US boosts Middle East firepower as Americans and Israelis discuss President Biden Tel Aviv visit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken – speaking in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday after days of Middle East shuttle diplomacy – delivered a blunt message and a veiled warning to US foe Iran: “When it comes to Israel security, we have Israel’s back.”
Israeli military pulverise Gaza with airstrikes as humanitarian crisis worsens, death toll rises
As the latest Israel-Hamas war reaches its sixth day, the Israeli military pulverised the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege would remain in place until the Hamas militants that rule the territory freed some 150 hostages taken during a grisly...
Israel vows to block humanitarian flow into Gaza unless all its hostages are freed
Gaza authorities say more than 1,200 people have been killed and more than 5,000 people have been wounded in the bombing. The sole electric power station has been switched off and hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.
US spy agency CIA admits 1953 Iran coup it backed was undemocratic as it revisits Argo rescue
The CIA’s podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats’ escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.
Israeli rescue services puts number of civilians killed in Hamas attack at 200, 1,100 wounded
Israel’s opposition leader says he has proposed forming an emergency government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a statement, Yair Lapid said he had met on Saturday with Netanyahu and suggested the prime minister replace his far-right coalition with a broad unity government of centrist parties.
Israel warns of ‘price never known’ as scores are killed in Israel and Gaza in Hamas shock attack
In southern Israel near Gaza, bodies of Israeli civilians lay strewn across a highway in Sderot, surrounded by broken glass. A woman and a man were sprawled out dead across the front seats of a car. A military vehicle drove past the bodies of another woman and a man in a pool of blood behind another car.
Fifty years on, Israel remembers one-week Yom Kippur war that nearly wiped out the Jewish nation
Several of Israel’s leaders fought in the war as young men, including conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Labour Party premier Ehud Barak, and their experience helped solidify a determination to do whatever they believed necessary to protect Israel’s security from outside enemies.
Eritrean immigrants clash in Tel Aviv over national day celebrations, 100 injured
About 25,500 Eritrean asylum seekers currently live in Israel, according to Assaf, an organization that aids refugees. Eritreans who fled to Israel over its border with Egypt say they will face persecution if they are repatriated.
Human Rights Watch accuses Saudi Arabia border guards killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants
Some 750,000 Ethiopians live in Saudi Arabia, with as many as 450,000 likely having entered the kingdom without authorisation, according to 2022 statistics from the International Organization for Migration. The two-year civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region displaced tens of thousands of people.
Uganda’s nuclear plants to be built by South Korea and Russia will generate 15,400mw
According to President Yoweri Museveni, two nuclear power plants built by Russia and South Korea would provide 15,400 megawatts of electricity for Uganda. The Ugandan president claims that one unit would produce 7,000 MW and another 8,400 MW, however, he did not specify a completion date or a source of...
