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Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that continues to control the Gaza Strip and opposes Israel’s existence, is considered a terrorist organization by the US, the EU, and Israel, but not by Russia, China, Turkey, and some other countries. The Palestinian militant group had maintained its contacts with Russia since 2006 when it won the Palestinian parliamentary elections and was invited […]
According to press reports, poppy growth in Afghanistan has declined by 95% since the Taliban banned the crop in April 2022. The ban has caused a drastic reduction in opium production, which is the main ingredient for heroin and other illicit drugs. The UN report published on Sunday, November 5, 2023, stated that poppy cultivation has collapsed from 233,000 hectares […]
According to the UN’s food agency, around 40,000 people have been forced out of their homes since mid-August by violence in Haiti, following a rise in crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The displacement is worsening an already complex humanitarian crisis, where almost half of the country faces acute levels of food insecurity. The UN and its partners have been […]
According to press reports, IMF Deputy Division Chief in charge of the Western Hemisphere, Anna Ivanova, said strengthening trade and reducing crime could spur economic growth in the region. “The region could really boost growth in terms of increasing trade. Both within the partners in Latin America and the Caribbean and with the countries outside of the region. So that […]
Russia would likely confiscate the assets of European Union countries, if the bloc takes frozen Russian funds to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction, according to Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that she was crafting a proposal that would take the […]
Gaza residents described the weekend bombardment as the most intense of the ongoing war. Gaza’s Health Ministry says the death toll among Palestinians in the Hamas-Israel conflict has crossed 8,000 – most of them women and minors – as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a “second stage” in the war after tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reporting that inflation is falling throughout the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. IMF Deputy Division Chief, Western Hemisphere Department, Anna Ivanova, said that after reaching 7.8 percent in 2022, headline inflation in the region, excluding Argentina and Venezuela, is expected to decline to five percent in 2023 and to 3.6 percent next year. […]
Israel’s military says it is intensifying its military strikes targeting Hamas militants in Gaza, with more air attacks and ground operations. Military officials Sunday said ground forces killed a number of Hamas militants as they were exiting a tunnel near the Erez crossing, which used to be the sole pedestrian passageway out of Gaza into Israel before it was destroyed […]
WASHINGTON — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Sunday said Iran does not want war to “spread out” following the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants of Hamas on Israel that killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians. Israel has since bombarded the Gaza Strip with air strikes and begun ground operations with the aim of destroying the Iran-backed Islamist group […]
Latest developments: Israel’s military said Thursday it carried out a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, where for nearly three weeks Israeli forces have been conducting airstrikes targeting Hamas militants. The Israel Defense Forces said its tanks and infantry “struck numerous terrorist cells, infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch posts” before returning to Israeli territory. The IDF said the operation was […]
