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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s walls are caving in. His multiple battles fall into two categories: keeping his increasingly fragile government in place and fighting a war he has already lost in the court of public opinion and possibly on the ground in Gaza if measured by the prime minister’s war goals.

The UN Security Council has voted, for the first time, for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Only the pressure of world opinion has forced this change. Western powers initially lined up to endorse Israel’s war. One by one those endorsements have fallen away, as horror at flattened cities, assaults on hospitals and the systematic starvation of civilians by Israel swept the world.

Despite efforts by President Vladimir Putin and Russian state-controlled media to attribute Friday's fatal Moscow theatre attack killing 139 persons to Ukraine, additional information is surfacing about the jihadist organization IS-K, which has declared responsibility for the incident.

A just-published Palestinian public opinion survey offers pointers for what a successful transition from the devastating Gaza war to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have to entail. The survey’s pointers take on added significance as the United States, Europe and Arab states seek to turn the fallout of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and the carnage caused by Israel’s assault on the Strip into an opportunity to create an independent Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state.

On Tuesday evening, Israel verified that a cruise missile launched by the Houthi group had hit an area close to Eilat, a city in the southern part of the country. This event marks the first instance of the group's missile penetrating Israeli air defense systems.

NEW YORK: Once upon a time, if a presidential candidate predicted a “bloodbath” if they lost, called for terminating the Constitution, or was a serial rapist, insurrectionist, liar, and fraudster, they would have been termed a dangerous crook.

The year 2024 has been marked by a flurry of elections across the globe, each carrying significant weight in shaping the future trajectory of their respective countries and, to some extent, the world at large. Among these pivotal elections, Britain’s upcoming general election stands out as a crucial turning point, especially in the context of post-Brexit recovery efforts.

United Kingdom Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is in a tight spot. So is the Conservative Party which he leads as the general election is inching closer. The political fortune of Sunak and the party he leads cannot be stated to be progressing swimmingly. It seems to have sailed into uncharted waters at this point of time.

Hundreds of Cubans demonstrated peacefully in Santiago de Cuba and other cities across the island on March 17. Portrayed in some U.S. corporate media outlets as “anti-government” protests, the demonstrations were focused on electrical power outages and food shortages.

Vladimir Putin has been re-elected as the Russian Federation’s new old president, securing a record fifth term in office with a thundering 87.28 percent of the vote, supported by over 75 million voters, more than his win in the 2018 presidential polls. To a consistent observer of the Russian affairs, the news is hardly breaking, as the numbers tallied nicely with Putin’s approval ratings, at a whopping 87 percent. Putin’s opponents in the presidential race barely managed single digit support, including the Communist Party’s Nikolay Kharitonov at 4.31 percent, Vladislav Davankov of the New People party at3.85 percent and Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democrats at 3.20 percent respectively.