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N.Korea enhanced nuclear, missile programs in 2019 in breach of sanctions: UN report

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 05:24 PM

North Korea continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year in breach of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday. Read more »

Recording shows Iran knew immediately it had shot down plane -Zelenskiy

Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 08:36 PM

A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Read more »

US says 50 troops now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after Iran strike

Reuters
Posted at Jan 29 09:47 AM

The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced. Read more »

Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 05:08 PM

The country's civil aviation authority said it has yet to receive a positive response after requesting technical assistance from France and the United States to decode black boxes from the downed airliner. Read more »

Iranian leader urges 'unity' after plane protests

David Vujanovic, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 11:04 PM

Iran President Hassan Rouhani appealed Wednesday for "unity" and flagged the need for radical changes to the way Iran is run, after a wave of angry protests over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner. Read more »

Iran missile operator who downed Ukrainian jet acted alone: commander

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 12 12:05 AM

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a "cruise missile" and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards' aerospace commander. Read more »

In the words of a general: How Iran downed airliner

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 11 11:01 PM

The aerospace commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday accepted full responsibility for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet. Read more »

Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing

Oleksandr Savochenko, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 12 01:44 AM

"We expect Iran... to bring the guilty to the courts," the Ukrainian leader wrote on Facebook, calling also for the "payment of compensation" and the return of remains. Read more »

Angry Iranians question authorities for concealing truth on plane incident

Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 11 10:12 PM

For days, Iran had denied Western accusations it was responsible for Wednesday's crash soon after take-off from Tehran, in which all 176 people aboard were killed. Authorities said on Saturday that air defenses had been fired in error while on high alert following Iranian missile strikes on US targets in Iraq. Read more »

Iran says Ukrainian aircraft shot down due to human error

Reuters
Updated as of Jan 11 03:32 PM

DUBAI - A Ukrainian aircraft which crashed earlier this week in Iran had flown close to a sensitive military site and was brought down due to human error, Iranian state TV reported on Saturday. Read more »

Dutch spy agency blames Iranian missile for Ukrainian jet crash

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 11:58 PM

Canada and Britain have already suggested that the crash -- in which all 176 people on board the plane were killed -- was caused by an accidental missile strike by Iranian forces, but Tehran has dismissed the claims. Read more »

Canada's Trudeau says evidence indicates Iran shot down Ukraine jet

Steve Scherer and David Shepardson, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 10 07:03 AM

Canada has intelligence from multiple sources indicating a Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. Read more »

Ukraine calls for 'evidence' in Iran plane crash probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 05:10 AM

Ukraine asked international partners to provide any evidence they may have to help investigators probing a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Iran. Read more »

Iran says rumors missile caused plane crash make 'no sense'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 04:12 AM

Iran on Thursday ruled out a missile strike as the cause of a Ukrainian passenger plane crash near Tehran, saying such a scenario made "no sense." Read more »

UK demands full probe into Iran air crash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 02:00 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Thursday for a "full, credible and transparent" investigation into how a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people on board. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 8, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 09 12:07 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

US response awaited after Iran strikes at American troops in Iraq

Ahmed Aboulenein, Phil Stewart and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Posted at Jan 08 10:24 PM

US President Donald Trump, who ordered the drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday, gave an initial response on Twitter: "All is well!" Read more »

Iraq says Iran informed it of imminent missile attack on US forces

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 08:15 PM

Iran launched 22 missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other coalition troops early Wednesday in response to the killing of senior Revolution Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad last week.  Read more »

Iran state media claims 80 Americans killed by missiles

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 05:54 PM

The Revolutionary Guards source said at least 140 targets of the US and their allies had been identified in the region and would be attacked "if the Americans commit any kind of mistake again." Read more »

US-Iran tension drags Asian markets lower

Ahn Young-joon, AP Photo
Posted at Jan 08 04:20 PM

A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday. Read more »