Posts tagged Atlantic Council
World Briefing: November 18, 2024

US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia. A top UN official warns of a mass displacement crisis in Ukraine after Russian attacks on critical infrastructure as winter takes hold

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World Briefing: October 26, 2024

Israel says it has concluded strikes on Iranian military targets and all its planes have returned safely home. Satellite imagery shows renovation work at an old Soviet-era laboratory called Sergiev Posad-6 - previously quiet for decades - with several new buildings bearing hallmarks of biological labs designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens

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World Briefing: October 17, 2024

Stray dogs are eating the dead in the streets of northern Gaza, an emergency services chief says. UK investigating the origins of a package that caught fire at a DHL depot in Birmingham, amid heightened fears that Russian agents are intent on causing “mayhem” on Britain’s streets.

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World Briefing: October 4, 2024

Apparent Israeli bombing has caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport.  Cambodian authorities have arrested and charged an award-winning journalist in apparent reprisal for his investigative journalism

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World Briefing: September 19, 2024

Following two waves of explosions targeting Hezbollah's communication devices in Lebanon, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is expected to deliver a major speech

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World Briefing: September 2, 2024

The head of Israel's biggest labour union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets. Kharkiv, Ukraine gets pounded by more Russian missiles - dozens of victims 

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World Briefing: August 29, 2024

Five more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank, with the UN calling for de-escalation. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games opening ceremony began in glorious conditions as about 4,400 athletes arrived. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 19, 2024

Russia is scouring China for second-hand machine tools using shadowy networks of buyers, as the Kremlin races to secure vital equipment to increase arms production. Russian commanders have ordered not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner but to behead them instead, Ukraine says. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 13, 2024

Israel is on high alert for a possible direct attack from Iran. The former commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command has warned that Ukraine could face defeat by Russia in 2024

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 10, 2024

Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza is a “mistake,” said US president Joe Biden

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 19, 2024

The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 10, 2024

Ukraine faces a critical gap in western artillery ammunition needed to withstand Russian attacks, officials have warned, as US assistance runs out and Europe fails to hit its own targets for increased arms production. In his first remarks since being appointed head of Ukraine's armed forces, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy, said the country must change and improve its methods of warfare if it is to thwart Russia's full-scale invasion

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 29, 2024

Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack overnight on a small US outpost in Jordan, US officials told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 8, 2024

Another massive Russian missile & rocket attack early this morning in Ukraine: 59 different types of missiles and drones aimed to points nationwide. Israel says its forces carried out new attacks against Hamas militants in central and southern Gaza, as well as airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 29, 2023

At least 18 people were killed and well over 100 wounded in a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine - including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukraine's military says Russia launched a "massive" attack with 158 drones and missiles - the air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously"

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 20, 2023

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hints at mobilisation of up to 500,000

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 10, 2023

Dozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 14, 2023

A surprise cabinet shuffle in the UK that brings an unelected former PM to lead the Foreign Office. Gaza Strip’s hospitals “must be protected,” President Biden said. Turkey joins other countries in mass deportations of Afghan refugees. 

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