US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their November 5 election showdown, one of the closest contests in modern American history. And in the handful of critical states framing the 2024 race, there is little daylight between the rivals with barely a week before Election Day. Under the US…
North Korean state media said Monday that an investigation had “proved” South Korea’s military sent a drone over Pyongyang to drop propaganda leaflets, calling it an infringement of sovereignty. The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of sending unmanned drones into its airspace three times, which South Korea’s military has denied. North Korea’s ministry of defense…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel’s air attack on Iran was “precise and powerful” and achieved all its objectives. “We promised we would respond to the Iranian attack and on Saturday we struck… The attack in Iran was precise and powerful, achieving all of its objectives,” Netanyahu said in a speech marking the Hebrew…
The Lebanese health ministry said that Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least 21 people across southern Lebanon. Nine people were killed and 38 wounded in a strike on Haret Saida, near the port city of Sidon, the ministry said. At least seven others including a nurse and three rescuers were killed in the southern…
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday Tehran was not looking for war but will respond “appropriately” to Israel’s attack. “We do not seek war, but we will defend the rights of our nation and country. We will give an appropriate response to the aggression of the Zionist regime,” state news agency IRNA quoted Pezeshkian as…
Egypt has proposed an initial two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages of Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners, Egypt’s president said on Sunday as Israeli military strikes killed 45 Palestinians across the enclave. Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made the announcement as efforts to defuse the devastating, more than year-long war resumed in Qatar with…
The 16th BRICS Summit, held from October 22 to 24, 2024, in Kazan, Russia, holds significant relevance in the current geopolitical landscape. It serves as a crucial platform for emerging economies to assert their influence in a rapidly changing world. The 16th Edition of the BRICS Summit, held from October 22 to 24, 2024, in…
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir welcomed Saturday’s strikes against military targets in Iran, but said a “historic obligation” remained to remove the threat posed by Tehran. In the early hours of Saturday, Israeli warplanes struck several military and missiles manufacturing facilities of across Iran. “The attack on Iran is important as an opening blow…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is coming up with various ways to respond should the United States and its NATO allies allow Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, according to remarks published on Sunday. “(The Russian defense ministry) is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes…
At least 10 police officers were killed in a “terrorist attack” in an area of southeastern Iran long plagued by unrest, local media reported on Saturday. They were killed during an attack on “police vehicles” in Sistan-Baluchistan province’s Taftan county, the Mehr and Tasnim news agencies reported, without saying how it was carried out. No…
Lebanon’s state news agency on Sunday reported an Israeli raid on southern Beirut, after Israel’s army issued a fresh evacuation call. The official National News Agency said shortly after midnight that Israel had “targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut.” The Israeli army had earlier urged residents of two neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of the…
China deployed fighter jets and drones as part of a “joint combat readiness patrol” around Taiwan on Sunday, Taipei said, hours after Beijing slammed the latest round of US arms sales to the island. The US State Department on Friday approved a $2 billion arms sale package for Taiwan, including advanced surface-to-air missile systems and…
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Tehran on Saturday against responding to Israel’s strikes on military sites in Iran and said he stressed in a call to his Israeli counterpart the opportunities to de-escalate tensions in the region. “Iran should not make the mistake of responding to Israel’s strikes, which should mark the end of…
An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a building that was part of Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher said facilities used to mix solid fuel for missiles also were struck. The assessments based on commercial satellite imagery were reached separately by David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector,…
