Iran FM warns US involvement in conflict would be 'very dangerous' as Israel targets commanders
Summary
Iran's foreign minister said US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict would be "very very dangerous"
Blasts have been heard in southwestern Iran as IDF says it is "targeting military infrastructure"
Earlier, Israel's military said they killed Iranian commander Saeed Izadi in a targeted attack overnight - here's what we know about him
These strikes highlight serious vulnerabilities within Iran's intelligence services, writes BBC's Jiyar Gol
Police in Cyprus say a man has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, as Cyprus's ANT1 news agency reports he was believed to be carrying out surveillance of a British RAF air base
Elsewhere, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard changes her tune, saying Iran could produce nuclear weapons "within weeks"
Iran confirms death of tenth nuclear scientist
Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian, World Service reporter
Iranian media has acknowledged that another nuclear scientist has died in Israeli strikes on the country, rising the official death toll announced to 10.
The death of the scientist named Isar Tabatabei Ghomsheh was first announced by the newsletter of Tehran’s Sharif University, where he was an alumni.
The newsletter of the university said that he was killed “late last week in his home” alongside his wife, Mansoureh Hajisalem.
Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine
A deal freezing frontlines would be unacceptable for Serhiy Serdiuk, who was taken to Georgia in handcuffs with his family after refusing to teach the Russian curriculum
Sat 21 Jun 2025 05.00 BST
Earlier this year, Serhiy Serdiuk was deported from Russia, along with his wife and daughter. He was given a 40-year ban from re-entering the country.
Serdiuk’s home town of Komysh-Zoria, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, was part of the territory occupied in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion in spring 2022. According to Moscow, it is now part of Russia. And because Serdiuk, the headteacher of a local school, refused to work for the new authorities, they decided he had no place living there.
East German cities offer free stays to fight depopulation
Towns and cities in eastern German states are inviting people to come and stay in the hope of encouraging more people to move there long-term.
"There's no problem finding affordable accommodation, there are no traffic jams, there's no rush hour, and I've never had trouble finding a parking space," beams Anika Franze from behind her desk in the center of the small city of Guben.
The 38-year-old was born in East Berlin in the former German Democratic Republic and lived most of her life before and after the fall of the Wall in the same district of the capital. But she says the hustle and bustle, a sense of helplessness about growing inequality, not to mention the dire housing situation, long made her want to leave.
The woman raising 98 children with disabilities
At her 'Home of Hope', Edith Lukabwe cares for children abandoned by their families.
On a muddy, uneven and unnamed road on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jinja, children laugh and play in a compound surrounded by green hills and sugarcane plantations.
A child hurtles his wheelchair down the driveway at breakneck speed towards a heavy gate manned by a friendly security guard. On the worn concrete veranda, a young boy with hydrocephalus - a condition in which fluid enlarges the skull - laughs loudly as he plays checkers with two friends.
The cheerful atmosphere belies the difficult backgrounds of the 98 children - aged six months to 18 years - who live on the compound. All were abandoned. Most were babies when their parents left them. Some were left at the compound gate, others at hospital after they were born while one three-year-old boy was rescued from his home days after his parents disappeared.
Apologies issued to falsely accused firm; but too late, says president
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 21, 2025 at 17:41 JST
High-ranking law enforcement officials in Tokyo apologized to past and current executives of a company that manufactures spray dryers for dragging them through an investigation that a high court concluded was illegal.
Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent-general of the Metropolitan Police Department, was joined by Hirohide Mori, head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s public security division, in the June 20 mission to set matters straight.
How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What’s Next
With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling.
A Tony Award-winning play on Broadway. The finale of a record-breaking Netflix show. And a reunion of arguably the world’s biggest pop band.
South Korean culture is having a moment. Again.
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