Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the launch of a strategic nuclear deterrence exercise. The drill will involve ballistic and cruise missile launches, the leader said on Tuesday.

Medical staff and emergency services say those killed in the attack include many women and children

Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.

The IDF said that its military goals in Lebanon have been achieved and that the Israeli government can now promote a diplomatic resolution to end the conflict in the North, Walla reported on Tuesday.

Georgia’s president said Sunday she did not recognize the results of this weekend’s parliamentary vote, which election officials say was won by the ruling party, adding that the country fell victim to a “Russian special operation” aimed at moving it off a path toward Europe.

During the recent funeral of an IDF reservist who was killed fighting in Lebanon, his loved ones eulogized him as someone who was determined to take revenge against Gazans, even women and children, and who allegedly set a home in the Strip on fire without authorization from his superiors in order to cheer up his fellow soldiers.

On Saturday, Israeli strikes targeted the southern Lebanese municipality of Bazouriyeh, killing a civil defense medic and wounding five people.

On Friday, the State Department approved two potential arms deals for Taiwan worth about $2 billion, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.

On Saturday, Israeli forces withdrew from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

After Iran said it would respond to Israel’s Saturday strikes on its missile and air defense systems in a corresponding fashion, the Israeli government moved its regular meeting to an undisclosed secret bunker.

Israeli tanks shelled the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Thursday as patients are dying inside due to shortages caused by a 20-day Israeli siege.

The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, in an interview with Russia's media Izvestia has threatened war if Russia attempts to annex Belarus.

Regarding Ukraine's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance, Washington and Berlin are not rushing to endorse Kyiv's invitation to join the bloc. However, at least five other NATO member states besides the United States and Germany are blocking this issue, according to Politico.

The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.

Russia putting an end to aerial attacks on Ukrainian energy targets and cargo ships could pave the way for negotiations to end the war, the Ukrainian president has said.

The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world.

"The State Department and the Department of Justice must investigate these credible charges of widespread and systematic human rights abuses," the head of one Muslim American advocacy group said.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians and wounded 487 in the previous 48-hour period.

Military success in the Gaza Strip is lending momentum to a once-fringe idea in Israel: reoccupying the Palestinian enclave and repopulating it with Jewish settlers.

Riyadh has not confirmed it will join the exercises with regional rival Tehran, with which it severed diplomatic ties for years until 2023