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00:00Iran's supreme leader responded to Israel's attack but did not call for retaliation.
00:11One person has been killed and at least 30 are injured after a truck slammed into a bus
00:16stop north of Tel Aviv.
00:22International observers have confirmed there were issues in the electoral process during
00:25Georgia's Sunday elections.
00:31Lithuanians are voting in the second and final round of the country's parliamentary elections.
00:46Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stopped short of calling for retaliation following
00:51Israel's attack on his country.
00:54He said the attack must not be exaggerated but also not underplayed and called on Iranian
00:59officials to decide how to respond in the interest of the nation and people.
01:24Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke about the attack at the funeral
01:28of an Israeli soldier on Sunday, saying it achieved all its goals.
01:32Saturday's attack damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian
01:37capital and killed four Iranian soldiers.
01:44One person has been killed and at least 30 are injured after a truck slammed into a bus
01:50stop north of Tel Aviv.
01:52Rescue services said six people are also in a serious condition.
01:58Local media reported that many of those injured were elderly people disembarking from the
02:03bus.
02:04The attack occurred near the headquarters of Israel's Mossad spy agency as well as a
02:12central highway junction.
02:18Police say the attacker was neutralised but it was not clear whether the suspect was stopped
02:23or killed.
02:24They are suspecting a terror attack.
02:31Tensions have soared since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, with Israel regularly carrying
02:35out raids in the occupied West Bank and attacks in Israel increasing as well.
02:46International observers have confirmed there were issues in the electoral process during
02:50Georgia's Sunday elections.
02:53The head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe delegation said there
02:57were cases of vote-buying and double-voting, especially in rural areas.
03:02He also said an observer from his delegation found his car vandalised.
03:07The
03:32Central Election Commission has completed counting votes with the ruling Georgian Dream
03:36party claiming a majority of nearly 54%.
03:40The four parties in the opposition Coalition for Change, which came second in the elections,
03:44are giving up their parliamentary mandates, according to the union's head.
03:53Lithuanians are voting in the second and final round of the country's parliamentary elections,
03:58with the Conservative governing party still in contention despite first-round gains from
04:03the left-leaning opposition.
04:05Strict Covid-19 measures during the pandemic, political scandals and an influx of migrants
04:10from neighbouring Belarus have hurt the popularity of the sitting government, which took office
04:15in 2020.
04:17The vote in Lithuania, which borders Russia to the west and Belarus to the east, comes
04:21at a time when Russia's war in Ukraine is fueling greater concerns about Moscow's intentions
04:27in the strategically important Baltic region.
04:31It will set the political tone in the nation for the next four years, but despite a possible
04:35shift to the left, analysts say there won't be a significant change in Lithuania's foreign
04:40policy.
04:42The opposition Social Democrats came out of the first round with an edge two weeks ago,
04:47taking 20 of the first 70 seats to be decided.