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Sunday, 12 January 2025 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 464
Four Israeli troops killed in northern Gaza, army says Four Israeli troops were killed during combat in northern Gaza, the Israeli army said on Saturday. ** Trump's Middle East envoy meets Netanyahu on Saturday amid ceasefire push U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday amid a push to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu's office said. After the meeting, Netanyahu dispatched a high-level delegation which included the head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency to Qatar in order to "advance" talks to return hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza,…
Sunday, 12 January 2025 04:46
What to know after Day 1053 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Putin honors soldier from viral Ukraine knife fight President Vladimir Putian has awarded the title ‘Hero of Russia’ to a soldier who defeated a Ukrainian service member in a brutal knife fight that went viral online. Andrey Grigoryev was decorated for “bravery and heroism” in combat, according to the presidential decree published on Saturday. A corporal with the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Grigoryev overpowered a Ukrainian soldier during a battle near the village of Trudovoye in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic. Although the incident took place in the fall of 2024, the dramatic bodycam footage of the hand-to-hand combat…
Saturday, 11 January 2025 05:02
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 463
Five killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon, health ministry says Five people were killed and four wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Tayr Debba in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military said it had conducted an airstrike on vehicles loaded with weapons used by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon. The army said it "continues to be committed to the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon, is deployed in the southern Lebanon area, and will work to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens". Israel and…
Saturday, 11 January 2025 05:00
What to know after Day 1052 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage U.S. President Joe Biden's administration imposed its broadest package of sanctions so far targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues on Friday, in an effort to give Kyiv and Donald Trump's incoming team leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine. The move is meant to cut Russia's revenues for continuing the war in Ukraine that has killed more than 12,300 civilians and reduced cities to rubble since Moscow invaded in February, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a post on X…
Friday, 10 January 2025 04:33
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 462
US House votes to sanction International Criminal Court over Israel The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the "Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act," which would sanction any foreigner who investigates, arrests, detains or prosecutes U.S. citizens or those of an allied country, including Israel, who are not members of the court. Forty-five Democrats joined 198 Republicans in backing the bill. No Republican voted…
Friday, 10 January 2025 04:32
What to know after Day 1051 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Kremlin ‘would welcome’ contact from Trump Moscow would be willing to talk to US President-elect Donald Trump if he sticks to his plan of restoring contacts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday. It has not received any specific requests from Washington in this regard, he added. Trump has promised on several occasions that he could achieve a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict in just one day. In December, he also said that he would wait for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the hostilities. Moscow has repeatedly said that…
Thursday, 09 January 2025 04:28
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 461
Israeli troops recover body of Gaza hostage with signs son also killed The body of Youssef Ziyadne, an Israeli Bedouin taken hostage by Hamas-led fighters on Oct. 7, 2023, has been found in a tunnel in Gaza, along with evidence suggesting his son may also have been killed, the Israeli military said on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear how Youssef Ziyadne had been killed but Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said his death did not appear to have been recent. "We are currently investigating the circumstances of his death and we are also investigating the findings regarding his son," he…
Thursday, 09 January 2025 04:27
What to know after Day 1050 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian strike kills 13 in Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia A Russian guided bomb attack on Wednesday killed at least 13 people and injured 63 in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, authorities said. The blast left bodies strewn across a road alongside injured residents. Public transport was also damaged in the strike. Prosecutors in the region said 63 people had been injured. Rescue work had been completed at the site of the attack. High-rise apartment blocks were damaged along with an industrial facility and other infrastructure, Ukraine's prosecutor general office said on Telegram. The debris hit a tram and…
Wednesday, 08 January 2025 05:08
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 460
Trump Middle East envoy predicts 'good things' to announce on Gaza hostages before inauguration President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday he hopes to have good things to report about hostages held by Hamas in Gaza by the time Trump is sworn in as U.S. president on Jan. 20. "Well, I think we're making a lot of progress, and I don't want to say too much because I think they're doing a really good job back in Doha," Witkoff said at a Trump press conference in Palm Beach, Florida. Doha has been hosting negotiations on a…
Wednesday, 08 January 2025 05:07
What to know after Day 1049 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine says forces conducting 'new offensive actions' in Russia's Kursk region Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces were "commencing new offensive actions" in Russia's western Kursk region, in its first substantive remarks two days after Russian reports of a renewed Ukrainian thrust in the area. Ukraine first seized part of the Kursk region in a surprise incursion last August, and it has held territory there for five months despite losing some ground. The Russian defence ministry said on Sunday that Kyiv had launched a new counter-attack. On Tuesday, Ukraine's general staff, which keeps a tight lid on information…
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Tuesday, 07 January 2025 04:55
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 459
Three Israelis killed in northern West Bank shooting Three Israelis were killed and several injured on Monday in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the settlement of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel's national ambulance service Magen David Adom (MDA) said. The attack, on a major road used by both Israelis and Palestinians, comes amid a diplomatic push for a deal to end the 15-month-old war in Gaza and return Israeli hostages home and may pose another obstacle to sealing such a deal before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Footage posted on…
Tuesday, 07 January 2025 04:52
What to know after Day 1048 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Battle rages in western Russia as Moscow reports gains in Ukraine Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where a second day of fierce fighting was under way. The Russian defence ministry said its forces had captured the town of Kurakhove, 32 km (20 miles) south of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian logistics hub toward which Russian forces have been advancing for months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow had suffered big losses in five months of fighting…
Monday, 06 January 2025 05:00
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 458
Hamas and Israel wrangle over talks as Israeli strikes in Gaza intensify Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend. A Hamas official said the group had approved a list of 34 Israeli hostages to be returned as part of a deal that could eventually lead to a ceasefire. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office swiftly issued a statement saying Hamas had not provided a hostage list. Later on…
Monday, 06 January 2025 04:57
What to know after Day 1047 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine launches new attack in Kursk region of western Russia Russia said on Sunday that Ukraine had launched a new attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months. Ukrainian troops broke across the border in a surprise incursion on Aug. 6 and have managed to hold on to a chunk of territory there which could provide Kyiv with an important bargaining chip in potential peace talks. Russia's defence ministry said its forces were beating back the Ukrainian forces but some…