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Thursday, 16 January 2025 04:57
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 468
Israel, Hamas ceasefire accord followed by airstrikes on Gaza, residents say Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, and mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce's start on Sunday. The complex ceasefire accord between Israel and militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, emerged on Wednesday after months of mediation by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. and 15 months of bloodshed that devastated the coastal territory and inflamed the Middle East. The deal outlines a six-week initial ceasefire with the gradual withdrawal of…
Thursday, 16 January 2025 04:55
What to know after Day 1057 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia strikes key Ukrainian gas storage facility – MOD Russia targeted Ukraine’s critical gas and energy infrastructure in response to recent attacks on Russian territory using Western-supplied long-range missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry announced early Thursday. The combined strikes, carried out on the morning of January 15, involved drones and high-precision weaponry and successfully hit several targets intended to weaken facilities supporting Ukraine’s military-industrial complex. “One of the successfully hit targets was the ground infrastructure of the largest underground gas storage facility in the city of Stryi in the Lviv region,” the ministry stated. According to previous media…
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 04:34
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 467
Gaza ceasefire appears close as US, Egyptian leaders put focus on 'coming hours' Negotiators were near to hammering out the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar, and the U.S. and Egyptian leaders promised to stay in close contact about a deal over the coming hours. More than eight hours of talks in Doha had fuelled optimism. Officials from mediators Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. as well as Israel and Hamas said an agreement for a truce in the besieged enclave and release of hostages was closer than ever. Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson…
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 04:33
What to know after Day 1056 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine fires US, British missiles into Russia, launches one of largest drone attacks so far Russia's military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date. After Ukraine first launched ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles into Russia last year, Moscow responded on Nov. 21 by launching a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile known as "Oreshnik", or Hazel Tree, at Ukraine. Russia's defence ministry said it had shot down all of…
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 04:41
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 466
Gaza ceasefire deal close after 'breakthrough' in Doha Negotiators will meet in Doha on Tuesday seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after U.S. President Joe Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he has championed was on "the brink" of coming to fruition. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of an agreement on Monday, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight "breakthrough" in talks attended by envoys of both the outgoing U.S. president and President-elect Donald Trump. "The deal ... would free the hostages, halt the fighting,…
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 04:40
What to know after Day 1055 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Trump says he will meet 'very quickly' with Putin U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he is going to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "very quickly" after he takes office next week. He did not provide a timeline for the meeting, which would be the first between the leaders of the two countries since Russia's war with Ukraine started in February 2022. When asked about his strategy to end the war, Trump told Newsmax: "Well, there's only one strategy and it's up to Putin and I can't imagine he's too thrilled about the way it's gone because…
Monday, 13 January 2025 04:43
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 465
Top Israeli security delegation in Doha for Gaza talks A top level Israeli security delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for talks on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a possible sign of so-far elusive agreements nearing. Qatar and fellow mediators Egypt and the United States are making renewed efforts to reach a deal to halt the fighting in the enclave and free the remaining 98 hostages held there before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Netanyahu's office said on Saturday that the delegation includes Mossad Head David…
Monday, 13 January 2025 04:41
What to know after Day 1054 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine won’t reclaim all Russian-held territories – Trump adviser It is not possible to “expel every Russian from every inch” of soil claimed by Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula, incoming US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz has admitted. Acknowledging “that reality” has become a major step toward resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Waltz told ABC News in an interview on Sunday, adding that this idea is now in the process of being accepted by Ukraine’s backers. “Everybody knows that this [conflict] has to end somehow diplomatically. I just don’t think it’s realistic to say we’re going…
Sunday, 12 January 2025 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 464
Four Israeli troops killed in northern Gaza, army says Four Israeli troops were killed during combat in northern Gaza, the Israeli army said on Saturday. ** Trump's Middle East envoy meets Netanyahu on Saturday amid ceasefire push U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday amid a push to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu's office said. After the meeting, Netanyahu dispatched a high-level delegation which included the head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency to Qatar in order to "advance" talks to return hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza,…
Sunday, 12 January 2025 04:46
What to know after Day 1053 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Putin honors soldier from viral Ukraine knife fight President Vladimir Putian has awarded the title ‘Hero of Russia’ to a soldier who defeated a Ukrainian service member in a brutal knife fight that went viral online. Andrey Grigoryev was decorated for “bravery and heroism” in combat, according to the presidential decree published on Saturday. A corporal with the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Grigoryev overpowered a Ukrainian soldier during a battle near the village of Trudovoye in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic. Although the incident took place in the fall of 2024, the dramatic bodycam footage of the hand-to-hand combat…
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Saturday, 11 January 2025 05:02
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 463
Five killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon, health ministry says Five people were killed and four wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Tayr Debba in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military said it had conducted an airstrike on vehicles loaded with weapons used by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon. The army said it "continues to be committed to the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon, is deployed in the southern Lebanon area, and will work to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens". Israel and…
Saturday, 11 January 2025 05:00
What to know after Day 1052 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage U.S. President Joe Biden's administration imposed its broadest package of sanctions so far targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues on Friday, in an effort to give Kyiv and Donald Trump's incoming team leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine. The move is meant to cut Russia's revenues for continuing the war in Ukraine that has killed more than 12,300 civilians and reduced cities to rubble since Moscow invaded in February, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a post on X…
Friday, 10 January 2025 04:33
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 462
US House votes to sanction International Criminal Court over Israel The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the "Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act," which would sanction any foreigner who investigates, arrests, detains or prosecutes U.S. citizens or those of an allied country, including Israel, who are not members of the court. Forty-five Democrats joined 198 Republicans in backing the bill. No Republican voted…
Friday, 10 January 2025 04:32
What to know after Day 1051 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Kremlin ‘would welcome’ contact from Trump Moscow would be willing to talk to US President-elect Donald Trump if he sticks to his plan of restoring contacts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday. It has not received any specific requests from Washington in this regard, he added. Trump has promised on several occasions that he could achieve a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict in just one day. In December, he also said that he would wait for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the hostilities. Moscow has repeatedly said that…