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Beirut: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is the only man in Lebanon with the power to wage war or make peace, but he leads a life in hiding to avoid assassination by his movement’s arch-enemy, Israel. A wave of Israeli strikes on Friday hit Hezbollah’s main bastion in south Beirut, and Israeli broadcasters said Nasrallah was…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump meeting on September 27, 2024 in New York. | Photo Credit: AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met former U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (September 27, 2024) morning in New York after simmering tensions between the two politicians over divergent views on…
Male: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has denied having an “India Out” agenda, asserting that the island nation had a “serious problem” with the presence of foreign military on its soil. Mohamed Muizzu, who is in the US to attend the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, made the remarks on Thursday while responding…
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Israel broadens the war in Gaza with an air attack on Lebanon, is the crisis in West Asia about to escalate? And as the one year mark since the October 7 terror attacks approaches, PM Modi meets the Palestinian President. Has India’s position shifted at all? This is High-Level week at the UN, and the…
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer addresses world leaders at the UN General Assembly on September 26 in New York. | Photo Credit: REUTERS British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined the leaders of the United States and France in backing India’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to make it…
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Ottawa: A prominent Canadian MP of Indian origin has criticised a petition seeking a fresh inquiry into the bombing of Air India Flight 182 of 1985 to determine the involvement of any “foreign intelligence”, alleging that it promotes “conspiracy theories” of Khalistani extremists. The Montreal-New Delhi Air India ‘Kanishka’ Flight 182 exploded 45 minutes before…
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A Houthi supporter raises a Hezbollah flag during an anti-Israel and anti-U.S. rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants said on Friday they had targeted the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon along with three U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea with missiles and drones…
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Myanmar’s junta carried out fresh air strikes on an opposition-held town Friday (September 27, 2024), hours after issuing an unprecedented invitation to its enemies for talks on the country’s civil war. Thursday’s surprise call for discussions was likely a sop to main ally China and a nudge towards controversial fresh elections, analysts said, and two…
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Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, seen from Baabda on Friday (September 27, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP The Israeli military said on Friday (September 27, 2024) it carried out a “precise strike” on the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut. The Israeli army’s spokesman, Daniel Hagari, made the announcement in a televised address…
United Nations: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN Friday to press his country’s offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, dashing hopes for a 21-day truce proposed by France and the United States this week. Netanyahu’s highly anticipated turn at the UN, during which he repeatedly denounced the global organization as anti-Israel, was met with…