Eurasia

Israeli helicopters struck Rafah on Thursday, residents said, with militants reporting street battles in the southern Gazan city as US President Joe Biden called Hamas the “biggest hang-up” to another truce. Tensions were also soaring on Israel’s northern border, with more attacks by Hamas ally Hezbollah targeting military positions and …

Hamas’ formal reply comes a day after the UN Security Council passed a resolution backing the three-phase proposal. The United States is evaluating the formal response Hamas submitted on the proposed cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday. The Palestinian militant group does not appear to …

The Biden administration wants the Lebanese Armed Forces to deploy near the Israel-Lebanon border to help defuse a potentially explosive conflict with Hezbollah. But first, Lebanon’s top general needs to be able to pay his soldiers their salaries. Lebanon’s top military general met with senior Biden administration officials and congressional …

Robert Fico published a defiant video blaming the opposition for his shooting. In other developments: a former Polish energy chief in hiding, an unremarkable Czech pre-election debate, and EU calls for increased pressure on Hungary’s rule of law failings. Three weeks after he was shot multiple times in Handlova, a …

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, arms that risk being used in violating international humanitarian law in Gaza. Shortly after 2 p.m. on February 5, …

With Russia’s intelligence network decimated since its invasion of Ukraine, signs from Poland point to an army of ‘useful idiots’ hired locally to carry out espionage, sabotage and arson.Poland’s government has been vocal in its warning about the risk of covert operations by Russia and said it is planning to …

From Russian spies acting under diplomatic cover to media companies working to influence EU politics, Czechia is pushing its European allies to be more proactive in cracking down on Moscow’s covert operations in Europe. Denouncing the “sprawling hydra of Russian secret services” across Europe, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky at …

La ploutocratie pense qu’elle pourra ensuite acheter le tout pour une bouchée de pain alors que les mouches pondront encore des œufs dans les carcasses européennes. Le Petit Roi de Paris a donc été écrasé, comme on s’y attendait dans les sondages européens. Il a convoqué des élections législatives anticipées, …

On se souviendra que très récemment, pendant la campagne pour les élections européennes, André Bercoff avait invité François Asselineau et Florian Philippot à débattre ensemble sur Sud Radio. Alors que c’était l’occasion en or de toucher un auditoire qui se compte en millions, les deux ont refusé pour motif spécieux, …

Although there are potential security and economic benefits for Moscow to be gained from closer ties to Afghanistan, they will be difficult to achieve. Ahead of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum—which has been attended by a Taliban delegation since 2022—the Kremlin handed a PR victory to the rulers …