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Iran Unveils Drones Armed with Air-to-air Missiles

Minister of Defense, Commander of the Iranian Army, Commander of the Air Force and Commander of Air Defense during the inauguration of the drones in an unknown location last April (AP)
Minister of Defense, Commander of the Iranian Army, Commander of the Air Force and Commander of Air Defense during the inauguration of the drones in an unknown location last April (AP)
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Iran Unveils Drones Armed with Air-to-air Missiles

Minister of Defense, Commander of the Iranian Army, Commander of the Air Force and Commander of Air Defense during the inauguration of the drones in an unknown location last April (AP)
Minister of Defense, Commander of the Iranian Army, Commander of the Air Force and Commander of Air Defense during the inauguration of the drones in an unknown location last April (AP)

Iran said it has reinforced its air defense capabilities by adding combat drones equipped with air-to-air missiles to its arsenal, state media reported on Sunday.

"Dozens of Karrar drones armed with air-to-air missiles have been added for air defense in all border areas of the country," the official IRNA news agency said.

The drones, with an operational range of up to 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), were exhibited Sunday morning during a televised ceremony organized at a military academy in Tehran.

"The enemies will now have to rethink their strategies" because the Iranian forces have "become more powerful", IRNA quoted the commander-in-chief of Iran's army, General Abdolrahim Mousavi, as saying.

The Karrar interceptor drone, the first version of which was unveiled in 2010, has been equipped with a "Majid" thermal missile with a range of eight kilometres (five miles) "made entirely in Iran", added the agency.

It "succeeded in its operational tests" during military exercises held in October, Mousavi said.

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French High School Student is Arrested after Fatally Stabbing Another Student, Wounding 3

A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
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French High School Student is Arrested after Fatally Stabbing Another Student, Wounding 3

A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)

A student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.
The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. Fatal attacks are quite rare in French schools.
A national police official said the attack occurred at the private Catholic Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Nantes on France’s Atlantic coast.
The student stabbed four people with a knife during a lunch break before teachers subdued him, and he was later taken in by police, The Associated Press quoted the official as saying. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to national police policy.
Students at the school told French media at the scene that they had received an email from the assailant earlier in the day with unspecified grievances.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne said on X that she is heading to the school with Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to show “solidarity with victims and the school community.″ The regional prosecutor announced a news conference for later Thursday.
Images from the scene showed police and armed military forces surrounding the school as the investigation got underway.
An official at the school, which is part of a complex housing a primary and middle school, would not comment on what happened, saying the school is concentrating on caring for the students who were on campus at the time.