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[ad_1] JERUSALEM – For more than two years, Yahya Sinwar huddled with his top Hamas commanders and plotted what they hoped would be the most devastating and destabilizing attack on Israel in the militant group’s four-decade history.Minutes of Hamas’ secret meetings, seized by the Israeli military and obtained by The New York Times, provide a detailed record of the planning for the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, as well as […]

[ad_1] Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz reiterated on Sunday that the country considers U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata due to his failure to condemn Iran's missile attack and what Katz described as antisemitic and anti-Israel conduct. Katz had said on Oct. 2 that he was barring U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering the country because he had not "unequivocally" condemned the missile attack. Iran fired more than 180 […]

[ad_1] SYDNEY – Australia's government said on Sunday it would spend an extra 95 million Australian dollars ($64.13 million) to protect against a destructive bird flu strain that has spread through bird and mammal populations worldwide but not yet reached the island continent. Oceania is the last region of the world free of the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b avian influenza that has killed hundreds of millions of birds and tens of […]

[ad_1] Israel's ambassador to Japan criticized on Sunday a leader of Nihon Hidankyo, the atomic bomb survivors' group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for comparing their experiences to the children of Gaza.Gilad Cohen congratulated Nihon Hidankyo for winning this year's prize but said in a post on social media platform X on Sunday the comparison drawn by the group's co-chair, Toshiyuki Mimaki, "is outrageous and baseless"."Gaza is ruled by Hamas, […]

[ad_1] Taipei – Taiwan reported a Chinese aircraft carrier group sailing to the island's south on Sunday, as China's military put out a video saying it was "prepared for battle" amid concerns in Taipei about the possibility of a new round of Chinese war games.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, detests its president, Lai Ching-te, as a "separatist," and the Chinese military routinely operates around the […]

[ad_1] NBA Commissioner Adam Silver believes his league could host games in China again after the league suffered a "dramatic" hit to its bottom line and strained relations with the country five years ago. When then-general manager of the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey posted a message supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019, China retaliated by taking some preseason games off the air in the highly populous, basketball-loving market. […]

[ad_1] Austin, Texas – For all the fascination with Mauricio Pochettino's team selection and tactics for his opening game in charge of the United States, perhaps the most significant evidence of the Argentine's impact came in the opening 15 minutes of Saturday's 2-0 win over Panama.A team that had won just once in its last seven games, all on home soil, and had suffered a dismal early exit from July's […]

[ad_1] New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he is considering visiting the United States to meet the president-elect before the country’s January inauguration, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday."As the prime minister of Japan, an ally of the U.S., it is necessary for me to have a relationship (with the president-elect) before the inauguration in January next year," the Yomiuri quoted him as saying in an interview that took place […]

[ad_1] Hiroshima – Visitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima's atomic bombing said they hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize for Japan's atomic bomb survivors would boost efforts for world peace and spur world leaders to visit the site.The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group, representing survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its decadeslong efforts to abolish nuclear weapons."As Japanese […]