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Tuesday, 10 September 2024 04:49

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 340

Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties help approve more funding for war Israeli lawmakers gave their initial approval on Monday to raising the 2024 budget framework to help fund reservists and assist people displaced as a result of the war in Gaza, with support coming from ultra-Orthodox parties. The vote to add 3.4 billion shekels ($906 million) to the 2024 budget passed by a 58-52 margin, the Finance Ministry said. Ultra-Orthodox parties had threatened to boycott votes in parliament in a dispute over funding for their separate education system. The bill still needs to pass two more votes to become law. The rift…

Tuesday, 10 September 2024 04:49

What to know after Day 929 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces capture village of Memryk in east, Ukraine says troops holding firm Russian forces pressed on with their advance on the eastern front in their 2-1/2-year-old war against Ukraine, capturing the village of Memryk, east of the city of Pokrovsk, the Defence Ministry said. Ukraine made no mention in accounts by the military's General Staff of the village, lying in the front's most hotly contested sector. But the country's war blogs reported it had passed into Russian hands last week. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv's forces were holding their own in Donetsk region. Reuters could not…

Monday, 09 September 2024 04:49

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 339

Gunman crossing from Jordan kills three Israelis at border A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities said. It was the first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since Oct. 7, when Palestinian Islamist group Hamas carried out an assault on southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza that has escalated throughout the region. The attack took place in a commercial cargo area under Israeli control where Jordanian trucks offload cargo entering the West Bank, officials…

Monday, 09 September 2024 04:48

What to know after Day 928 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow's forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines. Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the size of the U.S. state of Ohio. Russia's defence ministry said its forces had taken the town of Novohrodivka, which…

Sunday, 08 September 2024 04:31

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 338

CIA director says more detailed Gaza ceasefire proposal due in days The head of the CIA, who is also the chief U.S. negotiator for an end to the Gaza war and release of hostages held by Hamas, said a more detailed ceasefire proposal would be made in the next several days. After 11 months of conflict in Gaza, CIA Director William Burns said he was working very hard on "texts and creative formulas" with mediators Qatar and Egypt to secure a ceasefire, by finding a proposal which satisfies both parties. "We will make this more detailed proposal, I hope in…

Sunday, 08 September 2024 04:30

What to know after Day 927 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine says Russia launched 67 drones in overnight attack Ukraine's air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down. The air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that air defence units were scrambled into action in 11 regions across Ukraine. Drone debris was found next to the parliament building in the capital Kyiv, the legislature said in a separate statement it posted on its official Telegram page along with several photographs. It is rare for…

Saturday, 07 September 2024 04:56

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 337

The Philadelphi corridor: What it is and why it matters to Israel-Gaza ceasefire talks The status of a narrow stretch of land known as the Philadelphi corridor on Gaza's border with Egypt has emerged as a stumbling block in efforts to secure a deal for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after 11 months of war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel needs to keep forces in the corridor to prevent it from becoming a lifeline for Hamas to smuggle weapons into Gaza. But Egypt says Israel must pull out, and Hamas is demanding an Israeli withdrawal from the…

Saturday, 07 September 2024 04:55

What to know after Day 926 of Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine long-range strikes into Russia won't be a game changer, U.S. says U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cautioned on Friday there was "no one capability" that would turn the war in Ukraine in Kyiv's favour after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to let his forces use its long-range weapons to strike Russia. At a regular meeting of Ukraine's allies at Ramstein U.S. Air Base in Germany, Zelenskiy repeated his plea for Western nations to supply more long-range missiles and lift restrictions on using them to hit targets such as airfields inside Russia. Austin said Washington and its allies would…

Friday, 06 September 2024 04:46

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 336

Israeli drone strike kills Palestinian gunmen amid more West Bank raids Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in the town of Tubas and in a nearby refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Thursday, the military said, as a major operation in the territory stretched into a second week. The incidents took place during raids in different areas of the West Bank that have involved hundreds of soldiers, police and intelligence officers backed by helicopters, drones and armoured vehicles - the biggest Israeli military action in the territory in months. In Tubas, a city in the north of…

Friday, 06 September 2024 04:45

What to know after Day 925 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine could cause ‘global nuclear disaster’ – Putin Ukrainian attacks on Russian nuclear power plants (NPP) could lead to a global disaster, President Vladimir Putin has warned. He suggested that Kiev think about what could happen if Moscow responded in kind. Speaking at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) on Thursday, Putin was asked to comment on what Moscow claims are regular Ukrainian raids on the Zaporozhye and Kursk NPPs, both located not far from the frontline. “Those are very dangerous terrorist acts. One could only imagine what would happen if we responded in kind.…

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Thursday, 05 September 2024 04:58

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 335

Netanyahu says Israel will not leave Gaza border corridor until it is secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt could never be used as a lifeline for the Islamist movement Hamas. "Until that happens, we're there," he told a news conference in Jerusalem. Netanyahu repeated his outright rejection of a withdrawal from the so-called Philadelphi corridor in the first phase of a deal, expected to last 42 days, saying international pressure would make it effectively impossible to…

Thursday, 05 September 2024 04:57

What to know after Day 924 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy orders war's biggest reshuffle to give Ukraine 'new energy' President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine needed "new energy", as he ordered a major government reshuffle at a crucial juncture in the war against Russia. A total of six ministers, including Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, submitted their resignation and parliament accepted the resignations of four. They included the resignations of a deputy prime minister in charge of European integration, the strategic industries minister overseeing Ukraine's arms production and two other ministers, the lawmakers said. "We need new energy today, and these steps are related only to…

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 04:46

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 334

US charges Hamas leaders over Oct. 7 attack on Israel The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. The charges against Yahya Sinwar, the militant group's chief, and at least five others accuse them of orchestrating the Oct. 7 attack, which killed 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans. That attack triggered an Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed more than 40,800 Palestinians and laid waste to much of the territory. "As outlined in our complaint, those defendants --…

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 04:44

What to know after Day 923 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian missiles kill 50 in strike on Ukrainian military institute At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine's central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the war's deadliest single attack this year. Photographs posted on social media showed several bodies of young men on the ground covered in dust and debris, with the badly damaged side of a large building behind them. Reuters could not immediately verify the images. "The Russian scum will definitely be held accountable for this strike," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on the…

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