The Biden administration will continue to exert “energy” to ensure the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire is maintained, the White House says. Ahead of a parliamentary session next week to elect a new Lebanese president, National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said: “It is important for the Lebanese people to have a voice and a vote in their…
Also, the Russian president instructed to develop and submit to the State Duma a federal law “On the languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation” until May 1 The Council for the Support of the Russian Language and Languages of the Peoples of Russia together with the government should ensure the development of the…
Without the Ukrainian route, Russia’s gas traffic to the EU will slump to 39 billion cubic meters per year, Alexey Bobrovsky, the director of the Institute for the Study of World Markets, predicts On the morning of January 1, the transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine was completely stopped due to Kiev’s refusal…
At least five mass strikes were also delivered from the beginning of the last year. Russian troops made more than 1,500 group strikes by high-precision weapons and attack drones against military targets in Ukraine in 2024, according to TASS estimates. According to data released in weekly reports of the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 1,500…
Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Thursday that Chinese warplanes and warships had carried out the first “combat patrol” around the island of the New Year, after Taiwan President Lai Ching-te again expressed willingness to talk to Beijing. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, sends its military into the skies and waters near…
South Korean police said they raided Muan Airport and the Jeju Air office Thursday morning over the crash involving one of the carrier’s Boeing 737-800s that killed 179 people. Jeju Air Flight 2216 was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea on Sunday when it issued a mayday call and belly-landed before hitting a…
The Palestinian Authority suspended the broadcast of Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV temporarily over “inciting material,” Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported on Wednesday. A ministerial committee that includes the culture, interior and communications ministries decided to suspend the broadcaster’s operations over what they described as broadcasting “inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring…
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government allies, said on Wednesday he was resigning from parliament. Gallant was fired from the government in November by Netanyahu, after months of disagreements over the conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza,…
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday law enforcement is investigating whether there are any links between a New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel Las Vegas. “We’re tracking the explosion of a Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas,” Biden said. “Law enforcement and the…
The US Treasury Department’s sanctions office was hacked by the Chinese government, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials. The department earlier this week disclosed in a letter to lawmakers that Chinese state-sponsored hackers stole documents in what Treasury called a “major incident.”
Fiji police said on Thursday they were investigating an incident involving two crew members of Australian airline Virgin Australia who were allegedly victims of rape and theft in Nadi in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The crew members were in the popular tourist destination on a layover before they were supposed to fly…
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has sent a letter rallying his supporters saying he would “fight til the end” as he faces an attempt by authorities to arrest him over his short-lived Dec. 3 martial law, a lawyer said on Thursday. “I am watching on YouTube live all the hard work you are doing,” Yoon…
International condemnation poured in Wednesday for the attack on a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans, which killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens more. Here is a round-up of global reactions. Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia “condemns and denounces” the attack, its foreign ministry said in a statement on X. France “New Orleans,…
A high-level Syrian delegation, led by newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday in its first official visit abroad, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, citing a foreign ministry source. According to Al Arabiya’s correspondent, Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Walid al-Khuraiji welcomed the Syrian delegation, which included the Foreign Minister, the Defense…
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza strip early on Thursday, medics said. The 10 people, including women and children, were killed in a tent in Al-Mawasi, designated as a humanitarian area in western Khan Younis, according to the medics. Fifteen people were also wounded, the…
