The Chinese embassy in Syria urged its citizens to leave the Middle Eastern nation “as soon as possible” as the country’s decade-long civil war reignited and anti-government militants captured more cities. “At present, the war in northwestern Syria is growing tense, and the security situation in Syria is further deteriorating,” the embassy said in a…
Israeli warplanes have targeted southern Lebanon in the first airstrike since a U.S.- and French-brokered ceasefire began Wednesday. The missile hit a Hezbollah rocket storage facility. Hours earlier, Israel fired on individuals attempting to reenter restricted areas in Markaba, citing ceasefire violations, while Lebanon reported two injuries from the incident. The ceasefire requires Hezbollah militants…
new video loaded: U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Calling for Gaza Cease-Fire transcript Back transcript U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Calling for Gaza Cease-Fire The United States said it vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, because it did not make the cease-fire contingent on the release of the…
Visitors look at a video about battery-powered ships in the showroom at the headquarters of Chinese EV battery maker CATL in Ningde, Fujian province on November 15, 2024 GREG BAKER Text size With Donald Trump expected to take the United States again out of climate diplomacy, China, the world’s largest emitter but green energy powerhouse,…
Japan’s top envoy in Hong Kong has said officials from his country are in talks with local authorities over the city’s seafood import ban as he launched an inaugural exhibition on sushi. Kenichi Okada, the outgoing Japanese consul general in Hong Kong, also expressed his wish on Thursday for the city to continue shining as…
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Text size Israel and Iran accused each other Monday of endangering Middle East peace at a UN meeting called after Israel attacked Iranian military targets. On Saturday, Israel carried out air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 missile barrage on Israel. The latter was in retaliation for the killing…
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX scripted history on Sunday (Oct 13) when Starship’s “Super Heavy” booster returned to the launch pad, minutes after launching from the same platform, only to be caught by the mechanical arms, called ‘Mechazilla’. In other news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told UN chief Antonio Guterres to pull out the UN peacekeepers from…
Published on Oct 12, 2024 09:04 AM IST United Nations came down heavily on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for threatening the people of Lebanon with ‘Gaza-like destruction’. “Recent language threatening Lebanese people as a whole and calling on them to either rise up against Hezbollah or face destruction like Gaza risks being understood as…
China called on Israel to take immediate actions to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East and issued a security alert asking its citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon as the killing of Hezbollah’s leader has driven the two sides closer to a full-scale war. The warnings come after Hassan Nasrallah, the long-time leader of Iran-backed…