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  • Ukraine targets Moscow in biggest drone attack yet

    MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far, killing at least one and wrecking dozens of homes in the Moscow region and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions. At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said.

  • Israel releases video of a Gaza tunnel where it says Hamas militants killed 6 hostages

    JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. The video shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation.

  • Israeli airstrike kills Hezbollah special forces commander

    The IDF says the “elimination” of Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer will impair the Iran-backed militant group’s ability to launch attacks against Israel from southern Lebanon.

  • Father of man who killed Israelis at Jordan-West Bank crossing comments on son's actions

    The father of the gunman in the deadly shooting of three Israelis at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, said on Monday he was proud of his son.

  • Israeli military says it detained UN convoy in northern Gaza to question 'Palestinian suspects'

    Israel's military has detained a United Nations convoy in the northern Gaza Strip, saying that it has intelligence that several "Palestinian suspects" are in the vehicles. A UN spokesperson said he was aware of an "ongoing incident" and said that he was trying to establish the facts. The Israeli military said on Monday it has detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip because it has intelligence indicating that a number of "Palestinian suspects" are in the convoy and

  • Israel-Gaza live updates: Aerial 'infiltration' attack reported in northern Israel

    Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Protesters have lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the government bring the hostages home. The commander of U.S. Central Command was presented with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "operational plans for Lebanon" during his weekend visit, the IDF said.

  • Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis

    ALLENBY CROSSING, West Bank (AP) — Three Israelis were shot and killed Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza.

  • The UN chief calls the death and destruction in Gaza the worst he's seen

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure.

  • At least 19 killed and more feared buried in Israeli airstrike on Gaza humanitarian zone targeting Hamas militants

    An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.

  • Blinken slams Israel after IDF says its forces likely shot slain American activist

    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it is “highly likely” American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed in the occupied West Bank on Friday, was “hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire.”

  • Indian state imposes curfew and shuts internet after fresh wave of ethnic clashes

    GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Indian authorities on Tuesday imposed an indefinite curfew and shut down the internet in some parts of the northeastern state of Manipur following protests from students against a fresh wave of ethnic violence, which has roiled the state for more than a year.

  • Israeli defense chief says a temporary truce with Hamas is possible. Ending the war is another story

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country’s volatile northern border with Lebanon.

  • Israel carries out intense strikes in central Syria, killing 4, state media says

    A series of Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least four people, wounding 13 and sparking fires, state media reported. Syria state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses “confronted an aggression that targeted several points in the central region," damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires that firefighting teams were battling to control early Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, reported that one of the strikes targeted a scientific research center in Maysaf and other sites where “Iranian militias and experts are stationed to develop weapons in Syria.”

  • Man indicted for burning Israeli flag at Columbia University pro-Palestinian protest

    A pro-Palestinian protester busted inside Hamilton Hall was indicted for burning an Israeli flag during an earlier incident at Columbia University, the Manhattan District Attorney announced Monday. James Carlson, 40, was attending a demonstration on April 20 when a Jewish student had his Israeli flag stolen by another protester, prosecutors said. Carlson was not affiliated with Columbia. ...

  • Opinion - The US sends wrong signals on Israel and democracy

    President Biden's criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu's handling of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas has been ill-timed and ill-targeted, as it weakens the United States' advocacy of democracy and freedom abroad.

  • A Palestinian team in Chile offers soccer with a heavy dose of protest

    SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Arms raised high. Banners denouncing the war in Gaza. Crowds united in song and wrapped in keffiyehs, the black-and-white checkered scarves that have become a badge of Palestinian identity.

  • Internet suspended in parts of India's Manipur as students clash with police

    Internet and mobile data services were suspended for five days and an indefinite curfew imposed in some parts of India's northeastern state of Manipur on Tuesday after student protests over continuing ethnic strife turned violent. After a brief lull, fighting broke out between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki communities on Sept. 1 and some attacks involved the use of drones to drop explosive devices, killing civilians. Police say they suspect that the drones were used by Kuki militants, a claim denied by Kuki groups.

  • West Bank city in ruins as Israeli military withdraws

    Residents of Jenin, a city in the West Bank, are cleaning up from the destruction caused by the latest Israeli military operation. Palestinian officials said 21 people were killed in Jenin during the nine-day operation; Israel said its troops killed 14 militants, including the local Hamas commander in the city. 

  • A roadside bomb hits a vehicle carrying police guarding an anti-polio drive in Pakistan, wounding 9

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, wounding six officers and three civilians, officials said.

  • Met admits making mistakes on Palestine protests

    The Met Police says about 52,000 officers' shifts were needed for protests between October and June.