Gun violence has become the leading cause of death for children in America, said US Vice President Kamala Harris, adding that in the first four days of 2024, more than 400 people have lost their lives to shootings in the country. Ms Harris took to X, formerly Twitter, to condole the death of a sixth-grade...
Israeli bombing killed dozens of people in besieged Gaza on January 4, the Health Ministry of the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said, with regional tensions surging over the almost three-month-old war. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was headed back to the Middle East for his fourth trip to the region since the Hamas attack of...
Did the world just see the first combat use of anti-ship ballistic missiles? Military analysts think so. The weapon used by Iran-backed Huthi rebels to attack ships in the Red Sea was not a conventional sea-skimming variety of anti-ship missiles. The rebels fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) on Tuesday towards the southern Red Sea,...
Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri among the dead in an attack in south Beirut, the Palestinian group announces, along with six others, including two Qassam leaders. The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli army strike on its Khan Younis headquarters has killed at least five displaced Palestinians. At least five Palestinians killed as Israeli raids...
A fire broke out in a plane on a runway at Japan’s Tokyo Haneda airport on Tuesday, according to footage broadcast by country’s public broadcaster NHK. Flames were seen coming out of the windows of an aircraft. possible collision with a Coast Guard aircraft is being seen as the reason for the blaze on the...
A Japan Airlines airplane was on Tuesday seen in flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The images showed the plane moving briskly along the runway before an explosion burst from beneath it. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, but media reports said that the Airbus collided with a coastguard aircraft....
The inaugural edition of joint military exercise “Desert Cyclone 2024” will kick off on January 2, marking a significant milestone in the strategic partnership between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The two-week-long exercise, scheduled from January 2 to January 15, will be conducted in the arid terrains of Rajasthan, with a primary focus...
A significant earthquake, initially measured at 7.4 magnitude, struck the north-central region of Japan on Monday, as reported by NHK, the public broadcaster. Following the quake, the Japan Meteorological Agency released a tsunami warning for the coastal areas of Ishikawa, Niigata, and Toyama prefectures. NHK reported that the tsunami warning advised immediate evacuation from coastalregions...
China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader. The January 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time of fraught...
A US official revealed that the Chinese spy balloon, which traversed the United States in early 2023, used an American internet service provider to transmit periodic data related to navigation and location back to China, CNN reported. This connection emerged as one of the means by which the US intelligence agencies were able to track...