Wall Street Journal cites multiple US officials saying they are sceptical a ceasefire can be achieved before January. Officials in the United States believe that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is unlikely before President Joe Biden leaves office in January, according to the Wall Street Journal….
As the war enters its 938th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, September 20, 2024. Fighting At least one person was killed and 13 injured after Russia bombed a nursing home in the northeastern city of Sumy, the region’s military administration said. Russia also…
Israeli defence minister says Hezbollah to ‘pay an increasing price’ as group promises retaliation over device attacks. Israel has intensified attacks on southern Lebanon, launching dozens of air raids amid fears of a wider escalation in the region. Israeli warplanes targeted the towns of Mahmoudieh, Ksar al-Aroush and Birket Jabbour…
A constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that would turn Florida’s school board elections into partisan races is stirring controversy among Democrats and educators, some of whom view it as a power play by the US state’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. If the ballot question passes in the November…
Israel will face “a crushing response from the axis of resistance”, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, has told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to state media. Salami made the statement on Thursday after unprecedented attacks in the previous two days on Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies,…
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a greying beard and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment on…
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says the pager and walkie-talkie attacks against its members in Lebanon and Syria this week crossed “all red lines” and the group will retaliate and is undeterred in its fight against Israel in support of Palestinians in Gaza. In his first televised speech since the unprecedented…
Most countries have backed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that sets a deadline for Israel to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory amid rising international criticism of Israel. The resolution, passed on Wednesday, is not legally binding. But it includes stern rebukes of Israel and won the…
Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities probably violate international humanitarian law, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). The report published on Thursday focused on nine waves of attacks between March and August this year. HRMMU said it had visited…
Whoever Sri Lanka’s next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn’t expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly mother with whom she lives in a dilapidated room in a tea estate. Both leading candidates in Saturday’s presidential election are promising to give land to…
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