killed in an airstrike<\/a> on Beirut\u2019s Ramlet Al-Baida coast early Thursday, according to Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Public Health. Israel said it launched another large-scale \u201cwave of strikes\u201d across the country targeting Hezbollah launchers and infrastructure in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh. CNN teams on the ground in Beirut heard and felt explosions overnight.\n <\/p>\n\n Iraq: Video geolocated by CNN shows smoke rising from the Erbil International Airport in Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region. Earlier, two foreign oil tankers were attacked by Iranian drones in Iraq\u2019s territorial waters. At least one person was killed and 38 others rescued. Iran claimed responsibility, saying an underwater drone blew up the tankers.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bahrain said Iranian attacks targeted fuel tanks at a facility in the kingdom\u2019s northern Muharraq Governorate. The interior ministry warned residents in four nearby towns and villages to remain in their homes and close their windows to avoid the effects from smoke and fire.\n <\/p>\n
\n Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said it had intercepted and destroyed more than 20 drones in the eastern parts of the country, home to the kingdom\u2019s oil fields.\n <\/p>\n
\n The United Arab Emirates said its air defenses were responding to \u201cincoming missile and drone threats from Iran.\u201d Dubai\u2019s government media office said a drone fell on a building in the vicinity of Creek Harbour and a minor fire was brought under control.\n <\/p>\n
\n Kuwait\u2019s armed forces said its air defenses intercepted \u201ca number of hostile drones\u201d at dawn after they breached the country\u2019s airspace in the north. Two people were injured after a drone targeted a residential building in southern Kuwait, according to the defense ministry. The attack caused a fire that was later extinguished, Kuwait News Agency reported.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran ramped up its attacks on oil facilities and tankers in the Persian Gulf Thursday morning as multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-531006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}