Iranian Missiles Sow Panic, Destruction In Israeli Towns
Sheltering from an Iranian missile attack on his town in southern Israel on Saturday, 17-year-old Ido Franky heard “terrifying” blasts like nothing he had experienced before.
An Iranian missile hit Franky’s town of Arad, hours after another struck Dimona — home to a nuclear facility — wounding dozens and leaving entire apartment blocks with heavy damage.
Franky rushed to shelter with his family as air raid sirens sounded, warning of an incoming attack.
“There was a ‘boom, boom!’, my mother was screaming,” he said near the impact site, where an AFP correspondent saw three damaged buildings and firefighters reported a blaze.
“This was terrifying… this town had never seen anything like this,” the teenager told AFP.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said 84 wounded people were taken to hospitals from the Arad scene, including 10 in serious condition.
https://www.barrons.com/news/iranian-missiles-sow-panic-destruction-in-israeli-towns-25d241b9
BOMB BLITZ Terrifying moment Iran’s missiles rain down on Israel’s nuke town & injure 180 as regime warns of ‘defenceless skies’
THIS is the terrifying moment Iranian missiles rain down on towns near Israel’s secretive arsenal of nuclear weapons.
More than 180 people have been wounded in Dimona and Arad, in southern Israel – including two children in serious condition.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16119605/iran-nuke-town-fireball-blast-allies-attack/
Slovenia limits fuel purchases as some pumps run dry
LJUBLJANA, March 22 (Reuters) – Slovenia on Sunday temporarily limited fuel purchases to tackle shortages at the pump caused in part by cross-border fuelling and stockpiling due to the Iran war, raising concerns about security of supplies just as the country goes to the polls.
Fuelling at individual service stations has been restricted to 50 litres per day for private vehicles and 200 litres for companies and other priority users such as farmers, Prime Minister Robert Golob announced on Saturday evening.
President Stubb of Finland: ‘We must face reality – the West has split’
The influential European leader on ‘salvaging’ the trans-Atlantic relationship and how Trump’s actions are making it harder to defeat Russia
Anyone rising early for a stroll in Hyde Park this week might have seen president Alexander Stubb of Finland and prime minister Mark Carney of Canada on a morning run, joined by their respective wives.
Londoners, famously indifferent to foreign visitors, will surely have taken no notice of this gaggle of athletic world leaders and spouses. Nor would any passing Finn have been remotely surprised.
Stubb, their president since 2024, is so chiselled, lithe and trim that he resembles a besuited whippet. He wakes at 5am each morning for an hour of exercise and two hours of reading before starting the working day. Last July, he adopted the rather obvious pseudonym “AS” to compete in the Finnish Triathlon – swimming, cycling and running – coming second in his age group.
But does the vigorous routine of this 57-year-old also lift his spirits? Stubb has built an international reputation – and achieved outsized influence for Finland (a country with just 5.6 million people) – based not just on intellectual mastery and diplomatic finesse, but on his skill at the delicate art of Trump-whispering and his conviction that the Atlantic alliance can be preserved through calm and reasoned engagement with America.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/22/president-stubb-finland-interview/