World News Updates: Iran warns of ‘faster, more painful’ response to attacks

After 286 uninterrupted days at sea, sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Pattaya looking for the simplest signs of normal life: fresh food, clean clothes, pedicures, shopping trips and a few hours away from the carrier.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, carrying about 5,000 personnel, was on one of the longest deployments amid the US-Iran conflict that choked trade lines and upended normal schedules, besides leaving a long trail of human loss in its wake. The Thailand visit ended on Sunday after a five-day port call, during a period marked by reports of difficult living conditions and mental strain on board. Read more

Iran's Economy Minister Ali Madani-Zadeh has rejected the idea that Washington can force changes to Tehran's governance through economic pressure, calling the notion a "mistake," Al Jazeera reported.

"The responsibility for reforming Iran's economy lies with the Iranian government and people, not the US Treasury Department," Madani-Zadeh said, according to Al Jazeera.

He said millions of Iranian workers have found new ways to survive economically after years of Western sanctions, adding that imports, exports and production are continuing as normal, Al Jazeera reported.

Iran's economy is run for "the life and welfare of the Iranian people" and cannot be dictated by the United States, the minister said.

More than 250 rights groups have written to the federal government over the way border officials handled a student protest in Calgary, after several people at the demonstration, including Indian nationals, were served with removal orders. The letter, sent on September 2 and signed by rights groups including Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, seeks an independent review and calls for a pause of the removal orders. Read more

Israeli air raids struck southern Lebanon, hitting a building in Arab Salim that Israeli forces had earlier warned they would strike, along with the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa and the area around Kfar Reman, Al Jazeera reported.

An elderly woman has been rescued alive from the wreckage of her home in Nuwakot, more than a week and a half after floods swept through the district, The Kathmandu Post reported. The rescue came as her family had already begun funeral rites in her memory, and as separate operations freed further survivors trapped inside hydropower tunnels nearby.

Chandika Shrestha, 64, of Betrawati in Bidur Municipality-10, went missing along with four relatives on 26 August, when flash flooding struck the Bhotekoshi river basin and destroyed entire settlements, the paper reported. For ten days, her family had no word of her fate. By the eighth day, they had begun performing her death rituals, fashioning an effigy from kush grass in place of her body. Read more

A mudslide killed two people and left 10 missing in eastern China, damaging a dozen houses following days of torrential rain brought by tropical cyclone Saudel, state media said Sunday.

The mudslide hit part of a village in Suichuan County in Jiangxi province early Saturday, prompting rescuers to rush to the scene and relocate residents to safer ground to prevent further danger, authorities said in a statement.

One person pulled out was found dead, while two others were rescued alive and in good condition, it said.

Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta international airport suspended flight operations until ⁠9:30 a.m. (0230 ​GMT) on Sunday due to volcanic ash from the ongoing eruption ​of ​Mount Anak ⁠Krakatau, Jakarta's main airport posted on Instagram.

The ‌suspension, extending a halt that had been scheduled until 5:30 a.m., has affected 33 flights, including ⁠several international ⁠flights, Indonesia's transportation ministry said.

Mount Anak ⁠Krakatau ‌has erupted ​since late ‌on Friday, with volcanic ash detected in ‌the airport ​early ​on ​Sunday, the ministry said in a ​statement.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that it has launched “several ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a US Navy destroyer, which were harassing Iranian ships and participating in a naval blockade”, in a statement.

Tasnim news agency reported that the IRGC claimed that these two warships, “after sustaining damage and fearing further attacks, were forced to flee the conflict zone”.

The IRGC also referred to an earlier US CENTCOM statement, where commander Brad Cooper said, “If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost – taking out three of yours.”

The IRGC added: “If the United States continues its hostile and aggressive actions, the US regime should expect a significant response from the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We are stronger than ever.”

Iran’s military command has warned that attacks on US military vessels in the region will intensify if Washington continues its naval siege, Iranian state media said, according to Reuters.

Iran's top military command also said that strikes could expand if the US continued the "harassment" of Iranian ships.