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Wednesday, 03 January 2024 04:37

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 89

Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expand An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas’ No. 2 political leader Tuesday, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel’s war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict. Saleh Arouri, who was the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war with Israel began, was also a founder of the group’s military wing. His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia. The strike hit an apartment in a building in a…

Wednesday, 03 January 2024 04:36

What to know after Day 678 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia pounds Ukraine's two biggest cities in new wave of attacks Russia pounded Ukraine's two biggest cities on Tuesday in a new wave of heavy air strikes that killed at least five civilians and prompted calls for the West to quickly provide more military assistance. Ukraine's Interior Ministry said 135 people had been injured in the latest missile and drone attacks, including 61 in and around Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city in the northeast and 17 in and around the capital, Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said rescue operations continued into the late evening as the assaults also caused widespread…

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 04:32

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 88

Israel is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza in a possible precursor to a scaled-back offensive The Israeli military confirmed Monday that it was pulling thousands of troops out of the Gaza Strip, a step that could clear the way for a new long-term phase of lower-intensity fighting against the Hamas militant group. The confirmation of the planned troop drawdown came the same day that Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan. While the plan is not directly connected to the war effort, it was the source of deep divisions…

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 04:31

What to know after Day 677 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia to ramp up attacks on Ukraine – Putin Ukraine's weekend attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, which has left dozens of civilians dead and injured, was an act of terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. Kiev will not be left unpunished when it engages in such activities, he warned. The president insisted that Moscow will not retaliate in kind with indiscriminate attacks on civilians, but will focus instead on Ukraine’s military sites. The president made the remarks on New Year’s Day at a military hospital in Moscow, where he met Russian servicemen wounded during…

Monday, 01 January 2024 04:45

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 87

Israeli strikes in central Gaza kill at least 35 as Netanyahu says war will continue for months Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 35 people Sunday, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave a day after Israel’s prime minister said the war will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a cease-fire. The military said Israeli forces were operating in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, and residents reported strikes in the central region, the latest focus of the nearly three-month air-and-ground war that has raised fears of a regional conflagration. The U.S. military…

Monday, 01 January 2024 04:44

What to know after Day 676 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Kharkiv strikes were retaliation for Belgorod attack, Russia says Russia on Sunday said it attacked military facilities in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, including a hotel housing military commanders and "foreign mercenaries", in response to Ukraine's strikes on Belgorod the previous day. Kharkiv officials had said that at least six missiles hit Ukraine's second city, injuring at least 28 people and damaging residential buildings, hotels and medical facilities, followed by waves of drone attacks on housing blocks. Russia's statement said its attack hit the former Kharkiv Palace hotel and the headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service for…

Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:27

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 86

Netanyahu says Gaza war on Hamas will go on for 'many more months,' thanks US for new weapons sales Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza will continue for “many more months,” pushing back against persistent international cease-fire calls after mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the besieged enclave. Netanyahu thanked the Biden administration for its continued backing, including approval for a new emergency weapons sale, the second this month, and prevention of a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking an immediate cease-fire. Israel argues that ending the war now would mean victory…

Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:26

What to know after Day 675 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian air assaults target Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine says Russia launched a fresh bombardment of Ukraine in the hours leading into New Year's Eve, Ukrainian officials said, targeting Kyiv and inflicting damage on residential areas of the country's second largest city of Kharkiv. Ukraine's air defence systems in the region surrounding Kyiv were engaged late on Saturday to repel Russia's drone attack, the military administration of the region said on its Telegram messaging channel. The scale of the attack and any damage were not immediately clear. In Kharkiv, in Ukraine's northeast, a fresh drone attack in several waves…

Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:31

2024: ‘Ukraine will have the means to survive, but not to win’ - CNN

A year ago, a resolute President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled direct from the battlefield of Bakhmut to address the US Congress and meet with President Joe Biden. He was feted as a hero; Ukraine’s determination to resist Russian aggression met with strong bipartisan backing in Washington. One year on, the outlook looks much grimmer. A long-anticipated Ukrainian offensive in the south has made scant progress. Russia appears to have weathered international sanctions, for now, and has converted its economy into a war machine. The Russian way of war, absorbing hideous losses of men and materiel but throwing yet more into the…

Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:30

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 85

Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas rages after nearly 200 killed in Gaza Fierce Israeli tank fire and aerial bombing struck Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, residents said, after nearly 200 people were reported killed in 24 hours in Israel's campaign against Hamas militants. The sound of shooting indicated fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in Khan Younis, some residents said. Planes also carried out a series of air strikes on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to medics and Palestinian journalists. Israeli forces have been pounding Khan Younis in preparation for…

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Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:29

What to know after Day 674 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia unleashes biggest air attack on Ukraine since start of full-scale invasion Russia has launched the biggest air attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian military told CNN, with an unprecedented number of drones and missiles fired at targets across the country, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 150 others. The wave of attacks began overnight into Friday and struck nationwide, with blasts reported in the capital Kyiv, as well as at a maternity hospital in the central city of Dnipro, the eastern city of Kharkiv, the southeastern port of…

Friday, 29 December 2023 04:49

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 84

Israeli tanks, missiles strike Gaza in offensive against Hamas Israeli forces attacked areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip where residents have been expecting a renewed ground offensive in areas crammed with tens of thousands of Palestinians already displaced by the Israeli-Hamas war. With nightfall on Thursday, an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern city of Khan Younis killed eight Palestinians, health officials said. Three Palestinians were killed and six injured in an Israeli missile strike on a house in Maghazi camp in central Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent said. "The task here is to dismantle Hamas…

Friday, 29 December 2023 04:48

What to know after Day 673 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE What to know after Day 673 of Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine's Zelenskiy says he discussed peace formula with Pope Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed Ukraine's peace formula in a call with Pope Francis on Thursday. "We discussed our joint work to put Ukraine's Peace Formula into action," Zelenskiy said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "Over 80 countries are already involved in this process at the level of their representatives. And there will be more of them," he added. Zelenskiy said he thanked Francis for his Christmas greetings "as well as his wishes for a just…

Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:41

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 83

On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges, as the military launched heavy strikes across the center and south of the territory, killing dozens, Palestinian health officials said. On foot or riding donkey carts loaded with belongings, a stream of people flowed into Deir al-Balah — a town that normally has a population of around 75,000. It has been overwhelmed by several hundred thousand people driven from northern Gaza as the region was pounded…

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