Yemen’s Houthis said Wednesday that they had fired a ballistic missile at central Israel, with Israeli forces saying they intercepted the attack. The missile was aimed at the Tel Aviv area, the Iran-backed Houthis said. The Israelis reported it was shot down before it entered Israeli territory. “The Yemeni Armed Forces targeted a military target of…
Two Pakistan paramilitary soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on Wednesday as they guarded members of the Qatari royal family on a bird hunting expedition, officials said. Hunting enthusiasts among the Gulf elite travel to Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province every winter to catch the rare and reclusive houbara bustard using falcons. A convoy containing…
Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday authorities in his country were investigating an undersea power cable outage on a line connecting Finland and Estonia. An unplanned break in service on the Estlink 2 interconnector occurred at 1026 GMT, operator Fingrid said in a statement on the Nordpool regulatory web site, reducing its available…
Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Wednesday called for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and has killed tens of thousands. In his Christmas Day “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address, Francis mentioned the Ukraine conflict directly and called for “the boldness…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria would either lay down their weapons or “be buried,” amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian fighters and the militants since the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month. Following al-Assad’s departure, Ankara has repeatedly insisted that the Kurdish YPG militia must disband, asserting that the group…
The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday over failure to conclude a ceasefire agreement despite progress reported by both sides in past days. Hamas said that Israel had set new conditions, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the group of going back on understandings already reached. “The occupation has set…
Ensuring the protection of Syria’s territorial integrity is an unchanging line for Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. “Protecting Syria’s territorial integrity and unitary structure under all circumstances is Turkey’s unchanging line. We never step back from this,” he said after remarks warning Israel that it would be “forced” to withdraw from land it had seized….
US President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that would have been the first major expansion of the federal judiciary since 1990. The JUDGES Act, initially supported by many members of both parties, would have increased the number of trial…
The top US and Saudi military generals discussed security and stability concerns in the Middle East, specifically the situation in Syria and Lebanon, according to a Pentagon readout of the call. The Pentagon said that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown, and Chief of General Staff, Gen. Fayyad Al-Ruwaili, spoke about the…
The US military said it conducted an airstrike on Monday in Syria that killed two ISIS operatives and wounded one. The ISIS operatives were moving a truckload of weapons in Deir Ezzor Province, an area formerly controlled by the Syrian government and Russians, when they were targeted with the airstrike, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement…
Bruno Retailleau also stayed on as interior minister French President Emmanuel Macron endorsed a new cabinet, with key ministers keeping their posts. The list of cabinet members, who were approved at a meeting between Macron and newly-appointed Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, was read out by Elysee Palace Secretary-General Alexis Kohler. Jean-Noel Barrot retained his job…
Over 40 were killed, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik said Over 250 Russian civilians were injured, over 40 people were killed in November as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik told TASS. “According to the data collected and verified by…
According to the report, the cargo ship left St. Petersburg about two weeks ago and headed for the port of Vladivostok, where it was scheduled to arrive on January 22 The Russian Ursa Major cargo ship sank in international waters between Spain’s Murcia autonomous community and Algeria, the El Espanol newspaper reported. According to the newspaper, the…
On Tuesday, the Russian leader is scheduled to meet with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Russian President Vladimir Putin has left for St. Petersburg, where he will hold meetings with CIS heads of state and government in the coming days. The multilateral program is expected to take place mainly on Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday,…
Yury Ushakov noted that uncontrolled expansion of the association would break its backbone More than 20 states, in addition to the selected partner countries, are showing interest in a systemic dialogue with the BRICS group, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov has told the media. “The doors of the association remain open to like-minded countries. At…
