VILLAGE IN MYANMARThe 6.5-minute documentary captures how rebel groups have driven the junta out of several regions, while also exposing chilling accounts of torture, abduction, and killings used by the junta to crush dissent and deter young people from joining the resistance."We went to Chin state of Myanmar in 2024 and interviewed the revolutionary groups being trained by the Chin National Army (CNA) at Camp Victoria," HC Vanlalruata told India Today Victoria is the HQ of the CNA and is around 7-8km from the India border, explained was a team of five from BBC India, including Vanlalruata and Zoramsanga, that travelled to Myanmar."We stayed at Camp Victoria for a night then went to a village that had been bombed by the Myanmar military and was being rebuilt," said said it took the team altogether eight days to gather the inputs for the BBC documentary."It is difficult to put into words how thrilled we are. I am overjoyed to see my name on the Emmy list," Isaac Zoramsanga told Meghalaya-based also said that the Emmy news was civil war in Myanmar began in February 2021 when the military, known as the Tatmadaw, staged a coup, overthrowing the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi by claiming electoral fraud in the 2020 elections without substantial coup sparked widespread protests, which were met with brutal military crackdowns, escalating into armed resistance by pro-democracy groups and Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) like the Arakan Army, which is based in the Rakhine in Mizoram, which shares a 500-kilometre border with Myanmar, have cultural and ethnic ties with those across the international border. In March this year, key Myanmar rebel groups signed a merger pact in Mizoram's capital, Aizawl, in the presence of Chief Minister armed resistance has gained strength in Myanmar, capturing key towns like Paletwa in Chin State, and challenging the junta's control, particularly in border regions. The ongoing civil war has intensified, with the junta facing significant pressure but retaining control over major urban centres, while the resistance continues to expand its influence in rural and India-bordering areas.- Ends advertisement
South China Morning Post
16 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Do universities need a rethink on AI use for students? Singapore's NTU case causes a stir
A case at Singapore 's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) involving three students accused of academic misconduct over the use of generative AI (Gen AI) has prompted observers to question if tertiary institutions need clearer processes to deal with disputes. The students were told by their teacher in a briefing for a module on health, disease outbreaks and politics at the School of Social Sciences that the use of ChatGPT and AI tools was not allowed in the 'development or generation' of their essay proposal and long essay, according to pictures of the slide that were published online. One student's appeal was being processed before a review panel that would include AI experts, while the other two scored zero for the assignment, local media reported. The students used online tools to organise their citations. The two who have been punished used ChatGPT in their research but said they did not use it to write their essays, according to local media outlet CNA. Fong Wei Li, a lawyer at Forward Legal who specialises in internet and social media law, told This Week in Asia that the saga showed the gaps in processes among universities in dealing with such disputes between teachers and students. 'Most universities acknowledge that Gen AI is part of our lives, but what universities don't go further in doing is consistent framework about processes for grievances; if a faculty accuses a student of using Gen AI and the student disputes it,' Fong said. 'There has not been a critical mass for these kinds of disputes, but do we want to wait for something to happen like it did at NTU before there is a process if a student disputes?'
CNA
a day ago
- Business
- CNA
Australia deepens ASEAN investments amid global trade headwinds
Australia's Business Champion for Singapore and former ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott tells CNA's Roland Lim why Canberra is seeking "new friends in an increasingly difficult world."
CNA
a day ago
- General
- CNA
Farmers in Bali hope to preserve salak heritage amid changing times
The native salak, or snake fruit, has long been more than just a crop in Indonesia. The fruit is a way of life and a vital source of livelihood passed down through generations. In the final of a three-part series on the fruit, CNA's Chandni Vatvani examines efforts in Bali to preserve the heritage for the future.
