Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused the United States and Israel of inflicting severe environmental damage during attacks on the Islamic Republic, in his speech on Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Turkey. “The recent criminal and illegal aggression against Iran by America and the Zionist regime… has inflicted severe damage on the environment, releasing massive quantities of pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” Pezeshkian said. He said that attacks on fuel facilities on a major gas field in Iran’s south “resulted in the emission of approximately 500,000…

The federal government on Wednesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs3 per litre to Rs335 and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs7 to Rs364, effective Thursday, November 12. The revision was announced in a press release issued by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), which said the revised ex-depot prices had been determined under the petroleum products pricing mechanism approved by the federal government. Following the latest revision, petrol will cost Rs335 per litre, down from Rs338, while the price of diesel has fallen to Rs364 from Rs371. The…

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told the COP31 climate conference on Wednesday that his country wanted compensation for environmental ​damage caused by US and Israeli strikes, saying the ‌issue is related to global efforts to fight climate change. “We expect the global community to establish a genuine and meaningful link between climate commitments in ​times of peace and responsibility in times of war, ​to document and assess the environmental damages caused by ⁠military aggressions and to develop compensation mechanisms,” he said. His comments ​were part of back-to-back speeches by heads of…

Democrats in the US House ​of Representatives, who will control key committees next year, are preparing investigations into what they say was President Donald Trump’s politicisation and gutting of US spy agencies, including whether analysts have censored themselves to avoid retaliation. “There’s absolutely evidence that analysts are hesitant to write on topics that they think might be controversial. There’s absolutely evidence of a decline in morale in the analytic community because of the pressures that they are under,” US Representative Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat who ​will become chairman of…

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis said on Wednesday that it shot down three cruise missiles fired at Riyadh, which has been targeted for weeks by the Iran-backed group. “Air defenses intercepted and destroyed 3 cruise missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia toward the Riyadh area,” coalition spokesperson Turki al-Malki posted on X. The latest incident comes after the Houthis damaged a skyscraper belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the capital’s gleaming financial district on Sunday. Riyadh’s international airport has also been targeted repeatedly, with deadly attacks forcing…