"IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday revealed the targeting of senior Hamas members from the Northern Gaza Brigade and the Gaza City Brigade from within the tunnels, with most of these leaders being eliminated during combat." JP
"Nepal has addressed Russia with a demand not to recruit its citizens into the Russian army after it became known that six Nepalis who fought on the Russian side have been killed in Ukraine. The Kathmandu Post cited Milan Raj Tuladhar, Nepal's ambassador in Moscow, who said 150-200 Nepalis were serving as mercenaries in the Russian army." Pravada
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein AmirAbdollahian, have signed a document on actions against sanctions....The declaration of Russia and Iran on the ways and means of counteraction, mitigation and compensation of negative consequences of the unilateral coercive measures was signed in Moscow where Amir Abdollahian arrived to held talks with the five Caspian states, as well as for bilateral talks with Russia." Sputnik
"Iran and Cuba signed seven cooperation documents and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) during a landmark visit to the Islamic Republic by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
The fields in which the two nations will expand cooperation include science and technology, health, agriculture, energy and mining, communication, and medicine." AP
"Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu ordered a thorough investigation into a weekend military drone attack that killed at least 85 people, including women and children in northern Kaduna, the latest military assault to hit civilians. Nigeria's military in a long war against Islamist insurgents in the northeast, has also been unleashing deadly aerial assaults in other parts of the country. Tinubu, who is attending the Cop28 Climate Summit in Dubai, called Sunday night's incident in the village of Tundun Biri a "bombing mishap," which was "very unfortunate, disturbing, and painful," his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement." MS
"A reporter with the Qatari state-owned Arabic-language news television network Al Jazeera abruptly cut short an interview with a man in Gaza as it quickly became apparent the subject was in no mood to repeat the accepted local trope of blaming Israel for everything. Then as the man is urged to expand on his narrative, he said: “May Allah settle the score with Qatar and Turkey…” The correspondent reacted to this by taking the microphone away from him and pushing the man away." Breitbart
"Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza's second-largest city early Tuesday, sending ambulances and private cars racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war." MS
"A drone attack on an oil depot in occupied Luhansk, which caused an explosion and a fire in one of the tanks, was carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,...The emergency services had to "hide from the kamikaze drones" flying overhead while extinguishing the fire, Russia’s Mash in the Donbas telegram channel wrote." yahoo
"Russian President Vladimir Putin should "assess the consequences" of attending the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in November 2024, Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned. The Brazilian president was seemingly suggesting that Putin could be arrested under the outstanding warrant from the International Criminal Court." UV
"Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has vetoed a bill passed by the legislature that would have allowed Ukraine to receive armored vehicles free of charge." UV
"In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled 56 Russian attacks in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Zaporizhzhia directions. Ukraine’s Air Force launched 10 strikes on Russian personnel, ammunition and military equipment clusters, and two strikes on enemy surface-to-air missile systems. Ukrainian missile units hit three enemy personnel, ammunition and military equipment clusters, two surface-to-air missile system, and seven artillery systems.
Meanwhile, Russian troops launched five missile strikes and 44 air strikes, and opened fire with multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) 37 times on Ukrainian positions and settlements.
Russia launched another air attack on Ukraine’s territory, having used one Kh-59 guided air-launched missile and 10 Shahed-136/131 loitering munitions. Six enemy drones and one missile were intercepted by Ukrainian forces.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, the operational situation remained rather unchanged. No enemy offensive groupings were detected. Certain Belarusian units are completing tasks within the areas bordering with Ukraine.
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, Russian invaders are maintaining military presence within the border areas, conducting sabotage activities and shelling border settlements from Russia’s territory. About 20 settlements were affected by Russian artillery and mortar strikes in the Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv regions." Ukrin
"The Strategic Communications Department or SCD of the Ukrainian military’s General Staff confirmed on Telegram the authenticity of a video circulating online of two unarmed Ukrainian soldiers being shot by Russian forces as they were surrendering." UV
"Venezuela approved a referendum to take over the neighboring oil-rich Essequibo region controlled by the sovereign nation of Guyana after a vote Sunday, according to election officials. The National Electoral Council claimed to have counted more than 10.5 million votes even though few voters could be seen at polling sites throughout the voting period for the five-question referendum. Venezuelan voters were asked whether they support establishing a state in the Essequibo territory, granting citizenship to current and future area residents and rejecting the jurisdiction of the United Nations’ top court in settling the disagreement between the South American countries. Essequibo is larger than Greece and rich in minerals. It also gives access to an area of the Atlantic where energy giant ExxonMobil discovered oil in commercial quantities in 2015, drawing the attention of Maduro's government." FOX
"US forces killed at least five Iran-backed militia members in a drone strike after the US “identified an imminent attack” was likely to be launched by militia forces in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday, a US official said." CNN
"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Saturday that it had found dozens of rockets in a private home in Gaza City underneath boxes labeled for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the institution devoted solely to Palestinian refugees." Breitbart
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