Son of ex-Iran prez to serve 10-year jail term
Tehran: The son of Iran’s former president Akbar Rafsanjani will be jailed for 10 years after being convicted of financial and security crimes, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejeie said on Thursday.
Swiss, Austrians probe spying at Iran n-talks
Geneva: Swiss and Austrian investigators have launched probes into alleged spying in hotels hosting delicate Iranian nuclear talks, the authorities in both countries said. The Swiss attorney general’s office confirmed it had launched an investigation on May 6 and conducted a raid six days later, seizing computer equipment, due to “suspicion of illegal intelligence services operating in Switzerland.”
Saudi-led airstrikes kill 20 Yemeni civilians
Sanaa: Witnesses and officials in Yemen say a Saudi-led airstrike hit a public bus on a highway north of the southern city of Aden, splitting the vehicle in half and killing at least 20 civilian passengers.
NASA finds evidence of black hole eruptions
Washington: Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found that a supermassive black hole at the centre of a group of galaxies about 105 million light years from Earth has erupted multiple times over 50 million years. Scientists discovered the history of black hole eruptions by studying the group of galaxies named NGC 5813.
Didn’t build nukes for Shab-e-Baraat: Mush
Islamabad: Accusing India of destabilising Pakistan, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said nuclear weapons are for the defence of the country and not for “celebratory” occasion. Musharraf claimed India is carrying an aggressive attitude as a preplanned strategy of denuclearising Pakistan.
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