International Financial Centre in Dubai hit by kamikaze drone- dwell updates 

Explosions have rocked Dubai this morning after an Iranian drone struck the city’s financial district.

A building has been damaged in Dubai’s International Finance Centre by debris from a successful interception of an attack amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran.

Authorities confirmed there were no injuries during the latest attack on Dubai which has been repeatedly targeted with drones and missiles since the war began.

The attack on the International Finance Centre comes after banks in Dubai ordered staff to leave their offices earlier this week following a threat by Iran to target US and Israeli financial institutions.

Here are the main developments so far on the 14th day of the US-Israel war with Iran:

• Explosions have rocked Dubai after a drone strike on the city’s International Finance Centre caused buildings to shake
• A rescue mission is underway to find an American refuelling plane and its crew of at least three people.
• Two people have been killed in Oman after a drone crashed in an industrial area in the city of Sohar
• Israel has launched new strikes in Tehran and targeted an underground weapons facility in Shiraz
• French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to a French soldier killed in Iraq after a drone attack on an air base
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have vowed a ‘stronger’ response if new protests erupt after tens of thousands were killed earlier this year
• A new report claims Iran’s new Supreme Leader is unaware of the ongoing war in the Middle East and does not know he is the Islamic Republic’s new leader

Stick with us for the latest developments throughout the day

Rescue workers carry a dead body out of a destroyed apartment in Sidon

At least 12 people have been killed following an Israeli airstrike in Sidon, southern Lebanon.

Buildings have been left completely destroyed following the latest Israeli offensive which was aimed at Hezbollah militants.

According to Lebanon 24, 12 people have been killed and 12 injured.

The number of confirmed casualties has not yet been verified.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Russia and Iran are trying to “hijack the global economy”, amid Tehran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Protests are taking place across the world for Quds Day – an annual pro-Palestinian event to express support for Palestinians and oppose Israel.

In the Indian Kashmir town of Magam, Muslim women chant anti-US and Israel slogans and burn effigies representing Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally.

In the UK, Home Secretary banned this year’s Quds Day march in London with the government citing public disorder risks linked to the “volatile situation in the Middle East” and potential clashes between rival protesters.

Donald Trump has claimed the US is ‘totally destroying Iran’ while issuing a sinister warning that he is about to escalate the conflict.

The president appeared to signal that major action would be unfolding on Friday, writing in the early hours on Truth Social: ‘Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.’

In a post shared to Truth Social at 12:33am, Trump wrote: ‘We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise.

‘Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth,’ he added.

‘We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today.

‘They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!’

by Sabrina Penty

Iran’s new Supreme Leader is unaware of the ongoing war in the Middle East and does not know he is the Islamic Republic’s new leader, according to a new report.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeded his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following his assassination on February 28.

He is reportedly in a coma at the Sina University Hospital in Tehran following an airstrike, according to a source in Tehran.

Due to his condition, he does not know of the ongoing war, the death of his family members, including his wife and son and of his own election as Supreme leader, the source said.

Mojtaba is also reportedly in intensive care and surrounded by security officials, while a large section of the hospital has been sealed off to guard Iran’s Supreme Leader

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the country’s military, have warned that any new protests against the authorities would be met with a stronger response than in January, when several thousand people were killed.

‘The evil enemy, failing to achieve its field battle goals, is once again pursuing the instillation of fear and street riots,’ the Guards said in a statement broadcast on TV, promising ‘a stronger blow than on January 8’ in the event of new unrest.

The warning comes two weeks into Iran’s war with the United States and Israel in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says one of the aims is to ‘create, for the Iranian people, the conditions to bring down’ the Iranian government.

US President Donald Trump last night told reporters the war against Iran was moving ‘very rapidly.’

‘It’s doing very well, our military is unsurpassed,’ he said at the White House.

His remarks came after Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father and other family members were killed in the opening strikes of the war on February 28, vowed to avenge the Iranian casualties in the conflict.

Khamenei himself was wounded in the strikes, according to some Iranian officials and state TV.

His whereabouts and details of his physical condition are unknown, prompting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to call on him to ‘show his face.’

The Israeli military said it launched a new wave of strikes in Tehran this morning, on the 14th day of its campaign against the Islamic Republic.

‘The IDF has just begun a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran,’ the military said.

The military said it had struck more than 200 targets in western and central Iran over the past day, including missile launchers and defence systems.

The latest attack on Dubai comes after expats claimed they will leave and never return as missiles continue to rain down over the United Arab Emirates.

Once a tax-free haven attracting influencers from across the globe and thousands of Brits seeking warm weather and crime free streets, Dubai’s carefully crafted image has been shattered and residents believe it is ‘finished’.

The emirate, home to around 240,000 British expats including Rio and Kate Ferdinand, Luisa Zissman and Petra Ecclestone, has been targeted by constant Iranian missile and drone attacks as the regime strikes US allies in the Middle East.

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Saudi Arabia intercepted dozens of drones entering its airspace, the defence ministry said, as Iran kept up attacks on oil-rich Gulf countries in response to US-Israeli strikes.

‘Twelve drones were intercepted and destroyed after entering Saudi airspace,’ a ministry spokesperson posted on X, after authorities reported at least 16 other drones were also shot down.

Saudi forces also intercepted a drone targeting Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter housing foreign embassies, the defence ministry said.