US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties.
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — US official says Biden and Xi have reached agreements to curb illicit fentanyl production, reopen military ties.
Israeli troops have been photographed setting up pumps to flood Hamas’s tunnels with seawater.
Chinese warships have docked for the first time at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which is undergoing a Chinese-funded upgrade that has drawn concerns from the United States over its potential role in expanding China’s overseas military footprint.
The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces had surrounded the house of Yahya Sinwar, potentially closing in on the top Hamas official in Gaza – and the man most wanted by Israeli authorities.
The U.S. Defense Department, in collaboration with industry partners, has supplied Ukraine with technologies for the production of FrankenSAM hybrid air defense system components, the White House stated in a press release on Dec. 6.
The Russian missile ship the Askold, which was destroyed on Nov. 4 after a Ukrainian missile struck the shipyard in Kerch, on the east coast of the occupied Crimean peninsula, will not be repaired, a Telegram news channel has claimed.
The video is the first to show Ukraine firing a Swedish Archer artillery system on the front lines against Russia, according to OSINTtechnical.
BTS members RM, V, Jimin and Jungkook hosted a Weverse live session ahead of their upcoming military enlistment to officially say goodbye to their fans for the meantime. Big Hit Music’s announcement: Big Hit Music officially announced the enlistment of the four members on Nov. 21, and they provided an update on Dec. 4, confirming the members’ progress in the enlistment process. The K-pop agency also noted that the entrance ceremony for military personnel is designated for them and their families only.
A renegade Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia shortly after Moscow's invasion was found dead on Wednesday near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence lauded the killing, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate. Illia Kyva, 46, a former member of Ukraine's parliament who had called for Kyiv to surrender when Russian troops invaded the country in February 2022, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a cottage village near Moscow.
Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a Cambodian naval base that the United States and some international security analysts say is destined to serve as a strategic outpost for Beijing’s navy. The docking of the two ships, which received little publicity, coincided with an official visit to Cambodia this week by China’s top defense official, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission He Weidong. News of at least two Chinese ships docking at the Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand came out indirectly, through a Facebook post on Sunday by Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Seiha.
The Ukrainian Air Force said this week that it shot down a Russian Su-24M attack jet near Snake Island as the aircraft tried to bomb a coastal region.
The mother of a Ukrainian soldier executed by his Russian captors came face-to-face with him again when his life-like statue was unveiled on Wednesday.
The Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Dec. 6 is a double holiday, which is marked in Ukraine both on the anniversary of the adoption of the law on the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and in honor of the events of 1919, when the first independent Ukrainian state led an ultimately unsuccessful struggle against Bolshevik Russia.
Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza's biggest cities Thursday as the bloodiest ever war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas entered its third month since the October 7 attacks. Vast areas of the besieged territory have been reduced to a rubble-strewn wasteland of bombed-out or bullet-scarred buildings as the death toll has soared above 16,200 according to the Hamas-run health ministry.Israeli forces have tightened the noose around major urban centres in their hunt for Hamas over the surprise attack that officials say killed 1,200 in Israel, and to search for 138 remaining hostages.Israeli forces backed by air power, tanks and armoured bulldozers were fighting Hamas in Khan Yunis, the biggest city in southern Gaza, as well as in Gaza City and the nearby Jabalia district in the north.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said troops had closed in on the Khan Yunis house of Hamas's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, 61, and vowed that, although he could flee, "it is only a matter of time until we find him".Air strikes also rained down on Rafah in Gaza's far south, a city near the Egyptian border that has been turned into a vast camp for many of the 1.9 million internally displaced Palestinians.One of those on the move, Khamis Al-Dalu, told AFP that he had first fled Gaza City and then Khan Yunis for Rafah, where his family was now sheltered in a tent against the worsening winter chill."There was bombardment, destruction, leaflets dropped, threats and phone calls to evacuate and to leave Khan Yunis," he said about Israeli army warnings. "Where do you want us to go for God's sake?"Eight more air strikes hit Rafah overnight, an AFP correspondent said, as the health ministry reported at least 37 people killed and many more wounded.Searching for survivors and bodies in the dusty rubble, bereaved relatives carried away the remains of a little girl, wrapped in thin, flower-patterned fabric, said an AFP journalist. - 'Complete breakdown' -Mass civilian casualties in the war have sparked global concern, heightened by dire shortages caused by an Israeli siege that has seen only limited supplies of food, water, fuel and medicines enter Gaza.On Wednesday, Israel approved a "minimal" increase in fuel supplies to prevent a "humanitarian collapse and the outbreak of epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip", said Netanyahu's office.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned he expects "public order to completely break down soon due to the desperate conditions" in Gaza, with "potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole".Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen lashed out after the UN chief invoked a rare UN procedure to call for a ceasefire, charging that this would support Hamas and that Guterres' tenure was "a danger to world peace"."We, too, want this war to end," Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy told reporters. "But it can only end in a way that ensures that Hamas can never attack our people again."Fighting raged on unabated as Israeli forces pushed on in their battle to kill militants and destroy their infrastructure, arms depots and tunnel shafts, hundreds of which it said it had blown up.Three more Israeli soldiers were killed, raising the toll inside Gaza to 86, said the military.The army said in a morning briefing that troops had "killed Hamas terrorists and struck dozens of terror targets" in Khan Yunis and raided a military compound of Hamas's Central Jabalia Battalion. Israeli naval forces had also "struck Hamas military compounds and infrastructure using precise ammunition and firing shells".Hamas released footage of its fighters shooting AK-47 assault rifles and grenade launchers from inside abandoned buildings in what it said was Gaza City as fires flare outside and smoke billowed into the sky.The Islamist group said on social media channel Telegram that its fighters were engaged in fierce battles against Israeli troops "on all axes of the incursion into the Gaza Strip".It said it had destroyed two dozen military vehicles in Khan Yunis and in Beit Lahia in the north of the territory.Rocket fire from inside Gaza has continued to target Israel, where the projectiles have been intercepted by air defences.- 'Devastated, overwhelmed' -The war has stoked fears that Israel and its ally the United States will face widening conflict with Iran-backed armed groups including Lebanon's Hezbollah, Yemen's Huthi rebels and others in Iraq and Syria.A surge of deadly violence has also rocked the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where authorities say more than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire or settler attacks since the war began.The past two months have seen near-daily exchanges of fire across the UN-patrolled Israel-Lebanon border.An investigation by Agence France-Presse into a strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. The months of fighting have inflicted a heavy toll on Palestinians inside Gaza, a territory that had been blockaded and poverty-stricken for years before the war, the fifth and by far the deadliest between Israel and Hamas."We are devastated, mentally overwhelmed," said Khan Yunis resident Amal Mahdi. "We need someone to find us a solution so we can get out of this situation."Another Palestinian man, Ghassan Bakr, told AFP: "We arrived here, homeless. It rained on us last night. There is no food, no bread, no flour."In Israel, traumatic memories of the October 7 attack remain raw, and millions hold grave fears for the remaining hostages as the country is set to observe the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.To remember those killed or abducted by Hamas from a desert music festival, the site has been recreated in an exhibition hall in Tel Aviv, complete with victims' tents and recovered belongings.Israel says 138 hostages remain in Gaza, after the release of 105, including 80 in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners, during a week-long truce late last month.burs-fz/dr
The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza twice overnight, residents said, as United Nations officials warned there are no safe places left in the besieged territory. The center of Gaza's second-largest city, Khan Younis, has also seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory that has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened dire humanitarian conditions. Distribution of food, water and medicine have been prevented outside a sliver of southern Gaza, and new military evacuation orders are squeezing people into ever-smaller areas.
US is recruiting new members to the Combined Maritime Forces
SEOUL (Reuters) -The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are meeting in Seoul on Friday and Saturday to discuss North Korea and other global issues as they step up trilateral cooperation, South Korea's presidential office said. Seoul's national security adviser, Cho Tae-yong, held bilateral talks with Japan's Takeo Akiba and the U.S.' Jake Sullivan on Friday, during which they agreed to boost cooperation to curb North Korea's nuclear threat and missile provocations, according to South Korea's presidential office.
The deceased were identified by family as Stuart Rouse, 64, Cristina Rouse, 63, Eric Rouse, 57, Kristina Rouse, 33, and Melissa Rouse, 19
Two viral videos show Singaporeans are far from being social responsible, preferring to record sneaky videos instead of offering help, says Neil Humphreys.
Jennifer Lopez wore the coolest cropped breast plate with underboob for Elle's 2023 Women in Hollywood celebration.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 7 — Deputy Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister Fuziah Salleh today said that Malaysians need to...