Anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved largest seizure of West Bank land in over three decades
JERUSALEM (AP) — Anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved largest seizure of West Bank land in over three decades.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Anti-settlement watchdog says Israel has approved largest seizure of West Bank land in over three decades.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas informed its ally Hezbollah it had agreed to a proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the leader of the powerful Lebanese group welcomed the step, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. A Hamas delegation headed by the group's deputy leader Khalil Al-Hayya briefed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah about the latest developments at a meeting in Beirut, the sources said. Iran-backed Hezbollah said in a statement earlier that Nasrallah and Hayya had discussed the latest developments in negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Montreal police in riot gear kicked protesters out of a pro-Palestinian encampment in Victoria Square early Friday morning. The police operation began around 5 a.m., when police wearing helmets, carrying shields and some on horseback moved into the square. The 15 protesters who were in the camp emerged from their tents, some of them carrying sleeping bags. The operation appeared to take place peacefully and in relative calm. Police said one 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly pointing a l
BÉLOKO, Central African Republic—They were all wearing military fatigues and armed with Kalashnikovs when they showed up suddenly at about 5 o’clock one Friday evening at the start of December. The four men were soldiers from the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) who drove right up to where I was interviewing about a dozen people hoping to get cross the border.Among those I was interviewing were a couple of artisanal miners who had gathered in front of a security checkpoint in the Central Afri
Kyiv has not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, although Ukraine has previously struck Russian energy sites and targeted its infrastructure.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta, the American commander there said Friday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The early discharge sought by India of its nationals who were "misled" into serving in the Russian army is expected to be discussed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Moscow next week, his foreign secretary said on Friday. Several cases of Indians who were lured to Russia with the promise of lucrative jobs or education and ended up fighting against Ukraine have emerged over the last few months, and Indian police in May arrested four people linked to a human trafficking network behind the practice. Moscow has so far not responded to repeated requests from Reuters for comment.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian authorities say seven people were killed Friday during an Israeli military operation in the area of the West Bank city of Jenin, where the Israeli military said it had been carrying out “counterterrorism activity” that included an airstrike.
Hamas says amendments it proposed to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been met with a positive response by the mediators.” Cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas appear to be reviving after having stalled for weeks, as U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators try to overcome differences that have repeatedly thwarted a deal. Late Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he was sending negotiators to Qatar next week, but “there are still gaps between the parties.”
An American flag was burned on July Fourth in Los Angeles as a group of pro-Palestinian protesters walked along the Santa Ana Freeway chanting that the United States was a “terrorist” state.Footage here was recorded by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, who said a group of around 50 people began demonstrating near an Independence Day celebration before heading onto the highway. Credit: Sean Beckner-Carmitchel via Storyful
Since the Taliban's seizure of Afghanistan in 2021, relations have grown tense over the disputed border and other issues.
CHEBAA, Lebanon (AP) — With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline.
At least five people were killed on Friday during an Israeli military raid in a Jenin refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. The clashes in Jenin came a day after the Israeli monitoring group Peace Now said the Israeli government plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements across the occupied West Bank. An Israeli military raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday left five people dead, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said.At least 12 Pal
Twenty-five soldiers are sentenced for fleeing battles against the notorious M23 rebel group.
PARIS (AP) — In the final stretch before France's high-stakes parliamentary elections Sunday, several candidates have reported being attacked on the campaign trail, including government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot.
Mali's army and Russian mercenaries killed dozens of civilians during a military operation last month in northern Mali, civil organization and community members alleged Friday, amid a surge in violence after the ruling junta broke off a peace agreement with rebel groups. The killings took place from June 20 to 29 in the Abeibara in the Kidal region, the civil society groups and residents said.
Congressman Brad Schneider, a Democrat from Illinois, has called the 4 July incident "a vile act of hate".
Soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo's 223rd Battalion were sent to the lush hillsides near Lake Kivu to repel a rebel advance threatening Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich east and home to 2 million people. But as the M23 movement closed in last December, the army unit's commander faked a medical note to justify returning to Goma and, in his absence, his troops abandoned their positions without a fight, according to military prosecutors at his court martial. The case, in which eight officers were sentenced to death in May for cowardice and other crimes, exposed damaging disarray in Congo's armed forces, which have faced a cascade of losses as they struggle to curb a two-year uprising in the eastern borderlands with Rwanda.
STORY: ::July 4, 2024:: Pro-Palestinian protesters climb theroof of Australia's Parliament House::Canberra, Australia:: A Reuters witness said police made noimmediate attempt to remove the protestersFour people dressed in dark clothes were seen on the roof of the building. One of the protesters began a speech using a megaphone accusing the Israeli government of war crimes, an accusation it rejects.A handful of police and security personnel advised people not to walk directly under the protest at the main entrance to the building, but there appeared to be no immediate attempt to remove the protesters, a Reuters witness said.
More than 500,000 Jewish settlers currently live in the West Bank, where they have Israeli citizenship. Meanwhile, the three million Palestinians living there are subject to Israeli military rule.
Greece's anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people over arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in central Athens this year, police said in a statement on Thursday. The four were accused of arson that could potentially put human lives at risk and of causing damage to foreign-owned property in a racially motivated attack. In another incident on June 18, a 44-year old Greek man and a 26-year old Afghan rode near a synagogue in Athens on a motorcycle and threw flammable material at its entrance causing fire, police said.