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News As Facts
04-06-2026 22:00 UTC
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This world news was downloaded with permission from www.newsasfacts.com
and formatted for BBS by Andrew K4EXA.
== Financial Markets ==
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== Armed conflicts and attacks ==
The mosque and filling station at the Sharif University of Technology in
Tehran, Iran, are damaged in an airstrike, causing a gas outage in the
neighbourhood. (Al Jazeera) https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4465235
Reports indicate that explosions and attacks occurred early this morning
at a military compound in northern Iran and in Khorramshahr. (Iran
International) https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604067849
Israel claims to have killed Asghar Bakri, the commander of Unit 840 of
the Quds Force. (Iran International)
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604065381
Debris from a missile defense system falls on a Raneen Systems building
in Mussafah, injuring a Ghanaian citizen. (The Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/debris-from-air-defense-
interception-injures-ghanaian-national-in-uae/
The United Arab Emirates is targeted by 12 ballistic missiles, two
cruise missiles, and 19 drones from Iran. (Al Jazeera)
https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4466561
Iran claims to be targeting U.S. satellite equipment and ammunition on
Bubiyan Island using drones. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-struck-us-forces-
relocated-kuwaits-bubiyan-island-military-spokesperson-2026-04-06/
Iran delivers its response to the United States via Pakistan, rejecting
a temporary ceasefire and listing its own 10-point demands, which
include a solution to all regional conflicts, lifting of sanctions,
reconstruction, and a protocol to re-open the Strait of Hormuz. (Al
Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/6/iran-war-live-tehran-
rejects-trumps-tuesday-deadline-on-strait-of-hormuz
An Iranian missile strike hits 15 areas in Israel. A woman is seriously
injured in Petah Tikva, while two other people are injured in Tel Aviv.
In Haifa, four people are also slightly injured by a cluster bomb.
(Ynet), (The Times of Israel)
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjlkwhx2bl
Four bodies are found during a search and rescue operation in a house in
Haifa that had been destroyed by an Iranian missile. (The Times of
Israel) https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-dead-pulled-from-wreckage-of-
haifa-building-hit-by-missile-2-more-people-still-missing/%7Caccess-
date=6
At least 13 people are killed in an airstrike on a residential building
near Eslamshahr, Tehran Province, Iran. (WBAL-TV)
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/airstrike-southwest-of-tehran/70938468
Four people are killed, seven are injured and others are reported
missing in a Israeli–U.S. airstrike on a residential area in eastern
Tehran, Iran. (Al Jazeera) https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4465303
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz states that the military is
attacking Iran's most important petrochemical plant in Assaluyeh,
causing severe damage. (Iran International)
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604069800
Majid Khademi, head of the IRGC Intelligence Protection, is killed in an
American–Israeli airstrike. (Iran International)
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604065252
Nighttime attacks on Bandar Lengeh and Kong, Iran, kill six people and
injured 17 others. (AP) https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-
trump-04-05-2026#0000019d-60d8-d1f7-a9bf-68de06820000
Fars News Agency reports that Iran has allowed 15 vessels to cross the
Strait of Hormuz. (Kurdistan24)
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/905946
The Kuwaiti military responds to 14 ballistic missiles, two cruise
missiles, and 46 drones from Iran in Kuwaiti airspace. (Al Jazeera)
https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4466685
Strikes hit a petrochemical complex in Marvdasht, Fars province, Iran,
causing a fire. (AFP via Dawn) https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1989156
Multiple people are killed by Israeli attacks in towns across southern
Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/israel-
destroys-southern-lebanon-towns-hits-safe-areas-around-beirut
The Lebanese government reports that there are 1.2 million displaced
people in Lebanon due to the war. (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/6/israeli-airstrikes-devastate-
lebanese-villages-and-displace-millions
The Houthis fire several drones from Yemen at Eilat, Israel, in a
coordinated attack with Hezbollah and Iran. (Al Jazeera)
https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4466668
Pakistan proposes a ceasefire plan received by the United States and
Iran, reportedly dubbed the Islamabad Accord, which calls for an
immediate halt to hostilities, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,
and a 15–20 day period of negotiations between Iran and the U.S. This
comes following reported talks between Pakistani army staff chief Asim
Munir, U.S. vice president JD Vance, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff,
and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi. The Pakistani foreign
ministry says that talks between Iran and the U.S. are ongoing. (Arab
News), (Reuters) https://www.arabnews.com/node/2638953/amp
U.S. president Donald Trump says that Vance, Witkoff, and senior
presidential adviser Jared Kushner are talking to intermediaries in
Pakistan on ending the war. He also calls the Iran proposal a
"significant step" ahead of his Tuesday deadline. (AA), (NBC News)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/us-israel-iran-war/trump-calls-iran-ceasefire-
proposal-significant-step/3895131
The Israeli military claims to have attacked Mehrabad International
Airport as well as two smaller airfields, destroying dozens of Iranian
aircraft and helicopters in the process. (The Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-hit-tehrans-
mehrabad-airport-smaller-airstrips-overnight/
Christian anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Party official Pierre Mouawad,
his wife, and another woman are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Ain
Saadeh, a predominantly Christian town east of Beirut, Lebanon. (The
Guardian), (Al Jazeera)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/05/middle-east-crisis-
live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed?CMP=sha
re_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d2e99e8f080da25b48ba5c#block-
69d2e99e8f080da25b48ba5c
The Israeli military orders the evacuation of the southern suburbs of
Beirut because Israel will strike "Hezbollah infrastructure". (Al
Jazeera) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/israel-destroys-
southern-lebanon-towns-hits-safe-areas-around-beirut
Taliban says that it has captured a border post during clashes in Khost.
(Khaama Press) https://www.khaama.com/pakistani-border-post-captured-in-
khost-clash-afghan-officials-say/
One child is killed and three others are injured after a piece of
unexplored ordnance detonated in the Khost Province in eastern
Afghanistan. (KabulNow) https://kabulnow.com/2026/04/child-killed-three-
injured-as-unexploded-ordnance-detonates-in-eastern-afghanistan/
Explosions, likely from airstrikes, are reported in the South Pars gas
field, in southern Iran. (Al Jazeera)
https://aje.news/ukui10?update=4466262
== Disasters and accidents ==
The Afghani National Disaster Management Authority says that the total
number of deaths from recent natural disasters in Afghanistan has risen
to 110. (KabulNow) https://kabulnow.com/2026/04/natural-disaster-death-
toll-in-afghanistan-rises-to-110/
== International relations ==
Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi says that her government is
planning to hold summit talks with Iran amidst the Iran war. (Mainichi)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260406/p2g/00m/0na/015000c
== Law and crime ==
A court in Kursk Oblast, Russia, sentences former governor Alexei
Smirnov to 14 years in prison for defrauding the government by
embezzling public funds intended for building fortifications along the
Russia–Ukraine border. (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/ex-head-of-russia-s-
kursk-region-gets-14-years-in-jail-for-graft
== Science and technology ==
NASA's Artemis II spacecraft carrying four astronauts breaks the record
the furthest distance humans have ever travelled from Earth surpassing
the previous 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) record set by Apollo 13
in April 1970. (AP) https://apnews.com/article/artemis-moon-nasa-lunar-
flyby-fac19b4b1676af2717adafa992f32be4
== End News As Facts 04-06-2026 22:00 UTC ==
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