Syrian air defenses confront "hostile targets" over Damascus, state media reports
DAMASCUS, Syriua (AP) — Syrian air defenses confront "hostile targets" over Damascus, state media reports.
DAMASCUS, Syriua (AP) — Syrian air defenses confront "hostile targets" over Damascus, state media reports.
Ukrainian troops have for the first time engaged with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor, Ukraine's defense minister said Tuesday. Another Kyiv official said Ukraine's army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk border region. The comments were the first official reports that Ukrainian and North Korean forces have engaged in combat, following a deployment that has given the war a new complexion as it approaches its 1,000-day milestone.
Kim Jong-un says his army is the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to illness and none have seen combat before
Peel police issued a public safety alert Monday evening after they said weapons were seen in a demonstration near a Hindu temple in Brampton.Residents were warned to stay away from the demonstration on The Gore Road near Tyler Avenue. The area is close to the Hindu Sabha Mandir temple, one of the sites where violence erupted between groups of protesters on Sunday.In the alert posted on X, formerly Twitter, police said the weapons were observed within the crowds. Police said its public order unit
Canadian authorities charged three people on Monday following violence at a Hindu temple which provoked angry condemnation from India and sent already frosty bilateral ties between the two nations to a fresh low. Peel Regional Police, who cover Brampton, said Monday that three people had been arrested and charged in connection with protests at a place of worship.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday accused Turkey of "malice," after Ankara submitted a letter signed by 52 countries calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel over the war in Gaza. "What else can be expected from a country whose actions are driven by malice in an attempt to create conflicts with the support of the 'Axis of Evil' countries," said Ambassador Danny Danon, using a pejorative term to describe the Arab countries who signed the letter.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired his defence minister Yoav Gallant. The move comes 14 months into the Middle East war sparked by the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Mr Netanyahu said a "crisis of trust" had developed between him and Mr Gallant.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts across the region. Netanyahu and Gallant have repeatedly been at odds over the war in Gaza. Netanyahu cited “significant gaps” and a “crisis of trust” between the men in his Tuesday evening announcement.
Residents in some towns say there was no warning before IDF airstrikes that killed more than 120 people
Indian prime minister blames Sikh activists for clash in Brampton over which three people have been arrested Narendra Modi in October. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/AFP/Getty Images
Iran’s supreme leader issues new threat after initially playing down Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities
Israel has ended an agreement that facilitated the work of the main United Nations relief organisation for Palestinian refugees.
STORY: :: Families in north Gaza flee on foot and donkey cart after Israeli evacuation orders:: Gaza City, Gaza:: November 5, 2024:: Sabreen Al-Majdalawi, Displaced Palestinian"Neither yesterday, nor the day before, for three days we cannot sleep or eat. We are dying, we've become dehydrated. We have nothing left of us from fear.”Thousands of Palestinians have been evacuated from Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia as the Israeli military roots out bands of Hamas fighters still operating from amongst the rubble.In the month since Israel launched a renewed campaign in the border town of Beit Lahiya, one of the first targets of last year's ground assault, multiple strikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians.The area has been cut off from Gaza City to the south, communication has been patchy, supplies of food dwindling and prices of whatever is available reaching exorbitant levels.The Israeli military says the evacuation orders are meant to keep civilians out of harm's way.
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied outside Georgia's parliament for the second straight Monday to denounce the Oct. 26 election as illegitimate after the ruling party was declared the winner amid allegations of vote-rigging helped by Russia. The protesters, who waved Georgian and European Union flags, demanded a new parliamentary election under international supervision and an investigation of the alleged ballot irregularities. Opposition leaders vowed to boycott sessions of parliament and hold regular protests until their demands are met.
There are as many opinions on why UNRWA – which provides services and aid to millions of Palestinians across the Middle East – was banned as there are people to ask.
A video of an anti-government protest in Belarus in 2020 has been circulated online, with netizens claiming it is from a far-right London march in October 2024.View on euronews
G7 nations say Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops is a sign of desperation as Vladimir Putin looks to plug troop losses
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday and urged further actions to substantially increase humanitarian aid in Gaza, the State Department said in a statement. The U.S. government said in an Oct. 13 letter Israel had 30 days to take specific steps to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which has been pummeled for more than a year by Israel's war in the Palestinian enclave. Aid workers and UN officials say humanitarian conditions are dire in Gaza where the war has displaced nearly the entire population of 2.3 million and led to a hunger crisis.
GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 100 patients including children will be transferred out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a rare medical evacuation from the Palestinian enclave during the Israel-Hamas war, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday. The WHO says fewer than 300 patients have been evacuated from Gaza since early May, when Israel expanded its military offensive southwards and took over the southern Rafah Crossing with Egypt, which had been used for medical transfers. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said the patients, including children with trauma injuries and chronic diseases, would depart in a large convoy via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.
US warns Pyongyang’s troops fighting inside Putin’s ‘meat grinder’ war would be legitimate targets
An Israeli attack targeted an industrial zone and some residential buildings in the town of Qusayr in Homs province in central Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state TV reported. Israel's military later issued a statement on the incident, saying it attacked ammunition depots used by Hezbollah's weapons unit in Syria.