US grounds Osprey aircraft fleet in Japan after deadly crash

A Tehran court has ordered the US government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for assassinating a top Iranian general nearly four years ago, the judiciary said on Wednesday.

The United Kingdom has announced to impose sanctions against foreign individuals and companies exporting to Russia equipment and parts that can be used for military means, the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.

Israeli military chief approved on Wednesday evening operational plans to continue the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed into the North Pacific ocean Wednesday near the small southern Japanese island of Yakushima with eight people on board, Japan`s coast guard said.

The US military has captured five attackers who seized an Israel-linked cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden amid missile attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians in Nablus and Jenin early on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported the AFP.

The Israeli cabinet has accepted a deal with Palestinian armed group Hamas for a temporary ceasefire and the release of hostages in a vote on Wednesday, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh told on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel, even as the deadly assault on Gaza continued and rockets were being fired into Israel.

King of Jordan, Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein has warned that Israel`s continuation of attacks on the Gaza Strip could lead to an expansion of the conflict in the wider region.

France has conducted a successful test-launch of a strategic ballistic missile without nuclear warhead, the French Defense Ministry has announced.

The United States will soon stop providing support to Ukraine, as it spends too much on it to little or no avail on the battlefield, the Russian Security Council’s Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has said.

US President Joe Biden has said he had made it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that occupying Gaza would be “a big mistake” and that the two-state solution was the only way to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Yemen`s Houthi rebels have claimed that they have launched ballistic missiles on various Israel targets, including in the Red Sea city of Eilat, the group`s military spokesperson has said. The launch came "after 24 hours of another military operation by drones on the same Israeli targets," the spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The Biden Administration is calling on Israel to accelerate its operation in the Gaza Strip behind closed doors as it may negatively affect President Joe Biden’s reelection bid in case of prolongation, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday.

Ukraine lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve a 2024 government budget that will see half of all state spending go to defence, as Kyiv drives resources into the war effort.

The US State Department has cleared a $320 million sale of equipment to Israel to improve precision and guidance systems for munitions, according to a letter the department sent to Congress. This follows an earlier $403 million order for similar equipment to convert unguided bombs into more accurate, GPS-guided bombs.