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A Hezbollah official says walkie-talkies used by the group exploded across Beirut, a day after pagers blew up on Tuesday.
Beirut, Sept.18.– In a second day of exploding devices, handheld radios used by Hezbollah detonated late on the afternoon of Sept. 18 across southern Lebanon and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a security source and a witness told Reuters.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least nine people were killed and 300 were injured by the second wave of explosions.
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Vilnius. Sept. 5.– The Council of Europe Ministers of Justice will meet at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania for an informal conference entitled “Towards accountability for international crimes committed in Ukraine”, which is being held under the Lithuanian Presidency of the organisation’s Committee of Ministers.
The ministers will consider how the Council of Europe and its member states can enhance their support of the Ukrainian justice system and help provide an international response to the aggression by the Russian Federation and its consequences.
The conference will be hosted by the Minister of Justice of Lithuania, Ewelina Dobrowolska. The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Theodoros Rousopoulos, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Michael O’Flaherty, and the European Union Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, will participate in the conference.
Zelensky reiterated that the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk is an aspect of Ukraine's "victory plan" to end the war on just terms and bring Russia to the negotiating table. The Russian military command was redeploying forces from northern Kharkiv Oblast, the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, and western Zaporizhia Oblast to Kursk Oblast and recently observed indications that the Russian military command is redeploying forces likely intended for future higher priority offensive operations in the Pokrovsk direction to Kursk Oblast.– Institute for the Study of War
KYIV, Sept.4 (Reuters).–President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine needed "new energy", as he ordered a major government reshuffle at a crucial juncture in the war against Russia.
A total of six ministers, including Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, submitted their resignation and parliament accepted the resignations of four.
They included the resignations of a deputy prime minister in charge of European integration, the strategic industries minister overseeing Ukraine's arms production and two other ministers, the lawmakers said.
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With the Mideast in Turmoil, ‘Israel’s victimization by radical, violent Islamists is akin to what India has also suffered,’ says one adviser.
New Delhi, Aug.31.– As the Middle East conflict continues, the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, has notably shifted India’s approach, offering open support for Israel — a dramatic break from decades of cautious diplomacy.
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Geolocated footage published on August 22 indicates that Ukrainian forces recently advanced further in southern Russkaya Konopelka (east of Sudzha). A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces also advanced north of Martynovka (northeast of Sudzha) along the Sudzha-Sukhodolovka R-200 highway. Russian sources claimed that there are conflicting reports about fighting east of Sudzha near Samoryadovo and Kozyrevka, but that Ukrainian mobile groups may be operating in the area.
Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated on August 22 that the US is gaining "a better understanding" of Ukraine's goals in Kursk Oblast and noted that Ukraine wants to create a buffer zone in Kursk Oblast. Singh stated that the US is still working to determine how the buffer zone fits into Ukraine's strategic objectives and that the US continues to provide materiel to support Ukraine's battlefield needs. Singh clarified that current US restrictions on Ukraine's ability to use US-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russian border areas allows Ukrainian forces to engage in counterfire while defending against Russian attacks across the international border, including in Kursk Oblast.