KUALA LUMPUR: Alleged Israeli hitman Shalom Avitan has claimed trial at the Sessions Court here to two charges over the possession of six pistols and 158 bullets.The 38-year-old was brought into the courtroom at 10.25am yesterday to face the two charges.
In a significant increase in regional tensions, an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus led to the deaths of at least eleven people, including a senior officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi. The use of F-35 jets by Israeli warplanes in the attack has raised the stakes…