Major roads are also being shut down, along with bans on hiking trails and Teide National Park, and the suspension of all outdoor events.

It comes after five members of the team escaped their hotel to seek asylum in Australia.

The Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica’s most unstable ice masses, is edging closer to a point of no return, according to scientists

Sebastian Toerstad,a high school student who drove past the embassy at the time of the blast,said: ‘There was a very thick layer of smoke ​on the street.

Authorities confirmed that the facade of the high-rise building in the city's Al-Barsha district had been damaged following after air defence systems responded to an Iranian air strike