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Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:32

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 41

Israel searches for traces of Hamas in raid of key Gaza hospital packed with patients Israeli troops on Wednesday stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility, where newborns and hundreds of other patients have suffered for days without electricity and other basic necessities. The forces also pressed on with their wider ground offensive. Details from the daylong raid remained sketchy, but officials from Israel and Gaza presented different accounts of what was happening at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City: The Israeli army released video showing soldiers carrying boxes labeled as “baby food”…

Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:31

What to know after Day 630 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian group says more than 30,000 troops have died in Russia's invasion A Ukrainian civic group said it has confirmed the deaths of nearly 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers since Russia's February 2022 invasion by using open sources, and puts the total toll at more than 30,000. Kyiv treats its losses as a state secret and officials say disclosing the figure could harm its war effort. A report in August by the New York Times, citing anonymous U.S. officials, put the Ukrainian death toll at close to 70,000. Writing in the Ukrainian journal Tyzhden, historian Yaroslav Tynchenko and volunteer Herman…

Wednesday, 15 November 2023 04:41

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 40

Israeli military forces raid Gaza's largest hospital in operation against Hamas The Israeli military raided Gaza’s largest hospital early Wednesday, conducting what it called a “precise and targeted” operation against Hamas as Israel seized broader control of northern Gaza, including capturing the territory’s legislature building and its police headquarters. The gains carried high symbolic value in the country’s quest to crush the militant group that rules Gaza. The raid unfolded “in a specified area” of the Shifa Hospital, which has been the site of a standoff with Hamas. Israeli authorities claim the militants conceal military operations in the facility. But…

Wednesday, 15 November 2023 04:40

What to know after Day 629 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia and Ukraine may never sign peace treaty – Kiev Russia and Ukraine may never sign a formal peace treaty ending the current conflict, Kirill Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, wrote in an op-ed, excerpts from which were published on Monday. He pointed to Russia and Japan, which never signed a comprehensive peace treaty after World War II due to Tokyo’s claims on several of Russia’s Kuril Islands. “There are cases in history when old wars between the states have not been legally concluded. An obvious example is Russia and Japan. They did not sign a…

Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:40

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 39

Israel says Hamas is using Gaza's biggest hospital for cover. Hundreds of people are trapped inside Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. Shifa is Gaza’s largest and best-equipped hospital. But Israel claims the facility also is used by Hamas for military purposes. It says Hamas has built a vast underground command complex center below the hospital, connected by tunnels. Since Israel declared war against Hamas in response to a bloody cross-border attack by the Islamic group on Oct. 7, its forces have moved in on Shifa. While…

Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:39

What to know after Day 628 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine says Russians intensify bombardment of Avdiivka Fighting gripped the area around the shattered eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, Ukraine's military said on Monday, with Moscow's forces intensifying air bombardments and trying to move forward with ground forces. Officials said Russian forces had suffered heavy losses around the city. They also said Ukrainian forces had repelled Russian attacks in other areas of the 1,000-km (600-mile) front line. And with Ukraine engaged in a counteroffensive making only incremental gains in the east and south, its commander in chief spoke to the new U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

Monday, 13 November 2023 04:49

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 38

Heavy fighting rages near main Gaza hospital and people trapped inside say they cannot flee Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital rejected Israel’s claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed urgent calls for a cease-fire unless it includes the release of all the nearly 240 hostages captured by Hamas in the Oct. 7 rampage that triggered the war. A day after Netanyahu said Israel was bringing its “full…

Monday, 13 November 2023 04:49

What to know after Day 627 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy tells Ukrainians to prepare for Russian winter onslaught President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians on Sunday to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approached and said troops were anticipating an onslaught in the eastern theatre of the war. A military spokesman said Russian attacks on the shattered eastern town of Avdiivka had eased in the past day, but were likely to intensify in the coming days. And Ukrainian military intelligence said an explosion killed at least three Russian servicemen in the Russian-occupied southern town of Melitopol, which it described as an "act of…

Sunday, 12 November 2023 04:48

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 37

Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital. Shells hissed through the hospital courtyard and crashed into wards while Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants locked in close quarters combat. Doctors tried to help patients even as they ran for cover. Abu Sada described Shifa as a deathtrap for thousands of war-wounded, medical staff and displaced civilians…

Sunday, 12 November 2023 04:46

What to know after Day 626 of Russia-Ukraine war

Russia renews missile attacks on Kyiv, attacks intensify in the east Russia on Saturday launched a missile attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the surrounding region for the first time in more than seven weeks and pounded the east and south of the country with drones, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian border guards said they had retaken a village in the country's northeast adjacent to the Russian border. Officials in the east, the focus of Russia's slow 20-month-old advance, said Ukrainian forces had repelled numerous attacks by Moscow's troops and they anticipated further assaults, particularly around the devastated town of Avdiivka.…

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Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:43

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 36

Thousands who were sheltering at Gaza City’s hospitals flee as Israel-Hamas war closes in Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital fled south Friday after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight. They joined a growing exodus of people escaping intense urban fighting in the north — including near other hospitals — as Gaza officials said the territory’s death toll surpassed 11,000. The search for safety across the besieged Gaza Strip has grown desperate as Israel intensified its assault on the territory’s largest city. The Israeli army says Hamas’ military infrastructure is…

Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:42

What to know after Day 625 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian victory 'a tragedy' – NATO Russia’s victory in the conflict with Ukraine would affect NATO’s security as well, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Friday. NATO will continue to support Kiev with weapons and ammunition to avoid such a “dangerous” outcome, he added. Washington and its allies and partners are supporting Ukraine not just because they “agreed” to it at various meetings, but also because “it is in our interests to do so,” Stoltenberg said at a joint press conference with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius in Berlin. “We have to remember and understand…

Friday, 10 November 2023 04:59

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 35

Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee, White House says Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza, the White House said Thursday, as President Joe Biden pressed Israelis for a multi-day stoppage in the fighting in a bid to negotiate the release of hostages held by the militant group. Biden had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to institute the daily pauses during a Monday call and said he had also asked the Israelis for a pause of at least three…

Friday, 10 November 2023 04:58

What to know after Day 624 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Putin visits Ukraine military operation HQ President Vladimir Putin has held a closed-door meeting with high-ranking commanders during an unannounced visit to the headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District, which oversees the military operation in Ukraine. Putin made a stopover in Rostov-on-Don on his way back from a state visit to Kazakhstan, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters early Friday morning. Accompanied by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and the head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, Putin “inspected new models of military equipment,” Peskov said, without offering details. The Russian leader also spoke with other top…

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