Kiev has launched another large-scale provocation by shelling Russia’s Kursk region indiscriminately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed Ukraine’s attack on civilian infrastructure in the Kursk region on Wednesday.
“The Kiev regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation. It is conducting indiscriminate shelling from various types of weapons, including missiles, at civilian buildings, residential buildings, and ambulances,” Putin said at a government meeting.
Kremlin media report that Putin will hold an urgent meeting with members of the Russian Security Council in the coming hours
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Following staggering drops in Japanβs Nikkei and Bitcoin, European banks are tumbling to March lows
Stock markets went into a meltdown on Monday amid fears that the US could be heading for a recession, pushing investors into panic-selling mode, market data shows.
The US has seen an unexpected rise in the unemployment rate, according to July payrolls report unveiled on Friday. This led to markets betting on the Federal Reserve cutting rates in September by a full 50 basis points, and sparked debate among economists about the overall health of the US economy, with its enormous influence in the global financial market.
US stocks closed sharply down on Friday, with the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite falling into correction, but Monday kicked off with new drops.
Between 1999 and 2019, approximately 247,000 people in the United States died from prescription-opioid overdoses. Respondent Purdue Pharma sits at the center of that crisis.
Owned and controlled by the Sackler family, Purdue began marketing OxyContin, an opioid pre- scription pain reliever, in the mid-1990s. After Purdue earned billions of dollars in sales on the drug, in 2007 one of its affiliates pleaded guilty to a federal felony for misbranding OxyContin as a less-addic- tive, less-abusable alternative to other pain medications. Thousands of lawsuits followed.
Fearful that the litigation would eventually im- pact them directly, the Sacklers initiated a βmilking program,β with- drawing from Purdue approximately $11 billionβroughly 75% of the firmβs total assetsβover the next decade.
Those withdrawals left Purdue in a significantly weakened financial state. And in 2019, Purdue filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Israeli ministers receive satellite phones in preparation for possible Iranian retaliation
Israeli authorities scramble to prepare for a possible Iranian retaliation for the killing attributed to Israel of Hamas military leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Ministers received satellite phones to allow communication in case of damage to infrastructure.
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France has formally advised its citizen against travelling to Iran and has asked French citizens still the country to leave as soon as possible due to a risk of military escalation in the region, the foreign ministry said on Friday in a travel advisory.
Washington has ordered more destroyers, cruisers, and an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East to defend Israel amid rising tensions with Iran, the US Defense Department said on Friday.
In addition, the US has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to relieve the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier currently deployed in the Middle East.
The announcement comes amid rising tensions after this weekβs killing of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Both Hamas and Iran have blamed Israel for the attack and have promised revenge. Iran also stated that the US bears partial responsibility for the attack as a βsupporter and accompliceβ of Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken told Members of the G7 during a Conference Call tonight, that Iran could launch an Attack against Israel in the next 24-48 Hours.
Officials have accused the platform of preventing users from posting condolences over the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Turkish authorities have blocked Instagram after officials in Ankara accused the platform of βcensorshipβ in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
According to TΓΌrkiyeβs Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), access to the social media platform was blocked on Friday. No formal reason was given for the move, nor any indication of how long the ban would last.
Fahrettin Altun, the countryβs communications chief, had slammed the Meta-owned network earlier this week for its response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader. Haniyeh was killed in a bombing in Tehran on Wednesday, with Hamas and Iran accusing Israel of orchestrating the attack. West Jerusalem has neither denied nor confirmed involvement, but has repeatedly vowed to destroy Islamist βterroristsβwho threaten the Jewish state.
READ: Turkey on Friday blocked access to the Instagram social media network, the national communications authority said without explanation, following censorship accusations against the US company by a high-ranking Turkish official.https://t.co/8lrDObt9pi
The Palestinian militant group has accused Israel of killing its political leader and said this βgrave escalationβ will not go unanswered.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the Palestinian militant group said on Wednesday. Iranβs Revolutionary Guards said he was targeted at his residence while visiting Iran to attend the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of the assassination and called it βa grave escalationβ in a comment to Reuters. Israel has yet to comment on the killing.
It comes less than a day after Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut in what its forces said was a targeted strike on Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a direct strike on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this week, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
Khamenei reportedly gave the instruction after convening Iranβs Supreme National Security Council for an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning following the missile strike, the newspaper said, quoting three Iranian officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.
