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A Russian drone strike on a bridge in Kyiv during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's visit has prompted a wave of social media reaction, with claims of targeting civilians and warnings of further attacks circulating widely online. Next News Network could not independently verify the claims.
The captain of the Flydubai jet targeted in Wednesday's attempted hijacking said his co-pilot asked to pray just minutes before striking him from behind with a cockpit crash axe — as new evidence revealed the suspect's apparent affinity for al-Qaeda and pro-al-Qaeda propaganda calling for further attacks on aircraft carrying Americans and Israelis.
Iran's foreign minister tells Washington there is no military path out of the conflict, while a retired Navy vice admiral says Tehran has waged asymmetric war for decades and should be pressed until the regime falls.
John Cleese is refusing to back down after posts about Islam sparked a complaint to a UK counter-extremism watchdog. The referral does not mean he has been arrested, charged or formally accused of terrorism.
Prediction-market traders and supporters are circulating claims that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine's Person of the Year, after he built a global profile standing up to President Trump.
Witnesses report fire and smoke near Saudi Aramco's Riyadh facility as unconfirmed claims of a Houthi attack circulate. Next News Network examines the reaction from state-linked outlets and social media accounts.
Iran halted trading in six oil refiners and explosions were reported near Qeshm Island, according to Middle East outlets, prompting widespread social media reaction from regional monitoring accounts.
Accounts including Visegrad 24 circulated footage in which a woman screams 'I beg you' while students destroy the school piano. The underlying event has not been independently confirmed.
Nearly two hundred people have been placed under medical observation in Siberia's Irkutsk region after a laboratory worker reportedly died of plague, a claim drawing intense international attention that remains unverified by independent authorities.
President Trump's top national security advisers reportedly met secretly at Camp David to weigh military options on Iran and Yemen, a claim Axios first reported and that has since been picked up by outlets and accounts across the political spectrum. Next News Network could not independently verify the meeting occurred.
A senior UAE official publicly classified the attempted downing of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 as a terrorist act for the first time, as Israel investigates whether the Omani co-pilot who stabbed the captain mid-flight was acting on behalf of another party.
The Omani co-pilot accused of attacking a Flydubai captain mid-flight was previously barred from flying over extremist views and has told investigators he intended to crash the jet in Israel, according to reports.
