Sri Lanka extreme weather death toll rises to 410

The death toll from extreme weather conditions hitting Sri Lanka has risen to 410, while 336 people remain missing, the country's Disaster Management Center said Tuesday.

Wholesale prices of vegetables at Sri Lanka's Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center had risen sharply on Monday following recent adverse weather in the country.

The official wholesale price list displayed at the center for Monday at 08:00 local time showed a wide range of elevated prices across key vegetables.

One kg of carrots is now being sold between 700 rupees (about 2.27 U.S. dollars) and 1,000 rupees at the wholesale market. Beans and leeks are quoted at 500 to 800 rupees per kg, marking a steep increase compared with normal trading levels at the country's main wholesale hub for up-country produce.

For other vegetables, cabbage is marked at 100 to 180 rupees per kg and cauliflower at 350 to 400 rupees, both notably elevated from before.

Traders at the center attributed the price hikes to the large-scale destruction of vegetable plots caused by recent heavy rains and landslides.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced Wednesday it had launched the 89th wave of Operation True Promise 4, carrying out strikes against U.S. and Israeli targets in the region.

The IRGC said in a statement that Iran and various resistance fronts, through coordinated operations, used heavy missiles, attack drones, and rockets to strike U.S. military bases and Israeli targets.

The statement said the operation targeted Israeli military facilities and assembly points in Eilat, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, and other locations, and claimed that, according to local sources, it had caused significant Israeli casualties.

The IRGC also stated that it had hit a location in Bahrain housing 80 U.S. troops, and Iranian ballistic missiles struck a U.S. helicopter formation at a base in Kuwait, destroying one helicopter and damaging others.