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Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said if the conflict in the Middle East spread beyond Gaza, a large number of Indians working in the region will be affected. «If the conflict drags on, we will definitely get affected. No other country has more nationals working in that region than we have.

“We remain overweight on sectors that will benefit from economic expansion such as banks, industrials, utilities, defence, real estate, and cement,” says Dr. Poonam Tandon, Chief Investment Officer at IndiaFirst Life. In an interview with ETMarkets, Tandon said: “We are very positive on the infrastructure and real estate cycle as the sector will continue to benefit with the government allocating higher budgets and offering various incentives” Edited excerpts: October is turning out to be a roller coaster ride for investors in equity markets. Will geopolitical concerns have a long-term impact on equity markets if things escalate? Geopolitical pressure is on the rise amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and now the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Lifshitz, an Israeli grandmother released by Hamas militants on Monday, is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her grandson told Reuters. The Palestinian militants said they released Lifshitz, 85, and a second woman Nurit Cooper, 79, on health grounds, after taking them and more than 200 others hostage during an Oct.

UN General Assembly will meet Thursday to discuss the conflict triggered by the attack by Hamas militants on Israel, the body's president announced in a letter to member states. The Security Council has so far failed to agree on a resolution concerning the war, but a number of states — including Jordan on behalf of an Arab group of nations, Russia, Syria, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia — formally requested General Assembly President Dennis Francis to schedule the meeting. Last week, the UN Security Council, regularly divided on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, rejected a Russian draft resolution calling for a «humanitarian pause.» Only five of the 15 member states had supported the text, which condemned all violence against civilians and all terrorist acts, but did not name Hamas, an unacceptable omission to the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Washington then vetoed a second resolution put forward by Brazil as the text did not mention Israel's right to defend itself. Twelve out of 15 Council members voted in favor of that resolution, which also condemned the «heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas,» while Russia and the United Kingdom abstained. The United States was the only vote against, but as one of the body's five permanent members its vote counts as a veto. The Security Council will meet to discuss the issue Tuesday ahead of the General Assembly's gathering Thursday at 10:00 am (1400 GMT).

Israel's military said it was preparing for «unrelenting attacks» to dismantle Hamas while former U.S. President Barack Obama warned that «any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire.» The Palestinian health ministry said the Gaza death toll in two weeks of air strikes had topped 5,000. Israel pounded hundreds of targets in Gaza from the air on Monday as its soldiers fought Hamas militants during raids into the besieged Palestinian strip where civilians are trapped in harrowing conditions.

Hamas as a barbaric terrorist organisation, an Indian American Congressman has said there is a need to eliminate the terror outfit. The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a barrage of rocket attacks in Southern Israel on October 7. The unprecedented assault triggered retaliatory strikes from the Israel Defense Forces.

Also read: Israel-Hamas war: ‘Ignoring human costs could…’ Obama warns Israel on actions in Gaza Israel is preparing a large-scale ground operation in an environment in which Hamas militants have had years to prepare tunnel networks and set traps throughout northern Gaza's dense urban blocks. More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians who died in the initial Hamas rampage into southern Israel on 7th October.

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner suggests that the laws addressing extremism may require revision in light of pro-Palestinian demonstrations during the Israel-Hamas conflict. Sir Mark Rowley expressed that it falls upon politicians to establish the legal boundaries, which the police would then enforce.

The U.S. government is tightening trade restrictions on Hamas-related to entities as Congress presses the Biden administration to do more about the terrorist group’s sources of crypto funding.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has put forward a notice of proposed rulemaking that could have significant implications for the crypto mixers, including Bitcoin (BTC)'s CoinJoin. 

Sarah Jama from caucus.Stiles says the member for Hamilton Centre, who has been under fire for comments about the Israel-Hamas conflict, made what Stiles calls “a number of unilateral actions” that have undermined the party’s collective work and broken the trust of her colleagues.Jama spoke this morning in the legislature against a motion to censure her for a statement she made on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.She said Premier Doug Ford’s government is targeting her to distract from its own scandals, and also said that governments and institutions in Canada are trying to use their voice and weight to silence people who support Palestinians.The Progressive Conservative motion would effectively silence Jama in the legislature and calls on the Speaker not to recognize her in the House until she retracts her original statement and apologizes again.Jama’s original statement, on social media, decried “the generations long occupation of Palestine” without mentioning the attack by Hamas militants on Israeli civilians.Stiles had originally defended Jama after the legislator issued an apology for her initial statement, but now says in a statement that she and Jama had agreed that in order for her to stay in caucus they would work together “in good faith with no surprises” but now some of her actions “have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff.”

Brigades of Hamas and the al-Quds Brigade of the Islamic Jihad. Hamas has held political control of the Gaza Strip since 2007 and has fought several ‘wars’ with Israel already. Even though it began with an absolutist position on an Islamic Palestinian state over the whole region (with no space for Israel), in 2017 it modified its position in favour of a two-state solution on the lines of the pre-1967 borders.

Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas even as some member governments signalled reservations about the idea. Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, said he backed a call by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a break in the conflict to allow much more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. EU officials also drafted a statement in support of the proposal for an EU summit later this week, although they cautioned the text could still change in the coming days. The moves reflected increasing alarm about the fate of Palestinian civilians after two weeks of Israel bombarding and blockading Gaza in response to the Oct.

Israel is determined to crush Hamas but has said little about what would replace its rule in Gaza after the war, with observers expecting Washington will play a decisive role. «One thing is clear: the Gaza Strip will not be ruled by Hamas once this war is over,» Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy told AFP as Israel's military steps up strikes in preparation for a widely-expected ground offensive.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, acknowledged the need to reconsider these boundaries, particularly in light of a video that emerged showing a man chanting «jihad» at a separate gathering from the main march. The Metropolitan Police closely examined the video and found no identifiable offenses. Sir Mark Rowley emphasized that the police are committed to enforcing the law but pointed out that it is Parliament's responsibility to define and redraw these boundaries.

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Narendra Modi spoke to Jordan's King Abdullah-II amid the Israel-Hamas conflict as the two leaders shares concerns regarding terrorism, violence and loss of civilian lives. Modi said on X that concerted efforts are needed for an early resolution of the security and humanitarian situation.

Gaza early Monday, including in areas where Palestinian civilians have been told to seek refuge, after another small aid shipment was allowed into the besieged Hamas-ruled territory. Israel is widely expected to launch a ground offensive in Gaza following Hamas' brutal October 7 rampage into southern Israeli communities. Tanks and troops have been massed at the Gaza border, and Israel says it has stepped up airstrikes in order to reduce the risk to troops in the next stages.

Gaza City to flee south because it was safer, 18-year-old Dima Al-Lamdani's family prayed they would escape relentless air strikes. But days later, Lamdani was left to identify the bodies of her relatives at a makeshift morgue in the southern city of Khan Younis. She said she lost her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncle's family in an Israeli air strike. «They told us to evacuate your place and go to Khan Younis because it is safe… They betrayed us and bombed us,» she said. She said her family and that of her uncle travelled in two cars across Gaza, which has faced the heaviest bombardment after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack into Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages. Lamdani's family was staying at a temporary shelter in Khan Younis when she said: «At 4.30 a.m.

Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal recently spoke about the ongoing violence in the Middle East, making references to historical events in India. The Saudi prince condemned both Hamas and Israel for their attacks on civilians, emphasizing the importance of peaceful resistance. During a speech at the Baker Institute in the US, Prince Turki al-Faisal stated, «All military occupied people have a right to resist the occupation, even militantly.