A Lebanese security source said a deadly Israeli air strike on Beirut Saturday targeted a senior Hezbollah official, but a lawmaker from the group denied any of its officials were present. “The Israeli strike on Basta targeted a leading Hezbollah figure,” the security official told AFP without giving a name, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive…
A gunman was dead and three policemen injured after a shooting near the Israeli embassy in neighboring Jordan, a security source and state media said on Sunday. Police shot a gunman who had fired at a police patrol in the Rabiah neighborhood of Amman, state news agency Petra reported, citing public security, adding investigations were…
European Union governments cannot pick and choose whether to execute arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against two Israeli leaders and a Hamas commander, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Saturday. The ICC issued the warrants on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas…
An investigation has been launched into the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual citizen who lives in the United Arab Emirates and has been missing since Thursday, the Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement on Saturday. The missing man was identified as Zvi Kogan, a representative in the UAE of Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish…
The United States, Britain, France and Germany on Saturday expressed “serious concern” over Iran’s plans to launch a series of new centrifuges for its nuclear program, urging Tehran to reengage with the UN nuclear watchdog. Iran’s announcement came after the four Western powers brought a censure motion targeting the Islamic republic at the 35-nation board…
Ukraine’s air defense units destroyed more than 10 Russia drones that were targeting Kyiv in an overnight drone attack, Ukraine’s military said on Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries as result of the attack, Kyiv’s military administration posted on the Telegram messaging app. It said that the information on the full…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday during his visit to Ankara, a Turkish official said on Sunday. Russia struck Ukraine with a new hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday in response to Kyiv’s use of US and British missiles…
Ukraine has lost over 40 percent of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counterassaults, a senior Ukrainian military source said. The source, who is on Ukraine’s General Staff, said Russia had deployed some 59,000 troops to the Kursk…
A federal judge on Friday rejected the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to sanction Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco said sanctions over Musk’s Sept. 10 absence were unnecessary, after the world’s…
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he has chosen congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon to serve as his labor secretary. Trump said Chavez-DeRemer has worked “tirelessly” with business and labor to build the US workforce and support Americans. “I look forward to working with her to create tremendous opportunity for American Workers, to expand…
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of “Project 2025,” the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the US Office of Management and Budget, a powerful agency that helps decide the president’s policy priorities and how to pay for them. Vought, who was OMB chief during Trump’s…
US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named billionaire Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, choosing the hedge fund manager to help execute an agenda promising tax cuts and tariffs. Bessent, who is chief executive officer of Key Square Group, has called for an extension of tax cuts from Trump’s first term, wants to reassert American energy dominance,…
The United States expects that thousands of North Korean troops massing in Russia will “soon” enter combat against Ukraine, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Saturday. About 10,000 North Korean soldiers were believed to be based in the Russian border region of Kursk, Austin said, where they were being “integrated into the Russian formations”. “Based upon what they’ve been trained…
US President-elect Donald Trump plans to assemble investigative teams at the Department of Justice to search for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing a source. Trump, who won the 2024 election but lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, has falsely claimed that he lost the 2020…
Israeli authorities will stop holding Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank under administrative detention, a form of internment widely used against Palestinians, the defense ministry announced on Friday. The Palestinian Authority swiftly hit out at the decision saying that it “encourages extremist settlers to commit terrorism against Palestinians, their land and their properties, while…
