Author: Disha Mishra

(Forelines) – United States intelligence alerts that Israel is likely to carry out a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program by middle of the year, according to the Washington Post on Wednesday, quoting several intelligence reports. Such a strike would set back Iran’s nuclear program by weeks or months while rising tension in the area and risking a wider dispute, as per several intelligence reports from the end of the Biden administration and begin of the Trump administration, as per the Washington Post report. The White House refused to comment. The Washington Post stated the government of Israel, CIA, Defense…

More than 10 million devout Hindus seeking absolution from their sins took a dip in holy waters in northern India during a span of four hours on Wednesday, authorities said, as they braced for millions more to swarm the site of the Kumbh Mela. Authorities stepped up the numbers of police officers and put air ambulances on standby in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state on one of the holiest days of the Hindu festival, considered the world’s largest gathering of humanity. “There are more people in this city in one day than the population of many countries,…

Ukrainian natural gas production facilities were damaged in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s central Poltava region overnight, the state-run oil and gas firm Naftogaz and Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Tuesday. “Naftogaz Group’s production facilities in the Poltava region were damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties,” the company said in a statement. Naftogaz “is taking all necessary measures to stabilise the gas supply situation in the Poltava region”, it added. Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK said that its gas production facility in the Poltava region was also hit. “The facility is out of operation. Damage and destruction are…

President Donald Trump’s administration has asked an appeals court to put on hold a U.S. judge’s decision forcing it to comply with his order barring it from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance, saying the decision constituted “intolerable judicial overreach.” The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Monday to put on hold an order that a Rhode Island federal judge issued earlier that day, after finding the administration had defied his January 31 ruling by continuing to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding. Monday’s order marked the first…

(Forelines) – Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary stated on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is not sending U.S. soldiers into Ukraine. While addressing with reporters in Germany, Pete Hegseth further stated that he would push European allies to devote more on defense when Hegseth meets with them this week. According to Pete Hegseth, “The European continent deserves to be free from any aggression, but it ought be those in the neighborhood investing the most in that individual and collective defense.”

(Forelines) – According to military authority stated on Tuesday, the Islamic State armed group assaulted military bases in northeastern Puntland state in Somalia overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces resisted the attack and airstrikes killed 70 militants, as per Reuters report. Puntland declared a key offensive against Islamic State and a rival Islamist group, the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, in December and allegations to have since eliminated dozens of foreign fighters, claimed several IS bases, and forced a chief commander to surrender. “Puntland’s anti-terrorist forces knew the information and so foiled and shot dead the suicide…

A Hamas official said on Tuesday Israeli hostages can be brought home from Gaza only if a fragile ceasefire is respected, dismissing the “language of threats” after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would “let hell break out” if they were not freed. Hamas has begun releasing some hostages gradually but postponed freeing any more until further notice, accusing Israel of violating the terms with several deadly shootings as well as hold-ups of some aid deliveries in Gaza.Israel denies holding back aid supplies and says it has fired on people who disregard warnings not to approach Israeli troop positions. Trump,…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas following seeing footage of the Palestinian militant group Hamas release Israeli hostages over the weekend, whose appearance he compared to Holocaust survivors. Trump’s reaction to seeing images of the three hostages, who appeared gaunt upon their release on Saturday, brought fresh uncertainty over the deal’s fate before all remaining 76 hostages are freed and came days after the president called for the removal of Palestinians from the enclave and for the U.S. to take control of it. “They look like Holocaust…

Israeli police have raided a well-known Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem, accusing its owners of selling books that incited terrorism, including a children’s colouring book entitled “From the Jordan to the Sea”. Two of the owners, Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna, were arrested on Sunday and held overnight. A separate branch, located in the nearby American Colony Hotel, was also raided. Closed circuit television footage showed police searching the shelves and pictures shared on social media showed books scattered over the floor of the shop. Mahmoud Muna’s 11-year-old daughter Layla was present when police carried out the raid, her mother May…

Susana Muhamad, Environment Minister stated on Monday, Deforestation in Colombia in 2024 is expected to have reached a higher level than during the last year but is still forecast to be among the lowest levels in over two decades. According to the environment ministry, deforestation fell by over a third to just over 792 square kilometers (305 square miles) in 2023, down from approx 1,235 square kilometers in 2022. Previous year Susana Muhamad warned repeatedly that the 2023 success was unlikely to be repeated amid drought and a breakdown in discussions with dissident rebels, who the government accuses of fueling…