US, ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN

Kuwait’s government says there’s been a drone attack on fuel tanks at the Kuwait international airport.

“Competent authorities and firefighting teams are dealing with a fire at the site,” it added in a statement on X.

A loud blast was heard near the US embassy in Oslo, Norwegian police said early on Sunday.

There were no reports of any injuries, the police said in a statement.

At least four people were killed when an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut, Lebanon's health ministry said, the first strike to hit the heart of the capital since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last week.

Ten people were also injured in the strike in Beirut's Raouche area, the health ministry said in a statement.

The hotel was housing displaced people fleeing the war in southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs, and some were seen leaving the building for fear of further airstrikes.

No further details were immediately available. There was no immediate comment from Israel.

Lebanon was pulled into the widening US-Israel war with Iran on Monday after the Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into Israel. Israel responded with heavy strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon and near Beirut.

US President Donald Trump evoked Saturday the idea of sending ground troops into Iran to secure the country's stockpiles of enriched uranium, as part of efforts to dismantle Tehran's nuclear programme.

"At some point maybe we will. That would be a great thing," he told reporters during a briefing aboard Air Force One.

"We haven't gone after it but it's something we could do later," he said.

Some critics of the US-Israeli war on Iran, launched last Saturday, have said air strikes alone are unlikely to achieve the stated goals of destroying Iran´s military capacity and preventing it from developing a nuclear bomb.

Asked about the use of ground troops in general, Trump did not rule it out, saying: "Could there be? Possibly, for a very good reason -- it'd have to be a very good reason."

"And I would say if we ever did that, they would be so decimated that they wouldn't be able to fight at the ground level," he said.

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he believes the map of Iran will "probably not" look the same once the war ends, signalling the scale of the conflict and its potential impact on the country’s leadership and territorial control.

The president faced a barrage of questions about the war, which has entered its second week and already included two major joint US-Israel strikes.

The initial attack on February 28 killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and, according to US and Israeli officials, dozens of top commanders and officials, throwing the country’s chain of succession into chaos.

When asked whether he thinks the map of Iran will "look the same after all this is done," Trump first replied, "I can't tell you," before quickly adding, "Probably not."

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the US is not seeking any settlement or agreement with Iran and stressed that he wants an Iranian president who will not lead the country into war.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested the conflict could end only once Iran no longer has a functioning military or leadership in power.

He added that the ongoing air campaign could make negotiations unnecessary if all potential Iranian leaders are removed and the military is destroyed.

“At some point, I don't think there will be anybody left maybe to say 'We surrender,’” Trump said.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied on Saturday that any US service members had been taken hostage or captured by Iran.

In a post on X, Iranian security chief Ali Larijani said: "It has been reported to me that several American soldiers have been taken prisoner."

US Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said: "The Iranian regime is doing everything it can to peddle lies and deceive. This is yet another clear example."

US President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for a deadly strike on an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab.

"We think it was done by Iran. Because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever," Trump told reporters following a New York Times investigation that found the US military was most likely responsible.

Neither Israel nor the United States has claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iranian officials say killed at least 150 people. AFP has been unable to reach the location to independently verify the toll or the circumstances of the attack.

DUBAI: A Pakistani driver was killed in Dubai’s Al Barsha area on Saturday evening after debris from an aerial interception struck his vehicle shortly after iftar, authorities confirmed.

The incident occurred near Sheikh Zayed Road behind the Mall of the Emirates. Officials said the impact sparked a brief fire, but no other injuries were reported.

Authorities have launched an investigation to determine whether the driver received an emergency alert on his mobile phone and if safety instructions were followed.

The Al Barsha area is located along Sheikh Zayed Road, one of Dubai’s busiest highways.

The death raises the toll from the recent attacks to four people, including two Pakistani nationals.

Earlier, another Pakistani, Murid Zaman from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was killed in Abu Dhabi’s Madinat Zayed area.