Author: Disha Mishra
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, on Friday, state news agency TASS stated, quoting the defence ministry.
Britain’s Heathrow Airport was shut on Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out its power, disrupting flight schedules around the world. Around 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze in the west of London, which led to a mass power outage at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest and the world’s fifth-busiest airport, and also knocked out its back-up power system. Huge orange flames and plumes of black smoke could be seen shooting into the sky. Around 150 people were evacuated from nearby buildings and thousands of properties were without power. The fire brigade said the cause of the…
The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on Friday, Sudan state TV and military sources said, in one of the most significant advances in a two-year-old conflict threatening to fracture the country. The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on Friday, Sudan state TV and military sources said, in one of the most significant advances in a two-year-old conflict threatening to fracture the country. The army was conducting search operations in areas around the palace in pursuit of members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the sources said. ntermittent…
Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, local health workers said, as the Israeli military unleashed more bombardments of the enclave and ordered residents to evacuate combat zones. The United Nations said a foreign staffer was killed and five other workers were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the site of a U.N. headquarters in central Gaza City. Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the U.N. office for Project Services, said: “Israel knew that this was a U.N. premises, that people were living, staying and working there, it is a compound. It is a very…
Six migrants have killed and 40 are missing following a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa late on Tuesday, according to main news agency of Italy ANSA and other media reports on wednesday. Italian coast guard vessels have so far rescued 10 people and resumed the search for any other survivors early on Wednesday, ANSA and other news agencies reported. The Italian coast guard did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for confirmation of the reports. The survivors told rescuers that many among a group of 56 migrants fell into the water due to bad weather after setting…
(Forelines) – Emma Sinclair-Webb, Human Rights Watch Turkey Director condemned the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul Mayor and others from the Istanbul municipality on Wednesday, urging it a “flagrant abuse of the justice system”. Emma Sinclair-Webb described the detentions as part of a “pattern of politically motivated investigations” intended to weaken opposition activities, as per comments reported by Reuters. Sinclair-Webb urged for the instant release of Imamoglu and those arrested.
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily but declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire that President Donald Trump hoped would be the first step toward a permanent peace deal. Ukraine said it would support the scaled-back agreement, which would require both countries to hold off firing on each other’s energy infrastructure for about a month. Experts said Putin avoided making significant concessions in what could be a play for time as Russian troops advance in eastern Ukraine. The White House said talks on a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea as well…
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday with a soft splashdown off Florida’s coast, nine months after their faulty Boeing (BA.N) Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the International Space Station. Their return caps a protracted space mission that was fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles, turning a rare instance of NASA’s contingency planning – and the latest failures of Starliner – into a global and political spectacle. Wilmore and Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots, had launched into space as…
U.S. President Donald Trump launched large-scale military strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group’s attacks against Red Sea shipping, killing at least 31 people at the start of a campaign expected to last many days. Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis’ main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group. He said if Iran threatened the United States, “America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!” The top Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reacted on Sunday by saying the Houthis are independent and take their own strategic and operational…
Israel lauched “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities amid the war in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a conflict strategy, on Thursday United Nations experts stated in a new report. Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva explained accusations in the report as unfounded, bias, and lack of credibility. “Israeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention,” stated by the United…