TEHRAN: The precise geographical coordinates of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi have been determined by the aerial monitoring of the region where the crash occurred.

TOKYO: A recent survey by Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) showed that 17,034 elderly people living alone died at home across the country from January to March, reported Xinhua.

WASHINGTON: A US Supreme Court justice faced calls to recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump after an inverted American flag—a symbol of the former president’s false election fraud claims—was flown outside his home.

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an exclusive interview with AFP on Friday he expects Russia to step up its offensive in the northeast and warned Kyiv only has a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line.

JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said Friday that troops had recovered the bodies of three hostages in the war-torn Gaza Strip who had been “murdered” by their captors on October 7.

KABUL: Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan were killed Friday in a shooting in the popular tourism destination of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, local and Spanish authorities said.

PEZINOK: The suspect charged with the attempted murder of Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico is expected on Saturday before a penal court that will decide whether to hold him in pre-trial detention.

WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump said he does not care if independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr joins the upcoming presidential debates, but pointed out that Kennedy is currently not eligible to participate, reported Sputnik. .

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties in this year’s presidential election, on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates in June and September.

NEW DELHI: The United Nations has launched an investigation into an unidentified strike on a UN car in Rafah on Monday that killed its first international staff in Gaza since Oct 7, a spokesman for the UN’s secretary-general said.