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Monday, 12 August 2024 04:42
What to know after Day 900 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Kursk attack will pressure Russia and 'restore justice,' Zelenskiy says President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to "restore justice" and pressure Moscow's forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv's surprise offensive into the western Kursk region. Moscow's forces on Sunday were in their sixth day of intense battle against Kyiv's largest incursion into Russian territory since the start of the war, which left southwestern parts of Russia vulnerable before reinforcementstarted arriving. Russian authorities rushed to evacuate residents and imposed a sweeping security regime in three border regions on Saturday, after the attack…
Sunday, 11 August 2024 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 310
Families flee new Israeli assault in Gaza's Khan Younis Israeli tanks returned to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Friday, forcing families to evacuate along congested roadways, as Palestinian fighters continued to attack Israeli troops from the ruins, residents and the military said. Israeli planes carried out strikes across the enclave on Friday, killing at least 35 Palestinians, the Gaza health ministry said. Thousands of people fled eastern Khan Younis in vehicles and on foot, belongings heaped on donkey carts and motorcycle rickshaws as they made their slow escape along congested roads. With Israel and Lebanon braced for…
Sunday, 11 August 2024 04:46
What to know after Day 899 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia fighting intense battles against major Ukrainian incursion Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 20 km (12 miles) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine's biggest attack on Russian sovereign territory since the start of the war in 2022. Ukrainian forces rammed through the Russian border early on Tuesday and swept across some Western parts of Russia's Kursk region, a surprise attack that may be aimed at gaining leverage in possible ceasefire talks after the U.S. election. Supported by swarms of drones and heavy artillery fire, Ukrainian units moved quickly…
Saturday, 10 August 2024 04:27
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 309
Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in south Lebanon An Israeli airstrike on a car deep inside Lebanon killed a senior figure from Palestinian armed group Hamas on Friday evening, a Hamas source and two other security sources told Reuters. The strike, on the southern edges of the Lebanese port city of Sidon some 60 kilometres (nearly 40 miles) from the frontier, killed Samer al-Hajj, a Hamas security official who works in the nearby refugee camp for Palestinians, Ain al-Hilweh. His bodyguard was critically wounded, the three sources said. The Israeli military has been carrying out strikes against members of…
Saturday, 10 August 2024 04:26
What to know after Day 898 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia reinforces Kursk region, videos show Ukrainian presence, evidence of attack Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battled a shock incursion by Ukraine's military. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, posted a video purporting to show them in control of a town near the border, the first pictorial evidence of their cross-border advances. In new evidence of the damage inflicted in the Ukrainian counter-offensive, another video posted on social media and verified by Reuters showed a convoy of about 15 burnt-out Russian military trucks spaced…
Friday, 09 August 2024 04:46
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 308
Israel kills 40 Palestinians in Gaza airstrikes amid fears of wider war Israeli forces stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led militants as Israel braced for potential wider war in the region. Israeli airstrikes hit a cluster of houses in central Gaza's Al-Bureij camp, killing at least 15 people, and the nearby Al-Nuseirat camp, killed four, medics said. Nuseirat and Bureij are among the densely populated enclave's eight historic camps and seen by Israel as strongholds of armed militants. Israeli aircraft also bombed a house…
Friday, 09 August 2024 04:45
What to know after Day 897 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia battles Ukrainian troops for third day after shock incursion Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves. In one of the biggest Ukrainian attacks on Russia since the war began in February 2022, around 1,000 Ukrainian troops rammed through the Russian border in the early hours of Aug. 6 with tanks and armoured vehicles, covered in the air by swarms of drones and pounding artillery,…
Thursday, 08 August 2024 04:58
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 307
Tense Israel in waiting as attack threat looms Israel's ambulance service has stocked blood supplies in a fortified underground centre, factories have moved out hazardous materials and municipal authorities are checking bomb shelters and water supplies as the country waits for a threatened attack from Iran and its proxies. Israel has been fortifying its home front for months and many preparations have been in place since the start of the war in Gaza last October, when thousands of Hamas-led gunmen carried out a devastating cross-border attack on Israeli communities. But the urgency has risen sharply over the past 10 days…
Thursday, 08 August 2024 04:58
What to know after Day 896 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Putin accuses Ukraine of a ‘large-scale provocation’ with its raid in southwestern Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described a Ukrainian incursion into the country’s southwestern Kursk region as a “large-scale provocation” as his officials asserted that they were fighting off cross-border raids for a second day. Ukrainian officials remained silent about the scope of the operation. Putin met with his top defense and security officials to discuss what he called the “indiscriminate shelling of civilian buildings, residential houses, ambulances with different types of weapons.” He instructed the Cabinet to coordinate assistance to the Kursk region. The…
Wednesday, 07 August 2024 04:49
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 306
Hamas names Oct 7 mastermind Sinwar as leader after Haniyeh assassination Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday, in a move that reinforces the radical path pursued since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Sinwar, the architect of the most devastating attack on Israel in decades, has been in hiding in Gaza, defying Israeli attempts to kill him since the start of the war. "The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of Commander Yahya Sinwar as the head of…
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Wednesday, 07 August 2024 04:48
What to know after Day 895 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy says Ukraine deployed more drones than Russia in July President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine was making good progress in manufacturing and employing drones and had used more of them last month in combat than had Russia. Speaking in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy thanked all Ukrainian servicemen for their efforts in combat "in particular, all those soldiers and commanders who make good use of our possibilities with drones. "Our Ukrainian defence forces are already leading the way in this regard, and in July our forces used more drones than did the occupiers," he said.…
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 04:39
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 305
Proxy forces armed by Iran could take part in retaliation against Israel over Hamas leader's killing As Iran threatens to respond to the suspected Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the regional militias that the Islamic Republic has armed for decades could play a role in any attack. Here’s a look at Iran’s history of arming militias, its allies in the region and what part they could play. Why has Iran armed proxy forces? Iran’s policy of arming militias took root in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Before it, the U.S. provided major weapon systems…
Tuesday, 06 August 2024 04:38
What to know after Day 894 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Five injured in Ukraine shelling of Russia's Kursk region, 26 drones downed, governor says Ukraine shelling injured five people, including three children, in Russia's Kursk region, the interim governor of the region said on Tuesday, adding that air defence systems destroyed at least 26 Ukraine launched drones overnight. Several residential buildings were damaged by the shelling in the town of Sudzha in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine in Russia's southwest, Alexei Smirnov, the interim governor said on the Telegram messaging app. In a separate post, Smirnov said that the night attacks followed a series of drone strikes…
Monday, 05 August 2024 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 304
Palestinian kills two people in stabbing attack in Israel A Palestinian attacker killed two people and wounded two others in a stabbing spree in central Israel on Sunday before being shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said. The stabbings took place during morning rush hour in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv. The attacker stabbed people near a gas station and a park, Israel's ambulance service said. Two senior citizens, a man and woman, were killed and two other people were wounded and rushed to hospital, medical officials said. "The terrorist was quickly neutralized by one of our officers…