Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Monday accused the United Nations’ UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon of being a “useless” force that failed to protect Israelis from Hezbollah attacks. Cohen called on UNIFIL to withdraw as fighting ramps up. “The State of Israel will do everything to ensure the safety of its citizens, and if…
Ten wounded children from the Gaza Strip arrived in Slovenia for treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation, confirmed the foundation of former Slovenian President Danilo Turk. It is a group of ten children and adolescents from the Gaza Strip with serious injuries, four of them have had their legs amputated, and two had their arms amputated. The…
The Israeli army has intensified its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, deploying a fourth division in its fight against the Islamist Hezbollah militia. A division is a large military unit composed of several brigades and typically includes thousands of soldiers. The army said the 146th Reserve Division has been operating in the western sector of…
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has visited the Jdeidet Yabous crossing on the border between Syria and Lebanon, Syria’s local media reported. “I was at the Syrian/Lebanese border, where a quarter of a million people have crossed since Sep. 23, when Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon escalated,” Grandi said on the social media…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico on Monday agreed to establish an Eastern European energy hub, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. “It will strengthen the energy security of both our states and the entire European region,’’ Shmyhal said after a meeting with Fico near Ukraine’s western city of Uzhhorod. Shmyhal…
The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced U.S. retiree Stephen Hubbard to six years and 10 months in a penal colony on charges of fighting against Russia in Ukraine. “The court finds Hubbard guilty of a crime under Article 359, Section 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and rules to impose a…
More than 2,000 police officers are on duty in Berlin on Monday as the German capital holds a number of events to mark the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, attacks on Israel. After an early evening service at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the western district of Charlottenburg, more than 1,000 demonstrators were…
Rivers worldwide had less water in 2023 than at any time in the last 30 years, according to report by the UN weather agency on Monday. The report, published by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), said that global water levels have been well below the long-term average in the last five years. The fall in…
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation said flights across Iran will be cancelled until 6am local time (02:30 GMT) on Monday, according to state media, following Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Lebanon to continue its assault on Shia militant group Hezbollah. The Israeli army has issued a new evacuation order for residents in the southern suburbs of…
An Israeli drone attack targeted and destroyed a weapons depot in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The attack carried out via drones and warplane missiles leveled the depot and caused massive explosions heard from long distances, said the UK-based watchdog group. It added that…
