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28.02.2024 18:30 While the Defense Department supports the overall aim of de-escalating tensions and restoring stability in the Red Sea, it will not hesitate to defend civilians and protect the free flow of commerce in one of the world's most critical waterways, said the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy.

28.02.2024 18:30 On 23 February, Sweden and Hungary entered into an agreement under which Hungary will purchase four new Gripen aircraft from Sweden. The agreement was signed when Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Minister for Defence Pål Jonson visited Budapest.

28.02.2024 18:30 Israel, Hamas and Qatari mediators on Tuesday all played down a suggestion by U.S. President Joe Biden that a new deal for a cease-fire and hostage release in the five-month Israel war with Hamas militants could be reached soon.

28.02.2024 18:30 A new report has published details of a prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas, under which the occupying regime will free 400 Palestinian abductees in exchange for the release of 40 held in captivity by the Gaza-based resistance group.

28.02.2024 18:30 Several United Nations humanitarian officials warned Tuesday that there is a high risk of conflict-induced famine in the Gaza Strip if the war does not stop soon.

28.02.2024 18:30 The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has accused Israeli forces of blocking a medical evacuation of hospital patients in Gaza, preventing them from reaching another medical facility in the Rafah area bordering Egypt for several hours Sunday.

28.02.2024 18:30 UN relief agencies operating in war-torn Gaza voiced deep frustration on Tuesday over continuing aid access restrictions placed on them by the Israeli military, after ambulances carrying patients away from a stricken hospital at the weekend were stopped for several hours while health workers were searched and detained.

28.02.2024 18:30 The United States and Britain on Tuesday sanctioned an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander and a Houthi militant, linking them to missile attacks launched from Yemen targeting Red Sea shipping.

28.02.2024 18:30 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control , in coordination with the United Kingdom, is taking action against the Deputy Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force , Mohammad Reza Falahzadeh, as well as a Houthi group member. OFAC is also designating the owner and operator of a vessel used to ship Iranian commodities that were sold to support

28.02.2024 18:30 Many European countries on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of sending ground troops to Ukraine, after Monday's meeting in Paris during which French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that European nations might do so.

28.02.2024 18:30 Four Naxals were killed in a fierce gunfight with the joint contingent of police and paramilitary troops Tuesday in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said.

28.02.2024 18:30 After the coast guard of East China's Fujian Province conducted a law enforcement patrol in waters near Kinmen in the Taiwan Straits on Sunday, the Taiwan authorities on Tuesday claimed that China Coast Guard vessels also entered the so-called "prohibited or restricted" waters near Kinmen on Monday. An observer noted that this indicates the normalization of regular law enforcement patrols in Xiamen-Kinmen waters

28.02.2024 18:30 As controversy grows over the recent tragic boat incident, the Democratic Progressive Party has been met with a backlash in the island of Taiwan for not only failing to disclose the investigation results and handle the situation properly but also for making up lies and hyping erroneous claims only to serve secessionist aims.

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28.02.2024 18:30 The permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, on Tuesday told the Security Council that Gaza is currently experiencing a famine, which worsens daily due to the ongoing "criminal aggression" by Israel.