WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. was announced, leaders in President Donald Trump’s administration have been quick to say Iranian military and arms capacity have been all but wiped out during weeks of fighting.

But there is also an acknowledgment that Tehran retains some capabilities, whether to strike back or defend itself.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this week said the U.S. military has hit more than 13,000 targets. He listed high percentages for attacks or destruction to Iran’s air defenses, navy and weapons factories.

However, the totals stop short of Iran’s military capabilities being “decimated” as the Republican president has asserted.

Independent data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a U.S.-based group that tracks conflicts around the world, shows Iranian strikes persisted at a relatively steady and uninterrupted pace since the war began Feb. 28 through Wednesday.

Here’s a look at what the U.S. says has been targeted, has been degraded or remains from Iran, by the numbers:

About 80% of Iran’s air defense systems ‘destroyed’

Caine told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that the U.S. has struck more than 1,500 air defense targets, more than 450 ballistic missile storage facilities and 800 one-way attack drone storage facilities. He said, “All of these systems are gone.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth similarly claimed that “Iran no longer has an air defense” and that “we own their skies” before conceding soon afterward that Iran “can still shoot — we know that.”

Hegseth later elaborated, saying that while the Iranians may “have a system here or there,” they no longer had an air defense “system that’s capable of defending their skies.”

Neither Caine nor Hegseth said what the remaining 20% of Iran’s air defenses looked like or which parts of the country have the ability to carry out the sporadic fire they described.

Caine offered no new details about what kind of weapon the Iranians used to shoot down a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle last week. It was the first time an American military jet was shot down during the war, showing Tehran’s continued ability to hit back despite assertions from the Trump administration.

Trump described it on Monday as a “handheld shoulder missile, heat-seeking missile.”

More than 90% of Iran’s regular Navy fleet ‘sunk’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday that the Iranian navy was “completely annihilated.”

While 150 Iranian ships “are at the bottom of the ocean,” Caine said, only half the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s small attack boats — ships the government used to swarm and harass warships and merchants in the Strait of Hormuz — have been sunk.

Caine also said that after more than 700 strikes, the military believed it has destroyed more than 95% of Iran’s naval mines.

The message is likely designed to be a pressure tactic as Iran, Israel and the United States head into negotiations this weekend in Pakistan. Independent analysts say they have seen no change in merchant traffic through the strait since the tenuous ceasefire began this week.

About 90% of Iran’s weapons factories ‘attacked’

Caine said Wednesday that the military “destroyed Iran’s defense industrial base” while pointing to the fact that the U.S. and allies attacked “approximately 90% of their weapons factories.”

He also said, “nearly 80% of Iran’s nuclear industrial base was hit, further degrading their attempts to attain a nuclear weapon.”

While he noted that Iran was no longer able to produce certain components like solid rocket motors, he stopped short of saying that Iran could not eventually rebuild or get weapons in other ways or that the factories attacked had actually been destroyed or rendered unusable.

Trump acknowledged this possibility when he warned countries against arming Iran.

“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately,” Trump said in a social media post on Wednesday.

More than 90% interception rate in Israel

Meanwhile, Israel’s military pointed to how many drones or missiles it has been able to stop from landing. It said it had an interception rate of more than 90% through its aerial defense systems.

Over the decades, Israel has developed a sophisticated system capable of detecting incoming fire and deploying only if a projectile is headed toward a population center or sensitive military or civilian infrastructure.

Israeli leaders say the system isn’t 100% guaranteed but credit it with preventing serious damage and countless casualties.

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Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.

The co-owner said they want guests to feels as though they have been “transported to an island”

A venue offering crazy golf with a karaoke and cocktail bar that feels as though you have been “transported to an island” is set to open in a Cambridgeshire town where there is “nothing quite like it”. Starting renovation in December last year, Volcano Valley is due to open on Saturday, April 11, in Wisbech.

The venue will open in the former Frankie & Benny’s unit on Cromwell Leisure Park in Wisbech. Developed by Chris Atkins and Chris Gooderson, the new venue will feature indoor crazy golf, a cocktail bar, karaoke rooms, and SMARTS darts. The venue aims to provide a family-friendly daytime activity and an evening venue for adults.

When it came to choosing a location, co-owner Chris Atkins said: “I just looked at it [the site] and thought this would be absolutely perfect”. He added that this business idea was ideal in Wisbech because “there is nothing quite like it in the area”.

He said: “What we find ourselves is whenever we want to go and do something, we end up having to either drive to Cambridge or Norwich or Peterborough to do it, and I thought, how many other people think the same thing.”

Combined with sand flooring, blue ceilings, a tiki bar with a thatched roof, and the golf course, Chris Atkins said that the “second you walk in we want to make you feel transported off to an island”.

The golf course takes you through three zones starting at the beach, going to the jungle, and finishing off at the volcano area. The course is priced at £8.95 for adults and £5.95 for children. The darts will be £25 for each lane per hour and a private karaoke room for guests to sing their hearts away in will be £25 for the hour.

Volcano Valley will be open from 10am to 6pm on Mondays to Thursdays, 10am to 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 10am to 5pm on Sundays.

Locals are divided over England’s first ever cycle street being built in Cambridge. Some say that it offers a ‘sustainable option’, while others believe “there are better things to invest money in”.

The project is hoping to create safer travel for cyclists around the city and is part of the Greater Cambridge Partnerships (GCP) Comberton Greenway.

Work on turning Adams Road into a cycle street started on Monday, October 13, and is expected to take around 30 weeks to complete. The road has been blocked off to cars with signs providing drivers with diversions around the area.

Adams Road is one of the busiest cycle routes in Cambridge and is used by around 3,000 cyclists at peak times. The project aims to improve the safety of cyclists by reducing on-road parking to remove blind spots, redesign junctions, and offer wider footpaths.

Jenna McKone, 33, has lived in Cambridge for five years. She said: “I am always for better cycling infrastructures and I think if we can pair better infrastructure with fixing the main roads for cars that would be ideal.”

Jenna explained that she “loves that Cambridge is a friendly city for cycling” especially because she cycles to most places. On the other hand, she also regularly drives for work, and in general, she likes that money is being spent on cycling infrastructure but “would like to see it equal on other roads”.

Mary Stillman, 21, said that the cycle street “sounds like a pretty good idea” and will contribute to “help traffic flow better”. However, Mary raised concerns about whether it could cause safety hazards for pedestrians and put them at risk.

She added: “I imagine there are better things to invest money in. It will also take a while so there’s a lot of blocks which is quite inconvenient.” The 21-year-old explained that she used to cycle a lot and that the new cycle street would encourage her to start again.

A 25-year-old, Emma Noble, who has lived in Cambridge for over a year, works for a climate organisation. Due to this, she thinks the new cycle route is “really exciting” and said she is looking forward to seeing “more sustainable options”.

Emma is hoping to start cycling again and now there’s a “safer option” for cyclists, it has encouraged her to do so. The 25-year-old believes that it is a “good use of money” and it is “good for the climate and people”. Promoting and creating a cycle street will encourage more people to use a bike rather than a car, she believes.

A lady, gave her name as Kris, commented that she thinks it is a good idea because she believed it is a very bike-orientated city.

Yuening Du is 23 and lives in Cambridge. Yuening believed that it is “causing inconvenience due to the road construction” and it is taking “more time to get to the destination”.

The 23-year-old dislikes that there has been “a lot of noise” made by the construction team. However, she cycles in Cambridge so believes it “is an improvement to have somewhere specific you can cycle”.

Undertone is the terrifying feature film debut from Canadian director Ian Tuason, which promises to be the “scariest movie you will ever hear”.

Evy (Nina Kiri) is a podcast host caring for her dying mother (Michèle Duquet) at home. Told only from Evy’s perspective, the film moves from initially creepy to utterly horrifying over a tense, tight 93-minute running time.

Evy’s Undertone podcast explores supernatural phenomena. Her co-host Justin (Adam DiMarco) is in another time zone, so they record online in the middle of the night, Evy’s time. This veers close to the “witching hour”, but as Evy is the podcast’s resident sceptic – the voice of reason opposing Justin’s belief in the paranormal – she is unbothered. Until she’s not.

For this week’s instalment, Evy and Justin react to a series of mysterious recordings involving a couple: Jessa (Keana Lyn Bastidas), who has begun talking in her sleep, and her husband Mike (Jeff Yung), who records her. These clips lend the story a naturally escalating structure, as the material grows increasingly distressing and the sense of dread intensifies.

As elements from the recordings seep into Evy’s world and her sense of reality begins to shift, Kiri proves superb in the role. Alone onscreen aside from her unconscious mother, she balances a raw fragility with intense emotional control. Kiri carries the film almost entirely, with supporting characters reduced to voices in her headphones or on her phone.

Undertone’s domestic setting has an uncanny familiarity to it, with soft furnishings, lamps and religious artwork bathed in cold, often unpredictably flickering light. Compounding the disquiet is the fact that Tuason used his childhood home in Toronto as his filming location, inspired by caring for his own ailing parents.

The result is an uneasy intimacy which blurs the line between personal memory and horror. This, combined with Evy’s mother’s impending death and the harrowing implications of the audio clips, makes the film a disturbing yet consistently absorbing experience.

At times, though, Tuason leans too heavily on religious iconography to generate unease, diluting some of the originality. The film also flirts with shock value using inherently distressing subject matter, rather than fully earning its impact.

Sound as terror

Sound design is Undertone’s real strength. As podcast host Justin says: “Don’t be afraid of the dark, be afraid of the silence.”

The film captures the sound of podcasting with close, warm, immaculately clear voices and achieves an intimate, studio-polished quality. Building the sense of unease, there are authentic-sounding sleep-talking recordings, nursery rhymes played backwards, exaggerated household noises such as taps and whistling kettles, and prolonged silences.

Other horror films such as Berberian Sound Studio, The Black Phone and Keeper have harnessed the unsettling potential of sound in recent years, exploring the eerie power of disembodied voices.

This is a lineage Undertone joins while carving out a more intimate horror. Tuason’s film also makes narrative use of the podcast hosts’ editing skills to great effect, as they speed up, slow down, reverse and replay the recordings over and over, trying to glean some sense from them. In doing so, sound becomes Undertone’s primary source of terror, placing its audience in the same position as Evy.

Undertone is a confident debut from Tuason, who understands exactly where the film’s power lies. By grounding its horror in voice and sound, the film becomes an experience that feels immediate and inescapable.

In placing us so firmly within Evy’s singular perspective, Undertone crosses the boundary between listener and participant, resulting in a work which fulfils its promise of terror. It is not for the faint of heart.

A new book has been published to mark 100 years since the birth of east Belfast man Danny Blanchflower

He was born in Belfast, in a place where the streets were narrow and the arguments were not. It was a city that demanded something of you early — a willingness to stand your ground. Danny Blanchflower learned those lessons long before he became a footballer. Identity came first. Football followed.

There is a new book out now — Danny Blanchflower: A Glorious Life by Mike Donovan — published to mark 100 years since his birth. It arrives not as a nostalgic exercise but as a timely reminder. Because Blanchflower does not sit easily in the modern game. He belongs to a different tradition — one where football was never just about the transaction.

He once explained his relationship with the sport in a way that felt disarmingly simple.

Danny Blanchflower never fell out of love with football. “Because I never had illusions to start with.”

There is honesty and a kind of defiance in that. He saw the game clearly — its beauty, its flaws, its limits — and chose to believe in it anyway. Not blindly but deliberately.

For all that clarity, he still spent a career striving for something close to perfection. Not perfection in the modern, statistical sense, but in the way a team should play, the way players should think, the way a dressing room should function.

Donovan’s book sets out to ensure that legacy endures.

“I want to make sure these players are not forgotten,” the author says. “Particularly Danny Blanchflower, because he was the guy who orchestrated everything. The ’61 side was the greatest in Spurs’ history. And he was the leader of that team.”

Leader, though, feels insufficient.

Blanchflower was the axis around which everything turned. He dictated tempo, shaped matches and set standards that went beyond the pitch. He had presence. When he spoke, people listened.

“Football was never about money,” he said.

There is a story, often told, that captures that ethos. At the height of his career, Blanchflower was offered a pay rise. He refused it. Asked for it to be distributed among his team-mates instead. It was a gesture that summed up the collective purpose he believed in.

In 1961, they achieved something that had been considered beyond reach. The League and FA Cup double — the first of the 20th century. It has been repeated since, often enough that it risks feeling routine. But at the time, it was anything but.

Blanchflower believed it could be done before anyone else did.

“He was the first to say it was possible,” Donovan says. “He was adamant.”

What followed was not just success, but a style of success that has endured in memory. Spurs did not simply win. They entertained. They dominated with a kind of elegance that made the game look expansive and generous.

“They crucified teams,” Donovan says, “but did it with style and grace.”

For a brief period, they may have been the finest side in the world. Real Madrid were ageing. Spurs were at their peak. Their European campaign came a year too late to confirm it, but the sense remains.

It was the greatest team in Tottenham’s history.

And at its centre was Blanchflower – one of only four Irishmen to captain an English club to their top division title – Roy Keane, Johnny Carey and Noel Cantwell being the others.

Donovan says: “We’ve had great players — Gascoigne, Klinsmann, Greaves, Bale, Kane,” Donovan says. “But that was our best team. And Blanchflower was the leader. I would say he is the most important player in Spurs’ history.”

He influenced the game in other ways too. He is credited with pioneering the defensive wall at free-kicks, a detail that now feels so embedded it is almost invisible. He thought about the game differently. He looked for solutions others had not yet considered.

And when leadership required words, he found those as well.

Before the 1963 Cup Winners’ Cup final, he felt manager Bill Nicholson had given too much respect to Atletico Madrid. Too much caution. Blanchflower addressed the players himself. He reminded them of their own quality, their own identity.

It was a moment that mattered. Spurs won. The players credited his intervention.

“He could command a room,” Donovan says.

That authority extended beyond club football.

In 1958, Northern Ireland embarked on a World Cup journey that defied expectation. Drawn against stronger, more established nations, they progressed through qualification and then beyond the group stage itself.

Blanchflower, alongside Peter Doherty, helped shape that achievement. It was more than a football story. Catholic and Protestant, different backgrounds and experiences, united by a shared purpose.

They saw off Italy, West Germany, Argentina and Czechoslovakia to reach the quarter-finals. Fatigue ended the run, but not the significance of it.

Blanchflower later returned as manager, motivated by a sense of obligation.

“I owed the game a debt,” he said. “I owed Northern Ireland a debt.”

There was always humour too, often dry, occasionally cutting. When a player asked about a win bonus, he replied: “We have no money and we don’t win matches. Therefore there is no bonus and no problem.”

He died in 1992, his final years affected by Parkinson’s and dementia. There is a sadness in that, an unavoidable one. A man whose life was built on clarity and memory gradually losing both.

But what remains is substantial.

Players are often remembered for moments — goals, trophies, flashes of brilliance. Blanchflower is remembered for what he valued.

That is why Donovan’s book feels important now.

If we don’t write about these heroes, if we don’t remember them, then what have we got?

History matters. Men like Blanchflower created legacies. May that always be remembered. And may he never be forgotten.

• DANNY BLANCHFLOWER, A GLORIOUS LIFE The Authorised 100th Anniversary Biography of a Global Football Icon By Mike Donovan Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd

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Lava flowed from the summit of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Thursday 9 April, with fountains reaching heights of 625ft (190M), according to the United States Geological Survey.

The geological agency said the eruption began at 11:10am local time (21:10 BST).

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off since December 2024, this latest eruption marks the 44th episode since then.

Man Utd midfielder Toby Collyer signed for Championship club Hull City on loan in the January transfer window.

Manchester United loanee Toby Collyer was delighted to impress on his first start for Hull City after recovering from an injury. Collyer spent the first half of the season with West Brom, but he was recalled in the January transfer window and sent to Hull for the second half of the campaign.

Sources close to Collyer believed he would show his quality with Hull after suffering an injury at West Brom, but he picked up another minor injury. The midfielder returned to fitness in March and was handed his first start against the Championship leaders Coventry earlier this week.

Hull were the underdogs heading into the game, but they secured a point in a goalless draw. Collyer played 74 minutes, delivering an excellent performance against Frank Lampard’s side.

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Speaking to Hull Live, Collyer said: “I came here having full trust from the staff upstairs as well. It wasn’t the best start in terms of physicality. I had a little setback, but I’ve just tried to build myself up in training again and be patient.

“I’ve managed to do a great job, I think so, credit to the manager for, I’d say putting me in at the right time. Football’s all about timing as well. I feel like he’s put me in at the right time.

“I feel like, from what I’ve shown in training, I’ve deserved it. I just enjoyed being out there again, starting, and got on the ball quite a bit. It just felt good playing again. I’m definitely (ready to play the next game), a little bit of cramp towards the end, but that’s natural with the limited minutes I’ve had.”

Over a dozen Championship clubs enquired about Collyer’s availability last summer. West Brom beat Hull to his signature, but Collyer’s first half of the campaign at the Hawthorns did not go as planned.

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“We know what sort of league the Championship is; it’s hectic. I think a lot can change in the last few weeks, so it’s a big point for the boys,” he added after drawing against Coventry.

“This league is crazy, I’ve never experienced anything like it. If feels like anyone can beat anyone. You can prepare for games, and then rock up and it’s completely different.

“We know what we’re aiming for, and we want to aim for as many points as possible. Whether we can push for automatics or get in the play-offs, we take it game by game.

“We’ve definitely got the quality to do it, and as I said previously, anything can change in these last few weeks. We’ve just got to do what we can do and let the rest take care of itself.”

Collyer’s contract at United runs until the summer of 2027, with the option of another year.

Sir Keir Starmer has hit out at Donald Trump

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Sir Keir Starmer has spoken to Donald Trump about the need for a “practical plan” to get shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the Middle East ceasefire.

The call between the leaders came shortly after the Prime Minister criticised the US president over the knock-on effects of the Iran conflict, saying he was “fed up” with bills going up in the UK “because of the actions of Putin or Trump”.

Sir Keir is visiting allies in the Gulf for talks on how to support the pause in fighting and secure a permanent reopening of the key shipping strait. He is set to head back to the UK on Friday after visiting Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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On Thursday, a Downing Street spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister spoke to President Trump from Qatar this evening.

“The Prime Minister set out his discussions with Gulf leaders and military planners in the region on the need to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the UK’s efforts to convene partners to agree a viable plan.

“They agreed that now there is a ceasefire in place and agreement to open the strait, we are at the next stage of finding a resolution. The leaders discussed the need for a practical plan to get shipping moving again as quickly as possible.”

Sir Keir earlier appeared to blame Mr Trump for rising bills alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling ITV’s Talking Politics Podcast: “I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses’ bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump.”

He added the ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz must have “toll-free navigation” as part of the ceasefire amid reports Iran wants to charge for passage.

Asked whether he viewed the critical strait as now being open, he said: “There are a lot of things being said – they need to be tested” and that the UK’s position is that “open” means “open for safe navigation”.

“That means toll-free navigation and vessels can get through,” he told Talking Politics.

Speaking in London, the Foreign Secretary also called for toll-free travel through the Strait, warning that trading routes from Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Oman were “all hijacked by Iran so that they can hold the global economy hostage”.

Yvette Cooper said: “The fundamental freedoms of the seas must not be unilaterally withdrawn or sold off to individual bidders and nor can there be any place for tolls on an international waterway.”

The US president later posted on his Truth Social platform: “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

He added in a separate post: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!”

Mr Trump agreed a two-week truce earlier this week with the reopening of the strait a key condition.

But the agreement soon came under strain as Israel’s bombardment of Beirut prompted Iran to close the shipping lane again amid disagreement over whether Lebanon was included in the ceasefire.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had authorised direct talks with Lebanon “as soon as possible” aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbours.

Sir Keir said Israeli strikes on Lebanon are “wrong” and that it should be included in the ceasefire.

His call with Mr Trump also came hours after he was asked about the US president’s language in his posts about Iran and said they were “not words I would use”.

“Let me be really clear and blunt about this – they’re not words I would use or would ever use because I come at this with our British values and principles foremost and uppermost in my mind,” he said.

The US leader has repeatedly lashed out publicly at Sir Keir in recent weeks over his failure to initially allow Washington to use UK bases.

He reiterated on Thursday that the US is only authorised to use UK bases for “collective self-defence” and said the UK is “monitoring” to make sure that is the case.

Elsewhere, Sir Keir wrote in The Guardian newspaper that “Iran must now become a line in the sand”. He said: “How we emerge from this crisis will define all of us for a generation.

“And, instead of hoping to return to the world of 2008, we will forge a new path for Britain – one that strengthens our energy, our defence and our economic security in a new age.”

A Downing Street spokesperson said that during his Middle East tour, Sir Keir discussed “the need to push to restore the free flow of goods to support global supply chains” with United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The Prime Minister also “expressed solidarity with the people of the UAE and his condolences for the lives lost as a result of Iran’s reckless bombardment”, according to No 10.

In talks with leaders from Bahrain, Sir Keir “reiterated the importance of ensuring the ceasefire is upheld in order to pave the way for lasting peace”.