JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Intensified cross-border fire from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement into Israel could trigger serious escalation, the Israeli military said on Sunday.
"Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation, one that could have devastating consequences for Lebanon and the entire region," Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a video statement in English.
... (continue reading...)CAIRO (Reuters) -Yemen's Houthis said on Sunday that they had attacked two civilian ships along with an American destroyer in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, their latest effort to disrupt shipping in what they say is support for Palestinians in Gaza.
In a statement, the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the militant group fired ballistic missiles at the American destroyer, naval missiles at a ship called the Captain Paris, and drones at a ship... (continue reading...)
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's environment minister, Leonore Gewessler of the Greens, defied her conservative coalition partners on Sunday by pledging to cast Austria's vote in favour of adopting a European nature restoration law, potentially tipping the balance in Brussels.
European Union countries' environment ministers will discuss the bloc's flagship policy to restore damaged nature at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday and potentially hold a final... (continue reading...)
By Balazs Koranyi and Frank Siebelt
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers have no plan to discuss emergency purchases of French bonds and still think it is for French politicians to reassure investors spooked by the prospect of a far-right government, five sources told Reuters.
French financial markets endured a brutal sell-off late last week as investors cut their positions ahead of a snap election that might give a... (continue reading...)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party will join an alliance of smaller opposition parties in parliament in a bid to take on the African National Congress and Democratic Alliance-led coalition government, it said on Sunday.
The ANC and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together in a coalition it called "government of national unity", a step change after 30 years of ANC... (continue reading...)
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