The Daily Populous

Monday March 23rd, 2026 night edition

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The Iranian military’s operational command headquarters, Khatam al-Anbiya, said Iran would strike “all energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure” belonging to the US and Israel in the region.

He said Trump would start by destroying one of Iran’s largest power plants, but did not identify it.

“There are gas-fired thermal power plants and other type of plants,” and “the president is not messing around”, he said.

A No 10 spokesperson said Keir Starmer spoke to Trump on Sunday evening about the need to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

Iran said the attacks had been launched in response to a strike on its main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz on Saturday.

“Attacks targeting nuclear sites create an escalating threat to public health and environmental safety,” the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said.

In southern Lebanon, Israel said its military had raided Hezbollah sites on Sunday and killed 10 of the group’s fighters. »

No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Authored by abc15.com

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.

Politically Charged: Officials create ‘fictional’ gang to punish Phoenix protesters.

In the days after the arrest, Phoenix officers and county prosecutors colluded to invent a gang and then falsely charge the protesters as members. »

Israeli settlers smash cars and set fires in the West Bank as 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza

Authored by apnews.com

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a night earlier.

Also on Sunday, four Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, hospital authorities said.

Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and frequently fire on Palestinians near military-held zones, killing more than 670 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials. »