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The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said. The new orders for the Shejaia suburb posted by the Israeli army spokesperson on X on […]
US envoy Amos Hochstein says he will travel to Israel to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group after declaring additional progress in talks in Beirut. Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Tuesday, seeking to clinch a ceasefire agreement after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah agreed to a US ceasefire proposal, […]
A Russian court has sentenced a Moscow paediatrician to five and a half years in a penal colony, state news agency TASS says, after the mother of one of her patients publicly denounced her for comments she made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Prosecutors last week requested Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, be jailed for six years […]
Israel says there is progress in talks about a Lebanon ceasefire and has indicated Russia could play a part by stopping Hezbollah rearming via Syria, although the group says it has not received any new truce proposals. Pummelled by Israel’s offensive, Hezbollah said political contacts were under way involving its backers in Iran, the US […]
Halfway through the Biden administration’s 30-day ultimatum for Israel to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on US military funding, Israel is falling far short, an Associated Press review of UN and Israeli data shows. Israel has also missed some other deadlines and demands outlined in a October […]
Rocket barrages fired from Lebanon have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say. They hit agricultural areas along the border and near the city of Haifa in back-to-back attacks that represented the deadliest spate of strikes from Lebanon since the Israeli military invaded the country earlier this month. The violence came as top US […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing for a halt to fighting in Gaza and a diplomatic solution to conflict in Lebanon, but Israeli strikes on an historic Lebanese port city prove there is no respite yet. Huge clouds of smoke billowed above residential buildings in Tyre, a UNESCO-listed port city in south Lebanon, […]
Russian glide bombs have struck a concentration of Ukrainian troops near the border of Russia’s western Kursk region, the Russian defence ministry said. It said the attack was directed against “a strongpoint and concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel”, and the bombs were delivered by a Russian Su-34 warplane. Reuters could not independently verify the […]