JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport diverts incoming flights, delays others after Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.
STORY: :: September 10, 2024:: Ramenskoye, Russia:: Russia says it intercepted over a dozen Ukrainian drones around Moscow overnight:: Social media video showed apartments on fire and dozens of Moscow flights were suspendedThe overnight drone attacks damaged at least two high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting several flats on fire, Moscow's governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram.Reuters was able to confirm the location from the building's facade, trees and road layout match satellite imagery and street view imagery. Corroborating video shows the same scene. The date was verified by the governor's statement.A 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, Vorobyov said. He added that 43 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centres.
A senior Scotland Yard officer has admitted the force made mistakes in its handling of pro-Palestinian protests.
The embassy in Kensington will shut its doors on September 27.
Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia.Zelensky himself on Sunday also urged Kyiv's partners to give him more scope to use Western-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia.
Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country’s volatile northern border with Lebanon. Speaking to reporters, Yoav Gallant said that conditions are ripe for at least a six-week pause in fighting that would include the release of many of the hostages held in Gaza. “Israel should achieve an agreement that will bring about a pause for six weeks and bring back hostages,” he said.
Israel's military has detained a United Nations convoy in the northern Gaza Strip, saying that it has intelligence that several "Palestinian suspects" are in the vehicles. A UN spokesperson said he was aware of an "ongoing incident" and said that he was trying to establish the facts. The Israeli military said on Monday it has detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip because it has intelligence indicating that a number of "Palestinian suspects" are in the convoy and
A Houthi spokesperson said the rebels had downed another US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen, and claimed it was the eighth one shot down in under a year.
At least 40 people were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza, according to local rescue officials. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.
The IDF has ordered the evacuation of residential areas in northwest Gaza, where it said Palestinian fighters had fired rockets towards the nearby town of Ashkelon.
In a new report, Might is Right?, the Right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange has polled on protests in urban areas. It says that 71 per cent of people would not travel with small children if a protest is planned; 69 per cent would not travel with an elderly or mobility-impaired relative; 62 per cent wouldn’t visit a tourist attraction; and 58 per cent wouldn’t go shopping or eat at a specific restaurant. Since the summer riots, incited by racists after the murder of three young girls in Southport, things should be clearer.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it is “highly likely” American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed in the occupied West Bank on Friday, was “hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire.”
The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell warned on Tuesday that increased violence in the occupied West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war erupted meant it risked becoming "a new Gaza".Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967 and is separated from the Gaza Strip by Israeli territory, has flared alongside the war that began after Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
Three Israeli civilians have been killed in a shooting at the Allenby Crossing on the border between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, Israeli authorities said Sunday.
The death toll is expected to rise as first responders continue to search for people under the rubble.
A series of Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least four people, wounding 13 and sparking fires, state media reported. Syria state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses “confronted an aggression that targeted several points in the central region," damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires that firefighting teams were battling to control early Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, reported that one of the strikes targeted a scientific research center in Maysaf and other sites where “Iranian militias and experts are stationed to develop weapons in Syria.”
Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova’s doc Russians at War makes its North American debut in Toronto this week, following a world premiere in Venice, amid calls from Ukrainian diplomats in Canada for the festival to pull the film. The two-hour work, for which Trofimova embedded with Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine over a period of seven …
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions, an independent U.N. commission said Tuesday. Since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes in different parts of Syria. Iran blamed Israel for the April airstrike on Iranian consular offices in Damascus that killed seven people including two Iranian generals, and Tehran responded with an unprecedented attack against Israel almost two weeks later.
Debris from a downed drone was found outside Ukraine’s parliament building on Saturday morning after the country’s defense systems largely succeeded in fending off a widescale drone attack launched overnight by Russia.
The number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 18 with dozens more wounded, Syria's health minister said Monday - the largest death toll in such an attack since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations. (AP video: Abdulrahman Shaheen)
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