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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.

  • Israeli official proposes ‘safe passage’ for Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar: Report

    Israel has proposed giving safe passage out of the Gaza Strip to Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar in exchange for freeing hostages it kidnapped from Israel during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack and giving up control of the strip, a senior Israeli official told Bloomberg News on Tuesday. Israel’s hostage envoy, Gal Hirsch, told the media…

  • Israeli airstrike kills Hezbollah special forces commander in Lebanon

    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.

  • Shots fired, bulldozers rammed cars during UN standoff with Israeli military

    A convoy of clearly marked armored U.N. vehicles in Gaza was encircled and held at gunpoint on Monday by Israeli forces seeking to question two of the U.N. staff, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The convoy, on its way to help with a campaign to vaccinate thousands of Palestinian children against polio, was stopped at a checkpoint connecting central and northern Gaza, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday, because Israeli soldiers wanted to question two Palestinian staff members.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    The strike hit an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people. 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.”

  • Houthi rebels say they shot down a $30M US Reaper drone, the 8th in less than a year

    A Houthi spokesperson said the rebels had downed another US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen, and claimed it was the eighth one shot down in under a year.

  • IDF: Chilling video shows Hamas tunnels where slain hostages were held

    Israel released video showing the dark underground tunnel where they say American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages spent their final moments before Hamas executed them.

  • Explosion reported at US military facility near Baghdad airport ahead of Iranian president's visit

    BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security officials said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to Baghdad airport late Tuesday, one day before an expected visit by Iran's president.

  • Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank, Palestinian authorities say

    Israeli security forces killed two people in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday, Palestinian health authorities said, as the military returned to the city only days after wrapping up one of their biggest operations in months. There was no detail on the two Palestinians, a man and a woman, and the Israeli military had no immediate comment on the incident, which added to a series of deadly clashes in the area over the past few weeks. The armed wings of the Fatah and Islamic Jihad factions issued statements saying their fighters were engaged in gunbattles with the Israeli forces.

  • 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. ...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Israeli strike on Gaza humanitarian zone kills 19, Hamas-run health ministry says

    An Israeli army strike on a tent camp in a humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis killed at least 19 people and wounded 60 others, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave said Tuesday after the civil defence agency provided an earlier death toll of 40. The Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command centre in the Al-Mawasi area, which the military had designated a safe zone. Hamas said the claim that its fighters were at the scene was a "blatant lie". Read