Western states are pressuring Liberia, the Marshall Islands, and Panama to boost checks of ships sailing under their flags to ensure they are not used to help Russia bypass sanctions, Reuters has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The White House urgently needs supplemental funding to continue supporting Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has admitted. The official stated that the administration of President Joe Biden effectively only has until the end of the year until it gets “really hard” to continue propping up Kiev.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati blamed Tel Aviv for the country's climate crisis on Saturday, saying the Israeli army's use of bombings, particularly phosphorus weapons, has caused irreparable damage to more than 5,000 square meters of agricultural land and forests.
Israel’s relentless onslaught against the Gaza Strip in the last 48 days has seriously challenged the legal status and moral credibility of international humanitarian law, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian stressed on Saturday.
Israel has banned trucks with humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the WAFA news agency has reported, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, has warned that the Gaza Strip is once again “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child” following the resumption of the Israeli onslaught on the enclave.
Moscow is aware that Washington will try to maintain its illegal embargos, but the US is not the entire world, Russia's presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Israeli spies are preparing to assassinate Hamas leaders living in Lebanon, Turkey, and Qatar once the war with the Palestinian group is over in Gaza, officials have told the Wall Street Journal. The operation was reportedly planned more than a month ago, but postponed so that hostage negotiations could take place.
In the six months since Kiev launched its push against Russian defensive lines, it has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 heavy weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has estimated during a ministerial meeting on Friday. In recent weeks, top Ukrainian officials admitted the counteroffensive had failed to reach the desired outcome, and they seemed to shift blame for the failure on each other.
Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,200 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 15,000 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the 7 October attack more than a year before it happened, but dismissed it as too ambitious, a new report by The New York Times has claimed.
The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, led by Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian, voiced objections to the presence of Israeli officials at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai aaqqon Friday and left as a form of protest.
The Iranian foreign minister has called for the continuation of the truce in the Gaza Strip and massive delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged territory and a prisoner swap deal between Palestinians and the Israeli regime.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has blasted the Israeli regime for resuming its “US- atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a temporary truce.
The Ansarullah movement in Yemen has renewed its warning that Israeli ships are legitimate targets in the Red Sea in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s resumption of attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Iranian foreign minister, in a telephone conversation with his Emirati counterpart, has called for more united efforts aimed at stopping Israeli crimes in Gaza.
At least three people have been killed and several others injured after two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli police have confirmed. The attackers were also killed.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has called for more effective measures to stop Israel’s attacks on Gaza, lift the blockade of the territory, and end the occupation of Palestine.
Israel is considering how to create a new government in the Gaza Strip that would be backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The level of aid and fuel entering the Gaza Strip remains insufficient, even with the truce between Israel and Hamas in place, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
The Russian military has amassed a large stockpile of missiles in preparation for strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure over the winter, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated.
Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,200 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 15,000 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
NATO has promised to develop a roadmap toward Ukraine’s “full interoperability” with the bloc’s militaries. While Kiev has welcomed the announcement, it fell dramatically short of the membership invitation that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought earlier this year.
Two Palestinian children, including a nine-year-old boy, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp, according to the local media.