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Does Israel use the “Menendez Affair” and the option to cut the financial aide (which is quite modest) to Egypt to manipulate and pressure the Egyptian position into more desirable for Israel direction in the Gaza war?
Was it the purpose of this affair to start with?
Did Russia and Cuba (Menendez’ opponents) orchestrated this affair under the Israeli (and others) covers, and was it planned in advance, as part of the Russian plot to arrange the Gaza Pogrom with the substantial help and participation from the Wagner Group?
Putin deceived Israel with the false promises of “Intelligence Cooperation”, dangling the Menendez Affair as the bate, convenient for both; and then he stabbed Israel in the back on October 7, 2023.
This is my interpretation and understanding of these events which appear to be closely related: the Menendez case and the Gaza war.
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Quote: “The [Menendez] affair tarnished the reputation of the Egyptian government precisely when it needs economic backing from the U.S. and as Congress is exerting pressure on the issue of aid.”
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Anti-Menendez campaign was a part of the larger package of preparations for the October 7, 2023 Gaza Pogrom (or Revolt) by Russia, and one of its purposes was to blacken Egypt in the public eyes.… pic.twitter.com/zT2VbfRNri

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@mikenov: #SenatorMenendez Senator Menendez, Egypt, and the Gaza War https://t.co/68ou09xHTO Anti-Menendez campaign was a part of the larger package of preparations for the October 7, 2023 Gaza Pogrom (or Revolt) by Russia, and one of its purposes was to blacken Egypt in the public eyes.… https://t.co/zT2VbfRNri
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Senator Menendez, Egypt, and the Gaza War

Senator Bob Menendez charged with acting as foreign agent of Egypt | Bob  Menendez | The Guardian

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Menendez is accused of passing information to the Egyptians about the staff at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, ghostwriting a letter on Egypt’s behalf intended to influence fellow senators and urging the U.S. State Department to get more involved in international negotiations to block a dam project Egypt opposed, among …Oct 23, 2023


I think that this article (published on September 28, 2023) is the part of the anti-Menendez campaign, orchestrated by the “Unholy Alliance” of Russia, Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan for their own purposes. To me, this article also feels largely ghost-written or ghost-inspired itself.
It is quite possible that this anti-Menedez campaign was a part of the larger package of preparations for the October 7, 2023 Gaza Pogrom (or Revolt) by Russia, and one if its purposes was to blacken Egypt in the public eyes. And now “Egypt does not want to help Gazans”, according to this mentality.
I posted on this article soon after it appeared, in the similar vein to this post. And these impressions of mine only strengthened after the events of the October 7.
Now I have my doubts about the objectivity and impartiality of the website “Just Security”, where this article was published.
I think that this website and the whole anti-Menendez affair should be the focus of the very careful attention by the US Counterintelligence Services.
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The Biden administration is considering designating the Wagner Group, a Russian private military group, as a foreign terrorist organization amid ongoing efforts to impose costs on Russia for the Ukraine war, a US official said.

No final decision has been made, and it is unclear how far out the administration is from potentially making this designation given the laborious legal process in making this determination, the official explained.

The Wagner Group is a mercenary firm that has been heavily involved in the fighting in Ukraine. The group is often described as President Vladimir Putin’s off-the-books troops. It has expanded its footprint globally since its creation in 2014. The group has been accused of war crimes in Africa, Syria and Ukraine.

The group was founded by a Russian oligarch, Yevgeny Prigozhin, which he admitted to earlier this year. Prigozhin is so close to the Kremlin that he is known as Putin’s “chef.”

The group is already sanctioned by the US, but the Biden administration has its sights on labeling it a terrorist organization amid pressure – both from the Ukrainians and from Congress – to declare Russia as a state sponsor of terror due to the invasion of Ukraine and the constant attacks on the civilian population.

“As Ukraine continues to seize momentum on the battlefield, President Putin has focused his ire and his fire on Ukraine’s civilian population,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a news conference Wednesday at the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Bucharest, Romania, noting that Putin’s targets are heat, water and electricity. “This brutalization of Ukraine’s people is barbaric.”

The Biden administration has so far resisted efforts to label Russia as a state sponsor of terror, making the case that it would be a largely symbolic designation that could create obstacles when it comes to getting support into Ukraine, particularly through the Black Sea.

“We have to take into account the consequences, both the intended and the unintended. And that has led us to the approach we’ve taken here,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said earlier this year.

The conversations regarding Wagner are currently happening within a small group of US officials, and no final decision has been made.

“I have no discussions to confirm on this. The United States will continue to hold those responsible for perpetrating Russia’s war against Ukraine to account,” a State Department spokesperson said when asked about the discussions.

Earlier this year, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov told CNN that Wagner troops were being deployed in the “most difficult and important missions” in Ukraine, playing a key role in Russian victories in Mariupol and Kherson.

CNN has reported on plummeting morale in the private army as Russia’s Ukraine war falters.

Bloomberg first reported that the administration is considering the foreign terrorist organization designation for the Wagner Group.

 

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Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 04.10.2023 Subscribers only Government Intelligence 06.06.2023 Subscribers only Government Intelligence 21.09.2022 Subscribers only Government Intelligence 23.05.2022
 

How the Russian-Backed Wagner Group, Infamous for Sexual Violence and Pillaging, Is Failing in Mali
On Aug. 22, 2023, unidentified armed assailants fired on a Minusma convoy en route from Gao to Ménaka, in eastern Mali, in the same week that another convoy was attacked, leaving four peacekeepers from Burkina Faso wounded. That convoy was heading from a camp in the north, called Ber, and heading to Timbuktu amid the UN peacekeeping mission’s overall…
 

Can Russian be Heard in the Video of the Hamas Attack that Was Disseminated on Facebook?
On October 12-14, 2023, Facebook users shared a video of armed fighters (1,2,3), which, according to the description, depicts the first moments of the Hamas attack on Israel, and in the video, the Russian speech can be heard, namely, the word “Прикрывайте” (cover-up). The video was actively distributed by Russian-language Facebook users (1,2,3,4)….
 

Unverified rumours of Russia arming Hamas persist, as war rages in Gaza
Kyiv, Ukraine – When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the world’s attention shifted from the Russian-Ukrainian war to the Middle East conflict. As the new war flared, Ukrainian officials and some observers were quick to accuse Moscow of meddling and even graver allegations – that it was supplying the Palestinian group with weapons.list of 4 itemslist…
 

As Hamas Visits Its ‘Closest Friend’ Moscow, Questions Surround Russia’s Knowledge Of, Involvement In October 7 Hamas Attack: A Review Of Russia-Hamas Ties and Strategic Relationship
Introduction Hamas’s surprise October 7, 2023 terror attack, in which over 1,400 were brutally murdered and another 241 (at last count) taken hostage, will go down in infamy. As Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashal boasted on October 26 on Egypt’s Sada Elbalad TV, the Russians told him that this attack would be taught in military academies.[1] In the…
 

Russia’s Relationship with Hamas and Putin’s Global Calculations
At least 16 Russian citizens died as a result of Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October, but Moscow did not condemn Hamas directly. And while the Kremlin labels some of its own—peaceful—political opponents as terrorists, it did not give this designation to Hamas. Instead, President Vladimir Putin blamed US policies for the current Middle East crisis….
 
Thousands gather in Tel Aviv calling on Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu to resign
Thousands called on Benjamin Netanyahu to resign during a demonstration in Tel Aviv (Image: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP) THOUSANDS of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv calling on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign. Footage on social media showed people, including the friends and families of Hamas hostages, gathered…
 

Experts Say Hamas Used North Korean Weapons: What It Means for Israel, Nuclear Arms
Earlier this week, South Korean officials and independent expert analysts said the militant group Hamas likely used North Korean weaponry in its surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, based on images and video evidence. Among the North Korean-made arms found in the attack were F-7 rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and 122mm artillery shells. A video examined…
 

Classical and Orchestral Film Music
🎵 Buy the MP3 album on the Official Halidon Music Store: https://bit.ly/3N1cvqW 🎧 Listen to our playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CinematicMusicPlaylist 💿 Order “Film Music” (Vinyl) on Amazon✨: https://lnk.to/VinylFilmMusic 🛍️Visit the Halidon shop on Amazon : https://lnk.to/StoreHalidon These recordings are available for sync licesing in web…
 

Role of Russia and Wagner group in Hamas’ attack on Israel is revealed
#Kanal13 #likekanal13 #subscribekanal13 #warinukraine https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13az?sub_confirmation=1 – SUBSCRIBE TO US! Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, revealed that Russia is using terrorist attacks on Israel as a component of its war against Ukraine. In particular,…
 

Russia’s Wagner group to enter Israel-Hamas war and provide air support to Hezbollah; Pentagon expresses concern
The Israel-Hamas conflict is set to take a dangerous turn with Russia’s paramilitary, Wagner Group, announcing its interest in providing high-tech air defence support to Hezbollah, according to a new report. A man mounts a flag of Wagner group on top of an old tank exhibited at the Leninist Komsomol park in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine,…
 

James Brooke: With Crimea bridge crippled, Russia forced to rethink regional strategy
As Ukrainian cruise missiles and sea drones pound Crimea day after day, Russia quietly resorts to plan B: building a 250-mile railroad to supply food, fuel and ammunition to its troops entrenched in southern Ukraine.Over the last decade, Russia turned Crimea into a massive aircraft carrier in the Black Sea. Two years ago, Russia used the peninsula…
 

Russia’s Wagner To Arm Hezbollah With Pantsir-S1 Amid Israel-Hamas War; U.S. Concerned | Report
Russia’s Wagner is on the verge of getting involved in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. officials are worried that Wagner might send the SA-22 (Pantsir-S1) air defence system to help Hezbollah in its fight against Israel from Lebanon. The report added that no such transfer has happened till now and American…
 
WSJ News Exclusive | Russia’s Wagner Group Plans to Send Air Defenses to Hezbollah, U.S. Says
Russia’s Wagner Group Plans to Send Air Defenses to Hezbollah, U.S. Says
 

Russia’s Wagner group prepares to send Hezbollah weapons amid clashes with Israel, US says
Russia’s mercenary group is preparing to deliver an advanced air defense missile system to Hezbollah as the Lebanese militia group clashes with Israel, according to US intelligence. American officials are currently monitoring discussions between the Wagner mercenary group and Lebanon’s Hamas-supporting militia…
 

Iran Update, November 3, 2023
Information Cutoff: 2:00 pm ESTContributor: James CaryThe Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP)…
 

Шатдаун и поддержка Украины. Что будет с рублем. Авто растут в цене | НАЛИЧНОЕ МНЕНИЕ
Чем чреваты разногласия в США и Европе по поводу помощи Украине? Долго ли продолжит укрепляться рубль? Что в новом пакете санкций от ЕС? Почему машины в России дорожают и стареют? Это новый выпуск «Наличное мнение с Денисом Елаховским». 00:00 Интро 00:33 Шатдаун и помощь Украине 04:13 Что будет с рублём? 06:50 Россия рекордно зарабатывает на продаже…
 

Armed migrants smuggled by the Taliban storm Europe’s borders
FILE PHOTO Hungarian police using pepper spray on migrants at the border (Image: Getty )Europe’s borders have started to look like a warzone with heavily armed guards facing-off against Taliban-backed people smuggling gangs carrying assault rifles.Recent footage taken on the Serbia-Hungary border, an area dubbed a no-man’s land, showed a man carrying…
 

Apec summit ends with unity on WTO reform but not Gaza or Ukraine
Pacific Rim leaders have shown divisions over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza after a two-day summit of the Apec forum, while pledging support for reform of the World Trade Organization.The 21 economies that make up the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum – among them Russia, China, the US and Australia – did not mention either conflict in their final…
 

Russian authorities ask the Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ ‘movement’ as extremist
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservative country. The ministry said in an online statement announcing…
 

500 kilometers of tunnels: How Hamas built an underground city
Sometime toward the end of 1998, arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, then a prisoner in an Israeli prison, came up with a novel idea. With two cellmates, Hamas terrorists, Rouhi Moushtahaand Tawfik Abu Naim, Sinwar planned to kidnap an Israeli soldier from the Gaza Strip – then still under full IDF control and, through a tunnel, smuggle him into Egypt.<<…
 

Opinion | Why Egypt Can’t Solve Gaza’s Problems
Egypt has appeared hesitant to help relieve the humanitarian distress affecting Palestinian civilians. Why?
 

George Santos faces renewed expulsion push by his own party
The Republican chairman of the House Ethics Committee filed a motion Friday to expel New York Rep. George Santos following the committee’s damning report. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports. #news #politics #georgesantos CBS News Streaming Network is the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service from CBS News and…
 

The News And Times
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightening offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and experts say. Oct 5, 2023 Last edited9:54 AM · Nov 17, 2023
 

Israeli weapons quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh — sources, data
AP — Israel has quietly helped fuel Azerbaijan’s campaign to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh, supplying powerful weapons to Azerbaijan ahead of its lightning offensive last month that brought the ethnic Armenian enclave back under its control, officials and experts say. Just weeks before Azerbaijan launched its 24-hour assault on September 19, Azerbaijani…
 

Pashinyan, Macron Meet in Paris
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and French President Emmanuel Macron met at the Élysée Palace today. The President of France first expressed his condolences to the Prime Minister on the death of Christian Ter-Stepanyan, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to UNESCO, Personal Representative of the Prime Minister of Armenia to the…
 

Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians
Amman, Jordan – The Israeli army released footage on October 22 of its Maglan commando unit deploying a new precision-guided 120mm mortar bomb called the Iron Sting, against Hamas in Gaza. The bomb’s Haifa-based manufacturer, Elbit Systems, has been advertising its qualities on the public relations page of its website since March 2021, when it was…
 

Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine vanishes from news coverage amid raging conflict in Gaza
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. When was the last time you saw a live television news report from Ukraine? It’s likely been a while. The raging war…
 

Violin and Piano | Classical Music
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Russia seeks an 8-year prison term for an artist and musician who protested the war in Ukraine
The International Center of Justice for Palestinians says International Criminal Court case will focus on role of politicians in ‘aiding and abetting Israel’s perpetration of war crimes’ The organization also accuses the Canadian officials of turning a ‘blind eye’ to ‘ethnic cleansing through a campaign of forced displacement of 1.2 million people’…
 

F.B.I. Raided Homes of Second Adams Aide and Ex-Turkish Airline Official
On the same day the federal authorities raided the home of Mayor Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser, they also searched the residences of two people with ties to Turkey.
 

The News And Times
Michael Novakhov (Mike Nova) 11/16/2023 10:36:00 AM
 

The Delicate Power of Modern Orthodox Judaism
Featured What will the future hold for this decentralized but tight-knit community? By Shuli Taubes A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn’t easy….
 

Iran is calling Biden’s bluff
President Joe Biden’s military show of force — the armada parked off the Israeli coast in the East Mediterranean Sea — is seen by Iran and its proxies as no more than a static display. Its deterrence value, the supposed muscle behind Biden’s “don’t” warnings, has been largely ignored.  Hezbollah militants continue to fire rockets and anti-tank missiles…
 

New Leadership Emerges in Wagner Group amid Ukraine-Russia Conflict
In a significant development in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, reports suggest that the son of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin, has taken command of the Wagner Group. This information comes from a renowned Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel, as cited by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW),…
 

5 things we learnt from Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s meeting
China’s absorption of Taiwan is ‘unstoppable’, Xi tells BidenNovember 16 2023, 8.05amKeiran Southern, San Francisco | Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor | Alistair Dawber, Washington
 

Russia’s role in the Middle East: A key factor in Israel’s foreign polic
Israel should not harm it’s relations with Russia, due to the long story of cooperation and Moscow’s role in the Middle EastAmid all the tensions on the international arena and difficulties, that both Russia and Israel are facing in their relations today, Moscow’s still playing a major role in the Middle East. So Israel should balance and keep good…
 

Synagogue in Armenia set alight in latest attack on Jewish diaspora
A synagogue in Yerevan, Armenia was set on fire on November 15, according to Azerbaijani Ambassador to Germany Nasimi Aghayev who shared footage of the attack.A synagogue in Yerevan, Armenia, which is the country’s only synagogue, was burned last night. Alarming rise in #antisemitism in Armenia makes its small Jewish community quite vulnerable. According…
 

Russia’s Wagner Group ‘plans to give Hezbollah high tech air-defenses’
Published: 01:08 GMT, 3 November 2023 | Updated: 12:03 GMT, 3 November 2023 Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group plans to provide advanced anti-aircraft defense systems to Hezbollah for deployment near Israel’s northern border, according to a new report.Wagner wants to send the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group the Russian SA-22 Greyhound system,…
 

Watch: ‘Moscow isn’t the mastermind’ behind Israel-Hamas war | Defence in Depth
The most obvious way in which the conflict in Israel and Gaza is impacting the war in Ukraine is by diverting world attention. But it would be unwise to jump to the conclusion that countries like the US will have to choose between sending weapons to either Ukraine or Israel. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, dismissed these concerns last week,…
 

F.B.I. Ramps Up Investigations of Hamas
Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, made the disclosure in testifying about threats to the United States after Hamas’s surprise attack on southern Israel last month.
 

U.S. President Joe Biden Meets with Wang Yi
2023-10-28 13:10 On October 27, 2023 local time, U.S. President Joe Biden met with visiting Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the White House.Wang Yi first conveyed President Xi Jinping’s greetings to President Biden, saying that the purpose of this visit is to communicate with the U.S. side…
 

APEC Summit: Xi Tells Biden ‘Planet Earth is Big Enough’ for Both the U.S. and China
The relationship between the United States and China is at a 40-year low, and American officials have tried to minimize expectations about what concrete commitments might emerge from the leaders’ first meeting in a year.
 

Israel-Hamas war has ‘sharpened the focus’ of US terror threats: Biden officials
Skip to content Christopher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, center, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, left, and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christine Abizaid, right, speak during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland”, at the Capitol…
 

Top figures continued to meet with Epstein after sex conviction, report says
The circle of global power players who continued to meet with Jeffrey Epstein after his first sex conviction was far wider than previously revealed, according to an extensive report fromThe Wall Street Journal published on Sunday.Using source documents including Epstein’s schedules, the paper identified meetings between the disgraced financier and figures…
 

Zelensky appeals for more weapons amid increasing Russian attacks • FRANCE 24 English
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Russia was increasing its attacks across the front line, as Kyiv called for the West to boost weapons supplies ahead of winter. #Ukraine #Russia #war 🔔 Subscribe to France 24 now: https://f24.my/YTen 🔴 LIVE – Watch FRANCE 24 English 24/7 here: https://f24.my/YTliveEN 🌍 Read the latest…
 

Израильские войска обнаружили оружие и инфраструктуру ХАМАС в больнице «Аль-Шифа»
Израильские войска обнаружили оружие и инфраструктуру ХАМАС (признана США террористической организацией) в ходе рейда в ночь на среду в крупнейшем больничном комплексе «Аль-Шифа» в секторе Газа. Об этом в среду сообщил высокопоставленный представитель военного ведомства Израиля, добавив, что доказательства будут представлены позже. Он сообщил журналистам,…
 

Zelensky Faces Fire From Ex-Advisor; Explains Kyiv’s ‘Main Mistake’ Amid Russia War | Details
An ex-advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed Ukraine’s effort to ‘dehumanize’ Russians. Aleksey Arestovich called Ukraine’s ‘dehumanizing’ effort a mistake in the war. Arestovich stated that the strategy has given Russian troops more reasons to fight. The comments come as Russian troops continue to dominate the Ukrainian Army….
 

Zelensky’s Worst Week? Here’s What Happened
Over the course of one week last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky had to deal with various allegations and comments surrounding him and his officials, with some scandalous accusations in TIME magazine serving as the cherry on top. TIME magazine article’s allegations In a TIME publication that sparked much controversy in Ukraine and abroad, Zelensky…
 
Ukraine War: Zelensky adviser resigns over Dnipro remarks
Mr Arestovych is one of the most public Ukrainian faces of the war, using his YouTube channel to hold daily discussions on issues related to the conflict. The channel has more than 1.6 million subscribers, and his videos often have more than 200,000 views. Unusually for Ukrainian officials, he speaks in Russian rather than Ukrainian.
 

Zelensky’s Ex-adviser Says Ukraine President In ‘conflict’ With His Military – Iran Front Page
The ex-official was referring to recent remarks by Ukraine’s army commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, who claimed that the hostilities with Russia had reached a “stalemate.” This view sent ripples through Western media and even reportedly caused “panic” among some of Kiev’s backers. “There is a conflict between the president and…
 

Departure of men abroad in 2023: what has changed for military servicemen
Martial law in Ukraine provides for restrictions on the departure of conscripted men of conscription age. Find out more about who still has the right to leave the country and the main changes for men leaving in 2023 More useful news in our Telegram channel FOLLOW During the martial law in Ukraine, men aged 18 to 60 may be mobilized…
 
 

CIA boss heads for Z-Day in Kiev as Ukraine falters
Wednesday, November 15th is Z-Day for the War in Ukraine. CIA Chief William Burns will arrive in Kiev for urgent, secret meetings with Zelensky. It is worth asking: How come Burns is on an urgent mission to Ukraine? The answer to the question is that Ukraine is imploding. The crumbling of the Zelensky regime is unsurprising: Ukraine has been sustaining…
 

Egyptian and Russian Presidents call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza – [İLKHA] Ilke News Agency
In a joint effort to address the ongoing conflict in the war-torn Gaza Strip, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on Tuesday. The leaders agreed to intensify international efforts towards an immediate ceasefire and discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian coastal enclave,…
 

Truth is stranger than fiction: Israel’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan is an Armenian
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev with Israeli Ambassador George Deek, December 2019 (Wikimedia Commons) When I first heard that Israel’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, George Deek, is an Armenian, I thought it couldn’t be true. However, I was astonished to find out that it is. As Mark Twain said: “Truth is stranger than fiction!” Long before he…
 

Periodista indio fue espiado con el malware Pegasus, denuncia grupo anticorrupción | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Hackers respaldados por el gobierno de la India intentaron instalar el programa espía Pegasus, de la firma israelí NSO Group, en el iPhone de un periodista indio que trabajaba para el Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) en agosto de este año, según declaraciones del cofundador de la organización, retomadas por la agencia de noticias…
 

Armen Grigoryan: We are ready to continue negotiations to conclude peace agreement with Azerbaijan
Armenia is ready to continue negotiations in this format to conclude a peace agreement with Azerbaijan and, if possible, sign a peace agreement by the end of the year, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, said in an interview with the local press, Report informs. He noted that Armenia wants negotiations in which agreements…
 

The Coming War in the Caucasus
YEREVAN—Atop a high hill, just west of Yerevan’s old city, stands a stark, deeply affecting monument marking the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians. The world Armenia inhabits is once again taking on a tragic color: Last month, to what might charitably described as a muted international response, Azerbaijan, Turkey’s closest ally…
 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the FBI and Turkey: What to know about the controversy
A bizarre scandal involving potentially illegal campaign contributions from Turkish citizens has New York City Mayor Eric Adams playing defense after the FBI seized some of his electronic devices.“This is an ongoing review,” Adams said at a Tuesday morning press conference. “And as a former member of law enforcement, it is always my view, always my…
 

The Week In Russia: ‘An Arsonist For A Firefighter’
I’m Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL’s Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect the key developments in Russian politics and society over the previous week and look at what’s ahead. To receive The Week In Russia newsletter in your inbox, click here. A trip to China, an eye on the Middle East — and for…
 

Palestine-Israeli Conflict: Why Russia Called for Peace in the Middle-East
In the month of October, Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov as well as Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and others began talking broadly about peace in the Middle-East. There were strong calls for the United Nations to take urgent steps to halt Israel’s military atrocities…
 

Wagner Group “absurdly” claims 10 million U.S. applicants: ISW
Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has “absurdly” claimed that over 10 million American citizens have applied to join his Russian mercenary organization, according to U.S. think tank Institute of the Study of War (ISW).Prigozhin said on Thursday that the Wagner Group had “completely stopped” its practice of recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine,…
 

Is Russia’s Wagner Group recruiting US veterans to fight in Ukraine? – Tully Rinckey PLLC
The Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious private military company accused of war crimes and identified as a “significant transnational criminal organization” by the U.S. Treasury Department, may be trying to recruit American veterans as mercenaries. A video being shared on social media is purportedly a Wagner recruiting commercial that targets U.S. military…
 
Le Président de Madagascar a contacté le PMC Wagner pour…
Sélectionné pour vous : Belgique : Partouzes et jeux sexuels, un scandale éclabousse à la plus grande prison du pays Les prochaines élections sont actuellement le principal sujet de discussion dans le pays. Grâce à des collègues du Consortium international des journalistes d’investigation (ICIJ), on a appris l’enregistrement exclusif d’une rencontre…
 

 

Who Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? Know about Putin’s Chef 2023
They got him in the end.” This was a common reaction to the news about the private jet crash that, at least according to Russian officials, killed the warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the infamous Wagner mercenary army. There are many theories about what actually happened, including the lingering question, “Who Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin?” The fundamental…
 

Xi Jinping’s goals for APEC summit, Biden meeting revealed by China state-controlled outlets
ANALYSIS Chinese President Xi Jinping meets President Biden this week on the sidelines of an international economic summit in San Francisco seeking concessions from the United States on ideology, trade and exports, according to a review of Chinese state media ahead of the meeting. A common theme of Chinese official accounts in the days leading up to…
 

Israel’s War in Gaza Could Be a Curse for Vladimir Putin
Last week, the Financial Times quoted a “senior European Union official” calling the escalating war in the Middle East “a gift from heaven” for Vladimir Putin. He suggested that Western governments’ support for Israel is turning Global South countries into Moscow’s allies. As an unnamed Arab official quoted in the same FT piece put it, “If you describe…
 

Russia’s approach to Israel reveals problems in the Kremlin
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Berlin and visiting fellow at the European University Institute, FlorenceOn October 29, several thousand angry men stormed the airport at Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan…
 
Russia’s Second Front in Europe
In late September, Serbia deployed advanced weapons to its border with Kosovo, in what amounted to one of the largest Serbian military buildups since the end of the Kosovo war nearly a quarter century ago. In the United States, a spokesman for the National Security Council called it “an unprecedented staging of advanced Serbian artillery, tanks, and…
 

Are we heading towards World War Three?
Earlier this year, analysts at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute warned that the world was “drifting into one of the most dangerous periods in human history”.Since then, a conflict in the Middle East that threatens to spill over into a regional war has only added to geopolitical tensions – and the risk of all-out war between emerging…
 

Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen Strategist of Russia’s Middle East Policy
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, Russian nationalists and so-called “Z” propaganda voices rejoiced. Propagandist Margarita Simonyan snidely commented on many “pacifist” expatriates who had left Russia for Israel after the beginning of the war with Ukraine and might now want to return to Russia.The Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel retranslated…
 

Hostage to His Own War, Putin Abrogates Russia’s “Friendship” with Israel
The war in the Middle East that inevitably followed Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel has highlighted the true colors of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. His policy of making Russia’s war against Ukraine central to his political system pushed him into breaking his ties with Israel and into supporting anti-Israeli forces in the Middle East.For…
 

US kills 6 Iranian fighters in overnight strikes in Syria | Fox News Video
All times eastern Making Money with Charles Payne FOX News Radio Live Channel Coverage WATCH LIVE: Pro-Palestine protesters march outside Biden’s Delaware home
 

Battles force Palestinians out of hospitals in Gaza, leaving patients, babies and medics stranded
The Israeli military has released video of fighting in the Gaza Strip, showing troops operating in an area between Beit Hanoun and Jabalia. Videos Israeli operations in Gaza Strip ramp up The Israeli military has released video of fighting in the Gaza Strip, showing troops operating in an area between Beit Hanoun and Jabalia. …
 

Russian and US Forces Conduct Separate Airstrikes in Syria While Tensions Escalate
The Media Line Staff 11/13/2023 Moscow and Washington criticize each other’s military operations in Syria As the world’s attention is fixed on Gaza, Russia and the United States have escalated their military activities in Syria, conducting separate airstrikes against different targets. Russian airstrikes in Idlib province reportedly…
 

U.S. Military Plane Crashes In Middle East After Hezbollah Warning; Five Troops Killed
Five American troops were killed after a United States military plane crashed over the Mediterranean Sea. The crash occurred during a “routine air refueling mission as part of a military training”, said the United States European Command in a statement. While there is no indication of any foul play, the U.S. military has come under increased attacks…
 

Israel-Hamas War: U.S. and Israel Strike Militias Tied to Iran in Reminder of Risks in Mideast
The attacks come as Israel’s military consolidates control of Gaza City, Hamas’s base. The fighting has worsened the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
 

U.S. Strikes Iran-Linked Facility in Syria in Round of Retaliation
Drone and rocket attacks on U.S. forces have continued in recent weeks, prompting a second round of retaliatory airstrikes in eastern Syria.
 

Russian and US air strikes attack targets in Syria
Published On 13 Nov 202313 Nov 2023Russian air strikes have targeted Syrian rebels and the United States has bombed Iran-backed groups in Syria, with the Russian military criticising Washington for failing to coordinate its operations. Russian air strikes in Syria’s Idlib province have reportedly killed 34 rebel fighters and injured 60, as hostilities…
 

US launches airstrike on site in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region for the past several weeks, the Pentagon said.In Wednesday’s strike, two U.S. F-15 fighter jets dropped multiple bombs on…
 

Map shows US forces under fire across Middle East
President Joe Biden is struggling to both “speak softly and carry a big stick,” as attacks on American forces in the Middle East mount and Israeli troops press their devastating assault on the Gaza Strip despite growing concern in the U.S.Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Thursday that there have now been at least 46 separate…
 

Map of foreign forces’ military points in Syria – mid 2023
The monitoring of foreign powers’ military points and bases on the Syrian map is a key indicator in assessing the extent of these powers’ field and military influence, which is directly related to these countries’ and external actors’ ability to influence political decisions and the public scene in Syria.      The number of foreign powers’ military…
 

US conducts more strikes in eastern Syria, military says, following continued attacks on forces in region
The US carried out another set of strikes against targets affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following continued attacks on US forces in the region. Austin said the strikes were directed by President Joe Biden and…
 

Photos: Scenes from the Israel-Hamas War
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The Hamas-Russia connection: Only Russia could have provided the cyber-weapons that made the Oct. 7 massacre possible. – JOSEPH FRAGER

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The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre will never be forgotten. It has been forever seared on to the heart and soul of every Jew. It is a source of anguish and a guide for generations to come.

There has been little comment, however, on the fact that, just like the Yom Kippur War in 1973 had heavy Russian involvement, so did the slaughter on Oct. 7.

On July 20, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to Iran to strengthen ties between the two countries. On Aug. 16 of this year, Putin held a Zoom conference with Iranian officials to “reaffirm support for further developing bilateral ties in trade, transport, logistics and energy,” as reported by Russian news agency TASS.

One doesn’t have to read between the lines to see that Russia is fully allied with Iran on all fronts. Iran supplies Russia with drones, missiles and oil. Russia shares technology with Iran and gives it military assistance.

The Oct. 7 attack was planned for at least two years. It is not a coincidence that Hamas attacked 50 years after the Yom Kippur War almost to the day. Arab terrorists like to wreak havoc on anniversaries. This has always been their calling card. They chose another Jewish holiday to do their depraved deed.

There will be many conspiracy theories about how Israel was caught flat-footed. Israel will do a very thorough analysis. There are many questions that need to be answered. For example, how did Hamas obtain maps of IDF bases? Where was the IDF for so many hours after the assault began? What were the intelligence failures that led to the infiltration?

I believe Hamas coordinated the Times Square rally held on Oct. 8 knowing full well that they were going to attack on Oct. 7. This is consistent with the fact that reporters from Reuters and AP accompanied the Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Hamas coordinated the attack with the disinformation campaign and rallies in the United States and around the world that followed.

The New York Post’s report on American-born tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, who has shelled out over $20 million to the People’s Forum, which organized the Oct. 8th rally, is a strong indication that Hamas was behind it.

Singham is a Marxist who lives in China. He is connected to at least four propaganda news sites that support the Chinese Communist Party. According to The New York Times and quoted in The New York Post, the People’s Forum is calling for “more marches, walkouts, sit-ins and other forms of direct action directed at the political offices, businesses and workplaces that fund, invest and collaborate” with Israel.

The Russian connection to Oct. 7 took the form of the cyber-warfare technology given to the Iranians and Hamas. Hamas’s “blinding plan” to take down Israel’s high tech “iron wall,” neutralizing long-range cameras, sophisticated sensors, multiple alarm systems and remote-control weapons was almost certainly aided by Russia’s cyber expertise. Having spoken to cyber experts, I believe only Russia could have made it happen.

Clearly, we have entered a new age in which cyber is the new tank on the battlefield and the new fighter jet in the sky. Unless America and Israel are one step ahead of the new Axis of Evil in the cyber-warfare sphere, no one is safe.

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A week after Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, residents in Armenia exclaves worry whether their hometowns will face a similar fate. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, in the nineties and in 2020.

This year, after Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive, Baku took total control of the region that lies within its borders. Up until a few months ago, it was dominated by ethnic Armenians. Now, most residents have fled to Armenia. After the second Karabakh War, which ended with an agreement facilitated by Russia, Armenia agreed to allow a land connection between Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan.

While Azerbaijan and Russia claim that the road was meant to be outside of Armenia’s control, overseen by the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, Armenia rejects this interpretation. In Yerevan’s view, the agreement was made at the time when Azerbaijan was blocking Armenia’s only land connection to Nagorno-Karabakh and was meant as part of mutual concessions. But as Azerbaijan began a nine-month blockade of the area in December 2022, effectively cutting ethnic Armenians off the outside world, and eventually recapturing the area, Armenia does not feel obliged to meet its part of the agreement.

That is despite Azerbaijan’s claim that it can only benefit from the deal. “Armenia will be able to benefit from the developing trade in the region and all trade projects that are likely to be realised in the future,” Kanan Heydarov, a political analyst from Azerbaijan said.

“It will be able to make great economic gains. As it is known, Armenia has not been able to benefit from many big trade projects developed in the region so far.” In recent years, Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, began to refer to Armenia as “Western Azerbaijan”. He also started calling for the creation of the “Zangezur Corridor”, a highway linking Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan along the former Soviet rail track. “The Zangezur Corridor is a historical necessity,” Aliyev said last January adding that it will be created whether Armenia wants it or not.

Earlier, in 2021, the President threatened to establish it by force. Following Azerbaijan’s victory over Nagorno-Karabakh, which led to an almost full exodus of its Armenian population, locals—and some experts—fear that Azerbaijan might bring its plan to life by force.

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Israel and Hamas are close to agreement on a U.S.-brokered deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, say people familiar with the emerging terms.

The release, which could begin within the next several days — barring last-minute hitches — could lead to the first sustained pause in conflict in Gaza.

A detailed, six-page set of written terms would require all parties to the conflict to freeze combat operations for at least five days while an initial 50 or more hostages are released in smaller batches every 24 hours. It was not immediately clear how many of the 239 people believed to be in captivity in Gaza would be released under the deal. Overhead surveillance would monitor movement on the ground to police the pause.

The stop in fighting is also intended to allow a significant increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance, including fuel, to enter the besieged enclave from Egypt.

“We’ve made some progress recently and have been working hard to advance this, but it remains a volatile situation,” an administration official said Saturday on condition of anonymity. After this article was initially published, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson tweeted that there was “no deal yet but we continue to work hard to get a deal.”

The outline of a deal was put together during weeks of talks in Doha, Qatar, among Israel, the United States and Hamas, indirectly represented by Qatari mediators, according to Arab and other diplomats. But it remained unclear until now that Israel would agree to temporarily pause its offensive in Gaza, provided the conditions were right.

A spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in Washington said late Saturday that “we are not going to comment” on any aspect of the hostage situation.

Concern about the captives — two of whom Israel said were found dead — along with the rising number of Palestinian civilian casualties have steadily increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. More than 100 countries — but, notably, not the United States — have called for a full and immediate cease-fire.

The decision to accept the deal is difficult for Israel, said one person familiar with the situation who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. While there is strong domestic pressure on Netanyahu to bring the hostages home, there are also loud voices in Israel demanding that the government not barter for their release.

In public remarks, Israel has remained unyielding, while acknowledging the pressure it is under. On Friday, Israeli National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi told reporters that the war cabinet had unanimously agreed that a limited cease-fire could occur only after “a massive release of our hostages … and it will be limited and short, because after that we will continue to work towards achieving our war goals.”

In fiery comments Saturday, Netanyahu said the offensive would continue, even as he defended a decision last week to allow the first steady fuel transfers into Gaza since the start of the war. As Israel has pursued its Gaza offensive, it has cut off all but minimal deliveries of the food, water, fuel and medicine that the enclave’s 2.3 million people depend upon for survival. “For international support to continue, humanitarian aid is essential,” he said. “Because of that, we accepted the recommendation to bring fuel into Gaza.”

Netanyahu spoke as thousands of hostage family members and their supporters ended a five-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to demand government action, with many saying that the lives of innocent Israelis were worth any short-term deal the government has to make to secure their release.

After initial hesitation, the Biden administration, under its own domestic pressure between advocates of unstinting support for Israel’s war aims and concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, has fully backed a temporary pause in the fighting.

Beginning with President Biden’s trip to Tel Aviv a week after the war began, and followed by multiple visits from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, the administration has pushed hard with Netanyahu to understand that it is losing the narrative high ground as more Palestinians die. The death toll in Gaza is now reportedly more than 11,000.

The administration’s highest priority, however, has been freeing the nine Americans and one permanent U.S. resident among the hostages. “I think we need a pause,” Biden said two weeks ago at a campaign event. “A pause means time to get the prisoners out.”

A week later, asked about reports he had pushed for a three-day stop in the fighting, Biden said he had asked Netanyahu for “an even longer pause.” In his news conference Thursday after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he said that the hostages were “on our mind every single day,” and that he was working on a way to “have a period of time where there’s a pause long enough” to let them be released.

U.S. officials have said they believe a pause would allow Hamas to gather the hostages and arrangements could be made to escort them safely through the battlefield. It was not clear that the Americans or other foreigners would be included in the initial tranche of releases. The hope is that if the release of women and children is successful, other groups of captives will then follow.

Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council’s top Middle East official, is on an extended trip to the region to try to solidify the hostage release plan, including meetings in Israel and Qatar. Speaking at an international security conference Saturday in Bahrain, McGurk said that negotiations have been “intensive and ongoing.”

The freeing several weeks ago of an American mother and daughter — among the four captives who have been released since the war began — during a brief pause to allow international humanitarian workers to escort them, provided a “track” for “what we hope will be a much larger release.”

McGurk told the conference that Hamas’s release of a “large number” of the hostages, believed to total 239, “would result in a significant pause in fighting and a massive surge of humanitarian relief. Hundreds and hundreds of trucks on a sustained basis entering Gaza from Egypt.” When the hostages are released, he said, “you will see a significant, significant change.”

It was “reasonable,” McGurk said, “to pause the fighting, release the hostages, the women, the children, the toddlers, the babies, all of them.” The initial deal does not include civilian men or Israeli military personnel, a number of whom are women, among the captives.

Those remarks drew an angry response from Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who interpreted them as signaling that a pause allowing humanitarian relief would come only after the hostages were released unconditionally by Hamas. “There’s a lot of negotiations,” Safadi said, “but Israel is taking 2.3 million Palestinians hostage … and denying them food and water and by this war.”

An administration official said any assumption that the United States was conditioning aid on the release of hostages had “grossly misinterpreted” McGurk’s remarks. “Any type of hostage deal would likely result in an increase of humanitarian aid,” the official said. The United States, the official noted, has continuously pushed for an increase of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.

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Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the deal.

As part of the detailed, six-page agreement, all parties would freeze combat operations for at least five days while “an initial 50 or more hostages are released in smaller groups every 24 hours”, the Post reported. Hamas took about 240 hostages during its Oct. 7 rampage inside Israel that killed 1,200 people.

The newspaper said overhead surveillance would monitor ground movement to help police the pause, which also is intended to allow in a significant amount of humanitarian aid.

There was no immediate comment from the White House or the Israeli prime minister’s office on the Post report.

The hostage release could begin within the next several days, according to people familiar with its the agreement.

Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the deal.

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15 Russian ships destroyed in Black Sea, Ukrainian military claims

Ukraine’s military claimed it had destroyed a total of 15 Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea since the start of the war.

Another 12 had been damaged, the military said.

Dmytro Pletenchuk, a navy spokesperson, described Ukraine as the “driver of a new type of naval warfare” having forced Russia to move its naval forces into more difficult positions, as a result of attacks by Kyiv. 

The military’s operations carried out in the Black Sea so far have included strikes on the Russian Black Sea Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, and the shipyard in Kerch, which damaged a vessel that had not officially joined the fleet.

Attacks have also targeted warships near annexed Crimea, including a large landing vessel and a submarine.

Ukraine’s EU membership talks ‘at risk’ after ‘reality check’ over war support

A European Union decision to launch membership talks with Ukraine are “at risk”, a senior official said. 

Amid regular assurances that the EU would support Ukraine for “as long as it takes” in the face of Russian aggression, the official said the latest discussions in the bloc over further support to Kyiv were a “reality check”.

“Leaders… were realising it’s quite expensive,” they said.

The unnamed official is involved in preparing a summit in Brussels of the EU 27 member states’ national leaders from 14-15th December. 

“How do we pay for this?” the official added.

In a potential further blow, the official said there is no agreement to grant Kyiv a further €50bn (£43m). 

This comes after a proposal by the bloc’s executive European Commission to revise the bloc’s long-term budget to assign another €50bn for Ukraine through to 2027 was criticised from several sides.

“We cannot allow Ukraine to go bankrupt, it’s not an option for us. But it’s not easy,” the official said.

Finland provides Ukraine with new military aid package

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the president of Finland for providing Ukraine with a new military package. 

The latest defence package is worth €100m (£87m).

This brings the total of military aid provided by Finland up to €1.5bn (£1.3bn).

“This support strengthens not just Ukraine but also the security of Finland and the rest of our Europe,” Mr Zelenskyy said in a statement on social media.

Thousands of citizens without electricity across Ukraine

Thousands of citizens across Ukraine are without electricity because of shelling and problems at power plants, the Ukrainian government has said today. 

Some customers have also been left without gas due to the conflict.

Here is a breakdown of the situation in the different regions across the country:

More than 28,000 customers were cut off from electricity supply due to shelling in Kherson, the Ukrainian government said.

The government added more than 700 customers remain without power due to flooding caused by the explosion at the Kakhovka Dam back in June.

Around 122 settlements remain without power in this eastern region, the government said.

More than 17,600 customers remain without power in the region. 

Power companies have restored electricity to 950 customers overnight. 

Residents of one of the villages bordering Russia were also left without gas after a medium-pressure gas distribution pipeline was damaged. 

Around 150 customers are without gas supply due to damage to gas equipment by a car. 

Another 85 customers are without natural gas for technical reasons.

More than 13,000 customers were left without electricity in the region. 

In addition, 1,000 customers remain disconnected. Power companies were able to restore electricity to 14,600 customers over the course of today.

Territorial map released by UK’s Ministry of Defence

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has today released an up-to-date territorial map of the situation in Ukraine. 

It labels the locations where Russian forces have grouped, where Ukrainian troops are likely to attack and the territory taken by Russia since last year.

Ukrainian power plants need missile defence systems to operate safely – energy company boss

Ukraine’s largest private energy company has said its power plants need more missile defence systems to operate safely, according to its CEO. 

“We cannot protect ourselves against ballistic missiles if we don’t have air defence systems,” Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, said today.

Hundreds of transformers, miles of cables and thousands of diesel generators have been supplied to Ukraine from Europe and members of the Soviet Union and the ex-Communist bloc since the start of the war.

This has provided critical light and heat to the country throughout winter, when temperatures regularly fall below freezing.

“I know that our president and our government have been doing everything that they can to bring the message that we need this equipment to protect our energy system,” Mr Timchenko said.

Every one of DTEK’s 13 power stations supplies energy to more than seven million Ukrainian families.

Each has come under fire from Russia, which has targeted the country’s power grid. 

As a result 50% of the company’s capacity has been damaged, destroyed or occupied, causing blackouts, Mr Timchenko said.

Power units in eight out of the 13 stations have been restored and two are under repair.

In pictures: Russian delegation leaves North Korea

Earlier this week, we reported that Alexander Kozlov, Russia’s natural resources minister, was in North Korea. 

During his visit, he held talks with Tok Hun, North Korea’s prime minister.

It comes as Moscow and Pyongyang have been stepping up cooperation following their leaders’ summit in September.

Having arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, Mr Kozlov and other Russian senior officials were pictured leaving the country last night. 

The two countries have denied accusations from the US that they have agreed an arms deal for use in the war in Ukraine.

‘Big mistake’: Kremlin responds to Finland barricading crossings

Following on from our post below, the Kremlin has accused Finland of choosing a path of confrontation with Russia. 

In reaction to Finland planning to put barricades at four crossings on its shared border, Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said the country was making a “big mistake”. 

Helsinki claims Moscow is to blame for an influx of migrants as tensions between the two countries deteriorated after Finland joined NATO.

“(One can) only express deep regret that the Finnish authorities have taken the path of destroying bilateral relations,” Russian state news agency TASS quoted Mr Peskov as saying. 

He said the two countries always had mutually beneficial and respectful relations. 

“Russia has never in modern history threatened Finland, we had no reason for any confrontation. Now they have chosen this path. From our point of view, this is a big mistake,” he said.

Finland to block border crossings to stop migrants ‘sent by Russia’

Finland has said it will place barriers at four crossings on its border with Russia from midnight.

It comes after the country accused Russian authorities of funnelling migrants to the crossing in retaliation for its decision to increase defence cooperation with the US.

The Kremlin firmly denies the accusation. 

The Finnish Border Guard said barriers will go up at four of the nine crossings, to “prevent entry”. 

Some 300 asylum seekers, mostly from Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Syria, have arrived in Finland this week, according to the Border Guard. 

Nearly 100 of those had entered from Russia by midday today alone, according to officials.

From Saturday asylum seekers arriving via Russia will only be allowed to hand in their applications at two northern border crossings, at Salla and Vartius, Matti Pitkaniitty, Border Guard’s head of international affairs, said. 

Yesterday, Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, thanked the Finnish authorities for protecting the bloc’s external border. 

“Russia’s instrumentalisation of migrants is shameful,” she said.

The border crossings set to be blocked at midnight include:

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  • Imatra
  • Niirala

Zelenskyy praises ‘strength’ of Ukrainian troops on river bank

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has released images of Ukrainian troops on the banks of the Dnipro river. 

In a post on X, formely Twitter, the Ukrainian president thanked them for “their strength and for moving forward”. 

Earlier today, the Ukrainian Marines said they had a series of successes in the territory, had established several bridgeheads and carried out more operations on the eastern side of the river. 

Andriy Kovalyov, general staff spokesperson, said troops managed to “knock out” Russians from their positions on the left bank of the river and consolidate there. 

“One of the main goals of this combat work is to push the enemy as far as possible from the right bank to protect the Ukrainian civilian population, in particular Kherson, from constant Russian shelling,” he said.

Russia has made no immediate statements in reaction to the Ukrainian reports today.

Ukraine war latest: Kremlin responds to neighbour barricading …  Sky News

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Police were stumped when ‘crashed’ plane was found in remote Yukon, but it was placed there last summer for rescue training

When a hunter in British Columbia stumbled upon the crumpled remains of an airplane fuselage on 3 November, he reported the grim findings to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Officers were dispatched to the remote crash site to survey the wreckage and concluded that the shell of the bush plane, with no motor, wings, doors or seats, was likely more than two decades old.

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Russian soldiers have been pictured stripped nearly naked and forced into a pit near the frontlines in Ukraine exposing chaos among Vladimir Putin’s forces.

WarTranslated, an independent media project that translates content about the Russia-Ukraine war to English, posted a clip on X (formerly Twitter) that showed the soldiers in a pit.

Captions on the video, translated by the organisation, purportedly come from the spouse of one of the men in the video.

The reason given for the bizarre punishment was that the soldiers refused to fight without proper equipment. The video could not be independently verified.

According to WarTranslated, a soldier in the pit said that his commander told the lot that in order “to get out, they need to pay up 400,000 rubles (around £3,500). These particular men spent four nights in the pit completely naked.”

Russian servicemen are stripped naked and put into pits for refusing to go into meat assault without proper equipment. To get out, they need to pay up 400k rubles. These particular men spent 4 nights in the pit completely naked.

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The account added: “Russian servicemen are stripped naked and put into pits for refusing to go into meat assault without proper equipment. To get out, they need to pay up to 400,000 rubles.”

War Translated added that the soldiers can be thrown in the pit for no reason if “leadership doesn’t like them,” citing one soldier’s wife.

It added: “Likewise, she said that to go on leave, one needs to pay the officers 200,000 rubles in cash. Otherwise, they’ll never leave the zero line.”

Zero line is a term often used in Russia to describe the very frontline or the battlefield. At the end of the video, the captions say the soldiers could even be buried alive in the pit.

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This isn’t the first time Russian soldiers have been recorded refusing to fight. Putin’s generals have begun using so-called Storm Z units to attack in human waves at the front where they suffer huge casualties.

These units are often made of released prisoners or soldiers who refused to fight or were facing disciplinary action.

The news comes as Russia presses attacks in eastern Ukraine, suffering heavy casualties for little territorial gain. Since mid-October, Kyiv has noted the ferocity of the attacks around the destroyed settlement of Andriivka.

Vladimir Putin’s thugs stripped down and thrown in pit exposing chaos in Russia’s ranks  Express

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Türkiye is now engaging in intense diplomatic efforts to end the Israeli blockade that is causing a significant humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said, while also stressing that there are other ways to end the siege if diplomatic channels prove ineffective.

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The Russian Federation is unlikely to disintegrate the way the USSR did, Andrey Yakovlev says. The non-Russian autonomies simply don’t occupy the position now that the union republics did in 1991, and the Russian regions are certain that they would lose more than gain if they sought to go their own way.

But, the economist formerly at HSE but now at Harvard says, the possibility that Russia could descend into chaos and civil war as parts of the elite struggle over yet another redivision of property are all too real (reforum.io/blog/2023/11/12/perehod-k-novoj-modeli-neizbezhno-budet-sopryazhyon-s-kompromissami/).

Unfortunately, Yakovlev says, the US and the EU have not figured out what to do with Russia even if it loses in Ukraine and have not recognized that if things are left where they are today, Moscow will seek to take revenge and because of its nuclear stockpile will have more freedom of action than anyone wants to move against other targets, including Europe.

Moreover, up to now, the West has failed to understand two key realities: the future will be made at least in part by those who are part of the Putin regime, and the opposition to them will not have a chance to succeed unless there are clear signals from the West about what they and Russia will gain if the war in Ukraine ends and Moscow changes course.

“If Western politicians do not begin to think about what will happen next, then there will be no reason to count on good variants in Russia,” Yakovlev argues. And the longer the West puts off such a formulation of a strategic vision for Rusia, “the greater the probability of very bad scenarios regarding security in Europe.”

Everyone needs to understand that “in the Russian elite are not only sane people but also players like the late Prigozhin;” and the numbers of the latter may increase in the event of chaos or a radical shift without clear preparation by the West. Moscow may try to salvage the situation by moving in the direction of North Korea, but that only delays but does not prevent chaos.

According to Yakovlev, the Russian economy has sufficient resources to last for another two years before some kind of crash; but he says that he has a bad feeling that “the cut-off point will take place in March 2024. Before the elections, there likely won’t be any obvious repressions against the current elite or any military escalation. But after that …”

After the voting, with what he believes is a new mandate and expects to face declining Western support for Ukraine, Putin will try to take Kyiv and use a new mobilization at home to do it, the analyst says, steps that will likely be accompanied by significant changes in the elite and the redistribution of property.

Unless the West gives a clear signal to the “sane” part of the Russian elite that it will lift sanctions if the latter take certain steps, the chances that they will move against Putin and his plans will remain small, putting Russia on course to repression and then collapse and violence, Yakovlev continues.

What is especially important here is that Yakovlev says what few others do: the threat that Russia will fall into chaos and civil war will come not from national or regional secession efforts but because of the inherent problems of the Putin system and conflicts within it over power and property.  

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IDF lookouts said they saw unusual activity along the Gaza border before the October 7 attack, but their commanders told them to stop bothering them, report says

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Israel-Gaza border fencePalestinians take down the fence on the Israel-Gaza border and enter Israel after clashes and attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on October 07, 2023.

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  • IDF lookouts warned their commanders about activity along the Gaza border, according to reports.
  • They were ignored, told to stop bothering them, and even threatened, N12 reported.
  • One lookout said they were told they would be “court-martialed.”

IDF lookouts expressed concern about activity along the Gaza boarder long before the October 7 terrorist attacks, according to reports.

The lookouts were telling their commanders they were witnessing unusual activity along the border for months, but they were ignored, told to stop bothering them, and even threatened, The Jerusalem Post reported via Israeli news station N12.

Some of the activity the lookouts witnessed included unusual training protocols and more people lingering near the fence, per the outlet.

One lookout informed their senior commander, the report said, but was rebuffed.

“I don’t want to hear again about this nonsense,” they reported being told. “If you all bother us again with these things, you’ll be court-martialed.”

Previous reports stated commanders told their lookouts Hamas were “just a bunch of punks” who wouldn’t “do anything” when they reported what they had seen.

“A day before everything happened, I saw people with maps,” one lookout told N12, per J Post. “They were looking at the fence and pointing at it. I told everyone: ‘Listen, something is going to happen. I see them planning things.’ I noticed that something was different on the front. I even told the person next to me in jest: ‘Listen, they’re going to storm our post.’ It just looked different.”

Other lookouts reported seeing the same drills over and over: shooting, laying on the ground, then throwing grenades.

“In the end, that’s what happened to me,” they said. “They shot at me, threw grenades at me.”

N12 also reported the lookouts who were present on October 7 were not receiving any psychological assistance from the army and were even told they would be transferred if they didn’t return to service within two weeks.

In response, the military told the outlet that soldiers were accompanied “closely and sensitively” by mental health professionals.

“Their return to duty will be accompanied gradually, sensitively, and according to each one’s condition,” the spokesperson said. “There is no intention of taking disciplinary measures against them. If there were conversations that reflect otherwise, then they are against the guidelines and will be handled accordingly.”

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Hikmet Hajiyev – assistant for the foreign policy of the president of Azerbaijan in his interview with euroreporter.co said that Azerbaijan wants regional security, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Turan.

“We want to build a new regional security architecture based on justice, recognizing each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, and ending all territorial claims.

First, peace and regional security are not in Brussels, Paris, Washington, or anywhere. Peace is in the region.”

Some in the European Parliament feel Azerbaijanophobia or Islamophobia toward Azerbaijan. The European Council recently made a statement criticizing Azerbaijan, which we find unnecessary. European institutions never treated Azerbaijan fairly while its territory was occupied, he added.

”For years, there was one approach toward separatist entities in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, but another against Azerbaijan.”

He added that “some EU member countries, like France, have started a militarisation program in Armenia.”

He noted that France is sending Armenia missile-capable military armed personnel carriers.

“We consistently warned member states like France not to support separatism in Azerbaijan’s territory. Second, don’t promote Armenian revanchism or geopolitical games in our region. Unfortunately, this is true.”

“We think that this is a historical opportunity and a historical momentum and that appropriate European institutions should also be part of the solution, not the problem, to advance a peaceful agenda in the region”, – he concluded.

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The post Hikmet Hajiyev: Peace is in the region, not in Paris, Brussels or Washington first appeared on The South Caucasus News.

In a statement made on November 18 during the autumn session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan revealed that Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached a consensus on the fundamental principles of a peace agreement, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Turan. Pashinyan acknowledged both positive and negative developments in the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process.

On a positive note, he disclosed that the two nations have agreed on key peace principles, thanks in part to the mediation efforts of European Council head Charles Michel and Pashinyan’s meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels. According to Pashinyan, the first principle involves mutual recognition of territorial integrity, specifying Armenia’s territory as 29.8 thousand square kilometers and Azerbaijan’s as 86.6 thousand square kilometers. The second principle is rooted in the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, serving as the political foundation for border delineation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, based on maps from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the former USSR from 1974 to 1990.

Pashinyan also emphasized the third principle, which focuses on the reopening of regional communications, guided by principles such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity, and equality among the countries involved.

However, Pashinyan expressed concerns about the persisting challenge of communication between the two nations due to differing diplomatic approaches and a history of conflict, casualties, prisoners, longstanding animosity, and suspicions of hidden agendas. He noted that these challenges apply to both Armenia and Azerbaijan to varying degrees.

The post Pashinyan: Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached consensus on the fundamental principles of the peace agreement appeared first on Azerbaijan In Focus.

The post Pashinyan: Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached consensus on the fundamental principles of the peace agreement first appeared on The South Caucasus News.

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas”). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.

Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg).

Until his final years, Wagner’s life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.

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Israel-Hamas War: Day 43 – What we know so far

The Sun gives the very latest update from Israel today, which marks the 43rd day since Hamas terrorists carried out an attack on Israeli civilians on October 7.

Today (18 November) Israel claims it has blown up a bomb factory used by a terrorist group in Gaza.

The IDF released shocking footage showing the enormous explosion tearing through a built-up area in the Strip.

IDF officials said the site was used by the extremist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) – a terrorist organisation based in Gaza which is distinct from Hamas.

It comes after the Israeli military said it had located more “Hamas terror tunnels” and had found information about the hostages.

Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators marched in Jerusalem as they demanded the release of hostages held in Gaza.

Protesters walked for hours along Highway 1 and released yellow balloons.

The five-day march was expected to culminate in a rally in front of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

About 240 hostages were taken by Hamas terrorists when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7.

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Israel-Hamas War: Day 43 – What we know so far
The Sun gives the very latest update from Israel today, which marks the 42nd day since Hamas terrorists carried out an attack on Israeli civilians on October 7. Today (18 November) Israel claims it has blown up a bomb factory used by a terrorist group in Gaza. The IDF released shocking footage showing the enormous explosion tearing through a…
 

RUSSIA IS BURNING! Russian People Took to Streets to Rebel against Putin! Putin Is Not Wanted!
RUSSIA IS BURNING! Russian People Took to Streets to Rebel against Putin! Putin Is Not Wanted!
 

Retired colonel on what the Israelis should do
CNN military analyst and retired Col. Cedric Leighton weighs in on the Israel-Hamas war, and explains why he thinks the Israelis should change their tactics. #CNN #News
 

Israel-Hamas war: Families of hostages march to Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem
Thousands of people, including family members of hostages being held in Gaza, have marched into Jerusalem calling for action from Israel’s prime minister. After five days of marching, they have reached office of Benjamin Netanyahu and are demanding he meets with them. Some 240 people are being held hostage by Hamas following its attack on Israel…
 

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Trump gives INSANE interview to Hispanic Americans on Univision
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Israeli officials: Military to expand operations beyond northern Gaza
Israeli officials said their military is expanding its ground operation in Gaza with airstrikes reaching the southern region of the enclave. NBC News’ Jay Gray reports on the latest press conference from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Follow MSNBC Show Blogs MaddowBlog:…
 

Woman Who Stabbed Boyfriend 108 Times Says Cannabis Made Her Do It, Police Say
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Israeli army orders doctors, patients to evacuate.
Israeli troops have ordered doctors, patients, and displaced people at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza to evacuate the medical compound. Hundreds are fleeing south. Doctors say about 450 patients have been evacuated and about 120 had to be left behind after Israeli forces gave Gaza’s largest hospital one hour to evacuate. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports….
 

Anti-Defamation League Director Jonathan Greenblatt Applauded At Hearing On Combatting Antisemitism
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Hamas’s last day! Israeli Eagles FOUND & DESTROYED Hamas’s most secret tunnels one by one!
Hamas’s last day! Israeli Eagles FOUND & DESTROYED Hamas’s most secret tunnels one by one!
 

These are ‘Holocaust-like visuals’: Yair Lapid
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Israel Drops Leaflets on Gaza’s Rafah | VOA News
Leaflets dropped by the Israeli military on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, offered protection and incentives to Gazans who provide information about hostages held by the Hamas militants. Patients, staff and displaced persons are leaving Gaza’s Shifa Hospital on Saturday amid conflicting reports that Israel gave the facility…
 

Israeli military destroys Hamas terrorist targets in Gaza
The Israeli military released footage on Saturday (November 18) of aerial strikes on what it said were various Hamas terrorist bases, operational centres and weapons facilities in Gaza. An Israeli military statement on Saturday said that over the past 24 hours its air force hit dozens of Gaza targets including terrorists, command centres, rocket…
 

Palestinians flee on foot to southern Gaza Strip
Hundreds of Palestinians fled on foot from Al-Shifa hospital towards the southern Gaza Strip amid conflicting reports from health officials and the Israeli Defense Forces about who ordered an evacuation. Dr. Ramez Radwan described seeing bodies in the streets as they walked on the road leading from the hospital through Gaza City. » Subscribe to NBC…
 

Law Professor Explains How Trump Could Run For President Even If He Was Convicted
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News Wrap: SpaceX’s Starship rocket test launch ends with explosions
In our news wrap Saturday, a pair of explosions destroyed the booster rocket and spacecraft of SpaceX’s biggest rocket during a test launch in Texas, and Comcast joined the list of advertisers stepping away from Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, over concerns about antisemetic content. Stream your PBS favorites with…
 

More Palestinians flee south as Israeli troops search Gaza’s largest hospital
Israel is again urging Palestinians in northern Gaza to move south, while patients, staff and displaced people leave Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City amid conflicting claims of what triggered the departure. There is little refuge from the war in southern Gaza, where Israeli airstrikes continued to hit residential areas. Stream your PBS favorites with…
 

Al-Shifa patients, staff “evicted,” 34 premature babies left behind: Palestinian Health Minister
Between loyal staff members, newborn babies and sick and war-wounded patients, a mere 10 per cent of an estimated 1,500 people remain at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, according to Mai Al-Kaila, a health minister for the Hamas-controlled Palestinian health ministry. During a press conference on Saturday, Al-Kaila said that Israeli forces — at gunpoint…