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Air India Dreamliner Returns to Hong Kong After Technical Issue Mid-Air 

The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, flies over Melbourne, Australia, on December 29, 2024, in this handout picture. (Reuters) 
The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, flies over Melbourne, Australia, on December 29, 2024, in this handout picture. (Reuters) 
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Air India Dreamliner Returns to Hong Kong After Technical Issue Mid-Air 

The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, flies over Melbourne, Australia, on December 29, 2024, in this handout picture. (Reuters) 
The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, flies over Melbourne, Australia, on December 29, 2024, in this handout picture. (Reuters) 

An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane bound for New Delhi returned to its origin of Hong Kong as a precautionary measure on Monday, after the pilot suspected a technical issue mid-air, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The incident comes days after an Air India flight to London, using the same type of Boeing aircraft, crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad moments after take-off, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.

The Dreamliner aircraft flying Air India flight AI315 out of Hong Kong on Monday is now undergoing checks, said the source with knowledge of the matter.

AI315 made a return to Hong Kong International Airport and requested local standby at around 1 p.m., "landed safely at around 1:15 p.m.", the spokesperson of Airport Authority Hong Kong said. The airport operations were not affected, the spokesperson added.

Flight AI315 took off from Hong Kong at around 12:20 p.m. and landed just around an hour later. It reached an altitude of 22,000 feet, and then started descending, according to flight tracking website AirNav Radar. The plane was 7 years old.

Boeing and Air India did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Hong Kong-New Delhi flight.

Last week's crash brings a new challenge for both Air India, which has for years been trying to revamp its fleet, and Boeing, which is trying to rebuild public trust following a series of safety and production crises.

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Israeli Army Says Struck Tehran University Run by Iran Guards

A photograph shows the damage during the visit of a car service center in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
A photograph shows the damage during the visit of a car service center in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
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Israeli Army Says Struck Tehran University Run by Iran Guards

A photograph shows the damage during the visit of a car service center in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
A photograph shows the damage during the visit of a car service center in eastern Tehran that was hit by a missile strike, on March 28, 2026. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Israel's military said Monday that it had struck a university in Tehran run by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, claiming the institution was used for advanced weapons research.

"In recent days, one of the IRGC's central military infrastructure sites was recently struck, located within the compound of Imam Hossein University -- the IRGC's primary military academic institution, which also serves as an emergency asset for the regime's military bodies," a statement by the Israeli military said, AFP reported.

Senior Iranian officials, including former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, had previously visited the university.

"During the operation, the army struck military infrastructure within the university multiple times in order to inflict significant damage to the regime's weapons production and development capabilities," the Israeli military said.

It added that it had destroyed wind tunnels beneath the university, its chemistry center, and a technology and engineering center of its mechanics and development group -- which the Israelis said were all used for the development of weapons.

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Unknown Gunmen Kill More Than 70 in South Sudan after a Dispute at a Gold Mine

A gold mine in the Sudanese desert on 3 October 2011 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
A gold mine in the Sudanese desert on 3 October 2011 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Unknown Gunmen Kill More Than 70 in South Sudan after a Dispute at a Gold Mine

A gold mine in the Sudanese desert on 3 October 2011 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
A gold mine in the Sudanese desert on 3 October 2011 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)

Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, a police spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

A video of dozens of bodies at an open ground was shared online, and a local journalist said many other victims are believed to have fled to the bushes, The Associated Press said.

The gold mining site at Jebel Iraq in Central Equatoria State has in the past been the site of violent clashes between illegal miners and mining companies.

Police spokesperson Kwacijwok Dominic Amondoc said he would share more information about the attack once he gets more details.

“All I know is that unknown gunmen attacked Jebel Iraq at a gold mine. There are more than 70 dead and many more injured,” he said.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army – In Opposition, or SPLM/A-IO, condemned the attack on Monday and blamed government forces.

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France Probes Possible Iran Link after Bomb Attack Foiled Outside Bank of America

Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
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France Probes Possible Iran Link after Bomb Attack Foiled Outside Bank of America

Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
Police stand outside the Bank of America building in Paris, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of American building in Paris on the weekend, the interior minister said Monday.

The authorities suspect there could be a link to Iran due to similarities to other recent attempted attacks in Europe which a pro-Iran group claimed credit for, French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said.

On Saturday morning, Paris police officers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the premises of the Bank of America in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital. Three suspects have since been arrested and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into alleged terrorism-related offenses.

Authorities are making a “direct link” with Iran because the “modus operandi is in every respect similar to actions that have been carried out in the Netherlands and in Belgium,” Nuñez said on French radio RTL on Monday morning.

In those cases there were claims by a pro-Iranian group that “linked them to the conflict” in the Middle-East, The Associated Press quoted him as saying.

The group, known on Telegram under the name Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, which translates as the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, also claimed responsibility for an attack last week in London, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire.

“Typically, intelligence services of this country (Iran) operate in this way: they use proxies, a series of subcontractors, often common criminals, to carry out highly targeted actions aimed at US interests, the interests of the Jewish community, or Iranian opposition figures,” Nuñez said.

Nuñez said French authorities have stepped up security around key personalities and sites since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, including the personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition.