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Iran leader vows harsh response to deadly bombings that killed 84
TEHRAN — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a "harsh response" to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani's assassination by the US.The attack in Kerman in southern Iran killed 84 people and wounded many more.The death toll was revised down on Thursday morning by the head of Iran's emergency services from an earlier figure of 95.No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack."Cruel criminals must know that they will be strongly dealt with from now on and undoubtedly there will be a harsh response," Khamenei said in a statement on Wednesday evening.President Ebrahim Raisi's political deputy, Mohammad Jamshidi, blamed Israel and the US. However the US said it had no indication that Israel...
January 04, 2024

Iran leader vows harsh response to deadly bombings that killed 84

An armed Yemeni sits on a boat in front of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship last month
Houthis defiant after warning over Red Sea attacks
LONDON — The US, UK and ten other states have warned rebels in Yemen they will face consequences if they continue to attack commercial shipping in the Red Sea. In a joint statement, the group of mainly Western countries called for an immediate end to the attacks. However the Houthis have responded with defiance, vowing to continue targeting vessels they consider linked to Israel. The situation in the strategically vital southern Red Sea is now at a stand-off. The Bab al-Mandab strait is a critical waterway through which almost 15% of global trade passes. If attacks continue, the fear is that fuel prices will rise and supply chains will be damaged. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have declared support for Hamas in the war it launched against Israel in October. Since November,...
January 04, 2024

Houthis defiant after warning over Red Sea attacks

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, in his speech in Beirut on Wednesday, said: “Our battle will be boundless, without rules”.
Killings of Hamas leaders 'will not go unpunished', Nasrallah says
BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, in his speech Wednesday, described Tuesday's killing of Hamas deputy chief Saleh Al-Arouri here as "dangerous".He described Al-Arouri as "a great leader" and said he was killed in an act of "blatant Israeli aggression".He also said if there was an attempt by Israel to wage a war against Lebanon, the country's "battle will be boundless, without rules""We are not afraid of war. Those who think of going to war with us will regret it. War with us will come at a very high cost."He also added that if Israel wages war on Lebanon "there will be no ceilings, no rules" to Hezbollah's fighting.He said: "It's the first time something like this has...
January 03, 2024

Killings of Hamas leaders 'will not go unpunished', Nasrallah says

Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas flags and shout slogans during a protest following the killing of top Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, in the West Bank
Protests in West Bank over the killing of Hamas leader in Lebanon
RAMALLAH — Protests erupted in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday shortly after top Hamas official Saleh Arouri and six other members of the militant group were killed by a drone strike in Beirut.Hamas and Hezbollah officials confirmed that Arouri was killed in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb and accused Israel of conducting the deadly strike. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have not publicly commented on Arouri's death, though they wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that IDF fighter jets "struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon" on Tuesday.Arouri was one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing and led the group’s presence in the West Bank. He was considered Hamas' Number Two, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had expressed the wish...
January 03, 2024

Protests in West Bank over the killing of Hamas leader in Lebanon

A major explosion was reported in Beirut in the last half hour.
Israeli drone strike kills Hamas deputy chief in Beirut explosion
BEIRUT — Hamas has now confirmed the death of the deputy head of its political bureau, Saleh Al-Arouri, in the blast south of Beirut.Al-Arouri was also known to be deeply involved in Hamas's military affairs.Earlier, it was reported that a senior Hamas official was killed in the blast on Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, reported AFP and Reuters citing security sources.A major explosion was reported in Beirut in the last half hour. The blast was reported in Dahiyeh, a neighborhood with strong links to the Hezbollah group, an ally of Hamas.Lebanese state media said the explosion was caused by an Israeli drone strike targeting a Hamas office. Several people are reported to have been wounded.Lebanese state media, in its first reports, reported that Hamas's office in Dahiyeh...
January 02, 2024

Israeli drone strike kills Hamas deputy chief in Beirut explosion

Palestinians shelter in a tent camp in Rafah
Intense fighting continues even as Israel plans to pull back some troops
JERUSALEM — Even after Israel announced plans to pull back some combat troops from Gaza, signaling a new phase of the war, intense fighting has continued in the territory.The Israeli military says its troops have killed dozens of Palestinian fighters in Jabalia in the north, and targeted others in Gaza City and coastal areas.It says that troops seized weapons and dismantled rocket launchers in Khan Younis and in a UN school in al-Bureij in the centre of the strip.Residents say that Israeli war planes and tanks have stepped up bombings and artillery fire in the eastern and northern parts of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians sought refuge after being forced from their homes elsewhere.One man told the BBC that each day hundreds of people were continuing to make...
January 02, 2024

Intense fighting continues even as Israel plans to pull back some troops

Robert Pether and his son
Australian jailed in Iraq on fraud charges reaches 1,000-day milestone
SYDNEY — An Australian man whose family argue he is being "held hostage" in Iraq has now spent 1,000 days in prison.Robert Pether was jailed in 2021 on fraud charges, but the UN has described it as an arbitrary detention.After three Christmases behind bars, his family says Pether has hit "rock bottom" and that his health is rapidly deteriorating.His lawyer is calling on the Australian government to urgently secure the father of three's release.Desree Pether worries that her husband - who has lost a third of his body weight since being arrested - may die in prison and never see his children Flynn 20, Oscar 18, and Nala 11, again."There's no light at the end of the tunnel and so many moments have been stolen from us," she told the BBC."Nala wrote...
January 02, 2024

Australian jailed in Iraq on fraud charges reaches 1,000-day milestone

The USS Gerald R. Ford steams alongside USNS Laramie (T-AO-203) during a fueling-at-sea in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on October 11, 2023
US Navy’s largest aircraft carrier returning to US after extended deployment in Mediterranean
WASHINGTON — The US Navy is pulling the world’s largest warship, sent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, back to the United States as it reevaluates its global force requirements, the US Sixth Fleet said in a statement Monday.The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford will head back to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, after its first combat deployment, an eight-month cruise that began on May 2, the statement said.The Ford – described by a Navy spokesperson as the “most adaptable and lethal combat platform in the world” – was commissioned in 2017 and is the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier and the lead ship in the Navy’s first new carrier class designed in over 40 years.The 100,000-ton warship, with a contingent of F/A-18 Super Hornet...
January 02, 2024

US Navy’s largest aircraft carrier returning to US after extended deployment in Mediterranean

A protester with a megaphone stands in front of a cloud of smoke outside the Supreme Court in September last year. — courtesy Getty Images
Israel Supreme Court strikes down judicial reforms
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a controversial judicial reform that triggered nationwide protests last year against the Netanyahu government.The change would have limited the power of the Supreme Court in overturning laws it deemed unconstitutional.Critics say it would have severely undermined the country’s democracy by weakening the judicial system.There is strong opposition to the current Netanyahu government, seen as the most right-wing in Israeli history.The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the law passed by the government in 2023 follows months of internal turmoil.In July, the government passed into law what is now known as the “reasonableness” bill.This removed the power of the Supreme Court and lower courts in Israel to cancel government decisions...
January 01, 2024

Israel Supreme Court strikes down judicial reforms

Judgment hearing in the Ayyash et al case for the 2005 homicide of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (file). — courtesy Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Justice served: Lebanon’s Special Tribunal closes
NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General praised the hard work of judges and staff of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which closed on Sunday following efforts to try those responsible for a 2005 attack that killed 22 people, including former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and injured 226 people.Established by Security Council resolution 1757 in 2007, the Special Tribunal’s jurisdiction also extended to other attacks that were judicially determined to be connected to the Beirut attack on Feb. 14, 2005.The assassination of Hariri involved explosives equivalent to 2,500 to 3,000 kilograms of dynamite, detonated as his motorcade traveled across downtown Beirut and left behind an 11-meter-wide crater.Independent tribunalInaugurated in 2009, the independent tribunal was based in the...
January 01, 2024

Justice served: Lebanon’s Special Tribunal closes

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