At least seven people, including two children, were killed in new Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, as the UN halts aid deliveries through a key border crossing due to security concerns and a former Israeli defence minister decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza. The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Sunday that at least seven people have…
Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, who was also prime minister of Luxembourg for almost two decades, has criticized the reintroduction of border checks in Germany and other European Union states. “I would like this to stop,” he told dpa. “Anyone who thinks they can apprehend refugees in droves and other people with arrest warrants…
French farmers protesting pay and conditions and a prospective EU-Latin America trade deal on Wednesday lifted a blockade on the Spanish border after an expression of support from Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Hard-line farmers’ union Coordination Rurale (CR) lifted its roadblock for heavy trucks on the A9 motorway, which links southwestern France with Spain’s northeast,…
The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and Israel ramped up the rhetoric on Sunday, as violence continued along their border with no end in sight. Lebanon reported three dead in an Israeli airstrike, while Hezbollah said it attacked a military base near the port city of Haifa in northern Israel early on Sunday. Hezbollah’s Deputy…
Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and flamboyant wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant must remain injury-free and in top form if India are to achieve a historic hat-trick of series wins Down Under, said former Australia captain Ian Chappell. One of the most respected voices in world cricket, Chappell feels that five Test matches, including three against…
Extreme drought affecting large parts of South America has dramatically reduced the flow of the Amazon River where Colombia borders Peru and Brazil, choking food supplies and threatening residents’ health. “The Amazon is drying up,” the mayor of the Colombian border town of Leticia, which lies on the smaller of two branches of the river…
A potential larger war between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah may be approaching, remarks made by the Israeli government on Monday suggested. The possibility for an agreement is running out as Hezbollah continues to “tie itself” to the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, and refuses to end the conflict, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant…
