Mes: septiembre 2019

(CBS News) Seven people were killed Wednesday and dozens injured when a bomb went off inside an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah carried out the terrorist attack. What we saw Wednesday in Bulgaria is part of the escalating tensions between Iran, Israel and the West. A former Iranian agent from that country’s feared Revolutionary Guard corps – a man who’s been on the inside – tells CBS News that a surrogate, stealth war, carried out in the shadows by both sides, has been going on for more than a year. It began with the targeted killings of Iranian scientists working on that country’s nuclear program. Then a computer virus was covertly deployed against Iranian nuclear sites. The virus was designed to make the sites self-destruct. Iran publicly accused the U.S., Great Britain and Israel of being behind the plots. And now, it appears Iran is striking back. “They’re looking at this saying, ‘We’ve got to respond. Aggression has been taken against us,”‘ says former CIA analyst Phil Mudd. “So that’s the first factor. The second factor is, in the background, they’re hearing the drumbeats of war.” That drumbeat is the continued discussion over if or when Israel might launch airstrikes against more than a dozen underground suspected Iranian nuclear sites. But Iran hasn’t backed away. Since the...

(AP) BEIJING – Officials have raised the death toll to at least 37 in the heaviest rainstorm to hit Beijing in six decades, and dozens of other storm deaths have been reported elsewhere in China. The rain Saturday night knocked down trees in Beijing and trapped cars and buses in waist-deep water in some areas. A statement from the city government late Sunday said 25 people drowned, six were killed when houses collapsed, 안전 사이트 추천 one was hit by lightning and five were electrocuted by fallen power lines. The official China Daily newspaper reported Monday that rain and flooding caused damages of at least $1.6 billion, with 60,000 people evacuated from their homes. The official Globe Times said Monday that it was the heaviest rainstorm in the capital in 61 years. It was the heaviest on record in Fangshan district in the southwest of the city, which received 18.4 inches of rain Saturday, according to the weather bureau. The agency also said suburban Pinggu district got 4 inches of rain in one hour. A flash flood in Fangshan stranded 104 primary school students and nine teachers at a military training site, Xinhua said. They were taken to safety. Elsewhere, six people were killed by rain-triggered landslides in Sichuan province in the west, Xinhua News Agency said, citing disaster officials. Four people died in Shanxi province in the north...