World News Updates: CENTCOM commander visits US aircraft carrier for second time amid morale concerns
Admiral Cooper thanked the USS Abraham Lincoln crew for their “tremendous dedication and courage.” (Photo: Reuters)
The US Central Command chief, Admiral Brad Cooper, visited the USS Abraham Lincoln for the second time amid his 10-day tour in the region over rising concerns about the mental health of crew members due to the ship’s long deployment, CNN reported. USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Middle East in January and has since then been supporting the American war against Iran.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial attacks of the war on Russia on Sunday, with Moscow claiming that 822 drones were destroyed overnight, including around 600 headed towards the capital. At least six people were killed in the attacks, according to Russian officials.
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A dozen people were killed and at least 10 injured after a Polish bus overturned at night on a motorway in eastern Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday morning in a Facebook post. The bus ran into a ditch and tipped over early on Sunday near the town of Mezokeresztes in eastern Hungary, police said, adding that the bus was heading towards the city of Nyiregyhaza on the motorway when the accident happened. State news agency MTI said there were 57 passengers and two drivers on the bus.
A powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake has torn through eastern Indonesia, killing at least 51 people and forcing around 5,000 residents to flee their homes, authorities said Sunday. The quake also triggered landslides and blocked roads across the disaster zone, hampering rescue efforts in the hardest-hit areas.
Qatar firmly denied on Saturday that it was detaining any Iranian pilots, dismissing the claim as misleading and poorly timed given ongoing efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region. Foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said Qatari rescue teams had searched thoroughly for three missing aviators, had already coordinated the handover of one pilot’s remains to Iran, and had invited an Iranian team in April to be briefed on the search an offer Tehran never took up.
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 11 people in southern Lebanon, among the deadliest single-day tolls since a fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah took hold on June 20. The violence extended across the region: the UAE accused Iran of striking one of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz for the third time in a week, while Iran-backed Houthi fighters hit a Red Sea port in Yemen signs that the war, months on, keeps opening new fronts.
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