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Officials from nine southern European Union member countries are focused on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy

Israeli military is investigating reports about the possible death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, believed to be behind the October 7 attacks, as per the New York Post. Currently, Israel's intelligence agency Shin Bet and the Israel Defense Forces have not found new evidence confirming his death. «We don't have positive intelligence that suggests Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead. It is all hopes and guesses which are based on the fact that Sinwar has been incommunicado in recent weeks,» an Israeli official told Axios reporter Barak Ravid. Various media outlets suggest that Sinwar might have been killed or injured in recent bombings in the Gaza Strip. Recently, reports resurfaced about his potential death as Hamas rejected a new hostage deal proposed by the US. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Sinwar wants talks to follow President Biden’s original proposal from May.

Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on October 7, 2023, Israel responded with a devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The air and ground operation has killed more than 41,431 people, according to the Hamas-ruled territory's health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. Ahead of the war's first anniversary, AFP looks back at key moments.

Lydia Hu reports on a potential port strike ahead of the holidays on ‘Mornings with Maria.’

YSRCP, the opposition party in Andhra Pradesh, continues to suffer a steady stream of desertions from the party's top leaders, Rajya Sabha members, corporators and others. This exodus phenomenon started prior to the 2024 general elections and continues to be unabated even after four months of the new NDA alliance of TDP, BJP and Janasena forming the government in the southern state. Nearly half a dozen MPs quit the party before the polls, some of whom, such as L Sri Krishnadevarayalu and M Srinivasulu Reddy, went on to be re-elected as TDP MPs. The latest high-profile exit, by B Srinivasa Reddy, is a major jolt to the party.

fall, meteorologists say – and that means leaf peepers will have to wait a little while longer.“A trend of above-normal temperatures” is forecasted for the rest of September and October across the country, according to Global News meteorologist Ross Hull.“It’s going to be a warmer-than-normal (fall) for much of the country, especially eastern sections of the country,” Hull said.Dominant air masses and air flows coming up from the United States seem to be influencing these warmer-than-normal conditions, said Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada.“Many of these air masses, especially in more southern parts of the country, are influenced by air masses coming up from the U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—Israel’s airstrike on a building in southern Beirut didn’t just kill a top Hezbollah commander—it took out an entire class of senior leaders of the militant group’s most elite fighting force, as the two foes lurch closer to all-out war. Hezbollah on Saturday raised the death toll among its fighters from Friday’s airstrike to 16, including top military commander Ibrahim Aqil and many of the senior commanders of the elite Radwan force.

Nara Lokesh on Saturday said that creating 20 lakh jobs is the single agenda of the TDP-led NDA government in the state, which was given a massive mandate of 93 per cent seats in the 2024 elections. Addressing a special plenary session of the CII Southern Regional Council 2024-25 here, he highlighted that creating 20 lakh jobs in five years was one of the six primary promises NDA made in the run-up to the polls. «That is the single agenda (20 lakh jobs) with which your government is going to actually work here in the state of Andhra Pradesh,» said Lokesh, adding that the southern state aspires to become one of the first three states to achieve a GSDP of $1 trillion. Observing that CII has always played a collaborative role, he said that Andhra Pradesh, which has been a hub for agriculture, MSMEs and other sectors, now aims to move faster in Information Technology.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre. The Gaza health ministry said most of those killed were women and children. The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women were among the dead. The military said it hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school, repeating an accusation that Hamas uses civilian facilities for military purposes — a charge which Hamas denies.

IDF) announced the death of Ibrahim Aqil, the alleged head of Hezbollah's Operations Unit, in a targeted strike in Beirut. The operation also killed members of Hezbollah's Operations Staff and commanders from the Radwan Unit. The IDF reported that Aqil and the other commanders were planning a major attack called the "Conquer the Galilee" plan, aiming to infiltrate Israeli communities and target civilians. «I can now confirm that Ibrahim Aqil was eliminated together with other senior terrorists in Hezbollah's Radwan forces. Ibrahim Aqil had the blood of many innocent people on his hands. Israelis, Americans, French, Lebanese and more,» stated IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, the Israeli military and two security sources in Lebanon said, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.

Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more than 300 people at the American embassy and a U.S. Marines barracks. Two security sources in Lebanon confirmed the veteran fighter was killed in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs during a meeting of the elite Radwan unit of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group. Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the second member of Hezbollah's top military body, the Jihad Council, to be killed in two months after an Israeli strike in the same area targeted Fuad Shukr in July.

Israel hit a Beirut suburb with an airstrike Friday, not long after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets following a vow by the militant group's leader Hassan Nasrallah to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the militant group said. The Israeli military said it had carried out a «targeted strike» in Beirut. It offered no further immediate details, but explosions could be heard coming from the city's southern suburbs. Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV reported that a drone fired several missiles on the heavily-populated area known as Dahiyeh. A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media, confirmed to The Associated Press that an airstrike struck the area, without giving further details.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s weak consumer economy has claimed another victim: luxury cars. Mercedes-Benz late Thursday became the second luxury carmaker in as many weeks to cut its earnings guidance for the year.

Hezbollah launched a significant barrage of 140 rockets into northern Israel on Friday, following a declaration from the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who vowed to retaliate for recent Israeli bombing attacks. The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that the rockets were fired in three waves during the afternoon, targeting various locations along the conflict-ridden border with Lebanon.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hezbollah was scrambling Friday to recover from a week of blows delivered by Israel, including an unusually heavy series of airstrikes across southern Lebanon and attacks that caused electronic devices carried by thousands of the militant group’s members to explode virtually simultaneously across the country. The group is trying to determine whether any of its communications networks are safe as it searches for security gaps and hunts down the possibility of moles in the organization, people familiar with the matter said.

Samsung Electronics has warned its striking workers in southern India they will not receive wages if they continue protesting and also face the risk of termination, a company email showed, escalating a dispute between the company and its employees. Hundreds of Samsung workers have since Sept. 9 disrupted work and protested in a nearby makeshift tent close to its home appliances factory near the city of Chennai. They have been demanding higher wages and recognition of a union at the plant, which contributes roughly a third of Samsung's annual India revenue of $12 billion. Samsung last week sued the protesting union in a district court, seeking a temporary injunction to restrain sloganeering and making speeches in and around the factory. But the judge on Thursday only called for a swift resolution.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Edtech company Physics Wallah’s offline ambitions and listing plan have fetched it $210 million in funding, effectively valuing it at $2.8 billion, 2.5 times what it was worth two years ago. Physics Wallah attracted new investors in this round, including India-focused hedge fund Hornbill Capital and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, the company said on 20 September.

Tamenglong district in multitudes next month, the district authority has rolled up sleeves to protect the raptors during their roosting stint with putting a slew of curbs, including a temporary ban on using air guns. District Magistrate (DM) of the Zeliangrong-Naga dominated district, L Angshim Dangshawa, in his order issued yesterday, asked the people to deposit the weapons to their respective village authorities’ offices. Dangshawa also banned hunting, catching, killing and selling of the falcons, whose size is a little bit smaller than pigeon, with immediate effect.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—At 3:25 p.m. Tuesday, two members of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah were eating lunch at a shopping mall in the Lebanese capital when the pager one of the men was carrying exploded, leaving him severely injured and bleeding from the arms and eyes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A wave of deadly explosions of pagers and other electronic devices carried by militants in Lebanon has sharply heightened Pentagon concern about a potential ground war erupting in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Even before the hundreds of widely dispersed detonations Tuesday and Wednesday, U.S.