Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who sustained a head injury last month, underwent imaging tests on Sunday in Brasilia, with the medical report saying his condition has remained stable. Lula can perform his usual activities, and his situation will be reassessed in a week, the report issued by the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Brasilia showed. In…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Lebanese border on Sunday, his office said, as the Israeli military continued to pound Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. “Netanyahu visited the Lebanon border today,” his office said in a statement, his second such visit to the frontier in less than a month. Netanyahu’s visit came as more…
Russia’s military said on Sunday that its forces had taken control of the village of Vyshneve in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as they pursue their advance toward the logistical center of Pokrovsk. Ukraine’s General Staff made no mention of the village falling into Russian hands, but reported fighting in the vicinity. Popular Ukrainian war blog…
The Israeli military said on Sunday it had captured a Syrian spy for Iran in recent months, thwarting a planned attack by what it described as Iranian terror networks. The military named the “Iranian terror network operative” as Ali Soleiman al-Assi, a Syrian citizen living in the area of the southern village of Saida. “His…
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigns in Michigan on Sunday while her Republican rival Donald Trump will stop in three eastern battleground states in the final days of an election that could be decided by a small slice of American voters. Opinion polls show a historically close race, and both campaigns say they are not…
Iranian demonstrators gathered on Sunday outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran. The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic Revolution led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini which ousted the Western-backed Shah…
A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander said on Sunday Iran will “certainly” launch a new attack against Israel, a day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed a harsh retaliation. “Details cannot be discussed, but it will certainly be carried out,” Ali Fadavi, the IRGC’s deputy commander in chief, was cited as saying by…
At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas regrouping. Palestinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were “ethnic…
Iran’s president said Sunday a potential ceasefire between its allies and Israel “could affect the intensity” of Tehran’s response to Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian military sites. “If they (the Israelis) reconsider their behavior, accept a ceasefire and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our…
US announced sanctions on 398 companies across more than a dozen countries, including several Indian firms In a significant escalation of its measures against nations aiding Russia in its ongoing war in Ukraine, the United States has announced sanctions on 398 companies across more than a dozen countries, including several Indian firms. The move aims…
The next US president’s ability to govern and enact his or her policy agenda will depend in large part on which party wins control of both houses of Congress. If a president’s party controls both the House of Representatives and Senate, it is far easier to get legislation passed. Here are some key races to…
Lebanon’s prime minister accused Israel of rejecting a ceasefire after the Israeli military bombed the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut for the first time this week on Friday. At least 10 strikes hit the southern suburbs before dawn after the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings, with AFPTV footage showing explosions and clouds of smoke. “The…
Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 people in the Gaza Strip, according to medics in the Palestinian enclave, and battered Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military said it killed senior Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab in an airstrike…
Pentagon chief ordered several B-52 bombers and refueling tanker aircraft to the Middle East, United States official told Al Arabiya English. The Pentagon said in a statement that this deployment, that also includes fighter jets and Navy destroyers, is part of the readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave the…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Saturday it had launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv in the early hours of Saturday. At 2:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT) militants “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of the 8200 military intelligence unit in the suburbs of Tel Aviv,” the pro-Iran group…
