Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in a large-scale military operation by the United States and Israel, Iranian state media and multiple international sources confirmed, triggering a major escalation in a conflict that has spread across the Middle East. Iran’s state broadcasters announced early on Sunday that the 86-year-old leader died after an airstrike hit his compound in Tehran during an offensive launched late on Saturday. The joint Israeli–American campaign was presented by both capitals as a coordinated effort to target the country’s senior leadership and strategic military infrastructure, according to statements from Israeli and U.S. officials. Iran declared 40 days of national mourning following the announcement of Khamenei’s death. The strikes were among the most extensive on Iranian soil in decades, and state media reported that other senior military officials, including commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were also killed in the ...
A debut film from India's most troubled state just won one of cinema's highest honours. Its director prayed for peace on a London stage. Back home, tens of thousands are still living in camps. The Prime Minister took 864 days to visit. The Leader of Opposition visited three times and was stopped by police on his way in. On Sunday evening, inside the Royal Festival Hall in London, a filmmaker from Imphal walked up to a podium and accepted the Bafta award for Best Children's and Family Film. Lakshmipriya Devi's debut feature Boong, a quiet, tender Manipuri-language story about a boy searching for his missing father, had beaten Disney's Lilo and Stitch, the animated blockbuster Zootopia 2, and a French sci-fi film to take one of British cinema's most prestigious prizes. It was, by any measure, a remarkable moment. The first Indian film ever to win a Bafta in this category. A debut feature made in a language few outside the north-east have heard spoken, ...