World News Today Highlights: Tanker hit by drone as US-Iran attacks disrupt Gulf shipping

A policeman was killed and another was injured after unidentified assailants attacked a police patrol team in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The incident took place in the Shatakai Dam area of Karak district.

The police personnel were on patrol duty in the area under the Sabirabad Police Station when the assailants launched the stack.

Constable Zafran was killed in the attack while Constable Muhammad Imtiaz was seriously injured, according to news agency PTI.

China has warned the Philippines to stop stirring up trouble and undermining bilateral relations and stability in the South China Sea, while reiterating its position on the arbitration case.

"We advise some people in Philippines to stop trying to stir up trouble, stop undermining bilateral ties and stability in South China Sea," China's foreign ministry said in a note to the Philippine defence chief.

"Don't know the details of the situation, but China's position on South China Sea arbitration case is clear and consistent," the note added.

Israel has informed the British consulate in East Jerusalem to close and that the diplomats there will be stripped of their accreditation within 30 days, an Israeli official said, according to Reuters.

Israel further said that British ⁠representatives ⁠assigned to a US-led ⁠Gaza coordination ‌mission ​in Israel, ‌as well as British ‌diplomats based ​in ​Ramallah, ​must leave within ​seven days, Reuters reported, citing the source familiar with the matter.

Israel’s decision to close the British consulate follows sanctions announced by the UK, France and Canada against Israeli settlements, escalating diplomatic tensions.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, on Wednesday, said that he regretted Israel's decision to order the consulate ⁠to close, ​but said that it was not surprised.

"We weighed the costs and benefits of acting (...), and we thought we simply could not stand by because we feared Israeli action," he told BBC TV.

Over 1,000 flights in the UK were cancelled on Tuesday due to a technical issue in the air traffic control system, the flight monitoring website Flightradar24 reported. Airports across Britain were witnessing flight delays and cancellations after ​air traffic control ⁠provider NATS experienced ‌a technical glitch.

Air-traffic chiefs said that since planes could not take off safely, departures were severely delayed. Nearly two hours after the air traffic issues persisted across the United Kingdom, the National Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) said engineers had identified the problem and had fixed it, The Independent reported. However, it wasn’t clear how much time it would take for the system to return to normal.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran that the United States will continue to launch retaliatory strikes targeting Iranian oil tankers over attempted attacks on US warships.

“Iran continues to try to hit US naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Colombia.

The US military said that it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday (Sep 8) after attacks by Tehran on its warships.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) in a post on X said, "The CENTCOM forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 8, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days."

CENTCOM said that it destroyed the IRGC crude oil carriers M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1, and M/T Riesco in the Gulf of Oman as well as M/T Derya near Kharg Island.