Wednesday 18th June 2025. Israel-Iran missiles. Taiwan drones. Australia mushroom trial. Ghana gold. Argentina Kirchner home...
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Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Wednesday, the 18th of June, 2025.

Starting in Asia and Oceania today, Israel and Iran continued to fire missiles at each other yesterday. Israel claimed to hit 12 of Iran's missile launching and storage sites.

Iran's new head of the armed forces, Abdel Rahim Mousavi, said that Israelis in Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa should evacuate because of incoming Iranian attacks. Mousavi has been in his role for three days since Israel assassinated the previous head of Iran's armed forces. On Monday, Israel told about 300,000 people in central Tehran to evacuate.

United States President Donald Trump wrote messages on the Truth social media platform that he owns, saying that Iran should unconditionally surrender and that the US has the ability to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but won't do that for now.

Last night, United States media was reporting that Trump may be considering supporting Israel in destroying Iranian nuclear sites. In Palestine, at least 51 people were killed by Israeli tank fire into a crowd of people trying to get aid, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas.

Reuters news agency also said that it spoke to people who were at the site, who said that Israeli tanks had fired at least twice at the crowd. Health officials also said that 23 people were killed by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution point on Monday.

Since March, Israel has blocked virtually all aid from entering Gaza. However, over the last few weeks, they have allowed one new United States-funded organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Organisation to distribute aid, but there have been frequent mass shootings at their aid distribution points.

Taiwan has signed a long-term deal with German-American drone company Orterion with the aim of strengthening its defense from a possible invasion from China. Orterion is already supplying software being used by Ukraine and has said that its technology could eventually be used in millions of drones for Taiwan. China views Taiwan as its territory.

In Australia, the trial of a woman accused of murdering three members of her estranged husband's family by feeding them poisonous mushrooms is now in its eighth week, but is expected to finish soon. Erin Patterson says that she cooked the poisonous mushrooms by accident, not realising that they were poisonous. Africa

In Kenya, protests over the killing of a blogger last week are growing, with large clashes between police and protesters yesterday and reports of one person being killed. There has been anger with the police since the death of Albert Ojuang, who died in police custody after being arrested for a tweet critical of a senior policeman.

Ghana has lost $11 billion in the last five years because of gold smuggling, according to a report by the charity SwissAid. The report said that a lot of the smuggling happened by taking small amounts on flights to the United Arab Emirates, where gold carried in hand luggage doesn't have to be checked. America's...

Haiti is at risk of famine unless there is urgent humanitarian intervention, according to a United Nations report. Haiti is largely controlled by gangs, especially the capital, Port-au-Prince, where the government only controls about 20% of the city. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting and instability. Haiti is at risk of famine unless there is urgent humanitarian intervention, according to a United Nations report.

The United Nations Hunger Hotspots report included Haiti in its list of places of highest concern, next to Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan and Mali. However, many countries, mostly in Africa, were removed from the Hunger Hotspots list this year, with the UN saying that this was because of better climate conditions and harvests.

Argentina's former president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, will be allowed to serve her prison sentence at home, with a court justifying this based on her age and vulnerability. Kirchner must serve six years in prison for corruption.

Europe. In Ukraine, Russia fired over 400 drones and 32 missiles at Kyiv and other cities yesterday morning. At least 15 people were killed in Kyiv, making this one of the deadliest Russian attacks on Kyiv since 2022.

Most of these deaths came from a direct missile strike on an apartment building in Kiev, where Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said that there may be more people trapped under the rubble. A United States citizen was killed in this attack. Deaths were also reported in various regions in the north, east and south.

At the G7 summit in Canada, President Volodymyr Zelensky was invited as a guest and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more sanctions on Russian people and companies and announced military aid and financial support for Ukraine. We are providing additional military assistance, drones, helicopters, broader munitions, over $2 billion worth of assistance directly to Ukraine.

In Hungary, the mayor of Budapest, Karácsnyi Gergely, has said that Budapest will hold a gay pride event this year, despite a national ban approved in parliament this year.

Karachnay said that this event will be listed as a municipal event, allowing it to bypass the law. And in the United Kingdom, there has been some disappointment from audiences of the new production of Evita, the story of Argentinian First Lady Eva Perón,

The new production takes place in the London Palladium, with some tickets sold for up to £250. However, the most famous song from the musical, Don't Cry For Me Argentina, is performed outside on a balcony on the street, allowing people to watch for free. There are now expected to be crowds gathering at around 9pm every night outside the theatre.

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