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☆ Qatar-led negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue, source says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

An explosion is seen on the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from the Israeli side, October 27, 2023. REUTERS TV via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsDOHA/JERUSALEM, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Qatar-mediated negotiations between Israel and Hamas aimed at de-escalating fighting in Gaza continued on Saturday, a source briefed on the negotiations said, even as Israel intensified its assault on the enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that efforts to secure the hostages' release will continue even during the Gaza ground offensive. Earlier, the armed wing of Hamas said it had been close to reaching an agreement with Israel over the hostages, but Israel had "stalled" on that possibility. Qatari envoys have previously helped mediate truces between the Islamist group and Israel.

Persons: Israel, Gaza's, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Abu Ubaida, Deen al, Andrew Mills, Emily Rose, Hatem Maher, Enas, David Evans, Andrew Cawthorne, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Brigades, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Rights DOHA, JERUSALEM, Qatar, Doha, Jerusalem, Cairo

☆ One dead, eight injured as car carrying migrants crashes in Hungary
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A crashed car carrying migrants is seen near Asotthalom, Hungary, near the Serbian border, October 27, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsBUDAPEST, Oct 27 (Reuters) - One person died and eight people including four children were injured in Hungary near the Serbian border on Friday when a car carrying migrants crashed with a truck, authorities said. Renata Papp, mayor of Asotthalom village where the accident occurred, said on Facebook the car driver, a smuggler, was lifted from the wreckage by another smuggler and whisked away in another car. The migrants, predominantly from the Middle East and Afghanistan, enter Hungary from Serbia despite a steel fence that Prime Minister Viktor Orban had built after the 2015 migration crisis that rocked Europe. Reporting by Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo; Editing by Andrew CawthorneOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Stringer, Renata Papp, Jozsef Hanga, Viktor Orban, Krisztina, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Facebook, Thomson Locations: Asotthalom, Hungary, Serbian, Serbia, Balkans, Slovakia, Austria, East, Afghanistan, Europe

Egypt's military spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said two drones were fired from the southern Red Sea aiming north. Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that combat helicopters had been scrambled when "an aerial threat was spotted in the Red Sea region". EGYPT EXPOSED"The air force and air defence force are intensifying efforts to secure Egyptian airspace on all strategic directions," the Egyptian military said. The U.S. said last week a Navy warship in the Red Sea intercepted projectiles launched by the Houthi, potentially toward Israel. Bordering both Gaza and Israel, Egypt is exposed to the conflict that blew up after Hamas' Oct. 7 assault on Israel and the subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Persons: Ahmed Ona, Yemen's, Israel, Houthi, Gharib Abdel, Hafez, Daniel Hagari, Emily Rose, Dan Williams, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Nafisa Eltahir, Ahmed Tolba, Hatem Maher, Mai Shams El, Yusri Mohamed, Nayera Abdallah, Nadine Awadalla, Ahmed Elimam, Rami Ayyub, Nafisa, Michael Perry, Andrew Cawthorne, Jonathan Oatis, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS Acquire, Navy, Red, Thomson Locations: Red, Nuweiba, Egypt, Israel, Gaza, CAIRO, JERUSALEM, Yemen's Iran, Iran, Yemen, Taba, EGYPT, United States, Cairo, Eilat, Jerusalem, Ismailia, Dubai

☆ Shi'ite Cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr Calls for Closure of U.S. Embassy in Iraq
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Iraqi government and parliament on Friday to vote to close the U.S. embassy in Iraq for its "unfettered support of Israel." "If the government and parliament do not abide by this demand, we will go for further actions which we will later announce," the statement said. Hundreds of supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups gathered last week at Iraq's main border crossing with Jordan to express solidarity with Gaza and call for an end to Israel's blockade. Some 800 supporters of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of mainly Shi'ite militia, departed from Baghdad last week in buses for the Iraqi-Jordanian border crossing in western Anbar province. It is the closest access point from Iraq to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Persons: Muqtada al, Sadr, Nadine Awadallah, Tala, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Iraq's Popular, Forces, Iraqi, West Bank Locations: BAGHDAD, U.S, Iraq, Israel, Iraqi, Iraq's, Jordan, Gaza, Baghdad, Jordanian, Anbar, Dubai

☆ Third Gaza-bound aid convoy enters Rafah crossing from Egypt
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CAIRO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A third convoy of aid trucks entered the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Monday bound for the besieged Gaza Strip, an aid worker and two security sources said. Humanitarian deliveries through Rafah began on Saturday after wrangling over procedures for inspecting the aid and bombardments on the Gaza side of the border had left relief materials stranded in Egypt. Rafah is the main crossing in and out of Gaza that does not border Israel. Since Israel has imposed a "total siege" of the enclave in retaliation for an attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, Rafah has become the focus of efforts to deliver aid. The number of trucks in Monday's convoy was similar to each of those days, the aid worker and security sources said.

Persons: U.N, Yusri Mohamed, Ahmed, Aidan Lewis, Alex Richardson, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Thomson Locations: CAIRO, Rafah, Egypt, Gaza, Israel

☆ Ukraine Repels Russian Drone Strike, but Debris Damages Odesa Warehouse - Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine shot down 14 attack drones and a cruise missile fired by Russia at its south and east overnight, but debris from a downed drone damaged a warehouse at the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials said on Monday. Russia has intensified attacks on port and grain infrastructure since quitting a U.N.-brokered deal in July that had allowed Kyiv to ship its grain via the Black Sea. Ukraine, a major grain producer, has been trying to establish a new shipping corridor to revive its exports across the Black Sea, traditionally its main route to global markets, despite a de facto Russian blockade. Kyiv fears Russia is going to step up attacks on its power grid to cripple infrastructure as winter begins to set in. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said that Russian shelling hit a thermal power station in Donetsk region on Sunday evening.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Mykola Oleshchuk, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Olena Harmash, Lidia Kelly, Tom Balmforth, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Interior Ministry Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Odesa, Moscow, Kyiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Sumy, Melbourne

☆ Canada cuts some consular services in India amid murder row
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Yp Rajesh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A man on a bicycle passes by the Canadian High-Commision in New Delhi, India, September 20, 2023. The announcements affecting consulates in Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Mumbai came hours after Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats from India. Despite the dispute, two senior Indian government sources told Reuters the uproar would not spill into a trade dispute or impact investment, with imports from Canada continuing to flow. India has dismissed as absurd Trudeau's suspicions that its agents were linked to the murder of Nijjar, 45, a Canadian citizen whom New Delhi had labelled a terrorist. The Indian foreign ministry defended its downsizing of Canada's diplomatic presence and rejected Joly's statement that it violated the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.

Persons: Anushree, Melanie Joly, Justin Trudeau, Hardeep Singh, Nijjar, YP Rajesh, Neha Arora, Nikunj, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Canadian, REUTERS, Reuters, Canada, Canadian High Commission, Immigration, Citizenship Canada, YP, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Canada, British Columbia, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Ottawa, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian, Vienna

☆ Russia says fighter jets intercepted British planes over Black Sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 19 (Reuters) - Russia scrambled two Su-27 fighter jets on Thursday to prevent three British military planes from entering Russian airspace over the Black Sea, the Russian defence ministry said. It said the Russian fighters were sent to intercept "three air targets" approaching the border, and identified them as an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and two Typhoon fighter planes. The Black Sea has become an increasingly important theatre in the war between Russia and Ukraine, now nearing the end of its 20th month. President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he had ordered Russian planes armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to patrol over the Black Sea. Russia has previously reported a number of incidents in which its fighter jets were scrambled to intercept military planes from Norway, another NATO member, over the Barents Sea.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Andrew Cawthorne, Alex Richardson Organizations: Russian Federation, NATO, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Norway, Barents

ISMAILIA, Egypt, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Egypt said on Monday that Israel was not cooperating with delivery of aid into Gaza and evacuations of foreign passport holders via the only entry it does not wholly control, leaving hundreds of tonnes of supplies stuck. "Until now the Israeli government has not taken a position on opening the Rafah crossing from the Gaza side to allow the entrance of assistance and exit of citizens of third countries." "There is currently no truce and humanitarian aid in Gaza in exchange for getting foreigners out," a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said. Shoukry said Egypt aimed to allow normal flow through the crossing, including for Palestinians seeking medical treatment or normal travel. Separately, Reuters video showed U.N.-flagged fuel trucks appearing to leave Gaza for Egypt through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing.

Persons: Israel, Sameh Shoukry, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Izzat, Reshiq, Shoukry, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Dan Williams, Yusri Mohamed, Nidal Al Mughrabi, Nadine Awadalla, Aidan Lewis, Nafisa Eltahir, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Reuters, Hamas, Tala, Thomson Locations: ISMAILIA, Egypt, Gaza, Cairo, Rafah, Palestinian, Israel, Al, Arish, Sinai, Jerusalem, Ismailia, Dubai

World Bank project documents will make it clear that LGBTQ Ugandans should not face discrimination and that staff will not be arrested for including them, Victoria Kwakwa, the bank's head for eastern and southern Africa, told Reuters. She declined to give a timeline for assessing the measures' efficacy and moving to a decision on whether to resume new funding for Uganda. When the World Bank suspended new funding, Ugandan officials accused the development finance institution of hypocrisy, saying it was lending to countries in the Middle East and Asia that have the same or harsher laws targeting LGBTQ people. The World Bank's portfolio of projects in the East African country was $5.2 billion at the end of 2022. Reporting by Rachel Savage and Jorgelina do Rosario, Editing by Andrew CawthorneOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Ashley Karungi, Victoria Kwakwa, Kwakwa, Rachel Savage, Jorgelina, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Bank, Reuters, Rights, World Bank, International Monetary, Uganda, Government, Thomson Locations: Kulambiro suburb, Kampala, Uganda, MARRAKECH, Morocco, Africa, Marrakech, East, Asia, Rosario

☆ Scottish leader says wife's parents risk running out of food in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Andrew Macaskill | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Yousaf's parents-in-law live in Scotland but were visiting relatives in Gaza when Hamas militants poured into Israel and killed 1,300 people last weekend. "There is no doubt that collective punishment is a breach of international law," he said. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told parliament on Monday that Israel must defend itself in line with international humanitarian law. Diplomatic efforts are continuing to get aid into the enclave as food, fuel and water run short. He added that his brother-in-law, who works as a doctor, is having to make decisions about who should be treated, while the hospitals in Gaza run out of body bags.

Persons: Humza Yousaf, Yousaf's, Israel, Yousaf, Elizabeth, Maged, Nakla, Gerhard, Rishi Sunak, Andrew MacAskill, Kate Holton, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Reuters, Scottish National Party, REUTERS, London ., Thomson Locations: Gaza, ABERDEEN, Scotland, Israel, Aberdeen, Britain, British, London, London . British, Dundee, Palestinian, Scottish, Glasgow, Pakistan, Kenya

☆ Iran tells Israel: 'hands of all regional parties on trigger if aggression do not stop'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

DUBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Iran warned Israel of escalation if it failed to end aggressions against Palestinians, with its foreign minister saying other parties in the region were ready to act, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. "If the Zionist aggressions do not stop, the hands of all parties in the region are on the trigger," Hossein Amirabdollahian was quoted as saying. Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Andrew CawthorneOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Hossein Amirabdollahian, Parisa Hafezi, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Thomson Locations: DUBAI, Iran, Israel, Fars

☆ Egypt pushes to break impasse over Gaza aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Aid from several countries has been building up in Egypt's Sinai peninsula due to a failure to reach a deal enabling its safe delivery to Gaza along with evacuations of some foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing into Egypt. Israeli bombardments on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the main crossing out of Gaza not controlled by Israel, have disrupted operations there. There is alarm in Egypt over the prospect that residents in Gaza could be displaced by Israel's siege and bombardment. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told CNN on Saturday that the Rafah crossing was open but the roads leading to it in Gaza were "inoperable" due to Israeli bombardment. He said that if foreign nationals were able to cross the border Egypt would facilitate their departure to their home countries.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Abdel Fattah al, Sisi, Sameh Shoukry, Mohamed Waly, Omar Abdel Razek, Yusri Mohamed, Humeyra Pamuk, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba, Adam Makary, Nafisa Eltahir, Aidan Lewis, Louise Heavens, Hugh Lawson, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Hamas, U.S, CNN, United, United Arab, World Health Organization, Thomson Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, ., CAIRO, Egypt, Egypt's, United States, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Tunisia, Sinai's Al Arish

☆ Pakistan cuts petrol and diesel prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

A worker holds a fuel nozzle to fills fuel in a car, after the government announced the increase of petrol and diesel prices, at petrol station in Karachi, Pakistan September 16, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday cut the prices of petrol and diesel owing to the decreasing trend of petroleum prices in the international market, the finance ministry said in a statement. The price of petrol would drop by 40 Pakistani rupees ($0.144) to 283.38 rupees a litre effective October 16. High-speed diesel cost would drop by 15 rupees to 303.18 rupees a litre. ($1 = 277.2000 Pakistani rupees)Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew CawthorneOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Akhtar Soomro, Mrinmay Dey, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Karachi, Pakistan, Bengaluru

☆ Israel-Hamas conflict is 'new cloud' darkening economic outlook - IMF chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Susana Vera Acquire Licensing RightsMARRAKECH, Morocco, Oct 12 (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday the "heartbreaking" Israel-Hamas conflict threatened to darken an already murky global economic outlook. "We are closely monitoring how the situation evolves, how it is affecting, especially oil markets," Georgieva said. There had been some fluctuations in oil prices and reactions in markets but it was too early to predict the economic impact, she added. "It's heartbreaking to see innocent civilians dying," an emotional Georgieva told reporters. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters any regional expansion of the conflict would lead to "problematic economic consequences" for energy prices and global growth.

Persons: Kristalina, Susana Vera, Kristalina Georgieva, Georgieva, Israel, Bruno Le Maire, Andrea Shalal, David Lawder, Andrew Cawthorne, Andrew Heavens Organizations: International Monetary Fund, IMF, World Bank, REUTERS, Rights, Monetary Fund, Red, French Finance, Thomson Locations: Marrakech, Morocco, Rights MARRAKECH, Israel, Gaza

☆ Israel, Hamas at war: Latest Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

* The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was in touch with both Hamas and Israel about the hostages. * "There are no wreaths left in Israel anymore," said one of the many volunteers working to prepare funeral flowers for more than 1,200 Israelis killed since Hamas gunmen burst into Israel. [1/6]Israeli soldiers patrol following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, in southern Israel, October 11, 2023. INTERNATIONAL REACTION* Initial U.S. intelligence reports show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the unprecedented attacks on Israel by Hamas, according to a source. INSIGHTS/EXPLAINERS* How a secretive Hamas commander masterminded the attack on Israel.

Persons: Israel, Fabrizio Carboni, I'd, Mohammaalal, gravediggers, Violeta Santos Moura, Pope Francis, Antony Blinken, Blinken, Jordan, Mahmoud Abbas, Tayyip Erdogan, Ursula von der Leyen, Mohammed Deif Deifly, Amir YaronYaron, Janet Yellen, I'm, Stephen Farrell, Gerry Doyle, Andrew Cawthorne, Lisa Shumaker, Michael Perry Organizations: Red, Hamas, Israel, Committee, ICRC, REUTERS, Saudi, Big, West Bank, Palestinian, Airlines, Norwegian Air, Dutch KLM, Air, Bank of Israel, . Treasury, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, U.S, Egypt, huddling, U.N, Palestinian, Tel Aviv, Beeri, Sderot, EU, Jerusalem, Air France, Saudi Arabia

☆ UN experts say Israel's strikes on Gaza amount to 'collective punishment'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A view shows the ruins of Palestinian houses hit by Israeli strikes at al-Shati (Beach) refugee camp, in Gaza City, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa Acquire Licensing RightsGENEVA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A group of independent United Nations experts on Thursday condemned violence against civilians in Israel and deplored the "collective punishment" of reprisal strikes against Gaza. While condemning the "horrific crimes committed by Hamas", the group said that Israel had resorted to "indiscriminate military attacks against the already exhausted Palestinian people of Gaza". There is no justification for violence that indiscriminately targets innocent civilians, whether by Hamas or Israeli forces. "The civilians taken by Hamas must be immediately released, pending which their fate and whereabouts must be disclosed," the experts said.

Persons: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Israel, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Andrew Cawthorne, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, United Nations, Gaza, Thomson Locations: Gaza City, Israel, Gaza

☆ World Bank governors endorse 'liveable planet' vision - German minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MARRAKECH, Morocco, Oct 12 (Reuters) - World Bank shareholders on Thursday endorsed further reforms and a new vision statement committing the multilateral development bank to work for "a world free of poverty on a liveable planet," German Development Minister Svenja Schulze said. "With the reform, we will make the World Bank into a better bank that uses its funds in a more targeted way," she said. "The World Bank will be able to provide more funds for poverty reduction and climate action." The World Bank would begin piloting this option for small states that are particularly affected by climate change, she said. Schulze said the bank's shareholders would push on to enact reforms and improvements at other development banks.

Persons: Svenja Schulze, Schulze, Ajay Banga, Banga, Andrea Shalal, Andrew Cawthorne, Jan Harvey, Mark Porter Organizations: World Bank, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Bank, MasterCard, Thomson Locations: MARRAKECH, Morocco, United States, Germany, France, Canada, Netherlands

☆ Iran's Foreign Minister to Make Regional Tour - Tasnim
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will start a regional tour on Thursday to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, involving trips to Iraq and Lebanon, the Tasnim news agency said on Thursday. Amirabdollahian will meet Iraqi officials on Thursday, the semi-official agency said. "In light of the current Palestinian events, the crimes committed against Gaza and their dangerous ramifications, the foreign minister's regional trip will start today", Tasnim cited Iran's ambassador in Lebanon as saying. (Reporting by Elwely Elwelly; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Angus MacSwan)

Persons: Hossein Amirabdollahian, Amirabdollahian, Tasnim, Elwely Elwelly, Andrew Cawthorne, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Reuters Locations: DUBAI, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza

☆ Iran Accuses Israel of Seeking 'Genocide' by Besieging Gaza - State Tv
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister accused Israel of seeking "genocide" by enforcing a siege against Gaza, according to Iranian state TV, before a visit to Iraq's capital on Thursday. "Today, the continuation of war crimes by (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and Zionists against the civilians of Gaza, besieging, cutting off water and electricity, and denying entry of medicine and food, has created conditions where the Zionists are seeking a genocide of all people in Gaza," Hossein Amirabdollahian said. "The war we witness today in the Gaza Strip is not just the Zionists' war against Hamas, it is the Zionists' war against all Palestinians." (Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

Persons: Israel, Benjamin ) Netanyahu, Hossein Amirabdollahian, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: Reuters, Dubai Newsroom Locations: DUBAI, Gaza

[1/4] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg walk on the day of a NATO Defence Ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 11, 2023. On his first visit to NATO HQ since Russia's full-scale invasion in February last year, Zelenskiy said the coming cold months would be one of Ukraine's biggest challenges. Standing alongside Zelenskiy, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "preparing once again to use winter as a weapon of war" by attacking energy infrastructure in Ukraine. "We need to prevent that, with more advanced and increased capabilities for air defence, we can make a big difference," Stoltenberg said. NATO defence ministers were to sit down with their Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov in the NATO-Ukraine Council, established at the alliance's Vilnius summit in July.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, NATO Jens Stoltenberg, Johanna Geron, Putin, Zelenskiy, Jens Stoltenberg, Vladimir Putin, Stoltenberg, Lloyd Austin, Charles Q, Brown, Alexander De Croo, Rustem, Yoav Gallant, Marine Strauss, Andrew Gray, Idrees Ali, Sabine Siebold, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: NATO, NATO Defence Ministers, REUTERS, Ukraine Defense Contact, Zelenskiy, Diplomats, Lloyd Austin and Air Force, U.S, U.S . Congress, Belgian, Ukraine Council, Israeli, Thomson Locations: Brussels, Belgium, BRUSSELS, Ukraine, U.S, Washington, Kyiv, NATO, Vilnius, Finland, Estonia

☆ Israel, Hamas at war: Live updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Israel has formed an emergency unity government, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in a war cabinet with centrist former defence minister Benny Gantz. * Hamas militants holding Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage have threatened to execute a captive for each home in Gaza hit without warning. * "There are no wreaths left in Israel anymore," said one of the many volunteers working to prepare funeral flowers for more than 1,200 Israelis killed since Hamas gunmen burst into Israel. [1/9]Israeli soldiers patrol following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, in southern Israel, October 11, 2023. INSIGHTS/EXPLAINERS* How a secretive Hamas commander masterminded the attack on Israel.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, I'd, Mohammad al Najjar, gravediggers, Violeta Santos Moura, Pope Francis, Israel, Antony Blinken, Tayyip Erdogan, Ursula von der Leyen, Mohammed Deif, Biden, Amir Yaron, Janet Yellen, I'm, Stephen Farrell, Gerry Doyle, Andrew Cawthorne, Lisa Shumaker, Michael Perry Organizations: Hamas, ICRC, REUTERS, Big, Saudi, Bank of Israel, . Treasury, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, huddling, U.N, Egypt, Palestinian, Tel Aviv, Beeri, Sderot, EU, Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia

☆ Israel, Hamas at War: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

CONFLICT* Addressing American Jewish community leaders at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden called the Hamas attack on Israel "the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust." * The UN Security Council will meet on Israel, Gaza on Friday. INSIGHTS/EXPLAINERS* How a secretive Hamas commander masterminded the attack on Israel. The fighting between Israel and Hamas is the latest in seven decades of war and conflict. INTERNATIONAL REACTION* Initial U.S. intelligence reports show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the unprecedented attacks on Israel by Hamas, according to a source.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, I'd, Mohammad al Najjar, gravediggers, Mohammed Deif, Pope Francis, Israel, Amir Yaron, Janet Yellen, I'm, Stephen Farrell, Gerry Doyle, Andrew Cawthorne, Lisa Shumaker, Michael Perry Organizations: Reuters, Hamas, Jewish, White House, UN Security, Big, Saudi, Bank of Israel, . Treasury Locations: Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Tel Aviv, Beeri, Saudi Arabia

Domestic courts can apply so-called universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases, but that would be limited in scope. It has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in its 123 member states or committed by its nationals. The ICC has had an ongoing investigation into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories since 2021. WHAT ACTS COULD VIOLATE WAR CRIMES LAW? The taking of hostages, murder and torture are explicitly banned under the Geneva Conventions, while Israel's response could also be subject to a war crimes investigation.

Persons: Prosecutors, Omar Shakir, Yoav Gallant, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Nick Kaufman, Stephanie van den Berg, Anthony Deutsch, Heather Timmons, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: HAGUE, Hamas, Criminal Court, ICC, Palestine, Rights, Israeli, GENEVA, Thomson Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Geneva, The Hague, Rome, China, United States, Russia, India, Egypt, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar, York, Gaza, Palestine, U.S, British, Kibbutz

☆ Turkey's Erdogan calls Israeli response to Hamas in Gaza a 'massacre'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Tuvan Gumrukcu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsANKARA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israel's blockade and bombing of Gaza in retaliation for Palestinian militant group Hamas' attack was a disproportionate response amounting to a "massacre". With Ankara offering to mediate, Erdogan and his foreign minister held calls with regional powers, the United States and others. Speaking to his ruling AK Party in parliament, Erdogan said even war had a "morality" but the flare-up since the weekend had "very severely" violated that. On Wednesday, Erdogan criticised Israel's "disproportionate" attacks on Gaza as "devoid of any ethical foundation", and called on the world not to "blindly" take one side.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Brendan McDermid, Erdogan, Israel's, Daren Butler, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: General Assembly, REUTERS, Rights, Palestinian, Hamas, Ankara, AK Party, European Union, U.S, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Rights ANKARA, Gaza, United States, Ankara, Israel, Turkey, Palestinian, Americas, Europe

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