Tag: fighting
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Toll of Displaced Surges as Fighting Continues in Myanmar’s Shan State – The Diplomat
[ad_1] Advertisement Up to 25,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to the recent upsurge of fighting in the northern part of Myanmar’s Shan State, “straining an already underresourced humanitarian response,” the United Nations said today. In its latest flash update on the situation in Myanmar, the U.N. Office for the Coordination…
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Chinese Public Security Minister Visits Myanmar Amid Northern Fighting – The Diplomat
[ad_1] Advertisement China’s Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong held talks with Myanmar’s junta on establishing “peace and stability” along their shared border, several days after three armed groups launched coordinated attacks against junta positions in the country’s northeast bordering China. According to a report in today’s edition of the Global New Light of Myanmar, Wang,…
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Hamas is fighting ‘sacred’ war with Israel, says Hezbollah chief – POLITICO
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The leader of the Hezbollah militant group has thrown his backing behind Palestinian militants and praised the attacks that killed more than a thousand Israeli civilians, in his first public appearance since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last month.…
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As Bombs Fall in Gaza, History Hangs Over a Family Fighting to Survive
[ad_1] The legacy of displacement also loomed large inside Israel, said Nathan Thrall, author of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” a book about the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. “Beyond the shock and atrocities of the attack, it played to the deepest Israeli fears — that all these Palestinians, who live on…
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America’s only Formula One driver is fighting for his future. He says he knows ‘exactly’ what he needs to do.
[ad_1] AUSTIN — Logan Sargeant is the only American driver in Formula One. He’s also the only one of the 20 drivers who hasn’t inked a contract extension beyond the current season. As a rookie season of highs and lows enters its final stretch, the 22-year-old Williams Racing driver said he knows “exactly” what he…
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Larp: Meet the people fighting orcs and casting spells
[ad_1] Thousands of people spent a weekend pretending to cast spells and battle orcs at what is considered to be the biggest Live Action Role Play (Larp) event in the UK. Empire, held multiple times a year in Buckingham, saw 3,000 participants including “firefighters, teachers and judges” pretending to live in a fantasy world. Larp…
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Fierce Fighting Flares Around Eastern Ukrainian Town of Avdiivka
[ad_1] Russian and Ukrainian forces were locked in fierce fighting around the eastern frontline town of Avdiivka for a fourth straight day on Friday, in one of Moscow’s biggest military offensives in months. Ukraine’s top military command said that it had repelled more than 20 attacks over the past day around the town, a linchpin…
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‘Nowhere to hide’: Israel issues fresh warning as air force announces ‘extensive attacks’ on Gaza – but Hamas says it will not hand over hostages until fighting ends
[ad_1] Israel today warned Hamas they had ‘nowhere to hide’ and that its air force was launching ‘extensive attacks’ on the Palestinian terrorist group in revenge for its deadly surprise incursion that saw hundreds of Israeli’s slaughtered. Israeli forces have already used its strike force of 600 plans and 300 rocket launchers to relentlessly pound…
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Oil Prices Jump on Fighting in Israel and Gaza
[ad_1] After a surge this summer when oil prices approached $100 a barrel, the cost of crude was tumbling again. Now a Middle East war has sent it right back up. Traders drove up the price of oil as much as 5 percent as fighting escalated between Israel and Hamas after the terrorist group attacked…
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Fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants
[ad_1] Fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants – CBS News Watch CBS News Fighting intensified between Israeli forces and Hamas overnight after Palestinian militants launched highly-coordinated attacks from Gaza on Saturday. Israel responded with missile attacks and by cutting power to Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the country was “at war.” CBS…