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Wednesday, 22 November 2023 04:47

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 47

Israeli government debates deal for release of Gaza hostages, truce Israel's government met into the early hours of Wednesday to consider a deal for Palestinian Hamas militants to free some hostages in Gaza in exchange for a multi-day truce and the release of a greater number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Officials from Qatar, which has been mediating negotiations, as well as the U.S., Israel and Hamas have for days been saying a deal was imminent. Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said the proposal on a hostage release deal was delivered to Israel in the early hours of Tuesday.…

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 04:45

What to know after Day 636 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine has lost over 13,000 troops this month – Moscow Ukraine has lost over 13,700 troops and approximately 1,800 tanks and other heavy weaponry so far this month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told his government colleagues on Tuesday during a ministerial meeting. Russian forces have been actively thwarting Kiev’s attempts to breach their defensive lines and continue to reduce Ukraine’s military capacity, the senior official said. He claimed that Ukrainian soldiers were surrendering in droves after realizing the futility of their counteroffensive. The minister issued his last assessment of Ukrainian casualties in late October, when he said…

Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:34

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 46

Hamas chief says close to truce agreement with Israel The chief of Hamas told Reuters on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel, even as the deadly assault on Gaza continued and rockets were being fired into Israel. Hamas officials are "close to reaching a truce agreement" with Israel and the group has delivered its response to Qatari mediators, Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement sent to Reuters by his aide. There were no more details about the terms of the potential agreement. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he believed an accord…

Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:33

What to know after Day 635 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine ‘concerned’ by Western push for Russia talks – security chief The government in Kiev is worried that its Western backers are calling for peace out of an irrational fear of Russia, Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Monday. Danilov spoke via video link to the annual conference of the Halifax International Security Forum, a Washington, DC-based NGO funded in part by the Canadian government. “Ukraine is concerned by the fact that discussions among certain partners have intensified regarding the need for negotiations, consultations, meetings with the Russians to discuss the…

Monday, 20 November 2023 04:38

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 45

Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. At one point a shelter for tens of thousands of Palestinian war refugees, Al Shifa Hospital has been evacuating patients and staff since Israeli troops swept in last week on what they called a mission to root out hidden Hamas facilities. Israel is also searching for some 240 people…

Monday, 20 November 2023 04:35

What to know after Day 634 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy calls for rapid operations changes for soldiers, sacks commander Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine's military and announced the dismissal of the commander of the military's medical forces. Zelenskiy's move was announced as he met Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, and coincided with debate over the conduct of the 20-month-old war against Russia, with questions over how quickly a counteroffensive in the east and south is proceeding. "In today's meeting with Defence Minister Umerov, priorities were set," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "There is little time left to…

Sunday, 19 November 2023 04:59

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 44

Tentative Gaza deal reached to free some hostages, pause fighting - report Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the deal. However, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials said no deal had been reached yet. The hostage release could begin within the next several days, barring last-minute hitches, according to people familiar with the detailed, six-page agreement, the paper said on Saturday. The report comes as…

Sunday, 19 November 2023 04:58

What to know after Day 633 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv 2nd night in row -Ukraine Russia launched several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv early on Sunday for the second night in row, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after several weeks of pause, the city's military administration said. "The enemy's UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched in many groups and attacked Kyiv in waves, from different directions, at the same time constantly changing the vectors of movement along the route," Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv's military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app. "That is why the air…

Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:02

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 43

UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination The United Nations was forced Friday to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza and warned of the growing risk of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of lack of fuel. Israel announced that it will allow two tanker trucks of fuel into Gaza each day for the U.N. and communication systems. That amount is half of what the U.N. said it needs for lifesaving functions for hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, including powering…

Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:01

What to know after Day 632 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine secures several bridgeheads into occupied Kherson region - military Ukrainian troops have pushed Russian soldiers out of positions on the eastern bank of the River Dnipro in the occupied Kherson region and established several bridgeheads, Kyiv's military said on Friday. Crossing the Dnipro and transporting heavy military equipment and supplies over the river could allow Ukrainian troops to open a new line of attack in the south on the most direct land route to Crimea, which was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014. The Ukrainian Marines said on their Facebook page they had had a series…

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Friday, 17 November 2023 04:59

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 42

Hamas tunnel found at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, says Israel; UN aid halted Israeli soldiers found a tunnel shaft used by Hamas militants at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, the army said, while the U.N. voiced concern no aid would be delivered to Palestinians on Friday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt. The army released a video it said showed a tunnel entrance in an outdoor area of Al Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital. The video, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed a deep hole in the ground, littered with and surrounded by concrete and wood rubble and sand. It appeared…

Friday, 17 November 2023 04:58

What to know after Day 631 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE US support for Ukraine is 'nearing inevitable end,' Medvedev says Washington will soon stop providing support to Kiev, as it spends too much on it to little or no avail on the battlefield, the Russian Security Council’s Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has said. "US lawmakers are derailing the funding of Israeli and Ukrainian military spending for this year. The reasons are technical and… not quite technical," he wrote in his Telegram channel. "While in Israel’s case the reason is obviously technical, for that country is more important to the US Congress than its own, everything is more complicated…

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…

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