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Qatar, Iran Hold Joint Coast Guard Meeting to Boost Field Cooperation

Dhows, traditional sailing vessels, with Qatar flags anchored in Doha [Getty Images]
Dhows, traditional sailing vessels, with Qatar flags anchored in Doha [Getty Images]
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Qatar, Iran Hold Joint Coast Guard Meeting to Boost Field Cooperation

Dhows, traditional sailing vessels, with Qatar flags anchored in Doha [Getty Images]
Dhows, traditional sailing vessels, with Qatar flags anchored in Doha [Getty Images]

The 15th joint coast guard meeting between Iran and Qatar was held Sunday in Tehran to develop field cooperation and boost bilateral good-neighborly relations, according to Iranian media.

The Iranian side was headed by Border Guard Commander Brigadier General Ghasem Rezaei and the Qatari delegation was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Abdulaziz Ali al-Mohannadi, assistant director-general of the country’s Coasts and Borders Security, according to IRNA.

Ties between Iran and Qatar have been bolstered since the GCC decided to boycott Doha in June 2017 after accusing it of supporting terrorism.

Last week, Tehran also received UAE Coast Guard Commander Brigadier General Mohammed Ali Musleh al-Ahbabi to discuss means of enhancing border security between the two countries.

The two sides signed on Thursday a maritime border cooperation deal and agreed to hold meetings to discuss border cooperation every six months.

Qatar-funded media has launched a propaganda campaign against UAE's effort to hold border cooperation talks with Iran.

It exploited UAE's move to disrupt the Gulf alliance despite the official announcement by Abu Dhabi that its talks with Iran were routine and didn’t reflect any shift in regional policy.

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Japanese Police Arrest Man after Car Ploughs into Schoolchildren

Police officers investigate the scene in Osaka's Nishinari district on May 1, 2025. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT
Police officers investigate the scene in Osaka's Nishinari district on May 1, 2025. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT
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Japanese Police Arrest Man after Car Ploughs into Schoolchildren

Police officers investigate the scene in Osaka's Nishinari district on May 1, 2025. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT
Police officers investigate the scene in Osaka's Nishinari district on May 1, 2025. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT

Japanese police arrested a man after they said he ploughed his car deliberately into seven primary school children in the western city of Osaka on Thursday.

The children, who had been on their way home from school, were injured and rushed to hospital but all seven remained conscious.

An Osaka police official, who declined to be identified, said the driver was a 28-year-old man who lives in Tokyo and gave AFP an account of what he said after his arrest.

"I was fed up with everything, so I decided to kill people by ramming the car I was driving into several elementary school children," the official quoted the man as saying.

Police are holding him on suspicion of attempted murder, the official said.

The children are aged seven and eight and police said the most serious injury was a fractured jaw suffered by a seven-year-old girl.

The other six, all boys, appeared to have suffered comparatively milder injuries that included bruises and scratches and they were under examination, police said.

The car was "zigzagging" as it hit the children, with one girl "covered in blood and other kids suffering what appeared to be scratches", a witness told Nippon TV.

The driver was wearing a surgical mask and "looked like he was in shock" after he was dragged out of the car by school teachers, Nippon TV quoted a witness as saying.