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The UAE has strongly condemned Israel for its airstrike on a World Central Kitchen team, killing six international aid workers and their Palestinian driver, Emirates News Agency reported on Tuesday. As the UAE’s partner in the Cypriot-led Amalthea Initiative, the WCK worked to improve the humanitarian aid delivered to civilians in northern Gaza. The UAE said it held Israel fully responsible for this dangerous development and demanded an immediate, independent, and transparent investigation of those who committed this “heinous crime” in violation of international humanitarian law. The Emirati Foreign Ministry expressed its deep sorrow for the loss of life and…

Russia’s goal of demilitarizing Ukraine is still on the agenda as the United States and NATO involved in the conflict see the country as anti-Russian territory under their control, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said in an interview with aif.ru on Tuesday. “The United States and NATO nurture plans to keep Ukraine or at least part of it as anti-Russian territory wholly controlled by them [and] focused on serving the interests of the North Atlantic bloc,” Patrushev said. The North Atlantic alliance “is de-facto a party to the Ukraine conflict,” he said. It is NATO that “makes collective decisions…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Tuesday that its armed forces “unintentionally” killed seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza.“Unfortunately, in the last day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he said as he left hospital in Jerusalem after a hernia operation.“It happens in war, we will investigate it right to the end… We are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again.”The seven victims worked for the US-based World Central Kitchen (WCK), which has been delivering food…

A drone attack killed 12 people and injured 30 on Tuesday in Atbara in northeast Sudan, a city that had until now been spared the country’s brutal warfare, a medic and witnesses told AFP.Much of Sudan has been gripped for nearly a year by a bloody war between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.“A fire broke out after a drone attack during an iftar,” a witness said over the phone, referring to the evening fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The meal, “organized by and at the base of the Islamist Baraa militia,” which fights…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to appoint Admiral Alexander Moiseyev as the Navy commander-in-chief, Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov as the Northern Fleet commander and Vice Admiral Sergey Pinchuk as the Black Sea Fleet commander, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday. “Colleagues, I congratulate you! You assume the huge responsibility that you now shoulder. I hope that you will cope with the tasks you have been assigned by the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry and, of course, the country,” the ministry quoted Shoigu as saying during a conference call with military commanders.…

The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting on Israel’s terrorist attack on the consulate section of the Iranian embassy in Syria. Addressing the event on Tuesday in New York, the US, Iran’s mission to the UN called on the world body to categorically denounce Israel’s violation of international regulations. Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said Israel is seeking to escalate tensions in the region while avoiding full responsibility for its actions. She said the regime defies Security Council resolutions and shows disregard for its international obligations. She added that Monday’s crime also…

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi pledged that the Zionist regime’s crime of conducting Monday’s fatal strike on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus will not go unanswered. In a statement released on Tuesday morning, Raisi said the usurping Zionist regime has brazenly violated international law by committing the terrorist crime of attacking the diplomatic building of Iran in Damascus. Condemning the “inhumane assault in brazen violation of the international regulations”, the president said the Israeli regime has resorted to blind assassination attacks in an attempt at survival after successive defeats and failures in the face of the resistance…

President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro announced that he will visit Russia soon, and expressed his solidarity with the people of Russia and President Vladimir Putin. “Please, tell Putin that I will visit him soon,” Maduro told Russian Ambassador Sergey Malik-Bagdasarov live on Venezuelan TV Monday, TASS reported. “What happened in Moscow (the Crocus City Hall attack) hurts me deeply. I ask you to relay in a special way to our older brother, honored President Putin, the total solidarity and support of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” Maduro told the envoy, invited to the TV show. source: Tasnim

Should a war break out in Belarus, the country will be ready, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said. “Don’t believe those who say that we want war. We are preparing for war, make no bones about it. It wasn’t me who was the first to say: ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’ It’s an apt saying to this day,” Lukashenko pointed out during a trip to the Gomel Region, as cited by the BelTA news agency. According to the Belarusian president, the country’s armed forces are getting the necessary training, while various weapons and military equipment are being provided to the army.…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson called for international condemnation of the Israeli regime’s airstrike on people working with the NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip. In a post on his X account, Nasser Kanaani said the “terrorist Zionist army’s targeted attack” on the convoy of the World Central Kitchen workers in the Gaza Strip deserves international condemnation. Offering his condolences to the families of the seven victims of the attack, Kanaani said the crime indicates that the Zionist regime is insisting on its plans for starving out Gazans, creating famine, the organized and targeted massacre of innocent…