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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Sunday Jewish settlers who attacked senior Israeli military officers including Major General Avi Bluth, the head of the army’s Central Command in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said that a group of settlers trailed Bluth and other officers in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, blocked their exit and hurled abuse at them. It added that five rioters had been arrested. “All violence directed against IDF officers and soldiers must be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. Some of…
Iran is preparing to “respond” to Israel, Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in an interview published by Iran’s Tasnim news agency on Sunday. On Oct. 26, Israeli fighter jets carried out three waves of attacks on Iranian military targets, a few weeks after Iran fired a barrage of about 200 ballistic missiles against Israel. Iran has previously vowed to respond to Israel’s attacks.
Iran rejects allegations that it was involved in the murder of Israeli rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates, Iran’s embassy in Abu Dhabi said in a statement to Reuters on Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone and discussed bilateral cooperation on trade and the economy, the Kremlin said on Sunday. A number of international topics were also touched upon, the Kremlin said.
Two Ukrainian missiles and 27 drones were destroyed over Russia’s Kursk region, the governor of the region that borders Ukraine said on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what missiles were destroyed. Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov did not provide further details in a post on his Telegram channel. The Ukrainian military later said on Telegram that its forces had destroyed a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system in Kursk. Reuters could not independently confirm the report. Ukrainian troops stormed across Russia’s western border into Kursk on Aug. 6 and seized a chunk of territory. Moscow launched waves of counter-assaults and…
The engine of a Russian-made passenger plane caught fire after landing at southern Türkiye’s Antalya Airport on Sunday, the Airport Haber news website reported. A video shared on social media by Airport Haber showed emergency units responding at the site of the fire, with flames and smoke coming out of the aircraft’s engine. The news website identified the aircraft as a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that had come from the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. According to the Antalya Airport website, an Azimuth Airlines plane from Sochi landed at 1825 GMT.
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and a centre-right contender, Elena Lasconi, came out ahead in the first round of a presidential election in Romania on Sunday, exit polls showed. Ciolacu, a social democrat, won some 25% of votes, the poll showed, and Lasconi garnered about 18%. A run-off vote is scheduled on Dec. 8.
About 22,000 people protested in Barcelona on Saturday, in the latest demonstration to demand lower housing rental prices and better living conditions. Housing has become a major issue in Spain as it struggles to balance promoting tourism, a key driver of its economy, and concerns over high rents due to gentrification and landlords shifting to more lucrative, short-term tourist rentals. The price of rentals signed in the second quarter of 2024 in Barcelona was almost 70% higher than in the same period of 2014, data from the Catalan Housing Agency shows. “We are spending half our wages in rent ……
European Union governments cannot pick and choose whether to execute arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against two Israeli leaders and a Hamas commander, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Saturday. The ICC issued the warrants on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged crimes against humanity. All EU member states are signatories to the ICC’s founding treaty, called the Rome Statute. Several EU states have said they will meet their commitments under the statute if needed, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has…
The European Union, United States and other wealthy countries at the COP29 climate summit have agreed to raise their offer of a global finance target to $300 billion per year by 2035, sources told Reuters on Saturday. The shift in position came after a $250 billion proposal for a deal, drafted by Azerbaijan’s COP29 presidency on Friday, was panned by developing countries as insultingly low. Five sources with knowledge of the closed-door discussions said the EU had agreed they could accept the higher number. Two of the sources said the United States, Australia and Britain were also on board.