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Amir Levy/Getty Images (DOHA) — Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement to end over 15 months of fighting — with a brief pause in November 2023 — and release some of the hostages still in captivity in the Gaza Strip. However, despite an agreement between negotiators on both sides, the deal still needs […]

Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip. A latest round of peace talks to end the 15-month-old war has resumed in Qatar, with high-level delegations traveling to Doha. Meanwhile, the November ceasefire in Lebanon is […]

Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip. A latest round of peace talks to end the 15-month-old war has resumed in Qatar, with high-level delegations traveling to Doha. Meanwhile, the November ceasefire in Lebanon is […]

Thierry Monasse/Getty Images (LONDON )– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned allies that the defense of his nation is a litmus test for broader Western resolve, after Russia fired at least 117 missiles and drones in an overnight attack on the country’s energy infrastructure facilities. “It’s the middle of winter, and the target for the Russians […]

Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip. A latest round of peace talks to end the 15-month-old war has resumed in Qatar, with high-level delegations traveling to Doha. Meanwhile, the November ceasefire in Lebanon is […]

Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL and TOKYO) — North Korea launched “several short-range ballistic missiles,” that landed in the Sea of Japan Tuesday morning local time, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The missiles “flew approximately 250 km,” the officials said. “North Korea’s missile launch is a clear provocative act that seriously threatens […]

Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the strip. A latest round of peace talks to end the 15-month-old war has resumed in Qatar, with high-level delegations traveling to Doha. Meanwhile, the November ceasefire in Lebanon is […]

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images (LONDON) — Talks are ongoing between Paris and Kyiv for the possible deployment of French troops inside Ukraine despite the ongoing war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media. Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron “had a detailed discussion about the situation on the battlefield and […]

Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A spate of alleged sabotage operations against undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has raised the prospect of a dangerous 2025 in NATO’s northern theater, with allied leaders vowing closer surveillance of and tougher action against Russian- and Chinese-linked and other ships accused of nefarious efforts there. “NATO will […]

Sankei via Getty Images) (TOKYO and LONDON) — A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity […]